Due Apr 1 | Call for Applications: 2018 Reclaimed Lands Conference Planning Fellowship March 28, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil FELLOWSHIP DESCRIPTION: The Freshkills Park Team is working to transform the 2,200-acre Fresh Kills Landfill on the Arthur Kill waterfront of Staten Island into a new public park over the next 25 years. The ongoing development of Freshkills Park is one of the most ambitious public works projects in the history of New York City,… Read More
Due Apr 27 | Call for applications: IRADAC Fellowship 2018-2019 March 28, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil IRADAC Fellows Program Fall 2018/Spring 2019 Purpose The IRADAC Fellowship provides institutional and intellectual support for Ph.D. candidates at the writing stage. Organized around an interdisciplinary seminar, the IRADAC Dissertation Fellowship offers sustained and supportive criticism among scholars writing on any area of the African Diaspora. During the academic year, fellows will have the opportunity… Read More
Due Mar 31 | CfP – “Community College and the Future of the Humanities” March 28, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil Call for Papers for: “Community College and the Future of the Humanities” #humsCC A National Conference Convened by LaGuardia Community College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York October 18 and 19, 2018 Community colleges are redefining the importance and centrality of the humanities to the lives of the “new majority” of students, both during their academic careers and after… Read More
May 1 | (Re)addressing Urban Education Literacy, Curriculum and Pedagogy March 28, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil Provocative Inquiries in Urban Education (PIUE) Lecture Series, Spring 2018: Listening to Alumni (Re)addressing Urban Education Literacy, Curriculum and Pedagogy Presenters: Dr. Maria Akinyele and Dr. Altovise Gipson-Colon, UEd alums Tuesday, May 1st, 6:30–8:30pm The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Room 4202, Urban Education Lounge FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC… Read More
Mar 28 | ESL for Scientists Writing Workshop March 27, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CUNY Graduate Center, room 4102 (Science Center) This event was rescheduled from earlier in the month due to poor weather conditions. Come to our ESL for Scientists Workshop! We will address: Common writing questions for non-native English speakers Resources Grammar and sentence structure You’re welcome to bring writing that you’re… Read More
April 24 | The Imposter Syndrome March 27, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Room #9204 Facilitators: Ben Stark & Daam Barker Do you often feel like a fraud, faking your way through graduate school, just waiting for your true inadequacies to be exposed for all to see? Enduring and sometimes overwhelming feelings of fraudulence are central to psychological experience known as The Imposter… Read More
Deadline April 10 | Graduate Center/Morgan Library & Museum Graduate Archival Fellowships March 22, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil Early Research Initiative Graduate Center/Morgan Library & Museum Graduate Archival Fellowships (Summer 2018) The Early Research Initiative invites applications for two Morgan Library & Museum graduate archival fellowships (Summer 2018). These $4,000 fellowships will be offered to Graduate Center Ph.D. students from any program with primary research interests related to the collections at the Morgan… Read More
Mar 22 | Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States w Dr. Edwin Meléndez March 22, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil March 22, 2018, 6-8pm Skylight Room, 9th Floor SPONSORED MIGRATION: THE STATE AND PUERTO RICAN POSTWAR MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES A book talk and discussion with: Dr. Edgardo Meléndez, author , Professor of Africana and Puerto Rican/ Latino Studies, Hunter College Dr. Teresita Levy, Associate Professor, Latin American, Latino, and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman… Read More
CUNY Academy – News March 2018 March 22, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil Last week the CUNY Academy received funds to support travel awards for part-time faculty who present or chair at a conference. The Academy thanks Enid Stubin of Kingsborough Community College and the UFS, Evangelos Gizis, our Board Chair and former Provost of Queens College, and Kay Conway, Chair of the UFS, for their efforts to… Read More
Mar 31 | Call for Participants – Prelude to The Shed: Schema for a School March 22, 2018 | Rukshana Jalil The Shed, New York’s new multi-arts center designed to commission, produce, and present all types of performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture will open in Spring 2019. Committed to commissioning new work by a range of artists, their building features versatile spaces for the broadest range of performance, music, visual art, multi-disciplinary work, events,… Read More