April 2018 - urbanstudiescircular@lists.qc.cuny.edu

[UrbanStudiesCircular] Monday, May 7th: Career Paths of Recent QC Urban Studies Alumni
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

Where Are They Now? Career Paths of Recent QC Urban Studies Alumni Monday, May 7th 12:15 pm Powdermaker 253 Lunch Served Learn how QC Urban Studies majors and graduate students leveraged their academic achievements into careers in research, public service, and higher education! Maggie McCabe Environmental Educator, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Mikael Kerr Community Assessment Coordinator, Americorps Brad Rebeiro Admissions Officer, New York University Samantha Addeo Researcher, Urban Archive?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: Hagedorn Awards for First Generation College Students!! - Deadline Extended!!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Dear All, The Urban Studies Department is pleased to announce our annual Hagedorn Award competition for First Generation College Students!! Deadline is April 30, 2018 @ 5 pm. See attached for submission details. These awards of $1,500 are available to Urban and Environmental Studies Majors who are among the first generation in their family to attend a four-year college in the United States. Students whose parents attended college in a country other than the United States ARE eligible for this award. Students must have junior standing or higher and must have already declared an Urban or Environmental Studies major. Students may apply for the Hagedorn Award multiple times, but can only receive it once. Therefore, if you apply one year and are rejected, you may continue to apply in subsequent years. This is a competitive application given to only two students per year. Please craft your essays accordingly.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri., May 11: Reconstructing Economic Development for People and Planet
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Reconstructing Economic Development for People and Planet: Stories of Economic Democracy from Jackson to PR to the Bronx Friday, May 11 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM The Murphy Institute 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor For more information & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reconstructing-economic-development-for-people… For the first time in decades, cities round the country are advancing progressive innovations and solutions to too-long-sustained poverty and inequality. In New York City worker cooperatives, participatory budgeting, and community land trusts are on the policy platform of the City Council's progressive caucus and elected officials in the democratic party are pushing legislation for employee and worker ownership at the state and federal levels. With greater visibility and support from the public sector, some believe that these pilots and experiments for neighborhoods to drive wealth creation and capture and create equitable economic opportunities can reach into broad-based and mainstream policy. There is an opening here to expand the horizon of what is seen as possible for genuine equitable urban economic development, and its relationship to labor, communities and the political economy. In short, we can change the conversation from mostly pushing for greater accountability and transparency in the existing economic development order, to a conversation about what should come next and what policies and institutions would be a part of getting us there. Speakers include: * Michael Menser, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, Earth and Environmental Science and Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, Chair of the Board of The Participatory Budgeting Project, and author of We Decide! Theories and Cases in Participatory Democracy * Gabriela Alvarez, Chef and founder of Liberation Cuisine, a catering company dedicated to preparing meals collectively with sustainable ingredients and practices. Alvarez recently took her passion for healing and organizing with food to Puerto Rico to help with relief and rebuilding efforts * Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, a network of cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises and the author of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi * Yorman Nunez, Program Manager at Community Innovators Lab MIT and coordinator of Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative Co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute, CUNY, and Democracy @ Work New York

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri., April 27: Gentrification and the Future of Work in New York City's "Chinatowns"
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Gentrification and the Future of Work in New York City's "Chinatowns" ?Book talk by Professor Tarry Hum and Samuel Stein Friday, April 27 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000 between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan For more information & RSVP: http://www.aaari.info/18-04-27Hum.htm New York City's "Chinatowns" are becoming increasingly inhospitable to both long-term residents and recent immigrants from working class backgrounds. This talk, based on an article for Asian American Matters: A New York Anthology, utilizes employment data from the New York State Department of Labor (DOL) to document fundamental shifts in Chinatown, Flushing and Sunset Park's local economies, and examines the transition of New York City's "Chinatowns" from sites of surplus labor to sites of surplus capital. Using this Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data,Tarry Hum and Samuel Stein compared the neighborhood economies of New York City's "Chinatowns" during two periods, in 2000 (pre-9/11 crisis), and in 2015 (post-2008 "Great Recession"). The transformations that Chinatown, Sunset Park and Flushing are undergoing not only are remaking the neighborhoods' built environments and economic sectors, but also the modes of struggle labor utilizes to reproduce itself and make political claims. Tarry Hum is a Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College/CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Parkwhich received a 2015 Honorable Mention for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning's Paul Davidoff Award. Hum is co-editing a forthcoming volume from Temple University Press, Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, NY. Samuel Stein is a geography PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center and an Urban Studies instructor at Hunter College. In addition to studying and teaching urban geography, he worked as a researcher, organizer, and planner on numerous New York City union campaigns, tenant mobilizations, and public policy initiatives. His writing on urban planning politics has been appeared in The Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics, Jacobin, and many other magazines and journals. In 2018, Verso will publish his first book, a critical take on planning in today's real estate-driven urban political economy.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Call to Apply for a 2018-2019 JGS Fellowship- Urban Studies Students working with Photo/Digital Media
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Call for JGS Fellows 2018-2019 Thanks to a generous grant from the Joy of Giving Something, Inc., (JGS), Imagining America (IA) invites publicly engaged students of photography and digital media from our member institutions to apply for a 2018-2019 JGS Fellowship. Selected fellows will commit to a year-long learning exchange that includes tuition support, project support, and opportunities for professional development. Over the course of the fellowship year, each fellow will: * Receive a $2,000 tuition scholarship, dispersed across fall and spring semesters. * Receive mentorship and $450 in financial support for each Fellow’s community projects. * Attend the 2018 Imagining America National Conference on October 19-21, 2018 in Chicago. Complimentary registration and travel awards are included. * Participate in regular, virtual learning exchanges. * Be connected to the consortium’s national network of scholars, educators, artists, and community organizers. JGS Fellows will be selected based on the following criteria: * Be an enrolled undergraduate student in an IA member institution. Applicants should be entering their sophomore, junior, or senior years (or equivalent) in the 2018-2019 academic year. * Demonstrate artistic merit. * Demonstrate an existing community-engaged practice. * Demonstrate financial need according to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA) and the Student Aid Report (SAR). For purposes of the JGS Fellows Program, the SAR includes your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) which is used to determine financial need. * First-generation college students highly encouraged to apply. About JGS Fellows Program The goal of the JGS Fellows Program is to elevate photography and digital media as pathways for students to pursue their careers and to make a difference in their communities. The program specifically aims to support students for whom economic and family circumstances render such career pathways particularly challenging. Contact Jeremy Truong, program manager, at jgtruong(a)ucdavis.edu<mailto:jgtruong@ucdavis.edu> with any questions about the program or application/selection process. Completed applications must be received by Thursday, May 31, 2018 to be considered. Apply here: http://imaginingamerica.org/student-engagement/apply-for-jgs-fellows/

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Khafagy's new article in City Limits!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

?Check out BA/MA Urban Studies Student Amir Khafagy's article in _City Limits_ about Cuomo and NYCHA! https://citylimits.org/2018/04/20/cuomo-now-an-advocate-for-saving-nycha-ov….

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Hitting Home: Student Homelessness and Housing Insecurity at Queens College
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

"Hitting Home: Student Homelessness and Housing Insecurity at Queens College" Not sure where next month's rent is coming from? Are you couch-surfing while trying to get your degree? Come learn about the impact of housing-related issues on students' academic success. On Monday, April 30, students in the Urban Studies Service Learning Community Engaged Research class will present preliminary findings from their work on student homelessness and housing insecurity at Queens College. The event will include results from a survey of students taking Urban Studies courses during the Spring 2018 semester, findings on the impact of housing issues on student academic success and information on housing-related resources and support available on campus. We will be joined by Jennifer Jarvis, executive director of student development at Queens College. Food will be served! Monday, April 30 Free hour (12:15-1:30 pm) The James Muyskens Conference Room at The Summit? Presented by the Urban Studies Department, in conjunction with NYPIRG, the Queens College Student Association, Veterans Support Services, the Queens College Minority Association of PreMed Students and the Office of Community Studies.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Monday, April 23rd: Gail Collins, Award-Winning Columnist to speak at QC!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Please join Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and recent winner of a George Polk Award for her commentary, for a Q&A with students, faculty, and staff on Monday, April 23 during free hour, 12:15-1:30 pm, in the Dining Hall Q Side and President's Lounge. Sponsored by The Knight News and the QC Journalism Program.?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] April 19: Exhibit Opening and Conversation | Lotería de la Migración and the Visual Languages of Advocacy
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

?Exhibit Opening and Conversation Lotería de la Migración and the Visual Languages of Advocacy Thursday, April 19 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor? For more information & RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/exhibit-opening-and-conversation-loteria-de-la-m… NYU's Global Liberal Studies and Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, in association with the Institute for Public Knowledge and Colloquium for Unpopular Culture, invite you to an exhibit opening and panel discussion of Richard Arthur Fleming's Lotería de la Migración, on view on the 5th floor of 20 Cooper Square from April 19, 2018 through May 31, 2018. The discussion will be co-moderated by Marcial Godoy-Anativia (Managing Director, NYU Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics) and Suzanne Maria Menghraj (Chair, Contemporary Culture and Creative Production, NYU Global Liberal Studies), with panelists Alexandra Délano Alonso (Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies, The New School), Richard Arthur Fleming (artist, writer, and documentarian), and Catherine Taylor (Co-Director, Image Text Ithaca MFA and ITI Press). Fleming's Lotería de la Migración reimagines the traditional Mexican Lottery card game and its striking iconography as emblems of the logistical and legal obstacles to Central American and Mexican migration to the United States.Lotería serves as an occasion for this searching discussion about intricate relationships between image, text, culture, and the politics of migration. It asks: How do visual and textual languages speak to each other-and to us-about complex personal and political experience? ________________________________ Alexandra Délano Alonso is Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies at the New School. Her research focuses on diaspora policies, the transnational relationships between states and migrants, and the politics of memory in relation to undocumented migration. She is the author of From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration and Social Rights beyond Borders (Oxford University Press, 2018). Richard Arthur Fleming is a writer, artist, and documentarian excited and inspired by the subcultures and vernacular of the global south. He is the author of Walking to Guantanamo, a travelogue about crossing the length of Cuba at the dawn of the millennium. His multi-panel exhibition Lotería de la Migración is the focus of this event. Catherine Taylor (B.A. Cornell University; Ph.D. Duke University) is a writer and editor who works on a wide range of nonfiction forms-from documentary and literary journalism to lyric essays and hybrid-genre writing. She is the author of You, Me, and the Violence; Apart; and Giving Birth, and she is Co-Director of the Image Text Ithaca MFA program and ITI Press. ________________________________ Presented by NYU's Global Liberal Studies<http://liberalstudies.nyu.edu/> and Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics<http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/>, in association with the Institute for Public Knowledge and Colloquium for Unpopular Culture.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] April 18: Ghosts, Feminists and Urban Politics in Postindustrial Taiwan
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Ghosts, Feminists, and Urban Politics in Postindustrial Taiwan ? Lecture by Anru Lee, Anthropologist, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Wednesday, April 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM The Committee for the Study of Religion The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave., Room 5307 Light lunch will be provided For more information: https://mailchi.mp/722d91e923b1/426-sirine-mechbal-doing-gods-work-religion… Anru Lee is a faculty member at the Anthropology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. A cultural anthropologist, her research focuses on the Asian Pacific region and issues of capitalism, modernity, gender and sexuality, and urban anthropology. She is the author of In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring and is co-editor of Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society. ? ?

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