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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Foreign Service fellowship opportunity!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

The 2017 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship program is now open for applications and is seeking young people interested in making a difference in the world as Foreign Service Officers in the U.S. Department of State. Applicants must be college seniors or graduates planning to start two-year graduate programs in fall 2017; must have GPAs of at least 3.2; and must be U.S. citizens. The Rangel Graduate Fellowship Program provides benefits of up to $95,000 over two years toward a master's degree, arranges internships on Capitol Hill and at U.S. embassies/consulates, provides mentorship and professional development support, and leads to a career in the State Department Foreign Service. The application deadline is September 19, 2016, several months earlier than in prior years. Fellows must use the fellowship to attend two-year master's programs at U.S.- based institutions to study an area of relevance to the Foreign Service, including international relations, public policy, public administration, economics, or business administration. Upon successful completion of the two-year fellowship and Foreign Service entry requirements, Fellows join the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State, embarking on a uniquely rewarding career of international service. There is a five-year service obligation. The program welcomes any undergraduate major and encourages applications from members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service and those with financial need. Information and application materials can be found atwww.rangelprogram.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rangelprogram.org&d…>. The application deadline is September 19, 2016. The Program is funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University. _______ Jeff Maskovsky, Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor Department of Urban Studies Powdermaker Hall, Rm. 250M Queens College CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367 Tel: 718-997-5129 Fax: 718-997-5133 E-mail: Jeff.Maskovsky(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:Jeff.Maskovsky@qc.cuny.edu>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Job Opportunities in Public Engagement at the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emily Pinkowitz <epinkowitz(a)fdrffp.org<mailto:epinkowitz@fdrffp.org>> Date: Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:13 PM Subject: We're hiring, and we need your help! To: Emily Pinkowitz <emilypinkowitz(a)gmail.com<mailto:emilypinkowitz@gmail.com>> Dear Colleagues and Friends, As many of you know, last month I joined Four <http://www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org/> Freedoms Park Conservancy<http://www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org/> as their Director of Education & Public Engagement. In my new role, I am launching two pilot projects this summer and am eager to hire two tremendous candidates to carry these initiatives from start to finish. We are on a very tight timeline, and I need your help! Can you please share the following positions with stellar candidates? We are hoping to close applications by Wednesday June 15. Documentarian & Youth Media Fellow<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HXXMdiTiKJaGwNXLdxRMqWAgTF7lsuhX1G4KkXk…> The Documentarian & Youth Media Fellow is responsible for launching a new, youth-powered history initiative documenting the experience of New York City older adults, with attention to the impact of the FDR era on their lives, as well as the lives of young people today. Reporting to the Director of Education & Public Engagement, the Documentarian & Youth Media Fellow will work with youth historians to explore progressive history, interview local older adults, and investigate connections to the contemporary city. In collaboration with youth, s/he will create a short film that will be screened on the park and on the web. Place-Based Public History Fellow<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q5JITkNX9RXkwuj4l75w69K19LaOWMEztHZtSG0…> The Place-based Public History Fellow will conduct original research on the historical structures viewable from Four Freedoms Park, drawing connections between the landscapes of the city, the governmental policies that shaped them, the lived experience and activism of everyday New Yorkers; and the digital resource fdr4freedoms.org. S/he will compile primary source documents and photographs, and generate briefs that 1) Identify specific structures and buildings on the City shorelines viewable from the park, 2) Connect these structures to pivotal moments in New York's approach to social welfare and housing from the 20th century to today, 3) Use these structures as a jumping off point for addressing the social landscape of the City before, during, and after FDR's presidency. Through these projects, we hope to capture the real, personal experiences of people whose lives were shaped by FDR, making tangible the lasting impact of government policies on the lives of New Yorkers historically and today. Interest in and comfort with addressing issues of race, class, economic disenfranchisement, and political engagement are essential. We are hoping to rely on our network of practice to find the right candidates, and are beginning with a closed search. Please refrain from posting on social media for the time being, but we would love for you to share with your networks via email. Thanks so much, Emily Emily Pinkowitz Director of Education & Public Engagement Four Freedoms Park Conservancy 1110 2nd Avenue, Suite 301 New York, NY 10022 Direct: (646) 767-5091<tel:%28646%29%20767-5091> Main: (212) 204-8831<tel:%28212%29%20204-8831>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Peer Mentoring Opportunity: CUNY Future Initiative. Deadline soon!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 May '16

29 May '16

[https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1c41348ccd4fbc4e8b1ad8e01/images/14c3ffac-add…] CUNY-Wide Peer Mentoring Opportunity Please share with undergraduate students - apply by June 3! Dear CUNY Colleagues, Students, Alumni, and Friends, Thanks to generous funding from the Teagle Foundation, the Futures Initiative will be able to offer thirty (30) undergraduates from across the CUNY campuses a two-day workshop (July 27-28 at the Graduate Center). After completion of the Futures Initiative Peer Mentoring Workshop, students will then have the opportunity to become official Futures Initiative Peer Mentors at their respective colleges, helping to provide resources, advice, and support to fellow students throughout the academic year and hopefully beyond. For a glimpse into last year's pilot workshop, please see these photo essays from day one[cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> and day two[cuny.us10.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…>. We invite you to encourage your students to apply for this program by completing this online application form[cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> by Friday, June 3. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1c41348ccd4fbc4e8b1ad8e01/images/68d4bbb7-471…]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> This is an informal program that benefits the Peer Mentors just as much as the students with whom they connect. Research shows that peer mentoring enables both participants to learn material even more deeply than more traditional teaching methods. It is also an excellent way to develop transferable skills such as collaboration, identifying needs and resources, learning with and from others, building trust, and striving toward shared goals, all of which will benefit students during their time at CUNY and beyond. Peer mentoring emphasizes leadership, project management, time management, community-building, and organizational skills as well as field mastery. All CUNY undergraduate students are welcome to apply. Our past participants that attended our workshops last summer are welcome to apply for a second term. Applications are due on Friday, June 3, and selected Peer Mentors will be notified by June 15. Thank you all for your support of this program! Best, Lauren Melendez Undergraduate Peer Mentoring Director and Administrative Specialist The Futures Initiative Mike Rifino Graduate Fellow and Peer Mentoring Specialist The Futures Initiative The Futures Initiative and HASTAC@CUNY advocate greater equity and innovation in higher education through student-centered teaching and learning, and promote reinvestment in higher education as a public good. [Facebook][cuny.us10.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> Facebook[cuny.us10.list-manage2.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> [Twitter][cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> Twitter[cuny.us10.list-manage2.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> [Website][cuny.us10.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> Website[cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> [YouTube][cuny.us10.list-manage2.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> YouTube[cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> [Flickr][cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> Flickr[cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> [Email]<mailto:futuresinitiative@gc.cuny.edu> Email<mailto:futuresinitiative@gc.cuny.edu> CC-BY2016 The Futures Initiative We are sending you this email as a supporter of The Futures Initiative at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Want to see something featured in this newsletter? We welcome you to submit resources, opportunities, events and more to futuresinitiative [at] gc.cuny.edu<http://gc.cuny.edu>. Our mailing address is: The Futures Initiative The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 Add us to your address book[cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> unsubscribe from this list[cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> update subscription preferences[cuny.us10.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cuny.us10.list-2Dmanage…> [Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mailchimp.com_monke…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] RSVP: The Fabric of Cultures Presentation, Queens College 5/18/16
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 07 May '16

07 May '16

The Queens College Center for Teaching and Learning presents: The Fabric of Cultures: Objects, Memory, Technology A Research and Pedagogy Project When: Wednesday, May 18 at 5pm Where: President's Conference Room 2, Rosenthal Library, fifth floor Reception to follow Fashion is a behavioral phenomenon that intersects with media, race and gender, personal and collective identities, labor, and technology. Clothing is an emotional object. It presses against our skin leaving an imprint on our intimate selves. Clothing is the site for experimentation in art, design, technology, and form. Once clothing, through its intermediaries, is translated into fashion, it becomes a strong platform of communication and acts as a symbolic system that connects geopolitical spaces, identities, and experiences. The Fabric of Cultures: Objects, Memory, Technology is a research and pedagogical lab that aims to further understanding of fashion and local and global clothing as powerful manifestations of human and aesthetic expressions and as barometers of economic, social, and technological transformations. RSVP: https://goo.gl/0y26IE<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tkJ8DUvZ7M6qRV_y90BYCSDsVfRXKv521XyXGd8_lhZa…> [City University of New York logo] 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) brosa(a)qc.cuny.edu<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=0017wQOe3ygv3Ag6mWSt6yjlQ%3D%3…> Forward email<http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=hb4e4idab&m=1103033957415&ea=…> | Update Profile<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=0017wQOe3ygv3Ag6mWSt6yjlQ%3D%3…> | 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] 05/13: CONSCIOUSNESS AND REVOLUTION Conference
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 May '16

06 May '16

CONSCIOUSNESS AND REVOLUTION Conference CONSCIOUSNESS AND REVOLUTION Center for Place, Culture, and Politics Conference Friday, May 13th, 2016 9:30am to 7:30pm Elebash Recital Hall The complex and dynamic relationship between consciousness and revolution is essential to the strategic analysis of the hegemonic forms of politics, economics, thought, and action we are currently caught in. It is also central to the collective imagination and realization of other worlds. This conference reflects on legacies of revolutionary thought and practice and considers how these can be reimagined and reenergized within current contingencies. How has internationalism come to terms with new regimes of globalization and polity? How do the logics of financialization, the working of institutions, and money itself mediate our daily lives and sense of possibility with regard to social change? With major foundations investing in and influencing struggles for social justice, the question arises, who owns these movements? What does an anticapitalist critique of “social justice” entrepreneurship models look like? How are we, activists and scholars alike, forging new connections between consciousness and revolution building? Schedule 9:30am–10:00am | Welcome 10:00am–12:00pm | Internationalism 12:00pm–2:00pm | Money 2:00pm–3:00pm | Lunch Break 3:00pm–5:00pm | Whose Movement? 5:00pm–5:30pm | Coffee Break 5:30pm–7:30pm | Consciousness and Revolution 7:30pm–9:00pm | Reception Internationalism What are the varied political consistencies of internationalist consciousness? What revolutionary assumptions underlie “internationalism”—a term coined in the early nineteenth century by Jeremy Bentham during the rise of liberalism, but taken up most forcefully in twentieth century liberation struggles? What general principles can we discern from multiple topographies, and between and across different scales of the capitalist space-economy? Money Money mediates our lives and structures our relationships. Under capitalism, money is not politically neutral. This panel explores key questions about money and the institutions to which it is attached: who has it and who does not, who controls it, and how that control is maintained and reproduced. Whose Movement? This panel explores worker-led resistance to the trends of strategic philanthropy, market language, and entrepreneurial projects, each of which has influenced worker organizations in the U.S. over the last fifteen years. Worker organizers will discuss the development of an anti-capitalist critique of “social justice” entrepreneurship models, and how they have navigated this shifting political landscape to build their own organizations. We will also hear from labor leaders outside of the US, where philanthropy has had less influence, and workers are shaping the direction of their movements through mass mobilization and political education. Consciousness and Revolution The relationship of consciousness to revolution has often been at its most creative in grassroots organization and activism. This panel will not only explore its current parameters but also imagine how it might be rearticulated for the future. What do contemporary practices suggest? Jesse Quizar Sujatha Fernandes Miguel Robles-Durán Wendy Cheng Peter Hitchcock (Moderator) Conference Participants Wendy Cheng is Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American studies and justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, comparative racialization, critical geography, urban and suburban studies, and diaspora. Her book The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) develops a theory of regional racial formation through the experiences and perspectives of residents of majority nonwhite, multiracial suburbs, and won the 2014 Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia and Asian America. Her coauthored book A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Pulido and Laura Barraclough; University of California Press, 2012), for which she was also the photographer, is a guide to sites of alternative histories and struggles over power in Los Angeles County. Cheng is a founding member of Arizona Critical Ethnic Studies and the Arizona Ethnic Studies Network. She was recently named a Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2016 Emerging Scholar and is the recipient of the 2016 Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Juan De Lara is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. De Lara’s current research interests include: social justice and social movements, racial capitalism, urbanization, labor, California and the American West, Los Angeles, and the US/Mexico border. His forthcoming book The State of Logistics: Race, Space, and Capital in Inland Southern California will be published by University of California Press later this year. The book uses logistics and commodity chains to unpack the black box of globalization by showing how the scientific management of bodies, space, and time produced new labor regimes that facilitated a more complex and extended system of global production, distribution, and consumption. Sujatha Fernandes is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center. She holds joint appointments in the Center for the Study of Women and Society and American Studies at the Graduate Center. Her research combines social theory and political economy with in-depth, engaged ethnography of global social movements. Her first book, Cuba Represent! (Duke University Press, 2006) looks at the forms of cultural struggle that arose in post-Soviet Cuban society. Her second book, Who Can Stop the Drums? (Duke University Press, 2010) explores the spaces for political agency opened up for barrio-based social movements by a hybrid postneoliberal state under radical left wing leader Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. In her third book Close to the Edge (Verso, 2011), she explores whether the musical subculture of hip hop could create and sustain a new global cultural movement. Her latest book entitled, Curated Stories: How Storytelling is Hindering Social Change is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. It looks at how the restructuring of personal stories as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward narrow goals by non-profits, the immigrant rights movement, and the state has been an obstacle to building deeper movements for social change in the United States and globally. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and American Studies at the Graduate Center. She has many honors and awards, and has delivered invited lectures at universities and cultural institutions around the world. Among many publications, her prize-winning book is Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007). Current projects include a second edition of Golden Gulag, as well as several other book projects: Fatal Couplings: Essays on Motion, Racial Capitalism, and the Black Radical Tradition; and Big Things: Reconfigured Landscapes and the Infrastructure of Feeling. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and The Caribbean (IRADAC), and serves on the boards of many social justice, cultural, and scholarly formations in the United States, Europe, and West Asia. She was a founding member of Critical Resistance, California Prison Moratorium Project, and other grassroots organizations. In 2012, the ASA honored Gilmore with its Angela Davis Award for Public Scholarship, an award that recognizes scholars who have applied or used their scholarship for the “public good.” In 2014, she received the Harold M. Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice from the Association of American Geographers. She is the 2015–16 inaugural recipient of the Eugene V. Grant Distinguished Scholar Prize awarded by SUNY Purchase for her innovative work on the environment. David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center and author of various books, articles, and lectures. He is the author of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (Profile Books, 2014), one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2011, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2010). Other books include A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Limits to Capital, and Social Justice and the City. David Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly forty years. His lectures on Marx’s Volumes I and II are available for free download on his website. Christina Heatherton is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Trinity College. She is completing her first book, The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution, Internationalism, and the American Century (under contract, University of California Press). With Jordan T. Camp she coedited Policing the Planet: How the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso Books, 2016). Her work appears in places such as American Quarterly and in The Rising Tides of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific, edited by Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington Press, 2014). She previously coedited Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond (Freedom Now Books, 2012) with Jordan T. Camp and also edited Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader (Freedom Now Books, 2011). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center between 2012–2014. Peter Hitchcock is Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center. He is also on the faculties of Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the Graduate Center. His many books include The Long Space (Stanford University Press, 2009) and most recently, a coedited collection called The New Public Intellectual (Palgrave, 2016). Other recent publications include, “Viscosity and Velocity” for an anthology on oil (Cornell), “The Leninist Hypothesis” for Poetics Today, “Accumulating Fictions” for Representations, “Immolation” for the Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights, “How to Read a Discipline” for Comparative Literature, “Defining the World” in an anthology on Literary Materialisms and “Everything’s Gone Green: The Environment of BP’s Narrative” for Imaginations. Forthcoming articles include an essay, “The Worker Subjects” for Cultural Critique and “Serial Affect: Notes on the Cyborganic Synchrony of Ghost in the Shell(s)” for an anthology on Noir Affect. Forthcoming book projects include a monograph on the cultural representation of labor and another monograph on worlds of postcoloniality, both due out later this year. He is currently working on two research projects: one about seriality in politics and culture; the other on the aesthetics of commodities and financial instruments. Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography, Environmental Psychology, Women’s Studies, and American Studies, and heads the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the Graduate Center. Her research addresses social reproduction, global economic restructuring and everyday life, the intertwined spatialities of homeland and home-based security, and the politics of knowledge. She’s held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Association of University Women, National Institute of Mental Health, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Katz was the 2011–12 Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at University of Cambridge. She’s author of the award-winning Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and coeditor of Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over the Life Course (with Janice Monk, Routledge, 1993), Life’s Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (with Sallie Marston and Katharyne Mitchell, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), and The People, Place and Space Reader (with Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Setha Low, and Susan Saegert, Routledge, 2014). She is currently working on two book projects—one focused on the crisis of social reproduction through the lens of childhood as spectacle and the other on ‘minor theory.’ Mahoma López is a Mexican immigrant who came to United States at the age of eighteen. López led his workplace justice campaign at Hot and Crusty Bakery, resulting in the formation of an independent union, depicted in the award-winning documentary “The Hand that Feeds.” After leading his own campaign, he became the president of the union. A strong advocate for workers’ rights and leadership development, he is involved in labor organizing in NYC, fighting for low-income communities and immigrant workers. Today López is training and inspiring other workers on ‘know your rights’ and organizing issues. His professional interest is focused on social justice through education and self-determination. He serves as Co-Executive Director of Laundry Workers Center, a not-for-profit organization that addresses the need for community-based leadership development geared toward improving the living and working conditions of socioeconomically disadvantaged families. Laundry Workers Center’s political philosophy is rooted in organizing workers and building their leadership skills and political power through a variety of worker-led tools and tactics. Carolina Bank Muñoz’s work focuses primarily on immigration, globalization, labor and work. Her book, Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States (ILR Press, 2008), is the winner of the Terry Book Award. She currently finished a book manuscript about Wal-Mart in Chile which is under review at Cornell University Press. Sandra Neida Robles is both the president of the Federation of Autonomous Unions of Wal-Mart Chile as well as the Sindicato Lider Matucana that was recognized in 2010. The Federation was created in March 2011 as a result of the nonexistent participation of women and the low level of commitment to justice and democracy demonstrated by the existing unions in Wal-Mart Chile. It has brought together thirteen unions across Chile and negotiated three collective bargaining agreements with benefits and rights won for members. After successful recent contract negotiations the Federation is currently bargaining over the possibility of a productivity bonus. The organization represents over two thousand workers in the various Wal-Mart Chile formats. This year the Federation is planning a major organizing campaign to recruit more members and develop leaders. It is also planning a political education project to participate in the current debates that are affecting Chile. Jessi Quizar is a scholar of racial political ecology and centers her work in the areas of critical food studies, urban land and resource struggles, and social movements. Her current research focuses on urban agriculture and race, mass water shut-offs in Detroit, and gentrification. Quizar received her Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California, where she researched food sovereignty and Black-led urban agriculture in Detroit. Previously, she earned her M.A. in Sociology with emphasis in Global and Regional International Development from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has been the recipient of awards and fellowships including a Ford Dissertation Fellowship, a USC Provost Fellowship, and the Ninfa Sanchez award for best graduate paper in American Studies at USC. Quizar is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at Northwestern University. Miguel Robles-Durán is an urbanist, faculty member in the Design and Urban Ecologies graduate program at The New School/Parsons, Senior fellow at Civic City, a post-graduate design/research program based in HEAD Geneva, Switzerland and cofounder of Cohabitation Strategies, an international non-profit cooperative for sociospatial development based in New York and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Robles-Durán has wide international experience in the strategic definition/coordination of transdisciplinary urban projects, as well as in the development of tactical design strategies and civic engagement platforms that confront the contradictions of neoliberal urbanization. He recently coedited/authored the book Urban Asymmetries: Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization (nai010 publishers, 2011) that reviews the dire consequences that neoliberal urban policies have had upon the city and discusses possible alternatives to market-driven development. Robles-Durán’s areas of specialization are design/research interventions and strategies in uneven urbanization and areas of social urban conflict, urban political economy, and urban theory. Rob Robinson is cofounder and member of the Leadership Committee of the Take Back the Land Movement and a staff volunteer at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). After losing his job in 2001, he spent two years homeless on the streets of Miami and ten months in a New York City shelter. He eventually overcame homelessness and has been in the housing movement based in New York City since 2007. In the fall of 2009, Rob was chosen to be the New York City chairperson for the first official mission to the United States of a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. He was a member of an advance team coordinated by the US Human Rights Network in early 2010, traveling to Geneva Switzerland several times to prepare for the initial appearance of the United States in the Universal Periodic Review. Rob has worked with homeless populations in Budapest, Hungary and Berlin, Germany and is connected with housing and land movements in South Africa and Brazil. He works with the European Squatters Collective, International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI), Landless People’s Movement (MST), and the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB); and is the coordinator of the USA Canada Alliance of Inhabitants, sister organization to IAI. In December 2008, he completed a course with People’s Production House and the Community News Production Institute and has been a member of a social justice media collective that produces and airs a weekly radio show over WBAI in New York City called Global Movements Urban Struggles. Joyce Khadijeh Romain is a postpartum doula, nanny, babynurse, fabric designer, organizer, ecofriendly housecleaner, and an active member of Domestic Workers United. She loves the outdoors, writing, and sharing “old folk wisdom,” and has a passion for cooking West Indian food. A mother of eight, Joyce also feels she is mother to all children without discrimination. She loves children and calls them a “labor of love” because, with the darnedest things they will say and do, they make anyone happy. She also cares for the elderly. Growing up in the Caribbean has made her a champion of multitasking. Domestic Workers United is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers and elder caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect and fair labor standards, and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all. David Stein is the Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center. Trained in interdisciplinary methods, he is a historian whose work focuses on the interconnection between social movements and political and economic relations in post-1865 United States history. He is currently working on his book manuscript, Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929–1986, which focuses on the political economy of surplus labor during that period. The project details the efforts of Black freedom movement organizers to create governmental guarantees to jobs or income, and how such efforts were stifled. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture, Politics, and Society; Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order; and Lateral: The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. He also cohosts and produces Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast with Betsy Beasley. For more information email pcp(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:pcp@gc.cuny.edu>. This daylong conference is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, the Center for Humanities, Advanced Research Collaborative, Graduate Center, CUNY. [http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1109/files/2014/01/cpcp-2016-1.…] [Facebook]<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=327&user_id=1858&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5…> [Twitter]<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=327&user_id=1858&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5…> [Google]<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=327&user_id=1858&urlpassed=aHR0cHM6Ly9wbHV…> Unsubscribe<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=327&user_id=1858&urlpassed=W3Vuc3Vic2NyaWJ…> - Edit your subscription<http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/?email_id=327&user_id=1858&urlpassed=W3N1YnNjcmlwdGl…> The Center for Place, Culture and Politics 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fellowship for Students Interested in Political Campaigns
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 06 May '16

06 May '16

Hello Professor Brian Rosa, This is Randall Franklin, I am the field director for North Shore Consulting Strategies.North Shore Strategies is New York City political consulting firm specializing in direct voter outreach and coordination or volunteer and local political organization. I'm contacting you because we're trying to reach out to young, college-aged students across the city to engage them in the political process. To that end, we've established a highly competitive fellowship program designed to teach students civic engagement, interpersonal skills, the inner-workings of a modern day campaign operation, and community organization and motivation via direct voter contact. While this fellowship is being sponsored by the North Shore Strategy consulting firm, the skills learned will be applicable beyond the political arena. Positions are being offered on a rolling basis up to election day, November 4th, and part time positions (15-20 hours/week) and full time positions (35-40 hours/week) are available. Paid positions will be considered in the future, based on in the field performance. Students can visit our website at If you know any students who might be interested in this opportunity or finding out more about our fellowship program, please contact me at Randy(a)nsstategy.com<mailto:Randy@nsstategy.com> or you can call me at 631.680.2941<tel:631.680.2941>. Thank You -- Randall Franklin North Shore Strategies Field Director 631.680.2941 randy(a)nsstrategy.com<mailto:northshorestrategies@gmail.com>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 05/13: Special Issue Release | Climate Change & the Future of Cities
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 04 May '16

04 May '16

Special Issue Release | Climate Change & the Future of Cities Friday, May 13 | 5:00 - 8:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Sq, Fifth Floor New York, NY 10003 More info: https://ipk.nyu.edu/calendar/events/312-public-culture-climate-change-and-c… Please join the Institute for Public Knowledge for an event to celebrate the release of a special issue of the journal Public Culture, "Climate Change and the Future of Cities: Migration, Adaptation, and Social Change on an Urban Planet<http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/28/2_79.toc>." The evening will feature a panel discussion with issue contributors Daniel Aldana Cohen, Nina Berman, Gökçe Günel, Eric Klinenberg, Liz Koslov, and Andy Lakoff, followed by a reception. The special issue of Public Culture includes essays by Eric Klinenberg, Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, Andrew Lakoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Gökçe Günel, Valeria Procupez, Liz Koslov, Austin Zeiderman, and Jerome Whitington, a photo essay from Colin Jerolmack and Nina Berman, and interviews with experts from Rebuild by Design's international working group, including Henk Ovink, Mindy Fullilove, Edgar Pieterse, Fernando de Mello Franco, and Maarten Hajer. This exciting collection represents the culmination of years of international research and collaboration on the impacts of climate change in cities, and was produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. The entire special issue is available free online<http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/28/2_79.toc> for a limited time. Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year for NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. In the more than twenty years of its existence, Public Culture has established itself as a prize-winning, field-defining cultural studies journal, seeking a critical understanding of the global flows and cultural forms of the public sphere which define the early twenty-first century. Artists, activists, and both well-established and younger scholars, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of the journal.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 05/07: Displaced Histories: Stories of the Southside
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 04 May '16

04 May '16

Displaced Histories: Stories of the Southside May 7, 2016 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 120 South 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249 Come join us on Saturday, May 7th at 6:30pm for the opening of NYU Gallatin's exhibit on gentrification in Williamsburg's Southside. The exhibit will highlight stories of residents, past and present, of varying ages and backgrounds who've experienced gentrification firsthand in the neighborhood. Our exhibit will continue to be open on Saturdays and Sundays from May 7th to June 4th, 12pm to 4pm. Be sure to hashtag your photos #displacedhistories<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/displacedhistories> ! More info: http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/displaced-histories-stories-of-the-southsid…

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: Queens Botanical Garden - Children's Garden Interns
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 02 May '16

02 May '16

FYI - We are still looking to fill the above positions. Usually high schoolers or college students, but they do have to go through a formal process of submitting a cover letter and resume and doing an interview. Please feel free to share. Thank you. Melissa Y. Marcus, MBA Human Resource Manager Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main St, Flushing N.Y. 11355 718-886-3800 ext. 203 (f)718-463-0263 <http://www.queensbotanical.org/>http://www.queensbotanical.org Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/queensbotanical> | Instagram<https://instagram.com/queensbotanicalgarden/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/queensbotanicl> | E-News<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001_Ke66uLjz75jWC0zOWaER0…> P please consider the environment before printing this email CLICK HERE for spring fun at QBG-Poetry, Arbor Fest, Bird Walks with NYC Audubon, and more!<http://queensbotanical.org/programs/events>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Excellent Urban Historian on Brazil: 5/12
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

From: John Collins <John.Collins(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:John.Collins@qc.cuny.edu>> Subject: excellent urban historian 5/12 Date: April 29, 2016 at 5:54:25 PM EDT To: "Maskovsky, Jeff" <JMaskovsky(a)gc.cuny.edu<mailto:JMaskovsky@gc.cuny.edu>> Hi Jeff, Brodwyn Fischer, one of the best historians of urban Latin America, will visit us at Queens on 5/12 from 12:30 to 2PM in the Library Presidents' Conf. Rm 1 to talk about “Racial Silence and Rights to the City in Recife, Brazil." Lunch will be served. Flyer attached. best, John

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