December 1, 2008
The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, in cooperation with the MFA Program in Poetry and the Department of English, present
A Poetry Reading by Julie Agoos
State Lounge, BC Student Center
Campus Road and East 27th Street
Monday, December 15, 2008
4:15 to 5:45 p.m.
A Tow Professor of English at Brooklyn College CUNY, Agoos is the author of three collections of poetry, Above the Land, selected by James Merrill as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (Yale University Press, 1987), Calendar Year (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1996), and Property (Ausable Press, 2008). She has taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University and since 1994 in the English Department at BC, where she now coordinates the MFA Program in Poetry. Of her own work she writes: “I’m interested in poems interacting with and infiltrating each other.... I love those tensions, and the rhythmic intervals between words and lines in the ear, and poem to poem in a book. Property is many voices telling stories; I worked to capture the movement from one voice and tone to another, and to create an effect of both layering and unearthing; of History pressing against the individual voice.”
The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, in cooperation with the Classics Department, and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, present
The Imperial Cult in Augustan Athens by Michael Paschalis
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Brooklyn College Library
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
12:30-2:15 p.m
Michael Paschalis has published articles on Hellenistic and Roman poetry (epic, bucolic, lyric, and didactic), Senecan drama, ancient historiography, the ancient novel, reception of the classics and modern Greek literature. He is author of Virgil’s Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names (Oxford 1997). Paschalis has edited Palimpsests: Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil (Herakleion 2007) and co-edited The Greek and the Roman Novel: Parallel Readings, Ancient Narrative (Groningen 2007). In the area of the reception of the classics and modern Greek literature, he has worked on Kornaros’s Erotokritos, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ugo Foscolo, Adamantios Korais, Andreas Kalvos, Dionysios Solomos, the modern Greek novel and the classical tradition, Constantine Cavafy and George Seferis.
For more information call (718) 951-5847 or email at depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/wolfe/
Symposium in Memory of Fred Pollak, Friday, December 5, 2008
Prof. Fred H. Pollak, Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, died on June 19, 2008. He was 73 years old. This symposium has been organized to celebrate Fred Pollak’s life and achievements. He was a tireless pioneer in the application of spectroscopic techniques to characterize semi-conductor systems, a highly valued collaborator in research, an inspiring teacher/mentor to numerous students, and a great friend to many.
Pollak was one of the founders of the technique of modulation spectroscopy and a pioneer in the use of modulation spectroscopy to study semiconductor structures such as superlattices, quantum wells and heterojunctions. He was also among the first to apply Raman spectroscopy techniques in studying the effects of uniaxial stress on phonon frequencies, providing new insight into the nature of anharmonic forces in semiconducting materials and systems.
In addition to his roles in the Physics Department of Brooklyn College and the Ph.D. Program in Physics at the Graduate Center, Prof. Pollak served as Deputy Director of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Ultrafast Photonic Materials and Applications at the City University of New York and Associate Director and Head of the Materials Group, New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunication at Polytechnic University. He was also Director of the Semiconductor Institute at Brooklyn College, Director and Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Fred Pollak was born in Vienna, Austria and educated in the United States. After receiving his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1965, Fred was an Associate Professor of Physics at Brown University (1966 – 1972) and then Professor of Physics and Director of the Maxwell Maybaum Institute of Material Science and Quantum Electronics at the Belfar Graduate School of Science at Yeshiva University (1972 – 1978). He joined the Department of Physics at Brooklyn College in 1978 and was appointed as a CUNY Distinguished Professor in 1988.
The all-day program can be found here.