April 21 | Getting What You Need From Your Advisor Getting What You Need From Your Advisor Friday, April 21st , 2017 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Room #9204 This FREE workshop will address: How to choose an advisor, how to build and maintain a working relationship with your advisor and what to do when problems occur This workshop led by Arielle Shanok Ph.D., and Amanda… Read More
April 27 | Mental Health Resources Workshop Please join the DSC and the Wellness Semester for our Mental Health Resources workshop, April 27, 1:30-2:30pm, in room 5409 Do you want to know what mental health resources are available to you at the GC or through NYSHIP? Confused about what kind of therapy is right for you? At this workshop, we will answer… Read More
The Advocate, Call for Contributions Never Submit, Contribute! The Advocate is currently soliciting articles and essays from the student body for its forthcoming issue. The Advocate serves as the newspaper for the Graduate Center community. We publish six issues a year and reach thousands of readers both within and beyond the GC community. We accept contributions in the form of articles, reviews, illustrations, and photos from freelance writers, artists, and… Read More
April 14 | “Feminist Protest Songs: Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn with Amalle Dublon” 6:30pm, The James Gallery Marginalized strands of the second-wave feminist movement, such as International Wages for Housework Campaign––which included the Wages Due Lesbians and the Black Women for Wages for Housework—advocated for salaried domestic labor. These feminist groups formed in the 1970s to raise awareness of how housework and childcare are the basis of all… Read More
May 4 | Post Grad (Center): Engaging Publics with a PhD From the Office of Career Planning & Professional Development Please join us for a day of workshops and discussions around careers for PhDs and MAs in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. This event is part of our project, The New PhD: A Renaissance of Public Engagement, of our Graduate Center funded as part of… Read More
Deadline extended to May 2 | Altfest Graduate Internship Program, Summer 2017 Altfest Graduate Internships The Graduate Center Office of Career Planning and Professional Development facilitates partnerships with local institutions to host graduate student internships. The opportunities are meant to encourage graduate students to explore diverse career options, while developing skills and experience that will advance their career goals. Candidates are encouraged to have their application materials… Read More
April 25 | Publicizing Your Research: Building, Communicating, and Branding Your Academic Identity Tuesday, 04/25/2017 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Graduate Center, Room C202 If you haven’t published yet, don’t worry, there are other options for you! Digital media technologies have become increasingly important in academic life, offering new opportunities and new challenges to get your academic voice heard outside of peer-reviewed journals. Digital technologies provide academics an… Read More
April 7 |”Activism in Academia” Please join the Center for the Humanities on Friday, April 7th from 10am to 4pm for “Activism in Academia” in the Martin E. Segal Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. “Activism in Academia” is an interdisciplinary, day-long symposium discussing the value of political and apolitical work—in our classrooms, on our campuses, and in our scholarship—as it relates… Read More
April 20 | Alumni Panel on Entrepreneurship Careers in Entrepreneurship Thursday, April 20, 2017 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Room C197 Graduate Center alumni have created a dizzying assortment of successful businesses demonstrating that PhD skills are transferable to avenues outside of academia. At this panel discussion on entrepreneurship you’ll learn from recent alumni how to apply your skills toward opening and… Read More
GC Digital Initiative Workshops Workshop: “Cleaning Data with OpenRefine” Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 – 6:30-8:30pm Data cleaning is an important step in any data-driven research project. Often data is harvested from diverse sources such as the web, databases, spreadsheets, text files, and countless other places. Before it is cleaned, “messy” data can suffer from a host of problems, including… Read More