Symposia
10 - 11:15
Free the Code, Free Your Mind:
From the Free Software Movement to the Ownership and Production of Knowledge and Culture
photo by Patrice Watson
Session Moderator: Duncan Dobbelmann, Learning Center
Scott Dexter, Computer and Information Science, "Ownership and Stewardship, Copyright and 'Copyleft': Property and Cultural Production in the Digital Age
Samir Chopra, Computer and Information Science, "Open Source, Open Science: New Paradigms for the Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge"
Stephen Gracia, Learning Center, "Down and Out in the Empire of the Senseless: Reappropriation and Destruktion from Cut-Up to Creative Commas"
photo by Jeremy Bettis
Session Moderator: Leslie S. Jacobson, Health and Nutrition Sciences
Elizabeth Eastwood, Health and Nutrition Sciences, “The Future of Hospitals”
Robert A. Padgug, Health and Nutrition Sciences, “Health Insurers: Costs, Mergers,
and the Movement Out of State”
Betty Wolder Levin, Health and Nutrition Sciences, “Public Health and
the Prevention and Treatment of Emerging Diseases”
Jane Cramer, Library, “Data and Information Sources on the Local Health System”
AMERICAN BLACKOUT: Using Aesthetically-Based Pedagogy
to Challenge College Students’ Perceptions of Homosexuality
photo by alen zhitomirsky
Session Moderator: Wayne Reed, Education
Florence Rubinson, Education, “Our Journey: The Committee on LGBT Issues
for Youth in Schools”
Robb Leigh Davis, Founder and Director, BLAKKAPRIKORN
Productions, “AMERICANBLACKOUT and the Paradox of Education”
Michael Meagher, Education, Video: “Scenes from the Fall 2006 Brooklyn College
Production of Robb Leigh Davis’s Play AMERICAN BLACKOUT”
Paul McCabe, Education; Sonia Murrow, Education, “The Case for Using
Aesthetically-Based Pedagogy to Challenge College Students’
Perceptions of Homosexuality”
Artistic Presentation: Thrilled to Death in New York
Session Moderator: Robert Viscusi, English, Wolfe Institute for the Humanities
Kurt Odenwald, Television and Radio, “Wicked Waters”
Michael Pertain, SEEK, “A Glimpse into Immigrant Life a Century Ago in New York: The Curious Case of Morris Jaffee”
Kelly Matthews, English, “Troy, Redux: Myths, Metals, and the
Always Importance of Location”
a Neuroscientist, and an Art Historian Look at Art
photo by Yuki Tanaka
Session Moderator: Israel Abramov, Psychology
Aaron Kozbelt, Psychology, “Aesthetics and the Process of Creation”
Russell Sharman, Anthropology and Archaeology, “Culture as an Aesthetic System”
Israel Abramov, Psychology, “Illuminating Art: Is There a Best Illuminant?”
Rachel Kousser, Art, “The Parthenon as Palimpsest: Destruction and Memory
on the Athenian Acropolis”
Postcolonial Samplings
Occidental Lounge, Fifth Floor
photo by Danielle Butts
Session Moderator: Ellen Tremper, English
Joy Y. Wang, English, “Humanism and the Postcolonial Novel”
Dillon Brown, English, “Samuel Selvon in the World Republic
of Letters: A Representative Problem”
Caroline Arnold, Political Science, “Combating Illness and Inefficiency: Social Service Provision and the Construction of an Industrial Labor Force in Twentieth-Century Bombay
Carolina Bank Muñoz, Sociology, “Tortillas on the Line: Race, Gender,
and Labor Control in Mexico and the U.S.”
Buy Low and Sell High: Simple Strategies to Get the Most Out
of Teaching with Technology
photo by Pilar Vazquez
Session Moderator: Matthew Moore, Philosophy
Fabio Girelli-Carasi, Modern Languages and Literatures, Center for Teaching, “Anybody Can Do It”
David Hedges, Brooklyn Comprehensive Night High School, “What a College Needs to Teach to Prepare High School teachers for Today and Tomorrow”
Amanda Schapel, English, “Starting from Zero: From Graduate Student to Academic with No Model to Follow”
Patrick Nugent, English, How to Teach Writing with Technology without Losing Your Mind”
Higher Education and the Workplace: 2020
Alumni Lounge, Fourth Floor
photo by Yuki Tanaka
Hervé Queneau, Economics, “The Job Market in 2020”
Roberta Matthews, Provost, English, “Long-Term Trends in Higher Education”
Robert Oliva and Natalia Guarin-Klein, Magner Center for Career Development and Internships, “Brooklyn College and Career Development in 2020”
Session Moderator: Ellen Belton, English
Cristina Vaccaro, Theater, “King Lear: The Madness of Desire in Peter Brook’s Film and Orson Welles’s Teleplay
Irina Patkanian, Television and Radio, “King Lear: Madness of Power: Tempest Montage in Kozintsev, Brook, and Kurosawa's films ”
George Rothman, Music, “The Power of Shostakovich’s Score for Grigory Kozintsev’s King Lear”
What’s New about the New Core?
Brooklyn College Library, Room 242, Group Viewing Room
Session Moderator: Emily Michael, Philosophy
Geri DeLuca, English, “How is the New Core Better?”
Robert Viscusi, Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, “The Upper Tier: Italian American Novel and Film”
Wayne Powell, Geology, “The Lower Tier: Science in the Core”
Michael Anderson, Director of Academic Assessment, “Assessing the New Core”
Social Justice and the Arts and Humanities in the Classroom
photo by James Steward
Session Moderator: Roni Natov, English
James Davis, English “Teaching at Brooklyn College during the War on Terror”
Joseph Entin, English, “Unsettling Subjects”
Karel Rose, Education, “What Our Students (and Their Professors) Can Learn about Social Justice from Children’s Literature”
Martha Nadell, English, “Social Justice and Brooklyn College’s Connection with the High Schools”
photo by Natalie Edwards
Session Moderator: Katherine Fry, Television and Radio
Kenneth Axen, Health and Nutrition Sciences, “Maximus Veritas: Premiere and Discussion of a Short Comedy”
Dan Gurskis, Film, “Hollywood on Flatbush: Viewing and Discussion of a Video of Brooklyn Scenes”
a Television and Radio, “Duck Soup: Viewing and Discussion of a Brief Excerpt from the Marx Brothers Classic”
