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 2018 Next SUNDAY26Last day to drop for 100% tuition refund.Last day to drop for 100% tuition refund.ShareAll EventsMONDAY27First Day of Classes for Fall 2018 SemesterFirst day of classes for the Fall 2018 semester. All students who register on or after this day will be assessed a $25 late registration fee.Share3:00 PM | 4:30 PMNew 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 RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY2810:00 AM | 11:00 AMNew Hire Adjunct Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. 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During this session new employees are ask to present completed New Hire Packet along with Form I-9 documents for employment...ShareEvent Registration12:00 PM | 3:00 PMMeet the Dean for Master’s Programs Office HoursAll master’s students are welcome to drop in to meet Julie Suk, the new Dean for Master’s Programs and Professor of Sociology.Share4:00 PMThat Summer FeelingIn which a variety of GC English faculty kick off the year in high spirits, welcoming its challenges and pleasures, newcomers and veterans, with a series of short pitches or lightning talks about the...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY1SUNDAY2Last day to register for Fall 2018. Last day to drop for 75% tuition refund. Last day to register for Fall 2018. Last day to drop for 75% tuition refund. ShareAll EventsMONDAY3Labor Day observed. The Graduate Center is closed.Labor Day observed. The Graduate Center is closed. ShareAll EventsTUESDAY43:00 PM | 4:30 PMNew 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 RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY5Classes follow Monday schedule. Classes follow Monday schedule. ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY63:00 PM | 4:30 PMBanner Self-Service for FT Staff / Time & LeaveFT employees will be trained on the use of the Banner Self-Service for electronic time and leave reporting. If there are any questions, please feel free to contact: timeandleave@gc.cuny.edu.ShareEvent Registration4:00 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 Registration5:30 PM | 7:30 PMThe Lives of Emily Dickinson: Poetry, Philosophy, SexualityEmily Dickinson belongs to that class of artists who continuously challenge interpretation through the magnitude of their vision. Her astoundingly original poetry continues to disturb, delight,...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY710:00 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 Registration4:00 PMRound Table on the Environmental HumanitiesClimate change is not an event in the distant future. It is upon us now. This summer saw wildfires burning in the Arctic Circle, and unprecedented levels of heat that killed hundreds around the...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY8SUNDAY9Last day to drop for 50% tuition refund. Last day to drop for 50% tuition refund. ShareAll EventsMONDAY10No classes scheduled. No classes scheduled. Share3:00 PM | 4:30 PMNew 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 RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY11No classes scheduled. No classes scheduled. Share5:00 PM | 7:00 PMMeet the Dean for Master’s Programs Office Hours will be Tuesday, September 11 at 5-7 pmAll master’s students are welcome to drop in to meet Julie Suk, the new Dean for Master’s Programs and Professor of Sociology.ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY129:30 AMBits and BiologyMuch of the business of life is about the transmission and processing of information, but it is less clear what the full mathematical structure of information theory teaches us about the mechanisms...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 PMBOOK SALON: Rape and Resistance Graduate Center Professor of Philosophy Linda Alcoff will read from and discuss her new book, Rape and Resistance, with interlocutors Rupal Oza and Alyson Cole. Co-sponsored with the CUNY Graduate...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMJustice: An Empirical ProjectProfessor Carla Shedd will give a talk entitled "Justice: An Empirical Project". Carla Shedd is Associate Professor of Sociology & Urban Education at The Graduate Center, CUNY whose...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMMALS Internship Information SessionInformation session about the MALS Internship Course with Professor Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Dr. Jennifer Furlong. ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTHURSDAY1310:00 AM | 11:00 AMNew Hire Adjunct 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 | 1:00 PMClassrooms and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy?Join the Futures Initiative as we kick off the fall semester with a participatory session on pedagogy and social justice. Speakers include Prof. Cathy N. Davidson (The Graduate Center), Prof. Racquel...Share1:00 PM | 2:00 PMChamber Music on Fifth IMusic 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 performers include Federico...Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMJuan J. DelaCruz Presents: Quality of Life Issues among Older Adults with HIV in NYCJuan J. DelaCruz Presents: “Psychosocial Determinants and Quality of Life Issues among Older Adults with HIV in New York City: Towards More Cost-Effective Interventions” The goal of...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMPublishing American Sign Language Poetry The Deaf community boasts an incredible roster of poets, who use the creative capabilities of American Sign Language to develop visually captivating worlds and express the nuances of Deaf...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMTips and Tricks: On being a new graduate studentThis session is designed as a discussion between returning students and new students about how to best take advantage of what the MALS program and the Graduate Center have to offer. We will discuss...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY1410:00 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 Registration4:30 PMNursing Program GRE Prep Instructor: Eileen Gigliotti, PhD, RN Purpose: To provide information and GRE support for students interested in applying to the PhD Nursing Science Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. This Prep...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMImperial Histories: Reflections on Golden KingdomsWhat survives of the civilizations that thrived in the lands that are now Latin America before the arrival of Europeans? How do we come to know the Incas, the Aztecs, and the many other cultures that...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY15SUNDAY16Deadline for add/drop, level and residency changesDeadline for filing an add with special written permission or drop (without the grade of "W" appearing on the student record), changes of level, or residency changes for the Fall 2018...ShareAll EventsMONDAY173:00 PM | 4:30 PMNew 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 Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMSolidarity Economy in the Performing Arts: What’s Reparations Got to Do With It? Please join us for an evening of exploring historical and current examples of solidarity economy (co-ops, collectives, barter, timebanks, land trusts, credit unions, community financing, and more)...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY18No classes scheduled. No classes scheduled. 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 RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY19No classes scheduled. No classes scheduled. ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY2010:00 AM | 11:00 AMNew Hire Adjunct Orientation / On-boarding ProcessingThis important orientation is required for you to be processed to payroll. Please bring original Social Security card.ShareEvent Registration3:00 PM | 4:00 PMErgonomics in AcademiaJoin the Wellness Center and Jon Cinkay, PT for a discussion and workshop on Ergonomics in Academia.Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMFrancisco Ordóñez Presents: Latin American Spanish and NYCThis seminar advances comparative research on Spanish dialects in Latin America under the umbrella of Romania Nova, a research group that integrates the study of syntactic variation in the Romance...Share5:00 PM | 7:00 PMStatues & Resistance in the Southern AcademyRacial Justice Higher Education Award: Maya Little Co-sponsored with the CUNY Graduate Center PhD Program in Urban Education, PhD Program in Critical Social Personality Psychology, the Institute...Share6:00 PM | 7:30 PMGender, Race, and Orality in Aphra Behn’s OthelloIn this talk, Miles P. Grier argues that Aphra Behn turned to African womanhood in her short novel “Oroonoko” after considering the dilemma of Shakespeare’s Desdemona, whose ardent...Share6:30 PMKathryn Edin: The Tenuous Ties of Working Class MenWhat can explain the decline in labor force participation among U.S. working class men, as well as their rising rates of suicide and overdose? Kathryn Edin, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMPhD Applications Must KnowsThis session presents an overview of the basics of the general PhD application process, including important information about applications, standardized tests, letters of reference, and other...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY219:30 AM | 5:30 PMMachine Learning in Molecular Sciences Machine learning (ML) and data-driven computational approaches have recently emerged as promising new tools to tackle complex optimization and computational problems. This workshop offers exciting...Share10:00 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 Registration2:00 PMOrals Workshop for English Program StudentsA panel of students who recently passed the exam share their experiences. The students will give tips on creating lists, assembling a committee, studying for the exam, the exam itself, and will...Share2:30 PMComputational Linguistics Lecture Series: Esther Seyffarth (Heinrich Heine University)Esther Seyffarth (Heinrich Heine University) presents: From Text to Frame Generation Semantic Frames in the sense of Gamerschlag et al. (2014) let us represent concepts in the form of recursive...Share3:00 PMTo Lend or Not to Lend to Friends and Kin: Awkwardness, Obfuscation, and Negative Reciprocity Frederick Wherry is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and a Faculty Affiliate of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and the Center for Human Values....Share3:00 PMSociology Colloquium SeriesUpcoming Sociology Colloquium Series Fall 2018 September 21 Fred Wherry, Yale University October 19 Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College November 9 Francesca Polletta, UC...Share4:00 PMHieroglyphs of Blackness: Fantasy, Desire, and the Neo-Soul Metaphysics of ReproductionIvy Wilson, Northwestern University Tracing the traffic of Egyptian iconography, this talk limns how black cultural producers use fantasy to imagine forms of transnational or otherworldly...Share5:00 PMRivereuse: Water, Gender and Resource in Early-Modern FranceGuest speaker, Katherine Ibbett is Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and Caroline de Jager Fellow in French at Trinity College, Oxford; she has previously taught at University College...Share5:00 PM | 7:00 PMRiveruse: Water, Gender, and Resource in Early Modern FranceThis talk explores the relationship between a figurative language about rivers and a new science of hydrology in early modern France and the French Americas. How did the residents of riverbanks -...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMTips and Tricks: On being a new graduate studentThis session is designed as a discussion between returning students and new students about how to best take advantage of what the MALS program and the Graduate Center have to offer. We will discuss...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMJeffrey Stewart on Alain LockeIn The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMRound Table on Sergio Chejfec's Baroni, a Journey in IndiaThis round table will draw attention to a lesser-studied area in transnational literary studies: the circulation of literary works in translation between Latin America and India, and the key role...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY22SUNDAY23MONDAY243:00 PM | 4:30 PMNew 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 Registration4:30 PM | 6:00 PMConstrained Capacities: Ascriptive Stigma and Pakistani Immigrant OrganizationsAli Chaudhary, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University Dr. Chaudhary is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and member of the core faculty in the Rutgers Sociology Doctoral Program....Share4:30 PMImmigration Seminar SeriesFall 2018 Immigration Seminar Series Click to view full schedule Share6:30 PMClaire Tomalin: A Life of My OwnAs one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great authors—including Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and Mary Wollstonecraft—to huge...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY256:30 PM | 8:00 PMCIRCL: Amy MaAmy Ma presents on a topic in First Language Acquisition. Title: TBA. All are welcome! Share6:30 PMGovernor Jerry Brown in Conversation with Author Miriam Pawel: The Browns of CaliforniaGovernor Jerry Brown will be on stage to discuss his life and family saga with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel, author of The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMMichael Frayn & his Career in the TheatrePlaywright and novelist Michael Frayn, author of sixteen plays, including Noises Off, Copenhagen and Democracy, in conversation with Frank Hentschker, Executive Director and Director of Programs at...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY264:00 PM | 6:30 PMFilm Screening: Tiempo de morir After serving his conviction, a former gunman returns to his town planning to live a quiet life, however, the sons of a man he killed have other plans. This classic Mexican neo-western, was the...Share6:00 PMLaunching a Successful Job Search: The Best Practices for Finding Work TodayIf you are in the midst of a job search or thinking about starting one in the near future, join this workshop to learn about the latest strategies that lead to successful results. We will cover how...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMBecoming a Multimodal Scholar AdvocateProfessor and Urban Education Alum Tatyana Kleyn will present a lecture title "Becoming a Multi-modal Scholar Advocate." Studying the intersection of migration, language, and education is...Share6:30 PMUrgent Conversations: Are We Rationing High-Quality Education? THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED—NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED. Spurred by recent heated debates about NYC's select high schools and disparity throughout the city’s public schools, this event...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY271:00 PM | 2:00 PMChamber Music on Fifth II Music In Midtown presents a chamber music concert featuring a stellar group of musicians from the DMA performance program, including Nora Bartosik, piano; Magdalena Filipczak, violin; Pala Garcia,...Share2:00 PM | 9:00 PMTowards Arab Dramaturgies The 2018 symposium TOWARDS AN ARAB DRAMATURGIES is part of the exchange partnership between the Martin E. Segal Theater Center, the Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center...Share4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Alexander Francis-Ratte (Furman University)Alexander Francis-Ratte (Furman University) presents: Assessing the current state of Japano-Koreanic: new evidence for common linguistic origin More than fifty years after the seminal work of...Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMGuadalupe García Presents: Colonial Logic in Latin American and Caribbean CitiesGuadalupe García Presents: "Colonial Logic in Latin American and Caribbean Cities" Cartographic and literary depictions of colonial Latin American and Caribbean cities tell many stories;...Share6:30 PMGeoffrey C. Ward: The Biographer’s Dilemma—Searching for the Known and Unknowable11th Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture Geoffrey C. Ward—a historian, biographer, and screenwriter who has collaborated with filmmaker Ken Burns throughout his career—gives this annual...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY289:00 AM | 6:00 PMTowards Arab Dramaturgies The 2018 symposium TOWARDS AN ARAB DRAMATURGIES is part of the exchange partnership between the Martin E. Segal Theater Center, the Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center...Share10:00 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 RegistrationAll EventsSATURDAY29SUNDAY30MONDAY16:00 PM | 7:30 PMEmily Vold, violinPROGRAM J. S. Bach Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 Edvard Grieg Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in F Major, Op. 8 Intermission John Corigliano (b. 1938) STOMP for Solo Violin...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY210:00 AM | 8:00 PMThe Many Faces of Liberalism At a time when liberal democracy seems on the precipice of an existential crisis, this conference will examine many of its internal tensions and contradictions. Since its origins, liberalism...Share6:30 PMThe Many Faces of Modern Liberalism: Big Government vs. Free MarketsAn expert panel delves into the classic debate between laissez-faire and interventionism, as it plays out in our nation’s politics. What is the proper relationship between liberalism and free...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMWriting WorkshopThe Writing Workshop, run by MALS Advising Fellow Eric Bayruns Garcia, will cover two broad themes: How to write clearly and concisely How to construct arguments and make them clear to...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY36:00 PMBook Talk: Simon Levis Sullam on "The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy"In conversation with Alexander Stille (Columbia) and Federico Finchelstein (The New School) In this gripping revisionist history of Italy’s role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMJavier Diaz, percussionPROGRAM Valery Coleman Juba for three percussionists (2003) Joseph Pereira Tarol for solo snare drum (2014) Maleza for percussion trio Bruno Louchouarn De Una Piedra de Gracia for...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PM Book Launch: Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out!Book Launch for Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out! with author Mark Warren and co-author David Goodman and Contributors: Sally Lee, Elana “E.M.” Eisen-Markowitz and Christina Powell of...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMArnold Offner on Hubert Humphrey with Kai BirdHubert Humphrey (1911–1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTHURSDAY44:30 PM | 6:30 PMMandana Limbert Presents: Prayer, Passports, & the Politics of Indian Ocean TravelThis paper examines notions and practices of travel across the Indian Ocean in the second half of the twentieth century. It contrasts three regimes of imagining and managing travel between Oman and...Share6:00 PMStand Out in the Crowd: Creating Strong Resumes and Cover LettersApplying for jobs with compelling application materials can significantly increase your odds of securing interviews. Join this workshop to learn more about how to: Prepare to write...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY510:30 AMDavid Sorkin, When Jews Became Citizens: A History of Emancipation, 1550-2000This lecture will analyze how Jews became citizens in the modern world. It focuses on the political and legal process of gaining and retaining, losing and recovering rights (Europe, America, Israel,...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY6