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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 19: Book Talk | Misdemeanorland
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Book Talk: Misdemeanorland Monday, March 19 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor For more information: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-talk-misdemeanorland/ NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Issa Kohler-Hausmann’s Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing.The author will be present in conversation with Gabriel Sayegh and Paul Butler. Felony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison. In the early 1990s, New York City launched an initiative under the banner of Broken Windows policing to dramatically expand enforcement against low-level offenses. Misdemeanorland is the first book to document the fates of the hundreds of thousands of people hauled into lower criminal courts as part of this policing experiment. Drawing on three years of fieldwork inside and outside of the courtroom, in-depth interviews, and analysis of trends in arrests and dispositions of misdemeanors going back three decades, Issa Kohler-Hausmann argues that lower courts have largely abandoned the adjudicative model of criminal law administration in which questions of factual guilt and legal punishment drive case outcomes. Due to the sheer volume of arrests, lower courts have adopted a managerial model–and the implications are troubling. Kohler-Hausmann shows how significant volumes of people are marked, tested, and subjected to surveillance and control even though about half the cases result in some form of legal dismissal. She describes in harrowing detail how the reach of America’s penal state extends well beyond the shocking numbers of people incarcerated in prisons or stigmatized by a felony conviction. Revealing and innovative, Misdemeanorland shows how the lower reaches of our criminal justice system operate as a form of social control and surveillance, often without adjudicating cases or imposing formal punishment. Issa Kohler-Hausmann<https://law.yale.edu/issa-kohler-hausmann> is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale. She joined the Yale Law School faculty in 2014. Her primary research interests are in criminal law, criminal procedure, empirical legal studies, tort law, sociology of law, and legal theory. Before coming to Yale, she was a Law Research Fellow at Georgetown University. Admitted to the New York Bar in 2009, she previously worked in solo practice and has been an associate with Ilissa Brownstein & Associates. In her practice work, she practiced in felony and misdemeanor criminal defense, New York State freedom of information litigation, and parole matters. Kohler-Hausmann has been most recently published in the Stanford Law Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and has work represented in many other journals and books. Her most recent publications focus on misdemeanor arrests in New York City and their use as a form of social control, and she has won awards for her writing from the American Sociological Association and the Law and Society Association. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, Yale Law School, and New York University. Paul Butler<https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/butler-paul.cfm#> is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University. He researches and teaches in the areas of criminal law, race relations law, and critical theory. His scholarship has been published in many leading scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review and the UCLA Law Review. He is the author of two books, Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice (New Press, 2009) and Chokehold: Policing Black Men (New Press, 2017). Professor Butler has also written a column for The Legal Times and published numerous op-ed articles and book reviews, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Daily Beast. His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and The ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News, among other places. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Butler served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. His prosecutions included a United States Senator, three FBI agents, and several other law enforcement officials. While at the Department of Justice, Professor Butler also worked as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, prosecuting drug and gun cases. Gabriel Sayegh<http://www.katalcenter.org/gabriel_sayegh> is co-founder and co-executive director of the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice. For nearly 20 years, Sayegh has worked on campaigns to end mass incarceration the war on drugs, promote fair economies and racial equity, and more. He is a core leader and strategist in the campaign to close Rikers Island Jail Complex (#CLOSErikers). Prior to co-founding Katal, Sayegh worked for 12 years at the Drug Policy Alliance, serving many roles, including as Managing Director of Policy and Campaigns. At DPA, he led and worked on numerous policy reform campaigns in cities and states around the country, including the coalition effort to roll back the Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York; the campaign to end New York City’s marijuana arrest crusade; developing municipal drug strategy planning efforts in select cities; advancing overdose prevention interventions in Connecticut and New York; and more. Sayegh has appeared in a wide range of media, including The New York Times, NY1, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, Fusion, NPR, Washington Post, Newsweek, Vice, NY Daily News, NY Post, Associated Press, Huffington Post, The Village Voice, Gawker, BBC, and more. He is the author of numerous articles and several reports, including Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy (the subject of a New York Times editorial) and From Handcuffs to Healthcare: Putting the Affordable Care Act to Work for Criminal Justice and Drug Law Reform.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 18: Clean Water – Essential for Life: A UN Earth Day Conversation
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Clean Water - Essential for Life: A U.N. Earth Day Conversation Presented by the UNA-Southern NYS Division Sunday, March 18 | 2:00 - 5:00 PM Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park For more information: http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/una-queens-celebrates-united-nations-ear… Join the United Nations Association-Southern NYS Division in celebrating Earth Day at Queens Museum. On February 26, 1971, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signed a proclamation saying that the United Nations would celebrate Earth Day annually on the vernal equinox, thereby officially establishing the March date as the international Earth Day. In his Earth Day statement on March 21, 1971, U Thant said, ��May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.�� The United Nations continues to celebrate Earth Day each year by ringing the Peace Bell at U.N. headquarters in New York at the precise moment of the vernal equinox. Join us for a panel discussion on Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation<http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/> . Worldwide, 663 million people are without access to clean drinking water. In the United States. 21 million people are exposed to unsafe drinking water. Hear how and United Nations agencies such as UNICEF and federal, state and city agencies in the United States promote clean water for all. Followed by light refreshments. Free and Open to All, no RSVP necessary ABOUT THE PRESENTERS Jonathan Turer is the Director of Programs and Operations for H2O<http://www.nych2o.org/>, a nonprofit that inspires and educates New Yorkers of all ages to learn about, enjoy and protect their city�s local water ecology. Through providing public and school programs at historic reservoirs, parklands, watersheds, bays, rivers and wetlands, H20 encourages diverse citizens to advocate for responsible public policy. Their activities promote science-based knowledge of New York�s local ecosystems and of what is needed for urban water resilience in a time when climate change impact continues to escalate. Turer is a Brooklyn based tour guide who received his MFA from Goldsmiths College, London. He has been fascinated with the city�s water supply ever since he went to summer camp in the Catskill Mountains. He began talking to kids about nature while at Connecticut College, leading tours of the school�s arboretum. He studied photography at School of Visual Arts (NYC). He is excited to combine his interest in NYC�s infrastructure and history with inspiring children about the natural world. Carissa Herb, President of Earth Club at St. John�s University<https://www.facebook.com/Earth-Club-of-St-Johns-University-160274586483/> which heightens the environmental awareness of the campus community and improves environmental health on campus, local, and community levels. They accomplish these goals through education, political action, and the promotion of environmentally conscious activities ABOUT UNA � Southern NYS Division<http://www.unasny.org/> A membership program of the UN Foundation, the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) is dedicated to building understanding of and support for the ideals and work of the UN among the American people. The United Nations Association Southern New York State Division comprises all chapters and members-at-large in the five boroughs of New York City and in the counties of Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Study Abroad in Sri Lanka
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

The Economics Department is offering ECO 102 (Microeconomics) in Sri Lanka this summer 2018 (as a faculty-led Study Abroad course). The ECO 102 Sri Lanka summer program is listed on the Study Abroad website: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/GlobalEd/StudyAbroad/Pages/QueensCollegeSt… ? Once registered for the ECO 102 Sri Lanka summer program, students have the option of earning another 3 credits through an NGO internship. Information Sessions: Monday, March 5 & Wednesday, March 21 Kiely Hall 270 at 12:15-1:30 pm (free hour) Please contact me with any questions: schiro.withanachchi(a)qc.cuny.edu Thank you for your assistance, Schiro Withanachchi Department of Economics Queens College, City University of New York -- Natalie B. Vena, J.D., Ph.D. Phone (773) 401-1496

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] The Office of the Nassau County Comptroller 2018 Internship Program
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

From: Hill, Erika <ehill(a)nassaucountyny.gov> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 12:09 PM Subject: The Office of the Nassau County Comptroller 2018 Internship Program Good afternoon, I am happy to announce that beginning today The Office of the Nassau County Comptroller is accepting applications for interns. Complete details and the physical application form can be found and completed online here<https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/4487/Internship-Program> or ( http://bit.ly/2F65aUx )-all applicants should scroll all the way down the page to submit an application. If you have additional recommendations on places where this announcement can be freely posted please feel free to share those recommendations with me as well. No documents should be sent directly sent to me, all prospective applications must must be complete their application using our online platform. Should you or a prospective applicant have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out to me. Regards, Erika Erika E. Hill|Director of Programs and Community Engagement Office of the Nassau County Comptroller<https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/1590/County-Comptrollers-Office> Office: 516-571-6056|Cell: 516-306-6034 Email: ehill(a)nassaucountyny.gov<mailto:ehill@nassaucountyny.gov> Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NCComptroller/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCComptroller This transmission (including nay attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the attorney-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] QC Study Abroad Barcelona!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Dear Urban Studies and Environmental Studies Students, The Department is offering two Summer 2018 Study Abroad courses URBST 206 (Global Cities) and 371 (Internship) in Barcelona, Spain (as a faculty-led Study Abroad course led by Rafael de Balanzo). Attached is a flyer with more information. The two summer study abroad courses are listed on their website: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/GlobalEd/StudyAbroad/Pages/Spain-Barcelona… Please contact me with any questions or the Study abroad Department: email: rdebalanzojoue(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:rdebalanzojoue@qc.cuny.edu> or QC.EducationAbroad(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:QC.EducationAbroad@qc.cuny.edu> The Study Abroad office is hosting a Study Abroad fair this Wednesday, February 28th from 12-3:30PM in the Muyskens Conference Room at the Summit Apartments. There will be also more Information Sessions on Monday, March 5 & Wednesday, March 21 in Kiely Hall 270 at 12:15-1:30 pm (free hour). Rafael de Balanzo Joue ?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Reminder: Queens College Career Fair, March 7, 2018 @ 12 pm
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

The Annual Career Fair will take place on Wednesday March 7th @ 12 pm in the Student Union Ballroom On the 4th floor. There will be over 60 companies representing the Not for Profit, Government, Education and Human Services and Finance sectors. ?

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