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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 8: At the Edge of the Network: A Talk with Nicole Starosielski
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

"At the Edge of the Network: Undersea Cables and Deep Infrastructure" with Nicole Starosielski Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Steinhardt March 8th, 6:30-8:30pm The Skylight Room, The Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave. Free and open to the public Over 99% of transoceanic data traffic is carried across the oceans by undersea cables-these technologies comprise the backbone of the global internet. This presentation will focus on Surfacing, a digital map that enables users to traverse the social worlds of the cable system and the unseen cultural formations that sustain everyday internet connections. Surfacing is both a project of infrastructural visibility, revealing the geographies of internet systems, and a critical experiment in digital cartography that challenges existing modes of vertical and lateral movement.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 4: Film Screening: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Film Screening: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story Directed by Marisa Holmes Friday, March 4 365 5th Ave, Segal Theater 6:00 - 9:00 PM More info: http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/film-screening-all-day-all-week-an-occupy-wal… In 2011, there were occupations of squares happening all across the globe. It was a moment of upheaval when anything seemed possible. In this context, on September 17th, 2011, a two-month encampment of Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Plaza, began in the financial district of NYC. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was an autonomous zone of activity with general assemblies engaging in directly democratic processes and working groups self-organizing to meet basic needs. It was a liberated space. The non-fiction feature film, All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story, Directed by Marisa Holmes, tells the story of OWS from the perspective of those who lived it. Filmed by and in conversation with participants, the film offers a glimpse inside the daily life of occupation as well as reflections on the experience. Filmmaker Present for Q&A

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mar 4: Tarry Hum: Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Friday Evening Lecture Series [Hum] AAARI's Friday Evening Lecture Series is back for the Spring 2016 semester! Please join us for a talk on, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park, by Tarry Hum, on Friday, March 4, 2016, from 6pm to 8pm, at 25 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan.This talk is free and open to the general public. Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park-with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population-from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods. Author and professor,Tarry Hum, will discuss how proce?sses of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park's future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic engagement, entrepreneurialism, and sustainability planning. She shows, too, how residents' responses to urban development policies and projects and the capital represented by local institutions and banks foster community activism. [THum] Tarry Hum is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College/CUNY, and serves on the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center's Environmental Psychology program. Prof. Hum's research areas focus broadly on immigration, community economic development, and urban planning. She has researched and published papers on the socioeconomic processes and outcomes of immigrant incorporation in urban labor markets, related issues of immigrant settlement and neighborhood change, and the consequences for urban inequality, race and ethnic relations, political representation, and community definition and development. To RSVP for this talk, please visit www.aaari.info/16-03-04Hum.htm<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001qgNDav9mI1Xz2fWcxo7Zg5JAsfFmWzgyHfqHDVhoHns2…>. Please be prepared to present proper identification when entering the building lobby. If you are unable to attend the talk, it will be live webcasted on our website, www.aaari.info<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001qgNDav9mI1Xz2fWcxo7Zg5JAsfFmWzgyHfqHDVhoHns2…>, beginning 6:15PM EST, and also available the following week as streaming video and audio podcast. See you on Friday! More info: http://www.aaari.info/16-03-04Hum.htm

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] The Road From Paris: Environmental Justice on the Move. Friday March 4th, 5:30 - 8pm Pratt Manhattan Campus
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

Next in a series of public discussions on the outcomes of the Paris 2015 Climate Conference and the implications for grassroots organizations and frontline communities Friday, March 4 5:30 - 8 PM Pratt Manhattan Campus 144 West 14th Street New York, NY 10011 Free and open to the public Light refreshments served Sponsored by Pratt Institute Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development Spring 2016 Lecture Series The Road From Paris RSVP: prattpspd(a)gmail.com Environmental Justice on the Move >From the barrios of the global south to the streets of Paris, the climate justice movement's war cry against climate change rings out: "We are the roots that will weather the storm." Climate change will not be addressed without frontline communities leading the charge. Join environmental justice activists in learning about just transitions, NYRenews and how climate justice movement initiatives are redefining power while approaching the biggest challenge in history. Rae Breaux, National People's Action Stephen Edel, The Center for Working Families; NYRenews Ana Orozco, UPROSE Ron Shiffman & Elizabeth Yeampierre, moderators

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 03/04: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story A film screening directed by: Marisa Holmes Friday, March 04th, 2016 Legal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center 6:00 - 9:00 pm In 2011, there were occupations of squares happening all across the globe. It was a moment of upheaval when anything seemed possible. In this context, on September 17th, 2011, a two-month encampment of Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Plaza, began in the financial district of NYC. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was an autonomous zone of activity with general assemblies engaging in directly democratic processes and working groups self-organizing to meet basic needs. It was a liberated space. The non-fiction feature film, All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story, Directed by Marisa Holmes, tells the story of OWS from the perspective of those who lived it. Filmed by and in conversation with participants, the film offers a glimpse inside the daily life of occupation as well as reflections on the experience. Filmmaker Present for Q&A This event is free and open to the public. The Center for Place, Culture and Politics 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Registration for Public Sector Unions on The Line: Right-Wing Attacks & Labor Movement Responses
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Public Sector Unions on The Line: Right-Wing Attacks & Labor Movement Responses ??Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:00 AM - New York,, NY Registration opens 2/23 at 9am Organizers: Ruth Milkman and Frances Fox Piven This one-day conference focuses on the right-wing attack on public sector labor as well as efforts to counter those attacks. Speakers include academic researchers as well as labor and community leaders. The conference is divided into three sessions. The opening session features perspectives on recent attacks on public sector unionism. Speakers will analyze the history of public sector unionism, the anti-union efforts of right-wing organizations like ALEC, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Friedrichs case, and the ways in which austerity policies are being used to undermine organized labor. The second session will examine recent efforts to fight back against these attacks, including the cases of Wisconsin and Ohio in 2011, the 2012 Chicago teachers' strike, and local struggles in New York. The closing session will feature a series of broader strategic perspectives on how to confront these challenges. ________________________________ 9am Continental breakfast 9:30am Welcome and Introduction: Ruth Milkman 9:45am - 12pm Session 1 - ATTACKS ON PUBLIC SECTOR LABOR Moderator: Josh Freeman Speakers: Joseph Slater, University of Toledo Law School Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon Jennifer Laird, University of Washington Saqib Bhatti, Roosevelt Institute Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect 12pm - 1:30pm LUNCH 1:30pm - 3:30pm Session 2 - CASE STUDIES: FIGHTING BACK Moderator: Ruth Milkman Speakers: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field on Madison Jesse Sharkey, Vice President, Chicago Teachers Union Pierrette Talley, Secretary-Treasurer, Ohio AFL-CIO Barbara Bowen, President, PSC-CUNY 3:30pm to 4pm BREAK 4:00pm - 5:30pm Session 3 - STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES Moderator: Frances Fox Piven Speakers: Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin and COWS Bob Master, CWA Stephen Lerner, labor organizer Adolph Reed, University of Pennsylvania 5:30pm - 6:30pm CLOSING RECEPTION WHEN Friday, March 25, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM (EDT) - Add to Calendar<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-sector-unions-on-the-line-right-wing-at…> WHERE The Joseph S. Murphy Institute - 25 West 43rd Street. 18th floor. New York,, NY 10036 -View Map<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-sector-unions-on-the-line-right-wing-at…>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Feb 26: Critical Dialogues on Race and Modern Architecture
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Critical Dialogues on Race and Modern Architecture Panel Friday, February 26, 2016 12:30pm Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall Columbia University 1172 Amsterdam Avenue NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE - WOOD AUDITORIUM Adrienne Brown, Assistant Professor - Department of English Language and Literatures, University of Chicago Mark Crinson, Professor, University of Manchester Dianne Harris, Dean of College of Humanities, University of Utah Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Response by Mabel O. Wilson, Professor, Columbia GSAPP Irene Cheng, Assistant Professor, California College of the Arts Charles Davis, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte "Race"-an aesthetic category based on concepts of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power-has been integral in shaping architectural discourse from its conceptualization in the Enlightenment to the present. There are numerous understudied intersections between racial and architectural theory including Winckelmann's idealization of Greek bodies and buildings, Adolf Loos's association of tattooing and ornament with "primitive" peoples, and Le Corbusier's evocations of the "primal energy" of Black jazz as spur to the rational, radiant European city. This lively dialogue between scholars drawn from across disciplines will explore how the racial has been deployed to organize and conceptualize the spaces of modernity from the building to the city to the nation to the planet. Co-Sponsored by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. Free and open to the public.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Feb 25: Emulating Natural Systems to Achieve Low Cost Carbon-Dioxide from the Air
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Doctoral Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences Presents Spring 2016 Colloquium Series February 18, 2015 5:30 PM Followed by a reception Peter Groffman - Brooklyn College "Emulating Natural Systems to Achieve Low Cost Carbon-Dioxide from the Air" Graduate Center, Room 4102 | 365 Fifth Avenue?

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Feb 25: Affordable Housing and the Public Realm
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Affordable Housing and the Public Realm: Designing for Quality Retail and Community Use When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Where: The Center for Architecture - 536 LaGuardia Place More info: http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=9181 In the coming decade, thousands of new mixed-use affordable housing developments created through Mayor de Blasio's Housing New York plan will transform the cityscape. With the power of good design, this unprecedented building boom can help foster vibrant, mixed-income neighborhoods and attractive, fully leased commercial corridors. Laying the Groundwork, developed by the Design Trust for Public Space and its Fellows in partnership with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, is a comprehensive set of guidelines for high-quality ground-floor design in mixed-use affordable housing developments. Please join the Design Trust and the AIANY Interiors Committee as we discuss the importance of ground-floor design in this growing sector. Speakers: Susan Chin, FAIA, Hon. ASLA, Executive Director, Design Trust for Public Space Eric Wilson, Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Sustainability, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development Fiona Cousins, PE, CEng, LEED Fellow, Principal, Arup; Engineering Fellow, Design Trust for Public Space Penny Hardy, Principal, PS New York; Graphic Design Fellow, Design Trust for Public Space James Slade, FAIA, LEED AP, Principal, Slade Architecture; Architecture Fellow, Design Trust for Public Space Hayes Slade, AIA, Principal, Slade Architecture; Architecture Fellow, Design Trust for Public Space R. Darby Curtis, AIA, Partner, Curtis + Ginsberg Architects Moderator: Bill Menking, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Architects Newspaper Organized by: AIANY Interiors Committee and Design Trust for Public Space Price: $5 for AIA members; $10 for non-members

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] David Harvey Speaking on Friday
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Event will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center Inequality and the Commons Seminar Sponsored by ARC Presents David Harvey Distinguished Professor Of Anthropology and Geography CUNY Graduate Center http://davidharvey.org/ Rebel Cities and Urban Commons GC-CUNY, February 19, 2-4pm Room GC 5318 David Harvey is one of the best known and the most cited urban Marxist geographers. His many books examine various facets of the urban process in capitalist societies. In one of his recent books Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (2012), Dr. Harvey analyzes the revolutionary potential of cities and how they can bring about more socially just societies. At the seminar, he will speak to the themes of this book and will share his latest thinking about cities. Also see Video: David Harvey: Slums & Skyscrapers: Space, Housing and the City Under Neoliberalism http://davidharvey.org/2015/07/video-david-harvey-slums-skyscrapers-space-h…

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