NOVEMBER 2003
The New School’s graduate program in international affairs received a grant of $200,000 from the NASDAQ Stock Market Educational Foundation to establish the NASDAQ Economic Policy Seminar. The seminar is a three-year project that will bring together graduate students and distinguished economic policy practitioners to examine the kinds of markets and market behaviors that affect national economic performance. Jeff Madrick,
New York Times economics columnist, editor of
Challenge magazine and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, gave the inaugural lecture, “The End of Cooperation: The Economic Costs of American Unilateralism.”
The
World Policy Institute presented a panel discussion on “Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy” with Randall Balmer, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American Religion at Barnard College and author of
Religion in American Life and
Protestantism in America, and Graham E. Fuller, former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council of the CIA and author of
The Future of Political Islam. Mira Kamdar, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, moderated the discussion on religion and how it contributes to the formulation of U.S. foreign policy.
Drummer and
Jazz Program faculty member Chico Hamilton was honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship
award for life achievement. Others joining Hamilton in receiving the award included guitarist and former Jazz faculty member Jim Hall, pianist Herbie Hancock, vocalist Nancy Wilson and writer Nat Hentoff. In addition, the late arranger and composer Luther Henderson was honored.
Mannes College of Music concluded its festival “The Birth of Romanticism” with a concert at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on December 10. The program included works by Schubert, Haydn, Rossini, Mozart and Beethoven.
