Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
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27 Year in Review • 2013–2014 January 2014 n The exhibit, Oblique Strategies: Track 2, took place at the Fingesten Gallery. This is the second year Emmy Mikelson, adjunct professor of art, curated the group show and the second year Fingesten mounted it. The show included a performance and installation by artist Bryan Zanisnik. A camera crew from New York Close Up, a web series about art, filmed the artist's site-specific performance A Woman Waits For Me. February 2014 n The lecture series, Art History Alive: The Great Masters Series returned to the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. Distinguished Professor and art historian Janetta Rebold Benton lectured on Raphael and the Renaissance in Italy and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Impressionism in France. n The panel FoodYou Design: A Fresh Look at Food and GMOs was presented at the 20th Bioethics Forum at the Kessel Student Center on the Westchester Campus. The panel addressed the role of genetic engineering in agriculture and was moderated by Pace Academy Senior Fellow for Applied Environmental Studies Andrew Revkin. n A screening of Inequality for All, a documentary about widening income inequality in the United States, was co- hosted by the peace and justice studies program, the Dyson Body and Mind House, and the Center for Community Action and Research. A discussion about the effects of income inequality followed the screening. n The Confucius Institute and Pace's Chinese Students and Scholars Association collaborated with the New York Chinese Opera Society on the 4th Annual Lunar New Year Celebration at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. The free public event featured traditional Chinese lion dancing, Peking opera, and student performances of classical and contemporary music and dance. Distinguished guests in attendance included the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States. March 2014 n Alternative Spring Break: Rebuilding the Rockaways. Students from both campuses spent four days serving those hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy in Rockaway, Queens. n Society of Fellows Annual Student Conference took place at the Kessel Student Center on the Westchester Campus. n Pace's Confucius Institute hosted the 5th Annual Chinese Bridge East USA Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students. Twenty-five contestants from 17 universities and colleges in the Northeast were chosen via online video submission. Contestants prepared and delivered speeches entirely in Mandarin and performed a Chinese culture related talent (e.g., Chinese opera, Chinese yo-yo, instrumentals, dance, and drama). n As part of the Vox Creative Art Series, poet Anne Shaw read from her new book Dido in Winter and hosted the Handmade/ Homemade Exhibit. April 2014 n Dan McAdams, a renowned psychologist and researcher at Northwestern University, gave a talk on the Westchester Campus about the "redemptive self" and participated in a discussion with faculty and students on how the redemptive self plays across history, culture, the arts, and personal life stories. n Pace Performing Arts presented An Afternoon with John Doyle at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. The program included selections from his new project, Kander, and was the culmination of a year-long artist-in-residency. n Design that Works: An Exhibition on UX Design was an interactive exhibition about the impact of design upon the world. The exhibit took place at the Choate House Gallery and was presented by Honors College student John Robb '14.