The symposiums started at night and lasted till the morning, included two parts.
The Concerts and Discussions The 2004 Bard Music Festival presents "Shostakovich and His World," a two-weekend celebration with 11 concerts featuring music by the composer and others as well as preconcert talks, panel discussions and a symposium, starting today and running through Aug. 22 at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Sea to Table, one of the participants in the symposium, has started linking New York City chefs with fishermen in Montauk, meaning that hook and line-caught albacore tuna, for example, are making their way directly from Long Island docks to city restaurants.
You will hear a lot more about this in the next few days for this is one of the headline subjects at the World Economic Forum's Davos symposium, which starts today.
Start with the Symposium - a dinner party chat that would read as an extended whimsy on life and love if it were not argued so tightly.
Before the second course, the evening's host, the writer and former art dealer Tom Healy, who shares the apartment with his partner Fred Hochberg, president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, dinged his glass and started round two, the symposium, or at least a tamer modern version.
"And then Socrates after he ate with his companions and made a libation to the god, they started to drink" (Symposium IV 178).
Robert A. Katzmann, the federal judge who started the effort and organized the symposium, called the problem a "substantial threat to the fair and effective administration of justice".
When did you start the symposiums?
The symposium, which is being co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, starts at 8 30 a.m.
