March 2018 - Socrates - QC Mailman 3 Archives

Wiki-Women's Edit-a-thon
by Nancy M Foasberg 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Wiki-Women's Edit-a-thon March 21, 2018 12:00-5:00 pm (come for part of the event or stay for the whole thing!) Tanenbaum Room (300i), Rosenthal Library, Queens College (Flyer here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gtVJnT3dIu66FVXC4iQrSAZD59sw6e-k/view?usp=…) This Women's History Month, please join us for the Wiki-Women's Edit-a-thon! We will be editing and creating articles on women, especially women of color, and particularly women in dance, literature, film, music, and the visual arts. Beginners are welcome! We will provide: An introduction to editing Wikipedia Suggested information resources to cite Moral support Food! You need not have any prior knowledge of these subjects or any experience editing Wikipedia. You are encouraged to bring your own laptop, but loaners will be available. For more information or to RSVP, please visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-tho… If possible, please create an account in Wikipedia prior to attending the event. This event is co-sponsored by the Library, Writing @ Queens, and the Center for Teaching and Learning, and will be hosted by: Kevin Ferguson, QC English Faculty and Writing @ Queens Nancy Foasberg, QC Humanities Librarian Edisa Weeks, QC Dance Faculty Megan Wacha, CUNY Scholarly Communication Librarian

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Dr. Knatokie Ford's Presentation on STEM - Wed., March 21, 12:15pm - 1:30pm, Student Union, 4th Floor Ballroom
by Rowena Li 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

>From the Office of the Provost Please share the attached flyer with your faculty, staff, colleagues and/or students. The Office of the Provost will send out a qc mailer this week and on Monday of next week to announce the event. Your support is appreciated! Thank you. Sandra Sandra Mew Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Queens College, CUNY 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Queens, NY 11367-1597 718-997-5900?

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Free Oral History Training Workshop!
by Lori A Wallach 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Hello all, Queens Memory has just added another oral history training workshop on campus. It will be held next Monday, March 19, from 6:30 to 9:00 pm at the QC Tech Incubator, classroom 19. The workshop will cover such topics as interviewing techniques, recording technology and the creation of timecode outlines, and will offer some time to practice your skills. This session will also feature a presentation by Fran Kipnis, a Queens Memory volunteer who is helping to lead our LGBTQ oral history project (see flyer attached). The workshop is free and open to the public; please email me (Lori.Wallach(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Lori.Wallach@qc.cuny.edu>) to RSVP or for further information. We'd love to see you there! Thanks! Lori Lori Wallach Queens Memory Outreach Coordinator queensmemory.org Center for Teaching and Learning, Razran 346 Queens College Lori.Wallach(a)qc.cuny.edu (718) 990-8532

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Panel discussion on women in American theater
by Julia Delpalacio 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hello, Hoping you can help us spread the word about this panel. Thanks so much! ——— Julia del Palacio Manager of Strategic Partnerships Kupferberg Center for the Arts Queens College | Office of the President 65-30 Kissena Blvd. | Flushing, NY 11367 Ph. 718.997.3589 Email: julia.del.palacio(a)qc.cuny.edu --- Panel discussion – Women in American Theater Tuesday, 3/13 – 7:00 pm – Room 264, Aaron Copland School of Music On Tuesday, March 13, at 7:00 pm, Evening Readings will feature a panel discussion on women in American theatre with playwrights Lisa Kron, Tony Award winner for Fun Home; Kia Corthron, Windham-Campbell Literature Prize winner for Drama; Patricia Ione Lloyd, New Professional Theatre’s Emerging Playwright Award winner; and Monet Hurst-Mendoza, 2017 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater and a 2016-2018 Van Lier Fellow at New Dramatists. This panel will highlight the contributions of women to American theatre and address the challenges that female theatre professionals must still overcome to have their voices heard and their work recognized. The Women in American Theatre panel will be moderated by former Newsday theatre critic Linda Winer, who was also chief theatre and dance critic of the Chicago Tribune from 1969-1980, and was a critic for the New York Daily News and USA Today. For many years, Winer was virtually the only female first-string theatre critic in New York and the only woman in the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. That has changed today, but it has been a “slow progress,” according to Winer herself. This panel aims at analyzing this and other timely topics.

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Industry 4.0 - Technology Insights Talk Series - Friday, March 9, from 5 pm - 7pm, Tech Incubator
by Ying Zhou 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hi - You are invited to our Technology Insights Talk Series at the Tech Incubator this Friday, March 9, from 5 pm to 7 pm. The Tech Incubator is a one story building between the Student Union and Razran Hall, also known as CEP Hall 2. RSVP: http://bit.ly/2Fi77Bk Sascha Eder, Co-founder and COO of NewtonX is giving a talk on one of the hottest topics in the business world: Industry 4.0. The talk will provide insights into the next wave of industrialization covering robotics, IoT and other technologies that disrupt the manufacturing space like the automotive industry. What improvements do these technologies bring and how does it affect us? The talk will give an overview of the different technologies, main players and provide real life case study examples. The presentation is a result of insights from top research institutions and interviews with Industry 4.0 experts. NewtonX is a technology focused expert network. The talk will be from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Participants can network before and after the talk. RSVP: http://bit.ly/2Fi77Bk? Sascha Eder Co-founder of NewtonX Born and raised in Germany, Sascha spent his days as a professional soccer player and track & field athlete of the German national team until he discovered his passion for technology while studying in Paris. After completing his Master of Entrepreneurship and Technology at MIT, Sascha joined McKinsey on the West Coast to help large tech companies define their VR, AI and Big Data strategies. At McKinsey he meets his co-founder Germain and together they founded NewtonX, the world's first AI-powered knowledge marketplace. NewtonX NewtonX's mission is to enable any company in the world access the knowledge they need by connecting to the right expert. Founded 1 year ago in San Francisco by Sascha and his co-founder Germain, NewtonX leverages machine learning to improve speed, costs, and quality of knowledge access over its competitors. A proprietary Knowledge Graph granularly maps the expertise of each expert. Today NewtonX has clients among consulting firms, hedge funds, PE, VCs, Fortune 500 and scaled to $1 million in annualized revenues in 1 year. NewtonX is seed funded and located at Queens College and Grand Central Tech, former New York Facebook Headquarters. RSVP: http://bit.ly/2Fi77Bk ?Best, Ying Program Director Tech Incubator at Queens College

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Call for Applications: CUNY Adjunct Incubator Research & Development Grants (Deadline: March 12)
by Rowena Li 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

From: Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY Please circulate this Call for Applications for Research and Development Grants<https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/cuny-adjunct-incubator-r…> from our new initiative the CUNY Adjunct Incubator to current adjuncts at any CUNY College. The application deadline is March 12th, 2018. The Center for the Humanities CUNY Adjunct Incubator is a framework for supporting and highlighting the significant work of adjuncts teaching in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences across CUNY. The goal of the CUNY Adjunct Incubator is to expand academic and cultural networks and provide valuable opportunities for professional and intellectual development. Providing professional, social, logistical, and financial support for the production and circulation of knowledge by CUNY adjuncts, this platform will promote the crucial work of adjuncts. We are offering two types of grants: 1. Adjunct Research & Development Grants will award $4,000 to 2 CUNY adjuncts developing independent scholarship and/or public projects in the humanities or humanities-related social sciences. In addition to covering costs associated with scholarly research, this grant can support travel-related to professional and/or curriculum development, and research and development of a public-facing project such as: archival research, oral histories, digital/interpretative platforms, online or print publications, performances, and panels, conferences, and exhibitions, etc. Who is Eligible: Current adjuncts at any CUNY College Application Deadline: Monday, March 12th, 2018. Selection Process: Recipients will be decided by an interdisciplinary committee. Application Process: Please send a one-page letter of interest describing your research or public project, academic and/or professional background, and methodological tool-kit. Please be sure to let us know your discipline(s), your current departmental affiliation as an adjunct at a CUNY senior or community college, and one contact who we can reach out to should your proposal be selected. If your project is public in nature, please describe past relevant experience and communities engaged. In addition to the letter of interest, please email a CV and a brief, budgetary outline toch(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:ch@gc.cuny.edu> by Monday, March 12th, 2018. Expectations: You will be in charge of managing your research or project, from conception to completion. The Center for the Humanities will provide logistical, and media support if you are producing a public-facing project. We request a one-page, narrative report on research progress and impact by December 1, 2018. We will also ask you to fill out a short survey on your experience so that we can serve this community better in the Adjunct Incubator’s next iteration. Finally, you will be invited to think about sharing your work with wider publics, as part of the Center’s mission to support public facing, interdisciplinary scholarship. And we welcome proposals for public panels in fall 2018 stemming from your project and/or writing for our blog. 2. Small Grants enable CUNY adjuncts to gather for professionalization and pedagogy workshops; meetings to share research and writing; and small-scale public humanities projects, including digital/interpretive platforms, public programs, and more. Who is Eligible: Current adjuncts at any CUNY college Application Deadline: Monday, March 12th, 2018. Selection Process: Recipients will be decided by an interdisciplinary committee. Application Process: Please send a 500 word proposal describing the peer workshop or small-scale public event/project you would like to organize. Please be sure to let us know your discipline(s), your current departmental affiliation at a CUNY senior or community college, and one contact who will can reach out to if your proposal should be selected. If your project is public in nature, please describe past relevant experience and communities engaged. In addition to the proposal, please email a CV and a brief, budgetary outline to ch(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:ch@gc.cuny.edu> by March 12, 2018. Expectations: You will be in charge of managing your project, from conception to completion. The Center for the Humanities will provide logistical, financial (up to $600), and media support for your project. We request a 500 word, narrative and budgetary report on your project by December 1, 2018. We will also ask you to fill out a short survey on your experience so that we can serve this community better in the Adjunct Incubator’s next iteration. Finally, you will be invited to think about sharing your work with wider publics, as part of the Center’s mission to support public facing, interdisciplinary scholarship, by writing for our blog. CUNY Adjunct Incubator Advisory Committee: Ujju Aggarwal, Celina Su, Kendra Sullivan, and Mary N. Taylor. Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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Study Abroad in Sri Lanka
by Schiro Withanachchi 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

???Please pass along: The Economics Department is offering ECO 102 (Microeconomics) in Sri Lanka this summer 2018 (as a faculty-led Study Abroad course). Attached is a flyer with more information. The ECO 102 Sri Lanka summer program is listed on the Study Abroad website: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/GlobalEd/StudyAbroad/Pages/QueensCollegeSt… Once registered for the ECO 102 Sri Lanka summer program, students have the option of earning another 3 credits through an NGO internship. Information Sessions: Monday, March 5 & Wednesday, March 21 Kiely Hall 270 at 12:15-1:30 pm (free hour) Please contact me with any questions: schiro.withanachchi(a)qc.cuny.edu Thank you for your assistance, Schiro Withanachchi Department of Economics Queens College, City University of New York

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