Posted on Oct 22, 2004

Elli Wohlgelernter, veteran
journalist and editor of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, will speak on
Sunday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. in Old
Chapel on the Union College
campus. The topic of his lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be
“The Day After November 2: An Overview of Where the Israeli-Palestinian
Situation is Headed Regardless of Who Wins on Election Day.”

Mr. Wohlgelernter is also the editor of the sports and rock and roll sections
of the forthcoming new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica. He
previously served as Diaspora affairs editor at the Jerusalem Post and
as Israel
bureau chief for the Forward. Prior to moving to Israel
in 1991, he was managing editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a
reporter for the New York Post, and wrote and reported the news for the
Fox and ABC-TV stations in New York
and Seattle and radio stations in New
York and Connecticut.
Mr. Wohlgelernter lives in Jerusalem.

Posted on Oct 22, 2004

The second concert of this year's
Chamber Music series will feature pianist Arnaldo Cohen on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m.
in Union College's Memorial Chapel.

This will be Cohen's fifth appearance
in the series. He will perform Schoenberg's
Three Pieces, Op. 11; Beethoven's
32 Variations in c, WoO 80 and Sonata No. 8 in c, Op. 13
(“Pathetique”); and Chopin's
Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 28.

In the years since Arnaldo Cohen
came to the attention of the critics and public, the Brazilian-born pianist has
enjoyed an increasingly successful career taking him to the major concert halls
of Europe and South America.

Mr. Cohen started his musical
studies at the age of five, graduating from the Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro with an honors degree in both piano and violin, while also studying for
an engineering degree. He became a professional violinist in the Rio
de Janeiro Opera House Orchestra, but continued his
piano studies with Jacques Klein, a disciple of William
Kapell. Strongly encouraged by Klein to pursue a piano career, he continued his
training in Vienna with Bruno
Seidlhofer and Dieter Weber.

He made his New
York debut during the 1996/1997 season and returned
the next season to perform in recital at the Tisch
Center for the Performing Arts,
receiving huge critical acclaim.

In 2004-2005, Mr. Cohen performs
with several orchestras, including the Baltimore Symphony, Forth Worth
Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Edmonton Symphony, and returns to the Jacksonville,
Des Moines, and Peoria
Symphonies. 

Tickets are $20 for general
admission; $8 for students. The performance is open to the public.

Posted on Oct 22, 2004

“A Soldier's Eye: Europe
1944 — Photographs by Irving Shapiro” features a range of images from World War II, a look at the Union College campus during the war, and a series of classic film screenings and discussions.

The exhibition runs though Dec. 19
in the Mandeville Gallery.

In 1944 Irving Shapiro of Glens
Falls was a soldier in the midst of the Second World
War. But he was also a man with a camera, and the photographs he took during
the first months after the Normandy invasion are a remarkable record of the
people and places he encountered in that period of turmoil and upheaval.

Also on exhibit will be artifacts
and images of Union College's experience with on-campus Navy officer training
during the later years of WWII, known as the V-12 Program, featuring research
by Jeff Roffman '05.

During the run of the exhibition,
an evening film series on World War II in Europe,
organized in conjunction with the History Department, will be held on
alternate Thursdays in Old Chapel.

Remaining films are:

— Oct. 28, 6 p.m. – General
Della Rovere (1959), post-screening discussion with Prof. David Baum;

— Nov. 4, 6 p.m. – Stalingrad [Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?]
(1958), with Prof. Wilfried Wilms;

— Nov. 11, 6 p.m. – Sahara
(1943), with Prof. John Cramsie.

Pizza, salad and soda will be
provided.

Posted on Oct 22, 2004

Pilar Moyano, professor of Spanish, has
published an article “La poesía de
Humberto Ak'abal o las palabras de un destierro” in San Antonio de Béxar y el Hispanismo, (Ed. María Jesús
Mayans-Natals, New York: Aldeeu, 2004.) She also gave a talk in July, “Mito y psicoanálisis en Amazonas de Lola López
Mondejar” at
the Congreso Internacional Lorca,Taller del Tiempo of the University of Murcia, Spain.

Posted on Oct 22, 2004

Seth Greenberg, Gilbert
R. Livingston Professor of Psychology, published a paper, “The GO Model: A
reconsideration of the Role of Structural Units in Guiding and Organizing Text
on Line” in the June issue of Psychonomic Bulletin
& Review. The article reflects new theory on how readers use structural
cues such as function words including articles, prepositions, and conjunctions
to direct the eye's movement toward the more meaningful parts of text. The
theory integrates two approaches to the study of reading and proposes how the
input of text allows the brain to direct eyes most profitably during reading. Co-authors
were A. Healy, A. Koriat, and H. Kreiner.