Sunday, September 30, 2007

A Storm of Poetry from Ron Price

Liberal Arts faculty member Ron Price has upcoming readings at The 11th Street Park Preservation Series (Manhattan), Bisquit BBQ (Brooklyn), the DiVerseCity Series at La Negrita (Manhattan), & The Living Theater (Manhattan). For dates & times, email rprice@juilliard.edu

Ron also has poems forthcoming in Big City Lit, Live! Mag, Northeast Corridor, Tamarind, Zone 3, & a featured group in Rattapallax.

Friday, September 28, 2007

New Faculty Member Anthony Lioi Creates Perfect Storm



A new course, Perfect Storms: Environmental Literature, Ethics, & Politics, examines the politics of ecology through the literature and film today's environmental crisis, unprecedented & planetary in scale, has produced. The class will examine ideas of nature across contemporary global cultures; the environmental history of New York City; key cases in environmental ethics, including water pollution, food production, mass extinction of species, and global climate change; and popular movements for environmental change in Japan, India, Kenya, and Russia.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Hegel at Juilliard


Mitchell Aboulafia, in his second year as chair of Liberal Arts, & in addition to deep changes in the department's structure, including reduced course load, increased number of faculty & the addition of many new electives, has brought Hegel to Juilliard. Meeting after hours, students from the New School of Social Research join Juilliard students to make their way through Phenomenology of Spirit under Mitchell's guidance. The group began last spring semester & continues this fall with 22 members meeting every other Monday.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Anita Mercier Offers Perspectives on Gender & Sexuality


This course explores some of the issues raised by the way we conceptualize and assign value to categories like “male,” “female,” “gay,” and “straight.” To what extent are sex roles and gender differences rooted in biology? To what extent are they socially constructed? What are the arguments for and against the morality of homosexuality and gay marriage? Do men and women approach ethical decisions in fundamentally different ways? These and related questions will be investigated through readings drawn from feminist theory, gender studies, and moral philosophy.

(Offered Fall 2007)

Saturday, September 15, 2007

A New York City Kaleidoscope: Speaker Series At Juilliard Sponsored By The Liberal Arts Department


Oct 18, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Morse Hall: Carol Herselle Krinsky
Architectural Historian, N.Y.U.

"How Midtown Manhattan Was Created"

Nov 7, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Cafeteria: Robert Zaller
Chair, History Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia

“The Glory Days of NYC Baseball”

Dec 6, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, Room 309: Peter Kwong
Professor, Hunte
r College, CUNY
“NYC Chinatown and Asian Immigration”


Spring Semester:

Dates tba:
Galway Kinnell or Sonia Sanchez, poets
Quincy Mills, “African American Barbershops, NYC”
Waiting for confirmation: Tim Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank, NYC
"Money Matters, NYC"