Discussion Groups

Panel Discussions

The Barton Hall Panel Discussion was recorded Sunday, August 20, 2006.

Click here or on the image below to view the previously broadcast webcast of the event (alternate link here). Real media player required. Click here to download Real media players.

Cornell faculty panelists for the Barton Hall discussion included:

Douglas Mao, Associate Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences
Amy Villarejo, Associate Professor of Film in the College or Arts and Sciences and Director of the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
Robert Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics in the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Background materials for Dr. Frank's discussion on income inequality.
Provost Biddy Martin moderated the panel.

Click here or on the image above to view the previously broadcast webcast of the August 20, 2006 event. Real media player required. Download Real media players here.

The photo above is from the question and answer session at the end of the Barton Hall panel discussion, August 2005.

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…" (p. 179) Watch Michele Moody-Adams, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Bob Frank, H.J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management discuss The Great Gatsby."Can money buy you happiness?" Listen and see if you agree with them.

Video stream is courtesy of Cornell CyberTower forums.