OCTOBER 2000
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A major conference, "Privacy," was held October 5 through 7. Organized by Arien Mack, Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Faculty and Social Research editor, the conference included the perspectives of 24 leading scholars, legal and technical experts, journalists, humanists and other specialists. Charles Nesson, Harvard Law School professor, was the keynote speaker. |
| The New School presented "Public Policy and the Internet" with panelists Norman Siegel, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York. |
| The New School 's Educated Citizen Project presented "Imagining the Future: An Evening with Ursula LeGuin." A National Book Award winner, Ms. LeGuin has been writing science fiction and fantasy since 1966. |
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Edward Rothstein, cultural critic of The New York Times and Senior Fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, led a panel discussion on "The Brave New Museum," about the recent boom in museum building and expansion. The discussion focused on recent museum designs by Richard Meier, Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei, among others. |
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Legendary tenor Jon Vickers presented a dramatic reading of Tennyson's epic poem "Enoch Arden," with incidental music by Richard Strauss performed by pianist Richard Woitach. Mr. Vickers also gave a master class at Mannes College of Music on October 27. |
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New School University's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program announced the publication of a new 848-page The Oxford Companion to Jazz, edited by faculty member Bill Kirchner. The collection of 60 essays surveys the history and roots of jazz, provides biographies of performers and offers an analysis of the impact of jazz on American culture. |
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Parsons's product design department presented "Design Talks," a series of lectures on what designers do, how they process information and actualize designs and how different training experiences have led them to where they are today. Guest speakers included designers Michael Graves, Raymond Waites, Martha Davis, Harry Allen and Humberto and Fernando Campana. |
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Samuel Wong conducted the Mannes Orchestra in a concert featuring Beethoven's Symphony No.8 in F Major and Aaron Copland's "Quiet City," "El Salón México" and "Four Dance Episodes" from Rodeo at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on October 31. The Copland pieces commemorated the centennial of Copland's birth. |
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