Nadir Jeevanjee, University of California-Berkeley
Friday, April 1, 2016 12 pm
Hegeman 107
Computer simulations show that global average rainfall increases with surface warming at a rate of roughly 1-3% per Kelvin, but we lack the understanding to estimate this number without resorting to complicated numerical models. This talk will review the basic physics governing mean precipitation, as well as present a new theoretical framework which allows us to intuitively understand as well as quickly estimate this quantity.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
The Ghost of Cervantes: Don Quixote in La Mancha, Don Quixote in Manhattan
A lecture by Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Prof. of Spanish Literature at CUNY and Director of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium The influence of Cervantes’ Don Quixote on contemporary literature is unmeasurable. Prof. Piña-Rosales will refer to works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustav Flaubert and Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Vladimir Nabokov and Kathy Acker, all haunted by the ghost of Cervantes. Piña-Rosales will also offer a reflection on possible contemporary readings of Don Quixote by analyzing various editions of the work that have recently appeared both in English translation and in Spanish, including the new commemorative edition by the Royal Spanish Academy.
This event is conceived as a tribute to the living ghost of Miguel de Cervantes, founder of the modern novel, at the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death. Piña-Rosales’ lecture will be followed a bilingual reading of excerpts from his novella, Don Quijote en Manhattan/Don Quixote in Manhattan.
In English. Open to all.
For further information, please contact Prof. López-Gay.
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; LAIS Program; LASO; La Voz; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-845-6050, or e-mail [email protected].
Renewable Energy and the Public: Using Real Estate to Gauge Acceptance
The Bard CEP Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series presents Ben Hoen '06
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 5–6 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Bard Center for Environmental Policy is pleased to host Ben Hoen '06, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Ben will discuss his research that seeks to gauge levels of acceptance, or the lack thereof, of the rapidly deploying commercial scale wind energy and residential scale solar energy. His work uses real estate to measure and monitor that acceptance, which has led his efforts deep into the inter-workings or the wind and solar industries, realtors, appraisers, and more recently multiple listing services. He will talk about some of this work (and of others at his lab), where it is leading, and a few of the more interesting anecdotes he has collected along the way.
Ben is an example of the MS in environmental policy in action. According to Ben, "CEP gave me specific skills (e.g., econometrics, geospatial, writing) that I could immediately apply to my research agenda while at school and eventually the real world. The programs multidisciplinary approach was a perfect match for the research requirements at the lab."
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin: The Big Three and World War Two
Eminent Cambridge historian David Reynolds delivers the 2016 Eugene Meyer Annual Lecture.
Thursday, April 14, 2016 4:45 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium David Reynolds is Professor of International History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is the author of eleven books, including the Wolfson Prize-winning In Command of History: Churchill Writing and Fighting the Second World War. He has written and presented thirteen historical documentaries for BBC TV, ranging across the international history of the 20th century, including a trilogy on Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, as well as the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series America, Empire of Liberty.
Eugene Meyer (1875-1959), for whom the annual lecture and the Eugene Meyer Chair are named, was the owner and publisher of the Washington Post, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and first president of the World Bank. Previous Eugene Meyer speakers include Sir David Cannadine, Andrew Roberts, Fintan O'Toole, Mark Lytle and Colm Tóibín. The Eugene Meyer Chair, held by Professor Richard Aldous, was endowed at Bard in 2010.Sponsored by: 2016 Eugene Meyer Annual Lecture.
For more information, call 845-758-7398, or e-mail [email protected].
Chris Coggins, Geography and Asian Studies Professor, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Thursday, April 14, 2016 7:30–8:30 pm
Kline, Faculty Dining Room Chris Coggins Geography and Asian Studies Professor at Bard College at Simon's Rock presents "Fengshui Forest Management in Rural China" for the LIASE Asia Environment Conference, 7:30 - 8:30 PM EST Wednesday April 14th, 2016 in the FDR Room, Kline Commons at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Undergraduate and graduate students engaged in research related to Asia and the environment are invited to submit posters and papers for presentation at this second in a series of annual conferences.
Today it is impossible to think seriously about the challenges of sustainable development and the environment without understanding the local and global environmental footprint of rapid economic growth in Asia—and the Asian response. At the same time, Asian Studies students increasingly require familiarity with the scientific, cultural and political dimensions of environmental crises and sustainable development.
With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, Bard College is sponsoring an annual student research conference, providing a venue for students to present undergraduate, masters and PhD level research at the intersection of these critical issues. The conference seeks to shed critical light on how we all might live sustainably—or not—in a 2050 world with three billion more people, limited resources, a thickening blanket of carbon dioxide heating the planet, and a global economic development process increasingly defined by Asian models and leadership.
The conference will be held on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, which is easily accessible by train from New York City.
To learn more about the conference, please sign up for our mailing list here.
To submit a paper for a panel, or a proposal for a poster presentation, please send a one paragraph abstract to [email protected]. Undergraduate students must also include a letter of support from a professor. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Jackson Ewing from the Asia Society Policy Institute gives the LIASE Asia Environment Conference Keynote Lecture "Natural Resources and Security in East Asia," Weis Cinema, Bertelsman Campus Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY at 9 am EST Wednesday April 15th, 2016.
Jackson Ewing is the Director of Asian Sustainability at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) in New York, where he leads projects on environmental cooperation, responsible resource development, and international climate change policy.
Undergraduate and graduate students engaged in research related to Asia and the environment are invited to submit posters and papers for presentation at this second in a series of annual conferences.
Today it is impossible to think seriously about the challenges of sustainable development and the environment without understanding the local and global environmental footprint of rapid economic growth in Asia—and the Asian response. At the same time, Asian Studies students increasingly require familiarity with the scientific, cultural and political dimensions of environmental crises and sustainable development.
With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, Bard College is sponsoring an annual student research conference, providing a venue for students to present undergraduate, masters and PhD level research at the intersection of these critical issues. The conference seeks to shed critical light on how we all might live sustainably—or not—in a 2050 world with three billion more people, limited resources, a thickening blanket of carbon dioxide heating the planet, and a global economic development process increasingly defined by Asian models and leadership.
The conference will be held on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, which is easily accessible by train from New York City.
To learn more about the conference, please sign up for our mailing list here.
To submit a paper for a panel, or a proposal for a poster presentation, please send a one paragraph abstract to [email protected]. Undergraduate students must also include a letter of support from a professor. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Carl M. Bender Department of Physics Washington University in St. Louis
Friday, April 15, 2016 12 pm
Hegeman 107
Mathematicians have found it enlightening to extend the real number system to the complex number system. Complex numbers are fascinating in their own right and furthermore they help us to understand the nature of the real numbers. It has been my life's work as a theoretical physicist to examine what happens when we extend real physical theories to complex physical theories. This talk explains in simple terms some of the remarkable insights that we gain by doing so.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Minimal Cellular Systems: From Catalysts in Compartments to Life as We Know It
Dr. Aaron Engelhart Harvard University
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 4:30 pm
RKC 115 The emergence of homeostatic mechanisms that enabled maintenance of an intracellular steady-state during growth was critical to the advent of cellular life. Here, I will present our results showing that concentration-dependent reversible binding of short oligonucleotides, of both specific and random sequence, can modulate ribozyme activity. In both cases, catalysis is inhibited at high concentrations, and dilution activates the ribozyme via inhibitor dissociation, thus maintaining near-constant ribozyme specific activity throughout protocell growth.
In a second portion of the talk, I will show our results demonstrating that model protocell vesicles containing an encapsulated enzyme that promotes the synthesis of simple fatty acid derivatives become stabilized to Mg2+, which is required for ribozyme activity and RNA synthesis. The synthetic transformation requires both the catalyst and vesicles that solubilize the water-insoluble precursor lipid. We suggest that similar modified lipids could have played a key role in early life, and that primitive lipid membranes and encapsulated catalysts, such as ribozymes, may have acted in conjunction with each other, enabling otherwise-impossible chemical transformations within primordial cells.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2354, or e-mail [email protected].
"Intertwinements - Rethinking Politics and Aesthetics in Hannah Arendt's Work" with Special Guest: Cecilia Sjöholm
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.
Arendt wrote thoughtfully about the role of sensibility and aesthetic judgment in political life and on the power of art to enrich human experience. Sjöholm draws a clear line from Arendt's consideration of these subjects to her reflections on aesthetic encounters and works of art mentioned in her published writings and stored among her memorabilia. This delicate effort allows Sjöholm to revisit Arendt's political concepts of freedom, plurality, and judgment from an aesthetic point of view and incorporate Arendt's insight into current discussions of literature, music, theater, and visual art. Though Arendt did not explicitly outline an aesthetics, Sjöholm's work substantively incorporates her perspective into contemporary reckonings with radical politics and their relationship to art.
ABOUT:
Cecilia Sjöholm is professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University. Her research focuses on issues in phenomenology and aesthetics, with a particular emphasis on the history of aesthetics and its relation to politics. Her books include Regionality/Mondiality: Perspectives on Art, Aesthetics, and Globalization (with Charlotte Bydler); Kristeva and the Political; andThe Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire.
Worker Coops: Theory and Practice of 21st Century Socialism
Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, April 22, 2016 4:45–6:30 pm
Levy Economics Institute Conference Room Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, and the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). Wolff has published many books and articles, both scholarly and popular. Most recently, in 2012, he published Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Haymarket Books) and Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT University Press). He writes regularly for Truthout.org and has been interviewed on The Charlie Rose Show, Up With Chris Hayes, Bill Maher’s Real Time, RT-TV, Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English, Thom Hartman, National Public Radio, Alternative Radio, and many other radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad. The New York Times Magazine has named him “America’s most prominent Marxist economist.” Sponsored by: Economics Club; Economics Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7714, or e-mail [email protected].
The Virtues of Violence: Amphitheatres, Gladiators, and the Roman System of Values
Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Professor Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, is a distinguished teacher and scholar of Latin literature, especially Flavian poetry; the history and culture of the early Empire; Roman arena spectacles; and Roman punishment. As well as serving as a former President of the American Philological Association, chair of the Harvard Department of the Classics, and editor of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Professor Coleman has published widely on topics ranging from Roman graffiti to Hollywood’s presentation of gladiatorial spectacle. Current projects include preparing the manuscript of her 2010 Jerome Lectures for the University of Michigan Press, entitled "Q. Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven Years Old;” she is also working on book-length projects about Roman public execution and arena spectacles, the topic of her lecture today.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Classical Studies Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Weaponized Architecture from Palestine to the Paris Suburbs
Leopold Lambert, editor of The Funambulist magazine and author of the books Topie Impitoyable and Bulldozer Politcs.
Thursday, April 28, 2016 5 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Architecture is a political weapon. Its elemental form, the wall, organizes (sometimes violently) bodies in space both at the domestic and geographical levels. This lecture will introduce instances of such violence through the two examples of Palestine and the French banlieues (suburbs). The case of Palestine will be presented in terms of the role of architecture in the current situation and with reference to a post-apartheid vision for the future. The French banlieues are the dwelling places of a post-colonial population who must cope with both segregative urbanism and an antagonistic relationship with the police, which has been exacerbated during the present state of emergency in France. In both cases, a political and architectural interpretation of the situation will be presented through cartography and photography.
Free & open to the public
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; French Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Literature Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Nadir Jeevanjee, University of California-Berkeley
Friday, April 1, 2016 12 pm
Hegeman 107
Computer simulations show that global average rainfall increases with surface warming at a rate of roughly 1-3% per Kelvin, but we lack the understanding to estimate this number without resorting to complicated numerical models. This talk will review the basic physics governing mean precipitation, as well as present a new theoretical framework which allows us to intuitively understand as well as quickly estimate this quantity.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
The Ghost of Cervantes: Don Quixote in La Mancha, Don Quixote in Manhattan
A lecture by Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Prof. of Spanish Literature at CUNY and Director of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium The influence of Cervantes’ Don Quixote on contemporary literature is unmeasurable. Prof. Piña-Rosales will refer to works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustav Flaubert and Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Vladimir Nabokov and Kathy Acker, all haunted by the ghost of Cervantes. Piña-Rosales will also offer a reflection on possible contemporary readings of Don Quixote by analyzing various editions of the work that have recently appeared both in English translation and in Spanish, including the new commemorative edition by the Royal Spanish Academy.
This event is conceived as a tribute to the living ghost of Miguel de Cervantes, founder of the modern novel, at the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death. Piña-Rosales’ lecture will be followed a bilingual reading of excerpts from his novella, Don Quijote en Manhattan/Don Quixote in Manhattan.
In English. Open to all.
For further information, please contact Prof. López-Gay.
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; LAIS Program; LASO; La Voz; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-845-6050, or e-mail [email protected].
Renewable Energy and the Public: Using Real Estate to Gauge Acceptance
The Bard CEP Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series presents Ben Hoen '06
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 5–6 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Bard Center for Environmental Policy is pleased to host Ben Hoen '06, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Ben will discuss his research that seeks to gauge levels of acceptance, or the lack thereof, of the rapidly deploying commercial scale wind energy and residential scale solar energy. His work uses real estate to measure and monitor that acceptance, which has led his efforts deep into the inter-workings or the wind and solar industries, realtors, appraisers, and more recently multiple listing services. He will talk about some of this work (and of others at his lab), where it is leading, and a few of the more interesting anecdotes he has collected along the way.
Ben is an example of the MS in environmental policy in action. According to Ben, "CEP gave me specific skills (e.g., econometrics, geospatial, writing) that I could immediately apply to my research agenda while at school and eventually the real world. The programs multidisciplinary approach was a perfect match for the research requirements at the lab."
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin: The Big Three and World War Two
Eminent Cambridge historian David Reynolds delivers the 2016 Eugene Meyer Annual Lecture.
Thursday, April 14, 2016 4:45 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium David Reynolds is Professor of International History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is the author of eleven books, including the Wolfson Prize-winning In Command of History: Churchill Writing and Fighting the Second World War. He has written and presented thirteen historical documentaries for BBC TV, ranging across the international history of the 20th century, including a trilogy on Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, as well as the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series America, Empire of Liberty.
Eugene Meyer (1875-1959), for whom the annual lecture and the Eugene Meyer Chair are named, was the owner and publisher of the Washington Post, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and first president of the World Bank. Previous Eugene Meyer speakers include Sir David Cannadine, Andrew Roberts, Fintan O'Toole, Mark Lytle and Colm Tóibín. The Eugene Meyer Chair, held by Professor Richard Aldous, was endowed at Bard in 2010.Sponsored by: 2016 Eugene Meyer Annual Lecture.
For more information, call 845-758-7398, or e-mail [email protected].
Chris Coggins, Geography and Asian Studies Professor, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Thursday, April 14, 2016 7:30–8:30 pm
Kline, Faculty Dining Room Chris Coggins Geography and Asian Studies Professor at Bard College at Simon's Rock presents "Fengshui Forest Management in Rural China" for the LIASE Asia Environment Conference, 7:30 - 8:30 PM EST Wednesday April 14th, 2016 in the FDR Room, Kline Commons at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Undergraduate and graduate students engaged in research related to Asia and the environment are invited to submit posters and papers for presentation at this second in a series of annual conferences.
Today it is impossible to think seriously about the challenges of sustainable development and the environment without understanding the local and global environmental footprint of rapid economic growth in Asia—and the Asian response. At the same time, Asian Studies students increasingly require familiarity with the scientific, cultural and political dimensions of environmental crises and sustainable development.
With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, Bard College is sponsoring an annual student research conference, providing a venue for students to present undergraduate, masters and PhD level research at the intersection of these critical issues. The conference seeks to shed critical light on how we all might live sustainably—or not—in a 2050 world with three billion more people, limited resources, a thickening blanket of carbon dioxide heating the planet, and a global economic development process increasingly defined by Asian models and leadership.
The conference will be held on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, which is easily accessible by train from New York City.
To learn more about the conference, please sign up for our mailing list here.
To submit a paper for a panel, or a proposal for a poster presentation, please send a one paragraph abstract to [email protected]. Undergraduate students must also include a letter of support from a professor. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Jackson Ewing from the Asia Society Policy Institute gives the LIASE Asia Environment Conference Keynote Lecture "Natural Resources and Security in East Asia," Weis Cinema, Bertelsman Campus Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY at 9 am EST Wednesday April 15th, 2016.
Jackson Ewing is the Director of Asian Sustainability at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) in New York, where he leads projects on environmental cooperation, responsible resource development, and international climate change policy.
Undergraduate and graduate students engaged in research related to Asia and the environment are invited to submit posters and papers for presentation at this second in a series of annual conferences.
Today it is impossible to think seriously about the challenges of sustainable development and the environment without understanding the local and global environmental footprint of rapid economic growth in Asia—and the Asian response. At the same time, Asian Studies students increasingly require familiarity with the scientific, cultural and political dimensions of environmental crises and sustainable development.
With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, Bard College is sponsoring an annual student research conference, providing a venue for students to present undergraduate, masters and PhD level research at the intersection of these critical issues. The conference seeks to shed critical light on how we all might live sustainably—or not—in a 2050 world with three billion more people, limited resources, a thickening blanket of carbon dioxide heating the planet, and a global economic development process increasingly defined by Asian models and leadership.
The conference will be held on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, which is easily accessible by train from New York City.
To learn more about the conference, please sign up for our mailing list here.
To submit a paper for a panel, or a proposal for a poster presentation, please send a one paragraph abstract to [email protected]. Undergraduate students must also include a letter of support from a professor. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Carl M. Bender Department of Physics Washington University in St. Louis
Friday, April 15, 2016 12 pm
Hegeman 107
Mathematicians have found it enlightening to extend the real number system to the complex number system. Complex numbers are fascinating in their own right and furthermore they help us to understand the nature of the real numbers. It has been my life's work as a theoretical physicist to examine what happens when we extend real physical theories to complex physical theories. This talk explains in simple terms some of the remarkable insights that we gain by doing so.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Minimal Cellular Systems: From Catalysts in Compartments to Life as We Know It
Dr. Aaron Engelhart Harvard University
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 4:30 pm
RKC 115 The emergence of homeostatic mechanisms that enabled maintenance of an intracellular steady-state during growth was critical to the advent of cellular life. Here, I will present our results showing that concentration-dependent reversible binding of short oligonucleotides, of both specific and random sequence, can modulate ribozyme activity. In both cases, catalysis is inhibited at high concentrations, and dilution activates the ribozyme via inhibitor dissociation, thus maintaining near-constant ribozyme specific activity throughout protocell growth.
In a second portion of the talk, I will show our results demonstrating that model protocell vesicles containing an encapsulated enzyme that promotes the synthesis of simple fatty acid derivatives become stabilized to Mg2+, which is required for ribozyme activity and RNA synthesis. The synthetic transformation requires both the catalyst and vesicles that solubilize the water-insoluble precursor lipid. We suggest that similar modified lipids could have played a key role in early life, and that primitive lipid membranes and encapsulated catalysts, such as ribozymes, may have acted in conjunction with each other, enabling otherwise-impossible chemical transformations within primordial cells.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2354, or e-mail [email protected].
"Intertwinements - Rethinking Politics and Aesthetics in Hannah Arendt's Work" with Special Guest: Cecilia Sjöholm
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.
Arendt wrote thoughtfully about the role of sensibility and aesthetic judgment in political life and on the power of art to enrich human experience. Sjöholm draws a clear line from Arendt's consideration of these subjects to her reflections on aesthetic encounters and works of art mentioned in her published writings and stored among her memorabilia. This delicate effort allows Sjöholm to revisit Arendt's political concepts of freedom, plurality, and judgment from an aesthetic point of view and incorporate Arendt's insight into current discussions of literature, music, theater, and visual art. Though Arendt did not explicitly outline an aesthetics, Sjöholm's work substantively incorporates her perspective into contemporary reckonings with radical politics and their relationship to art.
ABOUT:
Cecilia Sjöholm is professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University. Her research focuses on issues in phenomenology and aesthetics, with a particular emphasis on the history of aesthetics and its relation to politics. Her books include Regionality/Mondiality: Perspectives on Art, Aesthetics, and Globalization (with Charlotte Bydler); Kristeva and the Political; andThe Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire.
Worker Coops: Theory and Practice of 21st Century Socialism
Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, April 22, 2016 4:45–6:30 pm
Levy Economics Institute Conference Room Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, and the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). Wolff has published many books and articles, both scholarly and popular. Most recently, in 2012, he published Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Haymarket Books) and Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT University Press). He writes regularly for Truthout.org and has been interviewed on The Charlie Rose Show, Up With Chris Hayes, Bill Maher’s Real Time, RT-TV, Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English, Thom Hartman, National Public Radio, Alternative Radio, and many other radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad. The New York Times Magazine has named him “America’s most prominent Marxist economist.” Sponsored by: Economics Club; Economics Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7714, or e-mail [email protected].
The Virtues of Violence: Amphitheatres, Gladiators, and the Roman System of Values
Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Professor Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, is a distinguished teacher and scholar of Latin literature, especially Flavian poetry; the history and culture of the early Empire; Roman arena spectacles; and Roman punishment. As well as serving as a former President of the American Philological Association, chair of the Harvard Department of the Classics, and editor of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Professor Coleman has published widely on topics ranging from Roman graffiti to Hollywood’s presentation of gladiatorial spectacle. Current projects include preparing the manuscript of her 2010 Jerome Lectures for the University of Michigan Press, entitled "Q. Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven Years Old;” she is also working on book-length projects about Roman public execution and arena spectacles, the topic of her lecture today.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Classical Studies Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Weaponized Architecture from Palestine to the Paris Suburbs
Leopold Lambert, editor of The Funambulist magazine and author of the books Topie Impitoyable and Bulldozer Politcs.
Thursday, April 28, 2016 5 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Architecture is a political weapon. Its elemental form, the wall, organizes (sometimes violently) bodies in space both at the domestic and geographical levels. This lecture will introduce instances of such violence through the two examples of Palestine and the French banlieues (suburbs). The case of Palestine will be presented in terms of the role of architecture in the current situation and with reference to a post-apartheid vision for the future. The French banlieues are the dwelling places of a post-colonial population who must cope with both segregative urbanism and an antagonistic relationship with the police, which has been exacerbated during the present state of emergency in France. In both cases, a political and architectural interpretation of the situation will be presented through cartography and photography.
Free & open to the public
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; French Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Literature Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.