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[UrbanStudiesCircular] March 1, 2019: Last day to withdraw from course with a grade of W
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

March 1, 2019 is also the LAST day to withdraw from course with a grade of W (official withdraw without affecting GPA).

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] March 4, 2019: Cosmopolitanism and Urban Diversity Conference
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Cosmopolitanism and Urban Diversity Conference The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue 6112: Sociology Student Lounge March 4, 2019 2 pm FREE https://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar/Detail?id=48355 ?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Tomorrow, March 1st is the Deadline to Apply for Spring 2019 graduation
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

March 1st (tomorrow) is the deadline to apply for Spring 2019 graduation! ? https://www.qc.cuny.edu/registrar/graduation/Pages/default.aspx?.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Remember to Vote this Tuesday, 2/26 for New York City's Public Advocate!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

Remember to vote on Tuesday, 2/26 for New York City's Public Advocate! Here are some resources about the race: What does the Public Advocate do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76h2nl4o_A? Final NYC Public Advocate Debate, 2/20: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2019/02/21/second-nyc-public-… Candidate Endorsements: https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/new-yo… http://gothamist.com/2019/02/20/nyc_public_advocate_vote_guide.php https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/nyregion/public-advocate-election-nyc.ht… How to find your polling place: https://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

Sam Stein will talk about his new book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State, on the following dates: February 25, 2019: Capital City book launch, with Esteban Girón (Crown Heights Tenants Union), Raquel Namuche (Ridgewood Tenants Union), Rob Robinson (National Economic and Social Rights Initiative) and Shellyne Rodriguez (Take Back the Bronx). Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY, 7 pm. February 28, 2019: Capital City book talk, in conversation with Jeremiah Moss. McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, New York NY, 7 pm. ?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] You’re Invited: Black History Month Panel on Young People in Politics!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

The Queens College Student Association is hosting an event titled “millennials and politics” where we will hear from young leaders from across Queens who are engaged in political activism and organzing in their community! SPOILER: We have a special guest panelist known for her work in organizing the Women’s March NY in 2017! It’s taking place during Free Hour [12:15 PM] in Powdermaker Hall Room 110 Monday, February 25 Refreshments will be served. -- Natalie B. Vena, J.D., Ph.D. Phone (773) 401-1496

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Queens College Career Readiness Skills Program Spring 2019
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Subject: Enhance Career Readiness Skills for Spring 2019 Dear Student: HireQC Pathways: Integrated Academic and Career Map that promotes career-readiness skills - Watch this video http://<https://queenscollege-csm.symplicity.com/track/fa22f876966bb6550a363f739b1a…>www.bitly.com/hireqcpathways<https://queenscollege-csm.symplicity.com/track/fa22f876966bb6550a363f739b1a…> and sign up today! http://<https://queenscollege-csm.symplicity.com/track/fa22f876966bb6550a363f739b1a…>www.qc.cuny.edu/hireqc<https://queenscollege-csm.symplicity.com/track/fa22f876966bb6550a363f739b1a…> Student Log In with Queens College Username and Password On the HireQC Homepage Left Toolbar: Select Resources > Pathways > HireQC Pathways: Academic and Career Map > Start Select Events > Workshops > RSVP & Add to Calendar For more information, you may contact Ms. Zavi Gunn, Director, Center for Career Engagement and Internships, Frese Hall, Room 213; phone number: (718) 997-4465. Please visit the www.qc.cuny.edu/career<http://www.qc.cuny.edu/career> for more details. Best Regards, Zavi Zavi Gunn Director Queens College, CUNY Center for Career Engagement and Internship 718-997-4465 zavi.gunn(a)qc.cuny.edu

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Information Session for Cybersecurity - Virtual Internship, Feb 19, 4 pm to 5 pm
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Dear student: We are offering "The Threat Within - Cybersecurity - Virtual Internship" again this semester, open to all majors. For those of you who missed last week's open house, we are offering an additional information session on Tuesday, Feb. 19, from 4pm to 5pm. RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/pAmHwo3I7U37xmTy2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- See below for more information: This course is offered as part of a unique education-industry collaboration between Queens College and the Cybersecurity Workforce Alliance (CWA) that does not require a technical or comp sci background and is geared specifically toward all students, regardless of their major. There is an acute shortage of workforce ready, entry-level, cyber professionals, in the U.S. and Worldwide. In response to this shortage, key industry leaders launched the CWA to meet current and future industry demand for cybersecurity talent, with the goal of producing graduates who are workforce-ready. The industry is looking for students specifically with critical thinking and analytical skills, common to liberal arts and business-related majors. Since 2015, close to 800 college students in New York have completed the CWA virtual cyber internship, including more than 75 Queens College students. The CWA student alumni are now pursuing careers in cyber at major banks, consulting firms, government agencies in New York or have a second internship in cyber. In this course, student interns work in teams with industry mentors, faculty, and teaching assistants (TAs) using an online technology platform, iQ4. The course goal is to enable students to identify and analyze the depth and breadth of the cybersecurity challenges from multiple disciplines. In other words, depending on his/her background, students will focus on interrelated dimensions, including technical, procedural, legal, behavioural, skills/proficiencies to develop solutions and desired outcomes related to cyber threats and challenges. There are no lectures or exams, just student teams pursuing real-world case studies developed by cyber SMEs. The industry mentors are volunteers, cyber SMEs. The Queens College mentors have included cyber, risk and information security execs and alumni from PwC, Citizens Bank, Lazard, and etc. The student teams present their weekly assignments via video conference call to the mentors, who guide and counsel the teams with real-world knowledge transfer to the students. This is a non-credit course, open to all students. In addition to the two hours of meeting (either in person or virtually) with the mentors and the team, students are expected to spend up to 4 hours working on assignments with their team every week. The time commitment is equivalent to a full credit class. This is a great opportunity to acquire real-world work experience in a field that desperately needs entry-level professionals like you. The industry is looking for students from all majors who possess analytical skills, creativity and/or agility. This virtual internship will position you to pursue additional internships in cyber/risk or a career in cyber/risk. Here are some actual quotes from Queens College students, who have taken this course: · “The ability to hear what the professionals had to say.” · “Learn a lot about pressing matter and working in groups” · “Meeting people in the work field who shares their experience and make us think a way around the solution. · “Great way to meet other students and learn about cybersecurity.” · “Teaches real-world skills” If you have any questions regarding this class, please email:: ying.zhou(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:ying.zhou@qc.cuny.edu> Class information: Date: Spring 2019, from Feb 13th to May 8th Time: Wednesdays 4 pm to 6 pm Location: In person at The Tech Incubator at Queens College, or virtually via online meetings. Here is a student blog about this class: https://medium.com/tc-tiqc/cybersecurity-class-at-the-tech-incubator-71a318… ---------------------------------------------------- Best, Ying Executive Director Tech Incubator at Queens College

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] February 28, 2019. Love: A Blues Epistemology from the Undercommons
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

LOVE: A BLUES EPISTEMOLOGY FROM THE UNDERCOMMONS All GC EventsCalendarLove: A Blues Epistemology from the Undercommons FEB 28, 2019 | 6:30 PM TO 8:00 PM WHERE: The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue ROOM: 1218: Segal Theatre WHEN: February 28, 2019: 6:30 PM-8:00 PM ADMISSION: Free SPONSOR: Center for the Study of Women and Society Description How can we humans, planners, designers, educators of all kinds, truly make a more just society? What does it take to build and sustain movements in the millions? Through research, practice and an exploration of the concept abolition, I lift up and amplify an answer which appears all around us: it takes the spatial practice of abolition and simultaneously understanding these labors as the love we ultimately seek and must make. These spatial practices are found in our undercommons--those spaces inhabited and produced by we, black people, indigenous peoples, queers and poor people, and it is where and how we say that we want to tear down the structures that limit our ability to find each other, to see beyond we want to feel a new sense of wanting and being and becoming (Moten and Harney, 2013. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study). Our work is in better understanding that abolition-based love is a spatial, erotic and embodied practice of collective freedom pursuits, and that they most clearly appear through mutual trauma-healing in our haunted places (our bodies, the land, our relations). These are the revolution. Co-sponsored with The Graduate Center, CUNY Ph.D. Programs in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Critical Personality Social Psychology, the Public Science Project, PublicsLab/ Mellon Initiative, the GC Library, CLAGS, and the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and the Center for the Humanities. Mia Charlene White is a parent, daughter, native New Yorker (Queens), dreamer, and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies in the Environmental Studies Program at The New School for Public Engagement, with a co-teaching appointment at the Milano School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy. She identifies as a mixed-Black woman of African American and Korean descent. Mia is an ongoing faculty-affiliate of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, a 2017-18 Fellow with the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography and Social Thought (GIDEST @ The New School), and a 2018-19 Faculty Fellow with the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. She has a Bachelor?s degree in Anthropology and Political Science from the State University of NY at Stonybrook, a Master of International Affairs (Environmental Policy) from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and a Ph.D in Urban Studies and Planning (Housing and Environment) from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Mia's work is interdisciplinary and she situates herself among radical geographers (race geography) and anthropologists, planning/urban theorists (fugitive planning), radical sociologists/historians and those others seeking to link social science concepts of space and race, to the humanities via art and protest. Since joining the faculty of The New School in 2016, she has developed and teaches the following all-new courses: Environmental History, Race and Natural Resource Management, Black Geographies, Race, Space and Dispossession, and The Revolution will be Cooperative: Community Land Trusts, Coops and The Commons. She also mentors thesis and dissertation writers using qualitative methods in their research. She is currently working on her first book manuscript titled Love: A Blues Epistemology from the Undercommons, an ethnographic and photographic exploration of socio-spatial resistance and everyday revolution in Brown and Black spaces, towards what she hopes to suggest as a "Theory of Love." Dana-Ain Davis, MPH, Ph.D. Director Center for the Study of Women and Society & MA Program Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Center, CUNY 212-817-8905 Faculty, Anthropology - Graduate Center CUNY Recent Book: Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Feb 22: Offsetted: On the Rights of Trees
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Offsetted: On the Rights of Trees Friday, February 22 | 7:00 PM e-flux 311 East Broadway New York, NY More information & RSVP: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/1210-offsetted-on-the-rights-of-trees Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe (Cooking Sections) in conversation with Mari Margil (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) and Elizabeth Yeampierre (UPROSE), moderated by Felicity Scott. 678,183 street trees in New York City currently provide $109,625,536.06 in “environmental services” to the city every year. These services correlate to a tree’s biological functions, which are calculated in dollars—a mitigation scheme that positions trees as instruments to offset man-made ecological degradation. Rather than address the actual source of emissions, wastewater, or energy over-expenditure, the quantification of the performance of trees into tradable assets implicitly accepts the continuous production of waste and pollutants. Offsetted seeks to launch a critical debate on the financialization of the environment—from the scale of a city tree to an ecological reserve—and on current forms of environmental justice. Throughout the duration of the namesake exhibition at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia GSAPP, Cooking Sections will continue to explore the the ways that value is extracted from trees in the city and global forms of green gentrification. This public discussion will further develop the project by considering procedures for the de-financialization of the environment and the stakes of such actions. Challenging the imposed obligation on trees to perform as speculative assets in real estate development and environmental mitigation, participants will discuss legal strategies to support the right of trees not to serve as carbon offsets, allowing them to just be trees. Offsetted: On the Rights of Trees is held in conjunction with the exhibition Offsetted at the Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University running between February 21 - June 8, 2019. Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe) is a duo of spatial practitioners based in London. It was born to explore the systems that organize the world through food. Using installation, performance, mapping and video, their research-based practice explores the overlapping boundaries between visual arts, architecture and geopolitics. Cooking Sections participated in the U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Their work has also been exhibited at Manifesta 12, Palermo; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; the 13th Sharjah Biennial; and Serpentine Galleries, London. They have recently been shortlisted for the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and the Visible Award. They currently lead a studio unit at the Royal College of Art School of Architecture, London. Mari Margil leads the International Center for the Rights of Nature<https://celdf.org/rights/rights-of-nature/> of theCommunity Environmental Legal Defense Fund<https://celdf.org/> (CELDF). CELDF has assisted the first places in the world to secure the Rights of Nature in law, including in Ecuador’s Constitution, and is a founding member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. Mari is working in Nepal, India, Australia, and other countries, as well as with tribal nations and indigenous peoples, to advance the Rights of Nature. Mari received her Master’s degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is a co-author of The Bottom Line or Public Health (Oxford University Press) and Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (Wakefield Press). Felicity D. Scott is professor of architecture, director of the PhD program in Architecture (History and Theory), and co-director of the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP) at Columbia GSAPP. Her work as a historian and theorist focuses on articulating genealogies of political and theoretical engagement with questions of techno-scientific, environmental, and geopolitical transformation within modern and contemporary architecture, art, and media, as well as upon the discourses, institutions and social movements that have shaped and defined these disciplines, sometimes evidently, sometimes less so. Her most recent publications are Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counter-Insurgency (Zone Books, 2016), and Disorientations: Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs (Sternberg Press, 2016). She is also a founding co-editor of Grey Room, a quarterly journal of architecture, art, media, and politics published quarterly by MIT Press since Fall 2000. 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. A national leader in climate justice movement, Elizabeth is the co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance. 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, sustainable development, environmental justice, and community-led climate adaptation and community resiliency in Sunset Park. Prior to assuming the Executive Director position at UPROSE, Ms. Yeampierre was the Director of Legal Education and Training at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, Director of Legal Services for the American Indian law Alliance and Dean of Puerto Rican Student Affairs at Yale University. She holds a BA from Fordham University, a law degree from Northeastern University.?

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