Feb 28 | IRADAC presents Black Women in Jazz Performance February 19, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil Read More
Due Mar 1 | NEH Summer Institute 2019 February 19, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Privilege and Prejudice: Jewish History in the American South” will be held from May 27-June 7, 2019, at the College of Charleston. We are particularly seeking faculty and graduate students of southern history and literature, Jewish studies, ethnic studies, religious studies, public history, and museum studies. Led… Read More
Feb 26 | CFP – Abstract Writing Workshop February 19, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil Do you see a conference in your future? If so, please join us for the Writing Services CFP – Abstract Writing Workshop. About the Workshop On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm, in room 3317, we’ll meet for a brief a presentation detailing some of the “best practices” of CFP answering and… Read More
Feb 15 | Affective Readings of Form and Subjectivity in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper February 13, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil 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 February 13, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil 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 February 13, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil 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 February 13, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil 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 February 13, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil 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 February 13, 2019 | Rukshana Jalil 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