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Mediation and conflict negotiation scholar Sara Cobb has been named executive director of the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School (HLS) and plans to help it stay top in the field...
...PON, founded in 1983, is an HLS program researching the theory and practice of dispute resolution. Cobb, appointed last February, has taught negotiation and communications for most of her career. She accepted the position because it allows her to be at the forefront of the study of conflict resolution...
...idea of copying as it both contributes to and defies art was explored further in the junior tutorial in the History of Art and Architecture department which Pon taught last year. The class was developed in conjunction with this show. Both the lectures which various students from that tutorial will be giving in the upcoming months and the symposium on "The Materiality of Print in Early Modern Europe" will refer to the apparent parallels between these issues of copying during the Renaissance and contemporary artistic concerns...
...Pon herself suggests that the changed relationship of the general public to images spawned by the invention of the printing press was a phenomenon similar to the tumultuous alterations currently resulting from the Internet. "The presence of the Internet in our world changes the way we perceive images...
...styles which characterized printmaking in the Renaissance. At least come to see the Barbari "Bird's Eye View of Venice" and "The Submersion of Pharoah's Army in the Red Sea" next to each other, if nothing else. Acquiring the Barbari from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was Pon's great curating acheivement and, as the visual centerpiece of the entire exhibit, it was well worth the effort. Then again, all of Pon's efforts here, if noticed, are fruitful. Pon has provided all of the clues to understanding and appreciating prints and privileges in the Renaissance...