Arden House Research Articles

The Making of an African American Foreign Policy Lobby: The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa

The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) became adevice of the African American elite for influencing United States policytoward Sub-Saharan Africa between 1962 and 1967, and for intervening inAfrican affairs. Yet, its origin and identity have been largely taken forgranted. The story that is usually told is that the ANLCA, founded in 1962,was an African American organization that was the brainchild of GeorgeHouser. The implication is that the ANLCA was consciously created ab initioas an organization for African Americans by Houser. Why would Housercause to be established an African American organization to pursue thesame objectives as his American Committee on Africa? By problematizingthe origin and identity of the ANLCA, the paper draws attention to thetradition of organizational support for African causes in the United States,and the circumstances that gave form to the ANLCA. It contends that whatHouser proposed, and the African American civil rights elite joined inorganizing, was a conference on Africa, nothing more. That the ANLCAoutlasted the Arden House Conference was not the original design of eitherHouser or the African American civil rights elite or an intended outcome. Asa foreign policy lobby organization, therefore, the ANLCA was a historicalaccident. …U.S.-African relations cannot be adequately understoodunless it is examined within the context of its domesticconstituency

Benet L Z and Galeazzi R L: Noncompartmental Determination of the Steady-State Volume of Distribution, J Pharm Sci 68, 1071–1074, 1979—the Backstory

In 1967, as a young assistant professor at Washington State University, I received a call from Dr. Arnold Marcus, then the chair of the Industrial Pharmaceutical Technology Section of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, who asked if I would serve as a faculty member in the academy’s January 1968 Arden House Conference on Pharmacokinetics. I answered, “Arnold, I don’t know any pharmacokinetics. I never took a course in pharmacokinetics and the little reading that I’ve done in the pharmacokinetics literature is just cursory.” Arnold replied that he was looking for someone with a good mathematical background to critique the approaches then being proposed in the field of pharmacokinetics and to lead the discussion during the last session of the course summarizing the positives and negatives of the approaches being employed, while attempting to hypothesize the future directions of the field. I accepted Arnold’s offer and in late January 1968 traveled from Pullman, Washington to Harriman, New York with a suitcase full of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences issues containing pharmacokinetic papers. Obviously this was prior to copy machines and baggage fees. I felt that I learned more about pharmacokinetics than any of the attendees at the conference, and my general impression at that time was that the discipline as practiced was much too complicated mathematically (unnecessarily) to have a major impact on drug therapy. In general the pharmacokinetic parameters in use at that time appeared to have no relationship with useful physiological and pathological processes that would allow a clinician to know how to adjust dosing under the various conditions that a patient would experience.

Eine Fahrt ins Blaue: Deutschsprachiges Theater und Kabarett im australischen Exil und Nach-Exil (1933-1988) by Birgit Lang

908 Reviews exile. Many of the articles bear the hallmark of the spoken word and should have received careful editorial work prior topublication. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ANNE FUCHS German-Speaking Exiles in Ireland I933-I945. Ed. by GISELA HOLFTER. (German Monitor, 63) Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2oo6. vii+300 pp. E62; $8i. ISBN 978 90-420-2033-7. As Gisela Holfter establishes in her introduction to this collection of papers on German-speaking exiles in Ireland (from theSeventh Limerick Conference in Irish German Studies held inJune 2004), Ireland has until now been terra incognita inExile Studies. After an overview from Wolfgang Benz there follows an excellent paper by Dermot Keogh on Irish refugee policy, anti-Semitism, and Nazism at the approach of the Second World War, which shows clearly that, despite the admirable work of individuals such as Professor T. W. T. Dillon and thead hoc IrishCo-ordinating Com mittee forRefugees, restricting itself to 'Christians of Jewish blood', itwas extremely difficult tomeet the government requirements foradmission. Wolfgang Muchitsch, in his paper on Austrian refugees in Ireland, confirms that the number of those ad mitted to Ireland was small. A statistic from theDepartment of Justice on I9October I939 on aliens registered in Ireland listsonly 326 asGerman. Inevitably, in the restof thisvolume the focus ison individual cases. Ireland became host tonone of thewell known emigrewriters; however, one literarysuccess story ishighlighted, namely that ofGeorge Clare (Georg Klaar), author ofLast Waltz inVienna (i 98 I),who spent the years fromNovember I938 to 194I in exile in Ireland. His autobiographical account, inwhich Ireland plays an important role, ismentioned several times in thisvolume. If Ireland has a poor record for literary refugees, the picture improves when the focus turns to academic refugees. Fellow Germanists will know about Hans Reiss and his years atTrinity College Dublin. But the international starwas themathematician and Nobel prizewinner Erwin Schrodinger, towhom de Valera, a formerprofessor of mathematics, offered asylum. Many leading scientists were attracted to the Institute of Advanced Studies and its School of Theoretical Physics established inDublin. The second section of thisvolume isdevoted to individual portraits of exiles and the final section topersonal accounts of exile life in Ireland, including extracts from the diaries of Erwin Schrodinger by his daughter Ruth Braunitzer, and childhood me mories of life in Ireland from I939-56 by thedaughter of JohnHennig, the 'father'of Irish German Studies, on whom Gisela Holfter and Hermann Rasche have recently published a separate study: J7ohn Hennig's Exile in Ireland (Galway: Arden House, 2004). The finalpaper, byEva Gross, isdevoted toher personal reflectionson a new life in Northern Ireland. Altogether this isan excellent volume. The Irish government and theCatholic Church do not come out of the storyverywell, but it is a useful reminder that, though the numbers of refugees admitted were small, their impact could be great. This may be a firststep for Irish Exile Studies: from it lessons can be learnt. INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC AND ROMANCE STUDIES J.M. RITCHIE Eine Fahrt insBlaue: Deutschsprachiges Theater und Kabarett im australischen Exil undNach-Exil (I933-I988). By BIRGIT LANG. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, i63) Berlin: Weidler. 2oo6. 346 PP. ?49. ISBN 978-3 89693-459-8. Birgit Lang has produced a remarkably detailed survey ofGerman-language theatre and cabaret inAustralia. As the title indicates, she covers the years from I933 to MLR, I02.3, 2007 909 I945 and thepost-exile years from thenuntil over fortyyears later. In her survey the post-exile years takeup much more space than the exile years, focusing as theydo on the incredible survival ofGerman-language theatre inAustralia till long after the end of thewar. The lastGerman-language theatre group did not close until 1988. Lang bases her study on threemain sources: material available inpublic libraries;material available inprivate collections; and interviewswith actual participants still alive and members of their families. Her book is enlivened with many photographs, posters, and illustrations of performances and performers. Lang's title, Eine Fahrt ins Blaue, is taken fromaBunter Abend cabaret programme of I952 and has been chosen forthevarious meanings itconveys apart from thatof the obvious journey into theunknown which lifein Australia meant forsomany Germans and Austrians. She starts her studywith a reminder of thebackground conditions in theAustralia of the...

Blair O. Rogers, M.D., 1923 to 2006

Blair O. Rogers, M.D., 1923 to 2006

The Arden House Conference on Tuberculosis, Revisited: Perspectives for Tuberculosis Elimination in the United States

In 1959, the Arden House Conference on Tuberculosis inaugurated modern tuberculosis control strategy by declaring that curative treatment of tuberculosis is a public health obligation. In the decades after the conference, tuberculosis rates decreased more slowly than forecast, perhaps because chemotherapy had less impact than anticipated, or because the conference's recommendations were not implemented fully until 30 years later, when an epidemic resurgence jolted the country out of complacency. Since 1959, several broad issues have gained prominence after being overlooked or unexpected at the time of the Arden House Conference. These include tuberculosis outbreaks, contact investigations, treatment of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, briefer treatment regimens, human immunodeficiency virus infection, bacteriology laboratory capabilities, and transnational migration. Trends and experience have shown that tuberculosis elimination in the United States will be unfeasible until both technological advances and social justice allow control systems to be applied throughout the world.

Discovering Mary Arden's House: Property and Society in Wilmcote, Warwickshire

The social and economic standing of William Shakespeare's parents are key components of his biography. In contrast to his father, following the prosaic trade of a glover in a small Midlands market town, his mother Arden has offered a link to the more glamorous Arden family of Warwickshire gentry, with their AngloSaxon ancestry and name. No small part of this Arden romance has derived from the ancient house in which, by tradition, she grew up. However, for a century or more, scholars have suspected that the reality differed from this tradition. The research detailed here has now revealed the actual home of the Arden family and their social role in the small Warwickshire village of Wilmcote in which grew up.1 The first section of the paper examines the original identification of the former Mary Arden's House: Following this is a summary of the new evidence by which the property long known as Glebe Farm has now been identified as the copyholding of Robert Arden (section II) and of the information this identification gives about his status and lifestyle (section III). To clinch the identification both positively and negatively, I examine the real ownership of the formerMary Arden's House (section IV) and describe this late-sixteenth-century freehold house (section V).2 Finally, I identify Robert Arden's freehold property in Wilmcote,Asbyes (section VI) and review the significance of all the new evidence about Arden's position in society (section VII).3

AMSPDC: An overview of its history and evolving mission

AMSPDC: An overview of its history and evolving mission

Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: World Migration and U.S. Policy

International migration has risen rapidly to the top of the agenda for both foreign and domestic U.S. policy. As a foreign policy challenge migration has joined a list of critical global issues that includes the environment population and the international economy....This volume was commissioned to help identify policy guidelines for these urgent and growing challenges. The chapters were first used as background for an American Assembly program held at Arden House Harriman New York November 10-13 1994.... This book includes chapters on migration patterns of U.S. foreign policy interest; migrants and refugees; the shift from invitation to interdiction; relationships between U.S. foreign policies and U.S. immigration policies; the impact of U.S. refugee policies on U.S. foreign policy; the effects of international migration on U.S. foreign policy; concepts norms and realities concerning refugees and the question of what the United States should do; the problem of how the international system copes with involuntary migration; and a final report of the Eighty-Sixth American Assembly. (EXCERPT)

World Migration and U.S. Policy

(The following is the final report of the eighty-sixth American Assembly held at Arden House, Harriman, New York, November 10–13, 1994. The volume with the conference proceedings, Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: World Migration and U.S. Policy, edited by Michael S. Teitelbaum and Myron Weiner, will be published by W. W. Norton & Co. in spring 1995.)

New initiatives in noise control reflecting on lessons from Arden House

In June 1972, the Acoustical Society held a conference on Acoustics and Societal Problems (CASP) at Arden House in Harriman, New York. Over 50 members participated in the 3-day conference, organized in seven task teams under the able general chairmanship of John C. Johnson. The 89-page report of this conference contains detailed assessments of needs and recommended actions in five scientific and technical areas of societal concern and two other areas related to communication of information and ideas. These seven areas were: (1) noise and man; (2) outdoor sound propagation and sources; (3) motor vehicle noise; (4) biomedical acoustics; (5) acoustic applications; (6) interorganizational activities and relationships; and (7) diffusion of knowledge. This paper draws upon the 20-yr-old repository of knowledge to find needs and ideas in the area of noise control that are as relevant today as they were 20 yr ago. The items found in this unfinished agenda provide a partial basis for the development of new initiatives for noise control and insight into the difficulties of their implementation. Hopefully, these ideas and insights can lead to effective execution of new initiatives in the future.

Report of a Workshop on Genetic Linkage Studies in Schizophrenia

A workshop on genetic linkage studies in schizophrenia was held at Columbia University's Arden House Conference Center in October 1989. This report summarizes the contents of invited talks by Drs. Arno Motulsky and T. Conrad Gilliam and the discussions at the five workshop sessions. Topics of the workshop sessions were (1) diagnostic boundaries and hierarchies in schizophrenia, (2) genetic models and linkage parameters, (3) selection and ascertainment of pedigrees, (4) future extensions of molecular genetics strategies, and (5) possibilities for future collaboration.

Earthquake Source Mechanics

The past 2 decades have seen substantial progress in our understanding of the nature of the earthquake faulting process, but increasingly, the subject has become an interdisciplinary one. Thus, although the observation of radiated seismic waves remains the primary tool for studying earthquakes (and has been increasingly focused on extracting the physical processes occurring in the “source”), geological studies have also begun to play a more important role in understanding the faulting process. Additionally, defining the physical underpinning for these phenomena has come to be an important subject in experimental and theoretical rock mechanics.In recognition of this, a Maurice Ewing Symposium was held at Arden House, Harriman, N.Y. (the former home of the great American statesman Averill Harriman), May 20–23, 1985. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together the international community of experimentalists, theoreticians, and observationalists who are engaged in the study of various aspects of earthquake source mechanics. The conference was attended by more than 60 scientists from nine countries (France, Italy, Japan, Poland, China, the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany).

The Metals Industries in the Eighties: A Preface to the Arden House Conference∗

The changing nature of the world metals industry was the subject of a three-day meeting of experts from around the world. The conference, held in May, 1986 and sponsored by the United States Bureau of Mines and the Henry Krumb School of Mines of Columbia University, included sessions on: the current status of the industries; changes in metals demand; changes in metals supply and trade; implications for the private sector; and implications for the public sector. The article introduces the issues raised at the Arden House Conference.

Transfer and Expression of Eukaryotic Genes. Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Arden House, on the Harriman Campus of Columbia University, June 3-5, 1983.Harold S. Ginsberg , Henry J. Vogel , Henry J. Vogel

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksTransfer and Expression of Eukaryotic Genes. Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Arden House, on the Harriman Campus of Columbia University, June 3-5, 1983. Harold S. Ginsberg , Henry J. Vogel , Henry J. Vogel Larissa WakefieldLarissa Wakefield Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 60, Number 3Sep., 1985 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/414441 Copyright 1985 Stony Brook Foundation, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

A Model of Chinese National Income Determination

A model consisting of a consumption function and an investment function is used to explain Chinese annual data in constant prices from 1953 to 1982. The data confirm Robert Hall's version of the permanent income hypothesis and the accelerations principle. Deviations of the observations from predictions of this model are attributed to political factors, including the Great Leap Forward in 195962, the Cultural Revolution in 1967-68, and the special government policies in 1978 and 1981.

Technological Innovation in the '80s. Background Papers Used by the Participants at a Meeting at Arden House, Harriman (New York), November 17-20, 1983.James S. Coles

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksTechnological Innovation in the '80s. Background Papers Used by the Participants at a Meeting at Arden House, Harriman (New York), November 17-20, 1983. James S. Coles W. D. McElroyW. D. McElroy Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 60, Number 1Mar., 1985 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/414306 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1985 Stony Brook Foundation, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Ethics of Corporate Governance

That same year Columbia University's American Assembly at Arden House conducted conference on business written up by Clar? ence Walton. Significantly, the next American Assembly conference was on corporate governance, reported by William Dill. One newspaper editor at the time described corporate governance as a fancy term for the various influences that determine what corporation does or does not do, or should or should not do. Corporate governance obviously involves top management, but it also involves middle and lower man? agers, and indeed the board of directors, who are not managers. The question is: Can the discipline of assist both managers and directors in the running of corporation? Some people might say no. Peter Drucker, unhappy with the phrase business at least, states that 'business ethics' is plain old hostility to business and to economic activity altogether. . . 'Business Ethics' might well be called 'ethical chic' rather than ? and indeed might be considered more media event than philosophy or morals. [pp. 34-35] Drucker misconstrues what professionals have recently been saying and doing in applying to business. He savages, though with ele? gance, at least several straw men. But Drucker makes two good points: the very phrase business can be misunderstood. There is really only one basic ethics. But it is useful to apply that to the special problems of business, as we can and do apply it usefully to the specific problems of law, medicine, health care, labor unions or politics. Drucker is also right when he stresses the ethical obligations of employees or critics towards the corporation. The recent popular phrase, corporate social responsibility (CSR), could now well be reversed, society's responsibility for the corporation (SRC). Indeed, Drucker's so-called Confucian ethics of society of interdepen? dence, as he puts it, or mutual responsibility, is exactly what most in this field have been talking about all along.

Oral History and Public History

This fall the Oral History Association will convene its Fifteenth Annual Colloquium in Durango, Colorado. The first such national meeting was held in September, 1966, under the sponsorship of the University of California at Los Angeles at the university's Lake Arrowhead facility. A variety of persons (librarians, medical doctors, historians, archivists, psychiatrists) from throughout the United States assembled there to engage in a dialogue about a subject of mutual interest. This group numbered slightly less than one hundred. It was graced by the presence of Allan Nevins, known as the 'father of oral history. All sessions were plenary and at the conclusion of the meeting a consensus was reached that a professional association for oral history be established. In November, 1967, the Second National Colloquium was convened at Columbia University's Arden House to continue the deliberations initiated at Lake Arrowhead. Prior to this meeting the Oral History Association had been incorporated in the State of New York. Those attending this gathering numbered 150. By the time of adjournment they had considered a Constitution and Bylaws and elected officers. The Association was in business. Thus, one might say, transpired the founding period of our organization. It was my privilege to attend both meetings. I always find it fascinating to peruse the list of participants and to read the Colloquium proceedings. I recommend examination of the proceedings of the annual meetings of the sixties as interesting reading fare. Most of the questions we so often seem to come back to were raised in these discussions. Many of the people who participated in these meetings retained their interest in oral history and over the years have generously served the Association. In April, 1979, I had the good fortune to attend the first National Symposium on Public History at Santa Barbara, California. This meeting was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and organized by the Graduate Program in Public Historical Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. For me there was a sense of deja vu. The first session of the symposium was a discussion of next steps in forming some sort of network or organization for persons interested in Public History. And, indeed, last September a steering committee' met in Washington, D.C., to plan the formation of a

Announcement: IEEE-SEG Arden House Workshop on Geophysical Signal Processing

Announcement: IEEE-SEG Arden House Workshop on Geophysical Signal Processing

Equipment

R. W. Nissen Ltd, Arden House, West Street, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 7ND, have extended their range of specialised packaging products to include circular base liners for kegs and drums. These have, it is claimed, been designed to reduce the wastage of products normally transported in gusseted and plain liners by ensuring that no residue remains after the liner has been emptied.