Greetings! Please see below for an email about upcoming events at the CUNY Academy for the Humanities & Sciences (read about the Academy here: http://cunyufs.org/academy/index.html), and an announcement about two awards for junior faculty: the Stewart Travel Award supports conference travel and the Felix Gross Award recognizes outstanding research and research potential. Best wishes, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu From: cuny.academy@gmail.com [mailto:cuny.academy@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2015 2:36 PM To: Eva Fernandez Subject: The EU and Africa: From Eurafrique to Afro-Europe Dear Colleague, Please come to these events: The EU and Africa: From Eurafrique to Afro-Europe . Join us for a panel discussion featuring Ade Adebajo, Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa, Rob de Vos, Consul General of the Netherlands in New York, and Patrizia Nobbe, Assistant Director, European Union Studies Center of the CUNY Graduate Center. This is presented by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa and the European Union Studies Center. 6 - 8 PM on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, in the Graduate Center's Room 9207. Please RSVP for this event via Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-eu-and-africa-from-eurafrique-to-afro-europa-tickets-15501225583>. Scottish Women Book Owners on the Eve of the Reformation, a talk by Marlene Hennessy, English, Hunter College, CUNY, Cosponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, 6 PM, Thursday, February 19, 2015 in the Graduate Center's Room C201. This event is hosted by Professor Susan O'Malley. We also have two questions for you. Do you know any CUNY assistant professors who were hired after July 2011? If so, please tell them about our Stewart Travel Awards. These awards provide support for conference travel. See http://cunyufs.org/academy/award.html Similarly, do you know of a really outstanding CUNY assistant professor? If so, ask your department chair or dean or provost to nominate this person for a Feliks Gross Award, CUNY's top award for assistant professors. The deadline is 9 AM on Monday, March 2, 2015. See http://cunyufs.org/academy/endowment.html for the details. The CUNY Academy's upcoming events schedule is listed in http://cunyufs.org/academy/events.html. To unsubscribe, please send email to cunyacademy@gmail.com<mailto:cunyacademy@gmail.com> with the word unsubcribe in the subject line. thanks, Manfred Philipp The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences