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June 12, 2011

Stranger than Truth: The Art of the Trio

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Helias, Bobby Previte

May 14, 2011

Poetry Scholars and Poet Critics

Roundtable

Participants: Stephen Burt, Bonnie Costello, Heather Dubrow (moderator), Rachel Hadas, Eric McHenry

May 13, 2011

Hamlet

Film Screening

Directed by Lawrence Olivier

May 07, 2011

Theories of Meaning and Motivation

Roundtable

Participants: Emily Balcetis, Ned Block, Lawrence Friedman, Edward Smith

April 26, 2011

Wallace Stevens: Words That Matter

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Susan Howe & Joan Richardson

April 15, 2011

Wild Strawberries

Film Screening

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

April 02, 2011

Realism and Expressionism in the Work of Tennessee Williams

Roundtable

Participants: Enoch Brater, Lee Breuer, Roger Copeland, Joe Jeffreys, Maude Mitchell, Basil Twist

March 25, 2011

Synecdoche, New York

Film Screening

Directed by Charlie Kaufman

March 13, 2011

Asking the East

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Samir Chatterjee, Jin Hi Kim, Min Xiao-Fen

March 12, 2011

Theories of Everything

Roundtable

Participants: David Albert, Glennys Farrar, Charles Liu, Herman Verlinde, Gareth Williams

March 01, 2011

From Homer to 2011: Greek Poetry through the Millennia

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Peter Constantine, Karen Emmerich, Rachel Hadas (moderator), Karen Van Dyck

February 26, 2011

The Limitations of Mental and Physical Reality

Roundtable

Participants: Gregory Chaitin, Joseph J. Kohn (moderator), Tim Maudlin, Edward Nelson, Carol Rovane

February 25, 2011

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Film Screening

Directed by Max Ophuls

February 06, 2011

Living in the Musical Moment: Jazz Guitar

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & Ken Wessel

February 05, 2011

Poetry and Narrative

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Jonathan Culler, Heather Dubrow (moderator), Marilyn Nelson, Willie Perdomo, James Phelan

January 29, 2011

The Nature of Reality

Roundtable

Participants: Mark Alford, Deepak Chopra (moderator), Stuart Firestein, Stuart Hameroff, Menas Kafatos

January 24, 2011

Accepting Mystery: The Motion/Emotion Connection

Benefit

With Mark Mitton and Stuart Firestein

January 08, 2011

The Red Shoes

Film Screening

Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

December 12, 2010

Living in the Musical Moment: Improvisational Structures for Two Keyboards

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter, Marc Rossi

December 05, 2010

The Art of the Graphic Novel

Roundtable

Participants: Lynda Barry, Hillary Chute (moderator), N.C. Christopher Couch, Ben Katchor, Françoise Mouly

November 14, 2010

From Muse to Music: Exploring the Craft of the American Art Song

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Tom Cipullo, Hope Hudson, Lori Laitman, Richard Pearson Thomas

November 11, 2010

Our Life in Poetry: Frank O'Hara

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Michael Braziller, Mark Doty, David Lehman

November 06, 2010

Finding Equilibrium in Hitchcock's Vertigo

Film Screening & Roundtable

Participants: Richard Allen, John Belton, Joe McElhaney, Edward Neresessian, Brigitte Peucker (moderator)

October 30, 2010

The Imagination of Hamlet

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Brustein, Christian Camargo, Paul Fry (moderator), Laura Levine, Eugene Mahon, Susanne Wofford

October 29, 2010

The Blaney Lecture

Poets Forum Lecture

Participants: Anne Carson

October 29, 2010

Emerging Poets Panel

Poets Forum Panel

Participants: Jericho Brown, Tina Chang, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Meghan O'Rourke, Mark Wunderlich

October 23, 2010

Recovering Syntax: A Poet's Struggle with Aphasia

Roundtable

Participants: Jason W. Brown, Marie Ponsot, Dorothy E. Ross, Jackson Taylor (moderator)

October 16, 2010

Origins of Tragedy

Roundtable

Participants: Joseph LeDoux, Gregory Nagy, Alexander Nehamas, Stephen Scully, Gareth Williams (moderator)

October 04, 2010

Working with Pinter

Film Screening

Directed by Harry Burton

October 02, 2010

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Ten Years Later

Roundtable

Participants: Cristina Alberini, Heather Berlin, Vittorio Gallese, Robert Michels, Donald Pfaff, Mark Solms

September 26, 2010

Jazz Improvisation and the Visual Impulse

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Rebecca Allan, Vicky Barranguet, Jane Ira Bloom, Gustavo Casenave, Marty Ehrlich

September 25, 2010

From the WPA to the NEA: Arts Funding Then and Now

Roundtable

Participants: Morris Dickstein (moderator), Rocco Landesman, Kate D. Levin, Susan Quinn, Leslie G. Schultz

September 09, 2010

Alda Merini in Translation

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Susan Stewart & Paolo Valesio

July 28, 2010

The Mirror

Summer Film Series

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

July 21, 2010

Solaris

Summer Film Series

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

July 14, 2010

Andrei Rublev

Summer Film Series

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

June 12, 2010

Parallel Universes: The History of an Idea

Roundtable

Participants: Eva Brann, Christa Davis Acampora, David Morgan, Paul Park (moderator), David Weinberg

June 05, 2010

Vegetarianism in the Age of Global Consciousness

Roundtable

Participants: Nils Norén, Gary Null, Benjamin Sachs (moderator), Andrew Smith, Ronald Stram

June 03, 2010

The Politics of Ecstasy

Roundtable

Participants: Pearl Abraham, Michael Eigen (moderator), Larry Shainberg, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Richard Sloan

May 22, 2010

The Politics of Identity and Social Cohesion

Roundtable

Participants: Paul Berman, Richard Bulliet (moderator), Dan Stets, Isser Woloch

May 20, 2010

Star Wars and Modernism: An Artist Commentary

Film Screening and Discussion

Participants: Colby Chamberlain, R. Luke DuBois, John Powers

May 08, 2010

Crossing the Line

Film Screening

Directed by Daniel Gordon

May 04, 2010

The Art of the Sonnet

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Heather Dubrow (moderator), Phillis Levin, Paul Muldoon, Susan Wolfson

May 01, 2010

The Allure of the Hive: Social Networking and Social Change

Roundtable

Participants: Nicole Ellison, David Kirkpatrick, Dhiraj Murthy, Sean Parker, Andrew Rasiej

April 25, 2010

Moving and Playing: Jazz Improvisation and Dance Conversation

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Carmen De Lavallade, Rufus Reid, Aaron Shafer-Haiss, Andrea Weber

April 24, 2010

Understanding the Placebo Effect

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Ader, Rob DeRubeis (moderator), John Kelley, Richard Kradin, Rosamond Rhodes

April 17, 2010

Romanticism, Enlightenment, and Counter-Enlightenment

Roundtable

Participants: Akeel Bilgrami, Taylor Carman, Garrett Deckel, Colin Jager, Joel Whitebook

March 25, 2010

Dancing in the Dark: Julie Taymor, Oedipus Rex, and the Gaze of Upright Posture

Presentation

Participants: Roger Copeland

March 16, 2010

An Ancient Stringed Instrument Reborn: The Angular Harp

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Bo Lawegren, Tomoko Sugawara

March 13, 2010

The Lure and Blur of the Real

Roundtable

Participants: Barbara Browning, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), John Cameron Mitchell, Rick Moody, David Shields (moderator), Fred Tomaselli

March 02, 2010

Confessionalism and Poets of the Middle Generation

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Michael Braziller & Edward Hirsch

February 27, 2010

Joseph Cornell's Flushing Meadows: A Work of Art and Mourning

Film Screening and Roundtable

Participants: Eric Edelman, Anne Morra, Susan Scheftel, Martin Wilner

February 20, 2010

The Role of Psychotherapy in the Age of Neuroreceptors and Genes

Roundtable

Particpants: Brian Koehler, Ze'ev Levin, Charles Marmar, Ira Steinman (moderator)

January 23, 2010

Objectified

Film Screening

Participants: Steven Heller & Gary Hustwit

January 10, 2010

Mixed Marriage: Jazz and the Post-Klezmer Revolution in NYC

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & Greg Wall

December 19, 2009

Aging and Creativity

Roundtable

Participants: Patricia Bloom, Carmen De Lavallade, Audrey Flack, Elinor Fuchs, Gordon Rogoff

December 12, 2009

Love and Pleasure in the Age of Electricity

Roundtable

Participants: Elizabeth Auchincloss, Anne Cattaneo, Barry Komisaruk, Rachel Maines

December 08, 2009

Madmen, Exiles, and Savage Detectives: Latin American Poetry from Arenas to Bolaño

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Laura Healy, Jaime Manrique

December 05, 2009

Time

Roundtable

Participants: Olga Ast, George Musser, Mark Norell, Michael Shara, Peter Whitely

November 21, 2009

Close-Up Music: The Jane Ira Bloom Quartet and the Intimacy of Ideas

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Dawn Clement, Mark Helias, Matt Wilson

November 17, 2009

Daniel Mendelsohn on C.P. Cavafy

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Daniel Mendelsohn

November 15, 2009

The Inventions of Bob Dylan

Roundtable

Participants: Christopher Ricks, Matthew von Unwerth, Sean Wilentz

November 14, 2009

Mathematics and Beauty

Roundtable

Participants: Eva Brann, Brian Greene, Mario Livio, Barry Mazur, Elaine Scarry

November 12, 2009

Poetry and Microgenesis

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Jason W. Brown, Steven Meyer

November 08, 2009

The Return of the Wingdale Community Singers

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Nina Katchadourian, Hannah Marcus, Rick Moody, Randy Polumbo

November 07, 2009

The Future of Health Care

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Doar, Jonathan Jacobs, Diane Meier, Helen Morik, Gregory Nersessian

November 03, 2009

Alice Neel

Film Screening

Participants: Michel Auder, Andrew Neel, Matthew von Unwerth

October 17, 2009

Mathematics and Religion

Roundtable

Participants: Dominic Balestra, Loren Graham, Edward Nelson, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Max Tegmark

October 17, 2009

Naming God, Naming Infinity: Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity

Talk

Loren Graham

October 16, 2009

"Show Me Your Environment and I Will Tell You Who You Are": Place, Pathos, and the Problems of Identity

Academy of American Poets Talk

Participants: David Baker

October 04, 2009

Imposters, Forgery, Fraud, and Illusion

Roundtable

Participants: George Bisacca, Mark Mitton, Laney Salisbury

October 03, 2009

Living in the Musical Moment: Jazz Bassoon

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & Mike Rabinowitz

September 26, 2009

Historical Capitalism: Money and Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Marshall Berman, Simon Critchley, Sandra Sherman

September 22, 2009

Persian Poetry: Origins, Translations, and Influences

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Iraj Anvar, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Roger Sedarat, Niloufar Talebi

September 17, 2009

An Evening with Leonhard Euler

Talk

Participants: William Dunham

September 09, 2009

Exploring Beethoven's Sound World: Historically Informed Practice and the Seventh Symphony

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Thomas Crawford

July 30, 2009

Siberian Lady Macbeth

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Andrzej Wajda

July 15, 2009

The Maids

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Christopher Miles

July 08, 2009

Butley

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Harold Pinter

June 07, 2009

Min Xiao-Fen's Blue Pipa Trio

Performance & Discussion

Participants: Dean Johnson, Steve Salerno, Min Xiao-Fen

June 06, 2009

Theater of War

Film Screening

Directed by John Walter

May 21, 2009

Our Life in Poetry Benefit

Poetry Reading

Participants: Michael Braziller, Eamon Grennan, Edward Hirsch, Marie Ponsot

May 16, 2009

Diaghilev/Cunningham: 1909/2009

Roundtable

Participants: Joan Acocella, Jonah Bokaer, Roger Copeland, Valda Setterfield

May 13, 2009

Surrealism and Beyond: Paul Eluard and René Char

Poetry Course

Participants: Mary Ann Caws, Nancy Kline, Lois Oppenheim

May 11, 2009

Food for Thought: The Je Ne Sais Quoi of Taste

Benefit

Participants: Dave Arnold, Serge Becker, Stuart Firestein, Alex Guarnaschelli, Mark Mitton, Nils Noren, Philip Pearlstein

May 05, 2009

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle

Film Screening

Directed by Ari Marcopoulos & Chuck Smith

May 02, 2009

Addiction

Roundtable

Participants: Cristina Alberini, Stephen Delafield, William Gottdiener, Scott Russo

April 26, 2009

Lightning in a Bottle: Creating, Presenting, and Preserving Jazz

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Deena Adler, Billy Banks, Craig McIver, Odean Pope, Loren Schoenberg, Lee Smith, Myles Weinstein

April 25, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Evil

Roundtable

Participants: Richard Bernstein, Jacques Lezra, Edward Nersessian, Kent Reynolds, Joel Whitebook

April 21, 2009

Living in the Musical Moment: Classical Violin Meets Jazz

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & Andy Stein

April 18, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Violence and the City

Roundtable

Participants: David Brotherton, Brandon del Pozo, Steven Marans

April 14, 2009

Modernists that Matter: Mallarmé and Apollinaire

Poetry Course

Participants: Mary Ann Caws, Nancy Kline, Lois Oppenheim

April 07, 2009

"Cohered out of Tumult and Chaos": The Poetry of Walt Whitman

Poetry Course

Participants: Matt Miller & Cody Walker

April 05, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Sex and Violence

Roundtable

Participants: Jessica Benjamin, Anthony Di Fiore, James Gilligan (moderator), Allan Siegel, Larry Siever, Neal Simon

March 21, 2009

The Comic Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Lewis Black, Jim Holt, Bruce McCall, Tami Sagher, Cody Walker (moderator)

March 14, 2009

Dancing on the Ceiling: Music and the Brain

Roundtable

Participants: Jim Anderson, Taoufiq Ben Amor, Jane Ira Bloom, Josh McDermott, Alexander Stein

March 07, 2009

Evolution of God(s)

Roundtable

Participants: Jennifer Hecht, Elaine Pagels, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Tyler Volk (moderator), Robert Wright

March 05, 2009

Living in the Musical Moment: Interspecies Jamming with Whales, Birds, and Humans

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & David Rothenberg

February 28, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Genocide

Roundtable

Participants: Joyce Apsel, Benedict Kiernan (moderator), Taylor Krauss, Patricia McCormick, Henri Parens

February 22, 2009

Full Metal Jacket

Film Screening

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

February 21, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of War

Roundtable

Participants: David Blight, R. Brian Ferguson, John Horgan (moderator), Dori Laub

February 14, 2009

Creative Ambiguity in Scientific and Humanistic Thought

Roundtable

Participants: Eva Brann, Heather Dubrow, Donald Pfaff (moderator), Robert Shapley, Michael Shelley, Sandra Sherman

February 07, 2009

On Aggression

Roundtable

Participants: Edward Donnerstein, Peter Moskos, Debra Niehoff, Theodore Shapiro (moderator)

January 31, 2009

Spinoza

Roundtable

Participants: Akeel Bilgrami (moderator), Jonathan Israel, Steven Nadler, Joel Whitebook, Catherine Wilson

January 21, 2009

David Levy and Metaphysical Jazz

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: David Levy

January 17, 2009

The World of the Translator

Roundtable

Participants: Peter Cole, Peter Constantine, Jonathan Galassi, Edith Grossman, Suzanne Jill Levine, Qiu Xiaolong

January 11, 2009

Literacy and Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Logan (moderator), Jonathan Rosen, Bambi Schieffelin, Lance Strate

January 10, 2009

Helvetica: Typography and Literacy

Film Screening and Roundtable

Participants: Christopher Calderhead, Arem Duplessis, Steven Heller (moderator), Elinor Aishah Holland, Gary Hustwit, Elaine Lustig Cohen

December 20, 2008

Living in the Musical Moment: Banjo Innovations

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Béla Fleck & Lewis Porter

December 14, 2008

Jazz Improvisation: The Art of the Ballad

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Drew Gress, Fred Hersch

December 13, 2008

Autobiography/Biography: Narrating the Self

Roundtable

Participants: Nicholson Baker, David Shields, Judith Thurman, Simon Winchester, Louise Yelin (moderator)

December 12, 2008

My Winnipeg

Film Screening

Directed by Guy Maddin

December 10, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Anne Stevenson

December 06, 2008

Deep Listening: Why Audio Quality Matters

Roundtable

Participants: Steve Berkowitz, Greg Calbi (moderator), Evan Cornog, Michael Fremer, Kevin Killen, Craig Street

November 22, 2008

I'll Go On: An Afternoon of Samuel Beckett

Film Screening & Roundtable

Participants: Edward Albee, Tom Bishop, Alvin Epstein, Lois Oppenheim (moderator), John Turturro

November 18, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: In Pursuit of Bewilderment

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller (moderator), Timothy Donnelly, Matthea Harvey, Dennis Nurkse

November 15, 2008

Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible

Roundtable

Participants: Mary Bergstein, Abigail Gillman, Diane O'Donoghue (moderator), Bennett Simon, Andrew Stein Raftery

November 14, 2008

Is Freud Dead?: The Relevance of Freud's Theory of Group Psychology in Today's World

Roundtable

Participants: Mark Edmundson (moderator), Ken Eisold, Jim Hopkins, Bennett Markel, Jane McAdam Freud

November 08, 2008

Caché

Film Screening & Roundtable

Participants: Roy Grundman, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker (moderator), Brian Price, Garrett Stewart

November 01, 2008

True Crime: Inside the Mind of Mayhem

Roundtable

Participants: John Coston, Spencer Eth (moderator), Joe Loya, Shoba Sreenivasan, Qiu Xiaolong

October 28, 2008

Musical Creatures: How Vertebrate Locomotion Shapes Human Music

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Andrew Warshaw

October 26, 2008

Greed

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Frank, Rabbi Philip Hiat, David Kirkpatrick (moderator), Jay Phelan, Lawrence Tancredi

October 25, 2008

The Presumption of Rationality: Psychological Challenges to Legal Certainty

Roundtable

Participants: Peter Brooks, Anne Dailey (moderator), Carol Gilligan, Nomi Stolzenberg, Kenji Yoshino

October 23, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Auden in New York

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & David Lehman

October 22, 2008

The Design of Influence: How Images and Words Sway Minds

Re:Mind Roundtable

Participants: Steve Brodner, Steven Heller (moderator), Paul Starr, Jason Young

October 19, 2008

Fear(s) of the Dark

Film Screening

A film by: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire

October 18, 2008

Paraphilias

Roundtable

Participants: Arnold Davidson, Otto Kernberg (moderator), Richard Krueger, Linda Williams, Susan Winemaker

October 17, 2008

Salo

Film Screening

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini's

October 15, 2008

Voters and Friends: Group Influence in Individual Political Belief

Re:Mind Roundtable

Participants: Bryan Caplan, Eric Dickson, Kristina Hoke, Howard Lavine, Jeff Merritt

October 14, 2008

The Poetry of Eros

Roundtable

Participants: Charles Martin, Sharon Olds

October 11, 2008

From Looking to Voyeurism

Roundtable

Participants: Mary Ann Doane, Katherine Frank, Dany Nobus (moderator), Saul Robbins, Sarah Stanbury

October 06, 2008

Blow Up

Film Screening

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

October 04, 2008

The Body and its Image

Roundtable

Participants: Marina Abramovic, Paul Campos, Sander Gilman (moderator), Marcel Kinsbourne, Sabine Wilhelm

October 03, 2008

Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Plays

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Brustein, Alvin Epstein, Eugene Mahon, Ron Rosenbaum, Daniela Varon, J.P. Wearing

September 28, 2008

Living in the Musical Moment: Percussion Madness

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: David King & Lewis Porter

September 27, 2008

Love Code: The Chemistry of Intimacy

Roundtable

Participants: Stephanie Brown, Sue Carter (moderator), Elaine Hatfield, Dolores Malaspina, Stephen Porges

September 23, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Marie Ponsot

September 20, 2008

Sex and Love: The Biology of Romance

Roundtable

Participants: Michael Baum, Helen Fisher, Siri Gullestad, Hiroaki Matsunami, Michael Numan, Donald Pfaff (moderator)

September 15, 2008

Left and Right: What Neuroscience is Revealing about Political Thought

Re:Mind Roundtable

Participants: David Amodio, Joy Hirsch, John Neffinger (moderator), Alexander Todorov

September 13, 2008

Mating in Captivity: Sexuality and Monogamy

Roundtable

Participants: Michael Kimmel, Francis Levy, Pamela Paul, Esther Perel, Owen Renik (moderator)

July 30, 2008

Le Gai Savoir

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

July 23, 2008

La Chinoise

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

July 10, 2008

Place, Imagination, and Identity

Re:Mind Roundtable

Participants: Daniel Casarella, Sasha Gordon, Lee Kiang (moderator), Adam Libow, Dana O'Keefe, Nathaniel Rich

July 09, 2008

La Jetée

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Chris Marker

June 25, 2008

Living in the Musical Moment: Don Byron & Lewis Porter

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Don Byron & Lewis Porter

June 24, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Post-War Polish Poets

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Edward Hirsch

June 16, 2008

Dreams with Sharp Teeth

Film Screening

Directed by Erik Nelson

June 14, 2008

Emotion and Invention in Architecture

Roundtable

Participants: Donald Albrecht, David Howes, Sanjoy Mazumdar, Julio Salcedo (moderator), Jerome Winer

June 12, 2008

Jazz Improvisation and the Written Word

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Jay Clayton, Jerry Granelli, David Tronzo

June 09, 2008

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine

Film Screening

Directed by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach

June 07, 2008

Susan Sontag: Public Intellectual, Polymath, Provocatrice

Roundtable

Participants: Joan Acocella, Robert Boyers (moderator), Roger Copeland, Phillip Lopate, James Miller

May 31, 2008

Psychogeography: The Landscapes of Memory

Roundtable

Participants: André Aciman, Vito Acconci, Russell Epstein, Matthew von Unwerth (moderator)

May 27, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: William Butler Yeats

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Eamon Grennan

May 17, 2008

Wingdale Community Singers

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: David Grubbs, Nina Katchadourian, Hannah Marcus, Rick Moody