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[UrbanStudiesCircular] screening of A House Divided and discussion on housing, CUNY Graduate Center, March 24
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Friday March 24, 2017, 6:00pm, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., Elebash Recital Hall, New York, NY, 10016. The Center for Place Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center in association with The Left Forum cordially invites you to a screening and discussion of: "America Divided - A House Divided." A panel discussion on housing issues in New York city will follow the screening. Invited speakers include: ---Gabriela Rendon: Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at New School Parsons ---Solly Granatstein: Award winning television producer and director, co-creator of the docu-series ---Sam Stein: Ph.D student at the CUNY Graduate Center ---Member of New York Communities for Change (invited) ---Lourdes Dela Cruz: Community Action for Safe Apartments This event is free and open to the public. You Must RSVP to Attend! (click below) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/america-divided-a-house-divided-tickets-323625… Doctoral Faculty, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geography) The Graduate Center, CUNY ________________________________

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mon, Mar. 6: Urban Alternatives: A Blueprint for Successful Resistance
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Urban Alternatives: A Blueprint for Successful Resistance Monday, March 6 | 6:30 - 8:30 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor More info and RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/blog/events/discussion-helsinki-effect/ Helsinki was the chosen site for the Guggenheim Museum’s latest effort to replicate the much-contested “Bilbao Effect.” But in 2015, advocates of better methods for fusing the arts and urbanism had a different idea. They launched an alternative design competition, The Next Helsinki, which amplified a public debate about the role of culture in economic development that has consequences far beyond the Finnish case-study. The Helsinki Effect (out now from Urban Research) archives the hundreds of entries submitted to the competition and includes essays by leading urbanists, artists, and architects about its significance. It is a blueprint for successful resistance: in 2016, the Guggenheim lost its bid to build the museum. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a discussion with the organizers and editors of The Next Helsinki competition and The Helsinki Effect: Terike Haapoja, Miguel Robles-Durán, Andrew Ross, Michael Sorkin, andSharon Zukin. ________________________________ Terike Haapoja<http://www.terikehaapoja.net/> is a Finnish visual artist based in Berlin and New York. Her work investigates the existential and political boundaries of our world. Haapoja’s recent projects include Closed Circuit— Open Duration (2008/2013), last seen in the 55th Venice Biennale. She also represented Finland in the Venice Biennale in 2013 with a solo show in the Nordic Pavilion. Her work has been awarded the Dukaatti Prize (2008), Säde prize (2009), and Finland’s Festival’s artist of the year—honorary mention (2007). Haapoja was nominated for Ars Fennica (2011). Haapoja is a member of the Finnish Bioart Society, and founded the Ecology, Ethics, and Art program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. Miguel Robles-Durán<http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty.aspx?id=4e44-4d31-4e6a-6332> is Director of the Program in Urban Ecologies at The New School in New York, Senior fellow at ‘Civic City’, a post-graduate design/research program based at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) Geneva, Switzerland, and co-founder of ‘Cohabitation Strategies’, an international non-profit cooperative for socio-spatial development based in New York and Rotterdam. He is co-director of the National Strategy Center for the Right to the Territory (CENEDET) of the Republic of Ecuador, and has extensive international experience in the coordination of trans-disciplinary urban projects, tactical design strategies and civic engagement platforms. Andrew Ross<http://sca.as.nyu.edu/object/andrewross.html> is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor to The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author of many books, including Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, and The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town. He is a founding member of the Gulf Labor Coalition, an international group of artists, curators, and writers focused on improving labor conditions at the Guggenheim’s Abu Dhabi museum. Michael Sorkin<https://www.sorkinstudio.com/> is Principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio. Sorkin is also founding President of Terreform, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and intervention in issues of urban morphology, sustainability, equity, and community planning. Sorkin is Distinguished Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at The City College of New York. He is also an architecture critic for The Nation, contributing editor atArchitectural Record, and is writer or editor of over twenty books includingVariation on a Theme Park, Exquisite Corpse, Giving Ground (edited with Joan Copjec), All Over the Map, and Twenty Minutes in Manhattan. Sharon Zukin<http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?facu…>, Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, writes about cities, culture, and economic change. She is the author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, which won the Jane Jacobs Award for Urban Communication;Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World, which won the C. Wright Mills Award; and Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change. She is working on a new project on New York’s creative ecosystem on an ARC fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center. ________________________________ The Next Helsinki<http://nexthelsinki.org/> and The Helsinki Effect<http://www.urpub.org/books/thehelsinkieffect> was organized by: * Checkpoint Helsinki<http://checkpointhelsinki.org/>, a contemporary art organization established in 2013. Working in collaboration with international and local groups, it commissions the contemporary art of the future, inviting artist and curators from around the world to work in Finland. * G.U.L.F. (Global Ultra Luxury Faction)<http://gulflabor.org/>, a direct-action offshoot of the Gulf Labor Coalition of international artists working to ensure that migrant worker rights are protected during the construction of museums on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. * Terreform<http://terreform.info/>, a nonprofit urban research and designer center based in New York operates as a “friend of the court,” authoring alternatives that seek to raise expectations, enhance debate, and challenge conventional wisdom.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Sat, Mar. 4: Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land @ Queens Museum
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land Closing Reception Saturday, March 4 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM, with artists walkthrough at 4:00 PM Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park More info: http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/protecting-our-nature-and-our-sacred-land Photography by Standing Fox, Floor Grootenhuis, Uno Nam, and Erin Turner The current social, economic and political situation allows for excessive exploitation of natural resources. There is an energy in our world right now that is frenetic, sobering, and has the potential for grave results. There is a necessity to push for peace, to challenge established views, and to dissolve misconceptions. In the context of the #NODAPL movement that is protecting precious water sources that are being threatened by the Dakota access pipeline, this exhibition gives voice to the fight for the sacred land of Oak Flat, Arizona. Social Practice Queens, a partnership between Queens College CUNY and the Queens Museum, and the Apache Stronghold collaborate to bring this exhibition to the Queens Museum Community Partnership Gallery. The exhibition of photographic portraits by Standing Fox, Bedonkohe Apache photographer and artist, and landscape images by artists Floor Grootenhuis and Erin Turner, focus on Oak Flat, Arizona. This landscape, sacred to the San Carlos Apache, sits in the Tonto National Forest and has been protected land since 1955. A controversial land-swap presented in an unrelated 2015 National Defense Bill by John McCain, allows Resolution Copper (a joint venture by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton) to develop a block-cave mine which is perceived to create a 2-mile wide crater. The Apache Stronghold is fighting to save their sacred ground. These artists document aspects of the landscape that are at-risk of being destroyed due to a copper mine moving into the area. These images first accompanied a conversation under the same title: Protecting Our Nature and Our Sacred Land<http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/protecting-our-nature-and-our-sacred-lan…> that was held at the Queens Museum on January 29, 2017 at Mierle Laderman Ukeles' Peace Table. Apache Stronghold member and former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Reservation, Mr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. led the Queens community in a conversation about sacred spaces, conservation, and Native American activism. This event was documented by Uno Nam. Floor Grootenhuis, Uno Nam and Erin Turner are part of Social Practice Queens (SPQ), and were collaborators in developing the Public Programs of Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art<http://www.queensmuseum.org/2016/04/mierle-laderman-ukeles-maintenance-art> Peace Talks. This exhibition has been made possible with support from Social Practice Queens, Queens College CUNY, Queens Museum, the Apache Stronghold, and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Mar. 3: Deep Word Play: Signs of Distinction and Exclusion in Gentrifying Brooklyn
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Deep Word Play: Signs of Distinction and Exclusion in Gentrifying Brooklyn March 3, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Room C201, The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY Deep Word Play: Signs of Distinction and Exclusion in Gentrifying Brooklyn : Public signs are profoundly political spaces. As part of our broader research on urban change and redevelopment in Brooklyn, this paper explores shop signs as public texts that both shape and are shaped by struggles for place. Our data show how Brooklyn storefront signs operate as registers of place that reflect and reproduce the U.S. cultural organizing principles of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. We first introduce what we term Old School Vernacular signage as a non-hierarchical 'pre-gentrification' place register that never risks meaning and is open to all. We then focus on how new Brooklyn signs for upscale establishments frequently incorporate, among other features, word play and polysemy. While polysemy serves, in a Geertzian way, to construct intimacy, these new signs of gentrification also create exclusion and assert status hierarchies in places previously open to all. Bios: Shonna Trinch is Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at John Jay College who studies language, law, gender, violence and Spanish in the U.S. She has published widely in the fields of sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics and discourse analysis. In addition to her research with Ed Snajdr on urban change, she is collaborating with John Jay Prof. Barbara Cassidy on the student-led social justice theater program Seeing Rape (March 17,18, and 19 Gerald Lynch Theater, John Jay College). Edward Snajdr (Associate Professor, John Jay College) is a political anthropologist whose research on social justice includes gender violence, trafficking, political ecology and urban transformations. He has conducted field research in interests include urban redevelopment, violence, ethnicity, gender, human trafficking, and environmentalism and the intersections of development, law and social justice. He is currently working with Shonna Trinch on two book projects on urban redevelopment and gentrification in Brooklyn.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Waterfront Alliance Maritime Programs Summer Internship
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Waterfront Alliance Maritime Operations Summer Internship The Waterfront Alliance Maritime Operations team is looking for smart, talented and driven students interested in the waterfront to intern with the Waterfront Alliance this summer. NOTE: Summer internships are NOT eligible for URBST/ENSTD course credit. This internship includes a small stipend. For more information, see attached.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] CUNY Service Corps Poster Session, Wed., March 1
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

>From CUNY Service Corps: CUNY Service Corps Poster Session: Wednesday, March 1, 12:15-1:30 pm, Science Building Atrium. Come and learn what CUNY Service Corps' students at Queens College are doing to make our city a better place to live! Ask them about their experiences, challenges, and what the Service Corps means to them. Apply to join CUNY Service Corps now! Deadline is March 12. Gain work and service experience. $13 an hour/12 hours a week. 24 Week Commitment. Register at the event or go online to www.qc.cuny.edu/servicecorps<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001NdduxhOVdwS1hZ-XttLqsovzbHQV2arIr4-DbYiQ_3NN…>.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] FILM SCREENING: SELMA February 28, 4:45-7:15pm, Rosenthal Library 230
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Dear colleagues: We celebrate Black History Month annually during the month of February, and this year’s events include film screenings, lectures, and panel discussions throughout the month. Please join us for this upcoming event: FILM SCREENING: SELMA February 28, 4:45-7:15pm, Rosenthal Library 230. Details about all events in this series are listed online (http://www.qc.cuny.edu/BHM) and in the flyer attached. Best regards, Jean Kelly Instructional Technologist Center for Teaching & Learning Queens College, CUNY

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Resume and Cover Letter Writing Seminar in Urban Studies
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

In preparation for Queens College's Career Fair (March 15 12-12PM in the Student Union) and student job-seeking in general, the Urban Studies Department will be hosting a resume and cover letter writing seminar on Thursday, March 9 12-1:15 PM in Powdermaker Hall room 250B. Please bring hardcopies of your current resume and cover letter drafts (if you have them) as well as job listings you might apply for. Open to undergraduate and MA students, but space is limited. Please RSVP to: prof.abrell(a)gmail.com -- Elan Abrell, J.D., Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Urban Studies Queens College, City University of New York

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Queens Museum: Commonwealth: Water for All
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Commonwealth: Water for All Museum exhibition Feb 4 - July 30 | Wed - Sun, 11:00 - 5:00 PM Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park More info: http://www.queensmuseum.org/2017/01/commonwealth-water-for-all In New York City, it’s easy to take water for granted. Water makes up more than 60% of our bodies, and while it is essential to life, increasingly we’ve come to think of it as a commodity to be bought and sold thoughtlessly. Meanwhile, there is unequal access to clean water in many regions across the country and throughout the world, where scarcity renders visible the substance’s basic vitality to all living things. From wars over water that have taken place throughout Latin America for the past two decades, to the recent privatization of public water in American cities like Flint and Detroit, the effects of fragmented and shortsighted perspectives on water management are stark. Highlighting the urgency of this issue, two recently acquired portfolios of prints developed by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, We Are the Storm (2015) andWellspring (2016), are presented with a selection of materials developed for the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. Additionally, a poster production project will run concurrently with the exhibition, with designs addressing related issues printed in editions of 500 on the Museum’s Risograph machine, and available for free to visitors, with a new poster unveiled every two weeks. Social movements have a history of using and altering developing technology to rejuvenate traditional methods of cultural production and communication tools and artists in solidarity with Standing Rock are using traditional printmaking techniques to create iconic imagery which the movement picked up, distributed through social media, and re-deployed not only as online icons and avatars, but also as posters, banners, and t-shirts. By abandoning the concept of an “original work,” the art has become part of multiple, alternative value systems. Commonwealth: Water For All is the third in a series of exhibitions that features contemporary expressions about water, its utility, and its preservation and consumption in dialogue with the Museum’s long-term display of the Relief Map of New York City’s Water System, a sprawling WPA project commissioned for the 1939-40 World’s Fair. The model traces the system of aqueducts and tunnels that support the flow of water from the mountains of upstate New York to New York City. This exhibition is organized with Josh MacPhee, co-founder of both Interference Archive and the Justseeds Artist Cooperative. Interference Archive<http://interferencearchive.org/> is a library and social space run entirely by volunteers in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Its mission is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open-stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, educational visits, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of how people have organized to transform and improve their lives. Justseeds Artist’s Cooperative<http://justseeds.org/> is a decentralized network of artists committed to social, environmental, and political engagement. Each year Justseeds’ artists assemble a print portfolio responding to a key social issue that included mass incarceration, resource extraction, anti-war veteran’s resistance, immigration, and gender justice. The environment, and climate justice in particular, have been core concerns of the group. In 2015, the Cooperative collaborated with Culturestrike, a network of socially engaged artists that seeks to cultivate and support political art through a variety of programmatic and educational initiatives, to create the print portfolio We Are the Storm, which paired artists with grassroots organizations and communities building resilience in the face of climate chaos. In 2016, Justseeds released Wellspring, a smaller portfolio initiative dedicated entirely to the issue of water. In conjunction with Commonwealth: Water For All, Queens Museum has made a donation to the Water Protector Legal Collective<https://waterprotectorlegal.org/>, an organization working in partnership with the National Lawyers Guild to protect the sovereign treaty rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and provide legal representation and coordination for those who engaged in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Thurs, March 2: Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London Book launch March 2 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor More info: https://ipk.nyu.edu/blog/events/book-launch-flaneuse/ NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a book launch event forLauren Elkin's new book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, where the author will be in conversation with Garnette Cadogan and Ada Calhoun. The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a "determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk." Virginia Woolf called it "street haunting"; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's lived. We are shown the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the wartime correspondent Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis. ________________________________ Lauren Elkin's essays have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, frieze, and the Times Literary Supplement, and she is a contributing editor at The White Review. A native New Yorker, she moved to Paris in 2004. Currently living on the Right Bank after years on the Left, she can generally be found ambling around Belleville. Garnette Cadogan is an essayist and journalist who focuses on history, culture, and the arts. He is editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas(edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro) and is co-editor of theOxford Handbook of the Harlem Renaissance (with Shirley E. Thompson; forthcoming). His current research explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism. Ada Calhoun has written for The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The New York Post. She is the author of St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street (W.W. Norton & Co., Nov 2015), a narrative history the Village Voice named the "Best Nonfiction Book About New York," and the forthcomingWedding Toasts I'll Never Give (W.W. Norton & Co., 2017). Born and raised on St. Marks Place, she lives in Brooklyn. Co-sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities and Public Books

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