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.
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.
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.
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.
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, Hunter 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"
Juilliard is located on the campus of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the heart of Manhattan.
According to the August 31, 2007 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Juilliard's endowment is the 11th largest on a per student basis of any institution of higher education in the United States.
Juilliard is currently undergoing an expansion of its physical plant that will include a new suite for Liberal Arts and a new Writing and Communication Center.
Here is an illustration of the new facade along Broadway.
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
