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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Hagedorn Awards for First Generation College Students! APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 29, 2019!!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Dear Students: The Department of Urban Studies offers one-time awards of $1,500 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. Please fill out the attached application! DEADLINE: APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE EMAILED TO jeanne.chan(a)qc.cuny.edu no later than April 29, 2019 @ 5 pm. For more information see: http://qcurban.org/awards/ Questions? Email mchecker(a)qc.cuny.edu

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Green New Deal
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Hi All, Urban Studies is presenting a panel on NYC and the Green New Deal with excellent speakers including Leslie Cagan, People's Climate Movement, Annel Hernandez, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, Andres Bernal, senior advisor to Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, and NYC Council Member Costa Constantinides, Chair of the Committee on Environmental Protection. The event is Wednesday, April 10, 12:15pm-1:30pm, at Kiely Hall 270. We hope to see everyone there! [cid:5bb2117c-d86e-4049-a96b-b54b53f420e8]?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: Education Career Fair- Companies from the Education and Not for Profit Sectors
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

?The Queens College Center for Career Engagement and Internships will host a job fair for careers in the non-profit and education industries. The fair will be Wednesday, April 10 from 4-6pm in the QC Dining Hall Midway Court. Students who plan to attend should register at www.qc.cuny.edu/hireqc. Scott Larson, Ph.D Co-Director and Service Learning Coordinator Office of Community Studies Department of Urban Studies Queens College http://qcurban.org/faculty/scott-larson/ https://qc-cuny.academia.edu/ScottLarson ________________________________ From: Mark Klein Sent: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:01 PM To: Scott M Larson Subject: Education Career Fair- Companies from the Education and Not for Profit Sectors Hi Scott, We have scheduled a Career Fair on April 10th from 4-6 pm. There will be companies from the Education and Not for Profit sectors represented at this Career Fair Please feel free to distribute this flyer to your students and other faculty members. Thank you for your assistance! With warm regards, Mark Klein, MSW Career Educator Center for Career Engagement and Internships Queens College 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Queens, New York 11367-1597 (718) 997-4684 "Visualize, Prepare, Persist, Succeed" www.qc.cuny.edu/career<http://www.qc.cuny.edu/career> [http://www.qc.cuny.edu/StudentLife/services/advising/career/PublishingImage…]<https://www.facebook.com/QCCareerDevelopment> [http://www.qc.cuny.edu/StudentLife/services/advising/career/PublishingImage…] <https://www.linkedin.com/grps?gid=3348940&trk=group-name> [cid:image003.png@01D353D6.94B31F30]

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: $1,500 Internship Stipend
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Dwayne M. Baker, PhD Assistant Professor Urban Studies Department Queens College ________________________________ From: Center for Career Engagement and Internships/Queens College <sima(a)queenscollegecuny.ccsend.com> on behalf of Center for Career Engagement and Internships/Queens College <qcmailer(a)qc.cuny.edu> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 8:52 AM To: Dwayne M Baker Subject: $1,500 Internship Stipend Having trouble viewing this email? Click here <http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103033957415&ca=d32a4fc6-…> [QC Banner] >From the Center for Career Engagement and Internships: The Queens College internship stipend provides financial assistance to Queens College students who are participating in unpaid internships in the arts, education, public service, non-profit agencies, and other industries that do not traditionally pay interns. This stipend is a one-time $1,500 financial award that will support current undergraduate and graduate students engaged in unpaid internships hosted by a local, out-of-state, or abroad organization. You are required to apply on HireQC (on the Symplicity platform). Log in with your QC Username ex. "jdoe101" and select the "Jobs" tab, then "Internship Stipend." All undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in any major at Queens College are eligible. Application deadline: Tuesday April 23, 2019 For more information, go to www.bit.ly/QCstipend<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0011xEuuORHEVzjxWKrwE1kHkBcTWHd1j0YS0IpKa-cIHGT…>. [https://files.constantcontact.com/72c72f1d001/4cf4a60b-f6b0-441c-ac17-21b19…] This mail was sent by an automated process. Do not reply to this mail, which cannot accept replies. At the bottom of this email, you will see Constant Contact language that offers the option of using "SafeUnsubscribe" to remove yourself from the email list. We strongly advise you not to unsubscribe because QCmailers may contain critical, timely information you need, such as WebAttendance and WebGrade information for faculty; Human Resources announcements for faculty and staff; and announcements from the Registrar or Bursar for students. This information may not be communicated in any other way but through the QCmailer. Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367 SafeUnsubscribe(tm) dbaker(a)qc.cuny.edu<https://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=0017wQOe3ygv3Ag6mWSt6yjlQ%3D%…> Forward email<http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=hb4e4idab&m=1103033957415&ea=…> | Update Profile<https://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=0017wQOe3ygv3Ag6mWSt6yjlQ%3D%…> | About our service provider<http://www.constantcontact.com/legal/service-provider?cc=about-service-prov…> Sent by qcmailer(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:qcmailer@qc.cuny.edu> in collaboration with [Constant Contact]<http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=TEM_BusLet_003> Try it free today<http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=TEM_BusLet_003>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr 10: The Making of a Slum: A Discussion on Immigration, Housing & Health Policy in New York City, Past & Present
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

The Making of a Slum: A Discussion on Immigration, Housing & Health Policy in New York City, Past & Present Wednesday, April 10 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM The Graduate Center, CUNY The James Gallery 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 More information & RSVP: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/the-making-of-a-slum-a-d… This diverse panel on architectural and public health policy responses to poverty and disease at the turn of the 20th century is part of a series of events developed around the forthcoming exhibition *The Lung Block: A New York City Slum and Its Forgotten Italian Immigrant Community* <https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/exhibitions/the-lung-b…> *,* on display at Department of Records building at 31 Chambers Street starting April 25, 2019, and in the vitrines of the Graduate Center, CUNY. The show draws upon *Stefano Morello* and *Kerri Culhane*’s recent scholarship examining the progressive narrative of the Lung Block as the slum-epicenter of disease, contrasting it with the lived experience of the majority Italian immigrant residents. Join *Katherine LaGuardia*, *Steve Brier, Nancy Carnevale*and others to discuss these issues. The discourse surrounding the Lung Block illustrates a typical pattern of slum-making and gentrification, and in many ways typified the plight and perceived perils of the Lower East Side immigrant in the popular imagination. At this time – when anti-immigrant sentiment has been brought to the fore on the political stage; the very real connection between health and housing continues to be explored; and affordable housing and gentrification remain among the most contentious topics in local debate – the Lung Block story has many parallels in the present. Join us for this panel that explores themes that expand this important history to discuss: • The Lower East Side slum as a historical, social and architectural construct; • The emergent field of public health and its response to disease; • The progressive reform movement and its conflicted role in reinforcing and alleviating slum and worker conditions; • The immigrant experience of the Lung Block, from the personal to the political,including the stories of Italian immigrant residents during the early twentieth century; • Architectural and policy responses to poverty, disease and reform. *Co-sponsored by New York City’s Department of Records <https://www1.nyc.gov/site/records/index.page%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank>, The Calandra Institute <https://calan>, and Queens College Makerspace <http://qcmaker.space/%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank>.*

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr 5: Dis-Ease Film Screening with Mariam Ghani
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Dis-East Film Screening with Mariam Ghani Friday, April 5 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 Elebash Recital Hall More information & RSVP: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/dis-ease-film-screening Through 2018, *Mariam Ghani*, an artist, writer, and filmmaker, was the Wellcome artist-in-residence at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the New York Public Library. While in residence at the Graduate Center, she and a multi-disciplinary team of graduate student assistants (*Harry Blain*, *Juliana Broad*, *Eileen Clancy*, *Jacob Clary*, *Josh LaMore*, *Christian Lewis*, and*Dilara O'Neil*) conceptualized researched and produced a film, entitled *Dis-Ease*, about illness, metaphors, contagion, isolation, and the consequences of a century-plus of waging "war on disease" using archival materials from the collections of the New York Public Library, New York Academy of Medicine, and Wellcome Collection, London. Part of Ghani’s film is included in the exhibition *Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis* <https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/germ-city>, which opened in September 2018 at the Museum of the City of New York (ends April 28, 2019). The Graduate Center will host a screening of the full version of *Dis-Ease*, followed by a panel discussion with Mariam Ghani and her team of graduate research assistants. This event is free and open to the public, but *RSVP is required*; *click here to RSVP* <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dis-ease-film-screening-with-mariam-ghani-tick…>. *Co-sponsored by the New York Public Library;* *Wellcome, as part of Contagious Cities <https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/our-work/contagious-cities>; and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.*

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr 4: Data Publics and Public Data
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Data Publics and Public Data *Brian House* and *Jia Zhang* in conversation with *Laura Kurgan*, *Shannon Mattern*, *Bill Rankin*, and *Jer Thorp*. Thursday, April 4 | 6:30 PM Columbia GSAPP Ware Lounge 116th St. & Broadway New York, NY 10027 More information & RSVP: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/1230-data-publics-and-public-data This event will feature new work by Mellon Associate Research Scholars Brian House & Jia Zhang underway as part of their fellowships with the Center for Spatial Research in the 2018-2019 academic year. Brian House is developing a platform to collect geographic data through mobile devices using the distributed web. Jia Zhang is building an interactive atlas that bridges between large public datasets and everyday experiences of urban space. The discussion of both projects will center around the politics of personal data and its relationship to the development of urban policy and the built environment. Their projects point to forms of artistic, academic, and activist practices that might intervene or offer new possibilities in this fraught landscape. *Brian House* is an artist and a Mellon Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Spatial Research. His work explores the interdependent rhythms of the body, technology, and the environment, and has been shown by the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ZKM, Beall Center, and Rhizome, among others. He has been a member of the New York Times Research and Development Lab, director of technology at the design studio Local Projects, and a resident at Eyebeam. He recently completed a PhD in Computer Music and Multimedia at Brown University, and his academic writing has been published by Autonomedia, Contemporary Music Review, and Journal of Sonic Studies. *Jia Zhang* is a Mellon Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Spatial Research. She experiments with communicating quantitative and qualitative data visually. Her research examines and utilizes technical processes and abstract visual forms found in data representation. At the CSR, Jia works on visualizations of public urban datasets and the U.S.Census. She is currently building projects that deal with public facing data of the urban environment and interactive tools that allow individuals to directly engage with urban information for their own well-being. Jia recently completed her PhD at MIT’s Media Lab. *Laura Kurgan* is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, where she directs the Center for Spatial Research and the Visual Studies curriculum. She is the author of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics (Zone Books, 2013). Her work explores the ethics and politics of digital mapping and its technologies; the art, science and visualization of big and small data; and design environments for public engagement with maps and data. In 2009, Kurgan was awarded a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. *Shannon Mattern* is a Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She is the author of *The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities*, *Deep Mapping the Media City*, and*Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media*, all published by University of Minnesota Press. In addition to writing dozens of articles and book chapters, she also contributes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures to *Places*, a journal focusing on architecture, urbanism, and landscape, and she collaborates on public design and interactive projects and exhibitions. You can find her at wordsinspace.net. *Jer Thorp* is an artist, writer and teacher living in New York City. He is best known for designing the algorithm to place the nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Jer was the New York Times’ first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. Jer is one of the world’s foremost data artists, and is a leading voice for the ethical use of big data. Jer’s data-inspired artwork has been shown around the world, including most recently in New York’s Times Square, at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, at the Ars Electronica Center in Austria, and at the National Seoul Museum in Korea. He is an adjunct Professor in New York University’s renowned Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), and is the Co-Founder of The Office for Creative Research. In 2015, Canadian Geographic named Jer one of Canada’s Greatest Explorers. Jer’s book ‘Living in Data’ will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the spring of 2020. *Bill Rankin* is a historian and cartographer. His mapping activity is focused on reimagining everyday urban and territorial geographies as complex landscapes of statistics, law, and history. His maps have appeared in publications and exhibitions throughout the US and Europe, including articles in *Foreign Policy, Perspecta, Harvard Design Magazine,* and *National Geographic* and shows at Harvard, Yale, Pratt, the Cartographic Bienalle in Lausanne, the Triennalle di Milano, and the Toronto Images Festival; his maps also traveled for several years with ICI'’s “Experimental Geographies” exhibit. His historical research is about the politics of cartography and navigation in the twentieth century. He teaches at Yale University, where he is an assistant professor of the history of science. Free and open the public. Organized by the Center for Spatial Research <http://c4sr.columbia.edu/>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Apr 3: Contested City: Art, Planning, and Community Power
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Contested City: Art, Planning, and Community Power Wednesday, April 3 | 6:30 - 8:30 PM The Graduate Center, CUNY Martin E. Segal Theater 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 More information & RSVP: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/contested-city Join us for an evening exploring how public art and public history can come together to create places for dialogue in support of activism in the contested city. A diverse panel of community activists, arts practitioners, and scholars, including* Kemi Ilesanmi* (Executive Director of The Laundromat Project), *Prithi Kanakamedala* (Bronx Community College), and *Gregory Jost*(Director of Organizing at Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association) will respond to*Contested City: Art & Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area*, a new book by *Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani*. *Contested City* simultaneously reveals untold stories of fifty years of community activism in Manhattan's Lower East Side around the highly contested Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA)—and sheds light on the importance of collaborative creative public projects in this complex place. (See more context/information on SPURA and the book below). This event is free and open to public, but to attend, *please RSVP here* <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/contested-city-art-planning-and-community-powe…> *. * The narrative of *Contested City* has bearing on the new mega-development of Essex Crossing now rising on the SPURA site, as well as the many places around our city in which housing is precarious and neighborhoods are threatened. This discussion is for everyone who seeks tools to make their neighborhood more just. There will be a book signing after the event. For more information about the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) and the complex history behind this 50-year fight for affordable housing in Manhattan's Lower East Side, click on the resources below: • An interview with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani on WNYC's show All Of It. <https://www.wnyc.org/story/50-year-fight-affordable-housing-genesis-20-murd…> January 2019. • An interview between panelist and historian Prithi Kanakamedala and Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani for the Gotham Center's blog <https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/contested-city-an-interview-with-gabriell…>. March 2019. *Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the Gotham Center for New York City History at the Graduate Center, CUNY.*

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fw: Van Alen Institute's LIC roundtable this Wednesday
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

? I hope this finds you well. I'm the programs coordinator at Van Alen Institute, a 125-year old urban design nonprofit, and wanted to invite you and your students to our upcoming round-table this Wednesday, April 3rd, addressing the future of development, design, and public space in Long Island City. Stephen Petrus, historian at LaGuardia college will be one of the speakers, and I'd love to get the word out to Queens College as well, especially the urban studies program. It's free with RSVP and will held at SculptureCenter. Our programs always have a mix of urban planners, designers, civic leaders and advocacy orgs, so it's a fantastic networking opportunity for any students interested in urban affairs. Our other panelists will be Christopher Hanway, Executive Director of the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement, Zachary Hecht, Policy Director at TechNYC Sheila Lewandowski, Founding Executive Director of The Chocolate Factory, Margie Ruddick, Principal of Margie Ruddick Landscape and Design, and Frank Wu, President of the Court Square Civic Association. Here's a brief overview of the event, and you can see other upcoming events in the LICNYC series here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.vanalen.org_projec…>. LICNYC: A Design Perspective / PT2 LIC Wednesday, April 3rd*, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion SculptureCenter 44-19 Purves Street Long Island City Well before Amazon proposed its 14-acre campus on the Queens waterfront, Long Island City was the fastest growing neighborhood in the country. From Court Square to the waterfront, new development and new residents have been settling around and within well-established communities, altering everything from the affordability of housing to the character of the neighborhood itself. Join designers, historians, planners, and community residents as they consider how design might help harmonize the old with the new and improve the quality of life amidst the surge of private development, and the everyday stress that comes along with rapid growth. This discussion will be moderated by Emily Nonko, an award-winning freelance journalist covering real estate, architecture, design, and urbanism, in the Wall Street Journal, Next City and Curbed New York. She has also written for The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Entrepreneur, Village Voice, New York Post, Observer, and CityLab. Hope to see you there! VAN ALEN Andy Sherman Programs Coordinator 30 West 22nd St.<https://maps.google.com/?q=30+West+22nd+St.+New+York,+NY&entry=gmail&source…> New York, NY<https://maps.google.com/?q=30+West+22nd+St.+New+York,+NY&entry=gmail&source…> 10010<https://maps.google.com/?q=30+West+22nd+St.+New+York,+NY+%C2%A010010&entry=…> asherman(a)vanalen.org<mailto:rreese@vanalen.org> 212 924 7000 x 15 vanalen.org<http://vanalen.org/> INSTITUTE

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Paid Summer Graduate Internship: Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative is looking for a graduate intern to work under the Planning and Policy Lab, a center for economic democracy planning and policy development-by, with, and for the Bronx. The internship will last for 8-10 weeks over the summer and will support the development of the Bronx Community Land Trust, spearheaded by core partner, the ?Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition? (NWBCCC). The intern will gain invaluable hands-on experience supporting community stakeholders to develop a model for collective ownership and control of land in the face of gentrification and displacement pressures. Responsibilities Working with BCDI, NWBCCC and the community development committee, the intern will support the Bronx CLT through: ? Conducting ongoing research, analysis, and due diligence of potential acquisitions for the CLT ? Researching examples and learnings of CLTs around the globe and proposing how relevant lessons could work within NYC's existing legal and economic restrictions ? Working with the CLT board and community development committee, comprised of NWBCCC members, in developing campaigns for parcel acquisition ? Helping to guide a process to develop an instrument for community surveying ? Identifying potential sources of funding to support CLT development BCDI is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to a diverse workplace. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, and Bronx residents are strongly encouraged to apply. ? Supporting financial analysis of potential CLT developments ? Participating in team and relevant partner meetings Required Skills and Qualifications ? Current graduate student in urban planning, public policy, real estate, economics, or other relevant fields preferred ? Interest in housing, economic development, cooperative development, economic democracy ? Familiarity with the community land trust model ? Familiarity or experience with community engagement or community organizing ? Excellent written and verbal communication skills ? Experience working with quantitative data analysis, including Excel ? Ability to multi-task with attention to detail Preferred Skills and Experience ? Experience with participatory action research methodology ? One to two years of experience working in urban studies and planning, housing and real estate development, data analysis, or project management ? Experience working in New York City housing and real estate and/or community-based organizations ? Spanish-language proficiency Commitment and Compensation ? The position pays $20/hour ? The position is full time (40 hrs/week), with a June 2019 start date, to be finalized upon acceptance ? Residence in NYC, working primarily in BCDI's office in the Bronx ? This opportunity is open to currently enrolled graduate students in relevant fields, as well as recent alumni. Application and Notification Timeline Application deadline: April 29 Notification of acceptance: May 13 Start/end dates: Flexible, to be finalized upon acceptance To apply: Please email a resume and cover letter to jobs(a)bcdi.nyc with the subject line: Planning and Policy Lab Summer Intern by April 29th. Selected applicants will be invited to interview. BCDI is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to a diverse workplace. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, and Bronx residents are strongly encouraged to apply. ?

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