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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: FW: "Urbanization in Mexico: Responding to Challenges" Mon, Dec 12, 4 PM
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

------------------------------ *From:* Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 10:34 AM *Subject:* "Urbanization in Mexico: Responding to Challenges" Mon, Dec 12, 4 PM *Urbanization in Mexico: Responding to Challenges* *Dates:* Monday, December 12, 2016 *Time:* 4-6 PM *Room:* C201/202 (The Graduate Center, CUNY) With Mexico now nearly 80% urbanized, Mexican urban planners and citizens face immense challenges from over-congestion of roadways to providing basic services. Although Mexico has generated innovative responses to such challenges, such as creating “double-decker” transit routes for cars and shutting down major portions of the capital for pedestrians and bicyclists, what are the implications of an increasingly urbanized Mexico? What does this means for its citizenry and the nation’s political discourse? How are politicians and urban planners seeking to respond to these challenges? *Policy Paradoxes: The Case of the Double-Decker Transit Routes for Cars in Mexico City* David López, *The New School* How is it that a progressive government like that of Mexico City in the early 2000s supported privatizing the city's transportation? By studying the case of the double-decker transit routes for cars in Mexico City, this presentation will discuss the interests and pressures at work in the privatization of a public good. *In the Shadow of the Metropolis: Informal and Public Housing in Mexico City* David Yee, *Stony Brook University * A mounting housing crisis in 1950s Mexico City forced architects, politicians, and residents to develop new forms of housing and urban planning in order to confront the challenges of modernization. This presentation will discuss the cultural and socio-spatial dimensions of Mexico’s attempts to find housing solutions for the millions of migrants who arrived to Mexico City in the middle of the twentieth century. Moderator: Eric Zolov, *Stony Brook University* Co-organizer: Araceli Tinajero, *City College* *David López* is a Mexican Ph.D. student in the Public and Urban Policy program at The New School. His research focuses on the political economy of infrastructure in capitalist societies, socio-spatial patterns of infrastructural inequality, the infrastructural lived experience of city dwellers, and the role of the state in infrastructure redistribution. *David Yee* is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at Stony Brook University. His current research explores the historical ties between housing and inequality in 20th century. *Eric Zolov* is Associate Professor of Latin American history at Stony Brook University and editor, most recently, of *Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Zócalo* (ABC-CLIO). TO REGISTER send e-mail to bildner(a)gc.cuny.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__app.getresponse.com_cli…> 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Thurs, Dec. 15: Book Launch | 2100: A Dystopian Utopia / The City After Climate Change
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Book Launch | 2100: A Dystopian Utopia / The City After Climate Change Thursday, December 15 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor, New York, New York Institute for Public Knowledge More info and RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/blog/events/2100-a-dystopian-utopia/ Fast forward to the year 2100. New York, along with Phoenix, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Manila, and many more of the world’s most populated cities, is irrevocably changed. Much of the earth’s great middle swath is subject to droughts, wildfires, and desertification, while increasingly frequent super storms plague coastal areas, destroying precious agricultural lands by bringing seawater far inland. Where in the world shall we live, and what will our built environments be like? The Institute for Public Knowledge’s working group on Cities, Cultures, and Climate Change invites you to join us for a discussion with architect Vanessa Keith in celebration of the release of her new book, 2100: A Dystopian Utopia / The City After Climate Change. The author will be in discussion with ecologist Eric Sanderson and architect Winka Dubbeldam. In the 2100 world the book envisions, most of the earth’s population has moved poleward, now inhabiting compact megacities. Some, like Troll Antarctica, are new, while others like Moscow, Vancouver and Johannesburg have been redesigned and retrofitted as hyper dense settlements. These megacities are paired with the now largely uninhabitable extraction cities of the middle swath that now house smaller scale populations of temporary inhabitants. To accommodate the needs of a world population of 10 billion, the new compact megacities feature technologies such as clip-on architecture and high tech vertical farms while the old, extraction cities have become outposts that are being recycled and used for manifold purposes including renewable energy generation, carbon capture and sequestration. How can we change our way of life to be more in keeping with natural systems and processes? Climate change unquestionably represents the biggest challenge to the continued presence of humankind on this planet, not to mention the many other species currently at risk. Managing and attempting to limit the effects of global warming should be our biggest priority, marshalling our collective will, energies, and creativity toward the achievement of a common goal. Although the work is speculative, its premises are supported by the latest climate research and predictions, while the design solutions proposed build upon existing and emerging technologies. The future the book envisions is dystopian but the work is utopian, in that it sees the best in human potential rising to the occasion. 2100 serves not as a prediction, but rather as a warning and a call to action. It offers architecture’s response to climate change’s most challenging scenarios with design solutions that suggest the profound adaptability of the design field to meet environmental challenges in the future. Through 2100: A Dystopian Utopia, Vanessa Keith and StudioTEKA visualize possible design solutions to suggest the profound adaptability and possibilities of the design field to meet environmental challenges in the future. The issue is framed by noted sociologist, Saskia Sassen, with her preface and advocacy of “delegating back to the environment”. ________________________________ Vanessa Keith is a registered architect and the Principal of Studioteka, an award-winning design firm she founded in 2003. Studioteka approaches design through a multidisciplinary lens that spans the boundaries between architecture, economic and social development, and urban and environmental concerns. She is especially interested in innovative sustainable design and the issues faced by tropical countries as they adapt to climate change, and in envisioning design-oriented technical and engineering solutions to environmental problems. Her work has appeared in notable international design publications such as Frame, Hinge, Surface Asia, Design Bureau and Mark Magazine. She has taught architecture, urban and interior design, and economic development at such notable institutions as Columbia University and Pratt Institute, among others. Winka Dubbeldam is Chair and Professor of Graduate Architecture at PennDesign at the University of Pennsylvania and the founder/ principal of the New York firm Archi-tectonics. Her award-winning work, including the Greenwich Building and V33 building, has been recognized as much for its use of hybrid sustainable materials and smart building systems as for its elegance and innovative structures. She has also taught advanced architectural design studios at Columbia University and Harvard University, among other prestigious institutions. Eric W. Sanderson is a Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo and director of the Welikia Project and the Mannahatta Project. His work, including two scientific volumes and numerous scientific papers, has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, CNN, NPR, and The New Yorker. In 2009 he published the book, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City, illustrated by Markley Boyer, and has been working to expand this and related efforts at mapping the pre-European ecologies of the New York region.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Dec. 9: Past is Prologue: Planning's Critical Approach to 100 Years of Zoning
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Past is Prologue: Planning's Critical Approach to 100 Years of Zoning Friday, December 9th | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM 1172 Amsterdam Ave. Columbia University Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium More info: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/301-past-is-prologue-plannings-critica… 2016 marks the centennial of New York City’s 1916 Zoning Ordinance, the first comprehensive zoning law adopted in the United States. Over the last century, zoning has transformed from an instrument designed to mitigate industrial development and perpetuate racial segregation to a tool intended to shift urban travel behavior and development patterns. Today, the aims, role, and impact of zoning as a social practice in New York City -and beyond- remain contested. The anniversary of the 1916 ordinance presents an opportunity to critically assess the current state of land regulation. Zoning shapes the daily transformation of cities, yet has attracted relatively little critical attention. This gap is especially surprising considering zoning’s considerable impact on a wide range of theoretical and practical dilemmas currently facing cities, including threats from climate change, rising inequality and spatial disparities, declining access to jobs, opportunities, and affordable housing, and unstable economic productivity. And although zoning policies have cast their goals in terms of an increasingly larger range of social issues over time, zoning practice has been largely left to experts engaged in closed-door negotiations. The two-day conference is organized by the department of Urban Planning at Columbia University and jointly hosted by the Museum of the City of New York, who will be holding an exhibit<http://www.mcny.org/exhibition/mastering-metropolis> on the same topic this fall. The conference will gather the top scholars and practitioners in the field to take stock of the field and establish a framework for a revitalized examination of zoning in US and international contexts. Organized by the PhD students in Urban Planning at Columbia University & supported by the Dean’s office of GSAPP. Special thanks to the Museum of the City of New York for their collaboration. Schedule 9:00 - 10:00 am: Coffee + Breakfast 10:00 - 10:15 am: Introduction: Dean Amale Andraos 10:15 - 10:45 am: Keynote: Jerold Kayden 10:45 am - 12:00 pm: Exclusionary Zoning: ‘Technical’ Processes of Social Segregation Ingrid Gould Ellen, Sonia Hirt, Moira O’Neill, Andrew Whittemore Moderated by Lance Freeman 12:00 pm: Lunch 1:15 - 2:30 pm: Zoning in Situ: Enforcements and Circumventions Sai Balakrishnan, Raphaël Fischler, Paul Lagunes, Rachel Weber Moderated by Weiping Wu 2:30 - 2:45 pm: Coffee Break 2:45 - 4:00 pm: Inclusionary Policies: Zoning’s New Hope? Vicki Been, Lauren Ames Fischer, Daniel Montandon, Harriet Tregoning Moderated by Elliot Sclar 4:00-4:30 pm: Conclusion by Elliott Sclar Panels EXCLUSIONARY ZONING: TECHNICAL PROCESSES OF SOCIAL SEGREGATION Drawing on recent research and examples from practice, this panel explores how zoning can serve as an engine for social, racial and economic segregation. The 1916 ordinance in New York City initially presented zoning as a purely technical endeavor used to rationalize uses across the city. As the tool gained popularity in cities across the United States, zoning and land-use restrictions kept “undesirable” populations from desirable urban areas. Public entities facilitated policies such as restrictive covenants, redlining, and zoning the single-family home to racially and socially segregate residents in urban and peri-urban neighborhoods; similar tactics and geographic distinctions persist into the present. By retracing zoning’s various geographies of exclusion in US cities, this panel considers history’s cautionary tales while also detailing the enduring impact of such policies on contemporary zoning practice. ZONING IN SITU: ENFORCEMENTS AND CIRCUMVENTIONS How do cities comply with or circumvent zoning regulations? Drawing on new research that highlights the uneven spaces of zoning practice, this panel examines qualitative differences between planned visions, zoning practices and urban realities. These examinations will call into question zoning’s purported role as a means to an end, as well as the ends themselves. With recent scholarship on how zoning works in practice across the United States, Mexico, and India, this panel rallies empirical understanding to question larger framings of zoning, policies and, more broadly, planning scholarship. INCLUSIONARY POLICIES: ZONING’S NEW HOPE? Is the current trajectory of intensifying urban inequality inevitable? Despite its history as a tool of exclusion, zoning has the potential to be a powerful mechanism for reducing social and spatial segregation in cities. Still, like other planning institutions, land regulations cast wide categories across space and time and must navigate uneven terrains of politics and money. With cases from practitioners and scholars examining the ambitious recent regulatory efforts in Brazil (ZEIS) New York City (MIH), and Washington DC (inclusionary zoning), this panel will explore the contexts, timings, and potential pitfalls of revitalizing land regulations as a force for inclusion, responsiveness, and fairness in cities. Speakers INTRODUCTION Amale Andraos Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, Columbia University KEYNOTE ADDRESS Jerold Kayden Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University EXCLUSIONARY ZONING: TECHNICAL PROCESSES OF SOCIAL SEGREGATION Lance Freeman Professor of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, Columbia University Ingrid Gould Ellen Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Director of the Urban Planning Program at NYU Wagner, Faculty Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy Sonia Hirt Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland Moira O’Neill Lecturer in the Department of in City and Regional Planning, Berkeley School of Law, Associated Research Scientist in the Law and Planning at the Institute for Urban and Regional Development, University of California Berkeley Andrew Whittemore Assistant Professor at the Department of City & Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ZONING IN SITU: ENFORCEMENTS AND CIRCUMVENTIONS Weiping Wu Professor and Director of Urban Planning Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, Columbia University Sai Balakrishnan Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Raphaël Fischler Professor and Director of the School of Urban Planning, McGill Paul Lagunes Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Rachel Weber Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago INCLUSIONARY POLICIES: ZONING’S NEW HOPE? Elliott Sclar Professor of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, Columbia University, Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute Vicki Been NYC Commissioner of Housing, Preservation and Development Lauren Ames Fischer Ph.D Candidate of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, Columbia University Daniel Montandon Director of the Department of Land Use at the Municipal Department of Urban Development, San Paolo, Brazil Harriet Tregoning Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Thurs, Dec. 8: Sanctuary: Social, Legal, and Historical Perspectives on an Activist Category
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Sanctuary: Social, Legal, and Historical Perspectives on an Activist Category WHEN: Thursday, December 8, 2016 | 6:00 to 8:00 pm WHERE: Barnard College, Julius S. Held Lecture Hall (located in 305 Barnard Hall, 3rd Floor), 3009 Broadway at 117th St, New York, NY In the weeks since the election, calls for sanctuary campuses have become central to the preemptive organizing to protect the rights of undocumented people and other vulnerable populations now at intensified risk. What does sanctuary mean in the contemporary United States? An idea with antecedents in medieval religious practice, sanctuary was most recently recuperated in the movement to protect Central American refugees in the 1980s and in the contemporary idea of sanctuary cities. This interdisciplinary panel explores sanctuary's legal, political, social, and historical connotations as well as its strategic uses. What could the designation of sanctuary spaces on university campuses mean for strategies of mobilization and resistance now and in the future? Panel: Alexandra Délano Alonso, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Co-director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School for Social Research Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University Alyshia Gálvez, Associate Professor of Latin American, Latino and Puerto Rican Studies, Director of the Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, Lehman College, City University of New York Elora Mukherjee, Associate Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School JC Salyer, Term Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University; Staff Attorney, Arab-American Family Support Center This event is a collaborative effort aimed to explore how higher education institutions in the New York City area can promote cross-campus, cross-city conversations about immigration, citizenship, and justice. Organizers and participants are from the CUNY campuses, Barnard College and Columbia University, the New School, and New York University. Contact: NYCsanctuary(a)gmail.com<mailto:NYCsanctuary@gmail.com> Co-sponsored by the Urban Democracy Lab Register for the event here via Eventbrite: NYC University Sanctuary Roundtable<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sanctuary-social-legal-and-historical-perspect…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Wed, Dec. 7: Protest at City Hall. Organized by the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & LES
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Protest at City Hall. Organized by the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & LES Wednesday, December 7, 3:30 PM - 5 PM City Hall (Broadway Side) More info: If you want to participate in organizing this and doing outreach, come to meetings almost everyday at NMASS and CSWA / Lower East Side Workers Center: 345 Grand St. between Ludlow and Essex, Manhattan Tel: 212-358-0295<tel:%28212%29%20358-0295> The Chinatown Working Group (CWG) Rezoning Plan has gained wide support in the LES and Chinatown community and beyond. If passed, the plan will put height limits on new developments. It will stop luxury waterfront skyscrapers, like Extell and JDS. It will prevent the sale of public housing and require any housing on NYCHA land to be 100% low-income. It will protect residents and small businesses against displacement. Mayor de Blasio has been colluding with big developers to slice up the plan. The city was proposing to rezone a part of Chinatown and exclude the Lower East Side, leaving the majority Latino and African American residents in NYCHA and waterfront buildings unprotected. Mayor de Blasio is pitting Chinese against Latinos and African Americans, helping the developers to displace us all! Our community--Chinese, Latino and African American--held a large demonstration at City Hall in October against discriminatory zoning policies. The protest successfully pushed the City to scrap their Chinatown-only plan. This is a great example of people power! Now we need to make sure that the City pass the full CWG Rezoning Plan immediately, and we will keep coming back to City Hall each month until they do! In the wake of the national election, Mayor de Blasio is trying to repair his tattered image as a Mayor for the 1%, vowing to protect the people of color being targeted by Donald Trump. But the Mayor himself has been targeting low-income, people of color communities across the City such as East Harlem, Inwood/Washington Heights, East New York and the South Bronx for luxury development. These communities are also rising up against displacement and joining us. We cannot stand by a mayor who claims to be for the people yet pushes racist policies in our community. Join us at City Hall and demand: Mayor de Blasio step down NOW! 345 Grand St / 212-358-0295<tel:%28212%29%20358-0295> / peoplefirstnyc.org<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=408&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3Blb3Bs…> / Facebook: Coalition to Protect Chinatown & LES Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/351199255247764/<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=408&user_id=663&urlpassed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] CORRECTION of dysfunctional link: Petition to Chancellor Milliken to make CUNY a Sanctuary Campus
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

------------------------------ *From:* The Center for Place, Culture and Politics [pcp(a)gc.cuny.edu] *Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2016 10:10 AM *Subject:* CORRECTION of dysfunctional link: Petition to Chancellor Milliken to make CUNY a Sanctuary Campus Display problems? View this newsletter in your browser. <http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=403&user_id=290&urlpassed=W3ZpZXdfaW5fYnJv…> Petition to Chancellor Milliken to make CUNY a Sanctuary Campus Many of us have discussed over the past week what the election results will mean for us and for our students. Most troublingly, Donald Trump has pledge to revoke the executive orders that allow for undocumented youth to receive financial aid and go to school here, through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). CUNY has a huge number of students who benefit from DACA, and in the past week, many of them have expressed their anxieties and fears that they may be deported once Trump takes office. A number of universities across the US have drafted petitions to their presidents and provosts calling for their campus to be designated as a sanctuary campus, which would offer protections against ICE for students and their families who might face deportation. We have decided to draft our own petition calling upon Chancellor Milliken to make all of CUNY's campuses sanctuaries for undocumented and immigrant students, and I implore all of you to sign it. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebt9BS305_PDLU-vYN Peu-BPurRIM9_ZrBBrPQQ0xlEOMQMw/viewform?c=0&w=1 <http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=403&user_id=290&urlpassed=aHR0cHM6Ly9kb2Nz…> Please disseminate this widely within your CUNY networks, and share it with your students as well, so that we can maximize the pressure on the administration to protect all of our students from deportation. If you're using social media to disseminate this, please use the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus as this will draw more attention to a growing nationwide movement, which has been accompanied by mass student walk-outs of classes.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] AFSCME Union Scholars Program summer internship
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

The AFSCME Union Scholars Program offers a summer field internship to students who have a passion for social justice! Knowing that there are billion dollar corporations in the U.S. whose employees make below minimum wage, have little to no benefits, and have to work insane hours just to make ends meet; we here at AFSCME prioritize working families and believe in fighting for social justice, within our jobs and communities. *The application is now live at **tmcf.org* <https://tmcf.org/our-scholarships/current-scholarships/tmcf-afscme-union-sc…> *.* The Union Scholars Program is a 10-week summer field placement internship where students get a glimpse of what it’s like to be a part of and even work for a labor union. Students will talk to workers about gaining a voice on the job, fair wages and benefits for themselves and their families-by joining a union. AFSCME has always been a union that advocates for fairness in the workplace; and prosperity and opportunity for all working families. Applicants must be students of color (African-American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian American Pacific Islander, Latino/a,) be a sophomore or junior at the time of application and interview process, and have at least a GPA of 2.5 or higher. Students will receive on-site housing, a stipend of $4,000 over the course of the internship, and will also qualify for an academic scholarship of up to $6,300 for the 2017-2018 school year, based upon successful completion of the program. By participating in the Union Scholars Program, students can earn money for college, as well as gain meaningful work experience to help them consider future opportunities. *To apply, please visit **tmcf.org* <https://tmcf.org/our-scholarships/current-scholarships/tmcf-afscme-union-sc…>*. All applications are due by February 28, 2017.* If you have questions about the program or would like further information, please contact the Program Coordinator, Deanna Richards at (202)429-1202 <(202)%20429-1202> or email drichards(a)afscme.org. Deanna Richards Education Coordinator-Union Scholars Program Office: (202)429-1202 <(202)%20429-1202> Email: drichards(a)afscme.org

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] SPEND JULY IN VIETNAM TEACHING ENGLISH
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Work this summer with Vietnamese teachers as they help children in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) learn English. Student Information Sessions: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 • 12:15–1:30 pm, Powdermaker Hall 117 • 4:45–5:45 pm, Powdermaker Hall 115 “Summer Fun” is a program hosted by the South East Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO; www.vnseameo.org) This experiential teaching and learning program helps children in Vietnam improve their English skills by means of a fun learning environment with native English speakers. Education, TESOL, Linguistics, and Communication majors preferred. The internship includes: • Six-week internship starting in mid-June 2017. • Co-teaching 16–20 hours a week to students ages 5–15. • Room and board, plus a daily stipend. • Guided tours with travel opportunities, such as tours of Ho Chi Minh City, the Cao Dai temples, the Cu Chi tunnel, Mekong Delta, Mui Ne, and Da Nang, as well as a shopping tour. This highly competitive internship program with six positions open to undergraduate (junior and senior) and graduate students. Must be a U.S. citizen. Applications will be accepted December 7–January 3. Candidates will be interviewed and selected in January. For questions, contact: sayashmini.madhow(a)qc.cuny.edu

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