Past Conferences

Fall 2009

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• November
  • Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
    Thursday, Nov. 19, 7 pm – 9 pm
    The Field Building, Mason Hall, 17 Lexington Ave.
    RSVP: 646-312-3231, Matthew.LePere@baruch.cuny.edu
    Prof. Michael Sandel of Harvard University will offer a glimpse into the exhilarating experience of his famed lectures on political philosophy and the vexing issues of our day. His presentation and new book, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, will challenge us to think through the moral challenges we confront as citizens and how they can be illuminated by reasoned moral argument.
  • Forging Ahead: Entrepreneurship and Small Business
    Strategies for the New Economy
    Friday, Nov. 20, 8 am – 11 am
    Newman Conference Center, Room 750, 151 East 25th St., Free
    RSVP: 212-741-2323, events@flatironbid.org
  • Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship and the Flatiron BID offer a panel discussion on the state of entrepreneurship in New York and breakout sessions to help small business weather the economic downturn.
  • Perspectives on Immigration: Rob Smith, School of Public Affairs
    Monday, Nov. 23, 12:30 pm
    Administrative Building, Room 308, 135 East 22nd St.
  • The 2009-2010 Perspectives on Immigration lecture series will open with Professor Rob Smith delivering a lecture titled

    "Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn ... But Check His Papers." Talk will be approximately 45 minutes to be followed by questions and discussion. Contact Jonathan Engel at the School of Public Affairs with questions (jonathan.engel@baruch.cuny.edu)

  • Shanghai Skyline Series
    Preserving Shanghai: Modernizing Urban Identity
    Tuesday, Nov. 24, 6:30 pm
    Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, 55 Lexington Ave.
    RSVP: Online
    Brings together principal architects, planners, developers, and engineers to present their projects in the dramatic evolution of the new vertical city -- from Rockefeller Center-inspired commercial complexes -- to the superblock building sites of Pudong. Presented by the Architectural Record, The Asia Society, and The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute and Department of Real Estate at Baruch College.
• December
  • Perspectives on Immigration: Gertrud Huewelmeier
    Tuesday, Dec. 1, 4 pm
    Newman Vertical Campus, Room 8-210, 55 Lexington Ave.
  • The 2009-2010 Perspectives on Immigration lecture series continues with Gertrud Huwelmeier of the Phillipps-Unversitat Marburg delivering a lecture titled "The Globalization of Religion: Mobile People and Traveling Spirits?" Talk will be approximately 45 minutes to be followed by questions and discussion. Contact Jonathan Engel at the School of Public Affairs with questions (jonathan.engel@baruch.cuny.edu)
  • A Reading and Conversation with Danzy Senna
    Tuesday, Dec. 1, 4 pm
    Newman Conference Center, 151 E. 25th Street, 7th Fl.
  • Danzy Senna's most recent book, Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, is a compelling personal history that traces her biracial roots: her white blue-blood mother's family (the Howes of Boston) and her black activist father's family, the Sennas. Ms. Senna is also the author of Caucasia and Symptomatic. Professor Bridgett Davis will introduce Ms. Senna. A reception will follow the talk.
    
    Ensuring Integrity: 4th Annual Auditing Conference
    Wednesday, Dec. 2, 8:45 am – 4:30 pm
    Newman Conference Center, 151 E. 25th Street, Room 750, $345
    RSVP: 646-312-3231 or Matthew.LePere@baruch.cuny.edu
  • “Ensuring Integrity: 4th Annual Auditing Conference,” will examine the current best practices of ethics and independence within the auditing profession and partner with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The conference is organized in partnership with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy Center for the Public Trust.
  • More Events
    • Fall 2009 Speaker Series: Tommy Hilfiger, Founder, Tommy Hilfiger Group
      Wednesday, Dec. 2, 12 – 1:30 pm
      Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, 55 Lexington Ave., Free
      RSVP: Barbara.Weiner@baruch.cuny.edu
    • A Touch of Genius, Braille's Biography
      Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, 6-8 pm
      Newman Library, 151 East 25th Street
      RSVP: 646-312-3231
    • Mike Mellor, author of "Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius," will celebrate Louis Braille’s 200th birthday, as part of a Bicentennial Exhibit at The Newman Library 11/23 – 12/23. Presented by Computer Center for Visually Impaired People and the Baruch College Library.
    • A Brief History of Scandal
      Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, 6 pm
      Information and Technology Building, Room 750, 151 East 25th Street
      RSVP: 646-312-3231, Matthew.LePere@baruch.cuny.edu
    • Hear the amazing stories of great scandals from the railroads and Robber Barons up to Enron and Madoff, and what lessons they still teach us. This program is sponsored by the CEO Trust in partnership with the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.
    • Mitsui USA Lunch-Time Forum
      International Financial Reporting Standards: What the Future Holds
      Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, 12:15 – 1:45 pm
      Newman Conference Center, Room 750, 151 East 25th Street
    • Speakers: Roy Hoffman, Partner, International Client Services Group, J.H. Cohn LLP
    • Fourteenth Annual Dr. Donald H. Smith Distinguished Lecture
      Are We Getting the Change We Need?
      Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, 6:00 pm
      Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, 55 Lexington Ave, Free
      
    • Dr. Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and op-ed columnist for The New York Times will be the speaker.
    • Perspectives on Immigration: Jean Michel Lafleur
      Monday, Dec. 14 12:30 pm
      Administrative Building, Room 308, 135 East 22nd St.
    • The 2009-2010 Perspectives on Immigration lecture series continues with Jean Michel LaFleur, Visiting Scholar, School of Public Affairs, delivering a lecture titled "Should emigrants vote in their home country? Insights from the Mexican and Italian cases." Talk will be approximately 45 minutes to be followed by questions and discussion. Contact Jonathan Engel at the School of Public Affairs with questions (jonathan.engel@baruch.cuny.edu)