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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 8: At the Edge of the Network: A Talk with Nicole Starosielski
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02 Mar '16

"At the Edge of the Network: Undersea Cables and Deep Infrastructure" with Nicole Starosielski Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Steinhardt March 8th, 6:30-8:30pm The Skylight Room, The Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave. Free and open to the public Over 99% of transoceanic data traffic is carried across the oceans by undersea cables-these technologies comprise the backbone of the global internet. This presentation will focus on Surfacing, a digital map that enables users to traverse the social worlds of the cable system and the unseen cultural formations that sustain everyday internet connections. Surfacing is both a project of infrastructural visibility, revealing the geographies of internet systems, and a critical experiment in digital cartography that challenges existing modes of vertical and lateral movement.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 4: Film Screening: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story
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02 Mar '16

Film Screening: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story Directed by Marisa Holmes Friday, March 4 365 5th Ave, Segal Theater 6:00 - 9:00 PM More info: http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/film-screening-all-day-all-week-an-occupy-wal… In 2011, there were occupations of squares happening all across the globe. It was a moment of upheaval when anything seemed possible. In this context, on September 17th, 2011, a two-month encampment of Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Plaza, began in the financial district of NYC. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was an autonomous zone of activity with general assemblies engaging in directly democratic processes and working groups self-organizing to meet basic needs. It was a liberated space. The non-fiction feature film, All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story, Directed by Marisa Holmes, tells the story of OWS from the perspective of those who lived it. Filmed by and in conversation with participants, the film offers a glimpse inside the daily life of occupation as well as reflections on the experience. Filmmaker Present for Q&A

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 4: Tarry Hum: Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park
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02 Mar '16

Friday Evening Lecture Series [Hum] AAARI's Friday Evening Lecture Series is back for the Spring 2016 semester! Please join us for a talk on, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park, by Tarry Hum, on Friday, March 4, 2016, from 6pm to 8pm, at 25 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan.This talk is free and open to the general public. Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park-with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population-from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods. Author and professor,Tarry Hum, will discuss how proce?sses of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park's future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic engagement, entrepreneurialism, and sustainability planning. She shows, too, how residents' responses to urban development policies and projects and the capital represented by local institutions and banks foster community activism. [THum] Tarry Hum is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College/CUNY, and serves on the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center's Environmental Psychology program. Prof. Hum's research areas focus broadly on immigration, community economic development, and urban planning. She has researched and published papers on the socioeconomic processes and outcomes of immigrant incorporation in urban labor markets, related issues of immigrant settlement and neighborhood change, and the consequences for urban inequality, race and ethnic relations, political representation, and community definition and development. To RSVP for this talk, please visit www.aaari.info/16-03-04Hum.htm<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001qgNDav9mI1Xz2fWcxo7Zg5JAsfFmWzgyHfqHDVhoHns2…>. Please be prepared to present proper identification when entering the building lobby. If you are unable to attend the talk, it will be live webcasted on our website, www.aaari.info<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001qgNDav9mI1Xz2fWcxo7Zg5JAsfFmWzgyHfqHDVhoHns2…>, beginning 6:15PM EST, and also available the following week as streaming video and audio podcast. See you on Friday! More info: http://www.aaari.info/16-03-04Hum.htm

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