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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/26: Affordable Housing and Homelessness in New York City: From La Guardia to De Blasio
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Display problems? View this newsletter in your browser.<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=376&user_id=1858&urlpassed=W3ZpZXdfaW5fYnJ…> 10/26: On the behalf of friends of the CPCP Affordable Housing and Homelessness in New York City: From La Guardia to De Blasio 10/26: On the behalf of friends of the CPCP Affordable Housing and Homelessness in New York City: From La Guardia to De Blasio October 26, 2016 6:30 - 8 pm The Graduate Center, CUNY Elebash Recital Hall [http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/files/2014/01/Affordable-Housing-and-Homelessness-in…] Unsubscribe<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=376&user_id=1858&urlpassed=W3Vuc3Vic2NyaWJ…> - Edit your subscription<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=376&user_id=1858&urlpassed=W3N1YnNjcmlwdGl…> The Center for Place, Culture and Politics 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: 150-year-old mummy in Queens (resend with event information in email body)
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

[X] ST. MARK AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 95-18 NORTHERN BOULEVARD JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372 Rev. Kimberly L. Detherage, Esq. Pastor Invites you to: A Reception featuring Historical Exhibits & Lectures Celebrating "The Iron Coffin Lady" November 5, 2016 @ 11:00am Join us as we celebrate and learn about... Findings from a 150-year-old mummy unearthed from the cemetery of the St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church's original building site, who is lovingly referred to as The Iron Coffin Lady, due to the coffin in which she was buried. Lectures: Scott Warnasch, MA, archeologist, former consultant for the NYC Medical Examiner's Office: The Iron Coffin Lady's history and possible identification from DNA samples and found artifacts. Prof. Gerald Conlogue, PhD, Quinnipiac University: sharing scans of the mummified remains. Sandra Arnold, of the Periwinkle Project: sharing information about her upcoming documentary and national database of African American burial grounds. Refreshments Historical Exhibits Silent Auction Funeral Service to be held on Sunday November 6, 2016 at 4:00 PM Please RSVP: stmarkchurch2(a)verizon.net<mailto:stmarkchurch2@verizon.net>, 718-899-3306 Donations to offset the burial expenses, memorial park creation and maintenance are encouraged and greatly appreciated. ________________________________ ________________________________ Begin forwarded message: From: Lydia Gardner <iamlog2(a)yahoo.com<mailto:iamlog2@yahoo.com>> Date: October 21, 2016 at 8:43:38 PM EDT Subject: 150-year-old mummy in Queens Reply-To: Lydia Gardner <iamlog2(a)yahoo.com<mailto:iamlog2@yahoo.com>> We hope you will post this flyer in your department and spread the news to anyone you think may be interested. Hope to see you at the event. Please RSVP. Saint Mark AME Church

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: 150-year-old mummy in Queens
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

________________________________ Begin forwarded message: From: Lydia Gardner <iamlog2(a)yahoo.com<mailto:iamlog2@yahoo.com>> Date: October 21, 2016 at 8:43:38 PM EDT Subject: 150-year-old mummy in Queens Reply-To: Lydia Gardner <iamlog2(a)yahoo.com<mailto:iamlog2@yahoo.com>> We hope you will post this flyer in your department and spread the news to anyone you think may be interested. Hope to see you at the event. Please RSVP. Saint Mark AME Church

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Innovation Exchange on Black Lives Matter at Queens College
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

________________________________ Begin forwarded message: From: Yael Rosenstock <yrosenstock(a)cerru.org<mailto:yrosenstock@cerru.org>> Subject: Innovation Exchange on Black Lives Matter at Queens College Date: October 20, 2016 at 10:26:48 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Good morning, Would it be possible to share the following with your students and faculty? Curious about what Black Lives Matter is and isn't? Join us for an informative exploration of the movement and discuss how to create sustainable social change in your community. The Center For Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding's (CERRU) Annual Innovation Exchange this year is on Black Lives Matter. We are partnering with the SEEK department and the Secondary Education department's program, Complicated Conversations, to bring you an event to learn more about BLM and about how to engage with social movements. The event will begin with a panel, followed by Q&A and end with two breakout sessions where attendees can choose to engage with different workshops offered. We will serving dinner and a coffee break. PANELISTS: Kirk Burkhalter J.D. <http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/faculty_profiles/kirk_burkhalt…> Nakisha Lewis Autumn Marie Dr. Kerri-Ann Smith Event timing (4:45pm-8pm) 4:45pm Food will be available 5pm Opening, poetry, and panel 6:10pm Q&A 6:35pm Coffee & Cookie Break 6:45pm Breakout Session #1 7:20pm Breakout Session #2 Location: Patio Room, Dining Hall, Queens College Please RSVP at Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-exchange-black-lives-matter-tickets…> to guarantee a spot and to make check-in a smooth process. After the event, we will having a free screening of Spike Lee's "2 Fists Up: We Gon' Be Alright"<http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com/spikelee/> from 8:15-9:30pm. Yael Rosenstock Director of Programming The Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding at Queens College (CERRU) Staff Advisor, grrrlz office: Delany Hall, room 215 phone: 718-570-0482<tel:718-570-0482> email: yrosenstock(a)cerru.org<mailto:yrosenstock@cerru.org> www.cerru.org<http://www.cerru.org/>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Tickets available for 11/10 social design program at Cooper Hewitt
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

Dear Mr. Maskovsky, We at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum wanted to let you know that tickets are still available for our upcoming public program Designing Resilience to Climate Change<http://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/designing-resilience-to-climate-change-11…>, held on Thursday, November 10th, from 6:30pm to 8pm. Connected with our exhibition By the People: Designing a Better America, this talk will feature Robert Smith of Brooklyn’s Red Hook WIFI initiative, Dorn Cox of Farm Hack and architect Laura Baird discussing their respective work and how they use design to meet the challenges of social, economic, and climate change. $8 student and educator tickets are available for purchase here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-resilience-to-climate-change-tickets…>. We would appreciate if you would share this event with your department. Please let us know if you have any questions. Best, Andrew Coletti Education Assistant Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 2 E. 91st Street, NY, NY 10128 ColettiA(a)si.edu<mailto:ColettiA@si.edu> | 212.849.8381 | cooperhewitt.org<http://cooperhewitt.org/> | twitter.com/cooperhewitt<http://www.twitter.com/cooperhewitt> | facebook.com/cooperhewitt<http://www.facebook.com/cooperhewitt>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 11/4: The Glass Laboratory: Climate Knowledge Infrastructures in the Age of hyper-Transparency
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Doctoral Program in Anthropology Presents Fall 2016 Colloquium Series Nov. 4, 2016 | 4:15 - 6:15 PM 365 Fifth Ave, Room C415A (concourse level) Followed by refreshments in room 6402 Paul Edwards - University of Michigan "The Glass Laboratory: Climate Knowledge Infrastructures in the Age of hyper-Transparency"

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 11/1: In Defense of Housing: A book launch and political discussion
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

In Defense of Housing: A book launch and political discussion November 1, 2016 6:00 - 9:00 pm 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6112 Housing is one of the most pressing issues of our time. In their new book In Defense of Housing, Peter Marcuse and David Madden investigate the nature of the contemporary housing crisis and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing problem has deep political, social, and economic roots. It will not be solved by minor policy shifts; a more radical approach is needed. This event will use the book as a starting point for a discussion about the causes of the housing crisis and critical responses to it. All are welcome. Speakers: Introduced by Gregory Baggett, presentations by authors Peter Marcuse and David Madden, comments by David Harvey, and moderated by Sam Stein. This event is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Graduate Center, CUNY. It is free and open to the public.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/25: The Politics of Documenting Neighborhood Change
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

The Politics of Documenting Neighborhood Change October 25, 2016 | 6:30 - 8:00 pm <http://brooklynhistory.org/projects/crownheights>Urban Democracy Lab 20 Cooper Square, Room 222 Neighborhood change-in the form of slum clearance, urban renewal, suburbanization, and, of course, gentrification-has taken a variety of forms in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. In this panel, we investigate the real and imagined consequences of projects that seek to document the people and places affected by neighborhood change. How does the documentation of neighborhood change through oral history, history-based exhibits, and ethnography affect the outcomes of these changes? Do traditional scholarly methods serve-or do disservice to-our research questions or the communities with whom we collaborate? As scholar-activists, we approach this topic not only as self-critical researchers but also as theorists engaged in thinking through the ethics of producing public-facing and community-engaged scholarship. Zaheer Ali<http://brooklynhistory.org/projects/crownheights>, Oral Historian, Brooklyn Historical Society ssds Heather Dalmage<http://blogs.roosevelt.edu/hdalmage/>, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice at Roosevelt University Max Holleran<https://maxholleran.com/>, PhD candidate, Sociology, New York University Rebecca Amato<http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/people/staff/>, Historian and Associate Director of the Urban Democracy Lab at New York University Moderated by Jack Tchen<http://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/jkt1.html>, Associate Professor and Director of the A/P/A Institute at New York University RSVP HERE <https://nyu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9BPU1t9WhsBCi1v> More info: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/the-politics-of-documenting-neighborhood-ch… <https://nyu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9BPU1t9WhsBCi1v>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/20: Queens Community Board 3 General Meeting
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

The Monthly Meeting of Community Board 3 has been scheduled for: Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 7:45PM The meeting location is: I.S. 227Q - Louis Armstrong Middle School 32-02 Junction Blvd. East Elmhurst, NY 11369 Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting agenda: http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov/file_depot/0-10000000/0-10000/2480/associatedFiles… More info: http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov/

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/20: Discuss the Impact of the Brooklyn-Queens Connector (BQX) Streetcar
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Please join the Queens Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, October 20th, 2016 at 8:30 A.M. for a briefing/presentation on the proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) streetcar. Earlier this year, the City of New York announced the Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX), a state-of-the-art streetcar system running along the Queens and Brooklyn waterfronts from Astoria to Sunset Park. This transformative project is one of our Borough's most exciting economic development, job creation and transportation initiatives in decades, and I would like to invite you to learn more about the project at a Briefing/Presentation by the Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector here at the Bulova Corporate Center: Brooklyn Queens Connector Presentation/Briefing October 20th, 2016, 8:30 a.m. Queens Chamber of Commerce, Conference Center Bulova Corporate Center 75-20 Astoria Blvd. Suite 140, Jackson Heights, NY 11370 Please RSVP to Brett Swanson at bswanson(a)queenschamber.org<mailto:bswanson@queenschamber.org> The Friends of the BQX is a not-for-profit organization formed to facilitate public dialogue with neighborhoods, organizations, businesses and residents along the route during the City's planning process and I am honored to serve on its' Board of Directors. I am especially proud that the Queens Chamber will now have an opportunity to further this important discussion with stakeholders from the Queens County business and economic development communities and I hope you can join us to learn more about the BQX.

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