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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Excellent Urban Historian on Brazil: 5/12
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

From: John Collins <John.Collins(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:John.Collins@qc.cuny.edu>> Subject: excellent urban historian 5/12 Date: April 29, 2016 at 5:54:25 PM EDT To: "Maskovsky, Jeff" <JMaskovsky(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:JMaskovsky@gc.cuny.edu>> Hi Jeff, Brodwyn Fischer, one of the best historians of urban Latin America, will visit us at Queens on 5/12 from 12:30 to 2PM in the Library Presidents' Conf. Rm 1 to talk about “Racial Silence and Rights to the City in Recife, Brazil." Lunch will be served. Flyer attached. best, John

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Deadline Approaching: Mellon Mays Fellowships for Students Intending to Pursue a Ph.D
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

If you are sophomores and are seriously considering pursuing a Ph.D., please see the below information for a potential funding source. Please note that the deadline is coming up very soon! Best, Prof. Brian Rosa >From Francois Pierre-Louis, Coordinator, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: I have the pleasure of inviting you to nominate candidates for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. As many of you know, the fellowship, now in its twenty-fourth year at Queens, supports exceptional undergraduates who plan to attain the PhD and enter the professoriate. Eligible students should be sophomores with outstanding academic potential. They must identify themselves as minority students or have a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities and promoting racial and ethnic understanding. In addition, they must have a GPA of 3.3 or above and be majors in one of the following Mellon-designated fields: Anthropology Area Studies Art History Classics Computer Science Demography Earth Science Ecology English Ethnomusicology Film, Cinema & Media Studies Foreign Languages Geography & Population Studies Geology History Linguistics Literature Mathematics Musicology Philosophy Physics Political Theory Religion Sociology Theatre (non-performance focus) Students selected for the fellowship receive two years of financial and intellectual support. In addition to receiving tuition reimbursement and an annual stipend of up to $7,000, they work closely with a faculty mentor to prepare for advanced study in their fields. The participation of the Queens College faculty, both in nominating students and in serving as their mentors, is crucial to the continued success of the program. I urge you to consider nominating a student this year. Applications will be accepted until Tuesday, April 26. Completed applications can be dropped off at Delany Hall 125. The application form can be downloaded and printed from the following link: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/qcmellon/pdfs/applicationform.pdf<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RXDDLM-t5ixs62LgnuBjdmN4SRvhpvePqHd5fsN1h0iy…>. Feel free to duplicate and distribute the application form to potential candidates. The program appreciates your continued support. For more information, call the Mellon office at 718-997-2845 or me at 718- 997-5342. You may also visit our website at http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/qcmellon/<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RXDDLM-t5ixs62LgnuBjdmN4SRvhpvePqHd5fsN1h0iy…>. [City University of New York logo] This mail was sent by an automated process. Do not reply to this mail, which cannot accept replies. At the bottom of this email, you will see Constant Contact language that offers the option of using "SafeUnsubscribe" to remove yourself from the email list. We strongly advise you not to unsubscribe because QCmailers may contain critical, timely information you need, such as WebAttendance and WebGrade information for faculty; Human Resources announcements for faculty and staff; and announcements from the Registrar or Bursar for students. This information may not be communicated in any other way but through the QCmailer. Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367 SafeUnsubscribe(tm)<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=0017wQOe3ygv3Ag6mWSt6yjlQ%3D%3…>brosa(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:brosa@qc.cuny.edu> Forward email<http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=hb4e4idab&m=1103033957415&ea=…> | Update Profile<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=0017wQOe3ygv3Ag6mWSt6yjlQ%3D%3…> | About our service provider<http://www.constantcontact.com/legal/service-provider?cc=about-service-prov…> Sent by <mailto:qcmailer@qc.cuny.edu> qcmailer(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:qcmailer@qc.cuny.edu> in collaboration with [Constant Contact]<http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=TEM_BusLet_003> Try it free today<http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=TEM_BusLet_003> -- Leonard Rodberg, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Urban Studies Queens College/CUNY Flushing, NY 11367 Tel: 718-997-5134 Fax: 718-997-5133 and Co-Director Community Studies of New York, Inc./Infoshare 155 W. 72nd St. Suite 402 New York, NY 10023 Tel: 212-580-3890 Fax: 212-580-1247 Email: leonard.rodberg(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:leonard.rodberg@qc.cuny.edu>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] CUNY campus food issues survey
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

MSG TO CUNY STUDENTS: Hello CUNY students, I am PhD Candidate in Geography & Food Studies (Earth & Environmental Sciences Dept) at CUNY Grad Center working with the new CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute (housed at the CUNY School of Public Health) on a CUNY campus food project. We are trying to develop a network of individual students, student groups, faculty and staff across all CUNY campuses who are interested in investigating and changing CUNY food services. For example, this could mean working toward more organic/biodynamic/sustainably-grown, plant-based, traditional/artisanal, and/or culturally appropriate food. It could also involve ensuring social justice for employees of the food service companies and other companies throughout food commodity chains, and/or fair financial practices of the food service companies and their parent companies. We are holding visioning meetings and conducting an online survey this Spring to gather input from as many CUNY students as possible. At the end of the semester, we'll have a CUNY-wide networking and planning event where we'll discuss future initiatives for individual campuses and the entire CUNY system. Here is the short survey, which only takes a couple of minutes: http://goo.gl/forms/AC3AFkImrH<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__goo.gl_forms_AC3AFkImrH…> Please contact me, Alexandra Sullivan, at asullivan1(a)gradcenter.cuny.edu<mailto:asullivan1@gradcenter.cuny.edu> if you are interested in participating in a visioning meeting, or if you have any questions or comments.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 04/26: Landscapes of Creative Destruction: Regenerating the Postindustrial City
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Landscapes of Creative Destruction: Regenerating the Postindustrial City Co-sponsored by Deutsches Haus and the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU April 26, 6:30-8:30pm, Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews More info: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/landscapes-of-creative-destruction-regenera… It's not difficult to visualize the postindustrial city. It is a patchwork of vacant lots, community-cultivated gardens and playgrounds, new arts and performance spaces, and other urban imaginaries that include luxury housing, well-ordered public spaces, and massive palaces of consumption. With the disappearance of industrial economies - and industrial infrastructures - in cities like Detroit, New York, and Berlin, urban landscapes must be refashioned in response to, as economist Joseph Schumpeter famously called it, the "creative destruction" of (postindustrial) capitalism. How do we contend with these spaces in an age of rapid urbanization? Is there room for just redevelopment or is the destruction of the industrial past only a prologue to worsening urban inequality? Panelists: Boris Vormann, professor in political science and urban political economy at Freie Universität's John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. Eve Baron, Academic Program Manager at The Murphy Institute/CUNY School of Professional Studies/The Graduate Center and Consultant for Urban Planning and Policy Analysis at The Collective for Community, Culture, & the Environment Robert Elmes, Founder and Executive Director of Galapagos Art Space in Detroit (formerly of Brooklyn) Moderated by Gordon Douglas, Associate Director and postdoctoral research fellow, Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp(a)nyu.edu<mailto:deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu>. As space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event to ensure you get a good seat. Thank you! Landscapesof Creative Destruction: Regenerating the Postindustrial City is a DAAD<https://www.daad.org/>-supported event.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 04/21-04/22: Feminism, Capitalism, and Social Transformation
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Feminism, Capitalism, and Social Transformation The Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schurmann Symposium in Political Philosophy April 21-22 6 E 16th St Room 1103 Wolff Conference Room New School for Social Research More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1712376132379800/ This year's Arendt-Schurmann Memorial Symposium will explore the theme of "Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation." It will convene a diverse group of thinkers who are currently engaged in developing a feminist/anti-capitalist perspective for the coming period. Scholars, students, activists, and anyone interested in the feminist critique of capitalism are welcome. The symposium will be held on April 21-22, 2016 (Thursday and Friday) in the Wolff Conference Room at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Organized by the NSSR Philosophy Department, with generous assistance from the Politics Department, Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:30 - 3:00 PM - Welcome by Nancy Fraser 3:00-5:30 PM - Session 1 Kathi Weeks - "Marxism, Feminism, and Abolitionism" Kevin Floyd - "Feminized Surplus: On Reproductive Labor and the Horizon of Value" Chair: Terri Gordon 6:00 - 8:30 PM - Session 2 Sara Farris - "Feminism and Capitalist Intersections" Dayo Gore - "Thinking Anti-Capitalist Politics and the Black Lives Movement through a Black Feminist Genealogy" Chair: Chiara Bottici Friday, April 22, 2016 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Session 3 Tithi Bhattacharya - "The 'Work' of Life: Social Reproduction, Neoliberalism and the Nonwestern World" Miriam Ticktin - "Feminism Against Innocence" Chair: Cinzia Arruzza 2:30 - 5:00 PM - Session 4 Nancy Fraser - "Crisis of Care? On the Social Contradictions of Financialized Capitalism" Laurie Penny - "Love Is A Battlefield: Feminism and Emotional Labour in the 21st Century" Chair: Ann Snitow 5:30 - 7:00 PM - Closing Roundtable: Feminisms of the Left Nancy Holmstrom Sarah Leonard Frances Fox Piven Ruth Milkman

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Worker's Justice Project is hiring
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) Position Title: Worker Center Coordinator Reports To: Project Director Organizational Description: The Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote justice and opportunity for low-wage immigrant workers in New York City by pushing for systematic enforcement and expansion of workplace protections, including labor and occupational health and safety standards; advocating for industry-specific efforts to improve working conditions; and educating immigrant communities about their rights in the workplace and how to exercise those rights. WJP’s strategic plan guides our programmatic focus on: 1) building a strong and unify membership (2) winning workplace justice through worker-led campaigns 3) organizing immigrant day laborers. The Worker Center Coordinator will be mostly based in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, but will also support other programmatic efforts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Coordinator is responsible for workforce development trainings, program management, and job development through marketing and outreach to prospective employers. The Coordinator is also responsible for hiring and job dispatch and serves as one of the staff organizers that will engage workers in Worker’s Justice Project’s organizing campaigns/ programs, worker leadership development, and played an important role in unifying and growing a strong membership-based. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Workforce Development Trainings, Program Management, & Outreach: * Plan, implement, and document workforce development trainings and programming, which include: job skill trainings, vocational trainings, workforce preparation, pre-apprenticeship referrals, life skills workshops, financial literacy, occupational health and safety trainings, and English language instruction. * Monitor workplaces to safe workplace standards and fair wages * Coordinate day labor job skill trainings (i.e. painting, carpentry, sheetrock) with worker leaders and community partners. * Incorporate popular education methodology into trainings and workshops. * Manage employer relations with businesses and property owners to ensure that day laborers and domestic workers and their employers use the day laborer center. * Create and implement job development strategies to enhance day laborer and domestic worker employment opportunities through marketing and employer outreach. Hiring & Job Dispatch: * Work in collaboration with staff, director, and worker leadership to create and implement work plan of activities related to the overall objectives of the hiring site. * Assist employers, domestic workers, and day laborers to negotiate work agreements in an organized and respectful manner * Ensure adherence of the rules and procedures accorded by the general assembly * Advocate for the needs and rights of domestic workers and day laborers with employers * Document incidents, events, problems and conflicts that occur at the site * Assist in mediating and resolving conflicts between domestic workers, day laborers and employers Advocacy, Leadership Development & Social Justice Organizing: * Serve as one of the primary staff organizers engaging day laborers and domestic workers in the organizing campaigns of the Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) * Facilitate general assemblies with workers 3-4 times per month (mostly weekends) and as needed * Facilitate dialogue and education for day laborers about their legal rights and responsibilities * Work in collaboration with staff and member leaders to develop and promote leadership and empowerment of day laborers and domestic workers * Work in collaboration with staff and member leaders in implementing a new membership structure that will unify and strengthen the membership-base. * Promote and facilitate civic participation and democratic decision-making processes Maintain and nourish positive community public relations with visitors to the center: police, neighbors, volunteers, press, medical and legal representatives and other institutions, such as churches, unions, and businesses Administrative: * Prepare weekly and monthly activity and data reports * Data management and record keeping * Participate in weekly staff meetings * Answer phones/field calls when at worksite * Provide interpretation/translation Job Requirements: * Ability to work in a collaborative work environment * Ability to work effectively with people from a broad range of backgrounds * Community organizing and popular education training * Knowledge of and commitment to immigrant rights and social justice * Strong communication and facilitation skills * Dedication and ability to work flexible, early morning hours including Saturdays * Strong written and oral skills in English/Spanish * Competent knowledge of social media, computer operations (Google Apps, Word, Excel, etc.) and equipment operation such as copiers, fax machines and telephones * Administrative and organizational skills necessary to carry out job description responsibilities * Deep dedication to the leadership of directly affected people * Believe in peoples’ ability to change the world * The ability to work under pressure * Love of teamwork and a good team player. Work Environment: Mobile trailer serves as the office in the mornings. Also, we use a shared office space in a building. Compensation: salary commensurate with experience; health benefits, sick and vacation pay To Apply: Please send by email a letter summarizing your qualifications and interest along with your résumé that includes education, work history, and two employment and one personal reference to Director, Ligia Guallpa: ligia(a)workersjustice.org

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Call for Interest: QC Undergraduate Social Science Journal
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

"Interested in getting published? Want that competitive edge for graduate school? If so, get involved with us! The Social Science Quarterly is a student driven undergraduate research journal for the social sciences in Queens College. From foreign policy analysis to cultural critiques, our journal is dedicated to publishing rigorous and compelling research authored by bright, intellectually curious, and motivated students. We are officially calling for student submissions for our second issue that will be published early June. In addition, we are actively seeking students to fill in leadership positions within our current editorial and programmatic staff openings. We strongly encourage you to check out our website for necessary information on how to get published and be involved in our publication. Check us out at qcquarterly.org<http://qcquarterly.org> and/or contact us at qcquarterly(a)gmail.com<mailto:qcquarterly@gmail.com>!"

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: Open Position - Queens Botanical Garden
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

<http://queensbotanical.org/programs/events>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: What Can I Do with My Degree?? -- May 2nd @ Free Hour!!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

Dear Students, Please join us on Monday, May 2nd!! What Can I Do with My Degree?? [X] Finding a Full-time Job after Graduation Recent Urban and Environmental Studies Grads Reveal the Secrets to their Success!! May 2, 2016 @ 12:15 - 1:30 pm Powdermaker Hall Room 202 Lunch will be served! (Featuring: Brad Rebeiro; Songyi Ee; Riley Peters; Regina Fojas; Grace McGee; Tiffany Brown)

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] QC Urban Studies Club Next Event - Taking Back the Land: Community Land Trusts
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

QC Urban Studies Club Next Event - Taking Back the Land: Community Land Trusts The Urban Studies Club presents Taking Back the Land:Community Land Trusts Time: Thursday April 21, 6-8pm Location: Student Union Building Room 310 We will be watching Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street, a documentary that tells the story of a grassroots struggle to revitalize an urban neighborhood abandoned by America. Afterwards we will be having Melvyn Colon executive director of the Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance and former board president of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative community land trust. Read his full bio here: http://www.sinainc.org/melvyn_colon/ We will also have a representative from the New Economy to talk about the state of land trusts in New York. URBAN STUDIES CLUB AT QUEENS COLLEGE 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367 Powdermaker Hall, Room 250 Telephone: 718-997-5130

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