Arts and Sciences

Abe Shainberg speaks about the art of storytelling at Professor Susan B. Goldsteins COM3061 class on February 16, 2010.

Solo Pianist David Jalbert performs the music of Shostakovich, Wijeratne, and Schumann as part of the 24th season of the Silberman Concert Series made possible through a generous gift to the Baruch College Fund from Aaron Silberman 46.

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brThe performance takes place on February 4, 2010, at Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center.

A panel of experts talks about a variety of issues related to Haitian history, culture, spirituality, politics, and policy and donor initiatives to respond to the earthquake crisis over the short and long term.

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brProfessor, Ted Henken, Chair, Black and Hispanic Studies Department, Baruch College, moderates the event. Frisner Augustin, Artistic Director, La Troupe Makandal, performs Haitian drumming at the beginning.

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brSpeakers include:

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brJ. Michael Dash

brProfessor of French, NYU

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brNed Sublette

brMusician, ethnomusicologist, and author

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brLois Wilcken

brExecutive Director, La Troupe Makandal

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brCarolyn Rose-Avila

brVice President for Policy and Public and Donor Engagement for Plan USA

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brCarolle Charles

brProfessor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Baruch College

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brBaruch student Jessica Bordes is present to share personal reflections about her experience in Haiti during the earthquake. Darnide Cayo shares information about outreach opportunities for students through an aid organization she co-founded, Artists Village.

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brThe event takes place on February 4, 2010 at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 5-150. A QA follows.

The 14th Annual Dr. Donald H. Smith Distinguished Lecture presents Dr. Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and op-ed columnist for The New York Times.

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brBaruch College President Stan B. Altman, Provost James McCarthy, Dr. Adelaide L. Sanford, Vice Chancellor (Emerita) NY State Board Of Regents, and Dr. Donald H. Smith make remarks respectively.

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brThe event takes place on December 9, 2009, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220.

A reading and conversation with Danzy Senna, author of iWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?/i, a personal history of her biracial roots: her white blue-blood mothers family (the Howes of Boston) and her black activist fathers family, the Sennas. Ms. Senna is also the author of iCaucasia/i and iSymptomatic/i.

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brProfessor Roslyn Bernstein and Professor Bridgett Davis offer introductory remarks. A QA session and reception follows.

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brThis event is sponsored by the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. The event takes place on December 1, 2009, in the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

Dr. Jeffrey Peck, Dean of the Weissman School of Arts Sciences at Baruch College leads a live onstage interview with theater legend Theodore Bikel about his life and career, beginning with the role of Tevye the Milkman in Broadway’s iFiddler on the Roof/i, and spanning more than 40 years to his current star role in the New York premiere of the National Yiddish Theater production of iSholom Aleichem: Laughter through Tears/i about the pioneering 19th-century author Sholom Aleichem at Baruch Performing Arts Center.

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brJohn Malatesta, Managing Director, Baruch Performing Arts Center, introduces the event. The program is presented by the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and Baruch Performing Arts Center, in cooperation with the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene.

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brThe event takes place on November 11, 2009, at Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center.

FBI Special Agent John Anticev and and retired NYPD Detective Louis Napoli, who both served on the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, speak to journalism students about their experience in investigative and interviewing practices in law enforcement and terrorism investigation, and how it can apply to interviewing and investigative reporting in journalism.

This event is presented by the Journalism Department of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. The event takes place on November 2, 2009, in the Subotnick Financial Services Center.

The Fall 2009 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Joseph O’Connor, the author of six novels: iCowboys and Indians/i, iDesperadoes/i, iThe Salesman/i, iInishowen/i, iStar of the Sea/i, and iRedemption Falls/i; four collections of non-fiction, and an award-winning stage play, iRed Roses and Petrol/i.

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brRoslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, makes the welcoming remarks. Mary McGlynn, Professor of English specializing in British, Irish, and Anglophone postcolonial literatures of the twentieth century, introduces the speaker.

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brThe event takes place on October 20, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Baruch College, co-sponsored by Poets Writers.

The faculty seminar with Joseph OConnor is held on November 10, 2009, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-270. The event begins with traditional Irish music featuring Mary Courtney of Morning Star.

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brRoslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event.

This event discusses ethnic and racial diversity at Baruch College, as they relate to immigrant history in New York City and broader trends of globalization and internationalization in higher education.

Stan Altman, President of Baruch College, gives the opening remarks, and Jeffrey Peck, Dean of Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, moderates the event. The keynote speaker is Professor Olufemi Vaughan, the Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies & History at Bowdoin College. Panelists include: Professors John Brenkman, Kyra Gaunt, and Sandeep Sreekumar, and students Jacqueline Ha and Holdyn Brand. A Q&A session follows.

This event is presented by the Weissman School of Arts & Sciences with the support of the Weissman Center for International Business.

The event takes place on September 14, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.