Hello everyone, The message below includes information about upcoming CUNY Academy events (beginning Monday Nov 5) and two solicitation notices for awards for assistant professors. The first, the William Stewart Travel Awards, offers modest grants for travel to conferences: http://cunyufs.org/academy/award.html The second, the Felix Gross Endowment Award, is awarded in recognition of outstanding research or potential for research in the humanities or sciences: http://cunyufs.org/academy/endowment.html Best wishes, Eva. Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Director, Center for Teaching & Learning http://people.qc.cuny.edu/faculty/efernandez | http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ctl Queens College, City University of New York From: cuny.academy@gmail.com [mailto:cuny.academy@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 11:48 PM To: Eva Fernandez Subject: CUNY Academy Events; Awards for Assistant Professors Dear Colleague, The members of the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences hope that you and your friends, family, and colleagues have weathered the storm without loss or damage. Our sympathies go to those who are suffering for lack of power, transportation, and housing and all the other things that have been interrupted or are in short supply. Because our program continues on Monday with a speaker flying in from outside the country, we must now announce this and the other events for November. The first of these is next Monday, November 5. In addition to these events, the Academy is pleased to announce the award solicitations for the William Stewart Travel Awards for new Assistant Professors and the Feliks Gross Award competition for Assistant Professors . Please see http://cunyufs.org/academy/ for details about both of these programs. 1.. Cosponsored by the GC Program in History and the Center for the Humanities, the Academy presents Jan-Philipp Reemtsma of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, who will speak on his new book, Trust and Violence. This is on Monday, November 5, 2012 at 6:00 PM, in the Graduate Center's Segal Theatre. Prof. Richard Wolin will host this event. Please see http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/Trust-and-Violence for details. 2. At the Academy's Feliks Gross Seminar on Urban Ethnography, Judith N. Desena, St. John's University, and Timothy Shortell, Brooklyn College , will present their anthology "Brooklyn Studies: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City" Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College will speak on his book "Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class ". Prof. Krase will host this event. This will be on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 6 PM in the Graduate Center's Room 9205 3. With the Society for the Study of Renaissance Women, the Academy will co-sponsor a talk by Caroline Bicks, English, Boston University, on "Stages of Girlhood in Early Modern England" in the Graduate Center's Room 9207 on Thursday, November 15 at 6 PM. Prof. Susan O'Malley will host this event. Our complete program is available at http://cunyufs.org/academy/events.html best regards, Manfred Philipp President, the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences NB: Please note that since I am Nepal for the semester, you will not see me at these events, something I very much regret. CUNY Academy First Vice President Nora Glickman is handliing the affairs of the Academy in my absence. You can ask to be removed from our mailings by sending a message to cunyacademy@gmail.com with the word remove in the subject line. Because the Baruch, BMCC, and Kingsborough email servers have been reported to be off-line, please let your colleagues at those campuses know about these events.