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Susan Bielstein

Date
March 27, 2007
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Susan M. Bielstein, Executive Editor for Art, Architecture, Classical Studies and Film at the University of Chicago Press, talks about her book: Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk About Art as Intellectual Property.

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Susan Hassler

Date
April 4, 2018
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Susan Hassler (VC '76), Editor-in-Chief of the journal of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IEEE Spectrum, talks about STEM, publishing, higher education, and trends in technology in this installment of our series on the value of liberal arts education in contemporary

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Suzanne Preston Blier

Date
September 21, 2021
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"Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, discusses her award-winning book, Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece (Duke UP, 2019). \n"It is a condition of masterworks

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Thomas Warger

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December 5, 2012
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Thomas A. Warger, lead author of the Edutech Report, former CIO (Bryn Mawr), and a leading consultant in academic information systems, talks about the changing landscape of technology-enhanced learning at American liberal arts colleges, and the path toward developing more innovative and effective

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Tobias Armborst

Date
February 28, 2018
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Tobias Armborst, Professor of Art and Urban Studies at Vassar College and Principal Architect of the award winning design and planning firm Interboro Partners, discusses his book The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion (Actar 2017). "The Arsenal comes at a critical time when interest in the urban

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Tobias Armborst

Date
September 30, 2015
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Tobias Armborst, Associate Professor of Art and Urban Studies at Vassar College and principal of the award-winning architecture and urban planning firm Interboro Partners, talks about design thinking and the liberal arts, urban planning, and Interboro's project to reform areas of the Long Island

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Wendy Graham

Date
February 19, 2020
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"Wendy Graham, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Vassar College, talks about her latest monograph, Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity (Columbia University Press, 2017.) \nCritics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity sheds new light on Victorian discourses

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Wendy N. E. Ikemoto

Date
November 27, 2019
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"Wendy Ikemoto, Associate Curator of American Art at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, discusses her exhibition: Panoramas: The Big Picture, on view at the Society through December 8, 2019.\n\nPanoramas: The Big Picture explores the history and continued impact of panoramas from the

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Wendy N. E. Ikemoto

Date
April 11, 2018
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Wendy N. E. Ikemoto, Associate Curator of American Art at the New York Historical Society and former Vassar professor, talks about her new book Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking (Routledge, 2017). Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first

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Werner Pfeiffer

Date
October 3, 2012
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Artist Werner Pfeiffer talks about the exhibition of his work on view in the Thompson Library, Van Ingen Art Library, and Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College through December 14 entitled: "Reexamining Books: Book Objects and Artist Books by Werner Pfeiffer."

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William Noel

Date
May 27, 2008
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William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum, talks about the book he co-authored with Reviel Netz entitled: The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the true Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist, and his ten-year project to uncover one of

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Wolfgang Ernst

Date
February 19, 2014
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Wolfgang Ernst, Chair of Media Theories at Humboldt University, Berlin, talks about media archaeology and his book Digital Memory and the Archive, published last year by the University of Minnesota Press. "Digital Memory and the Archive offers the most compelling and insightful account published to

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Yvonne Elet

Date
May 18, 2022
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Vassar Professor of Art Yvonne Elet discusses the exhibition she curated with Vassar art major and Ford Scholar Caleb Mitchell entitled The Campus Green: The Olmsted Firm's Designs for Vassar College, celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, on view in the Vassar College

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Yvonne Elet

Date
October 16, 2019
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Yvonne Elet, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Vassar College, discusses her article, co-authored with Virginia Duncan for Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (39:2, 2019) entitled: "Beatrix Farrand and campus landscape at Vassar: pedagogy and

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Yvonne Elet

Date
October 31, 2018
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Yvonne Elet, Associate Professor of Art at Vassar College, talks about Raphael as an architect and her book Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome: Artists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael's Villa Madama. "Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration

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