April 5 | Legal Workshop for International Students Calling all international students! Please join the Doctoral Students’ Council for a legal workshop and information session led by CUNY CLEAR, a clinic of the CUNY Law School that advocates on behalf of immigrants, non-citizens, and populations that have been targets of police and government surveillance. Wednesday, April 5th at 6:30 pm Room 5409 at… Read More
Library Workshops: Zotero, Diss Deposit, Archival Research, Journal Contracts The library’s workshop offerings March-April all take place in room C196.05 on the Library Concourse level. Intro to Zotero for Citation Management Wed, March 29 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Dissertation & Thesis Deposit Information Sessions Thu, March 30 | 6:30pm – 7:30pm What to Know Before You Submit to a Journal, or Sign… Read More
Soliciting Editorial Committee Members for Shift: Journal of Visual and Material Culture Shift is currently soliciting Editorial Committee Members for Shift: Journal of Visual and Material Culture, an institutionally mobile, peer-reviewed journal that is currently hosted by the Institute of Fine Arts.… Read More
April 5 | Behind the Camera, Covering the Image: Caroline Key and Shelly Silver Wednesday April 5th, 7:00 pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre This event features a selection of films and videos by Caroline Key and Shelly Silver; each uses forms of occlusion to recover vulnerable, untranslatable, or invisibilized layers of social material. Caroline Key will screen her film Speech Memory, which questions the entanglement of immigration, cultural assimilation,… Read More
April 3 | “Spring Symposium: Pedagogy, Research, Social Change” Please join faculty and students from this year’s team-taught courses, Futures Initiative Peer Mentors, and the Humanities Alliance for our Spring Symposium: Pedagogy, Research & Social Change. As the final event in this year’s University Worth Fighting For series, this daylong symposium will celebrate work that connects student-centered learning to institutional and social change. Where:… Read More
Connect with GC Alumni this Spring Programming this Spring brought to you by the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development. Here are four opportunities to meet and talk with GC alumni.… Read More
Due April 30 | Applications – The Decorative Arts Trust Summer Research Scholarship The Decorative Arts Trust is accepting applications for our 2017 Summer Research Grants. This arm of the Trust’s Emerging Scholars Program provides support for graduate students working on a Master’s thesis or PhD dissertation in a field related to the decorative arts. More information, as well as descriptions of past grant projects, can be found our website. Applications… Read More
Mar 30 | The Public and Publics Conference Thursday, March 30th, 9:00am—6:00pm Keynote: Don Mitchell, Uppsala University, Sweden Martin E. Segal Theatre How have scholars, activists, and artists apprehended their position in public life and their belonging in a collective? How can we make sense of the designation of public, as opposed to private, spaces, both literal and figurative? Through a series of… Read More
Mar 29 | TLC Workshop: Social Reading and Writing with Online Annotation Tools March 29, 1-3pm Room 9206 Are you looking for ways to improve your students’ close reading skills or to kickstart class discussion by asking students to annotate readings online as a group before they come to class? Are you trying to find (new) strategies for peer review or collaborative writing projects? Or are you designing a hybrid or online… Read More
Mar 23 | GC Digital Initiatives Data Visualization Workshop Workshop: “Visualization 2” Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 – 6:30-8:30pm Have you learned some Python and now want to learn how to make pretty pictures out of your data? This workshop is a deep dive into making graphs using the matplotlib visualization library. We’ll cover the basics of making pie charts, bar graphs, line and scatter… Read More