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 December 2018 Next SUNDAY25College is closed. No classes scheduled. College is closed. No classes scheduled. ShareAll EventsMONDAY261:00 PM | 8:30 PMA Sit-In at the Library: ’68 RevisitedIn 1968, the student body emerged on the global scene as a cohesive revolutionary movement fighting alongside oppressed people in India, East and Western Europe, South and North America, and...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 Registration4:30 PM | 6:00 PMBeyond the City and the Bridge: East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey SuburbNoriko Matsumoto, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Vermont, PhD in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center Discussant: Vivian Louie, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning and Director of the Asian...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMMagdalena Filipczak, violinPROGRAM Magdalena Filipczak, violin with Maren Rothfritz, viola; Gabrielle Chou, harpsichord; and Ana Kim, Martha Locker and Tatiana Goncharova, piano Anna S. Thorvaldsdottir (b....ShareAll EventsTUESDAY2710:00 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 Registration11:30 AM | 1:30 PMPerspectives on the Financial Crisis- Day 1Perspectives on the Financial Crisis- Day 1 A Conference Sponsored by the Economics Program, the Economics Studies Group and the Graduate Center The collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 2008...Share1:00 PM | 2:30 PMSeminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Joshua Angrist, MIT and NBERA lecture with Professor Joshua Angrist, MIT and NBER Title: Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design “Search, Matching, and Training” ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY283:00 PM | 6:30 PMPerspectives on the Financial Crisis- Day 2Perspectives on the Financial Crisis- Day 2 The collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 2008 marked the beginning of one of the most important crises of our era. The Economics Program and the...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 PMEVENT CANCELLED: Reflections On a Career TrajectoryTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Professor Martin Ruck will give a talk, "Reflections on a Career Trajectory." Martin D. Ruck is professor in the Departments of Psychology and Urban...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY293:00 PM | 4:30 PMInequality Seminar, Nishant YonzanThe Stone Center hosts a seminar series focused on inequality. The purpose of this series is to give researchers opportunities to present new work to enable intensive discussion and...Share6:30 PMCity of Science: Artificial Intelligence in Everyday LifeReservations are full. This event will be LIVE-STREAMED. The original vision of artificial intelligence was about automation of cognition, conjuring images of robots and superhuman computers. But...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMThere is a Portal: Kayhan IraniJoin us in the James Gallery at the Graduate Center, CUNY for There is a Portal, Kayhan Irani’s latest multimedia performance project which uses storytelling, humor and participatory theater to...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY3010:00 AM | 11:30 AMCUNY Neuroscience Collaborative Seminar SeriesTodd Sacktor, M.D. from SUNY Downstate Medical Center will present “PKMzeta, LTP, and memory storage.” This presentation is a part of the CUNY Neuroscience Collaborative Seminar...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 Registration10:30 AMMikhal Dekel, Tehran Children: On the Trail of WW2 Refugees in Central Asia and IranDuring the first months of WWII, over a million Polish citizens, Jews and Poles, escaped to the Soviet border. More than half were exiled by the Soviets in 1940, released in 1941, and spent the...Share2:00 PM | 4:00 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Mary Robinson (NYU)Mary Robinson (NYU), presents: Spelling Out Syntactic Variation In this talk, I discuss syntactic variation in terms of the Minimalist generative syntactic framework (Chomsky 1995) and...Share4:15 PM | 6:00 PMFall 2018 Colloquium Series 11/30/18 Laura Kunreuther Laura KunReuther (Bard College) "Vessels or Witnesses? On the Labor of Field Interpreters for Global Organization"Share5:00 PMPeter Hudson on "The African Origins of Racial Capitalism"Part of the New World Migrations lecture series. Peter James Hudson is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UCLA who works at the intersection of US history and African Diaspora...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY1SUNDAY2MONDAY33:00 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 PMThe Lee Child Seminars: Seminar One > TEXTThe Lee Child Seminars: The Graduate Center, CUNY hosts Lee Child, the author of twenty-four novels and numerous short stories and one of the world's bestselling fiction writers, in a series...ShareEvent Registration4:30 PM | 8:00 PMParliament (1st NY Session) with Michael Kliën (Austria)The Segal Center is proud to present the CUNY version of Parliament: A choreographic site for citizens. Parliament is a pioneering work of situational choreography and exploration of ecological...Share6:30 PMVexy Thing: Imani Perry and Simone White in ConversationEven as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem—“patriarchy”—is used...Share8:30 PM | 9:30 PMParliament (1st NY Session) with Michael Kliën (Austria)The Segal Center is proud to present the CUNY version of Parliament: A choreographic site for citizens. Parliament is a pioneering work of situational choreography and exploration of ecological...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY410:30 AM | 3:30 PMWorld AIDS Day Rapid HIV Testing EventFollowing World AIDS Day, stop by this event hosted by the GC Wellness Center with testers from Ryan-NENA CHC providing students FREE Rapid HIV Tests.Share12:00 PM | 1:45 PMSeminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBERA lecture with Professor Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER Title: The intergenerational effects of a large wealth shock: White southerners after the Civil War “Search,...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMStephen Whale, pianoPROGRAM W.A. Mozart Sonata in A minor, K. 310 Frédéric Chopin Nocturne in G major, Op. 37, No. 2 Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59, No. 1 Ballade in F major/A minor, Op. 38 Intermission ...Share6:00 PMJewish Studies Book Club: Lisa Moses Leff’s The Archive Thief (Oxford UP, 2015)The Centers for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY and Fordham are happy to announce the Jewish Studies Book Club, a joint initiative of the two institutions, in collaboration with the New...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMCIRCL: Jen Seale (Computational Linguistics)Jen Seale presents on a topic in computational linguistics. Bi-modal classification with attention and transfer learning: A discussion focused on implementation Recent work by Kiela et al....Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMCIRCL: Mike Stern (Phonetics)Mike Stern presents on a topic in phonetics. “Perceptual magnets” in bilingual perception Learning one’s first language corresponds with a decrease in one’s ability to...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY510:00 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 Registration4:00 PMTLC Workshop: Troubleshooting FailureA TLC WorkshopShare6:30 PMHow Will the Census Matter to You? Moderated by Maria HinojosaMaria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA on NPR, leads a discussion on what is at stake for the 2020 Census. Not only will it determine national, state, and local representation—as well as spending...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTHURSDAY61:00 PM | 2:00 PMChamber Music on Fifth IIIMusic In Midtown ends the fall semester with a program of chamber works, TBA, performed by our stellar artists in the DMA program in music performance here at the Graduate CenterShare3:00 PM | 5:00 PMCrime and Democratic Governance in Latin America and the CaribbeanBased on the book, Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin American and the Caribbean, this event examines security in three cities suffering from chronic violence: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil),...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 Registration4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Janet Fodor (Graduate Center, CUNY)Janet Fodor (Graduate Center, CUNY), In collaboration with graduate students*at CUNY presents: What’s so difficult about center-embedding? For 50 years, syntacticians have attempted to...Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMLourdes Ortega Presents: Researching Adult Multilingualism in Uncertain TimesWe live in uncertain times of serious deterioration of solidarity for human diversity, a widening of economic inequalities and intensification of racial and religious hatred, and alarming tides of...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMRadical Writing, Feminism and Black Futures: Rankine, Martin, Hunt, & HartmanIf tomorrow is another day, which and whose? Singular or plural, definite or indefinite, "future" remains an angular index to time experiencing its own edges and gray turbulences....ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY710:00 AM | 11:30 AMCUNY Neuroscience Collaborative Seminar SeriesAndre Fenton, Ph.D. from NYU, Center for Neural Science will present "Rethinking Autism and Animal Models: A Systems Perspective.” This presentation is a part of the CUNY Neuroscience...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 Registration10:00 AM | 11:30 AMBanner 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 Registration4:15 PM | 6:00 PMFall 2018 Colloquium Series 12/7/18 Victoria DominguezVictoria Dominguez (Lehman College) "Skeletal Variation from the Microstructural Perspective" Share7:00 PMLIVE@365: A GLOBAL MUSIC SERIES - Michel Merhej and the Bil Afrah ProjectThe Bil Afrah Project celebrates one of the Middle East’s legendary albums: Ziad Rahbani’s Bil Afrah. The instrumental song suite recorded by Rahbani’s ensemble in 1975, including...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsSATURDAY8SUNDAY9MONDAY103:00 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 Registration4:00 PM | 9:00 PMPerforming Knowledge: What Does Learning Feel Like?Like theatres, lecture halls and classrooms rehearse specific conventions to organize performance and spectatorship, teaching and learning. Like other conventions, the dramaturgy of the lecture is a...ShareThe Lee Child Seminars: Seminar Two > SCREEN The Lee Child Seminars: The Graduate Center, CUNY hosts Lee Child, the author of twenty-four novels and numerous short stories and one of the world's bestselling fiction writers, in a series...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PMIs It Still Good to Ya? Robert Christgau in Conversation with Eric LottLegendary Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, author of Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017, and mythic CUNY stalwart Eric Lott, author of Black Mirror: The Cultural...Share6:30 PMJanet Yellen in Conversation with Paul KrugmanReservations are full. This event will be LIVE-STREAMED. Janet Yellen’s tenure as Federal Reserve chair (from 2014 to 2018) saw significant employment increases and rising markets. She sits...Share7:30 PM | 9:00 PMGC Composers, recitalProgram TBAShareAll EventsTUESDAY1110:30 AM | 12:00 PMKentico I / BasicBasic Kentico training explaining the CMSdesk, creating and editing pages, and using basic widgets. Attendees must register with their GC email address.ShareEvent Registration12:00 PM | 1:45 PMSeminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with George Borjas, Harvard University and NBERA lecture with Professor George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER Title: Job Vacancies and Immigration: Evidence from Pre- and Post-Mariel Miami “Search, Matching, and Training” Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMKarin Roffman on John Ashbery with Mary Ann CawsThe Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery―the winner of nearly every major American literary award―reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY1210:00 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 | 5:30 PMDevised Theatre: Curating, Producing, Presenting - A Practical RoundtableWhat is devised theater? This form, which confounds traditional notions of theatermaking, is itself confounding. It has come to mean many different (and sometimes conflicting) things, depending on...Share5:30 PM | 9:30 PMDevised Theatre: Curating, Producing, Presenting - Evening Book Talk What is devised theater? This form, which confounds traditional notions of theatermaking, is itself confounding. It has come to mean many different (and sometimes conflicting) things, depending on...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMChih-tung Cheng, pianoPROGRAM J. S. Bach Preludes & Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol II C Major C Minor D Minor C Sharp Minor A-Flat Major D Sharp Minor F Sharp Minor C Sharp...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMListening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!Join us for an experimental and collaborative oral history sound experience! Our Listening Party is a celebration of a semester-long workshop series, led by Sady Sullivan, that brought together 12...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMEndangered Language Initiative: Kate L. Lindsey (Stanford University)Kate L. Lindsey (Stanford University) presents: Sociolinguistic variation in Ende: a second wave approach Variationist studies of indigenous minority languages are an exciting new direction for...ShareAll 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 Registration10:30 AM | 12:00 PMKentico II / News and EventsKentico News and Events training for creating news and event items, selecting categories, and using the templates and widgets that display news and events. Attendees must register with their GC...ShareEvent Registration4:30 PM | 6:30 PMAmy Hsin Presents: Immigration Status and Higher Education: Evidence from a Large Public UniversityDeferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration reform to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth...Share5:30 PM | 7:30 PMToscanini: Musician of ConscienceHarvey Sachs, author of Toscanini: Musician of Conscience, editor and translator of The Letters of Arturo Toscanini In Conversation with James Melo, ERC's musicologist and Senior Editor at...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY149:30 AM | 6:00 PMExploring Sequence Space: A Symposium on the Physics of Biological Function Physics and biology intersect on many scales, from the internal motions of single molecules to the collective motions of animal groups, and from the sub-picosecond dynamics of the initial events in...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 RegistrationReading Day- No Classes Scheduled. Reading Day- No Classes Scheduled. ShareAll EventsSATURDAY15Final Exam/ Fifteenth Week BeginsFinal exams/ fifteenth week of the semester begins on December 15 and ends December 21.ShareAll EventsSUNDAY16MONDAY173:00 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 PMThe Lee Child Seminars: Seminar Three > CRIMEThe Lee Child Seminars: The Graduate Center, CUNY hosts Lee Child, the author of twenty-four novels and numerous short stories and one of the world's bestselling fiction writers, in a series...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 9:00 PMExperimental Theatre + Performance Publishing Why publish a play in the 21st century? What are the limits of performance and paper—and what becomes possible when they converge? Can something be so analog that it becomes futuristic? In the...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY187:30 PM | 9:00 PMMusic Theorists and Friends, recitalProgram TBAShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY19THURSDAY204:00 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 Registration7:30 PM | 9:00 PMFederico Diaz, guitarProgram TBAShareAll EventsFRIDAY2110:00 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 RegistrationLast Day of Fall Semester/ Final Exams Final exams/ fifteenth week of the semester begins on December 15 and ends of December 21.ShareAll EventsSATURDAY22SUNDAY23MONDAY24TUESDAY25WEDNESDAY263:00 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 EventsTHURSDAY27FRIDAY2810:00 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 RegistrationFall 2018 Final grade submission deadline. Fall 2018 Final grade submission deadline. ShareAll EventsSATURDAY29SUNDAY30MONDAY31TUESDAY1WEDNESDAY2THURSDAY310:00 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 RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY410:00 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 EventsSATURDAY5