SCHEDULE OF FALL 2017 PRESENTATIONS FICTION INTO FILM: STORIES BY SOMERSET MAUGHAM MONDAY A WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/18/17 The Verger 10/2/17 Mr. Know-All 10/16/17 The Facts of Life 10/30/17 The Ant and the Grasshopper 11/13/17 The Alien Corn 11/27/17 The Colonel’s Lady THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION TUESDAY A WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/5/17 Helen Goodman J.C. Leyendecker 9/19/17 Wayne Cotter 1960s Concert Poster Art 10/3/17 Ellen Shapiro William Steig 10/17/17 Bob Reiss Arthur Szyk 10/31/17 Lorraine Weberg Fairies and Fantasy: Arthur Rackham and the Golden Age of Children’s Book Illustration 11/14/17 Lillian Scheinblum Alfonse Mucha 11/28/17 Deborah Yaffe Maurice Sendak THE CONSTITUTION TUESDAY A WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/5/17 Ellen Gottfried THE BEGINNING: how the colonies were governed prior to the Revolution 9/19/17 Jim Brook THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.......... the first "idealistic?" document drafted en route to the Constitution 10/3/17 David Judlowitz THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION Part I... first attempt at self- government......the struggle to get a governing document 10/17/17 Michael Wellner THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION Part II…Why it didn’t work; fallacies in the documents…..the first president (notGW!) 10/31/17 Bob Bloom THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION met to AMEND the Articles, not write a whole new Constitution 11/14/17 Bob Gottfried THE FEDERALIST PAPERS; trying to get the Constitution ratified 11/28/17 Bob Bloom RATIFICATION, which almost didn't happen MOVERS AND SHAKERS TUESDAY A WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/5/17 Caroline Thompson Winston Churchill 9/19/17 Joyce West Elena Ferrante 10/3/17 Arlene Hajinlian The Schumanns (Robert and Clara) 10/17/17 Ruth Ward Twyla Tharp 10/31/17 Jane Lubin Martin Luther 11/14/17 Stan Katz Al Smith 11/28/17 Leslie Fenchel Queen Victoria LAW & ORDER WEDNESDAY A WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/6/17 Sandra Abramson Separation of Powers / Constitutional issues in the Trump Presidency 10/4/17 Michael Wellner Impeachment of the President 10/18/17 Bob Reiss NY State Constitutional Convention 11/1/17 Ilene Winkler Health care and/or labor union issues 11/15/17 Diane Crothers Public schools in a democracy 11/29/17 June Jacobson History of Marriage ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY WEDNESDAY A WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/6/17 Serge Wind Trade Deals in the 21st Century: Who Wins? Who Loses? 10/4/17 June Zaccone The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Economics 10/18/17 George Hicks The U.S. Debt and its Implications 11/1/17 John Sicree The Logic of Passive Investing 11/15/17 Steve Allen Developing Countries – What Has Been Happening and What Are the Policy Implications? (Part 1) 11/29/17 Steve Allen Developing Countries – What Has Been Happening and What Are the Policy Implications? (Part 2) THE OTHER AMERICAS THURSDAY A WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/7/17 Jane Lubin Peru 10/5/17 Myra Nissen Cuba 10/19/17 Bob Hartmann / Bolivia/Paraguay Sharon Krutzel 11/2/17 Art Spar / Stephanie Ecuador Butler 11/16/17 Doreen de Martini Nicaragua 11/30/17 Liesje ten Houten Brasil FASCINATING NON-FICTION MONDAY B WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/11/17 Bob Reiss High Noon": The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic 9/25/17 Phil Gisser The Devil is Here in These Hills": West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom 10/23/17 Judy Weis Hidden Figures": The American Dream and the Untold Story of Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 11/6/17 Rick Salter The Golden Spruce": A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed 11/20/17 Sandra Abramson Hillbilly Elegy": A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 12/4/17 Harriet Finkelstein Flaneuse": Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London TURNING POINTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY MONDAY B WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/11/17 Harriet Finkelstein The Second Great Awakening, The Righteous Crusade - Abolition 9/25/17 Sandra Southwell The Communication Revolution 10/23/17 Bob Reiss The Ultimate American Game - Baseball 11/6/17 Art Spar Land & Gold - The Mexican War, Go West, Young Man! The Homestead Act 11/20/17 Helen McMahon Antietam/Emancipation Proclamation 12/4/17 Herb Folpe Equal Protection - the 14th Amendment ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK TUESDAY B WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/12/17 Bob Reiss Bob Rauschenberg 9/26/17 Lynnel Garabedian Marcel Broodthaers 10/10/17 Trudy Owett Ai Wei Wei 10/24/17 Joyce West William Kentridge 11/7/17 Ellen Shapiro Japanese architecture 11/21/17 Joan Diamond Diverse Cultural Sources for Art in the Internet Era 12/5/17 Myra NIssen Moore, Hepworth REMAKING THE WORLD AFTER WORLD WAR II TUESDAY B WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/12/17 Steve Allen Creation of the Welfare State 9/26/17 Caroline Thompson The New International Order: Bretton Woods and the UN 10/10/17 John Spiegel US – USSR – Britain relationship during and after the war 10/24/17 Paul Adler Reconstruction of Europe (other than Germany) 11/7/17 Toni Dickenson End of Colonialism, Emergence of the Third World 11/24/17 Mark Cardillo The reconstruction of defeated countries, Germany and Japan 12/5/17 David Grossman Nuclear bomb and the national security state SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS TUESDAY B WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/12/17 Marion Schulthies Mummies 9/26/17 Steve Allen Quantum Computing 10/10/17 James Brook The Golden Ratio 10/24/17 Pete Weis Vision 11/7/17 Arlene Hajinlian History of Thalidomide 11/21/17 Brenda Wilder The DNA Code 12/5/17 David Robinson Siddharta Mukherjee’s The Gene BLACKS IN AMERICA: Past, Present and Future TUESDAY B WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/12/17 Barbara Gelber Media Stereotypes 9/26/17 Michael Wellner Black Enterprise/Entrepreneurs 10/10/17 Wayne Cotter, Paul Adler Black Music 10/24/17 Vivian Oliver Interracial Relationships 11/7/17 Ruth Kovner, Frieda Lipp, Black Poetry Myra Nissen 11/21/17 Marian Friedmann Black Artists 20th and 21st Century 12/5/17 Doreen DeMartini Reparations TUMULTUOUS SIXTIES WEDNESDAY B WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/13/17 Ellen Gottfried The JFK Assassination 9/27/17 Bob Gottfried Music of the Vietnam Era 10/11/17 Diane Crothers Civil Rights Movement Wayne Cotter/Art 10/25/17 Television in the ‘60s, part 2 Spar Barry Goldwater, William Buckley & the Conservative 11/8/17 Wayne Cotter Movement 12/617 Leslie Goldman Films of the ‘60s GREAT LOVE STORIES WEDNESDAY B WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/13/17 Lynnel Garabedian Anthony and Cleopatra Two Interracial Couples: The Lovings and Sir Serentsa Khanea 9/27/17 Betty Farber (1st President of Botswana) and his wife, Ruth Williams 10/11/17 Trudy Owett Zelda and F Scott Fitzgerald Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller (possibly, including Joe 10/25/17 Bob Reiss DiMaggio) 11/8/17 Jennifer Jolly Napoleon and Josephine 12/617 Marilyn Rosen Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas BACH CANTATAS WEDNESDAY B WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/13/17 Larry Shapiro The Cantatas 9/27/17 Joan Diamond and Bach goes to the opera Larry Shapiro 10/11/17 Arlene Hajinlian Bach at the organ 10/25/17 Penelope Pi-Sunyer The cantata duets for voice and oboe 11/8/17 Pete Weis Bach’s secular cantatas 12/6/17 Larry Shapiro In Conclusion GUEST LECTURES WEDNESDAY B WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/27/17 Ann Goldstein The Art of Translation. Ann Goldstein is the translator of the popular Elena Ferrante novels (My Brilliant Friend, etc.) 10/11/17 Eric Sanderson Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society 10/25/17 David Kaufman interviewed by Biographer of Mary Martin theatre critic David Finkle 12/6/17 Loren Schoenberg Founding director of The Jazz Museum in Harlem, saxophonist/conductor, music historian and winner of two Grammy awards THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT THURSDAY B WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/14/17 Vivian Oliver Women and Violence 9/28/17 Ellen Gottfried Women Protagonists in Mysteries 10/12/17 Judith Weis More Hidden Figures 10/26/17 Susan Feldstein Gloria Steinem 11/9/17 Joyce Hinote as Men’s panel (Pete Weis, Howard Einbinder, Stan Katz and …..) moderator 12/4/17 TBD Women in Adventure / Discovery MIND AND BRAIN THURSDAY B WEEK AM Date Presenter Title 9/14/17 Steve Allen The Senses 9/28/17 Jennifer Jolly Manic Depression 10/12/17 Jan Eisler Narcissism 10/26/17 Caroline Thompson Schizophrenia 11/9/17 Jan Eisler How Emotions Are Made 12/4/17 Steve Allen Summing Up PRESENTERS SHOWCASE THURSDAY B WEEK PM Date Presenter Title 9/14/17 Steven Baker Demography and Destiny 9/28/17 Judy Weis W.S. Gilbert 10/12/17 Wayne Cotter German Expressionism Cinema 10/26/17 Steve Allen / Robert Debate - Does God Exist Martin 11/9/17 Deborah Yaffe Bramm Stoker - Author of Dracula 12/7/17 Anita Jeyaveeran Encore - Louis Armstrong .