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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Reminder: Resume and Cover Letter Writing Seminar in Urban Studies
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '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 this 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

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Mar. 24: Film Screening: America Divided - A House Divided
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

The Center for Place Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center in association with Left Forum Invite you to a film screening and discussion of: "America Divided - A House Divided" This Event is Free and Open to the Public RSVP is Required RSVP Here<https://www.leftforum.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=130927…> When: Friday March 24, 2017 @ 6pm Where: CUNY Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall 365 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10016 More info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/america-divided-a-house-divided-tickets-323625… Released in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, AMERICA DIVIDED is an EPIX Original docu-series, executive produced by Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes and Common, features narratives around inequality in education, housing, healthcare, labor, criminal justice and the political system - all woven into an eight-story, five-part series. The show follows high-profile correspondents as they explore aspects of inequality related to their own biographies. This series cuts to the heart of the inequality crisis, exploring life-and-death struggles around the economic, social and political divide. The filmmakers aim is to expose the damage extreme inequality inflicts on all Americans, reveal its systemic causes, and celebrate real-world heroes fighting for solutions. Norman Lear explores the housing divide in New York City, where he is confronted by one of the nation's starkest images of inequality: a record number of homeless people living in the shadows of luxury skyscrapers filled with apartments purposely being kept empty. The creator of "All in the Family," "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" speaks with tenants, realtors, homeless people, housing activists, landlords and city officials - investigating the Big Apple's affordability crisis, hedge fund speculation on residential housing, and a legacy of racist discrimination that still persists today. Follow-up Panel Discussion A panel discussion on housing issues in New York City will follow the screening. speakers will include: * Gabriela Rendon - Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at New School Parsons (confirmed moderator) * Solly Granatstein - Award winning television producer and director, co-creator of the docu-series (confirmed) * Sam Stein - Ph.D student at the CUNY Graduate Center (confirmed) * Lourdes Dela Cruz - (CASA) Community Action for Safe Apartments (confirmed) * Member of (NYCC) New York Communities for Change (invited)

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Tue, Mar. 7: Book Talk: Amy Starecheski on Ours to Lose
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Book Talk: Amy Starecheski on Ours to Lose Tuesday, March 7 | 4:30 - 6:00 PM The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives New York University 70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor More info: http://events.nyu.edu/#!event_id/138858/view/event Amy Starecheski will discuss her new book Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City (University of Chicago Press, 2016) on Tuesday, March 7 (4:30 PM) at the Tamiment Library. A reception with wine and cheese will follow the lecture. This event is co-sponsored by the Frederic Ewen Center and the Archives and Public History Program. Anthropologists go to "the field" to find knowledge. Historians go to the archive. Really? Of course, this simplistic dichotomy fails to capture the complexity of the research practices of anthropologists and historians, let alone interdisciplinary scholars. Still, what does the anthropologist do in the archive? (How) is that different from what historians do? Anthropologist and oral historian Amy Starecheski will use the research for Ours to Lose as a case study to explore these questions. Starecheski started her research with oral histories and papers archived at the Tamiment in the Squatters Rights Collection and she when she was done she archived all of the oral histories she conducted there. In this multimedia event, Starecheski will play some audio from the oral histories and share some key documents from the collection, showing how she put archival research and oral histories in conversation to make sense of one particularly dramatic story: that of how a group of squatters in five buildings on East 13th Street mobilized their labor and their history to make a precedent-setting adverse possession claim on their buildings in the mid-1990s. Amy Starecheski is co-director of the Oral History Master of Arts program at Columbia University. She received a PhD in cultural anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she was a Public Humanities Fellow. In 2016 she received the "Will the Next Margaret Mead Please Stand Up?" Prize for public anthropological writing. Copies of Ours to Lose will be available for purchase. RSVP: email tamiment.events(a)nyu.edu<mailto:tamiment.events@nyu.edu> with guest name(s) & event title.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Tue, Mar. 7: Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City Derek Hyra Director of the Metropolitan Policy Center and Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy, American University Tuesday, March 7 | 1:15 PM Columbia GSAPP 116th St. & Broadway Avery Hall 114 More info: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/543-derek-hyra? For long-time residents of Washington, DC's Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers' market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout used to dish out soul food, a new establishment markets its $28 foie gras burger. Shaw is experiencing a dramatic transformation, from "ghetto" to "gilded ghetto," where white newcomers are rehabbing homes, developing dog parks, and paving the way for a third wave coffee shop on nearly every block. Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City is an in-depth ethnography of this gilded ghetto. Derek S. Hyra captures here a quickly gentrifying space in which long-time black residents are joined, and variously displaced, by an influx of young, white, relatively wealthy, and/or gay professionals who, in part as a result of global economic forces and the recent development of central business districts, have returned to the cities earlier generations fled decades ago. As a result, America is witnessing the emergence of what Hyra calls "cappuccino cities." A cappuccino has essentially the same ingredients as a cup of coffee with milk, but is considered upscale, and is double the price. In Hyra's cappuccino city, the black inner-city neighborhood undergoes enormous transformations and becomes racially "lighter" and more expensive by the year. The Lectures in Planning Series (LiPS) is an initiative of the Urban Planning program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. All lectures are free and open to the public; refreshments are provided. For more information or to make program suggestions, emaillipscolumbiaplanning(a)gmail.com<mailto:lipscolumbiaplanning@gmail.com>.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Creating Sustainable Cities: Pathways to Action - Half day conference for college & high school students
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Creating Sustainable Cities Pathways to Action CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, in collaboration with the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> and Duro UAS[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…>, will be hosting Creating Sustainable Cities: Pathways to Action, a half-day conference focusing on the science of urban sustainability for high school and college students. The conference will be held on Friday, March 10, 2017, from 1:00 to 5:00 PM in the Hunter College cafeteria on the 3rd floor of the West Building, and will provide a unique platform for students, organizations, and employers to meet and learn about exciting opportunities in fields related to urban sustainability. Topics will include local ecosystem restoration and resilience, urban transportation, tools for urban sustainability, avenues of community involvement, and the rise of citizen science. The goal of the event is to introduce high school and college students to the concept of urban sustainability and create awareness for opportunities to get engaged. Conference participants will include representatives from: * CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage2.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> (CUNY Hunter College) * Women’s Environment and Development Organization[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> * Billion Oyster Project[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> * Regional Plan Association[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> * NOAA-CREST[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> (CUNY City College) * Science and Resiliency Institute at Jamaica Bay[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> (CUNY Brooklyn College) * Mechanical Gardens Bike Coop[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> * Duro UAS[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> About our conference collaborators: Bella Abzug Leadership Institute[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…>: BALI utilizes the signature leadership skills of the late New York Congresswoman Bella S. Abzug (1920-1998) to mentor and train middle and high school girls and college age women in the development of confidence and the critical skills needed to become effective, dynamic and visionary 21st century leaders as well as active and creative participants in civic, political, corporate and community life. Duro UAS[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…>: Duro builds unmanned autonomous systems for environmental research and sustainable development applications, i.e. eco-drones. Duro’s mission is to create sustainable cities through better data collection. If you are interested in this free event you can RSVP through the conference Eventbrite page[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…>. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/377a1324355680a34ffa5b32a/images/4a32af70-c6f…]

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