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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dec 1: Skill-Building for Social Justice: El Puente
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Skill-Building for Social Justice: El Puente Friday, Dec. 1 | 2:00 - 5:00 PM El Puente 211 South 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY More Information: https://events.newschool.edu/event/skill-building_for_social_justice_el_pue… Join us for a special training with El Puente, a community human rights institution in South Williamsburg that promotes intergenerational leadership for peace and justice through the arts, education, scientific research, wellness, and environmental action. Participants will explore El Puente's Transformative Community Building Framework and will walk away with a clear model & methodology and ideas for acting on their own vision based on the needs and desires of their organization and/or community. Attendees will learn about this methodology through some of El Puente's core issues: intergenerational relationship building, environmental justice and sustainability, and gentrification in New York City. This workshop is part of Lang Civic Engagement & Social Justice's Skill-building for Social Justice series, which partners with social justice organizations and activists across New York City to introduce New School community members to frameworks, methodologies, and practices they can implement in their own lives. NOTE: We will leave as a group from 65 West 11th Street at 1:15pm. To attend this workshop, prior registration is required at this link: bit.ly/CESJ-ElPuente<http://bit.ly/CESJ-ElPuente> Presented by Lang Civic Engagement & Social Justice <https://www.newschool.edu/lang/civic-engagement-social-justice/> and El Puente. ?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dec 4: Who Cleans the Parks?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Who Cleans the Parks? Book Launch Monday, Dec. 4 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor More Information: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-launch-who-cleans-the-park/ America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars-both public and private-fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment tested, and leaves raked. Bringing this often-invisible work into view, however, raises profound questions for citizens of cities. In Who Cleans the Park? John Krinsky and Maud Simonet explain that the work of maintaining parks has intersected with broader trends in welfare reform, civic engagement, criminal justice, and the rise of public-private partnerships. Welfare-to-work trainees, volunteers, unionized city workers (sometimes working outside their official job descriptions), staff of nonprofit park "conservancies," and people sentenced to community service are just a few of the groups who routinely maintain parks. With public services no longer being provided primarily by public workers, Krinsky and Simonet argue, the nature of public work must be reevaluated. Based on four years of fieldwork in New York City, Who Cleans the Park? looks at the transformation of public parks from the ground up. Beginning with studying changes in the workplace, progressing through the public-private partnerships that help maintain the parks, and culminating in an investigation of a park's contribution to urban real-estate values, the book unearths a new urban order based on nonprofit partnerships and a rhetoric of responsible citizenship, which at the same time promotes unpaid work, reinforces workers' domination at the workplace, and increases the value of park-side property. Who Cleans the Park? asks difficult questions about who benefits from public work, ultimately forcing us to think anew about the way we govern ourselves, with implications well beyond the five boroughs. ________________________________ John Krinsky<https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/john-krinsky> is Associate Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York and the City University Graduate Center. Gianpaolo Baiocchi<https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/gb97.html> is Associate Professor at NYU Gallatin, and Director of the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU. Penny Lewis<https://sps.cuny.edu/about/directory/penny.lewis> is Academic Director and Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the City College of New York and the City University Graduate Center.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dec. 4: Perfect Storm: Puerto Rico’s Hurricane History and Lessons for Resilience
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Perfect Storm: Puerto Rico's Hurricane History and Lessons for Resilience Monday, Dec. 4 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor More Information: https://mymail.qc.cuny.edu/owa/#path=/mail NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the Cities, Cultures, and Climate Change Working Group, and the Urban Democracy Lab invite you to join us for a lunchtime discussion with Ingrid Olivo and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on the history of hurricanes in the Caribbean and the present humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. Since Hurricane Maria hit in September, an unforeseen humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in Puerto Rico, a paradigmatic example of underdevelopment in a multi-risk prone region, as well as a laboratory and showcase of United States policy-making. Olivo’s research, a longitudinal and multi-case study of hurricanes in Puerto Rico from 1899 to 1956, reveals that this crisis is essentially history repeating itself. Basic lessons from the past have been disregarded and the process of rebuilding has been bound in a vicious cycle of inadequate approaches. What can the past teach us about achieving future resilience? Puerto Rico and the larger Caribbean—which has figured in most Americans’ minds, over recent decades, as a place to vacation— has been transformed into a landscape of anxiety since Maria, says Jelly-Shapiro. The year in which the U.S. pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords may turn out to be the one in which we started to view climate change not as an abstract worry but as a concrete fact, the year in which we learned to habitually gaze with worry at late summer clouds forming over the Atlantic. In the Caribbean, it’s been ever thus. When will the U.S. start paying a different kind of attention to these islands—not as mere playgrounds or battlegrounds, but as reconnaissance posts from which to look for encroaching dangers and be ready to quickly act to protect and save lives? ________________________________ Ingrid Olivo, originally from El Salvador, is an Urban Studies Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow and University College London Associate Staff. She has 17 years of professional development experience combining policy/advisory work, research, and teaching with a specialization in Urban Planning. Trained as an architect in her hometown, San Salvador (UCA), Ingrid continued her graduate studies in London (UCL) and New York (Columbia University), where she finished a Ph.D. focused on hurricanes in Puerto Rico. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World, and the co-editor of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. Currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge, he has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and The Nation, among many other publications. His recent essay for The New York Review of Books on hurricanes and history in the Caribbean, and what Maria’s awful aftermath in Puerto Rico portends for us all, is readable here.<https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51d7149de4b01ae1310f405e/t/59fbfb9bc…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Social Practice Queens: Open House for new prospective students Dec 2 SAT NYC
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

Dear Friends: Please let your students as well as interested artists, researchers & activists know we are holding our first Open House event on Sat. Dec 2: SPQ Fall Info Session Saturday, December 2, 2017 Queens College CUNY Klapper Hall, Room 672 65-30 Kissena Boulevard <https://maps.google.com/?q=65-30+Kissena+Boulevard+%0D+Flushing,+NY+11367&e…> Flushing, NY 11367 <http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions/Pages/default.aspx>Directions<http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions/Pages/default.aspx> - 12pm-2pm * Mixer & Info Session Meet the faculty, current students, and alumni learn more about the MFA concentration in social practice art + *new* Advanced Certificate in Critical Social Practice 3pm-5pm * Group Visit to the Queens Museum Together we will visit our shared space in the museum, meet the museum's curatorial and community engagement staff, and visit the current exhibitions on view - RSVP (by Dec 1): socialpracticequeens(a)gmail.com<mailto:socialpracticequeens@gmail.com> socialpracticequeens.org<http://socialpracticequeens.org/> [Inline image 1]?? graphic design by Rex Kwok? -- dr. Gregory Sholette Associate Professor Queens College CUNY Greg's BLOG<http://gregsholette.tumblr.com/> Athens, Kassel and Puerto Rico<https://c-a-s-athens.squarespace.com/newsroom/2017/9/30/naturals-not-in-it> Delirium and Resistance <http://brooklynrail.org/2017/10/art_books/Delirium-and-Resistance-Activist-…> (new book) SPQ BLOG<http://www.socialpracticequeens.org/blog/> and NEW SPQ Certificate Program<http://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/146304/advanced-certificate-in…> -- dr. Gregory Sholette Associate Professor Queens College CUNY Greg's BLOG<http://gregsholette.tumblr.com/> Athens, Kassel and Puerto Rico<https://c-a-s-athens.squarespace.com/newsroom/2017/9/30/naturals-not-in-it> Delirium and Resistance <http://brooklynrail.org/2017/10/art_books/Delirium-and-Resistance-Activist-…> (new book) SPQ BLOG<http://www.socialpracticequeens.org/blog/> and NEW SPQ Certificate Program<http://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/146304/advanced-certificate-in…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Flushing BID Booth Design Contest
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Anyone interested in submitting a design proposal for the BID tourism info booth in downtown Flushing at the intersection of Kissena and Roosevelt can register here: http://www.flushingbid.com/booth-design-contest Let me know if you would be interested in working as a team. Best, Cody

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Free Spring Classes for NYC Emergency Management’s University Partnership Program (UPP)
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

*cannot attach flyer, if you are interested please contact Kaylan at the email below. Good afternoon, The NYCEM Academy would like to invite you and your students to participate in the Spring 2018 classes for the NYC Emergency Management’s University Partnership Program (UPP), designed to support graduate and undergraduate students completing emergency management or related degree programs in the NYC area. The goal is to help to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and strengthen understanding of how emergency management is actually practiced in NYC. Attached is a flyer with the class dates and times, which you are welcome to distribute to your students and colleagues who may be interested in learning more about emergency management in New York City. Each class is only a single session, and can be taken in any order or separately, and there is no cost associated with participation (however, food and transportation are not provided). To Register: students and faculty can register themselves by clicking the link on the flyer next to the date and time of the session(s) that work best for their schedule. Please note there is a password on the flyer (“spring2018”) that must be entered before registration can be completed. Space is limited, however if you have a large number of students interested in participating who cannot register for any of the sessions, please let us know and we can follow up to discuss additional possibilities. Please contact NYCEMAcademy(a)oem.nyc.gov<mailto:NYCEMAcademy@oem.nyc.gov> if you have any questions or have any difficulty registering for the classes. Thank you! Kaylan Sobel, NYCEM Academy

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Spring Semester Internship Opportunities at the Municipal Art Society of New York
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS)<https://www.mas.org/> is looking to hire a limited number of part-time, paid interns to assist with our planning and preservation work. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate program focusing on city and regional planning, historic preservation, public policy, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, transportation planning, economic development or a related field. Please find the internship description<https://www.mas.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Spring-2018-MAS-Intern-Posti…> attached and share them with any students that you think might be interested in applying. The application deadline is December 1, 2017. If there is anyone else at your institution that we should add to our list to contact about these and future internship opportunities please let us know. Thanks! MAS

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Eastern Queens Meeting on Joining Community Boards
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

On Monday, November 20th, from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm, Transportation Alternatives Queens will host an event with information on how to join your local community board. The event will take place at the Old Quaker Meeting House (137-16 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY). Community Boards are sites of power and decision-making for much of New York City's transportation policy. The up to 50 volunteer appointees of each board directly influence how streets are used and which modes of transportation are prioritized. If these boards sometimes seem disconnected and unrepresentative of the neighborhoods they oversee, that will only change when new and different Queens residents apply to join them and are appointed. Join us at our November Monthly Meeting to learn how to join your local Community Board. You'll hear from current Community Board members tell how they joined and what the process was like. We'll demystify it all for you, so you are ready to apply in 2018. We'll also have updates on the Northern Boulevard safety improvements, social ride planning, and next steps to continue making Eastern Queens safe for pedestrians and cyclists.? https://www.facebook.com/events/1422932061160381/

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dec 8: New Labor Forum’s 20th Anniversary
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

New Labor Forum’s 20th Anniversary: The Unmet Promise of Labor’s Resuscitation and the Future of Mass Organizing Friday, December 8 | 5:30 - 8:00 PM Joseph S. Murphy Institute 25 West 43rd Street, #18 More Information & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-labor-forums-20th-anniversary-the-unmet-pr… New Labor Forum, first published in September 1997, was founded to contribute to the new possibilities for debate and discussion among labor and its allies in the wake of the AFL-CIO’s first ever contested elections in 1995. In those heady days, the New Voice leadership at the federation proclaimed its commitment to large-scale union organizing and ambitious coalition building with working-class communities, and particularly communities of color. It simultaneously engaged in a rapprochement spurred by Left intellectuals and progressive political activists who had for decades been excluded from the AFL-CIO’s strategic discussions. These efforts gave rise to widespread hopes that organized labor might help ignite a broad, national movement for social and economic justice. On the twentieth anniversary of the journal’s founding, we will host an assessment of those earlier ambitions, examining the complex reasons why they have borne such meager results. We will also examine the current challenges and possibilities for building a progressive movement capable of confronting a thoroughly financialized economy of highly concentrated wealth, precarious work and unabated racial disparity, and a political system in the vice grip of corporate interests in which a multi-racial working-class alliance remains a distant hope. Speakers: Stephen Lerner – Organizing in the New Economy: What are the principal features of the new economy that workers and working-class communities must now confront? What does this suggest about new forms that organizing should take? Phil Thompson and Liza Featherstone – Debate: What is required to build a multi-racial working-class political movement?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dec 4: Who Cleans the Parks?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Who Cleans the Parks? Book Launch Monday, December 4 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor More Information & RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-launch-who-cleans-the-park/ NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch event of John Krinsky and Maud Simonet's new book Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City. Author John Krinsky will be present in conversation with Penny Lewis and Gianpaolo Baiocchi. America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars-both public and private-fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment tested, and leaves raked. Bringing this often-invisible work into view, however, raises profound questions for citizens of cities. In Who Cleans the Park? John Krinsky and Maud Simonet explain that the work of maintaining parks has intersected with broader trends in welfare reform, civic engagement, criminal justice, and the rise of public-private partnerships. Welfare-to-work trainees, volunteers, unionized city workers (sometimes working outside their official job descriptions), staff of nonprofit park "conservancies," and people sentenced to community service are just a few of the groups who routinely maintain parks. With public services no longer being provided primarily by public workers, Krinsky and Simonet argue, the nature of public work must be reevaluated. Based on four years of fieldwork in New York City, Who Cleans the Park? looks at the transformation of public parks from the ground up. Beginning with studying changes in the workplace, progressing through the public-private partnerships that help maintain the parks, and culminating in an investigation of a park's contribution to urban real-estate values, the book unearths a new urban order based on nonprofit partnerships and a rhetoric of responsible citizenship, which at the same time promotes unpaid work, reinforces workers' domination at the workplace, and increases the value of park-side property. Who Cleans the Park? asks difficult questions about who benefits from public work, ultimately forcing us to think anew about the way we govern ourselves, with implications well beyond the five boroughs. ________________________________ John Krinsky<https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/john-krinsky> is Associate Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York and the City University Graduate Center. Gianpaolo Baiocchi<https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/gb97.html> is Associate Professor at NYU Gallatin, and Director of the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU. Penny Lewis<https://sps.cuny.edu/about/directory/penny.lewis> is Academic Director and Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the City College of New York and the City University Graduate Center.

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