Scope and Contents A one-week institute "exploring interpretations of how the visual arts and the community can interact in mutually serviceable ways . . . [Students] learn how to establish networks of communication and gain recognition for work in the visual arts." Dorothy Gillespie and Donald T. Perdue, artists and teachers, course coordinators. Not digitized.Inscriptions: Jan 16 [helical scan 1]: 2nd Annual Conference; Session # 1 with: Louise Nevelson, Artist / Virginia Miller, Gallery Owner /...

Scope and Contents Dorothy Gillespie, artist and teacher; institute coordinator. This course is co-sponsored by the Human Relations Center and The Arts Institute of Caldwell College. A five-day institute that explores the interpretations of how the visual arts and the community can and do interact in mutually serviceable ways. Within this context, students are afforded the opportunity to come together with experts and practitioners of the visual arts to learn how to establish networks of communication,...

Scope and Contents Described in the course catalog as a conference for everybody who is thinking about new directions for self, society, and the world. The morning meetings offer dialogue and exercises with Laura Singer, psychologist, about self-esteem; with Cecile Cannon Shelby, scientist and educator, about the world of work; and with Bella Abzug about citizen responsibility. There will be a special appearance by Gretchen Cryer, author and star of Getting My Act Together and Taking...

Scope and Contents A one-day seminar, described in the course catalog as follows: The 1980's are for every woman a decade to participate in her own survival and growth. Issues of the 1980's are critical, and understanding empowers women of every age, ethnic background, experience, education, and economic status. During the morning session, participants meet with a panel and role models and then join workshops for self-evaluation and for vocational assessment." Held in cooperation with the...

Scope and Contents A one-day seminar arranged by the Women's Psychotherapy Referral Service, Inc., and by Susanne P. Schad-Somers, President, described in the course catalog as follows: How can psychotherapy distinguish between real and fantasized images of destruction and yet help a person who is caught among forces that are both realistic and beyond the control of the person and therapist? Today's economic, political, and social upheavals exert extraordinary stress on the individual, and this...

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Poet Robert Bly taught a one-day seminar on this date. That evening, he read his work, including "Silence in the Snowy Fields," "Sleepers Joining Hands," and "This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years." Not digitized. Inscription: [audio cassette 1-2, differing only by tape number] Robert Bly / Poetry reading / #1[2]

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An evening of poems and stories celebrating the coming of winter. Co-sponsored by the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology. Not digitized. Inscription: [audio cassette 1-3, differing only by tape number] Bly/Timpanelli / #1[2-3]

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This may be a recording of a Human Relations Center fund raising event, although this has not yet been confirmed. Ralph Buutjens was a New School faculty member who taught political science. Bruce Mazlish was an historian. Not digitized. Inscription: Buultjens-Maslish debate 4/26/84 HRC - Fundraiser / Recorded at THE NEW SCHOOL 66 West 12th Street, N.Y. 10011

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Carolyn Forché reads from her work as part of Pearl London's course, Poetry: Works in Progress. Not digitized. Inscription: Carolyn Forché / April 23, 1985

Scope and Contents As described in the course catalog, in this Helene Shapiro Memorial Lecture, Mary Catherine Bateson, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College speaks on the following topic: The classic myths warn us that there are unforeseen consequences when wishes are granted. To what extent does the well-being of human society depend on scarcity and limitation? What are the social and psychological dangers inherent in a world in which technology more and more makes our wishes come...