Posted on Nov 8, 2007

Louisa Matthew, professor of Art History, spoke on “Paintings and Pigments in Renaissance Venice: Views from the Archives and the Laboratory,” as part of the Save Venice Inc. fall/winter illustrated lecture series in New York last month.  

Writer-in-Residence Binyavanga Wainaina was a guest and speaker earlier this month in the Partnership-with-Africa Conference, hosted by the German President Horst Koehlerin the Monastery “Eberbach” near Frankfurt, Germany. Other guests included the Asantehene (The king of the Asante in Ghana), English writer John le Carré, Somali writer Nurrudin Farah, German writer llija Trojanow and the presidents of Nigeria, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Germany.

George Bizer, professor of Psychology, will present “Strawmen and Innuendoes: Psychological Insights into our Susceptibility,” at the Schenectady Jewish Community Center Nov. 15. He will discuss these techniques of persuasion and explain their effectiveness.