Arts and Sciences

"The Spring Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq , which was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by the New York Times Book Review . He is the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square ; and two works of non-fiction, The Village of Waiting and Blood of the...

"The 15th annual Addison Gayle Memorial Lecture features Gloria Steinem, a noted feminist, writer and journalist. Steinem celebrated the memory of celebrated literary critic, writer and former City College professor Addison Gayle in a lecture entitled “The Longest Revolution.” She was introduced by a panel of four speakers. Jeffrey Peck, dean of Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, called her an...

The Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Series presents Bobby Sanabria & Quarteto Ache': Masters of Afro-Cuban Jazz. The performance takes place at Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center, on February 19, 2009.

"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 le...

"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 glutt...

"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...

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...

Award-winning novelist Francisco Goldman talks about his most recent book The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? , a nonfiction book that pursues the infamous murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi, the Guatemalan human rights leader murdered after the release of his multivolume report on the genocidal terror campaign led by the army in the 1980s and '90s. The book casts light into the darkest...

Professor Victoria de Grazia, Department of History, Columbia University, and Professor Susan Strasser, Department of History, University of Delaware speak on the history of American consumer culture at the Annual Robert A. Friedman History Symposium sponsored by the Department of History, Baruch College. Professor Katherine Pence, Department of History, Baruch College gives an overview of consump...

Dollars & Sense magazine celebrates its 2007 edition by hosting Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans, the award-winning editorials from the New York Daily News. The speakers discuss their chief findings in the groundbreaking series "9/11: The Forgotten Victims", which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing. The series documented the growing medical fallout from the World Trad...

"A conversation between a revolutionary 20th century artist, Judy Chicago and her biographer, Gail Levin, an acclaimed art historian, professor of art history, American studies, and women’s studies at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center takes place at Baruch College, Mason Hall, on March 19, 2007. An original and daring artist, Judy Chicago is an icon of both the feminist movement and the...

Professor Joy Fuqua from the Department of Communication Studies, Tulane University gives a speech on consumer-directed prescription drug advertising and its implications. Dr. Fuqua points out that brand name drug logos circulate from all channels of mass communication, from bullets to magazines, to television and Internet. Her presentation focuses on the phenomena from both patients and physician...

"Alair Townsend, Publishing Director of Crain’s New York Business, makes her presentation to business journalism and English students, touching on topics as diverse as the differing leadership styles of city mayors over the years to the prohibitive cost of doing business in New York state as a whole. Townsend also shares her concerns over the future of the print media industry. The event takes pla...

Baruch College Journalism Programs present "Red State vs. Blue State", featuring Jonathan Alter, columnist for Newsweek and author of " The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope ". Mr. Alter discusses the media and the mid-term elections. The event takes place on October 5, 2006 at the Oak Room, Newman Hall, 2nd Floor, 137 East 22nd Street, moderated by Professor Andrea Gabor...

"Angela Anselmo, Director of Baruch’s SEEK program and her sister Alma Rubal-Lopez, a professor at School of Education, Brooklyn College talked about their co-authored book ""On Becoming Nuyoricans"". Part autobiography, part reflection on culture, curricula and pedagogy, the book details their uneasy relationship to both Puerto Rican and mainstream American culture. The event took place on Octobe...

"A reading and conversation with Susan Choi, the author of two novels: The Foreign Student , which won the Asian-American Literary Award and the Steven Turner Award for first fiction in 1999; and American Woman , a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. The event took place on October 24, 2006 at the N...

Lorrie Moore, a distinguished fiction writer and scholar in the Spring 2000 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program, discusses her works and includes reading from her publications and writings. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

This lecture includes a reading of the works by Yehuda Amichai, an Israeli poet and a scholar of the Fall 1998 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program at Baruch College. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Poet April Bernard is a scholar in the Fall 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. She discusses the poems from her latest book, Swan Electric. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Colum McCann, a scholar in the Spring 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program at Baruch College, is the award-winning author of three novels and two short story collections. The lecture includes readings and short stories extracted from his works. The event begins with an introduction by Professor Paula Berggren.

Jane Kramer, the Fall 1999 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, is the European correspondent for The New Yorker and writes on the "Letter from Europe" column for the magazine. The lecture covers readings from her works. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.