From the monthly archives: December 2015
On December 15th, a very moving event took place on our campus. Our Program partnered with the Schneier Program for International Affairs, the Stern Social Justice Society, and the YC Tzedek Society to bring a superb panel of distinguished visitors to discuss this very current topic.
Provost Botman opened the event, and the panel, […]
On December 2nd, Honors students were treated to a special reading by Prof. Christina Chiu, who will be teaching a course on Creative Fiction in the Spring 2016 semester. During this joint event with the English Department in the Honors Lounge, Prof. Chiu read a chapter from her new novel The Ultimate Closet, a coming […]
As part of our calendar of cultural events for Honors students, on November 19th the Honors Program took a trip down to Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, home of the NY Philharmonic, to hear a selection of works by Rachmaninoff as part of Lincoln Center’s Rachmaninoff Philharmonic Festival. This performance was conducted by Neeme Järvi and featured […]
On Sunday, November 15th and Sunday, November 22nd, the Honors Program took our first year students, a long with a few upperclassmen, to see see Ivo Van Hove’s new production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge at the Lyceum Theatre. This production, straight from a sold out run in London, won the 2015 […]
On November 11th, the Honors Program dedicated our weekly luncheon to the discussion of the brave new world of online education. Professor Akiva Covitz, the Executive Director of YU Global and former vice-president of edX, and Dr. Steven Fine, whose new online course on the Arch of Titus will soon have its debut in Coursera, […]
Prof. Paul Glassman’s Honors course Architecture of the Synagogue welcomed a guest lecturer on November 3rd, and all Honors students were invited to join. Architect Esther Sperber came in to give a talk on “A Design Proposal for the Kesher Synagogue in Englewood, New Jersey.” Esther Sperber has been writing and lecturing on architecture and psychoanalysis, two […]
Dr. Ethan Katz, Assistant Professor of History and Affiliated Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, recently visited YU to speak to the Honors Program about his new book, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, out this fall from Harvard University Press. The book describes the history […]
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