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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Feb. 24: The Architecture of Exile: Refugee Heritage
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Panel Discussion: "The Architecture of Exile: Refugee Heritage," with Suad Amiry, Thomas Keenan, Jorge Otero-Pailos, and Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal; moderated by Nikolaus Hirsch. Friday, February 24 | 7:00 - 10:00 PM e-flux 311 E Broadway New York, NY More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/672755129578768/ Refugee camps are considered-by definition-to be temporary spaces. They are designed to be dismantled, abandoned. Their conflict for being meant to be quickly resolved. Yet there are some Palestinian refugee camps that are now almost seventy years old; the conflict, seemingly permanent. What is the type of history cultivated within Palestinian refugee camps? Could their historical presence mean there is value in their preservation? Instead of being perceived as a threat, can this history be mobilized for the right of return? How do concepts of heritage and conservation change by being applied to refugee camps? Within the context of Refugee Heritage, a new e-flux architecture project by Alessandro Petti, this panel seeks to address the potential for practices and institutions of conservation to be understood as a force capable of mobilizing the political constitution of built space. - Suad Amiry is a Palestinian architect and writer, and the founder of RIWAQ: Center of Architectural Conservation in Ramallah, Palestine. Thomas Keenan is Director of the Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Literature, Human Rights Program at Bard College. Jorge Otero-Pailos works at the intersection of art, architecture, and preservation. He is Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture in New York. Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti are architects, artists, and educators whose work combines critical and rigorous theoretical research with an architectural, artistic, and pedagogical practice engaged in the struggle for justice and equality. http://www.e-flux.com/program/95979/the-architecture-of-exile-refugee-herit… For more information, contact program(a)e-flux.com. For those of you unable to join in person, the event will be streamed live here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/e-flux<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ustream.tv%2Fchannel%2Fe-fl…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Save the Date: NYS Professional Career Opportunities (PCO) Exam
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

>From the Office of Human Resources: Are you interested in a rewarding and meaningful career with New York State? Sign up for the Professional Career Opportunities exam! Deadline is February 22. The Department of Civil Service has recently announced the next holding of the Professional Career Opportunities (PCO) exam. The PCO exam offers individuals, including veterans, with at least a bachelor's degree, or college juniors and seniors expecting to receive a bachelor's degree by September 1, 2018, with an opportunity to compete for entry-level professional positions in various state agencies in New York State government. Learn more here: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/HR/Documents/NYSCivilService.pdf<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RTaqfSUiUsJPJIEsH1E1R3vO9nURLz22hTd-OLxaCSy2…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: [Socrates] Updated links: Get Paid $13 an hour! Gain Professional experience and chance to change the city!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

________________________________ From: Sayashmini Madhow via Socrates <socrates(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu<mailto:socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu>> Date: February 15, 2017 at 8:07:53 AM EST To: "socrates(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu<mailto:socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu>" <socrates(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu<mailto:socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu>> Subject: [Socrates] Updated links: Get Paid $13 an hour! Gain Professional experience and chance to change the city! Reply-To: Sayashmini Madhow <Sayashmini.Madhow(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Sayashmini.Madhow@qc.cuny.edu>> ? The application for the CUNY Service Corps 2017-2018 program is open! Want to make a difference in your community? Apply now to be a member of the CUNY Service Corps: a program that gives students like you the chance to play a role in improving New York City's future - while gaining real-work experience and professional training and getting paid $13 per hour. Priority Deadline: February 15, 2017. Final Deadline: March 12th, 2017. The 135 placement sites where Queens College students have participated include: * 9/11 Memorial & Museum* Brooklyn Navy Yard * American Museum of Natural History * Federal Reserve Bank of New York * New York City Council * NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene * Office of Manhattan Borough President *New York Hall of Science * U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Technology * * Wildlife Conservation Society City Zoos Services * and many more community and government based organizations! We also offer service projects led by professors from Queens College and other CUNY campuses! To apply, please go to: http://www.cuny.edu/servicecorps Learn more about CUNY Service Corps at Queens College go to: www.qc.cuny.edu/servicecorps<http://www.qc.cuny.edu/servicecorps><http://www.qc.cuny.edu/servicecorps> _______________________________________________ Socrates mailing list, Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning Socrates(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu> To unsubscribe or change your preferences goto https://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/socrates

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Wed, Feb. 22: The Camp & the CIty: Architectures of Refuge
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

The Camp & the City: Architectures of Refuge Wednesday, February 22 | 4:30 - 6:30 PM Skylight Room, Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue More info: http://globalization.gc.cuny.edu/events/the-camp-and-the-city-a-panel-on-ar… Sean Anderson (Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York) Keller Easterling (Professor, Yale School of Architecture) Free Migration Anooradha Siddiqi (Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, New York University; Affiliated Scholar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi) Field Notes for an Architectural History of Forced Migration Response by David Joselit (Distinguished Professor, PhD Program in Art History, The Graduate Center) This panel, which grows out the MoMA exhibition, "Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter," curated by participant Sean Anderson will consider how ostensibly temporary refugee camps urbanize over time, and conversely how cities experiencing conflict fall into the condition of camps, or of informal settlements. Sean Anderson is Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, he has degrees in architectural design and architectural history from Cornell University, an MArch from Princeton University, and a Ph.D in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has practiced as an architect and taught in Afghanistan, Australia, India, Italy, Morocco, Sri Lanka, and the U.A.E. His book Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea was published by Routledge in 2015 and was shortlisted for the AIFC Bridge Prize in American Nonfiction. Keller Easterling is an architect, writer and professor at Yale. Her most recent book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. Another recent book, Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), considers building removal or how to put the development machine into reverse. Other books include: Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Her research and writing was included in the 2014 Venice Biennale, and she lectures and exhibits internationally. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Gallatin School for Individualized Study at New York University, and affiliated with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi. Her historical and ethnographic research focuses on spatial politics, urbanisms, and modernist culture and discourses, with study based substantively in East Africa and South Asia. Her research is related to two separate book projects, Architecture of Humanitarianism: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Emergency Urbanism in History, and Vocal Instruments: Minnette De Silva and an Asian Modern Architecture. She is the co-editor of the volume Spatial Violence. Siddiqi's work has received support from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Social Science Research Council, the Graham Foundation, New York University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She received a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and practiced architecture in Bangalore, Philadelphia, and New York.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Tue, Feb. 21: The Urban Apparatus: Reinhold Martin with Andreas Huyssen
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

The Urban Apparatus: Reinhold Martin and Andreas Huyssen Tuesday, February 21 | 7:00 PM Book Culture 536 West 112th Street More info: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/482-the-urban-apparatus-reinhold-marti… Reinhold Martin discusses his newest book, The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City<http://www.bookculture.com/book/9781517901196> at Book Culture. Joining him in conversation is Andreas Huyssen, author of Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film<http://buellcenter.org/miniature-metropolis-literature-age-photography-and-…>. Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today's city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime. Blending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, The Urban Apparatus explores how the aesthetics of cities and their political economies overlap. In a series of ten essays, with a detailed theoretical introduction, Martin explores questions related to urban life, drawn from a wide range of global topics from the fiscal crisis in Detroit to speculative development in Mumbai to the landscape of Mars, from discussions of race and the environment to housing and economic inequality. Each essay proposes a particular mediator (or a material complex) that is shaped by imaginative practices, each answering the question What is a city, today? The Urban Apparatus serves as an urban bookend to the architectural questions explored by Martin in his earlier book Utopia's Ghost, and ultimately offers readers a way to think politically about urbanization. ________________________________ Reinhold Martin is Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture<http://buellcenter.org/>. He is a member of Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society<http://icls.columbia.edu/> as well as the Committee on Global Thought. Martin is a founding co-editor of the journal Grey Room and has published widely on the history and theory of modern and contemporary architecture. He is the author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (MIT Press, 2003), and Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (Minnesota, 2010). Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he served as founding director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (1998-2003). He chaired the Department of Germanic Languages from 1986-1992 and again from 2005-2008. He is one of the founding editors of New German Critique (1974-), and he serves on the editorial boards of October, Constellations, Germanic Review, Transit, Key Words (UK), Critical Space (Tokyo), Memory Studies (UK), Lumina (Brazil), and Comunicação & Cultura (Portugal).

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Feb. 17: Financial Infrastructures for Resilience: The Case of the South Bronx
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Oikos Workshop | Financial Infrastructures for Resilience: The Case of the South Bronx Friday, February 17 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, Room 222 More info and registration: https://ipk.nyu.edu/blog/events/oikos-workshop-financial-infrastructures-fo… The Oikos working group at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a workshop with Antonieta Castro-Cosio on her paper about financial infrastructures for resilience in the South Bronx. RSVP to shari.wolk(a)nyu.edu for the paper. In her paper, Castro-Cosio explores the role of "informal" financial practices and institutions in the shaping of resilient urban communities, with a focus on low and moderate-income urban communities. To do so, she looks at different types of financial transactions and services that exist in such communities, and studies in detail the so-called "informal" mechanisms that exist therein, particularly the Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs). It is argued that these institutions serve as substitutes or complements for the deficient access that populations in such communities have to formal financial services, and constitute part of their safety networks to be resilient in the face of external circumstances like economic shifts, failing policies, medical emergencies, or natural disasters. Castro-Cosio tests this hypothesis against the findings from a case study in a neighborhood in the South Bronx in New York City, where she was accepted to join one of such circles and documented her own experience, as well as that of the rest of the members in the network. ________________________________ Antonieta Castro-Cosio<http://www.castroco.org/> is a Public and Urban Policy thinker and researcher with over 15 years of experience in various aspects of development and public policy, including in public institutions and international representations. Her work aims to design and evaluate effective policies for low- and moderate-income urban communities to enable them to sustainably develop and achieve their full potential. She served for four years at the British Embassy in Mexico as Director of its Sustainable Development program, funded by the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies at The New School Castro-Cosio obtained a MSc. in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BSc. in International Relations from the Tec of Monterrey, as well as a specialization certificate in Energy and Environmental Management and Policy from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO).

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Thurs, Feb. 16: Community Board 3 Monthly Meeting
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Queens Community Board 3 Monthly Meeting Thursday, February 16 | 7:45 PM I.S. 227 The Louise Armstrong School, Cafeteria 32-02 Junction Blvd, East Elmhurst More info and meeting agenda: http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov/file_depot/0-10000000/0-10000/2480/associatedFiles…

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Wed., Feb 15th: Democracy in Multicultural Queens (On Campus)
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Discussion Series: Democracy in Multicultural Queens: Immigration, Race, and Social Justice. 4-6 pm, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall 405. Asian/American Center celebrates the Lunar New Year by launching this series. Information: qc.acc(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:qc.acc@qc.cuny.edu>; 718-997-3050

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Not My Life Free Screening, February 14th
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

From: Kevin L Williams <Kevin.Williams(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:08 PM Subject: Not My Life Free Screening _February 14th Good Day, We’re hosting a free screening for the film Not My Life<http://notmylife.org/#the-film> which is the first film to depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with members from the UNICEF and Christopher Sharpe, Commanding Officer, Human Trafficking Unit for the New York Police Department. See attached for more information. Can you please share this with your students? The event will be held in Rosenthal Library room 230 on Tuesday, February 14th at 4:30 PM. Best regards, Kevin Williams Assistant Athletic Director/External Relations Queens College 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Flushing, NY 11367 P: 718-997-2733 C: 347-683-4350 www.QueensKnights.com<http://www.queensknights.com/>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: Fw: FW: Zolberg Institute panel: "The Trump Executive Orders on Immigration and Refugees: A legal and policy discussion, " February 09th @ 6:30pm
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

*From:* Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility *Sent:* Monday, February 06, 2017 9:01 AM *Subject:* Zolberg Institute panel: "The Trump Executive Orders on Immigration and Refugees: A legal and policy discussion," February 09th @ 6:30pm * ZOLBERG INSTITUTE ON MIGRATION AND MOBILITY* │*The New School* View this email in your browser <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us3.campaign-2Darchive1…> The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> at The New School hosts a panel entitled "The Trump Executive Orders on Immigration and Refugees: A legal and policy discussion." Donald Trump has issued Executive Orders on immigration that call for increased border enforcement, construction of a wall on the southwest border and mandatory detention of persons apprehended seeking unauthorized entry to the U.S. Trump's Executive Order on "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry" imposes a 90 day travel ban on persons coming from seven predominantly Muslim countries, suspends U.S. refugee admissions, and cuts overall refugee admission to the U.S. by more than 50%. A panel of experts will discuss the legal and policy implications of the Executive Orders, and the impact they will have on immigrants, refugees, their families and their communities. The panel, moderated by the Zolberg Institute's Director Alex Aleinikoff, includes Professor Alexandra Delano (Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts), Eleanor Acer (Human Rights First), Muz Chishti (Migration Policy Institute), and Nisha Agarwal (Commissioner, NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs - invited). Co-sponsored by the Global Studies Program and supported by the New School for Social Research <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> . Free and open to the public; no tickets required. February 09th, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall (Room UL105) University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> *Copyright © Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility 2016, All rights reserved.* *Our mailing address is:* migration(a)newschool.edu Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> This email was sent to els.degraauw(a)baruch.cuny.edu *why did I get this?* <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> unsubscribe from this list <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> update subscription preferences <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__newschool.us3.list-2Dma…> Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility · The New School for Social Research · 6 East 16th Street · New York, NY 10003 · USA [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mailchimp.com_monke…> ------------------------------

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