May 3 | Cuba Film Screening and Discussion: Hermanas en Ruedas Film Screening and Discussion: Hermanas en Ruedas May 3, 2017 – CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room 5409 5:30-8pm Hermanas en Ruedas is a documentary about the growing underground skating culture in Havana, Cuba and how young female skaters navigate the traditionally male-dominated sport amidst a backdrop of international exchanges and a drastic shift in… 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
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
CUNY Academy Events The following events are taking place in April and May. More details are available at http://cunyufs.org/academy/: Urban Chiaroscuro, by Professor Amy Chazke of the Graduate Center and Queens College. 6:30 PM on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 in the Graduate Center’s Room 9207. “Theatre For All” presents the Art of Science Series -“The Silent… 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
Open Call for March 27 UN-BANNED all day Forum for all CUNY Students & Faculty + NY Philosophers, Artists from 7 banned countries to present Monday, March 27 All Day Open Forum Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY 5th Ave at 34th St., Herald Sq The Segal Center invites artists, philosophers, students, and faculty from the “banned seven”: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria to share their thoughts and reactions to the recent changes in U.S. immigration policy.… Read More
Mar 28 | Cast Iron Restoration at Soho Landmark” THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MECHANICS & TRADESMEN OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOUNDED 1785 LANDMARK LECTURE SERIES Presented in partnership with The New York Landmarks Conservancy Cast Iron Restoration at Soho Landmark – Donald Judd’s Home and Studio – A Case Study Robert C. Bates, Principal at Walter B. Melvin Architects … Read More