Arts and Sciences

Readings by Anita Desai, a novelist, short story writer, the Spring 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-In-Residence at Baruch College. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Paul Spickard, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks on Farewell to the American Dream at the Annual Robert A. Friedman History Symposium sponsored by the Department of History, Baruch College.

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brProfessor Vincent DiGirolamo, Department of History, Baruch College, introduces the event.

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brThe event takes place on March 15, 2011 at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 3-150.

Video montage of the 10th anniversary celebration of Baruch’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, April 22, 2008.

Professor Schrag of the History Department hosts a lecture by labor activist, songwriter and storyteller Henry Foner. Foner reflects on his family and life experiences growing up in a politically active family during the Depression. Other speakers include his nephew, Eric Foner, Professsor of History at Columbia University; Phil Foner; and Carol Smith, SEEK liaison at Baruch.

The Department of Communication Studies presents the Eighteenth Annual Spring Speech Festival. The competition topic is The United States: Thrust into a New Economic Landscape. Can it Survive?

Student speakers include:

Rashad Anderson - The Cyclical Nature of the Stock Market

So Jung Han - Erosion of the Middle Class

Francesco Tribuzio - Retail: The Answer to the Economic Crisis?

Sara Landy - Real Estate and the American Dream

Doug Reynolds - America Needs Change

Jonathan Batista - The Rise of the Rest

Caroline Vinar - The American Household: The Impact of the Current Economy

Christopher Catalano - Regaining our Economic Independence

Joseph Roberts - The Green New Deal

Sean Rose - The Steps We Have Not Taken

The Chief Judge, Professor Denise Patrick, Department of Communication Studies announces the winners of the competition: Joseph Roberts, Sean Rose, and Francesco Tribuzio.

Professor Susan B. Goldstein, Department of Communication Studies, makes the closing remarks.

The event takes place on May 14, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750, moderated by Michael Ventsel.

"Conceptualized by Jeffrey Peck, dean of the Weissman School, ""Weissman Talks"" is a new series of thematically linked dialogues and performances presented by Baruch College’s Weissman School of Arts and Science.

The Fall 2008 program takes as its theme “the Holocaust in Poland.” It launched on October 16, with Dean Peck interviewing Tovah Feldshuh, the Tony Award-winning actress who plays the lead in ""Irena’s Vow"" - the Broadway-bound play about one woman’s heroism in Nazi-held Poland. Two additional discussions followed on October 19 and 28.

This vedio is the panel discussion held on October 28, at Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center. Panelists include Professor Cynthia Whittaker, Department of History; Professor Alison Griffiths, Department of Communication Studies; and Professor Terry Berkowitz, Department of Fine and Performing Arts. The discussion is moderated by John Malatesta, Managing Director, Baruch Performing Arts Center. Dean Jeffrey Peck makes the welcoming remarks."

"The Fall 2008 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Francine Prose, author of more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction. Her works include the novels Blue Angel (nominated for a National Book Award) and A Changed Man (winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, a book on gluttony, and another on the life of the painter Caravaggio. She has written books for children and young adults, and contributes to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s, where she is a contributing editor. A film of her novel Household Saints was released in 1993. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008.

The recipient of numerous grants and awards, she has taught at The New School, Harvard, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and as a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bard College. Prose is currently president of PEN American Center.

Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the opening remarks. Jeffrey M. Peck, Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, makes the welcoming remarks. John Brenkman, Distinguished Professor of English, introduces the speaker.

The event takes place on October 21, 2008, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor."

"The Spring 2008 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Charles Simic, U.S. Poet Laureate, the author of numerous collections of poems, including My Noiseless Entourage; Selected Poems: 1963-2003, for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize; The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems; The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Classic Ballroom Dances, which won the University of Chicago’s Harriet Monroe Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Di Castagnola Award. His books of prose include Memory Piano, Metaphysician in the Dark, A Fly in My Soup, Orphan Factory, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs, Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, as well as several translations of poets from the former Yugoslavia.

Simic has received two PEN Awards for his work as a translator, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the poetry editor of The Paris Review. His new book of poems, That Little Something, will be published in Spring 2008.

The event takes place on March 18, 2008, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor."

Dr. E. Tory Higgins, the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Professor of Business, and the Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University, speaks at the Psychology Department Colloquium, Spring 2008.

Dr. Higgins presents a new theory of motivation which proposes that along with the experience of pleasure or pain (hedonic value), the strength of engagement one has with an object, individual or situation also contributes to its experienced value by influencing the experience of "motivational force" -- the intensity of the attraction to or repulsion from the target of value. He supports this theory through evidence from various disciplines showing how engagement strength creates value. A Q&A session follows.

Dr. Higgins is introduced by Jennifer Mangels, Professor at the Department of Psychology, Baruch College. The event starts with a brief introduction by Professor Loren J. Naidoo, Department of Psychology, Baruch College.

The event takes place on February 4, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 8-215.