(Nate Chinen) ★ Ran Blake/John Medeski/Claudia Quintet & Friends (Saturday) This celebration of the New England Conservatory's influential Contemporary Improvisation department — _ now in its 40th year — will feature prominent alumni and faculty.
Further up Nationalestraat, you come to the hub of Antwerp's fashion scene, ModeNatie, site of the Flanders Fashion Institute and the influential fashion department of the Academy of Fine Arts, where the Antwerp Six all trained.
The "Courtyard of the Gentiles", as the foundation is known, is being set up by the Pontifical Council for Culture, the influential Vatican department that is charged with fostering better relations with non-Catholics.
New York, which has one of the largest and most influential insurance departments in the country, took the lead in shaping policy at the national association.
On the other is Col. Michael J. Meese, the head of the academy's influential social sciences department and a top adviser to General Petraeus in Baghdad and Kabul when General Petraeus commanded the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At the time, postwar serialist composers claimed the intellectual high ground and dominated many influential university music departments.
Representatives of process philosophy occupy influential posts in departments of philosophy and of religious studies in many of American universities and colleges, and some half-dozen doctoral dissertations are produced annually in this field.
Thirteen IDIs with key-informants representing the views of ten donor agencies and government departments influential in the process of introducing the P4P scheme in Tanzania were conducted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Oslo, Norway.
They point to a host of oil, gas and coal industry lobbyists who have been given influential posts at the department.
A group of 'professional consultants', managers and epidemiologists were the most influential people in the department.
