April 2017 - urbanstudiescircular@lists.qc.cuny.edu

[UrbanStudiesCircular] CERRU Fellowship Applications, Internships and Information Session
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

Students, Note - these are not for URBST credit. Info session on next Wednesday April 19th at 12:15 in Powdermaker Hall rm. 108!!!

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Barry Commoner Center - Early Lung Cancer Detection
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

Barry Commoner Center Early Lung Cancer Detection: The Center's Experience with a Critical Public Health Issue Steven Markowitz, MD, DrPH ELCD Team Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Barry Commoner Center for Health & The Environment Remsen Hall Room 311 Queens College

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] NY 4/22: Group Invitation to Ideas in Action Design Summit: Reform Refugee Response
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

From: Christina Zhang <chi.zhang(a)yale.edu> on behalf of Christina Zhang <chi.zhang(a)yale.edu> Reply-To: "chi.zhang(a)yale.edu" <chi.zhang(a)yale.edu> Date: Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 11:10 PM To: Brian Rosa <Brian.Rosa(a)qc.cuny.edu> Subject: NY 4/22: Group Invitation to Ideas in Action Design Summit: Reform Refugee Response Dear Professor Rosa, I’m Christina, a senior-year architecture student at Yale University, and a member of Ideation World. On Saturday April 22nd, we’re hosting a full-day discussion on global displacement faced by individuals living in refugee settlements, with a focus on public policy and humanitarian design. At the summit, we’d like to invite students from CUNY with an interest in social innovation design or refugee issues to discuss, network and dine with some of the most influential names in the field, including chief directors of UN Habitat, International Organization for Migration (IOM), diplomats from France, Austria, Ireland, and other eminent architects and academics from Harvard, NYU, and Columbia. Please visit our website<https://www.ideation.world/summit2017/> or find the poster attached for more info. For RSVP: This is a free event. All students at CUNY, are invited to use the promo code “Access422” to RSVP at http://bit.ly/2nWeoKW. The ticket price will be charged as a deposit and refunded within 4 days of the event if attendance is confirmed. Seating is limited, so we courage students to register as soon as possible. We would really appreciate if you could spread this message to any students or colleagues who you think might be interested! Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you very much for your help. Best, Christina

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] EVENT - Gotham Center for New York City History: Is New York's Future Sustainable?
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 07 Apr '17

07 Apr '17

*Is New York's Future Sustainable?* *A History of Environmental Impact, and Planning for More Growth* Wednesday, April 19th, 6:30 - 8 PM The Graduate Center, CUNY Elebash Recital Hall (Ground Floor) Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham Unbound, talks about the environmental history of greater New York, and the limits of “sustainable” planning. Michael Sorkin (City College), award-winning president and founder of Terreform, a non-profit dedicated to just and sustainable urbanism, shares his recommendations for a greener Big Apple. Nilda Mesa (Columbia University), reflects on her experiences as NYC’s first Director of Sustainability, and the challenges ahead. Janet Babin, Economic Development Reporter with WNYC, moderates. Co-sponsored by Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research and Museum of the City of New York No RSVP required Questions: gotham(a)gc.cuny.edu http://www.gothamcenter.org/isnysfuturesustainable.html

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] EVENT - Community Development & Planning @ Clark: The Scholar-Practitioner in Gateway Cities
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

Wednesday, April 19, 2017: 12:15-1:30PM Powdermaker Hall 302, Queens College/CUNY Community Development & Planning @ Clark: The Scholar-Practitioner in Gateway Cities Prof. Ramón Borges-Méndez, PhD (Associate Professor and Program Coordinator) will discuss graduate program opportunities at the Community Development and Planning Program of the International Development Community and Environment Dept., Clark University (Worcester, MA). Lunch and Refreshments will be served

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] NYPIRG Earth Week Event April 20
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) is the state’s largest student directed grassroots organization with chapters on college campuses throughout the state. We teach students a range of practical skills while working on local and statewide campaigns regarding voter empowerment, affordable higher education, environmental protection, and government-reform. Last semester, NYPIRG registered over 1,800 Queens College students to vote, organized events and rallies to highlight the dangers of environmental pollution. This semester NYPIRG at QC is fighting to keep higher education affordable, while continuing our efforts to protect the environment. In a statewide coalition effort to enhance the state funding allocated to SUNY/CUNY schools, we brought over 500 students to Albany on March 2nd to lobby their elected officials. Students also focused their efforts on combatting climate change by contacting their local elected officials and the governor to protest the $7.6 billion bailout to nuclear plants, rather than focusing resources on renewable energy. To continue NYPIRG’s environmental protection efforts and to celebrate Earth Week 2017, we will be hosting a panel discussion, “Earth Day 2017: Climate Chaos, Corporate Greed” on April 20th starting at 3:30pm in the Summit Flex Space. The discussion will cover the science of climate change, climate law, and the ongoing investigation into Exxon Mobil by multiple state attorney generals, including our own, Eric Schneiderman.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] April 7th panel Discussion at Pratt Manhattan- TRUMP, CLIMATE CHANGE + ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE]
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

Thanks for posting! Tarry Hum Professor Queens College Department of Urban Studies Graduate Center Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program City University of New York (718) 997-5124 Office (914) 582-8075 Cell 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> ________________________________ Panel Discussion This Friday April 7th at Pratt Manhattan at 5:30 PM Reception 6:00 PM Panel Discussion 144 West 14th Street CLIMATE CHANGE + ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE HOLDING GROUND AGAINST ALL ODDS Panelists include : Rob Friedman focuses on climate and environmental justice advocacy efforts at NRDC. He helps facilitate alignment and build principled partnerships between NRDC and grassroots communities across the country on a number of issues, including fighting fossil-fuel infrastructure, advocating for safe drinking water, and centering justice in the development and implementation of climate policy. Before NRDC, Friedman worked on water-quality enforcement and community engagement at Riverkeeper in New York’s Hudson Valley. He holds a degree in environmental policy from Bates College and is a trained organizational behavior coach through the Academy for Coaching Excellence. He is based in New York and knows a lot about spotted hyenas. Farhad Ebrahimi is the founder and chair of the Chorus Foundation, which works for a just transition to a regenerative economy in the United States. The Chorus Foundation supports communities on the front lines of the old, extractive economy to build new bases of political, economic, and cultural power for systemic change. Farhad serves on the boards of the Democracy Alliance, Solidaire, and the Wildfire Project. He is also a musician, a lover of film and literature, and a bicycle snob. Farhad graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Computer Science. He lives in Brooklyn. Angela Adrar is the Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance that brings communities together to fight the bad and build the new. Angela, Together with over 40+ organizations and grassroots frontline leaders work to forge a scalable Just Transition to a regenerative economy and address climate justice by targeting the root causes of our climate catastrophe. She is a Latina immigrant who proudly comes from a lineage of women farmers and labor activists from Colombia. She has been a leader and outspoken advocate for powerful and grounded social movements led by women for decades at a local, national, and international level. She lives in Washington, DC with her two kids and partner and is an avid Seedkeeper. Elizabeth Yeampierre is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental and climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry born and raised in New York City. She is Executive Director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community based organization. Her award winning vision for an inter-generational, multi-cultural and community led organization is the driving force behind UPROSE. She is a long-time advocate and trailblazer for community organizing around just transitions, climate justice and community-led climate adaptation and resiliency in ‪Sunset Park. Elizabeth was selected as the opening speaker at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice. In September 2015, Elizabeth was one of the opening speakers at Pope Francis’s Climate Change Rally at the ‪National Mall in Washington DC. She founded the NYC Climate Justice Youth Summit, and in response to the community’s request after Super Storm Sandy, Elizabeth created the Climate Justice Center-NYC’s first grassroots-led, bottom-up, climate adaptation and community resiliency planning project. Ms. Yeampierre was featured in Vogue as 1 of 13 women leading on climate change throughout the world while speaking at local, national and international forums. Eve Baron Chair, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment Pratt Institute Higgins Hall North Room 206D 61 St. James Place Brooklyn NY 11205 ebaron(a)pratt.edu<mailto:ebaron@pratt.edu> 718/230-6808<tel:(718)%20230-6808> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Collective" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thewomenscollective+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:thewomenscollective+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr. 18: Architecture of Independence—African Modernism
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Architecture of Independence—African Modernism Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place (between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in the West Village) New York City, NY 10012 April 18 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Lecture: Kunlé Adeyemi April 22 | 1:00 - 4:00 PM Symposium: African Modernism(s) with Mark L. Gardner, Mario Gooden, LOT-EK, Joseph G. Mizzi, Dr. Ikem Stanley Okoye, and Mabel O. Wilson? More information: http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=exhibitions&expid=323 ?Between 1957 and 1966, 32 countries—almost two thirds of all African nations—gained their independence from colonial powers. In these budding nations, including Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia that are featured in this exhibition, technology and development became tools of liberation and instruments for expressing national identity. The daring and ambitious designs of new buildings, from state banks to convention centers and stadiums, mirrored the optimism and aspirations of the newly liberated states. Presenting over 700 photographs, as well as archival materials, historical photos, newspaper clippings, postcards, videos, plans, and sketches, Architecture of Independence documents the ambivalences of decolonization, its contradictions, and inconsistencies, but also its ambitions, aims, and aspirations. Curated by Manuel Herz and organized by the Vitra Design Museum, Architecture of Independence includes contemporary photography by renowned photographer Iwan Baan and award-winning South African humanitarian photo-documentarian Alexia Webster.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr. 17: Welcome to the Occupation: Squatting and Resistance from Berlin to New York
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Welcome to the Occupation: Squatting and Resistance from Berlin to New York Monday, April 17 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Urban Democracy Lab & Deutsches Hause New York University 42 Washington Mews More information: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/welcome-to-the-occupation-squatting-and-res… Deutsches Haus at NYU<http://deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu/object/io_1489606057833.html> and the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU present a panel discussion among Sophie Gonick, Pierpaolo Mudu (moderator), Amy Starecheski, and Alexander Vasudevan. As rapid urbanization transforms global cityscapes and access to affordable and livable housing becomes ever more precarious, global movements aimed at “squatting” abandoned buildings and critiquing the narratives of private property have grown. In this panel, scholars and activists share their experiences with these multi-dimensional movements and offer ideas for an alternative urban future. Sophie Gonick<http://sca.as.nyu.edu/object/SophieGonick.html> is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. Committed to interdisciplinary methods of inquiry, Gonick is interested in race and gender, property regimes, and activism across Southern Europe and Latin America. Her recent research examines mortgage lending and financialization, immigrant activism, and contemporary urban mobilizations in Spain. She has also written about squatting and urban informality in Madrid, including the article Interrogating Madrid’s Slum of Shame: Urban Expansion, Race, and Placed-Based Activism in the Cañada Real Galiana (in Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography). She has published in top planning and geography journals, including Society and Space and IJURR: International Journal for Urban and Regional Research. She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled City of Property, City of Protest (Madrid, 1939-2014). Prior to joining SCA, Dr. Gonick was Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. At Berkeley, she served as the coordinator for the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). She received the 2016 Anthony Sutcliffe Memorial Award for best dissertation, awarded biennially from the International Planning History Society. Amy Starecheski<http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/amy-starecheski/> is a cultural anthropologist and oral historian whose research focuses on the use of oral history in social movements and the politics of urban property. She is the Co-Director of the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University. In 2015, she won the Oral History Association’s article award for “Squatting History: The Power of Oral History as a History-Making Practice” and, in 2016, the Sapiens-Allegra “Will the Next Margaret Mead Please Stand Up?” prize for public anthropological writing. Starecheski received a PhD in cultural anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she was a Public Humanities Fellow. Her book,Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City, was published in 2016 by the University of Chicago Press. Alexander Vasudevan (via Skype) is Associate Professor in Human Geography and Fellow, Christ Church College, The University of Oxford. He is the author of Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin and the forthcoming The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting. He is also co-author of Geographies of Forced Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Insecurity (with Katherine Brickell and Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia). Vasudevan’s research has been published in a number of major journals including Antipode, Cultural Geographies, Environment and Planning D, Progress in Human Geography andSocial and Cultural Geography. He has written for the Guardian, openDemocracy, and New Left Project. Vasudevan is currently working on a project that explores the history and politics of urban precarity. Pierpaolo Mudu<http://directory.tacoma.uw.edu/employee/pmudu> (moderator) is a geographer collaborating with the Urban Studies and Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences faculties at the University of Washington Tacoma. He has previously worked in different Universities in the UK (Oxford and Reading) and Italy (Rome), and has been visiting in France (EHESS in Paris and Universite’ de Marseille), in South Korea (Sungshin Women University in Seoul), and USA (University of Washington). The main focus of his research is on the development of contemporary Rome as related to social movements and migrations and the transformation of public space. His has written several books and published in several journals including ACME, Antipode, GeoJournal and Urban Geography. Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp(a)nyu.edu<http://deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu/object/deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu>. As space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event to ensure you get a good seat. Thank you! Welcome to the Occupation: Squatting and Resistance from Berlin to New York is a DAAD<https://www.daad.org/en/>-supported event.?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr. 13: 350 Brooklyn Meeting
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

350 Brooklyn Meeting Thursday, April 13 | 7:00 PM The Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Ave. More information: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?id=14093&reset=1 350Brooklyn.org holds its monthly meetings at Brooklyn Commons on the second Thursday of each month. We are an affiliate of the international organization 350.org, which is devoted to halting the production of greenhouse gasses and promoting a just transition to a green economy. The Brooklyn chapter focuses on local actions we all can take to address the climate crisis. All are welcome!

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