Exceptional Speaker Series
1. May 24, 2020 “Art＆Law: The Arts of Art Collecting”
Panelist/Moderator: Arts&Science Professor, Leila A. Amineddoleh (CAS ’02)
Founder of Amineddoleh & Associates LLC
The founder of Amineddoleh & Associates LLC, Leila handles both litigation and transactional matters concerning art and heritage. She also works with artists, artists’ foundations, museums, and cultural institutions.
As an advocate for the protection of cultural heritage, Leila proudly serves as a cultural heritage law expert. Leila also teaches International Art & Cultural Heritage Law at Fordham University School of Law, in addition to Art Crime and the Law at New York University.
Juris Doctor degree from Boston College Law School
B.A. in Economics, New York University
Panelist: Dr. Jennifer L. Mass
President and Founder of Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC (SAFA).
SAFA is a materials analysis and consulting firm dedicated to addressing questions of attribution and state of preservation for works of art.
Panelist: Ms. Julia May Boddewyn
Independent Researcher
Julia May Boddewyn has worked in the New York art world for over thirty years and has been an independent researcher since 2015.
She spent several years assembling an exhaustive chronology of Picasso exhibitions that took place in the U.S. between 1910 and 1957 for the exhibition catalog, Picasso and American Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006). She was a researcher on the 2014-15 Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Currently, she is a researcher at the Arshile Gorky Foundation working on the comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.
M.A. in Art History, Hunter College
2.June 13, 2020 “Love & Space: Secrets of the Universe”
Space Navigator: Satoki Kurokawa (SPS ’12), PR Communications Leader of NYU Alumni Club in Japan
Associate Senior Administrator, Management and Integration Department, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Moderator: Momoko Nakayama (LS ’18), a young leader of NYU Alumni Club In Japan
3. June 26, 2020 “Real Estate Investment for Entrepreneurs”
Dr. Harry G. Chernoff, Clinical Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
Deputy Chair, Dept. of Technology, Operations and Statistics
Moderator: Ren Ito (LAW ’04), Senior Fellow-U.S-Asia Law Institute of NYU School of Law
4. July 31, 2020 “Speech, Assembly and Police Procedures-The 2020 Supreme Court Term”
Dr. Burt Neuborne, Professor of Civil Liberties at NYU School of Law
Moderator: Eric W. Sedlak (LAW ’84)
Corporate and Energy Partner at K&L Gates in Tokyo
Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
Vice President of NYU Alumni Club In Japan
5. October 10, 2020 “About (Mostly) French Wine”
Bjorn Hanson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Tisch Center of Hospitality at NYU
Moderator: Yuka Uebayashi (GSAS ’99), President of NYU Alumni Club in Japan
6. December 5, 2020 “Year-End Event: NYU’s Sustainable Development Goals – “SDG”s.”
Keynote Speaker: Professor Chris Dickey, Director of Global and Environmental Public Health Clinical Associate Professor of Global Health, NYU School of Global Public Health
Speaker: Dr. Hiroyuki Ozaki, Stern MBA ’90, Professor, Graduate School of Science, Technology, and Innovation, KOBE University
Speaker: Professor Kazuo Tase, President and CEO, SDG Partners, Inc.
Japan Coordinator, Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Co-Founder, Kokuren Forum
Invited Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University
Lecturer, School of International Liberal Studies of Waseda University
Moderator: Mr. Geoff Bowman, Stern MBA ’03, Director, BofA Securities Japan
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Regular presenters:
Lisa Watson (CAS ’04), Vice President of NYU Alumni Club in Japan
Koichiro Matsui (CAS ’18), Vice President of NYU Alumni Club in Japan
Tetsu Kikuchi (CAS ’13), General Secretary of NYU Alumni Club in Japan
Technical supports:
Kentaro Nakajima (TSOA ’17), a young leader of NYU Alumni Club in Japan
Tetsu Kikuchi (CAS ’13), General Secretary of NYU Alumni Club in Japan
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