Arts and Sciences

You are warmly invited to join us for a reading and conversation with the award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer Lauren Yee.

Presented by the Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center, with our generous cosponsor, The City College of New York. Mr. Rosenblatt will be in conversation with Amanda Pisetzner, Emmy-award winning Storyteller, who aided Mr. Rosenblatt in writing his memoir.

Prof. Safia Jama interviews Fall 2025 Harman Writer-In-Residence Oksana Maksymchuk.

The role of experienced emotions in guiding attitudes toward societal issues is well-established, but the role of motivations to experience emotions is less clear. I will share findings from several projects examining the connections between how people aim to feel (e.g., proud, angry) and societal attitudes (e.g., attitudes toward economic inequality, foreign policy). I will argue that considering...

Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Nobel-prize winning professor emeritus in chemistry at Cornell University, tells his story in the Holocaust Speakers Series: to recognize and celebrate the lives and stories of survivors.

The Harman Program warmly invites you to celebrate the launch of the poignant new memoir by former Harman Director and Baruch Professor Emerita Bridgett M. Davis. Following The World According to Fannie Davis, now in pre-production as a major motion picture, Love, Rita tells the remarkable story of Prof. Davis's beloved sister Rita, a vital and dauntless woman who passed before her time and inspir...

In an article titled “Most Likely to Succeed”, Malcolm Gladwell (2008) discusses the challenging problem of identifying who will be a successful quarterback in the NFL. This “Quarterback Problem” was the challenge of our ongoing multi-year research project that focuses on predicting success of players in the NFL using psychological assessment tests. We will share data and findings from our researc...

The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences invites you to join three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of seven bestselling books including From Beirut to Jersualem and The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, to discuss The Big Trends Shaping the World Today: Economics, Technology, and Geopolitics.

Conversation with the directors and the subject of the film "Edel Rodriguez: Freedom is a Verb," moderated by Prof. Ted Henken.

In this Psychology Department Colloquium, attendees will learn about the prevalence, correlates, causes, and unique manifestations of intimate partner violence among LGBTQ+ people. They will also learn about the latest developments in Dr. Stults’s research program to develop programs to prevent IPV in these populations.

Prof. Gail Levin interviews digital media artist Roz Dimon.

You are warmly invited to join us for a reading and conversation with writer Daphne Palasi Andreades, the Harman Writer-in-Residence for the Spring 2024 semester. A 2015 Baruch alumnus, Andreades is the author of Brown Girls, a New York Times Editor's Choice, and a finalist for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Andreades is the recipient of a 2018 O. Henry Prize and scholarships to th...

Baruch History Department Event: "Preserving the Historical Record of Afro-Colombian Resistance through the Martial Art called 'Grima' in the British Library's Endangered Archives Program." A conversation with Baruch History Associate Professor Dr. TJ Desch-Obi, co-organized with the Non-Profit American Trust for the British Library, an event for Baruch students, faculty, and the general public.

Climate scientists have long been warning that climate change will bring more frequent severe weather events around the world. International organizations such as the IPCC, United Nations Foundation and others face the challenge of communicating about climate scientists' projections with audiences who don't have a background in climate science. I will discuss insights for climate change communicat...

Moderated by Professor Theodore Henken from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, this video includes a recording of Professor Henken’s class with two Cuban guest speakers, Carlos Manuel Álvarez  and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo. The lecture provides a book discussion of the student reading entitled: Cuba on the Verge: 12 writers on continuity and change in Havana and across the country. T...

Moderated by Ester Allen, the Spring 2023 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program invites Sam Pollard, who is not only Emmy award-winning filmmaker but also a Baruch alum in 1973.  The program is introduced Bridgett M. Davis, also a filmmaker and novelist. Mr. Pollard will be teaching a class on screenwriting and documentary filmmaking. 

The Psychology Department holds a colloquium every semester. Moderated by Andrea Lynne Taylor, co-chair of the colloquium series and Professor at the Psychology Department in Weissman School, the lecture includes results done by Dr. Sandra S. Pimentel, a researcher and specialist on psychiatry and behavioral sciences,  during the COVID era with an update on its treatments and challenges....

Convocation is a defining event where you will be formally inducted into the College and have the opportunity to hear from College leaders, attend your First Year Seminar (FYS 1000) class of the semester, and participate in engaging programs. For members of Class 2026, the important event took place on August 23, 2022 which began with President S. David Wu speaking to the audiences....