The Network Faculty Forums are an interdisciplinary colloquia series which occur several times throughout the Fall and Spring semesters at New York University. These Forums offer unique opportunities for all NYU and Network faculty members to engage in informal discussion and scholarly exchange with a keynote faculty member. Forums are made available to all Network faculty who are unable to attend the live discussion via live video streaming. The Forums play a key role in strengthening peer networks, forging new professional relationships, and revitalizing research and teaching. The Forums aim to sustain an ongoing conversation between faculty from different schools and departments on topics of mutual interest.
The format varies from panel discussion, presentation, and reading, to informal conversation. The range of topics covers the broad spectrum of the liberal arts and sciences.
All Faculty Resource Network forums are accessible via video streaming.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
Future Directions in Undergraduate Science Education
Featuring Drs. Jeanne Small and John Haddock, National Science Foundation
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
What does an excellent STEM undergraduate education for all students look like, now and in the future? Drs. John Haddock and Jeanne Small, Program Directors at NSF’s Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), present the current vision for funding innovation in STEM undergraduate education, and then highlight the key trends they have observed in their two years as rotators at NSF.
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The Mechanism of Catastrophe
Featuring Professor Speros Vryonis, Jr, University of California, Los Angeles
Friday, April 7, 2006
On the night of September 6-7, 1955, the Greek community of Istanbul was violently struck throughout the expanse of Turkey’s most important metropolis. Within a matter of hours, businesses, homes, and even the churches of the Greeks were in ruins, with the British press calculating the damage at 100 million British pounds. It was the beginning of the end for the ethnic descendants of the city’s founders, who had first settled this eastern tip of Europe over two and a half millennia earlier.
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The King Legacy: A Conversation with Christine King Farris
Featuring Professor William Luhr, St. Peter’s College
Friday, March 24, 2006
The twentieth century Civil Rights Movement transformed America by ending segregation and creating equal opportunities for African Americans to participate more fully in society. From the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 through the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, countless men and women joined ranks in the quest for racial justice and equality. Civil Rights historian Vicki Crawford will discuss some of the major events of the movement with Mrs. Christine King Farris, the older sister of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and an activist in her own right. The conversation will focus on Mrs. Farris’ recollections of Dr. King’s leadership as well as the legacy left by his recently departed widow, Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
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Researching Film Noir
Featuring Professor William Luhr, St. Peter’s College
Friday, December 9, 2005
The central challenge involved in researching film noir lies in the fact that the form itself is a moving target, constantly undergoing redefinition and a reconstruction of its canon. This fluidity is remarkable in a form that is arguably the most influential American film form, with a substantial presence over the past half-century not only in film, but also fiction, drama, television, network radio, graphic design, and graphic novels
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The Dilemma of Public Education in Puerto Rico
Featuring Cesar Rey, Former Secretary of Education, Puerto Rico
Friday, October 14, 2005
As Puerto Rico has made significant progress socially and economically, public education has remained seriously challenged by some potential threats. This lecture addresses the current state of public education in Puerto Rico and discusses the role of education reform.
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Social Justice Responses to the ‘Obesity Epidemic’: Rethinking Fatness
Featuring Dr. Katie Lebesco, Marymount Manhattan College
Friday, April 1, 2005
In the midst of our present “obesity epidemic,” fatness is pathologized and fat people are demonized. LeBesco will examine cultural moments in which people actively resist over determined, totalizing constructions of fatness, in favor of a more complicated understanding of the relationship of fatness to health, beauty, and nature. She will discuss the way that fat bodies in the United States are marked as “failed citizens,” explore the political implications of fashions for “fat(ter) women,” analyze popular culture depictions of fatness as a disability, and explore the use of the Internet in offering alternative narratives through the disembodiment of discourse. She also will evaluate the strategies and tactics that are currently popular in fat activism.
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