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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Job Opportunity: Child Center of NY's Parsons Community School is still hiring for the 2016-17 school year
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

From: Oswald Araujo <oswaldaraujo(a)childcenterny.org> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 6:06 PM Subject: Child Center of NY's Parsons Community School is still hiring for the 2016-17 school year Good evening, We currently have some school year openings that we're looking to immediately fill at the Child Center of NY's Parsons Community School and I'm hoping that reaching out to your office at Queens College will be mutually beneficial for both parties. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you require any additional information. The posting is below. The Child Center of NY's Parsons Community School 2016- 2017 After-School, Evening and Saturday programs are seeking passionate, highly-motivated, eager to learn Group Leaders and Activity Specialists to enthusiastically and actively supervise, engage and develop youth participants in grades ranging from 4-10. Candidates with experience, talent and passion teaching specific activities or theme-based clubs including: literacy, arts, science, technology, engineering, math, cooking, drama, dance, youth council, leadership, service-learning or sports are encouraged to apply and highlight those talents and experiences. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • Actively monitor and engage participants during all program activities, including pick-up, snack, transitions, field trips, clubs, activities, and dismissal. • Create Project-Based Learning curricula with lesson plans for each group session. Utilize curricula and lesson plans to facilitate purposeful and engaging activities and on-going theme-based projects catered to the age, stage and interests of participants as well as the needs of the school community. • Assist participants with literacy; encourage academic effort and efficacy. • Collaborate with co-workers and program supervisors around effective program operations; uphold all safety and emergency standards and procedures. • Always demonstrate professional behavior. Serve as a positive role model for participants and maintain appropriate and professional boundaries with participants at all times. • Actively participate in training and professional development to continuously increase knowledge, principles and practices of child and youth development and actively use this knowledge to achieve the goals of the program. • Promote responsible and healthy decision-making among all participants. • Develop leadership skills, team-building, social emotional development and self-advocacy among all participants. • Promote an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment that embraces diversity. • Foster academic and non-academic skills and broaden participant horizons. • Maintain accurate daily attendance records for all assigned activities. Required Skills/Experience: • One year After-school work experience, one full summer camp work experience, or two years related experience. • Interest and experience in youth development and academic enrichment. • A genuine enthusiasm for developing professional skills through training opportunities, observation, coaching, and feedback. • Availability to work 10-27 hours per week. Operational hours are Mondays-Fridays between 1:45pm-6:00pm; 6:00pm - 9:30pm and Saturdays between 9:45am - 5pm. • Ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with a broad range of people including school staff, parents, co-workers and supervisors. • Ability to meet School Age Child Care (SACC) requirements and obtain clearances including: background checks, fingerprinting by NYC Dept of Health, fingerprinting by NYC Dept of Ed, annual medical clearance and annual TB test documentation. • Ability to effectively manage time and to demonstrate strong organizational skills. • Ability to obtain and submit educational documentation as well as three letters of reference. Location: Parsons Community School 158-40 76th Road Flushing, NY, 11366 Google Maps<http://maps.google.com/?q=158-40+76th+Road%2C+Flushing%2C+NY%2C+11366%2C+us> Public Transportation: Bus (Q25 or Q34 via the E train to Jamaica Center (or) Q25 or Q34 via the F train to Hillside Ave (or) Q46 via the E or F to Union Tpke) Start/End Date: 12/01/16- 06/30/17 Specific Days Needed: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday Minimum Hours/Week: 10 hours/week Maximum Hours/Week: 27 hours/week Interested applicants should send resumes and a cover letter to Oswald Araujo at oswaldaraujo(a)childcenterny.org<mailto:oswaldaraujo@childcenterny.org> and Talia Banks at taliabanks(a)childcenterny.org<mailto:taliabanks@childcenterny.org>. Cover letter should state why you think you would make a good candidate, including your specific skills, talents and experiences that would contribute to our team. Hourly Rate Commensurate with Experience; Internship Opportunities May Be Available Thank you! -- Oswald Araujo Director The Child Center of NY Parsons Community School 158-40 76th Road Flushing, New York 11366 Office: (718) 820-0760 www.childcenterny.org<http://www.childcenterny.org>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Wed, Nov. 16: Free Trade 2.0?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

Free Trade 2.0? Wednesday, Nov. 16 | 6:30 - 8:30 PM Urban Democracy Lab 1 Washington Place, NY More info: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/free-trade-2-0/ Few areas more sharply define the difference between right and left in Latin America than trade policy. Where leftist governments fought fiercely over the last 15 years to slow and reverse years of unfavorable free trade agreements promoted by the U.S., the region's right seems just as committed to rekindling that agenda by signing on to massive deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership. Will they succeed? And what are the likely effects - for capital, for labor, for social movements, and for populations at large? This panel brings contributors from NACLA's Report on the Americas magazine fall issue together with activists on the front lines of social movement struggles to promote trade policy that is fair, and just. Ana Romero Cano (Executive Director, Red Peruana por una Globalizacion con Equidad) Sarah Stephens (Executive Director, Center for Democracy in the Americas) Alejandro Villasmil (Convergencia #MexicoMejorSinTPP) David Rosnick (Center for Economic and Policy Research) Moderator: Tom Kruse (North American Congress on Latin America) RSVP HERE<http://nyu.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d7e07141852d3e3ca4d58dd74&id=…> Co-sponsored by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) and Urban Democracy Lab

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Sun, Nov. 13: Garbage: The Future @ Queens Museum
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

Garbage: The Future What does zero waste to landfills by 2030 look like? A maintenance project Sunday, Nov. 13 | 2:00 - 5:00 PM Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park More info and directions: http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/garbage-the-future To accompany the current exhibition Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art<http://www.queensmuseum.org/2016/04/mierle-laderman-ukeles-maintenance-art>, the Queens Museum presents a special convening that explores the NYC Department of Sanitation's ambitious 0x30 initiative to radically rework the City's garbage and recycling infrastructure. The convening features the perspective of voices that are rarely heard from but are critical to the success of this initiative: residential building supers. There will be brief presentations by Larissa Harris of the Queens Museum, NYC Department of Sanitation's (DSNY) Commissioner Kathryn Garcia, Anthropologist in Residence Robin Nagle, and Artist in Residence, Mierle Laderman-Ukeles explaining the critical role maintenance work plays in achieving 0x30. Additionally, we will witness a conversation between residential building maintenance staff to see how managing waste will maximize diversion in the city's residential buildings. DSNY Commissioner Kathryn Garcia stated, "While many people view us, while the sanitation workers are out doing their job, they don't actually see us. This is also true for the maintenance workers handling waste within the city's buildings before it gets to the curb. This conversation is an opportunity to bring to light a behind the scenes maintenance perspective for New Yorkers. It is an honor to be able to work with the Queens Museum on such an innovative exchange of ideas." The special discussion will take place around Peace Table, originally commissioned in 1997 by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art for Ukeles's installation Unburning Freedom Hall. Made of layers of cobalt blue stained glass and plate glass in the shape of a halo, it is suspended from 50 feet above the central atrium of the Queens Museum.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Met Council on Housing: November Housing Justice Events
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

November is upon us, which means more opportunities to attend housing justice events! Check out these upcoming events and get involved: Rent Justice Coalition Press Conference Currently, the Rent Stabilization Association is suing the Rent Guidelines Board in order to repeal the rent freeze on 1-year leases, as well as to cease using affordability as a factor for setting rent adjustments. There is an urgent need for us to show up and share the voice of tenants! When: Tuesday, November 22nd at 9 AM Where: 60 Centre Street at Foley Square RSVP for more information<http://metcouncilonhousing.nationbuilder.com/nov_22_rsa_press_conference?e=…> or email Andrea at andrea(a)metcouncilonhousing.org<mailto:andrea@metcouncilonhousing.org> Annual West Side Tenants' Conference Workshops on important issues involving the housing movement and tenants rights. Also an opportunity to meet other housing advocates. When: Saturday, November 19th from 9:30 AM -4 PM Where: Fordham University School of Law at Lincoln Center 150 West 62nd Street at Columbus Avenue RSVP to 212-716-1664 or for more information visit www.cc-nyc.org<http://www.cc-nyc.org> Come visit our table and say hello! Stand for Tenant Safety Halloween Hearing had an impact! The Stand for Tenant Safety hearing was successful in keeping council members accountable in passing STS's four proposed bills<https://metcouncilonhousing.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcoopersquar…>. The rally and hearing had a large turnout, with members from Met Council as well as other NYC housing justice organizations attending. The council members asked the Department of Buildings and Finance tough questions regarding tenant safety and predatory equity. We will keep up the pressure on council members to pass these bills.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: Brown Bag: Tarry Hum, Wed 11/09 @ 11:45am, Room 6304.01
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

________________________________ ________________________________ From: Environmental Psychology <envpsychcuny(a)gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 1:48 PM Subject: Brown Bag: Tarry Hum, Wed 11/09 @ 11:45am, Room 6304.01 Tarry Hum Professor in Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY CHINESE TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL AND REAL ESTATE FINANCIALIZATION IN NYC'S "CHINATOWNS" Critical Social/Personality and Environmental Psychology Brown Bag Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 11:45am-1:45pm Room 6304.01, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th. St. [cid:330A72A8-7231-4979-A2E1-06DE3E8BE4EB@home]

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Article: Mega Real Estate Growth and Queens County
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

MEGA REAL ESTATE GROWTH AND QUEENS COUNTY Arturo Ignacio Sánchez October 2016 QUEENSLATINO arturosanchez(a)queenslatino.com The aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown ushered in a new troubling phase in New York City’s real estate market – the rise of mega projects. This new real estate cycle, fueled by large-scale domestic and foreign-based speculative corporate investments, is undermining neighborhoods and the city’s long-term future. Queens County, the city’s most ethnically diverse borough, has emerged as an important arena for this new type of real estate investments. Queens is a vulnerable “soft investment site” with a bundle of undervalued physical assets. With two major airports, an expansive transportation network, relatively cheap land values and a local private/public/political growth regime that supports corporate driven growth – financial and real estate interests have identified Queens as a lucrative site for large-scale speculative investments. Large-scale corporate real estate investment flows are not random processes. They are patterned and build upon previous investments cycles. The current inflow of large-scale capital into Queens is framed by an earlier wave of incremental corporate investments in Flushing and Long Island City (LIC). These two neighborhoods, which are dynamic economic growth poles, are connected by the 7-subway line and link the immigrant communities of Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona. The Flushing and LIC growth poles function as strategic entry points for the influx of corporate investment patterns in northwestern Queens. As a global city, New York is an important site for off-shore capital investments in the real estate market. In this regard, the Flushing growth pole is playing a geographically strategic role by linking New York’s trans-global functions to the growing pivot towards the Asian Pacific economy. The explosive growth of Flushing’s financial sector and commercial and high-end residential projects have lubricated the in-flow of transnational Asian capital looking for secure overseas investment vehicles. The neighborhood’s growth - as a site for transnational corporate investments - is highlighted by the high-end and exclusionary Willets Point mega real estate project. These growth patterns are reinforced by U.S. capital investments in the Flushing Meadows Corona Park tourist complex and by the proposed public/private four billion-dollar modernization of LaGuardia Airport. The combined long-term impacts of overseas and domestic investments will restructure northwestern Queens by via residential and firm-based expulsions/displacements and devastate local immigrant and working-class communities. LIC’s growth pole investment patterns are linked to the overflow from Manhattan’s global corporate economy. The rezoning of LIC, the expulsion of light manufacturing and access to cheap and abundant capital sources opened the financial spigot for construction of high-end mega-residential complexes. In turn, this new housing was marketed to the growing ranks of symbolic analysts employed in mid-town and lower Manhattan. LIC’s current and future growth is further reinforced by the extension of the 7-subway line to Manhattan’s Hudson Yards development project and by the two billion dollar Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island; slated for completion in 2043. Preliminary market studies project that growing numbers of high-end workers, linked to these mega projects, will eventually secure housing in northwestern Queens, along the 7-subway line. In urban planning terms the economic processes at play are called geographical convergence. In effect, the Flushing and LIC growth poles will eventually converge/meld along the communities that abut the 7-subway line. Convergence will trigger higher real estate values and the wholesale expulsion of economically vulnerable residents that will be eventually replaced by domestic and foreign professionals linked to the Manhattan’s global economic sectors. Thus, closing the symbiotic circle that systemically links Manhattan with the current restructuring of Queens County. Currently corporate real estate incursions into Queens are operating at hyper-speed. This does not bode well for Queens or for New York’s long-term future as a sustainable and diverse city of immigrants and working families. And in the thoughtful words of Shakespeare: “What is the city but the people?” __________________________________________________________________ Arturo Ignacio Sánchez, Ph.D. is an urban planner and chairperson of the Newest New Yorkers Committee, Community Board 3, Queens. He has taught at Barnard College, City University of New York, Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, Pratt Institute and various Latin American universities.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Nov. 11: Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism with Jason W. Moore and Christian Parenti Friday, Nov. 11 | 7:30 - 9:30 PM The Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217 Jason Moore and Christian Parenti introduce a new essay collection, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. The book challenges the theory and history offered by proponents of the "Anthropocene" and stresses how climate change and related crises are rooted in the rise and domination of capital - hence the "Capitalocene." This work offers a more nuanced and dialectical view of human environment-making, joined at every step with and within the biosphere. Jason W. Moore is a historical geographer and world historian at Binghamton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016). He writes frequently on the history of capitalism, environmental history, and social theory. Moore is presently completing Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism, an environmental history of the rise of capitalism, and with Raj Patel, Seven Cheap Things: A World-Ecological Manifesto - both with the University of California Press. He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network<https://worldecologynetwork.wordpress.com/>. Christian Parenti is a professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. His latest book, Tropic of Chaos, explores how climate change is already causing violence as it interacts with the legacies of economic neoliberalism and cold-war militarism. Previous works analyzed the US occupation of Iraq and surveillance, police, and prisons in the United States. His contribution to Anthropocene or Capitalocene? focuses on the role of national states as environment-making institutions. More info: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?id=13719&reset=1

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Nov. 11: Exhibition Models: Curating Architecture
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation "Exhibition Models: Curating Architecture" November 11, 2016 Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation 1172 Amsterdam Avenue Avery Hall New York, New York 10027 United States T +1 212 854 3414 www.arch.columbia.edu<https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/292-exhibition-models-curating-archite…> Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ColumbiaGSAPP> / Twitter<https://twitter.com/columbiagsapp> / Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/columbiagsapp> / YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/ColumbiaGSAPP> November 11, 10am-6pm Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall "Exhibition Models" examines new curatorial practices, scholarship, and institutional experiments that are redefining the agency of architecture exhibitions. Presentations and panels offer case-studies and consider the format, role, and impact of exhibitions in different settings ranging from academic venues, alternative spaces, and well-established institutions to project-based architecture biennials and triennials. Illuminations This panel considers the role of exhibitions in academic institutions as both pedagogical resource and platform for groundbreaking new research. Mark Wasiuta, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery Nina Stritzler-Levine, Bard Graduate Center Andres Lepik, Architekturmuseum TU Munich Vanessa Norwood, Architectural Association Moderated by Reinhold Martin, Columbia GSAPP Curatorial Dispatches I Cynthia Davidson and Mónica Ponce de León, Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, US Pavilion, curators Lluís A. Casanovas, Ignacio G. Galán, Carlos Mínguez, Alejandra Navarrete, Marina Otero Verzier, Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016, After Belonging Agency, curators Moderated by Felicity Scott, Columbia GSAPP Institutional Coordinates Innovative approaches to architecture exhibitions across scales: from independent experimental spaces to new strategies at established institutions. Michael Govan, LACMA Rory Hyde, V&A Wonne Ickx, Isabel Martínez Abascal, LIGA DF Fernando Portal, Mil M2 Moderated by Irene Sunwoo, Columbia GSAPP Curatorial Dispatches II Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, curators André Tavares, 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, curator Moderated by Mark Wasiuta, Columbia GSAPP Panel discussion Beatrice Galilee, The Met Joseph Grima, Ideas City, New Museum Sarah Herda, Graham Foundation Sylvia Lavin, UCLA, Architecture & Urban Design Moderated by Amale Andraos and Galia Solomonoff, Columbia GSAPP Registration is recommended. Please register here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-models-curating-architecture-ticket…>. Organized by Columbia GSAPP. Also at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia GSAPP: The Other Architect, an exhibition of architects who expanded their role in society to shape the contemporary cultural agenda without the intervention of built form. On view until December 2, 2016. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday from 12-6pm and Saturday from 3-6pm. More information<https://www.arch.columbia.edu/exhibitions/37-the-other-architect>.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Nov. 4: Austerity & Public Education
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

Crisis in Public Higher Education Friday, Nov. 4th | 8:30 - 10:30 AM Murphy Institute 25 W. 43 Street, 18 Fl RSVP Today<http://murphyinstitute-crisisinpublichighered.eventbrite.com/> Decades of disinvestment have been dismantling public higher education systems. These institutions have served generations of economically disadvantaged students, often from immigrant and communities of color. How did we get here? What is the path forward? Speakers * Joseph K. Awadjie, B.S., graduate student at Brooklyn College, Chairperson of the CUNY University Student Senate, CUNY Student Trustee, President of the Graduate Student Government at Brooklyn College, as well as Second Vice President of the Brooklyn College Alumni Association. * Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant are City University of New York professors and co-authors of, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education<https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/austerity-blues>. Michael Fabricant also serves as the First Vice President of the Professional Staff Congress. * Nivedita Majumdar, Associate Professor of English at John Jay College and serves as the secretary of the Professional Staff Congress. * Moderated by Penny Lewis, Academic Director and Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Murphy Institute and serves as a university-wide officer and in the Graduate Center faculty chapter leadership for the Professional Staff Congress. The forum is free but RSVP <http://murphyinstitute-crisisinpublichighered.eventbrite.com/> is required.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Reflections on a Recent Stay at Rikers Island by Jarrod Shanahan, 11/16 @ CUNY Grad Center
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

A presentation from one of our Urban Studies faculty members, Jarrod Shanahan. *feel free to forward widely* A Boring Day at the Eric M. Taylor Center: Reflections on a Recent Stay at Rikers Island Jarrod Shanahan, Department of Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center As the movement to close down New York City’s notorious Rikers Island penal colony gains momentum, join doctoral student Jarrod Shanahan for a report back on recent time spent as inmates at the island's Eric M. Taylor Center (formerly C-76). EMTC houses sentenced male inmates serving sentences of one year or less, mostly in dormitory style housing. Jarrod will discuss daily life at the facility from the inmate perspective, provide preliminary analysis situating the facility in recent NYC history and political economy, and answer questions. Wednesday, November 16th, 4:15-5:30 CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Avenue) room 5414 This event is sponsored by the Critical Psychology Cluster & the Public Science Project. Please bring some form of photo ID for access to the GC.

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