Feb 15 | Affective Readings of Form and Subjectivity in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper The next meeting of The Colloquium for the Study of Latina/o/x Culture & Theory will take place Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00 to 4:30 pm CUNY Graduate Center, Room 8301 Paper Subjects: Affective Readings of Form and Subjectivity in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper Tommy Conners, University of Pennsylvania Sponsored by the Revolutionizing American Studies… Read More
Feb 19 | TLC Workshop: Teaching as an International Student: The Collaborative Classroom in Theory and Practice Tuesday, February 19th, 4-6pm, Room 9206 https://cuny.is/tlc-spring-19 Teaching as an international student takes much hard work and trial and error. As international graduate students, we often jungle many unknowns when we engage CUNY classrooms, classrooms that may look and feel quite different from the ones to which we have been habituated. We might know little… Read More
Mar 12 | Ordinary Violence: on Democratic Governance and Racial Capitalism Please join us for a lecture by Jodi Melamed Tuesday, 12 March, 6:30pm Segal Theatre How can we explain the open secret of permissible violence for capitalist accumulation, in the U.S. and globally? Jodi Melamed argues that we must come to grips with the diffuse and deadly capacities of administrative power to give impunity to racial… Read More
Mar 1 | Register for the 2019 NES Colloquium The Nature, Ecology and Society Colloquium is a forum for research and action directed towards future sustainability and justice. This forum is intended to spotlight awareness, dialogue and collaboration between researchers and action oriented people, especially within the City University of New York, but outside CUNY as well. The 2019 Nature, Ecology, & Society Colloquium… Read More
Due Feb 24 | 2019-2020 Fellowship Opportunities with the Futures Initiative Good news! The Futures Initiative is now seeking THREE Graduate Center doctoral students in any field for 2019-2020 fellowships. Applications are due February 24, 2019. These are one-year positions, renewable for up to three years (contingent on program funding), for the following roles: Web Designer and Digital Strategist Co-Director, Undergraduate Leadership Program Specialist, Institutional Leadership… Read More
Mar 12 | Expert Witness Workshop – CLACLS at the Graduate Center You are invited to participate in this collaborative workshop on the fundamentals of working as an expert witness on asylum cases hosted by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the CUNY Graduate Center. We will be joined by immigration attorneys in NYC, seasoned expert witnesses (with experience on affirmative and criminal cases)… Read More
Deadline Mar 1 | Apply for a TLC Fellowship for the 2019-2020 Academic Year The CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center invites applications for Teaching and Learning Center Fellowships for the 2019-2020 academic year. TLC Fellows support CUNY Graduate Center students who are teaching across CUNY by consulting with graduate instructors during office hours, developing workshops and Focused Inquiry Groups, producing content for the Center’s teaching Handbook, planning the… Read More
Deadline Feb 28 | CfP – “Black Lives,” CUNY ESA Conference Call For Papers CUNY Graduate Center English Student Association Conference: BLACK LIVES SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 28, 2019 Conference date: Friday, April 12, 2019 CUNY Graduate Center New York, NY KEYNOTES BY: Michelle Wright, Emory University Rafael Walker, Baruch College “Black Lives” has emerged in recent years as a conceptual touchstone following the wake… Read More