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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Sept 12: Michael Ralph's Forensics of Capital book launch
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Book Launch | Michael Ralph's Forensics of Capital Monday, September 12 | 06:00 - 08:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Sq, Fifth Floor, New York More info: https://ipk.nyu.edu/calendar/events/316-forensics-of-capital NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Forensics of Capital<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo19108849.html> by Michael Ralph. The author will be in discussion with Gustav Peebles and Fatoumata Seck. As one of Africa's few democracies, Senegal has long been thought of as a leader of moral, political, and economic development on the continent. We tend to assume that any such nation has achieved favorable international standing due to its own merits. In Forensics of Capital, Michael Ralph upends this kind of conventional thinking, showing how Senegal's diplomatic standing was strategically forged in the colonial and postcolonial eras at key periods of its history and is today entirely contingent on the consensus of wealthy and influential nations and international lending agencies. Ralph examines Senegal's crucial and pragmatic decisions related to its development and how they garnered international favor, decisions such as its opposition to Soviet involvement in African liberation-despite itself being a socialist state-or its support for the US-led war on terror-despite its population being predominately Muslim. He shows how such actions have given Senegal an inflated political and economic position and status as a highly credit-worthy nation even as its domestic economy has faltered. Exploring these and many other aspects of Senegal's political economy and its interface with the international community, Ralph demonstrates that the international reputation of any nation-not just Senegal-is based on deep structural biases. Michael Ralph is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and Director of Metropolitan Studies at New York University. He has published in Social Text, Souls, and South Atlantic Quarterly. He is a member of the Social Text Editorial Collective, the Souls Editorial Working Group, and the editorial boards of Transforming Anthropology and Sport in Society. Gustav Peebles is associate professor of Anthropology at the New School and an expert in economic and monetary policy, history, and theory. He is the author of The Euro and Its Rivals (2011) and numerous other studies appearing in Harpers, Law and Social Inquiry, Public Culture, Africa, and other publications. Dr. Peebles received his PhD from the University of Chicago. Fatoumata Seck is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Literature at CUNY College of Staten Island. Born in Dakar, Senegal, her research focuses on culture and ecnomics in French-speaking Africa, as well as diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial theory. Dr. Seck holds a PhD from Stanford University and is at work on a book on the influence of postcolonial neoliberal reforms on the Senegalese social fabric though the examination of both cultural production and cultural practice.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Sept 16: The Other Architect exhibition
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery The Other Architect Sep 16, 2016 - Dec 2, 2016 Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery Buell Hall, GSAPP, Columbia University More info: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/exhibitions/37-the-other-architect The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia GSAPP presents 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 display are twenty-three case studies dating from the 1960s to today that illustrate how international and often multidisciplinary groups applied experimental attitudes and collaborative strategies to invent new tools and alternative methods outside of traditional design practice. The architects included in the exhibition challenged the concept of individual authorship in favor of establishing networks and partnerships with permeable roles: AD/AA/Polyark, AMO, Anyone Corporation, Architects Revolutionary Council (ARC), Architectural Detective Agency (ADA), Architecture Machine Group (AMG), Art Net, Atelier de recherche et d'action urbaines (ARAU), Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), CIRCO, Corridart, Delos Symposion, Design-A-Thon, Forensic Architecture, Global Tools, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), Lightweight Enclosures Unit (LEU), Multiplicity, Kommunen in der Neuen Welt, Pidgeon Audio Visual (PAV), Take Part, and Urban Innovations Group (UIG). Beginning in the 1960s, it is possible to identify a range of experiences that pushed beyond the established domains of academia and the usual dynamics of editorial and institutional activities to develop architecture as a field of energetic, critical, and radical intellectual research. The exhibition includes documents that illustrate their ways of thinking and working, manifested in a range of forms including letters, books, drawings, photographs, budgets, tactics for accessing resources, videos, mission statements and manifestos, surveys, posters, meeting minutes and organizational schemes, T-shirts, questionnaires, boats, and buses. Tracing the development of these unusual creative processes allows us to consider how these different ways of defining architecture can be applied today. The Other Architect, like the case studies it examines, is a research project in its own way, contributing to a new reflection on the role of the architect and inspiring and proposing unexpected ways of practicing architecture today. It responds to the question of how we can position architecture beyond building, as an original site for the production of ideas. The Other Architect is organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montréal. Curator: Giovanna Borasi Curatorial team: Gregory Barton, Lev Bratishenko, Rebecca Taylor, and Alice Haddad. The research team is composed of Gregory Barton, Lev Bratishenko, Alice Haddad, Josephine Minhinnett, Rebecca Taylor with Kayoko Ota and Jin Motohashi (Architectural Detective Agency), Maggie Tsang (Design-A-Thon), Florencia Alvarez (Pidgeon Audio Visual), Konstantinos Pantazis and Marianne Rentzou (Delos Symposion). Exhibition design: MOS Architects (Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith), New York Graphic design: Christian Lange, Munich

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Sept 9: Foucault and The Iranian Revolution
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Foucault and The Iranian Revolution Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution in the Era of ISIS and Islamophobia We will discuss in light of today our 2005 book on Foucault and the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. His fervent opposition to the Shah and US imperialism and his astute assessment of Iran as a new type of revolution, neither liberal nor leftist, were marred by a surprisingly uncritical stance toward the upsurge of radical Islamism and an untoward silence on the issues of gender and sexuality. We also discuss Marxist and feminist critiques of Foucault at the time, and their implications for today. Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson are the authors of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. They teach at University of California, Santa Barbara, in sociology and religious studies, respectively. Afary is also the author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (2009) and Anderson of Marx at the Margins (2010). Friday, September 9 | 7:30 PM The Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn, NY More info: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=13682 Sliding Scale: $6 / $10 / $15

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Aug 30: Up Against the Wall Exhibition Opening at Booklyn
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

For almost fifteen years people have been marching in the streets, singing, chanting, insisting, "From Iraq to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime!" Booklyn is pleased to announce Up Against the Wall, an exhibition of prints compiled from Imaging Apartheid and Celebrate People's History: Iraq Veterans Against the War-two projects that highlight the work of overlapping struggles working from opposite ends of an international movement for peace and justice. Exhibited together, these works ask what are the bonds and burdens of solidarity that tie those at the heart of American militarism to those under its heel? And what are the possibilities for collective liberation when movements unite for justice and demilitarization? Opening Reception Aug. 30th 7-10PM Booklyn 37 Greenpoint Avenue Suite E4G Brooklyn, NY 11222 More info: http://interferencearchive.org/up-against-the-wall-opening-at-booklyn/ The two projects that make up this exhibition were developed with their own intentions. Imaging Apartheid was created to support the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement by highlighting the pressing issue of Israeli Apartheid. Celebrate People's History: Iraq Veterans Against the War was made to uplift U.S. service members' and veterans' efforts to end the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and demilitarize American society. Presented together, these projects connect the impacts of militarism on diverse communities and point towards a common struggle. Organized by Aaron Hughes, Daniel Drennan, Ethan Heitner, Jesse Purcell, Kevin Caplicki, and Stefan Christoff Exhibition partners include Imaging Apartheid initiative, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Justseeds Artists' Cooperative. Booklyn Art Gallery and this exhibition are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and additionally in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Exhibition Runs: Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 - Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2016 Web Page: http://booklyn.org/events/up-against-the-wall/ Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1760659440861146/

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Transportation Camp NYC 2016 at City College, 9/24
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Hi all, Some students may be interested in this event, and this may be something that the Club would be interested in participating in. Please note: it's free for students, even the food. See here for more details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transportationcamp-nyc-2016-tickets-26252052596 Some info below: TransportationCamp NYC 2016 will foster open conversation and collaboration between all parties interested in mobility and the radical changes the near-future promises in transportation. Our goal is to assemble planners, software developers, engineers, students, dreamers, and professionals for an exciting day of "un-conferencing." Unlike a traditional conference, the specific session topics are determined by participants, which provides each attendee an opportunity to lead and shape the event. TransportationCamp NYC will be held at City College of New York in Shepard Hall (160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031 - At the intersection of Convent Avenue and W 139th st, close to the 1, B, and C trains) ________________________________ Brian Rosa, MRP, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Urban Studies Queens College, CUNY Powdermaker Hall, Rm. 250Q 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Queens, NY 11367 Doctoral Faculty, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geography) The Graduate Center, CUNY ________________________________

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mock Interviews for Health Professions, Fall 2016
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

From: Health Professions <qc.health.professions(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:qc.health.professions@qc.cuny.edu>> Date: Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 12:41 PM To: Valli Cook <Valli.Cook(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Valli.Cook@qc.cuny.edu>> Subject: Mock Interviews Fall 2016 Dear Colleague: Welcome back fall 2016 semester! The Health Professions Office at Queens College is a support program for students planning to enter: dental, medical, optometry, pharmacy,, podiatry, or veterinary medical school. Many of our students are invited to interviews as a step in the selection process. So I am seeking members of the campus community to participate in Fall 2016 mock interviews. QC Health Professions Mock Interview Schedule begins Septebmer 7 - December 15 Monday through Thursday from 10am - 12noon or Monday through Thursday from 1pm - 3pm We partner you according to your schedule for one mock interview per month. · Two interviewers are assigned to one student · Background on the student is provided · Background on the interviewing school is provided · Usually mock interview time is 60-90 minutes · One mock interview every 10 days or once per month · No experience required - HPAS Office supplies the questions · You are asked to o Listen to student response o Note student's ability to have an opinion o Note if student is dressed approriately for an interview o Assess if student knows anything about the school where being interviewed · You and the other interviewer will spend about 20 minutes providing constructive criticism o Speaking; tone, audible, one word answers, smile o Body movement o Appropriate attire o inerview school knowledge needed o Clarification on research discussion student puts on application o Two interviewers are assigned to one student Please contact me if you are willing to do a mock intervew during the scheduled times listed below. Monday 10am -12noon or 1pm -3pm Tuesday 10am -12noon or 1pm -3pm Wednesday 10am -12noon or 1pm -3pm Thursday 10am -12noon or 1pm-3pm My thanks in advance, Val Valli Cook, MBA, MS. Ed Director, Health Professions Queens College/CUNY Queens, New York 11367 718 997-3470 The Health Professions Advisory Services Office guides students in their career goal to become a dentist, optometrist, pharmacist, physician, podiatrist or veterinarian.

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