Speakers and Forums
Every year we offer speakers and forums for residents. Some of these have included:
Essential Advance Planning: The importance of being prepared in advance should an emergency occur, especially having a health care proxy, cannot be emphasized too strongly. As in past years MRHS and the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association invite you to participate in “Decision-Making Day.” Attorney Frank Colella, will discuss wills, advance directives, the New York Health Care Proxy, the living will, powers of attorney, and procedures for organ donation. By preparing, you can ensure that your wishes are met in an emergency.
EPIC Talk: “Engineers in America – Early History”
Professor Schwartz chronicles infrastructure development in the United States in the early to mid-1800s, then follows briefly with the development of engineering education in the US concluding with the birth of Columbia’s School of Mines in 1864, and the department of Electrical Engineering within it in1892. Speaker: Mischa Schwartz, Charles Bachelor Professor Emeritus in Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University.
“Love, Maria”: Gregor Collins will discuss his book, The Accidental Caregiver, a moving memoir recounting his unique relationship with 92-year-old Holocaust refugee and Gustav Klimt heiress Maria Altmann. Altmann's extraordinary life inspired the movie "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren.
Collins has just finished a speaking tour in Australia and is excited to spread more of Maria's love in New York.
Renaissance Art and the Rise of Humanism: Erwin Panofsky noted that the "Arnolfini Wedding Portrait" marked the intersection of the profane and the sacred. In this presentation, the interaction of these two directions will be traced in European paintings from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. Philip Gould returns to MRHS to offer new insights into this theme. Highlighted will be examples from Flemish and Dutch art. Professor Gould taught art history at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College and was a visiting professor at Fordham University, Pratt Institute and Parsons in New York, as well as at the University of Taiwan in Taipei and at Teachers College in Beijing. At present he is an associate member of the University Seminars at Columbia University. This presentation is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities.
Essential Advance Planning: The importance of being prepared in advance should an emergency occur, especially having a health care proxy, cannot be emphasized too strongly. As in past years MRHS and the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association invite you to participate in “Decision-Making Day.” Attorney Frank Colella, will discuss wills, advance directives, the New York Health Care Proxy, the living will, powers of attorney, and procedures for organ donation. By preparing, you can ensure that your wishes are met in an emergency.
EPIC Talk: “Engineers in America – Early History”
Professor Schwartz chronicles infrastructure development in the United States in the early to mid-1800s, then follows briefly with the development of engineering education in the US concluding with the birth of Columbia’s School of Mines in 1864, and the department of Electrical Engineering within it in1892. Speaker: Mischa Schwartz, Charles Bachelor Professor Emeritus in Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University.
“Love, Maria”: Gregor Collins will discuss his book, The Accidental Caregiver, a moving memoir recounting his unique relationship with 92-year-old Holocaust refugee and Gustav Klimt heiress Maria Altmann. Altmann's extraordinary life inspired the movie "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren.
Collins has just finished a speaking tour in Australia and is excited to spread more of Maria's love in New York.
Renaissance Art and the Rise of Humanism: Erwin Panofsky noted that the "Arnolfini Wedding Portrait" marked the intersection of the profane and the sacred. In this presentation, the interaction of these two directions will be traced in European paintings from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. Philip Gould returns to MRHS to offer new insights into this theme. Highlighted will be examples from Flemish and Dutch art. Professor Gould taught art history at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College and was a visiting professor at Fordham University, Pratt Institute and Parsons in New York, as well as at the University of Taiwan in Taipei and at Teachers College in Beijing. At present he is an associate member of the University Seminars at Columbia University. This presentation is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities.