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[UrbanStudiesCircular] "Uptown Social Justice" videos
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

What we're thankful for. View this email in your browser<http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce&id=6190f1123d…> Uptown Social Justice Videos "Uptown Social Justice Story Share<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…>" honored Harlem's continuing legacy of activism with true stories of social justice work from notable Harlem activists and artists. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce/images/a072278c-df9…] <http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> Tamika Mallory is a nationally recognized champion of the civil rights movement. As a child growing up in Manhattanville, Tamika routinely witnessed shootings in "the backway" behind her building, and would count the bodybags coming out of the alley. The death of her son's father motivated her to put bodybag companies out of business. Watch Tamika's story<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…>. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce/images/bdc0e144-719…] <http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> James "SoSoon" Gantt is a scholar and teaching artist preparing to release his second solo album, SOONY (Sounds of Old New York), which identifies the roles of Black people during notable periods of New York City history. Hear SoSoon's songs "Can't Breathe<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…>" and "Nights Out | Gentrified<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…>" [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce/images/ff2e6102-737…] <http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> Julien A. Terrell is a community organizer with Brotherhood/Sister Sol who is dedicated to fostering youth leadership and environmental justice. This West Harlem native tells the story of how growing up and playing in Jacob Schiff Park sparked his interest in cultural organizing. Watch Julien's story<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…>. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce/images/3e9d9a56-138…] <http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> Nayantara Sen is a first generation Bengali immigrant, activist, fiction writer, social and racial justice educator, and trilingual storyteller. Nayantara tells the story of how she moved to Harlem, found a welcoming community, and discovered the history of South Asian and African American solidarity. Watch Nayantara's story<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…>. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce/images/bb1dde29-1d7…] <http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…> Petrushka Bazin Larsen is an artist, educator and curator who is passionate about the power of the arts to be a catalyst for change. Petrushka recounts her experience of becoming a mother and encountering the challenges of a working parent, and shares her solution: creating a local babysitting co-op with Harlem neighbors. Watch Petrushka's story<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…>. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce/images/5a30a504-f57…] <http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…> Andrew J. Padilla is a filmmaker, educator, and anti-displacement advocate who created the documentary "El Barrio Tours: Gentrification in East Harlem." Andrew shares the never before told story of his first social justice campaign on the playground of the Lehman Houses in East Harlem. Watch Andrew's story.<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce/images/e694012f-5c2…] <http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> "Uptown Social Justice Story Share" Event Photos<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> Do you have neighborhood and borough-inspired stories, poetry, songs, or art that you'd like to share in a future Five Boro Story Project event? Contact us at info(a)fiveborostoryproject.org [Facebook]<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> Facebook<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> [Twitter]<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> Twitter<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…> [YouTube]<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> YouTube<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> [Instagram]<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…> Instagram<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca7323…> [Tumblr]<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> Tumblr<http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8bc82ca732333d219540d0ce/images/67c9c203-488…] <http://fiveborostoryproject.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f8bc82ca73233…> Copyright © 2015 Five Boro Story Project, All rights reserved. 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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dec 1: Designing Better Affordable Housing
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Designing Better Affordable Housing Tuesday, December 1 at 6:30 pm The Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) More info/tickets: http://www.mcny.org/event/designing-better-affordable-housing Well-designed housing and communities uplift residents, help strengthen social connections, relieve stress, and enhance a sense of safety and belonging. But, the pressures of today's market that views buildings purely as capital, threaten the ideals of affordable housing. Join a distinguished panel of developers, architects, and professors, as they explore both ambitious and achievable ideas for public and below-market housing in New York. With decades of experience in preservation, policy, and design, these experts will discuss how best to renovate and repurpose the existing buildings in the City while bringing new sustainable development into the affordable housing market. This program delves into the themes of our exhibition Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy<http://www.mcny.org/affordableny>. Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor of the History of Architecture, New York University Theodore Liebman, FAIA, Architect, Principal, Perkins Eastman Marianne Russum, Resident, Rivercross on Roosevelt Island Adam Weinstein, President and CEO, Phipps Houses Theo Prudon (moderator), Partner, Prudon & Partners, President, Docomomo US

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dec 3: Activing Infrastructure's Publics: Critical Art & Design in the Age of "Resilience"
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

ACTIVATING INFRASTRUCTURE'S PUBLICS: CRITICAL ART & DESIGN IN THE AGE OF "RESILIENCE" The Institute for Public Knowledge and Infrastructure Aesthetics<http://infrastructureaesthetics.tumblr.com/> invite you to a brown bag lunch lecture and discussion: ACTIVATING INFRASTRUCTURE'S PUBLICS: CRITICAL ART & DESIGN IN THE AGE OF "RESILIENCE" Emily Eliza Scott, ETH Zurich Department of Architecture Discussant: Shannon C. Mattern, The New School Thursday, December 03, 2015 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM NYU Dept of Media, Culture, and Communications 239 Greene St, Room 741, New York, NY 10003, USA Living Breakwaters, by the landscape architecture firm SCAPE<http://www.scapestudio.com/>, aims to thicken New York City's coastline with oyster reefs in order to mitigate storm surges from rising sea levels and increasingly destructive weather patterns. Infrastructure is here imagined as a connector rather than barrier, and more specifically, as the platform upon which multiple human and nonhuman actors are set into motion and interactions are expected to evolve over time. This talk considers such an endeavor relative to both the emergent discourse of "resilient urbanism," and a rich vein of critical practice by artists that has probed urban infrastructure, including various transformations to the contemporary city and their intended and unintended, visible and invisible, repercussions. EMILY ELIZA SCOTT<http://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/staff/emily-eliza-scott/curriculum/research> is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist, and former park ranger. Her work focuses on contemporary art and design practices that engage pressing eco-geo-political issues, often with the intent to actively transform real-world conditions. Currently a postdoc in the architecture department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), she teaches on subjects ranging from the concept of "post-nature," to architecture in the expanded field, to the emergent physical and imaginative geographies of climate change. Her writings have appeared in Art Journal, American Art, Third Text, and Cultural Geographies among other journals and edited volumes. Her first book, Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics, coedited with Kirsten Swenson, was published by University of California Press earlier this year. She is a founding member of World of Matter (2011-), an international art and research platform on global resource ecologies, and the Los Angeles Urban Rangers<http://laurbanrangers.org/site/> (2004-), a group that develops guided hikes, campfire talks, field kits, and other interpretive tools to spark creative explorations of everyday habitats. SHANNON C. MATTERN<http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/> is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. Her research and teaching address how the forms and materialities of media are related to the spaces (architectural, urban, and conceptual) they create and inhabit. Her most recent book, Deep Mapping the Media City (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) argues that our global cities have been mediated and intelligent for millennia. She's a columnist for Places, a journal focusing on urbanism and landscape, where she writes about media, cities, and architecture. Infrastructure Aesthetics<http://infrastructureaesthetics.tumblr.com/> is a graduate student organized event series exploring representations of infrastructure and the built environment in cinema, art, and literature. This event is supported by NYU's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, the NYU Urban Democracy Lab<http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/>, and the Institute for Public Knowledge<https://ipk.nyu.edu/>.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Event 12/2: Black Silent Majority
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

>From the CUNY School of Professional Studies: Join us on Wednesday, December 2, for an exciting and intimate conversation with Michael Javen Fortner, author of the recently published Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment. Professor Fortner joins historian and CUNY distinguished professor, Professor Joshua B. Freeman for Criminal Justice Reform: From the Black Silent Majority to Black Lives Matter, about the creation and consequences of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. One of the fall's most discussed and provocative new books, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment has been continually highlighted in the press, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Dissent Magazine. Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 pm CUNY Graduate Center, Room C-202 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City (map) Please RSVP: sps.cuny.edu/fortnercuny

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] This Wednesday: Stereotypes in the Media: Offensive or Refreshing?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Please join CERRU, the QC Urban Studies Club, and the QC Ethnic Media Collective for A Dialogue On: Stereotypes in the Media: Offensive or Refreshing? Date: Wednesday, November 18 Time: 12:15- 1:30 pm Location: Q-Side Lounge * Kosher lunch will be served. Please RSVP on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/479754905542772/> so we have an accurate count! Batya Septimus Program Director, Dialogue and Social Change Fellowship The Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding at Queens College office: Delany Hall, room 217 email: bseptimus(a)cerru.org<mailto:bseptimus@cerru.org> www.cerru.org<http://www.cerru.org/>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 23: Neil Brenner in conversation with Robert Beauregard and Reinhold Martin
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Neil Brenner Response by Robert Beauregard and Reinhold Martin, GSAPP Monday, November 23, 6:30pm Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall GSAPP, Columbia University Urban theorist, Director of the Urban Theory Lab at Harvard GSD, and editor of the recent publication Implosions / Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization<http://www.jovis.de/index.php?lang=2&idcatside=4404>presents his recent work in conversation with Urban Planning Professor Robert Beauregard and Temple Hoyne Buell for the Study of American Architecture Director Reinhold Martin. More info: http://events.gsapp.org/event/neil-brenner

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 23: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation Today: A Discussion with Silvia Federici
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

?Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation Today: A Discussion with Silvia Federici Monday, November 23 5:30 PM The Butler Common (3rd Floor, Duane Library) Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus 441 East Fordham Road What is the relationship between women, the body, and primitive accumulation? Recounting the history of colonialism and enclosure, Marx argued that primitive accumulation was "written in the annals of mankind in letters of blood and fire." Nevertheless, he perceived the process to be but a prelude to capitalist development. Drawing on her history as an activist in New York's Wages for Housework movement as well as her organizing experiences in Nigeria and elsewhere, Silvia Federici demonstrates that primitive accumulation is in fact an enduring feature of capitalist exploitation, which disproportionately affects women and people of color. Silvia Federici is an Italian American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition A professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, she also worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years. Federici is the co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, and is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. Her publications include Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body & Primitive Accumulation (2004) and Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (2012).

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 23: Citizenship and New Forms of Active Participation: The European Experience
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Citizenship and New Forms of Active Participation: The European Experience Date: November 23, 2015 Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Location: 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor More info: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/citizenship-and-new-forms-of-active-partici… The recent economic and social crisis in Europe has generated a crisis in representative democracy. Large portions of the population feel alienated from the political process, while others have little access to it at all. While activist citizenship and participatory democracy can offer solutions to these problems, neither can do so unless people are fully empowered to make decisions at every level of government. In this talk, sociologist Thomas P. Boje (Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University) asks: how can we enhance the participation of citizens in our democracy even as we see trust in our traditional social and political institutions declining? How do we create equal participation when our economic, social, and cultural resources are currently shared unequally? And how does participatory democracy affect those who have been historically disenfranchised? Learn more about Prof. Boje here<http://rucforsk.ruc.dk/site/en/persons/thomas-p-boje%2840943db9-83dd-4b29-8…>. RSVP HERE<http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/citizenship-and-new-forms-of-active-partici…>?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 19: Spaces of Engagement: Memorial Design, Use, and Meaning
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Doctoral Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences Presents Fall 2015 Colloquium Series November 19, 2015 5:30 PM Karen Franck - New Jersey Institute of Technology "Spaces of Engagement: Memorial Design, Use, and Meaning" Graduate Center, Room 4102 | 365 Fifth Avenue

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 18: Un/Making Blackness: On the Aesthetic Discourses of Post-Race and Urban Space
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Un/Making Blackness: On the Aesthetic Discourses of Post-Race and Urban Space Date Wednesday, November 18, 2015 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Location Institute for Public Knowledge Address 20 Cooper Sq, Room 222, New York, NY 10003, USA The Institute for Public Knowledge's Race and Public Space<https://ipk.nyu.edu/ipk-working-groups/race-and-public-space> working group invites you to join us for a lunchtime presentation and discussion with Brandi Summers. Her talk will explore the spatial production of blackness as a way to understand race and the political economy. She will discuss how blackness is inscribed in the built environment and in media during an economic and political moment hailed as "post-racial." Dr. Summers will use the high fashion industry and urban redevelopment in Washington, D.C. to analyze how racial difference is linked to aesthetics as a way to marginalize conversations about the continuing significance of race. Her focus on the way blackness is produced, inscribed, and apprehended in diverse environments demonstrates how an ostensible demographic characterization has also become an aesthetic, as well as a politics. She suggests that aesthetics also open up a space for play with the fluidity of blackness especially when black bodies are not present. Brandi Thompson Summers is an assistant professor of African American Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Culture, Race and Representation at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Summers' research and teaching interests include racial aesthetics, media studies, social theory, and visual culture. Her research explores the broad range of meanings ascribed to black bodies in diverse environments. Her new project explores the way that competing notions of blackness structure efforts to raise capital and develop land in Washington, D.C., as well as practices and policies concerned with re-shaping prevailing narratives about progress in US race relations.? More info and RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/calendar/events/275-un-making-blackness/event_details?

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