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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Oct 28 colloquium: Don Mitchell
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Doctoral Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences Presents Fall 2015 Colloquium Series Wednesday, October 28, 2015 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM Don Mitchell - Syracuse University "Mean Streets: Class Struggle, Capital Circulations, and the Fight for the City" Graduate Center, Room 6304.01 | 365 Fifth Avenue

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Film screening: In Jackson Heights
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

IN JACKSON HEIGHTS 12:30 | 4:10 | 7:50 Wednesday, November 4 - Tuesday, November 17 Film Forum 209 West Houston St. (west of 6th Ave.) Tickets: $7.50 Member | $13.00 Regular http://filmforum.org/film/in-jackson-heights-film PRODUCED, DIRECTED AND EDITED BY FREDERICK WISEMAN In the course of his brilliant, nearly half-century career, Frederick Wiseman has tackled both great social institutions (a prison for the criminally insane, high school, military, police, juvenile court, the welfare system) and cultural ones (La Comédie Fran?aise, the Paris Opéra Ballet, American Ballet Theater, London's National Gallery). Here he profiles a community, Jackson Heights, one of New York's most diverse neighborhoods, with immigrants from Peru, Colombia, Mexico, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan (167 languages are spoken) -- as well as elderly residents of Jewish, Irish and Italian extraction. Under the elevated train, a hodge-podge of stores sell whole baby goats, saris, and Bollywood DVDs; they offer HIV testing, Tibetan food, and classes for would-be cabbies. Jackson Heights is home to an activist LGBT community, to recent survivors of terrifying border crossings, students of the Quran, and small shop-owners who mobilize against the Williamsburg-ization of the nabe. Wiseman embraces a community that revels in still being affordable, 20 minutes from "the city," and resolutely unhip. USA * 2015 * 190 MINS. * IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, AND ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES A ZIPPORAH FILMS RELEASE N.B. To mark the opening of this, Wiseman's ninth film set in New York, the Museum of the Moving Image is presenting a series of seven of his NYC-related works (BALLET, CENTRAL PARK, HIGH SCHOOL II, HOSPITAL, MODEL, RACETRACK & WELFARE), running October 9 - November 7. Click here<http://www.movingimage.us/films/2015/10/09/detail/frederick-wisemans-new-yo…> for details.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] From China Town to Chinese London: Migration, Ethnicity and Urban Space
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

*From China Town to Chinese London: Migration, Ethnicity and Urban Space* *Date: November 2 * *Location: Powdermaker Hall 202* *Time: Free Hour (12:15-1:30)* *Bio:* Caroline Knowles is Co-Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her most recent research projects include an investigation of the everyday life of London’s super-rich; a study of young Londoners in Beijing and young Beijingers in London; and an analysis of globalization from below through looking at the production and consumption of flip-flops. Sponsored by the Urban Studies Club at Queens College [image: Inline image 1] -- Thank you, Reshad Hai

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Research Assistant Job Opportunity in Chicago/Guatemala for Spanish Speakers
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

> >Dear Colleagues, > >Please find attached a posting for 2 Bilingual (Spanish-English) >graduate/doctoral or upper-level undergraduate students to serve >as research assistants on a National Science Foundation-funded study >entitled ?The Deportation and Social Reintegration of Migrant Children.? >Research Assistants (RAs) are provided a unique opportunity to engage in >research on a critical social issue impacting migrant communities locally >and internationally. One of the primary tasks of the research assistants >are to assist in developing and administering a community-level survey in >Guatemala during the Summer of 2016. This paid position runs from January >of 2016 until August of 2017. > >Thank you in advance for circulating this call to your students. > >Warm regards, > >Lauren > > >Lauren Heidbrink, MA/MS, Ph.D. > >Assistant Professor, Social & Behavioral Sciences > >Chair, Public Policy and Administration Program > > > >NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY | 122 S. Michigan Ave., #3030, Chicago, IL 60603 > >Tel/fax: 312.261.3409 > >Skype: laurenheidbrink > >Email: lheidbrink(a)nl.edu > >Website: www.youthcirculations.com > > >

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: First Event - October 21st - Urban Survival Skills
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hi everyone, Come to our first event. It is an Urban Survival Skills event with speaker Shanie Hobel. Learn what to do about safety, shelter, food and drink if and when disaster ever hits. It will be on Wednesday October 21 at Free Hour in Powdermaker Room 117. *Stay ready ain't gotta get ready* -Chauncey Billups ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Urban Studies Club" <qcurbanstudieslistserv(a)gmail.com> Date: Oct 18, 2015 10:13 PM Subject: First Event - October 21st - Urban Survival Skills To: "amir khafagy" <amirkhafagy(a)gmail.com>, <baoxin.zhu76(a)qmail.cuny.edu>, < baumanb96(a)yahoo.com>, <bllt96(a)gmail.com>, <briannamitchell25(a)yahoo.com>, < geohairasosa(a)yahoo.com>, <gtsagalas(a)aol.com>, <hemangi94(a)yahoo.com>, < jsevilla96(a)hotmail.com>, <kaytsnflwr06(a)aim.com>, <lglaylay95(a)gmail.com>, < mandre(a)yahoo.com>, <nayyabf13(a)aol.com>, <nissan.haimov(a)yahoo.com>, < scarter654321(a)aol.com>, <shabdeep(a)gmail.com>, <umarhasan2(a)yahoo.com>, "Allan Edmond" <allanred13(a)gmail.com>, "Alyssa Z Grossman" < agrossman105(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Andrew Han" <andrewhan928(a)gmail.com>, "Brett Amione" <brettamione(a)yahoo.com>, "Brian Rosa" <Brian.Rosa(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Crystal Chuakong" <cpchuakong(a)gmail.com>, "Darren Fignole" < dfignole(a)gmail.com>, "Deborah Watman" <deborahwatman(a)gmail.com>, "Elena Theodorou" <etheo1218(a)gmail.com>, "Jacqueline Segelnick" < jsegelnick(a)gmail.com>, "Jared Bitong" <jaredcrux(a)gmail.com>, "Josue Lazarus" <josuelazarus(a)gmail.com>, "Karen Mejia" <k.mejia24(a)yahoo.com>, "kay mills" <millskay4(a)gmail.com>, "Ken Rojas" <krojas_911(a)hotmail.com>, "Leo Marc" <leomarc995(a)gmail.com>, "Melissa Checker" <mchecker(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Melissa Tekin" <mtekin100(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Mimi K" <kittynumber3(a)gmail.com>, "Mingqin Chen" <mingqchen95(a)gmail.com>, "Nicholas Reed" < nicholasreed200(a)gmail.com>, "nicole skorski" <nicole.skorski(a)gmail.com>, "Nikita M Chan" <nchan103(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Pascal Hannou" < pascal.hannou(a)baruchmail.cuny.edu>, "Rashard Williams" < rashard.williams3(a)gmail.com>, "Reshad Hai" <reshadhai19(a)gmail.com>, "Reshad Hai" <rhai100(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Rosanna Rios-Spicer" < chuppa.rosa.writes(a)gmail.com>, "Samantha Addeo" <samaddeoo(a)gmail.com>, "Sb B" <shubhamb28(a)gmail.com>, "Shaista Ahmad" <sahmad108(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Shanie Reichman" <shanie.reichman(a)gmail.com>, "Stephanie Wakefield" < stephaniewakefield(a)gmail.com>, "SURYA UNNIKRISHNAN" <suryaunni96(a)gmail.com>, "Trung Nguyen" <nguyenthanhtrung3193(a)gmail.com>, "Uniqu3 Qu33nD" < denell.nobadeh(a)gmail.com>, <lilpos4str(a)gmail.com> Cc: Hi everyone, Come to our first event. It is an Urban Survival Skills event with speaker Shanie Hobel. Learn what to do about safety, shelter, food and drink if and when disaster ever hits. It will be on Wednesday October 21 at Free Hour in Powdermaker Room 117. *Stay ready ain't gotta get ready* -Chauncey Billups URBAN STUDIES CLUB AT QUEENS COLLEGE 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367 Powdermaker Hall, Room 250 Telephone: 718-997-5130

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Oct 23 Colloquium: Divine Minimum Wage: Islamic Ethics of Giving in (Post)Uprising Egypt
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Doctoral Program in Anthropology Presents Fall 2015 Colloquium Series October 23, 2015 4:15 PM Amira Mittermaier - University of Toronto "Divine Minimum Wage: Islamic Ethics of Giving in (Post)Uprising Egypt" Graduate Center, Room C415A | 365 Fifth Avenue

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Oct 22 colloquium: Case Studies of Environmental Health Hazard Challenges in Low and Middle Income Countries
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Doctoral Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences Presents Fall 2015 Colloquium Series October 22, 2015 5:30 PM Jack Caravanos - City University of NY, School of Public Health and Blacksmith Institute/Pure Earth "Case Studies of Environmental Health Hazard Challenges in Low and Middle Income Countries" Graduate Center, Room 6495 | 365 Fifth Avenue

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 4 Panel: Examining Urban Poverty Today, a Century after Riis
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Examining Urban Poverty Today, a Century after Riis Wednesday, November 4 at 6:30 pm Join us for a panel exploring the legacy of Jacob Riis' journalism and photography circa 1900 for the work of journalists, historians, and community leaders today committed to raising public consciousness about urban poverty. Riis' pioneering work photographing and reporting how New York's impoverished, immigrant "other half" lived is arguably more relevant than ever in today's second Gilded Age, marked by extreme income inequality and a severe shortage of decent, affordable housing. What have we learned from Riis about how historians and journalist can illuminate the "urban agenda" effectively and accurately? Historian and Riis expert Daniel Czitrom leads a discussion with New York Times journalist Andrea Elliott; Mark Levitan, former Director of Poverty Research at the Center for Economic Opportunity; Nancy Wackstein, Executive Director of United Neighborhood Houses; and historian Craig Steven Wilder. This program accompanies our exhibitions Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy<http://www.mcny.org/affordableny> and Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half<http://www.mcny.org/jacobariis>. Public programming for Jacob A. Riis: New York's Other Half Revealed is made possible by the Danish Agency for Culture and the Consulate General of Denmark in New York. This event is also part of the Museum's Activist New York program series, made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Oct 22 Discussion: A Turning Point for Guatemala? Popular Movements Put a Country--and a Company--on Trial
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Join us for an exciting discussion about how people across Guatemala-from cities to the countryside, and even here in the U.S.-are rising up in defense of life, land, and justice for all. Thursday, October 22 | 6 PM | Segal Theater | 365 Fifth Avenue. Could this year's unprecedented urban mobilization against corruption signal a turning point for social movements in Guatemala? How are rural Guatemalans protesting the ways in which multinational corporations and private and government security forces continue to perpetuate a legacy of violence, displacement and repression in the countryside? What are the connections between these organizing efforts? >From September's headline-grabbing indictment of Guatemala's President on corruption charges, to ongoing rural opposition to extractive industries, we'll hear directly from Guatemalans about this historic moment and how the country's disparate social movements can work together to achieve human rights and justice. Llan Carlos Dávila, a community leader and activist, and member of the Diocesan Committee in Defense of Nature (CODIDENA), will speak about the creative and resilient ways people in his region are opposing a destructive silver mining project led by U.S. and Canadian-owned Tahoe Resources. Llan Carlos is visiting NYC as part of a U.S. speaking tour, "Tahoe on Trial<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=226&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL25pc2d1…>," organized by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=226&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu…>). Gabriela Alvarez Castañeda of Guatemala Florecerás, a NYC-based activist collective, will discuss the group's local organizing in support of #RenunciaYa, a campaign led by tens of thousands of Guatemalans demanding the resignation of President Otto Pérez Molina and an end to government corruption. Pamela Yates will be the event's discussant. Pamela is a co-founder and the creative director of Skylight Pictures<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=226&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3NreWxp…>. In 2011, she directed the documentary film Granito: How to Nail a Dictator<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=226&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3NreWxp…>, which was used as key forensic evidence in the Ríos Montt genocide conviction in Guatemala. She is currently working on the film 500 Years, the third in a trilogy that explores the battle for the national narrative in present-day Guatemala. This event is Co-sponsored by CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=226&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3BjcC5n…>, Lehman College's Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=226&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5s…>, CUNY's Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=226&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL2NsYWNs…>, and Skylight Pictures<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=226&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3NreWxp…>. This event is free and open to the public.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Exhibition retrospective: Jacob A. Riis: Revealling New York's Other Half
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Our Jacob A. Riis retrospective opened this week to critical acclaim. Museum of City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Sreet) Now on View Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half <http://mcny.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb22a8633af4f71cdfbae4def&id=…> His images still shock - and demand our attention. Through his pioneering photojournalism, Jacob A. Riis illuminated the squalid living conditions of New York City's poor, from the cellars of Ludlow Street to the barracks of Mott Street at the turn of the 20th century. Our Riis retrospective opened this week to critical acclaim, and serves as a precursor to Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy<http://mcny.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb22a8633af4f71cdfbae4def&id=…>, with Riis as one of the city's early champions of housing reform. His photos, articles, and illustrated lectures of the slums prompted fellow reformer Theodore Roosevelt to call Riis "New York's most useful citizen." They also provide a unique lens for viewing New York's persistent, ongoing struggles with inequality. This is the first major retrospective of Riis's photographic work in the U.S. in more than six decades, and for the first time unites his photographs and his archive, which belongs to the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Plan your visit.<http://mcny.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb22a8633af4f71cdfbae4def&id=…>

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