Cornell's School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions has announced its 2003 Summer Concert and Lecture Series. The series, which runs through Aug. 1, features Tuesday night indoor concerts, Wednesday night lectures and Friday night outdoor concerts. All events are free and open to the public.
For summer events calendars, directions or further information, contact the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, B20 Day Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-2801; e-mail: cusce@cornell.edu, phone 255-4987 or visit this Web site: http://www.summer.cornell.edu/events.
Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall
July 2: Steven Strogatz, "Sync."
July 9: Joan Jacobs Brumberg, "From Corsets to Body Piercing."
Using intimate materials drawn from the unpublished diaries of American girls, Brumberg, professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies and
Weiss Presidential Fellow, provides a social historian's perspective on how growing up as a girl has changed over the past century and why the pressures on girls are now so intense. From corsets to body piercing, she
shows (with visual images) how and why the preoccupation with the body has intensified.
PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELED July 16: Samuel C. Johnson, "Carnauba, A Son's
Memoir." (Please note: This event begins at 5:30 p.m., and free tickets are required.
Tickets for the reception and movie will be available beginning
Monday, July 7, at the Summer Session office in B20 Day Hall, as well as at the Clinton House ticket center in downtown
Ithaca.)
Johnson, Cornell alumnus, trustee emeritus, longtime benefactor of the university and chairman emeritus of S.C. Johnson and Son Inc., invites members of the Cornell and
Ithaca communities to join him for a very special reception and film.
In 1998, Johnson traveled to South America with the intention of recreating an earlier trip made by his father, Herbert F. Johnson, who went to Brazil in 1935 to study the carnauba palm, the key ingredient for the Johnson company's wax products. "Carnauba, A Son's Memoir" documents the journey that Sam Johnson made with his two sons. It is a deeply personal film and a testament to the power and importance of family in shaping our lives. The film will be screened at 6:30 p.m., following a reception that begins at 5:30 p.m. Johnson will introduce the hourlong film and take questions from the audience afterward.
July 23: Kathryn L. Gleason, "Ancient Roman Parks and Gardens."
Using the vivid images of gardens from Pompeiian wall paintings, Augustan poetry and ancient city plans etched in marble, Gleason, associate professor and chair of the
Department of Landscape Architecture, shows how subtle traces in dirt and stone bring to life the three-dimensional experience of an ancient garden or park. Combining the disciplines of
landscape architecture and archaeology, she reconstructs a vision of Rome's sophisticated and inventive tradition of garden and park design, replete with political ambition, poetry and
civic discourse rarely seen in public spaces today, perhaps with good reason.
July 30: Kenneth H. Blanchard, "Leadership in the 21st
Century."
Few have had a more positive impact on day-to-day corporate management than Blanchard, Cornell alumnus, trustee emeritus and longtime benefactor of the
university. Widely regarded as among the most insightful and influential persons in business
today, he is best-known for his book The One Minute
Manager, which has sold more than 9 million
copies. Blanchard is a masterful storyteller with a knack for making the
seemingly complex easy to understand. He speaks from his heart with warmth and humor and will describe
how each of us can lead in ways that are effective and compassionate.
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