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Ralph Berkowitz Collection
No full textRalph Berkowitz (1910-2011) was a music educator and pianist. He performed many solo recitals throughout the world and was an accompanist for cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Berkowitz was also a staff member at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, the executive assistant at the Tanglewood Institute, and the business manager of the Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra. This collection contains 2.00 linear feet of scrapbooks and an unpublished biography that contain photographs, correspondence, articles, brochures, programs, artwork, and memorabilia related to Berkowitzs career, the ensembles he was involved in, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including pianist Aaron Copland, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and Tanglewood Institute director Serge Koussevizky
David Berkowitz Chicago American Painter
No full textBorn in Chicago, David Berkowitz grew up in an artistic family environment.
His artwork encompasses a wide range of disciplines, from painting, drawing, and
photography through to large-scale sculptures and installations. This artist
doesn't develop his art within the series, but paintings are created as a
product of the moment, without previous drawing.
As an internationally successful artist, David Berkowitz Chicago his works
have been included in the collections of the Ludwig Museum in Vienna, the
Museum of Arts and Crafts in Sent Ethen in France, the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Chicago, as well as in some of Europe's most prestigious collections
such as Solo Collection in Madrid, Esterhazy Collection in Austria, Collection
of Maya Picasso in France. His artwork can also be found in many other private
and public art collections around the world.
David Berkowitz Chicago has been painting for decades now. His usual day
consists of waking up, painting, and going to bed. Until this day, he remains
true to the domain of recognizable figurative poetics, referring to a
different, deeper reflection of the sacred reality. In it, one can read the
author's artistic sensitivity as well as his perception of life truths. His
figural compositions are based on the representation of a different lightness
essentially performed by the artist, referring to the latter (historical)
experiences of the relations of the Byzantine, Metaphysical and Surrealistic
Painting. The atmospheric and dramatic composition of David Berkowitz Chicago
emphasizes the pulsating chiaroscuro, which further contributes to the effect
of the complete work.
By walking on the edge of the painting and the edge of metaphysics, this
artist secured all dangers and many virtues of uniqueness. In Berkowitz interview for Patch, the painter reveals that
he's working on a new series that will most likely be finished by the end of
the summer.</p
Oral History Interview: Norma Berkowitz (900)
No full textBeaver Falls PA; music; Geneva College; Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); social work; Madison WI; divorce; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Raymond Munts; Imogene Higbie; Ann Minahan; Allan Pinkus; systems approach to social work; Jack Westman, Wisconsin Cares, Inc.; Waisman Center; London; Leonard Berkowitz; Martin Loeb; Social Work Students for International Outreach; Susan Kidd Webster; retirement; Friends of Chernobyl Centers, US (FOCCUS); Chernobyl, Ukraine; awards; travel.Norma Berkowitz received a master’s degree in Social
Work from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the 1960s several
years after receiving her undergraduate degree at Penn State. She discussed the system approach to social work studies that makes the UW-Madison program unique. In 1993 after retiring from the UW-Madison she founded the Friends of Chernobyl Centers United States (FOCCUS) which provides support, education and consultation to 13 community centers in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine
Are gateway communities facing a new urban apartheid? Lessons from Chelsea, Massachusetts
No full textThe Black radical tradition (Robinson, 2000) has recently re-energized the urban geography and planning debates, pushing for antiracist and counterhegemonic spatial practices. Along these lines, Roy suggests stepping away from displacement and gentrification jargon and switching attention to processes of dispossession and racial banishment as primary reconceptualization driving relevant ontologies and epistemologies of resistance (Roy, 2019). This conceptual framework leads to the investigation of how state power and planning practices dispossess and deprive racialized bodies – Black, Brown, and Indigenous individuals – of their place, identity, inner-self feelings, and emotions.
In this paper, we are interested in exploring the nature of adaptation planning practices designed in the face of climate change. In this particular realm of planning practice, we want to step away from the mainstream conceptualizations of green gentrification and displacement. Instead, we aim to look at the role of planning in producing urban change that intentionally excludes racialized bodies. By building on existing literature on climate apartheid focused on the connection between climate change effects and initiatives and the segregation and exclusion of disadvantaged populations (Rice et al., 2022), we argue the existence of a new urban apartheid.
We draw from Davidoffs’ initial definition of urban apartheid applied to planning to probe the intentional use of public planning to discriminate against specific communities using de jure and de facto discriminatory planning practices (Davidoff & Davidoff, 1970). We advance the argument that adaptation planning uses implementation tools that determine the segregation of certain racialized bodies over others. We make this argument by drawing from in-depth interviews, community engagement workshops, and engaged learning pedagogy experiments designed as part of an ongoing research process in the City of Chelsea, one of the many gateway communities of the Massachusetts Northeast Coast.
From a planning perspective, countering this new urban apartheid we suggest requires new ways to engage racialized bodies in collective actions counterbalancing racist planning practices. This horizon of work challenges the ongoing enthusiasm over academic scholarship aiming to empathetically support existing antiracist social movements. Instead, it suggests that a mutual transformative relation between researchers and racialized bodies should be at the core of any antiracist academic enterprise to build movements toward change. The paper draws from the increasingly eclipsed US progressive planning tradition (Angotti, 2011), which has historically combined forms of libertarian pedagogy, social mobilization, and the construction of post-modern epistemologies to shape intentional and collective actions for empowerment (Reardon, 1998).
References
Angotti, T. (2011). New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate. MIT Press.
Davidoff, P., & Davidoff, L. (1970). Opening the suburbs: Toward inclusionary land use controls. Syracuse Law Review, 22(2), 509–536.
Reardon, K. M. (1998). Enhancing the capacity of community-based organizations in east St. Louis. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 17(4), 323–333. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X9801700407
Rice, J. R., Long, J., & Levenda, A. (2022). Against climate apartheid: Confronting the persistent legacies of expendability for climate justice. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 625–645. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848621999286
Robinson, C. J. (2000). Black Marxism: the making of the Black radical tradition. Penguin.
Roy, A. (2019). Racial banishment. In Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50 (pp. 227–230). wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119558071.ch4
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Terry Berkowitz - ART CART Oral Histories
No full textThis oral history Is a collection of stories by Terry Berkowitz, an artist living in the New York City area. She is a lifelong advocate for humankind. Her work seeks to engage the entire individual for a transformative, and inspirational experience
Cleft lip and palate : diagnosis and management / editor, Samuel Berkowitz.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Mode of access: World Wide Web.xxxiii, 799 p. :This extremely comprehensive book has been edited by a world leader in the field of orofacial clefting. Through the text it is clear that Dr Berkowitz has achieved his goal of bringing together the contemporary concepts of diagnosis and management for patients with clefts. Although few will read this book cover-to-cover, most readers will dip into one or two individual areas at a time. Dr Berkowitz has facilitated this by breaking the text into readable sections dealing with each issue. Students and experienced clinicians will find it easy to find the information they want quickly.
Although this is the second edition of a book first published in 1996, there have been numerous updates by the contributors of the original text commensurate with the fast changing pace of clinical research in the field of cleft lip and palate.
The book contains everything that most clinicians and researchers would want within a book about orofacial clefts: embryology, cleft typology, facial growth, surgery, presurgical orthopaedics/comprehensive orthodontic treatment, bone grafting, speech and psychology. In the main, the text is supported by appropriate evidence. The results of some important studies are however underrepresented. I mention this not to criticise but to point out that each chapter contains opinions that some may disagree with. Space is allocated to a section on 'The future', detailing current clinical and molecular research and the potential promise of global collaborative research. This is a most worthwhile section, however within a few years it will become outdated and a third edition will inevitably be required because of scientific advances.
There is only one real criticism I would make. There is significant shine-through from the text and figures on the reverse side of some pages, reducing the quality of many of the excellent figures. This has no doubt arisen from the use of thinner paper in order to keep all 799 pages within one volume. Despite this, the text is illustrated with a vast array of figures, which for those embarking on a career working with patients with cleft lip and palate are extremely useful
Berkowitz's Algorithm And Clow Sequences
No full textA combinatorial interpretation of Berkowitz's algorithm is presented. Berkowitz's algorithm is the fastest known parallel algorithm for computing the characteristic polynomial of a matrix. The combinatorial interpretation is based on "loop covers" introduced by Valiant, and "clow sequences", defined by Mahajan and Vinay. Clow sequences turn out to capture very succinctly the computations performed by Berkowitz's algorithm, which otherwise are quite difficult to analyze. The main contribution of this paper is a proof of correctness of Berkowitz's algorithm in terms of clow sequences
Wellman Barry, Berkowitz S. D., Social structures, a network approach.
No full textDegenne Alain. Wellman Barry, Berkowitz S. D., Social structures, a network approach.. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1990, 31-1. pp. 149-151
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