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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 16: Citizenship and Belonging in a Globalized, Traumatized, and Nationalist World
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

All and Nothing: Citizenship and Belonging in a Globalized, Traumatized, and Nationalist World Lecture by Kavitha Rajagopalan Thursday, November 16 | 6:00 PM The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Rm. 5414 More Information & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-and-nothing-citizenship-and-belonging-in-a… Please join Udaan-ISRA and the Polis Project for the last of four lecture-conversations: 'Dissent in Dangerous Times' on Nov 16th at 6pm, in room 5414. This talk will feature Kavitha Rajagopalan, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, specializing in global migration and the future of citizenship. She is the author of Muslims of Metropolis: The Stories of Three Immigrant Families in the West (Rutgers University Press 2008). She was previously a columnist for Newsday and PBS, and has written for Next City, The Feminist Review and various academic and policy magazines. Between 1998 and 2001, she was a reporter in Chennai, India and Berlin, Germany. She is currently at work on a literary nonfiction book about the future of citizenship in the age of global movement. Snacks will be provided.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 16: Community Board 3 Monthly Meeting
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Queens Community Board 3 Monthly Meeting Thursday, November 16 | 7:45 - 9:45 PM I.S 227 - The Louis Armstrong School, Cafeteria 32-02 Junction Blvd., East Elmhurst More Information & Meeting Agenda: http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov/file_depot/0-10000000/0-10000/2480/associatedFiles…

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Politico Internship
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

?** POLITICO is accepting applications for its fifth session of the POLITICO Journalism Institute (PJI), an educational initiative focused on newsroom diversity. The intensive program, which is designed for college students, will be held May 29 to June 9, 2018. It features hands-on training for up to 12 recent grads and university students interested in covering government and politics. Students also will have an opportunity to have their work published by POLITICO. All expenses are paid for the program, reflecting POLITICO's ongoing support of journalism education, newsroom diversity and recruitment of top-notch talent. Admissions are made on a rolling basis, so APPLY TODAY but no later than Jan. 15, 2018. https://www.politico.com/pji **? Tarry Hum Professor and Acting Chair Department of Urban Studies Queens College CUNY (718) 997-5124 Office (914) 582-8075 Cell Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Center Environmental Psychology Program Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood<http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2299_reg.html> Hum Gotham Gazette<http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/contact/1232>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dec 10: Counter Cartographies of the Global Supply Chain
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Counter Cartographies of the Global Supply Chain An Insurgent Mapping Workshop with Charmaine Chua and Laurel Mei-Singh Sunday, Dec. 10 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM New Perspectives Studio 456-458 W 37th Street Manhattan ?Tickets are sliding scale: no one turned away for inability to pay More information: http://marxedproject.org/event/counter-cartographies-of-the-global-supply-c… Supply chains justify their increasing reach into our daily lives by claiming that they provide us with critical necessities when we most need them. But do they? What are the unseen forms of violence, dispossession and exploitation that are concealed in the objects we buy with a simple click of the check-out button? Is there ethical consumption under capitalism? Charmaine Chua is a member of the Empire Logistics collective and Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. Her work examines the rise of logistics and containerized shipping in the context of the transPacific supply chain, and seeks to uncover how supply chains that claim to provision life actually distribute inequality, containment, and 'vulnerability to premature death'. Laurel Mei-Singh serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Studies at Princeton University. Her research interests include land and militarization, the relationship of race and indigeneity to histories of war, and the Pacific. She is writing a book on military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Hawai'i. ?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 17: The End of Cheap Nature?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

The End of Cheap Nature? A Discussion with Jason W. Moore, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, and Cindi Katz Friday, Nov. 17 | 6:30 - 8:30 PM? The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue Skylight Room, 9100 More information: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/the-end-of-cheap-nature? Modern history has seen capitalism commodify a series of essential things: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. In making these essentials increasingly cheap, commerce has transformed and increasingly devastated the planet and the animals, plants, and people who depend on it. Today we face myriad interlocking crises, from climate change to ocean acidification to diminishing supplies of fresh water and arable land. Is this the end of cheap nature, or will capitalism be able to exploit these crises to generate a fresh round of accumulation? And what will be the fate of the many beings - humanity among them - who depend on increasingly fragile natural systems? Join Jason W. Moore, co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, and GC faculty Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, and Cindi Katz for a conversation about today's planetary emergencies. Co-sponsored by Verso Books and the Art, Activism, and the Environment research group<https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/public-engagement/seminars/on-displa…> from the Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 18-19: Face the Earth film screening @ Queens Museum, Anthology Film Archive
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

FACE THE EARTH by Ming Chuan Huang a new feature-length documentary of the multidisciplinary artist Chin Chih Yang Premier screenings The Queens Museum, theater, Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY Saturday, November 18, 2 pm Q&A and reception after screening FREE Anthology Film Archive, 32 2nd Avenue, Manhattan Sunday, November 19, 7pm Q&A and reception after screening FREE More information: http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/premiere-screening-of-face-the-earth-by-… Renowned Taiwanese filmmaker Ming-Chuan Huang partners with Taiwanese American performance artist Chin Chih Yang to explore the artist’s lifelong focus on the culture of waste. FACE THE EARTH puts viewers right next to Yang as 30,000 aluminum cans are dumped on his head to call our attention to the vast amount of waste each of us creates - the average person uses and discards 30,000 cans in their lifetime! Sit alongside Chin Chih and passersby in New York City’s storied Union Square, on a giant block of ice and ponder the possibility that the polar ice cap will be gone by 2050. Watch the public participate with the artist to help him create his Giant Can Family at the Contemporary Art Museum of Taipei. Learn how he makes sturdy whole cloth out of discarded potato chip bags and gain insight into how each of us can FACE THE EARTH and contribute to her resuscitation. This 85-minute documentary film intersperses scenes of the artist at work with in-depth interviews with Tom Finkelpearl, The Commissioner of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York; Dr. Martha Wilson, Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive; Michael L. Royce, Executive Director of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Robert C. Morgan, Ph.D. - Artist/Art Critic, Steve Cannon - A Gathering of the Tribes, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful – artist, Jeffrey Grunthaner – writer, James Leonard – Artist, John Downing Bonafede – Artist, John Ahearn – Artist, Manfred Kirchheimer - film maker / professor of film at SVA, Heidi Jain – photography teacher and others. Directed and Produced by Huang Mingchuan, and produced by Formosa Filmedia Company, FACE THE EARTH includes footage by Annie Berman, Wang Yi Chang, Ray Huang, Liu Kuanting, Wang Shau-gung, Nick McGovern, Sen-I Yu, Doll Chao, Johanna Naukkarinen, Jing Wang, Susan L Yung and others. Photography by Rodrigo Salazar, John Bonafede, John Ahearn, Justen Ladda, Tom Otterness, Julie Lemberger and others. About Chin Chih Yang Multidisciplinary artist Chin Chih Yang was born in Taiwan, and has resided for many years in New York City. He holds degrees from Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Among other honors, he has been awarded grants by The New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Franklin Furnace Archive, MacDowell Colony and more. Yang’s interests in ecology and constructed environments have resulted in interactive performances and installations in the United States, Poland, Finland, Austria, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has exhibited/performed at Rockefeller Center, the United Nations, Union Square Park, The Queens Museum, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Exit Art, Flux Factory and in 2016 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei hosted a major retrospective. All told, Yang strives to lead audiences to a more direct awareness of the effects of contemporary technology and engender compassion for all humanity. About Ming-Chuan Huan Born in Chiayi, Taiwan in 1955, Huang Ming-Chuan lives now in Taipei. Graduating from the Department of Law of National Taiwan University, he left Taiwan to study Lithographic Printmaking in Art Students League of New York and Fine Arts and Photography at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Huan’s feature film THE MAN FROM ISLAND WEST claimed an Excellent Cinematography Award at Hawaii international Film Festival and a Silver Screen Award at Singapore international Film Festival in 1990. In 1998 his FLAT TYRE was awarded Best film in the non-commercial category at Taipei Film Festival and Jury Award at the Golden Horse Festival, Taiwan. As a documentary director, Huang has made numerous documentaries on art subjects and won the first Taishin Arts Award’s Visual Arts Prize in 2003. He has served as a board member of Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation (2000-03), National Film Archive Foundation (2002-05), Public Television System Foundation (2005) and CTV (2008-present). Huang was chairman of international jury of Taishin Arts Award’s Visual Arts Prize (2005), and feature length competition juror of Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2008). He was elected as Chairman of the National Culture and Arts Foundation in early 2008. Ming-Chuan has been the artistic director of the Chiayi City International Art Doc Film Festival since 2014. For more information please contact Harley Spiller, 917-553-4831

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 12: Migrant Kitchens, Portraits and Short Films, from the Margins @ Queens Museum
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Migrant Kitchens, Portraits and Short Films, from the Margins Opening Reception Community Partnership Exhibition Program Sunday, Nov. 12 | 2:00 - 5:00 PM Queens Museum New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park More Information: http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/opening-reception-migrant-kitchens-portr… On View Oct 28 - Dec 3, 2017 Opening Reception: Sunday, Nov 12, 2-5pm featuring screenings, street food, and community conversation around migrants and their rights Migrant Kitchens, Portraits and Films, from the Margins highlights those adept conjurers of taste in spaces on the street, in the community, and at home. For they are our culture creators-by their presence and persistence-they fortify our dynamic and shifting cultures together, daily. Migrant Kitchens features the strength, diversity, and creativity of immigrants who work in the food industry in Queens, New York. Migrants, across the country, are under siege from multiple angles. Those who work at the margins are especially vulnerable. Migrant Kitchens humanizes, and makes their lives visible, combating relentless negative stereotypes. Media about food are everywhere. A large movement across the nation researches, writes, films, photographs, farms, cooks and advocates for just food and a just food system. Yet inclusive media institutions-owned and run by diverse people-who focus on multicultural voices of those who work on the edges of the industry, are heard and seen less. Moreover, the people behind the food, urban food workers and migrant kitchens, are excluded or even tokenized. The portraits and films are candid, up-close, and borne from a slower engagement. We began our film explorations in some of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods: Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Flushing, Forest Hills, and South Ozone Park. The photographs and films required community commitment to organizations that serve immigrants and street vendors. At one event about how to be an ally, a community youth organizer from DRUM stated, "Those who are most affected by negative immigrant policies are the ones who should determine policy." While another community leader affirmed, "We don't want your money anymore, we want your active participation in our struggle." Migrant Kitchens wants to diversify not only who tells the stories but also the stories told. That means creating, at the core, more inclusive media institutions. And insisting on reporting on stories that reflect our varied citizenry. All photos and films by Sarah K Khan This exhibit was organized by Sarah K Khan and made possible because of the sustained support from multiple collaborators, community organizations, and donors: Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Street Vendor Project (SVP), New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE), Immigrant Movement International, Corona (IMI Corona), Buenas Obras Fund, Sillins Foundation, Asian Women Giving Circle, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Culinary Backstreets, and an Anonymous Donor.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Nov 10: Infrastructure vs. the City: The Territorial Capture of Water
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Infrastructure vs. the City: The Territorial Capture of Water Friday, Nov. 10 | 1:00 PM Columbia GSAPP 1172 Amsterdam Ave. Ware Lounge, Avery Hall More information: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/737-infrastructure-vs-the-city-the-ter… Arindam Dutta in conversation with Kate Orff Arindam Dutta is a Visiting Professor at Columbia GSAPP, and Associate Professor of Architectural History and Director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program in Art and Architecture at MIT. Dutta is also the Director of the MIT Infrastructure Architecture Lab set up to conduct research and propose strategies regarding the relationships between broad, macroeconomic factors driving built infrastructure and the specificities of architectural and urban form. Dutta obtained his Ph.D. in the History of Architecture from Princeton University in 2001. He has degrees in architectural design from the Harvard Design School and the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad, India. Graduating with gold medals from his undergraduate institution in India, Dutta has been the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the Getty Fellowship, in addition to numerous research grants and awards. Dutta's articles have appeared in the Journal of Society of Architectural Historians,Grey Room, the Journal of Arts and Ideas, and Perspecta. Free and open to the public. Organized by Columbia GSAPP.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] November 8, 2017: "The Past and Present of Public Transportation in NYC"
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

The Urban Studies Club is pleased to present: *"The Past and Present of Public Transportation in NYC"* *Featuring City Councilman James Vacca and Professor Martin Hanlon* 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Campbell Dome, Queens College Bring your questions about NYC transportation! Professor James Vacca is a member of New York City Council's Transportation Committee. Professor Martin Hanlon is an expert on transportation policy. Kosher pizza will be served! -- Natalie B. Vena, J.D., Ph.D. Phone (773) 401-1496

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Paid internships for students at top agencies - Learn how to apply on Wednesday November 1st
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

?HACU National Internship Program HACU: Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities @ Queens College Are you interested in a PAID internship? Want to gain real world experience? Students intern at over 40 federal agencies and corporations, Goldman Sachs, PwC, Deloitte, US Dept. Agriculture, US Dept. of Commerce, Ford Finance and many more! We provide free airfare, housing arrangement assistance, and a stipend of $550 to $620 per week. ALL MAJORS WELCOME Wednesday November 1, 2017 Information Session: FREE HOUR 12:15-1:30 Location: Kiely Hall, Room 250 Space is limited RSVP to save your seat to qc_career(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:qc_career@qc.cuny.edu> Questions? Contact the Center of Career Engagement and Internships at 718.997.4465 Best Regards, Zavi Zavi Gunn Director Center for Career Engagement and Internships Queens College, CUNY W: (718) 997-4466 [C logo]

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