SPEAKERS
Artist Lectures:
Anne Percoco – “Extinct Machines”
Marguerite Day – “Preceptism”
New York Council for the Humanities Lectures:
Hudson –Champlain Quadricentennial 2009 / A lecture by Paul M. Bray
Planning for world-class commemorations: The Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial in 2009. The "New World" is getting older (or actually was never as young as was imagined). It has a growing "useable history" to celebrate and capitalize upon. 2009 will test whether New York State rises to the occasion and realizes all the benefits possible from a major concurrence of historic events: the explorations by Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain.
New York is known for its neglect of its significant history. Historian Kenneth Jackson calls New York the place, "where America began". He declared "…events in New York, more than any other place, have dominated and defined the larger American experience". Yet, as Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan have pointed out, "history, or perhaps historians, keep passing New York by...". There have been times when New Yorkers have risen to the occasion like 1909 when the Hudson-Fulton Celebration conflated two major anniversaries into a "glowing fete that every citizen of New York enthusiastically enjoyed". What distinguished this international "celebration" was its inclusiveness by using "the entire city (of New York) and its picturesque Hudson River as a stage". The organizers in 1909 were able to connect local pride in the Hudson Valley while embracing new immigrants, the introduction of new technologies like electric light and the airplane and a mission to conserve the scenic and natural beauty of the Hudson River Valley.
Educator Lectures
- Stuart Ross from the EPA
- Acumen Fund will host a panel discussion on ecology
- Samuel A. Epstein “Geology and Global Warming”
Giovanni Frazzetto is the Branco Weiss Fellow at the BIOS Center for Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. His current laboratory research focuses on behavioral neuroscience, in particular the study of emotions such as anxiety and attachment. At the BIOS Center he is investigating the cultural and societal aspects of his field of experimental research. He is investigating the ways in which the rapid progress in neuroscience is giving rise to a 'neuroculture' and the consequences and modalities of 'neurochemical' enhancement. His essays on consciousness and the evolving face of science have been published in EMBO Reports, a journal that focuses on molecular biology.
Jean Strouse (b. 1945) is an American biographer, editor and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Strouse was book editor for Newsweek magazine from 1979 to 1983, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in September, 2001. She has also held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has contributed reviews and essays on literary and other topics to the New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vogue. In 2003 Strouse was appointed the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Peter Hirshberg is an entrepreneur and marketing innovator who has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years. He is a Trustee of The Computer History Museum and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Peter earned his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.
