You are invited to a seminar on Tuesday, May 1 at 4:20 p.m. on "Doing Business in India" at Wagner College's Spiro Hall, Room 4.

The guest speaker for the seminar is A.R. Ghanashyam, Indian Deputy Consul General.

The moderator is August Morar, an assistant professor of international business at Wagner College and director of the school's Center for International Business Strategic Studies, which is sponsoring the seminar.

For more information about the seminar, telephone August Morar at (718) 420-4509 or e-mail him at august.morar@wagner.edu.

            On Thursday, April 26, Wagner College will host its first Civic Engagement Recognition Day, something the college hopes will become an annual event. There will be two main activities:

• A ceremony from 4:15 to 6 p.m. announcing the four winners of the Wagner College Civic Engagement Awards, and
• A forum starting at 7 p.m. to kick off the fifth annual Staten Island Community Days weekend of coordinated volunteer activities.

Both events will take place in Wagner College’s Spiro Hall, Room 2.

            Twenty-seven Wagner College students will be inducted into Delta Mu Delta, the national business honor society, at a ceremony this Sunday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m. in the Spiro Center Hospitality Suite. The ceremony will be hosted by DMD President Dennis McCaffery, Vice President Mark Altmann, Speaker John Lombardo, and moderators Cherie Caccese, Wagner College associate controller, and Margaret Horan, associate professor of business administration.

            Delta Mu Delta is a highly selective, national honor society whose membership is for lifetime and by invitation only.

            Kenneth J. Gergen, a key figure in modern American psychology, will lecture at Wagner College on Wednesday, April 25 at 1:30 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Room 2. Gergen’s lecture, “On the Post-Modern Relational Self, Moral Relativisim and Technology,” is part of Wagner’s Academic and Cultural Enrichment series, and the public is invited.

            In 1973, Gergen set off what has been dubbed the “crisis in social psychology” with the publication of his article, “Social Psychology as History.” (Click here to read the article.) In the article, Gergen argued that the laws and principles of social interaction are highly variable over time, and that the scientific knowledge generated by social psychologists actually influences the phenomena it is meant to passively describe. The article proved highly contentious, garnering large amounts of both criticism and support from various social psychologists.

          A lecture by the Rev. Lyle Guttu, chaplain of Wagner College, scheduled for this Tuesday evening, April 24, has been cancelled.

          Rev. Guttu’s talk, which was planned as the final installment for the year in Wagner College’s Faith & Life Lecture Series, will be rescheduled for next year’s series.

            A public conversation about New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and his sister Gemma La Guardia Gluck will be held on Tuesday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Centro Primo Levi for Italian-Jewish Studies, 15 West 16th St., Manhattan. The event will celebrate the publication of a newly expanded version of “Fiorello’s Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck’s Story,” a memoir by Gemma La Guardia Gluck that was edited by Rochelle G. Saidel.
            The first edition of Gluck’s memoir, which was published by David McKay in 1961, has long been out of print. Saidel’s newly expanded version was published last month by the Syracuse University Press.
            Saidel is the author of “The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.” She is founder and director of Remember the Women Institute, a non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting research in women’s history.
            Among the participants in the April 24 public conversation about the La Guardias at the Primo Levi Center will be Saidel, Matilda Raffa Cuomo, Katherine La Guardia and Natalia Indrimi, with opening remarks by Antonio Bandini, Italy’s Consul General, and Marjorie B. Tiven, New York City commissioner for U.N. protocol.
            There will also be a special appearance by Tony Lo Bianco presenting excerpts from the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, “Fiorello!” Lo Bianco played the title role in a 2004 staging of the musical at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and previously staged his own critically acclaimed one-man show about La Guardia, “Hizzoner!”
            A slide show, film, and radio clips will explore the early years of the La Guardia family; the political career of Fiorello La Guardia and his public and personal involvement with the American Anti-Nazi/Fascist campaigns, the Jewish Labor Committee, and civilian relief during and after World War II; and Gemma’s experiences in Nazi Europe and afterward.
            At the core of Gemma’s memoir is her recollection of deportation to the Ravensbrück concentration camp from Budapest as a political hostage of the Nazis, because of her famous brother. Her story is set against the backdrop of the Italian and Jewish stories of their parents, Irene Luzzatto Coen of Trieste and Achille La Guardia of Sicily, their coming to the United States in 1880, the family’s return to Trieste in 1898, and Fiorello’s pursuit of his passion for politics.
            The evening will be enriched by visual and audio documents from the Jewish community of Trieste, WNYC/New York City Archives, the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University, Yad Vashem, Mahnund Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, Sharlot Hall Museum, Remember the Women Institute, La Guardia family members, and the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. The event is being held in cooperation with the Consulate General of Italy, Wagner College, Columbus Citizens Foundation, Key Tre Viaggi under the auspices of the Jewish Community of Trieste, National Organization of Italian American Women, Fiorello H. La Guardia Foundation, and Remember the Women Institute.
            A reception and book signing will follow the program.
            Admission is $20. For tickets, call the box office at (917) 606-8200 or click here. For more information on the event, click here.

A Moment for Reflection and Prayer
Kairos House Chapel
Today (Wednesday, April 18) at 4:15 p.m.
Special Remarks from the Rev. Lyle Guttu

Many at Wagner College have been deeply affected by the horrific tragedy that befell the campus of Virginia Tech. As we all search for ways to make sense of Monday’s events, we invite you to join us for a moment of reflection and prayer this afternoon — Wednesday, April 18 — at 4:15 p.m. in the Kairos House Chapel. The Rev. Lyle Guttu will be providing words of inspiration, and staff members from Health Services will be available for consultation.

Tuesday, April 17

            I know that all of you within our Wagner College community are as saddened as I am over the tragic events that took place yesterday on the campus of Virginia Tech University. This horrible tragedy serves as a reminder to all of us that we can never take our safety and security for granted.

            I want all of you to know that individual safety is our number priority on campus. Our public safety office has worked with campus operations, residence life and Chartwell's to make sure that the campus is prepared for an emergency situation. Over the years, public safety has developed many safety precautions.

Community Days kicks off Thursday

 
By LESLIE PALMA-SIMONCEK
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE STAFF WRITER, Saturday, April 21, 2007

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The goal of Community Days is to get as many people of faith as possible to perform good deeds during one specially designated weekend.

That long weekend starts on Thursday.

Community Days 2007 will bring together dozens of congregations as members work on projects ranging from job and health fairs to waterfront cleanups, clothing and food giveaways and a host of other initiatives.