University of the Streets
by Alan Moore

University of the Streets is an edited listing of events of special interest to art historians and students of cultural history. The emphasis is upon academic events, particularly symposia, in the New York metropolitan area (or within easy travel). This is the only listing of its kind for these often obscure and ill-promoted events, so University welcomes any and all emails informing us of same. Send to awm13579@yahoo.com, Alan Moore editor.

OCTOBER

“Writing Lives Conference”

October 18, 2001 to October 20, 2001 6:00 PM -- New School

…distinguished and provocative writers, artists, and scholars from several disciplines to examine in a comprehensive public forum the nature of biography and how storytelling is changing our culture.

Integrating Differences: Theories & Applications of Universal Design

An International Symposium Exploring Usable Design for All

October 18, 2001 - October 20, 2001 -- Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY

Theories and Applications of Universal Design is an international symposium that brings together experts from around the world in the fields of architecture, education, fashion, interior design, product design, philosophy, and technology to present topics and share ideas on the range of issues associated with universal design. The conference features individual papers, panel discussions, poster sessions, workshops and exhibitions.

http://www.fitnyc.suny.edu/universaldesign/

Elizabeth Murray, artist

Oct. 23, 6:30 p.m.

New York Studio School

8 West 8th Street (212) 673-6466

symposium, “American Sculpture before 1925”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday, October 26, 2001, 9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
To celebrate the recent publication of “American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” a two-volume catalogue of the Museum’s sculpture. Themes include neoclassical relief sculpture; siting of monumental sculpture; casting, patination, and polychromy; and gender and race in the work of expatriate female neoclassicists, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, and Hermon Atkins
MacNeil.
Speakers: William H. Gerdts, Melissa Dabakis, Joyce Shiller, Thayer Tolles, Thomas Somma, Andrew Walker, Alexis Boylan, and Janis Conner.
information, (212) 570-3710 MMA Education Office

“The Long Arm Of Photography”

October 30, 2001 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

New School -- The power of photography to affect viewers has been apparent since its invention in 1839 but only since the 20th century has it and its related media of film and video become ubiquitous-dominating advertising , aesthetics, fashion and documentary express

Information number 212-229-5353

Lecture: "Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art."
Tuesday, October 30, 6:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, corner 34th St. & 5th Ave. Room 3416 (the classroom)
Milly Heyd, a visiting scholar in the Art History Progam, art historian at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author of Mutual Reflections (Rutgers, 1999), was co-editor with Matthew Baigell of Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art.

NOVEMBER

November 2nd

3rd ASCI symposium, Graduate Center, CUNY

November 5th

Science and Art symposium series, Graduate Center, CUNY

Culture Influencing Community Change: Grantmakers in the Arts Annual Conference
November 5-7, 2001
Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York
Themes include: Funders Acting as a Community through Partnerships and Collaborative Efforts
Creating Communities of Grantees through Funder Programs
Grantee Initiatives that Build Constituent Communities
Email: info@giarts.org
URL: http://giarts.org/conf01.html

“`Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ Revisited”
November 9-10 Princeton University
The Program in Women and Gender and The Dept. of Art and Archaeology
This conference revisits Linda Nochlin's essay of 1971. The emphasis of the conference will be on the contemporary situation in the arts (the last thirty years), but it will also entertain discussion of how art institutions have (or have not) been transferred, and how art history and criticism have (or have not) been altered in the wake of that question. Participants To Date Anna Chave, Beatriz Colomina, Esther Da Costa Meyer, Catherine de Zegher, Maria DiBattista, Briony Fer, Ellen Gallagher, Tamar Garb, Ann Hamilton, Mary Kelly, Rosalind Krauss, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Molly Nesbit, Mignon Nixon, Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Lisa Tickner, and Anne Wagner

http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/artconf.html

"China's Silk Road"
9-10 November 2001

Asia Society, New York

This symposium is in conjunction with the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century.

listing included in: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/attend.html

“Creating Dialogues”
November 15 - 19, 2001 -- Roosevelt Hotel, NYC
The National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 64th annual national conference in New York City will present an opportunity for a broad range of individuals and institutions within the community arts school movement to engage in an extended conversation. Featured speakers: Jacques d'Amboise, Schuyler Chapin. Among the topics: Arts in Public Housing; Public School Partnerships with Cultural Organizations; Music Technology; Stress Relief, Fundraising and Board Development. Nov. 16 Adaptive Music Technologies Workshop with tour of Lighthouse Music School, for visually impaired students.
For more information, visit http://www.nationalguild.org

DECEMBER

“Paradigm of Spirituality in Art”

Dec. 11, 6:30 p.m.

New York Studio School

8 West 8th Street (212) 673-6466

Panel with Robert C. Morgan, Patricia Railing, Fre Ilgen, and Frank Gilette

To submit to this listing, which is updated every two weeks, email Alan Moore at awm13579@yahoo.com