France Amériques luncheon with Lord Robertston on "European-U.S. Defense Relations in the First year of the Obama Presidency"
Lord Robertson is a Senior Counsellor with the COHEN GROUP
former Secretary General, NATO (1999-2003)Minister of Defense, UK (1997-1999)
Member, House of Commons, UK (1978-1999)
Venue : France Amériques, March 27, 12pm. Registration through France Amériques
"TEACHING OLD MUSIC AT THE NEW HARVARD: BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY THEN AND NOW"
featuring Thomas Kelly
Harvard's Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music
and author of "First Nights: Five Musical Premieres" & "First Nights at the Opera"
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 7pm
at France-Amériques
9 avenue Franklin Roosevelt - 75008 Paris
Prof. Thomas Kelly teaches the popular Core Curriculum course, "First Nights", which is the inspiration for this event. The course seeks to situate musical works in their historical context and thus see them in a new light. Prof. Kelly received his B.A. from Chapel Hill, and spent two years on a Fulbright in France studying musicology, chant, and organ. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught at Wellesley, Smith, Amherst, and Oberlin, where he directed the Historical Performance Program and served as acting Dean of the Conservatory. He was named a Harvard College Professor in 2000 and the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music in 2001. Prof. Kelly's main fields of interest are medieval music and original performance practice. He won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for The Beneventan Chant (Cambridge University Press, 1989). His most recent books include First Nights: Five Musical Premieres (Yale University Press, 2000) and First Nights at the Opera (Yale, 2004). He likewise lectures at the Smithsonian and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
For more information about Prof. Kelly's work, please consult the following links :http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/11/02/overture_no_1/
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/11.18/first_night.html
Crossing Frontiers: The Intellectual Landscape of the 21st Century
Lunch event with Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman on March 16, 2009.
Steven E. Hyman, MD is Provost of Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. From 1996 to 2001, he served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the US National Institutes of Health charged with generating the knowledge needed to understand and treat mental illness. Before serving as Director of NIMH, Dr. Hyman was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Psychiatry Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the first faculty Director of Harvard University's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. In the laboratory he studied the molecular biology of neurotransmitter action. Dr. Hyman is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He currently serves as Editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience. He received his BA from Yale College in 1974 summa cum laude, and his MA from the University of Cambridge in 1976, which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying the history and philosophy of science. He earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1980.
Venue : Cercle de l'Union Interalliée
