October 2014 - Socrates - QC Mailman 3 Archives

Seeking Committee Members for Watson Fellowship
by Moira E Egan 31 Oct '14

31 Oct '14

Dear all, I hope everyone is having a good semester. I've been enjoying working with students on some important fellowships and look forward to meeting even more of our talented students and learning about their fascinating work. The J. K. Watson fellowship offers students from several New York City colleges, including Queens College, three Summer internships in nonprofit organizations, business and industry, and government, one of them abroad. During the academic year, fellows also have many mentoring and professional development opportunities. The fellowship requires students to be nominated by committees on their campuses, and the Office of Honors and Scholarships is currently forming the committee who will review the next round of Watson applications. The work involves reading approximately 15-20 applications, meeting once to determine which students we will interview, and participating in the interviews. The review process will begin at the end of January, and conclude in early March. This is a wonderful opportunity to get to know students and help them to further their academic and career goals. If you're interested, please get in touch by email or phone and I'd be happy to discuss this with you further. Best, Moira ~ Moira E. Egan, Ph.D. National Fellowships Advisor Office of Honors and Scholarships Rm. 23 Honors Hall Queens College, CUNY (718) 997-2863

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Hybrid Bootcamp, January 5-9, 2015: Call for Participants
by Jean Kelly 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

The Center for Teaching & Learning is offering a hybrid bootcamp focusing on the development and implementation of hybrid courses (courses that blend online and face-to-face instruction). Faculty from all academic disciplines are invited to apply, by completing this form: http://bit.ly/hbc-jan2015-cfp Please apply no later than Monday, November 17, 2014. (Selected participants will be notified by December 1, 2014) For more information: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/hbc-jan2015-cfp Jean Kelly, Instructional Technologist | Center for Teaching & Learning | Queens College, CUNY http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu | jean.kelly(a)qc.cuny.edu | 718 997 4857

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Oscar-nominated film Yesterday - TOMORROW 4:45pm, Godwin-Ternbach museum
by Larissa Swedell 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Dear all, Please see below for information on the next film in our film series. Please forward to all interested parties and apologies for cross-posting. All the best, Larissa *Yesterday (2003)* *Directed by *Darrell James Roodt *Produced by *Anant Singh *Starring* Leleti Khumalo *Thursday October 304:45 pmGodwin-Ternbach museum* As part of the Representations of South Africa film series, tomorrow we will be screening Darrell Roodt's film *Yesterday* (2003), the recipient of numerous international film festival awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. *Yesterday* tells the story of a young Zulu mother who learns she is HIV positive and whose one wish is to stay alive long enough to see her daughter go to school. Read more about Yesterday here: http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/yesterday/ Full film series schedule: http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/representations-of-south-africa-film-series/ The *Representations of South Africa* film series, part of the core programming for the Year of South Africa at Queens College, consists of six critically acclaimed films focusing on the social and political challenges and rewards of life in South Africa, historically and today. Three of these films – *Come Back, Africa*; *Last Grave at Dimbaza*; and *Mapantsula* – were produced clandestinely in South Africa during apartheid and helped to expose the inhumanity of this regime to the outside world. Three additional films – *Amandla!*, *Yesterday*, and *District 9* – were collaborations between South African and foreign filmmakers that reached a global audience and became internationally known for their portrayals of South Africa during and after apartheid. These six screenings, from Oct. 16 through Dec. 4, will be followed by a joint discussion and critique by Professors Noah Tsika of Queens College and Paula Massood of Brookyn College on Thursday, December 11 at 4:45pm at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Larissa Swedell, Ph.D. Professor, Queens College, City University of New York Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology and Biology, City University of New York Core Faculty, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology Honorary Research Associate, University of Cape Town http://larissaswedell.org/ http://qc-cuny.academia.edu/LarissaSwedell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment and don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.

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FW: CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction
by Eva Fernandez 25 Oct '14

25 Oct '14

See below for details regarding a conference on best practices in reading and writing instruction, to be held at LaGCC on November 8, from 8am to 5pm. Download the conference program here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ubbeub8ijkhv7u0/2014ConferenceProgram%28final%29.… Best! Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu From: Marilyn Maiz [mailto:marilyn.maiz@mail.cuny.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:43 PM Subject: CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction Dear Colleagues: On Saturday, November 8, the City University of New York's Office of Academic Affairs and the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment will co-sponsor a conference on best practices in reading/writing instruction: "(Inter)Disciplinary Discourses: Writing Across the Curriculum Today." The conference flyer and program are attached. Please share with colleagues for whom the conference might be of interest. The conference will be held at LaGuardia Community College, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Registration is free of charge, and breakfast and lunch will be served. To register, please send your name, department, and college affiliation to marilyn.maiz(a)cuny.edu<mailto:marilyn.maiz@cuny.edu>. Regards, Marilyn Maiz Marilyn Maiz Testing Manager Office of Institutional Research & Assessment The City University of new York 555 West 57th Street Suite 1240 212-541-0375

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Open Access Week @ QC and around CUNY
by Nancy M Foasberg 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

This week (October 20-26, 2014) is Open Access Week<http://www.openaccessweek.org/>, an annual global event promoting open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. Open Access Week is dedicated to celebrating, promoting, and thinking about Open Access. For more information, please see the official Open Access Week website<http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about> and the OA @ CUNY blog<http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/>. There are ways to participate remotely, or in person throughout CUNY. See below for more information. 1. You can learn about Open Access on the Queens College Libraries' website within this helpful guide to Open Access<http://library.qc.cuny.edu/research/guides/openaccess/index.php> 2. Follow along on Twitter with the #openaccessweek hashtag 3. Have some free time? Why not pick up some light reading! It's Open Access, of course. o Open Access, by Peter Suber<https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262517638_O…> (PDF) 4. Learn about Creative Commons<https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43817> licenses for information on the web - you can assign a Creative Commons to your own work or use and share content created by others. o We recommend this presentation from Jill Cirasella at the Graduate Center: Whose To Use? And Use As They Choose? Creative Commons Licenses in Wikipedia and Scholarly Publishing<http://www.slideshare.net/cirasella/whose-to-use-and-use-as-they-choose> 5. Check out what CUNY is up to with Open Educational Resources<https://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/tag/oer/> (yes, FREE things you can use, modify, or create for teaching!) o Obama is into it<https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43817>. o You can also Get Paid from CUNY to Learn about Open Educational Resources (OER)<https://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/tag/oer/>! 6. See the materials from the Authors' Rights event<http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/04/02/materials-from-authors-rig…> at the Graduate Center. 7. Attend a screening of The Internet's Own Boy (click here for the trailer)<https://vimeo.com/ondemand/internetsownboy/94238859>, a documentary examines the life and contribution of internet and information activist Aaron Swartz. o Friday, October 24, 3-5pm @ Borough of Manhattan Community College, Rm N780 RSVP not required. Snacks will be served. Brought to you by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable This week will be the first of many steps in a bigger push toward greater awareness of and participation in Open Access in the library, across campus, and across CUNY. We have attached the text of this email as a PDF in case you'd like to print it. Truly, Kelly Blanchat Nancy Foasberg

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Landmark anti-apartheid film Come Back, Africa this Thursday
by Larissa Swedell 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Dear all, This Thursday at 4:45 pm in Rathaus 209 we will be screening Lionel Rogosin's 1959 anti-apartheid film, *Come Back, Africa *as part of the Representations of South Africa film series. Please see below for more information. Apologies for cross-posting! All the best, Larissa Swedell The *Representations of South Africa* film series, part of the core programming for the Year of South Africa at Queens College, consists of six critically acclaimed films focusing on the social and political challenges and rewards of life in South Africa, historically and today. Three of these films – *Come Back, Africa*; *Last Grave at Dimbaza*; and *Mapantsula* – were produced clandestinely in South Africa during apartheid and helped to expose the inhumanity of this regime to the outside world. Three additional films – *Amandla!*, *Yesterday*, and *District 9* – were collaborations between South African and foreign filmmakers that reached a global audience and became internationally known for their portrayals of South Africa during and after apartheid. These six screenings, from Oct. 16 through Dec. 4, will be followed by a joint discussion and critique by Professors Noah Tsika of Queens College and Paula Massood of Brookyn College on Thursday, December 11 at 4:45pm at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. For more information and full film series schedule: http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/representations-of-south-africa-film-series *Come Back, Africa* *Thursday October 234:45 pmRathaus 209* Lionel Rogosin’s 1959 powerful classic *Come Back, Africa* is one of the bravest and best of all political films. After witnessing firsthand the terrors of fascism as a soldier in World War II, Lionel Rogosin vowed to fight against it wherever and whenever he saw it reemerging. In an effort to expose ‘what people try to avoid seeing,’ Rogosin travelled to South Africa and secretly filmed *Come Back, Africa*, which revealed the cruelty and injustice suffered by black and colored peoples under apartheid. – Milestone Films The miracle of Lionel Rogosin’s apartheid drama *Come Back, Africa* isn’t that it’s a solid, affecting artifact of a cruel society, but that it exists at all. In the wake of his debut film, the New York skid-row chronicle *On the Bowery*, Rogosin set out in 1957 for Johannesburg, and for months laid the groundwork for surreptitiously shooting a follow-up that would lay bare the pain and humiliations of black South Africans subjugated by the white majority, enlisting native writers Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane to collaborate on the scenario. Mixing documentary-like footage with scripted scenes as he had in his first feature, the filmmaker heavily features music and dance by throngs of street performers, a diegetically captured salve for the wounds of extreme poverty and social oppression—and an ideal camouflage of his critical agenda from the South African authorities, who were persuaded that he was assembling a musical or a travelogue. Its narrative spine the unhappy emigration of rural villager Zachariah (Zacharia Mgabi) to the big city, which is often characterized by montages of forbidding skyscrapers or smoke-belching refineries, the film has its aesthetic shortfalls (the nonprofessional cast and fly-by-night production values let the seams show), but fulfills its goal of presenting this time and place in all its vibrancy and sorrow through atmospheric scenes of real daily life and labor. From a garage owner snarling about the African National Congress to a mixed-race crowd, together but with subtly different reactions, watching busking boys dance on a Jo’burg sidewalk, *Come Back, Africa* was the first film of its kind to bear witness to the hypocrisies of this riven country, particularly to audiences in segregated America. – Bill Weber, *Slant Magazine* (January 25, 2012)

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Faculty Resource Center at Queens Hall 325 is Now Open
by Rowena Li 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Faculty Resource Center - Queens Hall 325 The Faculty Resource Center at Queens Hall 325 is now open to all QC faculty for use as a faculty lounge. The room has a conference room table, lounge seating, and a SMART Board, as well as easy access to electrical outlets (including USB outlets). The Center for Teaching and Learning occasionally schedules events in this room; if you are planning to use the space, please check if the room is available at http://bit.ly/QH325_calendar. Tap your QCard on the swipe card system to gain access. When you are finished using the room, please remember to close the door behind you, for security reasons. If your QCard doesn’t open the door, please request access by emailing Mr. Rubin Borrero (Security: Locks and Keys office) at rubin.borrero(a)qc.cuny.edu and copy your departmental office personnel.

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Nov 14 (12-2pm): workshop on Fostering Academic Literacy
by Eva Fernandez 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

Greetings, colleagues: I'm very excited to announce an interactive workshop on the topic of academic literacy, by QC alum Susan Behrens (Ph.D. in Linguistics from Brown, Professor at Marymount Manhattan College). The workshop is Friday, November 14 (12-2pm, Queens Hall 325): Details: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/fostering-academic-literacy/ Register: http://bit.ly/fostering-academic-literacy (Lunch included) Susan will present the argument that all educators can benefit from more overt knowledge about the nature of academic language, and will lead a structured practice on how to have linguistically-informed conversations about academic English. Enhanced metalinguistic awareness leads to better teaching for us, and deeper learning for our students. I look forward to seeing you there, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu

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YoSA film series - first film TODAY Thursday Oct 16 - District 9
by Jean Kelly 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Posted on behalf of Larissa Swedell: Dear all, Today at 4:45pm we will be screening the first film in the Representations of South Africa film series as part of the Year of South Africa programming. Pasted below are the details for today's film. More information can be accessed at http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/district-9/. Please pass this along to all interested members of the campus community. Hope to see you there! All the best, Larissa Swedell District 9 (2009) Thursday, October 16 4:45 pm Godwin-Ternbach Museum (Klapper Hall) District 9 (2009), written and directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson, was inspired by the apartheid era evictions of non-white people from District 6 in Cape Town. Shot in Soweto in mock documentary format, District 9 is a science fiction thriller with underlying themes of xenophobia, social segregation, and humanity. Shown as part of the Representations of South Africa film series: http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/representations-of-south-africa-film-series/

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UFS Conference on Online Education: Nov 21, 9am to 1:30pm, John Jay
by Eva Fernandez 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Colleagues, The University Faculty Senate is organizing a conference on online education, featuring speakers Tony Picciano (Hunter and GC), Fred Kowal (United University Professions---SUNY union), George Otte (CUNY Central), Alyse Hachey (BMCC), and others, including introductory remarks by Chancellor James Milliken . Online Education -- What We Know and What We Need to Ask -- Fall 2014 Friday, November 21, 2014 John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 W 589th Street; New York, NY Complete program and registration information: https://sites.google.com/site/universityfacultysenatecuny/senate-action/con… I hope to see some of you there (be sure to register early, since space is limited). Please share with interested colleagues. Best wishes, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu

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