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 November 2020 Next SUNDAY1MONDAY212:00 PM | 12:40 PMMindfulness For Releasing Stress and AnxietyJoin Beej Christie Karpen of Insight Out Coaching, www.insightoutnyc.com, for a 40-minute mindfulness workshop. This will include guided meditation as well as practices to help reduce stress and...Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMA Note on Synonymy in Proof-Theoretic SemanticsThe Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will meet on November 2nd from 4:15-6:15 (NY time) via Zoom for a talk by Heinrich Wansing (Bochum). Title: A Note on Synonymy in Proof-Theoretic...Share5:30 PM | 7:30 PMUrban Education Open HouseJoin us November 2 to learn more about the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at The Graduate Center! Meet with faculty and students and get answers to your questions! Register for the open...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY311:45 AM | 2:00 PMFall 2020 Seminar in Applied Economics: Nobel Laureate Vernon SmithFall 2020 Seminar in Applied Economics: Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith will be presenting "Market Price Formation: Classical Market Theory and Experiments." Vernon L. Smith was awarded the...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY4THURSDAY54:00 PM | 5:30 PMSameer ud Dowla Khan: "Step1: Build an Intonational Model for South Asian Languages. Step2: on hold"Linguists generally analyze language as a sequence of consonants and vowels, of words arranged hierarchically into phrases and sentences, but we also know that intonation and other changes in pitch...ShareEvent Registration5:30 PM | 7:30 PMHumanitarian Logistics, Militarism, and the United Arab EmiratesThis week's Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography seminar features: Rafeef Ziadah - SOAS University of London "Humanitarian Logistics, Militarism, and the United Arab...Share6:00 PM | 7:30 PMAyala Fader on Jewish Doubt in the Digital AgePlease join us for a conversation with Ayala Fader and Omri Elisha on Ayala Fader's new book Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2020). Hidden...Share7:30 PMScientific Discovery: The Revolution in Cell Biology ONLINE EVENT - REGISTER NOW While science and medicine are central to the national conversation, join leading researchers Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle and Stephanie Weber as they discuss a revolution...Share7:30 PM | 8:30 PMFor the public: Dialogue on droplets When you look at living cells under a microscope, you see many fascinating structures. In the last ten years, it has become clear that many of these “structures” really are liquid...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY610:00 AM | 3:30 PMChromosomes, Condensates, and Transcriptional ControlAll cells must control the reading out (“transcription”) of information encoded in their DNA. In this symposium we will look at new observations on the condensation of protein droplets...Share12:30 PM | 2:00 PMBrown Bag Lunch Open HouseJoin the Comparative Literature Department's Brown Bag Lunch Open House for Prospective Students! November 6, from 12:30pm-2pm via Zoom! (Zoom link will be provided by request via email to...Share1:00 PM | 3:00 PMCognitive Science Speaker Series: Jason SamahaThis CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker event features: Jason Samaha Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz Talk will be on Zoom and link will be provided via email. Email David...Share2:00 PM | 3:30 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Erica Saldívar García (New York University)Erica Saldívar García (New York University) presents: "But they're illiterate": Discourses of the Illiteracy of Bilingual Latinx students in Heritage and Foreign Language...Share4:15 PMDiane Riskedahl, "Transgressive Scripts in Lebanese Political Protests" The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2020 Colloquium series. Diane Riskedahl University of Toronto Transgressive Scripts in Lebanese Political Protests Register...Share4:30 PM | 6:00 PMNew People, New Places: The Changing Landscape of International Migration in the United StatesPanelists: Jennifer L. Erickson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ball State University Daniel T. Lichter, Ferris Family Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University Helen...Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMBook Launch: Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940 Authors: Laird Bergad, Distinguished Professor of History (CUNY, The Graduate Center and Lehman College) & César Ayala, Professor of Sociology (UCLA) Discussant: Teresita Levy, Chair,...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsSATURDAY7SUNDAY8MONDAY94:15 PM | 6:15 PMTowards a Justification Logic for FDEThe Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will meet on November 9th from 4:15-6:15 (NY time) via Zoom for a talk by Eoin Moore (CUNY). Title: Towards a Justification Logic for FDE Abstract: In this...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY106:00 PM | 7:00 PMShamrocks and Shackles: Irish Women’s Prison Writing during the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s-1990sIn this talk, Red Washburn explores women’s contributions to the anti-colonial civil rights movements during the Troubles in the Six Counties of Ireland from the late 1960s to the late 1990s....ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY1112:00 PM | 1:00 PMSEGAL TALKS: HOTEL MODERN with Carol Martin (Netherlands)“New Times need new Forms of Theatre.” Bertolt Brecht Watch Segal Talks Live on HowlRound Watch Segal Talks Live on Facebook Watch Previous Segal Talks SEGAL TALKS Theatre of...Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMPhilosophy Colloquium: Lisa BortolottiThis event features: Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham) tba Download a PDF version of the Fall 2020 colloquium schedule. This event is part of The Graduate Center's Philosophy...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY1212:00 PM | 1:00 PMSEGAL TALKS: Rabih Mroué with Carol Martin (Germany)Click Here to Watch Segal Talks Live on HowlRound Click Here to Watch Segal Talks Live on Facebook Click Here to Watch Previous Segal Talks SEGAL TALKS Theatre of the Real RABIH MROUÉ...Share4:00 PM | 5:30 PMARC Book Talk: Sharon Zukin Presents: The Innovation Complex Sharon Zukin The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy (Oxford University Press, 2020) You hear a lot these days about "innovation and entrepreneurship" and about how...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Lori Repetti, Professor, Linguistics Stony Brook University, SUNYLori Repetti, Professor, Linguistics, Stony Brook University, SUNY presents: The Role of Morphology in Epenthesis Epenthesis has usually been viewed as a purely phonological phenomenon, whereby...Share5:30 PM | 7:30 PMReginald Blake - TBDThis week's Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography seminar features: Reginald Blake - City Tech, CNY TBD https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/j/8509834448?pwd=dGlSdG1pOHlIa01IZXdteGliNTdGQT09...Share7:30 PMCity of Science: The Science of Superheroes ONLINE EVENT - REGISTER ON ZOOM The pop-culture universe of superheroes is filled with extraordinary humans and abilities. Captain America, the Hulk, and Black Panther seem to lie firmly in the...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY1310:00 AM | 1:00 PMGC MATH FEST FALL 2020 – Virtual GC MATH FEST FALL 2020 – Virtual NOV 13, 2020 | 10:00 AM TO 1:00 PM EST WHERE: Online through Zoom WHEN: November 13, 2020: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time) REGISTRATION: Zoom...Share11:00 AM | 1:00 PMExcitons at Different Length Scales and DimensionalityA virtual symposium sponsored by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences and the CUNY doctoral programs in Chemistry and Physics Nonequilibrium transport of excitons and charges in...Share11:00 AM | 12:00 PMVirtual Workshop on Breast Health EducationPlease join the Wellness Center- Student Health Services & The Maurer Foundation for a virtual Breast Health Education Workshop! In this unique event you'll learn about: risk reduction,...Share12:00 PM | 1:00 PMSEGAL TALKS: Nicolas Kent with Carol Martin (England)Click Here to Watch Segal Talks Live on HowlRound Click Here to Watch Segal Talks Live on Facebook Click Here to Watch Previous Segal Talks SEGAL TALKS Theatre of the Real NICOLAS KENT...Share1:00 PM | 3:00 PMCognitive Science Speaker Series: Frances EganThis CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker event features: Frances Egan Philosophy, Rutgers University Talk will be on Zoom and link will be provided via email. Email David Rosenthal to register....Share1:00 PM | 3:00 PMVirtual Application “Boot Camp” for Bench Science Ph.D. ProgramsWant to go to Graduate School? Come and learn about the application process and more at our: Virtual Application “Boot Camp” for Bench Science Ph.D. Programs at The Graduate Center,...Share2:00 PM | 4:00 PMProfessional Development: Dr. Yvan Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)Dr. Yvan Rose, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada presents: Phon: Software for Phonological (and other!) Data Abstracts and virtual meeting links TBA. Share3:00 PM | 4:00 PMComputer Science Colloquium Talk: Securing Cyber-Physical and IoT Systems in Smart LivingJoin us on Friday, November 13th from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST for an online talk on Securing Cyber-Physical and IoT Systems in Smart Living by Prof. Sajal Das (Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed...Share3:00 PMSociology Colloquium Series: Tianna Paschel"Racism In Our Own Backyard: Black Movements, Antiracist Policy and Changing Racial Discourse in Brazil" Speaker: Tianna Paschel, University of California –...ShareEvent Registration4:00 PMOn Seeing with Distinction: Observation and Description in Charlotte Brontë and Natural HistoryIn this talk, Supritha Rajan (U Rochester), examines the relationship between two well-known, yet seemingly unrelated, features of Charlotte Brontë’s novels: their use of vivid, descriptive...Share4:15 PMShannon Lee Dawdy, "Death in America / Ghosts in the Commodity"The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2020 Colloquium series. Shannon Lee Dawdy University of Chicago Death in America / Ghosts in the Commodity In the United States,...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY14SUNDAY15MONDAY1610:00 AM | 11:00 AMThe U.S. Job and Internship Search for International Students: What is Different?Are you an international student interested in finding a job or internship in the United States? Are you uncertain of how to navigate the job search process in the United States? The job search...ShareEvent Registration2:00 PM | 3:30 PMPost-Completion Optional Practical Training for F-1 StudentsAre you an F-1 international student about to complete your program of study at The Graduate Center or the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY? Are you considering working in the...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMThe Sense of Brown: The Life and Work of José MuñozTHE WORK of José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013)—as a student, a teacher, a writer, and a friend—was electrified by his desire to tip the world toward something joyous in the face of intense...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY1710:00 AM | 11:00 AMZotero on your Laptop for International StudentsLearn how to use this excellent, open-source citation management software. We will teach you how to install Zotero on your laptop, sign up for a Zotero account, add citations to your account, create...ShareEvent Registration1:00 PM | 2:00 PMFulbright U.S. Student Program Information SessionThe Fulbright U.S. Student Program: Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers fellowships abroad for one...ShareEvent Registration5:00 PMOpen House--Sociology ProgramSave the date for the Sociology Program's Virtual Open House for prospective students. Join us to learn more about the program, faculty, application process, and more! Please RSVP on Event to...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY1810:00 AM | 11:30 AMLife After F-1 or J-1 Student Status Presented by Immigration Attorney Michael J. GoldsteinAre you an International Student interested in working in the U.S. after your F-1 or J-1 status ends? Do you want to know more about the options available to you after your Post-Completion OPT or...ShareEvent Registration12:00 PM | 1:00 PMSEGAL TALKS: Sebastian Kaiser (Germany)“New Times need new Forms of Theatre.” Bertolt Brecht Watch Segal Talks Live on HowlRound Watch Segal Talks Live on Facebook Watch Previous Segal Talks SEGAL TALKS On...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY199:00 AM | 10:30 AMAddressing Challenges of COVID-19 for International StudentsIt’s been a rough year for international students! This workshop addresses some of the recent challenges many international students face as a result of COVID-19, including the impact of remote...ShareEvent Registration12:00 PM | 1:00 PMSEGAL TALKS: Anne Cattaneo & Sydné Mahone (US)“New Times need new Forms of Theatre.” Bertolt Brecht Watch Segal Talks Live on HowlRound Watch Segal Talks Live on Facebook Watch Previous Segal Talks SEGAL TALKS On...Share4:00 PM | 5:30 PMJuan L. Rodriguez: "Linguistic Intimacies among the Venezuelan Diaspora in Chile"In this seminar, I will address the ways in which Venezuelans in Chile produce a sense of cultural intimacy (Herzfeld 1997) through ways of speaking, writing and communicating with other Venezuelans....ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 6:15 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Laura Spinu, Assistant Professor, Kingsborough Community College, CUNYLaura Spinu, Assistant Professor, Communication Kingsborough Community College, CUNY presents: Phonetic and phonological learning in bilinguals: emerging methodologies and areas of...Share4:30 PM | 6:00 PMThe Difference Aesthetics MakesThe American Studies Certificate Program invites you to join us for a panel discussion of Kandice Chuh's The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities "After Man" (Duke UP, 2019)...Share5:00 PM | 6:30 PMThe Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue Join us for a conversation with Marina Rustow and Arnold Franklin on Marina Rustow's new book, The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue (Princeton University Press,...Share5:30 PM | 7:30 PMUrbanism without GuaranteesThis week's Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography seminar features: Christian Anderson - University of Washington, Bothell Panel discussion of "Urbanism without Guarantees: The...Share6:00 PM | 7:30 PMLondon, Venice, Ferrara: Mothers and Daughters in Early Italian Accounts of the Anglican SchismIn this talk, Fabio Battista focuses on the perception and analysis of Mary I and Elizabeth I in 16th- and early 17th-century Venetian diplomatic writings. Through the reading of relazioni, or final...Share6:00 PM | 7:00 PMPeniel E. Joseph on MLK and Malcolm X, with David Levering LewisPeniel E. Joseph's dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, The Sword and the Shield, upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMHow Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food JusticeIn the final decades of the last century, against the background of widening economic inequality and growing health crises, New Yorkers sparked a nationwide food justice movement. Organizing school...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY209:00 AM | 10:00 AMTeaching as an International StudentInternational students face the challenge of navigating a new institution while learning about its structures and culture. Stepping into a class in the instructor's role can be particularly...ShareEvent Registration12:00 PM | 1:00 PMSEGAL TALKS: Peter Eckersall (NYC)“New Times need new Forms of Theatre.” Bertolt Brecht Watch Segal Talks Live on HowlRound Watch Segal Talks Live on Facebook Watch Previous Segal Talks SEGAL TALKS On...Share1:00 PM | 2:30 PMCurricular Practical Training (CPT) Information for International StudentsAre you an F-1 international student enrolled in a program of study at The Graduate Center or the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY? Are you considering working off-campus...ShareEvent Registration1:00 PM | 3:00 PMCognitive Science Speaker Series: Jorge MoralesThis CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker event features: Jorge Morales Psychological and Brain Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University Talk will be on Zoom and link will be provided via email....Share2:00 PM | 3:00 PMCommunicating your Science Series: Best-Practices for Youth Science EngagementYouth and Community Engagement In this workshop we’ll explore what ‘engagement’ with youth and community members really means. Often, as scientists, we think our role in public...Share2:00 PM | 4:30 PMThe Graduate Center, CUNY Economics Ph.D. Open HouseThe Graduate Center, CUNY Economics Ph.D. program will host an open house event on November 20th at 2 p.m. EST. Please feel free to join us for an informal introduction to our program as we share...Share2:00 PM | 3:30 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Soubeika Bahri (University of Colorado, Denver)Soubeika Bahri (University of Colorado, Denver) will present: Ettounsi and Tamazight writing variations: Is Facebook leading the change towards vernacular literacies in the context of...Share3:00 PM | 4:30 PMImmigration Seminar Series: Jean Beaman“Suspect Citizenship: Race and Racism in Contemporary France” Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara Free and open to the...Share4:00 PMBoys Remade: Sexing Blackness in the Early Modern Mediterranean and English ImaginationIn this talk Abdulhamit Arvas, University of Pennsylvania, will trace the image of the eunuch that emerged as a popular theatrical figure on the early modern English stage. I will revisit...Share4:15 PMChristen A. Smith, "Violence, Gender, Space and Time: Police Violence and Blackness in the Americas"The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2020 Colloquium series. Christen A. Smith University of Austin, Texas Violence, Gender, Space and Time: Police Violence and...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY215:00 PMFall Recruitment EventCome meet with students and faculty to learn more about the M.A and PhD in Classics. Speakers: Professor Jennifer Roberts, Acting Executive Officer, Classics CUNY; Patricia Hatcher, CUNY Kiran...ShareAll EventsSUNDAY22MONDAY23TUESDAY2411:45 AM | 2:00 PMFall 2020 Seminar in Applied Economics: Milos VulanovicFall 2020 Seminar in Applied Economics Milos Vulanovic will present: "Deindustrialization and Real Effective Exchange Rates in Eastern Europe" This is an online event. Please click...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMCIRCL: Simon Zuberek (Computational Linguistics)Simon Zuberek (Computational Linguistics) Abstract and Meeting Link : TBAShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY25Classes follow a Friday scheduleClasses follow a Friday schedule.ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY26Graduate Center is closed from 11/26-11/29Graduate Center is closed from 11/26-11/29.ShareAll EventsFRIDAY27SATURDAY28SUNDAY29MONDAY3010:00 AM | 11:00 AMVirtual Eye Health WorkshopJoin the Wellness Center- Student Health Services on November, 30th from 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. for a Virtual Eye Health Workshop! During this workshop we will be covering general eye health tips, eye...Share4:00 PM | 5:00 PMBulgarian Ambassador Georgi Velikov Panayotov on WWII Rescue of JewsJoin us in welcoming Ambassador Georgi Velikov Panayotov to The Graduate Center for his discussion on how the Bulgarians rescued ALL of the 48,000 Jews living in Bulgaria (Although Bulgaria allowed...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY1Spring 2021 registration begins for continuing studentsSpring 2021 registration begins for continuing students at 9:30 am.ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY2THURSDAY312:00 PM | 1:30 PMJewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern GermanyJoin us for a conversation with Debra Kaplan and Francesca Bregoli on Debra Kaplan's new book, The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany (Penn Press,...Share4:00 PM | 5:30 PMIve Marx: "What Explains Low Countries' Exceptionalism when it comes to Income Inequality Trends?"Amidst a world-wide tide of rising inequality, the Low Countries stand out as having resisted this trend. These "exceptions" need to be better understood. We draw on Deaton’s (2016)...ShareEvent Registration5:30 PM | 7:30 PMRecent Extreme Surface Melt on Ice SheetsThis week's Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography seminar features: Rajahsree Datta - ESSIC, University of Maryland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center "Recent Extreme Surface Melt...Share6:30 PMBook Talk: The Hispanic RepublicanJoin the CLACLS, the Department of Public Management and the Latin American and Latinx Studies Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for a discussion of the book: The Hispanic...Share7:30 PMHow Children Learn Language: A Talk by Jenny Saffran ONLINE EVENT - REGISTER Language is a crucial part of what makes us human. How do we acquire this remarkable ability? Are we born with some knowledge of basic language structure, or is it all...Share7:30 PM | 8:30 PMFor the public: How children learn languageLanguage is a crucial part of what makes us human. How do we acquire this remarkable ability? Are we born with some knowledge of basic language structure, or is all of it learned? Is learning...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY410:00 AM | 3:30 PMLanguage, learning, and networksWe are in the midst of a revolution driven by models for learning in neural networks. In this symposium we will explore these models, their application to the deep networks that are the state of the...Share1:00 PM | 3:00 PMCognitive Science Speaker Series: Dobromir RahnevThis CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker event features: Dobromir Rahnev Psychology, Cognitive and Brain Science, and Neuroscience, Georgia Institute of Technology Talk will be on Zoom and link...Share2:00 PM | 3:30 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Simanique MoodyDiversity of Plantations, Diversity of Black Experiences: A New Look at the Development of African American Language in Georgia Simanique Moody, Brooklyn College, CUNY Abstracts and virtual...Share3:00 PM | 4:00 PMFridays@3- Martin J. Blaser M.D.Join us for Fridays@3 with Martin J. Blaser, M.D.: How a perturbed microbiome fuels modern epidemics. Dr. Blaser's talk will concentrate on his groundbreaking work: the relationship of the human...ShareEvent Registration3:00 PMSociology Colloquium Series: Tressie McMillan Cottom“Higher Education, Digital Transformation and COVID-19” Tressie McMillan Cottom University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Tressie McMillan Cottom, is an associate professor in...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY5