For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Prev September 2016 Next SUNDAY28MONDAY299:30 AM | 12:30 PMClassified Service Staff / On-boarding ProcessingClassified Service StaffShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY309:30 AM | 10:30 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration2:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMCIRCL: Bill Haddican & Susana HuidobroBill Haddican & Susana Huidobro present "Toward a comparative syntax of allocutivity: Addressee clitics in Basque and Galician." Brought to you by CIRCL (Connecting Innovative...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY31Last Day to RegisterLast day to register for Fall 2016 courses.ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY19:30 AM | 10:30 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration2:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY210:00 AM | 12:00 PMCourse ReconfigurationNeed to reconceptualize some aspects of your course after the first week? Compare notes with other teachers and talk through your concerns with TLC staff. Share2:00 PMPedagogy Workshop for English Program StudentsThis is a collaborative event meant to facilitate discussions on the teaching of writing. Topics will vary, but may include: - commenting on student papers - facilitating in-class writing -...SharePlacement Workshop: Professional Organizations/Conferences—CFPs & Presentations Led by Professor Mark McBeth, Acting DEO for Placement. Potential candidates for jobs should show that they are involved in the intellectual communities and professional organizations of their...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY3No Classes ScheduledNo classes scheduled.ShareAll EventsSUNDAY4MONDAY512:00 AMLabor DayLabor Day The College is Closed, no classes are scheduled. ShareAll EventsTUESDAY67:00 AM | 9:00 AMResearch for MALS Students In this workshop we will discuss research at a graduate level. Topics to be covered include: How to search for resources Evaluating sources Avoiding plagiarism How to make a...Share9:30 AM | 10:30 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration2:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMCIRCL: Nora GoldmanNora Goldman presents on a topic in linguistics. Title TBA. Brought to you by CIRCL (Connecting Innovative Research in CUNY Linguistics).ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY71:00 PM | 3:00 PMCourse ReconfigurationNeed to reconceptualize some aspects of your course after the first week? Compare notes with other teachers and talk through your concerns with TLC staff. Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMThe House of Dust by Alison Knowles exhibition openingPlease join us in the James Gallery for the opening reception of "The House of Dust by Alison Knowles" September 7th from 6 to 8pm. Alison Knowles's computerized poem of 1967, The...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY82:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 8:30 PMGC Linguistics Program New Student OrientationMore information TBAShare5:00 PM | 8:00 PMInhabit-A Permaculture PerspectivePermaculture is an integrated ecological, agricultural, and social design process that aims to reduce the destructive impact of humans on the environment through the creation and maintenance of...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY99:00 AM | 8:00 PMJane Marcus Feminist UniversityJane Marcus Feminist University is a day-long celebration of the life and scholarship of Jane Marcus organized by her former students. Distinguished Professor of English at City College and the...Share9:30 AM | 12:30 PMClassified Service Staff / On-boarding ProcessingClassified Service StaffShareEvent Registration2:45 PM | 5:00 PMSpin Superfluidity in the Quantum Hall of Graphene So Takei (CUNY-Queens) will deliver a talk at the condensed material seminar hosted by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences and the PhD Physics Department. Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMThe House of Dust: A poem in processSix years after the founding of Fluxus—in which, as the only woman, she played a pioneering role—Knowles teamed up with composer and Bell Labs innovator James Tenney to create an...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY10SUNDAY11MONDAY129:30 AM | 10:30 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration9:30 AM | 12:30 PMClassified Service Staff / On-boarding ProcessingClassified Service StaffShareEvent Registration10:32 AM2016 Election Series at the Graduate CenterThe Political Science Department will host the Fall 2016 Election Series at the Graduate Center. Share2:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY134:00 PM | 5:00 PMNew Hire Adjunct Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMThe Basics of Applying to Doctoral Programs 2016We'll discuss the following: Is a doctoral program right for you? How to choose a field (if you haven’t already) and programs. Questions to consider. Why you should apply to more...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY141:00 PM | 3:00 PMPeer Review as Creative AssessmentA TLC workshop designed to maximize effectiveness of peer review as assessment in your classroom.ShareDeadline for add/drop, level and residency changesDeadline for dropping classes (without a grade of 'W' appearing on the student record), changes of level, or residency for the Fall 2016 semeseter. All changes that may affect student...ShareDeadline for Depositing a Dissertation or Thesis For a September 30 DegreeDeadline for depositing a dissertation or thesis for a September 30, 2016 degree.Share4:00 PM | 5:00 PMNew Hire Adjunct Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMThe Anatomy of Change: Cliff Levy's 'Broken Homes'At its best, journalism excels in telling the stories of the voiceless, in demanding justice for the victimized. Cliff Levy's Pulitzer-winning series "Broken Homes" (The New York Times)...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMBuilding a Usable History: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights MovementThe Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (rosaparksbiography.org) is an educational website that tells the story of Parks’ lifelong work as a political activist—particularly around criminal...Share6:30 PMSoyoung Yoon: "Is it alive, is it real?"What is a “productive body”? How does the category of the productive body—or the unproductive body, the obstinate body—change our approach to questions of subjectivity,...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY159:30 AM | 10:30 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration1:00 PM | 2:00 PMMusic In Midtown: Chamber Music on Fifth IChamber Music on Fifth I: Music In Midtown begins the fall semester with a program of chamber works performed by gifted artists of the Graduate Center’s DMA music performance program. Our...Share4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Jill Burstein (ETS)Jill Burstein (ETS) presents "NLP & the Literacy Challenge: Innovation to Support Writing Proficiency, and Reading & Language Skills." In the U.S. and internationally, societal...Share6:00 PM | 7:30 PMFrench Professor Francesca Canade SautmanProfessor Francesca Sautman teaches French at the Graduate Center and Hunter College. Her works in progress include: Striking Out on their Own: Women, Same-Sex Affective Networks and Working Class...Share6:30 PM“Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.”Francesca Canadé Sautman will present “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.” FRANCESCA CANADÉ SAUTMAN is Professor of French at the Graduate...Share6:30 PMFrom House of Dust to AntitrustAlthough the mid-1960s saw the peak of artist-engineer activity at Bell Laboratories—the research and development center that employed James Tenney and facilitated the production of Alison...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY169:00 AM | 1:00 PMThe Mediterranean Dimension of the Refugee CrisisThis half-day public event will bring together a select group of local, national, regional, and international policymakers and experts from international organizations, government, academia and civil...Share1:00 PMPlacement Workshop: Composing the Job Letter Led by Professor Nico Israel. In this workshop, participants will discuss the genre of the job letter (content, organization, preliminary research, tone, formatting), critique sample documents, and...Share2:00 PMSixth Year Funding WorkshopMany students need continued funding beyond the 5-year fellowship to complete their dissertations and go on the job market. This workshop, organized by students Kaitlin Mondello and Erin Spampinato,...Share2:45 PM | 5:00 PMEpitaxial superconductor-semiconductor two-dimensional systemsJavad Shabani (CUNY-CCNY) gives a talk titled "Epitaxial superconductor-semiconductor two-dimensional systems: platforms for quantum circuits" at this seminar, part of the Condensed Matter...Share4:00 PMBetter to Speak: Teaching WorkshopTo all new instructors teaching for the first time this semester, as well as their colleagues—join us for a roundtable discussion on the issues adjuncts face in the classroom, with a particular...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY17SUNDAY18MONDAY199:30 AM | 12:30 PMClassified Service Staff / On-boarding ProcessingClassified Service StaffShareEvent Registration9:30 AM | 10:30 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration2:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMRuth Scurr on John Aubrey, My Own LifeRuth Scurr will be interviewed by Brenda Wineapple on John Aubrey, My Own Life, an extraordinary book about the influential author of Brief Lives, which reimagines what biography can be. Aubrey...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY2012:00 PM | 9:00 PMJames Harding | Lecture: The Future of Performance in the Era of Global SurveillanceJames Harding’s lecture considers the future of theatre and performance in light of the expansive collecting and marketing of data by private corporations that cater to government agencies....Share4:15 PM | 6:00 PMThe State Of The Presidential Race And Its MeaningAs the fall campaign is in full swing, what have we learned so far and what can we expect as the election heads into debtate season. Please join our American Politics faculty and students as they...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMCIRCL: Rachel Rakov and E. Cameron WilsonRachel Rakov and E. Cameron Wilson present on a topic in linguistics. Title TBA. Brought to you by CIRCL (Connecting Innovative Research in CUNY Linguistics)Share6:30 PMExperimental Pedagogy and Games on the (Pacific) CoastsIn 1970, when Alison Knowles moved to Valencia, California, to teach at California Institute of the Arts, she transportedThe House of Dust to the school. Once installed on campus, the architectural...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY216:15 PMJews, Quakers and the Holocaust: The Struggle to Save Twenty Thousand ChildrenJews, Quakers and the Holocaust: The Struggle to Save Twenty Thousand Children A lecture by Ira Zornberg, New York This lecture, lasting about 50 minutes, will be followed by a question and...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMAlexandra JuhaszAlexandra Juhasz, Chair of the Film Department at Brooklyn College will talk about her current work on feminist Internet culture including YouTube and feminist pedagogy and community. She makes and...Share6:30 PMGather the house around the tableChloë Bass' artwork spans visual art, performance, and writing practices. Growing out of conceptualism and Fluxus, Bass' keen attention to social processes in public space, which largely go...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY229:30 AM | 10:30 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration2:00 PM | 4:00 PMCUNYFirst Travel & Expense / Additional training for the Travel & Expense module (for travel and personal reimbursement). This session will include updates on the Purchasing and Accounts Payable business processes; the...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PMFall 2016: Computer Science ColloquiumEvery week distinguished researchers in Computer Science present their projects in the Computer Science Colloquium hosted by the Computer Science Department.Share4:15 PM | 6:00 PMComputational Medicine: Integration of Heterogeneous Types of Patient DataSpeaker: Kayvan Najarian, Ph.D Title: Computational Medicine; Integration of Heterogeneous Types of Patient Data for Clinical Decision Making Computational medicine encompasses the techniques...Share6:30 PMMasha Gessen: Where the Jews Aren’tMasha Gessen, a Russian-American journalist and LGBT activist, has focused her courageous prose on Vladimir Putin, the band Pussy Riot, and the terrorist Tsarnev Brothers. Gessen speaks about Where...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PMA House of Sound and SenseSound artist Miya Masaoka and poet Ada Smailbegović will share performances of sound scores they have made in response to the original computer printout of Knowles' The House of Dust. An...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY239:00 AM | 5:00 PMMultilingualism and Language Empowerment: A Response to Inequality Language and language choices play a significant yet often unacknowledged role in fostering inequality. This is most evident in the spheres of education, the workplace and public health, where...Share10:00 AM | 12:00 PMPressForward: Introduction to PressForwardIn this introductory workshop, new users will participate in a hands-on introduction to PressForward. The workshop will cover accessingPressForward from the WordPress Dashboard, adding feeds,...Share10:00 AM | 12:00 PMIntroduction to PressForwardIn this introductory workshop, new users will participate in a hands-on introduction to PressForward. The workshop will cover accessing PressForward from the WordPress Dashboard, adding feeds,...ShareEvent Registration1:00 PM | 5:00 PMPressForward Train the TrainersIn this “Train the Trainers” workshop, participants with some experience using PressForward (including those who attended the Introduction to PressForward workshop and who wish to stay)...ShareEvent Registration1:00 PM | 5:00 PMPressForward: Train the TrainersIn this “Train the Trainers” workshop, participants with some experience using PressForward (including those who attended the Introduction toPressForward workshop and who wish to stay)...Share2:45 PM | 4:00 PMMany-body localization in mean-field quantum glassesThe central assumption of statistical mechanics is that interactions between particles establish local equilibrium. Isolated quantum systems, however, need not equilibrate; for example, this happens...Share6:00 PMThe Beekeeper: Black Southern Women Who Love WomenE. Patrick Johnson gives a preview of his latest solo show, based on oral histories of black southern women who love other women. Johnson portrays his interviewees with poignancy and humor and...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsSATURDAY24SUNDAY25MONDAY269:30 AM | 12:30 PMClassified Service Staff / On-boarding ProcessingClassified Service StaffShareEvent Registration9:30 AM | 10:30 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration12:00 PM | 4:30 PMAnnual Reading Rescue™ Principals’ MeetingReading Rescue™ Reading Rescue is both a literacy intervention for elementary students, as well as a professional development program for school staff members. We bring expertise in...Share1:00 PM | 2:30 PMCUNY-NLP: Elena Filatova (City Tech)Join us for Elena Filatova's (City Tech) "Sarcasm Detection using Sentiment Flow Shifts." Talk takes place in room 9116. Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the differences in...Share2:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration6:30 PMMy Life with Things: Elizabeth Chin in Conversation with Arlene DavilaMy Life With Things: Elizabeth Chin in Conversation with Arlene Davila My Life with Things is an autoethnography, a wide open attempt to look at contemporary consumption—mine—in its...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMIn.On.Or About the Premises: A Celebration of the Work of Paul BlackburnLost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative is partnering with The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church to celebrate their 50th Anniversary with a panel and discussion on the life and...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY2710:00 AM | 8:00 PMA Day with Romeo Castellucci Born in Cesena in 1960, Romeo Castellucci graduated in scenic design and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Together with Claudia Castellucci, Chiara Guidi, and Paolo Guidi, he...Share2:00 PMDark Money & Political AdvertisingTravis Ridout of Washington State University and the Wesleyan Media Project will talk about his work tracking “dark money” through political advertising, and what past results from WMP...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMTiffany Jenkins and David Rieff: Museums, Memories, and PoliticsMuseums, Memories, and Politics with: Tiffany Jenkins Sociologist and Author Keeping Their Marbles: How Museums Acquired Their Treasures of the Past and Why They Should Keep Them &...Share7:00 PMLIVE@365: Brazilian Songs of the Amazon — Dona Onete, The Queen of CarimboAmazonian singer Dona Onete, from Northern Brazil, released her debut album at the age of 73. Onete has composed over 300 songs and created her own form of carimbó, an indigenous rhythm and dance...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY2810:00 AM | 12:00 PMCUNYFirst Travel & Expense / Additional training for the Travel & Expense module (for travel and personal reimbursement). This session will include updates on the Purchasing and Accounts Payable business processes; the...ShareEvent Registration5:00 PM | 6:30 PMStreet Style Anthropology Book Talk; Brent Luvaas at CUNY Fashion StudiesWhat Comes After the Street Style Blog? A Status Update from the Sidewalks of Fashion Week Brent Luvaas, author of Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging will treat us to a talk about...Share6:00 PM | 8:30 PMCollege Costs, Financial Aid, & The Betrayal of the American Dream"Paying the Price" Prof. Sara Goldrick-Rab - Featured speaker with Nicholas Freudenberg (CUNY Public Health) & Mark Zuckerman (The Century Foundation) moderated by Prof. Anna...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMStaging the Clean House of DustWhat are the words that build houses on stage? What does the idea of a house mean to us as a symbol or a literal component of art and performance? Join scholar Bess Rowen as she speaks about the...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMLeon Levy Biography Lecture: Hermione LeeHermione Lee is the author of the definitive life of Virginia Woolf, a signal achievement in literary biography, as well as biographies and critical studies of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Philip...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTHURSDAY2910:00 AM | 11:00 AMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration1:00 PM | 2:00 PMMusic In Midtown: Chamber Music on Fifth IIChamber Music on Fifth II: Music In Midtown presents a chamber music concert featuring a stellar group of musicians from the DMA performance program, including Laura Cocks, flute; Brigid Coleridge,...Share2:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration2:30 PM | 3:30 PMNew Hire College Assistant Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration4:30 PM | 6:30 PMWhat We Don't Talk About When We Talk About The ElectionDiscussions about presidential elections often focus on internal party politics, electoral college math, and “independent voters.” What’s often missing from these conversations are...Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMLourdes Follins: Experiences of Underrepresented Faculty at 3 CUNY Community CollegesARC Seminar: Lourdes Follins: Experiences and Perceptions of Historically Underrepresented Faculty at Three CUNY Community Colleges Nationwide, nearly half of all community college students come...Share6:30 PMDwelling, Dislocation and the DigitalHow does a gathering of people within a house of poetry provide new insights on migration, belonging, and culture beyond currently-held notions of sovereignty? Alison Knowles' House of Dust...Share7:00 PM | 9:00 PMPreparing a Statement of Teaching PhilosophyOn the job market, or soon to be? This workshop will focus on preparing a strong statement of teaching philosophy. ShareAll EventsFRIDAY3010:00 AM | 11:30 AMNew Hire Teaching & Non-Teaching Instructional Staff Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingNew Hire Orientation for member entering teaching and non-teaching titles. During this session new employees are ask to present completed New Hire Packet along with Form I-9 documents for employment...ShareEvent RegistrationCUNY Neuroscience Collaborative Seminar Series (September)October 7: Faculty Speakers Jack Martin (City College) Carmen V. Melendez-Vasquez (Hunter College) October 14: NO SEMINAR (Columbus Day-Tuesday Schedule) October 21: Outside speaker (4th...Share2:00 PM | 4:00 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Gregory R. Guy (NYU)Gregory R. Guy (NYU) presents "Null Subjects in Portuguese and Spanish." Join us for refreshments after the lecture. All welcome!Share2:45 PM | 4:00 PMQuantum entanglement growth under random unitary dynamics**Change of location: This Condensed Material seminar will take place in Room C205, not the Science Center.** Followed by wine and cheese reception. A quantum many-body system, prepared initially...Share4:00 PM | 6:00 PMColloquium on the Cuban Republic: Revolution in the 1930s"Poverty or Honor:" Factional Struggles in the Auténtico Party and the Birth of a New Cuban Politics Ilán Ehrlich, Bergen Community College The Cuban Medical Strikes of 1934: Class...Share4:00 PMRepresenting Exceptional Blackness in Rankine's Citizen & Marvel’s Captain America"This Moment of Manumission": Representing Exceptional Blackness in Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Marvel Comics' Captain America A Faculty Membership talk by Jonathan W. Gray,...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY1