September 2015 - urbanstudiescircular@lists.qc.cuny.edu

[UrbanStudiesCircular] Sept. 30 at QC: A New Universal for Human Rights?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Sep '15

28 Sep '15

The Comparative Literature Department invites you to Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series A New Universal for Human Rights? The Particular, the Generalizable, the Political By Domna Stanton Wednesday, September 30 | 12:15-1:30 p.m. (free hour) Rosenthal Library Room 230 This is the inaugural lecture in a series devoted to the relevance of the study of the humanities for the promotion of human rights in the academy, the community, and the government, both locally and globally. Domna Stanton is Distinguished Professor of French at the CUNY Graduate Center as well as a Commissioner of Human Rights for New York City. She has served as a member of Human Rights Watch and is active in the Women's Right Division and the Policy Committee. Former president of the Modern Language Association, Prof. Stanton is a renowned scholar and widely published author. Her latest work is The Dynamics of Gender in Early-Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing (Ashgate, 2014). Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Department and the Dean of the Humanities

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/6 BOOK PARTY: This Muslim American Life
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

Please join us in celebrating Moustafa Bayoumi's new book This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror Tuesday, October 6 6:30-8:30 PM The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street Room 9204 Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake "Mustafa Bayoumi" was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an "anti-American, pro-Islam" agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cut to eavesdropping on conversations in cafés. In This Muslim American Life, Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect this surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people carry about you. In gripping essays, Bayoumi exposes how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present. Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America, which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Nonfiction. He is the editor of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara and co-editor of The Edward Said Reader. He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). Jeanne Theoharis (Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn C0llege) and Arun Kundnani (author of The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror) will be discussants. This event is free and open to the public.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] TheDream.US -- 3rd National Scholarship Round, Now Open!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

Hello everyone - TheDream.US, the largest scholarship program for Dreamers, opened its Fall Scholarship round on September 14, 2015. The program offers scholarships of up to $25,000 to both first time college students and community college graduates to attend one of the Dream.US partner colleges. For more information, please see the flyer: https://lists.qc.cuny.edu/pipermail/socrates/attachments/20150927/bc86a2d3/… and visit TheDream.US website: http://www.thedream.us/scholars/ Best- Michelle Michelle C. Fraboni Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning ________________________________________

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Oct.. 1: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Oral History, Radical Mapping and Displacement in San Francisco
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

You're invited to The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Oral History, Radical Mapping, and Displacement in San Francisco. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's "Narratives of Displacement: Oral History Project" aims to document changes in San Francisco by foregrounding the stories of people who have been, who are being, or who were being, displaced. The Oral History Master of Arts program and the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics at Columbia University present: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Oral History, Radical Mapping and Displacement in San Francisco<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.us5.list-2Dman…> In San Francisco, cranes litter the horizon, neighborhoods have quickly become more expensive, longtime residents are rapidly displaced and the city has gained international attention for skyrocketing rents, and exponentially growing income inequality. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.us5.list-2Dman…>'s "Narratives of Displacement: Oral History Project" aims to document these changes in San Francisco by foregrounding the stories of people who have been, who are being, or who were being, displaced. Through collecting oral histories the project creates a living archive of people and places, documenting deep and detailed neighborhood and personal histories. In doing so the project creates a counter-narrative to more dominant archives that elide detail and attention to legacy, culture, and loss in the city. Our map lives online to be interacted with by the public, but also offline in physical spaces including our current zine project and our narrative mural in Clarion Alley. While we are interested in stories of dispossession, we are not interested in reducing people to their evictions, and thus instead focus on the intimacies of personal relationships to shifts in spatiality as processes of gentrification unevenly unfold. We recognize that displacement transpires in kaleidoscopic forms, and that loss is corporeal, cultural, haunting, and real. In this talk Manissa Maharawal the co-director of the Narratives of Displacement Project will discuss how the project was formulated, evolved and changed and the ways in which the project engages practices of radical mapping to engage the public. Manissa Maharawal is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at The CUNY Graduate Center, an activist, oral historian and poet. Her dissertation research focuses on struggles over urban space, gentrification and contemporary youth social movements in the United States. She is broadly interested in historical and contemporary struggles for social justice and understanding dynamics of race, class, and gender in the formation of political subjectivities. A trained oral historian she is the co-director and co-founder of the Narratives of Displacement Project in San Francisco and is currently an ACLS/Mellon Fellow. She is from and lives in Brooklyn, New York. WHEN: Thursday, October 1, 2015, 6 - 8 PM WHERE: Knox Hall, 606 W. 122nd Street, Room 509 This series is free and open to the public No registration is required Watch past workshops<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.us5.list-2Dman…> on our YouTube channel Join the conversation<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.us5.list-2Dman…> on our blog SPONSORS: This workshop series is part of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Columbia Center for Oral History Research<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.us5.list-2Dman…> (CCOHR) and the Oral History Master of Arts Program <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.us5.list-2Dman…> (OHMA). Support from the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.us5.list-2Dman…> (INCITE) is provided for programming that embodies late Professor Paul Lazarsfeld's commitment to improving methodological approaches that address concerns of vital cultural and social significance. INFORMATION: For more information, please email Amy Starecheski at aas39(at)columbia.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.edu&d=AwMFaQ&c…> Check out other events in our 2015-2016 Oral History and Public Dialogue workshop series<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__columbia.us5.list-2Dman…>!

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Immigration and New York's Future: 50 Years After a Landmark Law
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

Hofstra Cultural Center, Labor Studies Program, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program present Immigration and New York's Future: 50 Years After a Landmark Law As the U.S. presidential campaign season heats up, immigration is a major topic of debate. A half-century ago, the Civil Rights Movement won passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, overturning America's ethnocentric national admissions quotas. Since then, Asian and Latin American newcomers have dominated migration flows, dramatically reshaping the country's population. Nowhere is this more evident than in New York. How has this affected local jobs, businesses and the immigrants themselves? We invite you to a forum that will address this question and others on major immigration policy reforms. Speakers include Tarry Hum, associate professor, Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood, and Walter Barrientos, regional coordinator of the community organization Make the Road New York. Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus Admission is FREE and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] FW: New Facebook group for the International Metropolis Project
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hello Brian and Marty(!), Please share this on our Urban Studies listserv. All best, Tarry -- Tarry Hum Professor Queens College Department of Urban Studies Graduate Center Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program City University of New York (718) 997-5124 Office (914) 582-8075 Cell Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood<http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2299_reg.html> Hum WordPress<https://tarryhum.wordpress.com/> From: "Rath, Jan" <J.C.Rath(a)uva.nl<mailto:J.C.Rath@uva.nl>> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 1:17 AM To: "Rath, Jan" <J.C.Rath(a)uva.nl<mailto:J.C.Rath@uva.nl>> Subject: New Facebook group for the International Metropolis Project Please circulate this message: [cid:image001.jpg@01D0F486.C937B290] It is our pleasure to tell you that we have created a Metropolis Facebook Group to help members of the global Metropolis Project community and the global migration and refugee communities continue to build links and share information. You can find us at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/764434410352427/ This Facebook Group is free and open and provides information about international migration and the settlement of migrants throughout the world. It also allows you to easily meet and interact with researchers, government officials, international organizations, and civil society organizations in the field of migration and population diversity. Through these connections we believe we can enhance policy through empirical research and thereby to support societies that are managing the many effects of migration. Metropolis is an apolitical organization whose work is rooted in a realistic understanding of the policy process and which seeks to create useful co-operation amongst research, policy, and civil society. Please go to the International Metropolis Project's Facebook page, and join the group. You are welcome to post informative and respectful messages related to our mission.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Book launch: The Roundabout Revolutions and The Conflict Shoreline by Eyal Weizman
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Book launch: The Roundabout Revolutions and The Conflict Shoreline by Eyal Weizman Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 7:30pm e-flux 311 East Broadway New York The event will include a presentation by Weizman and a conversation with Nikolaus Hirsch, Sina Najafi, and Brian Kuan Wood. The event will also be broadcast live here<http://www.ustream.tv/channel/e-flux>. Eyal Weizman, The Roundabout Revolutions One common feature of the wave of recent revolutions and revolts around the world is not political but rather architectural: many erupted on inner-city roundabouts. In thinking about the relation between protest and urban form, Eyal Weizman starts with the May 1980 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, the first of the "roundabout revolutions," and traces its lineage to the Arab Spring and its hellish aftermath. The Roundabout Revolutions is the sixth volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series edited by Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen, published by Sternberg Press (2015). Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh, The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert This book, with text by theorist Eyal Weizman and photographs by artist Fazal Sheikh, investigates the long history of the use of climate change as a political tool along the threshold of the Negev Desert and its effects on the region's Bedouin population. The Conflict Shoreline brings together a wide array of materials, ranging from documents, maps, and contemporary photographs to historical aerial imagery, remote sensing data, state plans, court testimonies, and nineteenth-century travelers' accounts. Published by Steidl in association with Cabinet Books (2015).

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Exhibition: Affordable New York
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy WHERE: Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) WHEN: Sept. 18 - Feb. 16 More information: http://www.mcny.org/affordableny New York City has a long history of creating below-market housing for its residents. Today the city offers subsidized housing to families across a wide economic spectrum; more than 400,000 in public housing, and many more in privately or cooperatively owned apartments. With affordable housing a cornerstone of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, New York's housing legacy-often overlooked and little understood-is more relevant than ever. Affordable New York traces over a century of affordable housing activism, documenting the ways in which reformers, policy makers, and activists have fought to transform their city. A focus on current and future housing initiatives demonstrates how New Yorkers continue to promote subsidized housing as a way to achieve diversity, neighborhood stability, and social justice. Join the conversation. #AffordableNY

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Planners Network NYC Presents: The Future of Public Housing in New York
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Planners Network NYC Presents: The Future of Public Housing in New York Friday, October 2, 6:00-8:00 pm The Murphy Institute 25 West 43rd Street, New York, New York 18th Floor, Room 18 A (use elevators 5, 6, or 7) With the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) faced with years of federal, state and city funding cuts and a growing deficits, the DeBlasio administration released the NextGeneration NYCHA plan in May 2015. The plan calls for ways to increase operating and capital funds, improve housing maintenance and lease parcels of underutilized land in public housing to developers who would build housing. Management reforms, infill development, increased rents and fees, and contributions from the state and city budget will move the agency towards solvency. In addition, "scattered-site" developments will be transferred to community-based nonprofits, and new private owners and financing will be sought for some "distressed" developments. How has NextGen NYCHA been received by public housing residents and community organizations? What role, if any, will tenants and surrounding communities play in the planning decisions engendered by the plan? The fear of privatization looms, as do the concerns about the levels of affordability, and echoes from criticism of Bloomberg's infill plan remain. Join PN NY for a discussion to hear from progressive planners and people impacted by the plan who will discuss whether there's room to be optimistic about the future of public housing in NYC. Confirmed speakers: -Vic Bach, Community Service Society -Mo George, Community Voices Heard -Damaris Reyes, Good Ole Lower East Side -Michael Higgins, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Documentary Screening: Racing to Zero
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Sustainable LI's Film Screening: Racing to Zero Sustainable LI's Film Screening is less than two weeks away... Don't miss out - Register today! [http://files.ctctcdn.com/c896e079001/ce9ea844-97ce-4bd2-80ec-1895f23070cd.p…]<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001T-fDKXHl2LiqXce_UX1-NQoHwAuBFxGmVXzuYR81XPmP…> September 29th: Racing to Zero [http://files.ctctcdn.com/c896e079001/d09dda97-775b-45e1-ae8b-ead02e421fbb.j…] What? On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, inside the Alumni House - Main Room at Adelphi University, Sustainable Long Island will present an exclusive screening of Racing To Zero - a quick-moving, upbeat documentary presenting new solutions to the global problem of waste. Agenda 5:00pm - 6:00pm Reception 6:00pm - 7:00pm Film Screening 7:00pm - 8:00pm Question + Answer Session Why? By simply substituting the word RESOURCE for the word GARBAGE, a culture can be transformed and a new wealth of industries can emerge. 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