MIM CONFERENCE SERIES - 2004

Presenting the author of "A Beautiful Mind"  Prof. Sylvia Nasar. She has been a writer at Fortune Magazine, a columnist at U.S. News & World Report and recently a reporter at The New York Times.

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A Beautiful Mind inspired the blockbuster movie directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe that won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture. The book and movie have not only enthralled audiences around the word, but have become powerful antidotes to the stigma and ignorance surrounding mental illness.
A Beautiful Mind, first published in 1998, won the National Book Critics' Circle Award, was a runner up for a Pulitzer prize, and has become a #1 New York Times bestseller.
The movie inspired by Prof. Sylvia Nasar’s award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, A Beautiful Mind, has captivated audiences around the world. It won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actress and Screenplay. It also won 4 Golden Globes and 4 Critic’s Choice Awards, making it one of the most critically-acclaimed movies of the year.

Sylvia Nasar holds the first Knight Chair at Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She recently served as creative consultant on a PBS documentary about Nash, and was an editor of a volume of Nash's economic and mathematics papers. She is currently working on a book about the great economic minds of the 20th century.

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Columbia News ::: Sylvia Nasar Discusses Her Book, 'A Beautiful ...

 May 12, 2004

Time: 6:30 PM

Place: Marmara-Manhattan

301 East 94th Street

New York, NY 10128

Tel: 212-427-3100

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6:30-7:15 Cocktail
7:15-8:15 A Beatiful Mind by Prof. Sylvia Nasar
8:30-10:30 Showing of A Beautiful Mind

 

Presenting Prof. Nejat Veziroglu on 21. Century's Energy: Hydrogen Energy System. Veziroglu is one of the world's leading advocates of developing hydrogen-based economy as a solution to the world's dependence on fossil fuels and as a way to reverse the damaging effects on the environment from using those fuels. 

As founding director of UM's Clean Energy Research Institute, he has spent more than 25 years studying the potential benefits of utilizing hydrogen as a primary energy source. "Hydrogen is the energy system of the next century," Veziroglu says. Veziroglu's research may play a vital role during the next century in helping to reduce the environmental degradation that comes from the industrialized world's practice of generating most of its energy by burning oil, natural gas and coal. The University of Miami is the headquarters for the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), of which Veziroglu is the president. The IAHE publishes the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, which presents papers and findings from many of the world's most prominent energy researchers. Since 1976 the IAHE has also organized the biennial World Hydrogen Energy Conferences. University of Miami College of Engineering Professor T. Nejat Veziroglu has been nominated for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics by the 5th Baku International Congress on Energy, Ecology & Economy held recently in Baku, Azerbaijan.

More info about Nejat Veziroğlu

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Time: 7:00 PM

Place: TBD

 

 
Presenting Prof. Hasan Paksoy on "KELOĞLAN"  an archetype in Turkish Oral Narrative (Türk Mizahı ve Keloğlan)

Prof. Hasan Paksoy an historian on Central Asia and Turkish history will present  his recent work on KELOĞLAN, an archetype in Turkish Oral Narrative.

Over the past two decades, his research papers have appeared in over fifty periodic journals and scholarly collections, in twelve countries, on the European, Asian, and North American continents. Prof. Paksoy also published (as author or editor) eight books: 

THE BALD BOT KELOGLAN AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD (Lubbock, TX: ATON, 2003);
IDENTITIES: HOW GOVERNED, WHO PAYS? (Lawrence, KS: Carrie, 2001);
ESSAYS ON CENTRAL ASIA (Lawrence, KS: Carrie, 1999);
INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (Co-Editor)(Simon and Schuster Education Group, 1998);
TURK TARIHI, TOPLUMLARIN MAYASI, UYGARLIK (Izmir: Mazhar Zorlu Holding, 1997);
CENTRAL ASIA READER: The Rediscovery of History; (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1994);
CENTRAL ASIAN MONUMENTS (Istanbul: Isis Press, 1992);
ALPAMYSH: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule (Hartford, Connecticut: AACAR, 1989).
  Hasan  Paksoy earned his D. Phil. from Oxford University, England (with a Grant from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom), M.A. at the University of Texas at Dallas (with a National Science Foundation Project Grant Assistantship), and B.S. at Trinity University (with Bostwick Scholarship). He taught at the Ohio State University, Franklin University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the Central Connecticut State University.For more information visit HB.Paksoy CV

 April 25, 2004

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: Turkevi

821 United Nations Plaza

New York, NY 10017