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8:30 a.m. | BREAKFAST |
9:30 a.m. | INTRODUCTION Mikhail Gershovich, Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College |
9:40 a.m. | WELCOME & OPENING Mitchel Wallerstein, President, Baruch College |
9:50 a.m. | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Catherine Mathis, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications at Standard & Poor’s |
10:50 a.m. | BREAK |
11:00 a.m. | MORNING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS START |
12:00 p.m. | BREAK |
12:15 p.m. | MORNING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS RESUME |
1:15 p.m. | LUNCH |
2:15 p.m. | WORKSHOP: Story and Re-story in the Age of Shape-shifting Portfolio People Led by Barbara Ganley of Community Expressions and Alan Levine of Cogdog.it |
3:30 p.m. | BREAK |
3:45 p.m. | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Suresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics and English, Pennsylvania State University |
4:45 p.m. | CLOSING REMARKS |
5:00 p.m. | PROGRAM CLOSES |
6:00 p.m. | COCKTAILS AND DINNER The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South |
7:00 p.m. | DINNER ADDRESS: A Conversation with Gary Shteyngart Author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and A Super Sad True Love Story Interviewed by Roslyn Bernstein, author of Boardwalk Stories and Professor of Journalism and Creative Writing, Baruch College |