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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: 2018 Public Policy Internship Seeks Three Graduate Level Interns
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

*************************************************************************** College Board Summer 2018 Public Policy Internship We are pleased to announce *College Board’s summer 2018 Public Policy Internship *in our Washington, DC office. The internship provides graduate students the opportunity to gain real world experience with policy development, policy research, and government relations. Throughout the summer, interns will support the development of policy ideas that clear a path for all students to own their future. College Board’s Global Policy and External Relations division is seeking *three paid graduate-level interns*, two focused on state and federal policy (K12 and/or higher education) and one focused on higher education admissions policy and practice. The application deadline is *March 1, 2018*. Interested candidates can find more information and apply here: *https://www.collegeboard.org/about/careers/job-listings?gh_jid=1049802* <https://www.collegeboard.org/about/careers/job-listings?gh_jid=1049802> For more information about the internship, please contact Kory Hayward ( khayward(a)collegeboard.org)

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] March 9: Film Screening: The Ocean After Nature
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

The Ocean After Nature film screening: Rene Green, Endless Dreams and Water Between, 2009 and The Otolith Group, Hydra Decapita, 2010 FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2018 AT 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium (Room N101), Sheila C. Johnson Design Center<http://events.newschool.edu/anna-maria-and-stephen-kellen-auditorum>66 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003 For more information: http://events.newschool.edu/event/the_ocean_after_nature_film_screening_ren… As part of the exhibition The Ocean After Nature<https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/all-exhibitions/?id=17179877729>, the SJDC presents a screening of Renée Green's Endless Dreams and Water Between and The Otolith Group's Hydra Decapita. Endless Dreams and Water Between, 2009 70 min. Endless Dreams and Water Between captures a journey across dispersed sites: California, Manhattan and Majorica, held together by epistolary and oceanic exchanges among four fictional female characters who dream aloud about one day gathering in an imaginary place together. The film explores how islands shape our understanding of place in the world through conceptual, spacial, and historical positioning. Hydra Decapita, 2010 31:41 min. Hydra Decapita is a meta-documentary of an imaginary world based on the concept albums of Detroit based techno duo Drexciya. The myth of Drexciya is based on an underwater country populated by the evolved species of unborn children of pregnant women thrown overboard during the middle-passage of slave ships across the Atlantic. Amidst commenting on globalization, slavery, capitalism and climate change, the film is interrupted by high-contrast tight shots of flickering water, an intentionally abstract depiction of the perspective of the sea looking back at us. *************************** The Ocean After Nature considers the ocean as reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world. Featuring work by 20 artists and collectives in a variety of media - including photography, video, sculpture, and design - the exhibition explores new ways of representing the seascape as a means to identify and critique land-sea divides, the circulation of people and goods, and the vulnerabilities of ecosystems. In the past 15 years, global technological and economic shifts have triggered new concerns and understandings of the ocean. Invoking personal themes of identity and migration, alongside more universal concerns related to tourism, trade, and the exploitation of natural resources, the internationally established and emerging artists in The Ocean After Nature respond to the intertwined factors that define this new understanding of the ocean. The show proposes that seascapes do not only reflect power but can be instruments of power themselves. Featured artists include Ursula Biemann, CAMP, Yonatan Cohen & Rafi Segal, Mati Diop, Drexciya, Peter Fend, Manuel Gnam, Renée Green, Peter Hutton, Hyung S. Kim, An-My Lê, Manny Montelibano, The Otolith Group, Maria D. Rapicavoli, Carissa Rodriguez, Allan Sekula & Nöel Burch, Supersudaca, and UNITED BROTHERS. The Ocean After Nature is a traveling exhibition curated by Alaina Claire Feldman, a curator and Director of Exhibitions at Independent Curators International <http://curatorsintl.org/> (ICI) since 2011, and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, in collaboration with the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with the generous support from ICI's International Forum and the ICI Board of Trustees.?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] March 6: TEACH IN: Zoning and Urban Development
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Teach-In: Zoning and Urban Development Tuesday, March 6 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study 1 Washington Place Gallatin 5th Floor Lounge For more information: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/teach-in-zoning-and-urban-development/? What is zoning? Rezoning? How has it shaped NYC? How does development relate to climate change? Gentrification? Come talk about it! The Urban Democracy Lab's Student Advisory Board is hosting a teach-in about zoning and urban development on March 6 from 6:30-8 PM in the Gallatin 5th Floor Lounge. The event will feature Jon Ritter, Paula Crespo, Zishun Ning, and Sam Stein as panelists. Listen to experts, ask questions, and contribute your knowledge to our discussion! The event will be moderated by Student Advisory Board member Jonathan Marty, and will be co-hosted by the Urban Design and Architecture Society. Snacks provided! Panelists Sam Stein: PhD student at CUNY, Professor of Urban Studies at Hunter College. Contributor to Jacobin Mag and the recent book Zoned Out!: Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse. Paula Crespo: Senior Planner at the Pratt Center for Community Development. Coordinator of the Center's graduate student Fellowship program and the Taconic Fellowship Zishun Ning: Founder of Youth Against Displacement, and organizer at the Chinese Staff and Workers Association Jon Ritter: Clinical Associate Professor of Urban Design and Architecture at NYU. President of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Dead line Soon: 2018 Public Policy Internship Seeks Three Graduate Level Interns
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

College Board Summer 2018 Public Policy Internship We are pleased to announce *College Board’s summer 2018 Public Policy Internship *in our Washington, DC office. The internship provides graduate students the opportunity to gain real world experience with policy development, policy research, and government relations. Throughout the summer, interns will support the development of policy ideas that clear a path for all students to own their future. College Board’s Global Policy and External Relations division is seeking *three paid graduate-level interns*, two focused on state and federal policy (K12 and/or higher education) and one focused on higher education admissions policy and practice. The application deadline is *March 1, 2018*. Interested candidates can find more information and apply here: https://www.collegeboard.org/about/careers/job-listings?gh_jid=1049802 For more information about the internship, please contact Kory Hayward (khayward(a)collegeboard.org)

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Mar 2: "The End of Cheap Nature?" with Jason W. Moore, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, & Cindi Katz at the Graduate Center, CUNY
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Feb '18

23 Feb '18

Please join us Friday, March 2nd for "The End of Cheap Nature?<https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/the-end-of-cheap-nature>" at 6:30 pm in the Skylight Room (9100) at the Graduate Center, CUNY for a conversation with Jason W. Moore co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, and Graduate Center, CUNY faculty Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, and Cindi Katz about today's planetary emergencies and increasingly fragile natural systems. All are welcome, so please forward to your friends, lists, departments, and groups. We look forward to seeing you! 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.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Career and Internship Fair, March 7, 2018
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

Career and Internship Fair Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Student Union, 4th Floor 12 pm to 2 pm Internships Part-Time & Full-Time Job Opportunities Queens College students and alumni welcome!

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Summer Internship Opportunities at the Municipal Art Society of New York
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

________________________________ From: interns <interns(a)mas.org> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:28 PM To: interns Subject: Summer Internship Opportunities at the Municipal Art Society of New York The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS)<https://www.mas.org/> is looking to hire a limited number of paid interns to assist with our planning and preservation work. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate program focusing on city and regional planning, historic preservation, public policy, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, transportation planning, economic development or a related field. Please find the internship description<https://www.mas.org/about-us/careers/> attached and share them with any students that you think might be interested in applying. The application deadline is April 2, 2018. If there is anyone else at your institution that we should add to our list to contact about these and future internship opportunities please let us know. Thanks! MAS

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 2/28: Community Land Trusts in New York City and Barcelona
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Community Land Trust and Other Permanently Affordable Housing Provision in New York City and Barcelona PANEL ORGANIZED BY The New School MS Design and Urban Ecologies, MA Theories of Urban Practice, and the Municipality of Barcelona Wednesday, February 28 | 5:00 - 7:30 PM 63 Fifth Avenue, Room UL 105 (lower floor) The New School University Center?? Panel on housing policies moderated by Gabriela Rendón, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning. James Leyba, Director of Disposition Department of Housing Preservation and Development Jenny Yang, Program Officer Enterprise Community Partners Josep Mª Montaner, Barcelona Housing Commissioner Municipality of Barcelona Panel on housing cooperatives and CLT efforts and experiences moderated by Miguel Robles-Durán, Associate Professor of Urbanism. Christie Peale, director of Center for NYC Neighborhoods representing Interboro CLT, a partnership of the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), the Mutual Housing Association of New York (MHANY), and Habitat for Humanity NYC. Tom Angotti, Community Planner, Professor Emeritus at Hunter College's Urban Policy and Planning Department and the Graduate Center (CUNY), and Board Chair at Cooper Square CLT representing Cooper Square Community Land Trust Deyanira del Rio, co-director of New Economy Project representing the New York City Community Land Initiative, in partnership with the New Economy Project. Eduard Cabré Romans, Barcelona Department of Housing presenting the case of La Borda Cooperativa d'Habitatge en Cessió d'Ús.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 2/26: Talk: The Price of Life
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

The Price of Life with Michael Ralph Monday, February 26 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Copper Square, 5th Floor For more information and RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/raps-talk-the-price-of-life/ The Race and Public Space (RAPS) Working Group<https://ipk.nyu.edu/working-groups/race-and-public-space/> at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a conversation with Michael Ralph about the financial institutions that made millions of dollars from insuring slaves during the antebellum period. This is the second event of the working group's Reparations Project, a project which explores the prospect of reparations for Transatlantic slavery and colonialism, widely recognized as one of the most horrific events in world history. This inquiry will take the form of common readings to explore and frame the central issues, lectures by experts to interrogate the stakes, legal research to evaluate the case, and economic and statistical analysis to explore the feasibility of reparations for peoples and nations victimized by colonial slavery. Can't make it? Watch the live-stream on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/reparationsproject/> or Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/reparationsproject/>. Michael Ralph is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and Director of Metropolitan Studies at New York University. He has published in Social Text, Souls, and South Atlantic Quarterly. He is a member of the Social Text Editorial Collective, the Souls Editorial Working Group, and the editorial boards of Transforming Anthropology and Sport in Society. At the IPK, he organizes the Race and Public Space Working Group<https://ipk.nyu.edu/working-groups/race-and-public-space/>.?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 2/20: Meeting Everyone's Water Needs in Cities in the Global South
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Meeting Everyone's Water Needs in Cities in the Global South Victoria Beard Associate Professor, Cornell University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning Tuesday, February 20 | 1:15 PM Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation 1172 Amsterdam Ave., Avery Hall 114 For more information: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/920-victoria-beard As part of the World Resources Report, Towards a More Equal City, this lecture analyses the challenge of providing equitable access to water in cities in the global South. Based on a study of 15 cities, the lecture describes the scale of the deficiencies in water provision for urban populations. It traces privatization and corporatization of water in cities and how this has led to the commodification of water. It considers current realities in informal settlements and the challenges of ensuring water supplies that are uncontaminated, regular, accessible and affordable. It examines efforts to reduce costs to consumers, accommodate flexible payment, limiting consumption, and upgrading informal settlements in an effort to meet the water needs of the urban under-served. All lectures are free and open to the public; refreshments are provided. ?

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