Event Archive
Barham Rotunda Gallery Archived Events
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: What it is and Why it Matters
“The Public Domain is the place we quarry the building blocks of our culture.” (James Boyle, The Public Domain)
Suppose that the great classic works of literature, art and music were yours, to use however you liked. You could create sequels, enact performances, combine them with other works, translate them into a different medium, or share them with the world.
With the public domain, you can! The public domain consists of all those works that are not restricted by copyright — works whose term has expired, works created by the federal government, or works dedicated to the public by their authors.
This exhibit focuses on the uses of the public domain, the wealth of material it contains, and the dangers of its erosion.
In Celebration of a Library Legend, David Cohen: A Pioneer in Multicultural Education and Intellectual Freedom
April 7, 2010 to August 31, 2010
Queens College Libraries' latest exhibit traces the illustrious and productive career of Professor David Cohen, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. For more than seven decades, Professor Cohen was a pioneer in the fields of multicultural librarianship and intellectual freedom. He advocated for the building of multiethnic collections in libraries and encouraged publication by culturally diverse authors. Professor Cohen has received numerous awards, including the New York Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Award (1986) and the American Library Association's highest honor, honorary membership. ALA also created the prestigious David Cohen/Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) Award to recognize individuals for notable work in multiculturalism and libraries. Professor Cohen's other achievements include serving as the vibrant and creative Executive Director of the Friends of the Queens College Library and, along with Professor William Green (English), helping to found the post of Queens Poet Laureate.
Come celebrate the legacy of our dear friend and colleague, Dave Cohen, by viewing an assortment of media commemorating a life dedicated to the American ideal of freedom of expression.
Perspectives of New York City: Drawings Exhibit
We invite you to see the Joseph LoGuirato's Perspectives of New York City: Drawings, on exhibit in the Library's Barham Rotunda December 2009 through March 2010. Focusing on New York's rich architectural heritage, Mr. LoGuirato has created a series of detailed pencil drawings on gessoed wood panels of many well-known city landmarks, including the New York Public Library's Jefferson Market Branch, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and many others.
The artist has had four one-person exhibits and participated in many group shows, including Bayside Historical Society's Celebration of the Arts. Mr. LoGuirato is the Art Director for the Office of Communication at Brooklyn College and an adjunct professor in the Art and Advertising Design Department of NYCCT. The exhibit will be on view from December 2009 until March 2010.
Queens College Civil Rights Activism Exhibit
August 2009 to November 2009
We invite you to see the remarkable Civil Rights Activism Exhibit now on view in the Barham Rotunda, curated by Professor Benjamin Alexander (GSLIS), with the assistance of his graduate students. We are honored to display a wealth of archival material ranging from posters, news clippings, student's handwritten essays, buttons, photographs, record jackets, letters, and more memorabilia donated by Mark Levy, a 1964 Queens College alum. Levy, a civil rights activist during the 1964 Freedom Summer along with slain civil rights worker, Queens College student Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, was co-director and teacher of the Meridian Freedom School in Mississippi. The exhibit is on view until mid-October 2009.
Lucy Janjigian: Uprooted
April 7 to May 18
The Rosenthal Library is pleased and honored to exhibit the work of distinguished artist Lucy Janjigian, whose work from her series Uprooted depicts the horrors of genocide.
Re:Rebus (Non Verbis Sed Rebus!): Selections from Queens College Art Library Special Collections
March 9 to April 7, 2009
Rebuses received notoriety from the puzzles composed by French clerks at carnivals for satirical current event commentary. Voltaire was said to have exchanged rebuses with Frederick the Great. At MoMA artist Vik Muniz created a rebus for his participation in the Artist Choice program, where artists are asked to function as curators selecting works from their permanent collection.
In approaching rebuses as a means of communicating with other visually-curious people Re:Rebus is curator Tara Mathison's response to Muniz's MoMA Rebus, using the permanent special collection of the Queens College Art Library.
A Celebration of the Life and Works of William Saroyan on the Centennial of his Birth
December 3, 2008 to February 24, 2009
Author of “The Time Of Your Life” and “The Human Comedy” among countless other works, Saroyan is and has been for generations a shining talent for Americans and Armenians throughout the world. Curated by Margaret C. Tellalian-Kyrkostas, Director of The Anthropology Museum of the People of New York and the Armenian Cultural Educational Center Gallery.
Mother and Daughter: The Related Visions of Barbara and Wendy Moscow
October 17 to November 23, 2008
This exhibit features two Queens-based artists, Barbara Moscow and her daughter Wendy Moscow. Barbara's collages and mixed media work contain African or Far Eastern motifs and jewel-like dreamscapes created in fabric and hand-made papers.
Wendy's drawings contain a filigree of images derived from the natural world, as well as having been inspired by Earth-based spiritualities. Her photographs, while reflecting these same concerns, are also political, as in her 1980 documentary series, “Mourning, Rage and Defiance: The Women's Pentagon Action.”
Jean Huffman Wong's Maurice Sendak Collection
May 1 to September 30, 2008
An exhibit of materials collected by Jean Huffman Wong related to illustrator Maurice Sendak, supplemented by holdings from the Rosenthal Library's Juvenile Literature Collection.
Curated by Prof. Suzanne Li.
Celebrate 70 Years! 1937–2007 Queens College
March 1 to April 6, 2008
An Exhibit on the Occasion of the 4th Queens History Conference 10/13/07 at Queens College and the 70th Anniversary of Queens College
Prepared by Stephen Barto and Kuanhua Huang, Queens College Archives
Assisted by Sydney Lefkoe and Ellen Rondot, “Voices of Old Technology”
Black History Month: Eyes on Zora!
February 1–29, 2008
An Exhibit Celebrating the Life, Work, and Times of Zora Neale Hurston
Curated by Michael Miller, Lisa Flanzraich, and Noel Agnew
Book Discussions: Feb. 20, 25, 27
Celebrate 70 Years! 1937–2007 Queens College
December 26, 2007 to January 30, 2008
An Exhibit on the Occasion of the 4th Queens History Conference 10/13/07 at Queens College and the 70th Anniversary of Queens College
Prepared by Stephen Barto and Kuanhua Huang, Queens College Archives
Assisted by Sydney Lefkoe and Ellen Rondot, “Voices of Old Technology”
Books out of Print: Artwork by Art Educators
December 13–20, 2007
Exhibition of books written and illustrated on the theme “Ethics through Animal Imagery” by students in Prof. Rikki Asher's graduate course Classroom Methods in Printmaking.
Reception: Thursday, December 13, 5:30 to 7:00PM
Treasures in Facsimile: From the Collections of the Queens College Libraries
Dedicated to the late Professor Richard Wall
October 10 to December 4, 2007
The Urban Red-Tailed Hawk: Photographs of Queens hawks by Jeffrey Kollbrunner
June 11 to August 31, 2007
The Annual Poetry Fest
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 3:00PM
Eight poets will read from their published work.
An Abundance of Devils
Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 3:00PM
Dr. Robert Weller's lecture on his new novel.
In Her Own Hand: Operas Composed by Women, 1625–1913
April 1 to June 30 2006
Curator: April James
Poetry Fest
November 17, 2005, Thursday, 3:00PM–5:00PM
Flushing, 1806: Historical Archaelogy in Early 19th-Century Queens
Library Hours, through June 30, 2005
Prof. James Moore, Dept. on Anthropology, Curator
Black American Women Contributors to the Civil Rights Movement and College Students' Contribution to Voter Registration
Library Hours, February 2005
Dorothy C. Lewis, Curator
Black History—Local Stories of Struggle, Accomplishment and Contrast
2nd floor Rosenthal Library Display cases, outside the Auditorium, Room 230, and separate case to right of main Rotunda cases
Library Hours, February 2005
Syd Lefkoe, Curator
The Queens College Library Salutes Alice Walker
Barham Rotunda, Rosenthal Library—separate case to left of main Rotunda cases
Books by Alice Walker; bibliography
Library Hours, February 2005
Dick Wall, Curator
Through December 23, 2004
Queens in Flight: From Balloons to Seaplanes to Space Shuttles
An exhibit by “Voices of Old Technology—A Museum in the Making”
Syd Lefkoe, Curator
May 3 to June 19, 2003
Signs of Jewish New York: In Celebration of the 350th Year of the First Jewish Arrivals in New Amsterdam
Theodore Cohen, M.D. and Leo Hershkowitz, Curators
March 15 to April 30, 2003
Centennial Celebration of George Balanchine
David Cohen/Friends of the Queens College Library, Coordinator
Related Program: Sunday, April 18, 2004, 3:00PM, Lefrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music
A program of music and dance with guest speaker Nancy Goldner, author and dance critic.
February 2 to March 14, 2003
unseenamerica
Photographs and texts: Unseen members of our working community, sponsored by the Bread and Roses Cultural Project
Nathalis Wamba (LEAP Program), Exhibit Coordinator
March 1–31, 2000
Homer Guerra: Landscapes (Paintings & Prints)
Reception: Wednesday, March 8, 2000, 5:00–7:00PM
Friends of the Library Archived Events
Spring Book Sale
May 3–3, 2010, 9AM to 5PM
Special Event on composer Victor Herbert
Sunday, April 26, 2009, 3:00PM, Choral Room, Aaron Copland School of Music
Special event commemorating the 150th anniversary of Victor Herbert's birth. Herbert was the famous composer of “Kiss Me Again”, “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life”, and many other well known hits.
Spring Book Sale
April 20–23, 2009, 9AM to 5PM
Fall Book Sale
November 17–20, 2005, 9AM to 5PM
A Tour of Tishrei: The Jewish New Year
Through October 31, 2005
Curator: Rabbi Shaul Wertheimer, Chabad of Queens College
Centennial Celebration of Marc Blitzstein
March 6, 2005, Sunday (Music School Choral Rm. 264)
Courtesy of Dr. Jonathan Irving
Culture & Politics: Beyond the Post-Modern
March 16, 2005, Wednesday, 12PM–2PM (5th fl. Rosenthal President's Rm #2)
Prof. Peter Carravetta, European Languages & Literature Dept., Q.C.
Celebrating the Centennial of Lillian Hellman, Playwrite Extraordinaire
April 10, 2005, Sunday (Music School Choral Rm. 264)
With sections from Candide by Leonard Bernstein in collaboration with Jonathan Irving, Music School.
Talk by Prof. Glenda Frank of FIT.
Spring Book Sale
April 11–14, 2005, Monday-Thursday, 9AM–5PM (Rosenthal Library)
Youth Information Seeking Behavior: Theories, Models & Issues
April 13, 2005, Wednesday, 12PM–2PM (5th fl. Rosenthal President's Rm #2)
Prof. Mary A. Chelton, Q.C. Library School, co-editor.
Ireland and Postcolonial Theory
May 11, 2005, Wednesday, 12PM–2PM (5th fl. Rosenthal President's Rm #2)
Prof. Clare Carroll, Dept. of Comp. Lit.
Dicken's Fiction: Tapestries on Conscience
February 16, 2005, Wednesday (5th fl. Rosenthal President's Rm #2)
Prof. Emeritus Stanley Friedman (formerly Eng Dept. QC).
Celebrating the 350th Anniversary of Jewish Life in America
December 6, 2004, Monday, 12:30PM (5th fl. Rosenthal President's Rm #2)
Prof. Leo Hershkowitz, Hist. Dept.
4th Poetry Fest of Queens College
November 17, 2004, Wednesday, 3:30PM (5th fl. Rosenthal President's Rm #2)
Poet Laureates are being invited plus many other poets of Queens
Ali J. Ahmed, Peter Carravetta, Mari-Lise Gazarian, George Held, Kimiko Hahn, Hal Sirowitz, Stephen Stepanchev and Maria Terrone
Fall Book Sale
November 15–18, 2004, Monday-Thursday, 9AM–5PM (Rosenthal Library)
What it means to be a poet in Queens
October 20, 2004, Wednesday, 12:30PM (5th fl. Rosenthal President's Rm #2)
Ishle Yi Park, Poet Laureate of Queens (#3) will read some of her special poetry
How a Jew Found the American Dream
September 14, 2004, Tuesday, 12:30PM–2:00PM (5th fl. Rosenthal President's Rm #2)
Natalie Green Giles, author of Songa's Story
Significant Elements in the Operation of the Christian Science Church
May 5, 2004, Wednesday, 12:30PM
Prof. Rolf Swensen
Spring Book Sale
April 19–22, 2004, Monday-Thursday, 9AM–5PM PLUS Sunday, April 25th, Noon to 5PM
Centennial of George Balanchine
April 18–25, 2004
Celebrate the centennial of George Balanchine in the LeFrak Concert Hall with music and dance, Sunday, April 18, at 3PM. Dance critic Nancy Goldner will speak.
Special program in collaboration with the School of Music
Loss: The Politics of Mourning
March 9, 2004, Tuesday, 12:30PM
Prof. David Kazanjian will discuss the book he edited, and his essay Between Genocide and Catastrophe, Mourning Remains.
Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men
February 11, 2004, Wednesday, 12:30PM
Prof. Andrew Hacker will discuss his new book
Caught in the Crossfire
December 10, 2003, Wednesday, 12:30PM
Prof. Ammiel Alcalay will discuss the film on Arab-Americans in wartime.
Fall Book Sale
November 17–20, 2003, Monday-Thursday, 9AM–5PM
Third Poetry Fest at Queens College
November 13, 2003, Thursday, 3:30PM
Poets of the past will be back along with some new names.
The Life of Mary Baker Eddy
November 10, 2003, Monday, 4:00PM–6:00PM
Jews in Colonial New York
October 14, 2003, Tuesday, 12:30PM
Prof. Leo Hershkowitz will speak, with special focus on the story of Abigail Franks.
Spring Book Sale
April 7–10, 2003, Monday to Thursday, 9:00AM–5:00PM, foyer of the Rosenthal Library
Bing Crosby, the Early Years, 1903–1940
Sunday, April 6, 2003, 3PM, Choral Room, Aaron Copland School of Music.
Centennial Celebration for Bing Crosby, eminent popular singer with “a pocketfull of dreams”, Speaker, Gary Giddins of the Village Voice and author of Bing Crosby, the Early Years, 1903–1940
Concert under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Irving, Assistant to the Director, Music School.
Centennial celebration for Lewis Allan, Composer of “Strange Fruit”
Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 2PM, Choral Room, Music School, 2PM
Speaker, Dr. Nancy Baker, Musicologist (Boston University).
Music by Leonard Lehrman in collaboration with Prof. Jonathan Irving, Aaron Copland Music School
Archival Research & the Jews in New York City
Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:30–2PM, President's Room #2, 5th fl., Rosenthal Library
Prof. Leo Hershkowitz, Q.C. Dept. of History
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 12:30–2PM, President's Rm. #2, 5th fl. Rosenthal Library
What new ideas, intellectual and otherwise came from John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James and Charles S. Pierce (since the end of the Civil War).
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Prof. Louis Menand, Graduate Center Eng. Dept.
Second Poetry Fest on the Queens College Campus
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 3:30PM, President's Rm.#2, 5th fl. Rosenthal Library.
Hal Sirowitz, Poet Laureate of Queens; Steven Stepanchev, former Poet Laureate of Queens.
Many other poets will be invited TBA.
Fall Book Sale
November 18–21, 2002, Monday to Thursday, 9:00AM–5:00PM, foyer of the Rosenthal Library
National Library Week
Sunday, April 14, 2002 2:00–4:00PM, Aaron Copland Music School, Choral Room.
The Centennial Celebration of Langston Hughes, poet and playwright. Co-sponsored by the Colden Center and Aaron Copland Music School.
Spring Bookfair
April 12–18, 2002, Monday to Thursday, 9:00AM–5:00PM, foyer of the Rosenthal Library
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 12:30 to 2:00 PM, Rosenthal President's Room No. 2 (5th floor)
A lecture by Ben Chitty
Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty have created an engrossing, comprehensive history of labor in the United States, capturing the full sweep of working people's struggles, from indentured servants in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley.
Written with great narrative force, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend surveys the historic efforts and sacrifices that working people made to win the rights we take for granted today: basic health and safety standards in the workplace, fair on-the-job treatment for men and women, the minimum wage, and even the weekend itself.
A.B. Chitty works as a librarian systems officer at Queens College of the City University of New York and is active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He lives with his wife, Priscilla Murolo, in Yonkers, New York.
Fall Bookfair
November 12–15, 2001, Monday to Thursday, 9:00AM–5:00PM, foyer of the Rosenthal Library
The Remaking of an American, Elizabeth Banks
Monday, November 12, 2001 12:30–2:00PM, Rosenthal President's Room No. 2 (5th floor)
Dr. Jane S. Gabin, Assistant Director of Admissions at Chapel Hill, NC and QC Alumna '71, will speak on the extraordinary career of an American journalist working in London on Fleet Street. Dr. Gabin wrote the introduction to the book.
Queens College Poetry Festival
Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 3:15PM, Rosenthal President's Room No. 2 (5th floor)
- Poet Laureate #2—Hal Sirowitz
- Poet Laureate #1—Stephen Stepanchev
- Peter Carravetta, European Languages & Literature Department
- Nicole Cooley, English Department
- Marie-Lise Gazarian, St. Johns University
- Pierre Gazarian, poet
- Kimiko Hahn, English Department
- George Held, English Department, Retired
Others to be invited.
Amitav Ghosh
Monday, April 23, 2001, 1PM, Rosenthal's President's Room No. 2 (5th floor)
Distinguished Professsor Amitav Ghosh, (Comparative Literature and Anthropology) will speak on his roles as novelist and professor.
Book Sale
April 2–5, 9AM–5PM
Main Outer Lobby of Rosenthal Library. Hardcovers $1, Paperbacks 50 cents
The Centennial Celebration of the Birth of Louis Armstrong
Week of April 1–7, 2001
Why Louis Armstrong Is So Well Known Around The World
Sunday, April 1, 2001, 2–4PM, Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music (The Choral Room)
Dr. Joshua Berrett, author of The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary for the Love of Louie (7 min. video)
Music of Louis Armstrong introduced by Jonathan Irving, Asst. Director of the Music School, with the Queens College Jazz Ensemble led by Michael Mossman, Conductor
A Bird's Eye View of the World in a New Millenium
Thursday, March 15, 2001, 12:30PM, Rosenthal President's Room No. 2 (5th floor)
Professor Thomas E. Bird of the European Languages and Literature Department
Asian Americans' Oral Histories
Wednesday, February 14, 2001, 12:30PM, Rosenthal President's Room No. 1 (5th floor)
Dr. Joann Lee, head of the Journalism Department and Faculty Advisor to the Queens World
Dignity and Despair
Lecture by Professor of History Marion Kaplan on her award-winning book on Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.
Thursday, November 16,2000, 12:30–2:00PM, President's Room No. 2 (5th floor)
Library Book Sale
Monday, November 13, 2000, and Thursday, November 16, 2000, Third Floor Lobby
Procession: Documenting Migration and Immigration in Queens
Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 3PM, President's Room No. 2 (5th floor)
Discussion by Dr. Rikki Asher, Coordinator of Art Education on the mural in the 2nd floor of the Rosenthal Library.
Weill's Impact on America
Sunday, April 16, 2000, 3PM, Music Building, Choral Room
A Lecture by Foster Hirsch, author of an upcoming book on Kurt Weill
Songs of Lotte Lenya performed by Lynne Charnay with Accompanist Mitch Margold.
Technology's Big Surprise: The Future Might Be Behind Us
Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 4 PM, Rosenthal 230
Lecture by Dr Edward Tenner, Princeton University (open to the public) Followed by reception for library donors at 5PM (by invitation)
Library Book Sale
Monday, April 10 to Friday, April 14, Third Floor Lobby
Kurt Weill: In Berlin and On Broadway
Monday, April 10 to Friday, June 9, 2000
A Centenary Tribute to the Composer. Exhibit Cases—Third Floor Rotunda
National Library Week
Sunday, April 9 to Sunday, April 16, 2000
Poetry Readings
Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 3:00PM–4:30PM, Choral Room, Aaron Copland School of Music
Featuring Professor Kimiko Hahn (English), Professor Peter Carraveta (European Languages and Literature), Professor Stephen Stepanchev, Poet Laureate of Queens (English, retired), Mrs. Marie Ponsot (English, retired)
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the occasion is to celebrate the selection of Kimiko Hahn and Marie Ponsot for the Poetry Poster issued by the Academy of American Poets.
The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Deliriums and Discovery
Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 12:30PM–2:00PM, Staff Lounge (DH)
Professor Amitav Ghosh of Comparative Literature will speak on his role as a novelist while teaching Anthropology and Comparative Literature
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