For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Fall 2012 CalendarAcademics, Research Centers, & InitiativesDoctoral ProgramsPolitical ScienceFall 2012 Calendar Prev May 2013 Next SUNDAY28MONDAY2912:00 PMAlexandre Kojeve What came after Alexandre Kojève’s philosophy of the end of history? This seminar will contribute to the debate about how Deleuze and Foucault are indebted to this understudied...Share2:00 PMPEN World Voices: New Plays from Spain On the occasion of the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, works by Spanish playwrights Ernesto Caballero; Guillem Clue; Cristina Colemena; Mar Gómez Glez; Borja Ortiz de...Share6:30 PMTriangulations: Baraka and CesaireTriangulations pairs authors and musicians to consider the work of a selected writer. Join us for two creative conversations about the works of poets and intellectuals Amiri Baraka and Aimé Césaire....Share6:30 PMTriangulations: Baraka and Cesaire Triangulations pairs authors and musicians to consider the work of a selected writer. Join us for two creative conversations about the works of poets and intellectuals Amiri Baraka and Aimé...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY30Last day to deposit a dissertation or thesis for a May, 2013 degree.Last day to deposit a dissertation or thesis for a May 2013 degree.Share11:45 AM | 1:45 PM"Everything All the Time? Re-evaluating the Role of New Import Varieties" "Seminar in Applied Economics: 'Everything All the Time? Re-evaluating the Role of New Import Varieties' with Roc Armenter" Speaker: Roc Armenter Affiliation: Federal Reserve Bank of...Share2:00 PM | 3:30 PMNew Plays from Spain: NUMBERS by Mar Gómez Glez On the occasion of the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, works by Spanish playwrights Ernesto Caballero; Guillem Clue; Cristina Colemena; Mar Gómez Glez; Borja Ortiz de...Share4:00 PM | 5:00 PMNew Plays from Spain: ON THE MOON by Alfredo Sanzol On the occasion of the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, works by Spanish playwrights Ernesto Caballero; Guillem Clue; Cristina Colemena; Mar Gómez Glez; Borja Ortiz de...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMCUNY Syntax Supper: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-Université 7) Plural Marking and Inherently Plural Predicates (joint work with Marcelo Ferreira) Abstract: It is currently assumed that phi-features, and in particular plural features, are interpreted on...Share6:30 PM | 7:30 PMNew Plays from Spain: PAKITA by Ernesto Caballero On the occasion of the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, works by Spanish playwrights Ernesto Caballero; Guillem Clue; Cristina Colemena; Mar Gómez Glez; Borja Ortiz de...Share8:00 PM | 9:00 PMPanel: Is there a National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Playwriting? On the occasion of the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, we welcome seven of Spain’s most respected Spanish dramatists to the Segal Center. Playwrights will travel...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY15:00 PMAfter Lorca: A Day of Poetry and Performance Federico García Lorca’s impact on modern and contemporary American poetry is vast; he is also one of Spain’s greatest dramatists, whose lyrical, revolutionary plays are rich with folk...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMExtraordinary Lives: Marilynne Robinson in Conversation with Bill KellyGraduate Center President Bill Kelly speaks one-on-one with Marilynne Robinson, one of the country’s most singular and powerful literary voices. With her first novel, Housekeeping, published in...ShareEvent Registration11:00 PMCUNY NLP: James Hendler (Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute)Broad Data: Technology Challenges on the emerging Web of data Abstract: "Big Data" usually refers to the very large datasets generated by scientists, to the many petabytes of data held...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY29:30 AMFall 2013 Registration Registration for the Fall 2013 semester begins at 9:30 a.m. for those matriculated students enrolled during the Spring 2013 semester.Share9:30 AM | 5:00 PMSymposium on NSE and related equationsBreakfast and lunch will be provided, but in order to provide enough food, please confirm your attendance via email. Also, please feel free to forward this invitation to your students and who ever...Share1:00 PM | 2:00 PMMusic in MidtownMusic in Midtown concludes the spring season with a special concert featuring an illustrious group of New York City’s finest musicians. This presentation of some of the finest masterworks of...Share4:15 PM | 5:15 PMComputer Science Colloquium and NYTECHComputer Science Colloquium and NYTECH Thursday, May 2, 4:15 p.m., room 9205/06 Peter Bell hackNY Trends in Database Technologies Over the last few years we've seen a range of NoSQL...Share6:30 PMTurnstyle Reading Series Writers and graduating students from the four City University of New York MFA Programs in Creative Writing (City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Queens College) come together for...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY38:45 AM | 6:00 PMInventing Victorian Race What did Victorians think about race? Culminating in a keynote by Patrick Brantlinger, author of Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 (2003), this conference...Share9:00 AM | 6:00 PMCUNY Annual Victorian Conference: Inventing Victorian Race For more information including full program: http://victorian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ Share9:30 AM | 3:00 PMCUNY-NYSIEB Leadership Seminar 4 The CUNY-NYSIEB Leadership Seminars are designed to support principals in the CUNY-NYSIEB Cohort 2 schools in the development of an Instructional Improvement Plan for their emergent bilinguals....Share11:00 AM | 5:00 PMQuantum sparse-graph codes for future quantum computers Leonid Pryadko (UC Riverside) - "Quantum sparse-graph codes for future quantum computers." Share12:00 PM | 7:00 PMThe 2013 Chapbook Festival Now in its fifth year, the Chapbook Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Again this year the festival...Share2:00 PM“Carceral Aesthetics: Art and Visuality in the Era of Mass Incarceration”Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers), “Carceral Aesthetics: Art and Visuality in the Era of Mass Incarceration” Talk three of Mentoring Future Faculty of Color Project. Popular entertainment,...Share2:15 PM | 3:30 PMCUNY NLP: Sasha Rush (MIT and Columbia) Optimal Beam Search for Machine Translation Abstract: Beam search and cube pruning have become the de facto inference algorithms for phrase-based and syntactic translation respectively....Share2:15 PM | 3:30 PMCUNY-NLP Seminar: Optimal Beam Search for Machine TranslationTitle: Optimal Beam Search for Machine Translation Speaker: Alexander Rush (Columbia) Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm, May 3, Friday Place: Room 6496, CUNY Graduate Center. 5th Ave & 34th...Share5:00 PMOrientations: Female-female Eros in Renaissance Neoplatonism Why is female-female eros persistently imagined as Neoplatonic? Insofar as the term for the female-female couple appears but once in the whole of extant classical Greek texts—in Plato’s...Share5:00 PMTodd Reeser: Orientations: Female-female Eros in Renaissance NeoplatonismTodd Reeser, French, University of Pittsburgh. In this talk, Professor Reeser will historicize queer theory’s insight that lesbianism is often linked to problems of representation by focusing...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY412:00 PM | 7:00 PMThe 2013 Chapbook Festival Now in its fifth year, the Chapbook Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Again this year the festival features a...ShareAll EventsSUNDAY5MONDAY610:00 AM | 5:00 PMThe Politics of Polyglossia Does the transposition of words from one language to another – the shift of a text between contexts – change not only the work translated, but its political implications, the fate of...Share4:00 PMMexico: Legacies of RevolutionThe return to power of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional is a good moment to revisit the question of the legacy of the Mexican Revolution in contemporary politics. The PRI exercised a near...Share6:00 PMThe Politics of Recovery and the Spanish Civil War What are the politics and processes of archival and cultural recovery? How does recovery change historical narratives? How does the reconstruction of material histories affect present-day...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMExiles: Aleksandar Hemon and Andre Aciman in ConversationJoin André Aciman and Aleksandar Hemon, two of contemporary literature’s masters, as they discuss displacement, exile, memory, and other aspects of their distinctive, evocative writing. Born in...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY711:45 AM | 1:45 PMSeminar in Applied Economics: TBA with Elizabeth KleeSpeaker: Elizabeth Klee Affiliation: Federal Reserve Board Topic: TBA Organizer: Thom Thurston (tthurston@gc.cuny.edu).Share4:00 PM | 5:00 PMCommunity Meeting with President KellyShare6:30 PM | 8:00 PMCUNY Psycholinguistics Supper: Douglas Whalen (Graduate Center) Theory of Mind and embedding of perspective: A psychological test of a literary "sweet spot" (Joint work with Lisa Zunshine and Michael Holquist). Abstract: Theory of Mind...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMTreasured Objects: a Lecture with Susan PattieWhat things do people keep, hoping to pass them on to the next generations? What stories could these objects tell, if they only had a voice? This illustrated lecture explores the rich oral...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY89:30 AM | 12:00 PM9th Floor Build-Out Launch 9th Floor Build-Out Launch with President William Kelly and Provost Chase Robinson. Share12:00 PM | 2:00 PMGender & Sexuality Lecture Series: Jessie Daniels Online feminist activism is the greatest innovation for feminism in 50 years, yet it is simultaneously “in crisis” because it is “underfunded and unsustainable,” according...Share5:30 PMJames Gallery Exhibition Walk-through Join James Gallery Curator Katherine Carl for a half-hour walk-through of the current exhibition, "After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer," guest-curated by Boris Groys. The...Share6:15 PMRescuers of Jews during the Holocaust in FranceThis lecture, lasting about 50 minutes, will be followed by a question and answer period of 50 minutes. The lecture series is offered in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies and Continuing...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY911:00 AM | 12:15 PMCUNY NLP: Zornitsa Kozareva (USC/ISI)Knowledge Extraction and Taxonomization from the Web Abstract: Knowledge extraction and taxonomization have been of great interest to the research community for a long time. With the...Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Matt Huenerfauth (GC/Queens College) Learning to Generate Understandable Animations of American Sign Language. Abstract: A majority of deaf high school graduates in the U.S. have a fourth-grade English reading level or...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMNew York City Cartmen, 1667–1850The cart men—unskilled workers who hauled goods on one-horse carts—were perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. Revised and re-issued in 2012, New York City...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY10New York Women in Math and CS WorkshopNew York Women in Mathematics and Computing Network is pleased to announce that it has received another grant from NSF this year to support one more workshop. The workshop has been scheduled for...Share11:00 AM | 5:00 PMGiulio Biroli (IPhT-CEA,Saclay) Giulio Biroli (IPhT-CEA,Saclay) TBA. Share2:00 PM | 4:00 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Jaclyn Ocumpaugh (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Exploring methods from other fields: A case study in how Educational Data Mining (EDM) has achieved population validity in the detection of student affect. Abstract: As linguists look to...Share3:00 PM | 5:00 PMILETC Best Practices Workshop, Session 13 Ever notice how jingles you heard twenty years ago stay with you in perfect detail? Musical and rhythmic settings of language engage the brain in ways that are extremely helpful for language...Share4:30 PM | 5:30 PMAnnual Celebration of CUNY Women Scholars and ScholarshipJoin us for the Annual Celebration of CUNY Women Scholars and Scholarship on Friday, May 10, 4:30-5:30pm, Rooms 9204/9205. Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMBook Launch – The Coup: 1953, the CIA, & the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian RelationsIn August 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the...Share6:30 PMBrave New Teenagers What is the relationship between Young Adult literature and popular culture? Are YA dystopias high-minded attempts to educate the young or simply bids to cash in on a formula for commercial...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY11SUNDAY12MONDAY13TUESDAY146:30 PM | 8:30 PMCUNY Syntax Supper: Thomas Grano (University of Maryland) Verb meaning, restructuring, and the grammar of complement control/ Landau (2000; 2004) draws a distinction between P(artial) C(ontrol) and E(xhaustive) C(ontrol): whereas PC predicates like...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY156:30 PMThe Empire of Fashion in 19th Century France Sima Godfrey teaches in the Dept. of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. From 1999- 2007 she changed hats to establish and direct the Institute for European...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY16FRIDAY17Fifteenth week of the semester including Final Examination Period.Fifteenth week of the semester inculding Final Examination Period.Share9:30 AM | 5:00 PMRISLUS: Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society The Institute conducts research on language, literacy, and bilingualism and their development and acquisition in urban societies. The central mission of RISLUS is to investigate those research...Share11:00 AM | 5:00 PMKyungwha Park (Virginia Tech) - TBA Kyungwha Park (Virginia Tech) TBA Share4:00 PMMexican Muralism Re-thinking the Mexican Muralists Beginning in the early 1920s, the Mexican mural movement was one of the first visual art avant-garde movements in the Western hemisphere. What made it different...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY18SUNDAY19MONDAY206:30 PM | 8:00 PMInequality and Economic Growth: Paul Krugman & Tony Atkinson in Conversation NOTE: This event is sold out, but the conversation will be live streamed at http://videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu/videos/livestreams/page1/. To participate in the conversation, tweet your...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMPlaywrights Writing for Television: Success or Compromise?A panel of New York playwrights who write for television examine whether their work is enhanced or compromised by working in both worlds. New York has always provided a steady stream of talent for...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMA Panel on Little Syria, NYC: History and Advocacy with Akram Khater and Todd Fine Akram Khater is Professor of Middle Eastern History at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Embracing the Divine; Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and the Making of a Lebanese...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY2110:00 AM | 11:00 AMDissertation Completion Now! Every Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - May 28, 2013 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. These workshops were developed especially for the doctoral students of the Graduate Center on the basis of the...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY225:00 PMAsia and Latin America Adrian Hearn's presentation focuses on China’s growing economic role in the Americas and its challenges to many countries in this region to develop new approaches to trade, investment,...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY234:00 PM | 6:00 PMMexico - U.S. Relations: History and Prospects Based on her recent book Las relaciones exteriores de Mexico 1821 - 2000 (2012), Ambassador Roberta Lajous will lecture on the peaks and troughs of bilateral relations between Mexico and the...Share5:00 PMDoctoral CommencementForty-Ninth Doctoral Commencement Exercises The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York. 2013 Commencement BriefingShareAll EventsFRIDAY24SATURDAY25SUNDAY26MONDAY279:49 AMMemorial Day - School ClosedMemorial Day - School ClosedShareAll EventsTUESDAY289:00 AMConference to describe the scientific work of Jim Simons on his 75th birthday May 28-31, 2013 Tuesday, May 28th, 9:00 a.m. Breakfast reception; First lecture 10:45 a.m. There will be four mini-courses pertaining to the main aspects of Jim Simons' published...Share10:00 AM | 11:00 AMDissertation Completion Now! (1) Every Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - May 28, 2013 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. These workshops were developed especially for the doctoral students of the Graduate Center on the basis of the experiences...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY299:00 AM | 1:00 PMSuperstorm Sandy: Are We Ready for the Next One?Experts from the City University of New York, public and nonprofit sectors, and city government discuss lessons learned from the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy. SESSION TOPICS: 1)...Share5:00 PM | 7:00 PMDoctor of Public Health (DPH) Program Information SessionThe CUNY Doctor of Public Health (DPH) Program welcomes you to our next Information Session. We look forward to assisting as you take this exciting step toward the pursuit of a DPH degree. The DPH...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY30FRIDAY31SATURDAY1