Oct 16 | Book Launch & Talk with Author Carla Shalaby October 16, 2017 7:00pm Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue Room 4202, Urban Education Commons Reception to follow In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young “troublemakers,” challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. “Riveting, luminous, and terrifying, this little book gives us… Read More
Oct 11 | Andrew Zawacki: Reading in translation from Sebastien Smirou’s See About: Bestiary Please join the French Program on October 11 from 7 to 9 pm for a reading with poet and translator Andrew Zawacki. He will be reading from See About: Bestiary (LaPresse/Fence Books, 2017), his translation of Sebastien Smirou’s Beau Voir: Bestiaire (P.O.L., 2008). A copy of the book will be available in the French department… Read More
CUNY Academy Events & Opportunities Faculty, take advantage of CUNY Academy travel programs for F/T Assistant and Associate Professors. Please also nominate Assistant Professors for the prestigious Feliks Gross awards. Please nominate eligible undergraduates for the The Lane Cooper Dissertation Fellowship. This award provides a scholarship grant of up to $17,000 for the 2017-18 academic year to a CUNY undergraduate… Read More
Oct 2 | UAlbany-CUNY 2017 Digital Humanities Research Collaboration Forum The University at Albany and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY) are pleased to invite you to a Digital Humanities Research Forum[goo.gl] on Monday, October 2, 2017 from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm in the D’Ambra Auditorium on UAlbany’s Uptown Campus. At the cross-section of the humanities and digital technology,… Read More
Sep 26 | The Future of Public Education? Searching for The Public Good Amid Gentrification, Privatization, and Inequality Participants: Diana Cordova-Cobo, Lauren Fox, Abbey Keener, Dominic Terrel Walker, James Wallert, Amy Stuart Wells, Juontel White Tuesday, September 26th, 7:00 PM, Proshansky Auditorium Join us for an evening of conversation with The Public Good Project (Teachers College, Columbia University) and Epic Next Theatre Ensemble on promoting and preserving diversity in urban public schools threatened… Read More
Sep 22 | After Kathy Acker: Chris Kraus in Conversation with Anne Boyer & Ariana Reines Friday, September 22nd, 6:30 pm After Kathy Acker: Chris Kraus in Conversation with Anne Boyer & Ariana Reines Elebash Recital Hall Chris Kraus will read from and describe the research process behind her new biography After Kathy Acker, on the life, myth, and influence of avant-garde artist, writer, and counter-cultural heroine Kathy Acker. Kraus will… Read More
Oct 4 | Documentary Screening and Discussion-Ecuadorian immigration in NYC Please join us for a screening of “If You Could Walk in My Shoes,” an official selection of the 2016 Workers Unite! Film Festival about the life of an Ecuadorian immigrant family in NYC. The screening will be followed by commentary from the film director, Ricardo E. Causo. Wednesday, October 4, 2017 The Graduate Center, CUNY… Read More