OCTOBER 2003
A joint town hall meeting of the
board of trustees and
boards of governors was held on October 22. At the President’s Council reception following the meeting, President Kerrey presented the University’s Distinguished Service Award to Mannes Board of Governors Chair John Beerbower, former University Trustee R. Harcourt Dodds, Parsons Board of Governors Member Tess Gilder, University Trustee William Hayden, University Trustee Bevis Longstreth, former University Trustee Robert J. Morgado and University Trustee Elliot Stein.
President Bob Kerrey moderated a panel of distinguished scholars, journalists and critics who reflected on Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s legacy. Moynihan, who died in March 2003 at age 76, represented New York in the U.S. Senate for four terms. He was a scholar, policy expert and public intellectual who addressed important social issues and never shied away from controversy. Panelists included Nathan Glazer, professor of sociology, Harvard University; Jennifer Hochschild, author of
Facing Up to the American Dream; Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism; Diane Lewis, department of architecture, Cooper Union; Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology, Harvard University; and David Plotke, chair of political science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University.
Social Research, the
Graduate Faculty’s award-winning international quarterly of the social sciences,
received a $50,000 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for its 2004 conference “Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses.” Vice President Al Gore gave the keynote address at the conference. Arien Mack, Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology and editor of
Social Research, organized the conference, which explored the ways we are living in a time of fear.
The
Graduate Faculty department of philosophy presented a symposium on “Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: New Directions” at the Wolff Conference Room. Julia Kristeva was one of the speakers at the symposium, which honored Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schurmann, scholars who made an intellectual home at the Graduate Faculty.
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and author, discussed his new book
The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade (W.W. Norton & Company) at Wollman Hall.
Parsons School of Design presented
Donald Brooks: An American 
Original, an exhibition and retrospective of work by the award-winning costume designer, fashion designer and 1950 Parsons graduate, showcasing some of the designer’s best works over the past 40 years.
