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 October 2020 Next SUNDAY27MONDAY28No classes scheduled on 9/28No classes scheduled on 9/28.ShareAll EventsTUESDAY29Classes follow a Monday scheduleClasses follow a Monday schedule.ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY305:00 PMSharon Zukin "The Innovation Complex": Book Party and DiscussionThe Sociology Program invites you to a book party and discussion: “Writing About Capitalism, Building Faculty-Student Collaboration” Sharon Zukin, GC and Brooklyn College, author...Share7:30 PMCHANGE: Making Education More Equitable - Tressie McMillan Cottom, Carla Shedd & Cathy N. Davidson ONLINE EVENT - REGISTER ON ZOOM Event will also be broadcast LIVE ON FACEBOOK Longstanding inequalities in America’s education system have become widely exposed with the disruption...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY12:00 PM | 3:00 PMSudhir Hazareesingh on Toussaint Louverture, with Amy WilentzAmong the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary’s image has multiplied across the globe—appearing on...ShareEvent Registration4:00 PM | 5:30 PMCharles Post: "The Dynamics of Plant Closures in the U.S. Tire Industry, 1966-2008"It is well established that manufacturing plant closings are a major determinant of regional income inequality. This presentation examines the deep roots of capital mobility in the North American...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY212:00 AMFall 2020 Colloquium Schedule Colloquium series: Fall 2020 schedule Ph.D. Program in Anthropology The Graduate Center, CUNY Due to COVID-19, all colloquia will be conducted via Zoom for the Fall 2020 semester....Share10:00 AM | 4:15 PMChaos in many-body quantum systemsAn Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences virtual symposium: Landau levels and scattering on the hyperbolic plane, a review Alain Comtet, Université Paris-Saclay Chaos in high energy...Share12:00 PMConference on Coalitional Democracy VIEW THE FULL SCHEDULE & REGISTER In these tumultuous times, new forms of activism and political engagement are needed more than ever. Movements to expand the social safety net in response...Share2:00 PM | 4:00 PMProfessional Development: Rebecca Banchik (Director, Human Research Protection Program)Rebecca Banchik, Director of the Human Research Protection Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY presents: IRB/HRPP Information and Training Session Abstracts and virtual meeting links TBA Share3:00 PM | 4:30 PMImmigration Seminar Series: Victor Nee“Immigration and the Institutions of Opportunity in a Regional Technology Economy” Victor Nee, Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Economic Sociology, Cornell University Professor...Share4:15 PMKaren Strassler, "Image-Events and Political Visibility in Indonesia"The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2020 Colloquium series. Karen Strassler Graduate Center and Queens College Image-Events and Political Visibility in...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY310:30 AM | 11:30 AMPh.D in Computer Science Open HouseJoin us for our Virtual Open House & learn more about our Ph.D. program in Computer Science, admission requirements and curriculum. Meet with our Executive Officer, faculty, staff &...ShareAll EventsSUNDAY4MONDAY512:00 PMThe Aesthetic Brain: Anjan Chatterjee on Beauty, Buildings, and Art Creative GC: Art Science Connect finally takes off, with a virtual talk by neuroscientist and writer Anjan Chatterjee, the author of The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy...ShareEvent Registration3:00 PM | 6:00 PMNevertheless, She Persisted: 30 Years of Women Writing Women’s LivesCelebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage and WWWL’s 30th anniversary, the Women Writing Women’s Lives seminar will host an online celebration, open to the public. Alix...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY65:30 PM | 6:30 PMM.A. in Digital Humanities — Virtual Open HouseJoin the master's program in Digital Humanities for this virtual open house. Faculty will be on-hand to take your questions about all aspects of each program, as well as the application...Share6:00 PMFredrik Logevall on JFK, with David NasawBy the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 7:30 PMM.S. in Data Analysis and Visualization — Virtual Open HouseJoin the master's program in Data Analysis and Visualization for this virtual open house. Faculty will be on-hand to take your questions about all aspects of each program, as well as the...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY712:00 PM | 1:30 PMNavigating Relationships During COVID-19A discussion facilitated by Chloe Horowitz, LCSW, for CUNY Graduate Center students on navigating relationships during covid-19. We will explore relationship challenges unique to the global pandemic...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY84:00 PM | 5:30 PMKevin St. Martin: "Cartography of the Commons: Taking Action in a Rights-Based World"Policies that privilege privatization as the solution to ecological and economic crises in marine resource management are now standard practice despite resistance from fishing communities and...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Kyle Gorman, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNYKyle Gorman (The Graduate Center, CUNY) presents: Abstractness, arbitrariness, and productivity in Polish declension Two aspects of Polish declension have received a great deal of attention:...Share5:30 PM | 7:30 PME-Legal & Sacrificial: Legalizing E-Bikes for Immigrant Food Delivery Workers in COVID-19This week's Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography seminar features: Do Li - Queens College "E-Legal & Sacrificial: Legalizing E-Bikes for Immigrant Food Delivery Workers in...Share7:30 PMCHANGE: Climate Action After COVID-19 ONLINE EVENT - REGISTER ON ZOOM Event will also be broadcast LIVE ON FACEBOOK NOTE: This event is on a Thursday. (CHANGE events are normally on Wednesdays.) One possible silver lining of...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY910:00 AMOpen House: Meet the FacultyJoin us for a virtual open house to meet the faculty of the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Ph.D. Program. Register online to participate Share10:00 AM | 3:30 PMEvolutionary dynamicsEvolution is a combination of randomness and selection, in systems with many interacting degree of freedom, and hence a challenging problem in statistical physics. In this symposium we will look at...Share10:00 AMOpen House: Meet the FacultyJoin us for a virtual open house to meet the faculty of the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Ph.D. Program. Register online to participate Share12:15 PM | 1:00 PMMathematics Department Colloquium Fall 2020 Mathematics Department Colloquium Fall 2020 When: October 9, 2020 12:15pm -1:00pm Speaker: Prof. Christina Sormani Title: Compactness theorems for sequences of Riemannian manifolds Where:...Share2:00 PM | 3:30 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Maureen Matarese, Professor (Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY)Maureen Matarese, Professor of Academic Literacy and Linguistics, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY will present: Policy Talk: The Social Construction of Policy in Social Welfare and...Share4:00 PMCommitted to the End: On Care Work and RereadingIn this talk Elizabeth Freeman (UC Davis) considers the formal symmetries between rereading--not rereading for depth, but the absent-minded or super-absorbed but paralyzed rereading of the same...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY10SUNDAY11MONDAY12Graduate Center is closedGraduate Center is closed.ShareAll EventsTUESDAY136:00 PM | 7:05 PMDavid S. Reynolds on Abraham Lincoln, with James OakesFrom one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln, many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMCIRCL: Emily Campbell & Alan Wong (Computational Linguistics)Abstract and Meeting Link : TBAShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY14Classes follow a Monday scheduleClasses follow a Monday schedule.Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMBeing and BecomingA virtual exhibition & conversation with Dr. AnaMaria Correa “After spending many hours at my desk on the computer birthing this dissertation, I knew intuitively that because of the...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMThe Undocumented-Led Struggle for Freedom: A Conversation with the Authors of Eclipse of Dreams The Undocumented-Led Struggle for Freedom: A Conversation with the Authors of Eclipse of Dreams Conversation Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM This event will take place...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTHURSDAY154:00 PM | 5:30 PMRichard Ocejo: "Moral Framing, Community, and Conditional Gentrification in a Small City"Gentrification is a controversial issue in today's cities mainly because of its potential for the displacement of existing low-income groups. Many gentrifiers therefore grapple with the moral...ShareEvent Registration4:30 PMEarth and Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program Admissions Open House Are you thinking of applying to the Earth and Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program at the CUNY Graduate Center? EES houses both the Human Geography, and Environmental and Geological Sciences...Share5:30 PM | 7:30 PMThere and Back Again: A Cosmochemists's Tale of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission at Asteroid BennuThis week's Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography seminar features: Harold Connolly - Rowan University There and Back Again: A Cosmochemists's Tale of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission...Share6:00 PM | 7:30 PMFemale Suffering and Shakespearean Calculation: Edward Bond's BingoEdward Bond, one of the angry post-World War II British playwrights, did a play about Shakespeare's retirement in Stratford entitled Bingo. In this talk, Jean E. Howard examines Bond's...Share6:00 PM | 7:15 PMLarry Tye on Joe McCarthy, with Victor Navasky & Kai BirdIn the long history of American demagogues, from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use...ShareEvent Registration7:30 PM | 9:00 PMBlurring the Lines Between Art and Activism: A conversation with Tania Bruguera and Claire Bishop This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register below to access the link. Join us for an online panel discussion in celebration for the release of the book Tania Bruguera in...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY1611:00 AM | 1:00 PMInvestigation of Ultrafast Dynamics of Molecular ExcitonsA virtual symposium sponsored by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences and the CUNY doctoral programs in Chemistry and Physics Exciton transport in molecular aggregates imaged by ultrafast...Share12:00 PM | 2:00 PMAfro-Brazilian Art and Politics Afro-Brazilian Art and Politics Panel Discussion Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 12:00 PM – 02:00 PM This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register below. In the past thirty...ShareEvent Registration3:00 PMSociology Colloquium Series: Andrew Jorganson"Emissions, Inequality, and Human Well-Being" In this talk Prof. Jorgenson will provide an overview of ongoing collaborative research streams that focus on interconnections between...Share4:00 PMThinking about Graduate School in English? Doctoral students and faculty will give brief presentations on the elements of a strong application, the challenges and pleasures of being a graduate student today, and strategies for navigating all...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY17SUNDAY18MONDAY19TUESDAY206:00 PM | 7:30 PMWendy Luttrell in conversation with Asilia Franklin-Phipps, Cindi Katz, and Lauren SilverJoin us for a CSWS Book Salon with Wendy Luttrell on her book Children Framing Childhoods: Working-class Kids’ Visions of Care. Luttrell will be in conversation with Asilia Franklin-Phipps,...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY216:00 PM | 7:00 PMHeather Clark on Sylvia Plath, with Ruth FranklinHeather Clark discusses her highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath, Red Comet, with Ruth Franklin, author of award-winning biography of Shirley Jackson, A Rather Haunted Life. Both are...ShareEvent Registration6:00 PMUrban Citizenship: Expanding Democracy to Immigrants in San Francisco and New York CityUrban Citizenship: Expanding Democracy to Immigrants in San Francisco and New York City Wednesday, October 21 at 6:00-7:30 PM EST, via Zoom Speakers: Kathleen Coll, Associate Professor of...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMFinding God in GothamDuring the late 1800s and early 1900s, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders in New York agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid the chaotic, multiplying pluralism of a city...ShareEvent Registration7:30 PMCHANGE: How Artists Lead the Way ONLINE EVENT - REGISTER ON ZOOM Event will also be broadcast LIVE ON FACEBOOK Artists have always been at the forefront of cultural change, frequently pointing us in the direction of a more...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY222:00 PMThe Erosion of the Rule of Law in Nazi GermanyCarol Kahn Strauss served as Executive Director of the Leo Baeck Institute for over two decades. In 2010, she gave the Leo Baeck Medal to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2005 she was given the...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Steven Piantadosi, Assistant Professor, Psychology UC BerkeleySteven Piantadosi, Assistant Professor, Psychology UC Berkeley presents: One model for the learning of language Register online now » Share4:30 PMProfessor Araceli Tinajero in conversation with Professor H. Aram VeeserProfessor Araceli Tinajero (the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) at the Graduate Center) has built her career around the study of Latin American literature,...ShareEvent Registration5:30 PM | 7:30 PMUniversity City: Surfacing History in the Era of the Innovation DistrictThis week's Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography seminar features: Laura Wolf-Powers - Hunter College "University City: Surfacing History in the Era of the Innovation...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY2310:00 AM | 6:00 PMQuantum-inspired machine learning A virtual symposium sponsored by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences and the CUNY doctoral programs in Biology and Physics. Speakers will include Tai-Danae Bradley, X (Google) Stefan...Share3:00 PM | 4:30 PMImmigration Seminar Series: Margaret M. Chin“Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder” Margaret M. Chin, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Hunter College & Graduate Center...Share4:15 PMThe Pandemic and Food Justice The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2020 Colloquium series. The Pandemic and Food Justice Moderated by Marc Edelman, Graduate Center and Hunter College and Maggie...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMDigital Puerto Rican Studies: Social Scholarship, Mapping, and ArchivesThis event spotlights four digital projects that contribute to Puerto Rican Studies and provide resources for broad publics: The Puerto Rico Syllabus, Proyecto historias orales cayeyanas: Vivencias y...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsSATURDAY24SUNDAY25MONDAY261:00 PM | 2:00 PMThe Graduate Center, CUNY Presents UNDERSCORED: Copland Piano Quartet Music from Copland House“Wonderful music, warm performances, full of humanity and empathy, confident and transparent." New York Classical Review Aaron Copland’s haunting Quartet for Piano and Strings is...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMWild Things: A Conversation with Jack Halberstam and Jane BennettRegister here: gc-cuny.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2i-wqQV1RLmKEjPwQIkiDA Jack Halberstam and Jane Bennett will write up, call in, thrum to the poetry of wildness and meet in a vibratory...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY2711:00 AM | 12:00 PMParenting During COVID - Tips and Tricks for Managing StressFacilitated by: Eva Jo Meyers Co-Facilitated by: Annie Egleson, Clinical Fellow, Student Counseling Services Are you a parent or caregiver and struggling to manage your and your child’s...ShareEvent Registration11:45 AM | 2:00 PMFall 2020 Seminar in Applied Economics: Nobel Laureate Paul KrugmanFall 2020 Seminar in Applied Economics: Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman will be presenting “Why did the trade war fail?” For more details please visit our website...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMQMSS Open HouseSave the date for the Fall 2020 Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) open house. Join us to learn more about the program, faculty, application process, and more! Register on...Share6:30 PMWhat is Necro-being and What is the Nature of Tragedy?Leonard Harris (Purdue University) Online Talk followed by Q & A and informal discussion. Event link will be sent out to those on our mailing list the day before the talk (Monday, October...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY286:30 PMInternational Migration Studies — Virtual Open HouseSave the date for the Fall 2020 International Migration Studies open house. Join us to learn more about the program, faculty, application process, and more! Registration Required at...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY294:00 PM | 5:30 PMJeffrey S. Lowe: "First Generation African American Planners and the City"Planning emerged as a progressive era profession in the first decade of the 20th century. However, it was decades later before the first African American earned the professional degree in the...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 5:15 PMCareer Prep Workshop: CVsLed by Prof. James Wilson Part of the Theatre and Performance Ph.D. Program Professionalization Series The first of two workshops designed for level two and three students preparing to enter the...Share5:30 PM | 7:30 PMEES Research and Works in ProgressThis week's Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography seminar will be: Presentations by EES students on research and works in...Share6:00 PM | 7:00 PMJustin Gifford on Eldridge Cleaver, in conversation with TBAThe figure who embodied the militant and controversial spirit of the Black Panther Party more than anyone was Eldridge Cleaver. Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Cleaver built a base of power...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY3010:00 AM | 6:00 PMRecent developments in quantum information and computingAn Introduction to Quantum Resource Theories Eric Chitambar (UIUC) Symmetries and asymptotics of port-based teleportation Felix Leditzky (UW-PITP) Building a reliable quantum computer from...Share11:00 AM | 12:30 PMDavid Ruderman on Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth CenturyJoin us for a conversation with David Ruderman and Shaul Magid on David Ruderman's new book, Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis: The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in...Share12:00 PM | 1:30 PMAI and CreativityToday’s computers are composing music that sounds “more Bach than Bach,” turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and even writing...ShareEvent Registration2:00 PM | 4:00 PMProfessional Development: Dr. Virginia Valian (Hunter College & The Graduate Center)Dr. Virginia Valian, Hunter College & The Graduate Center Linguistics program, presents: Gender Inequity: What is it, why does it continue, what can we do about it? Abstracts and virtual...Share3:00 PM | 4:00 PMFridays@3 - Kathleen Hall JamiesonJoin us for Fridays@3 with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, and co-founder...ShareEvent Registration3:00 PM | 4:30 PMImmigration Seminar Series: Grace Kao“The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood” Grace Kao, Chair and IBM Professor of Sociology, Yale University Free and...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY31