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 2019 Next SUNDAY1MONDAY22:00 PM | 9:00 PMCaribbean Theatre Project Day 1Actions Caribéennes Théâtrales (ACT) provides a cultural dialogue between the United States and the Francophone Caribbean. Through six contemporary plays by emerging or established Caribbean writers...Share6:30 PM | 8:30 PMCLACLS: Ecuadorian Indigenous Uprising: A Dialogue with Runas in ResistancePlease join us for this dialogue with the Kichwa youth collective, Runas in Resistance. Runas in Resistance is a transnational collective (US & Canada) that was born out of the indigenous...Share7:30 PM | 9:00 PMCANCELLED: Music from Copland House presents: The Listening EyeEye meets ear at the intersection of art and music, with compositions inspired by line drawings and paintings of Pablo Picasso, vibrant color abstracts of Robert Motherwell, stained glass of Frank...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY31:00 PM | 2:30 PMLife After F-1 and 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 Registration2:00 PM | 9:00 PMCaribbean Theatre Project Day 2Actions Caribéennes Théâtrales (ACT) provides a cultural dialogue between the United States and the Francophone Caribbean. Through six contemporary plays by emerging or established Caribbean writers...Share6:00 PM | 7:30 PMGabrielle Chou, piano/violinPROGRAM Gabrielle Chou, piano and violin Anne Qian Wang (b. 1994) Now, There Is No Other Story i. The Ravine ii. Hampden iii. Bacchanal iv. Verge v. Bunny (Death is the Mother of...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMConversations: Sisterhood and After with Margaretta Jolly & Nancy Miller Sisterhood and After is the first book-length history of the 'second wave' of the UK Women's Liberation Movement from the 1970s onwards. It is powered by uniquely in- depth oral...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY44:00 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 Registration4:00 PM | 5:30 PMCP&PD Workshop: Intensive Academic InterviewingAbout this Workshop Congratulations! You’ve done all the hard work to find job openings, you’ve prepared and sent in all your application materials, and it’s paid off:...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PMAndré Aciman on Find Me: In Conversation with Hilton Als Reservations are full. André Aciman’s novel Call Me by Your Name was a critical sensation, a best-seller, and became a much-loved Academy Award–winning film starring Timothee...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMThe Enigma of Clarence Thomas: A Conversation (Corey Robin, Kendall Thomas)Join us for The Enigma of Clarence Thomas: A Conversation between Corey Robin, the author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (Metropolitan Books, 2019) and Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY511:00 AM | 1:00 PMTWC Workshop: Revising an Article for PublicationIn this workshop, we will discuss the process of submitting an article to a peer-reviewed journal. Students will bring in work to revise for this purpose.ShareEvent Registration1:00 PM | 2:00 PMWORKSHOP: Radical Cosmopolitan Pedagogy and Anti-immigrant PoliticsThis workshop is part of the FI University Worth Fighting For series that asks tough questions of the academy and pushes for change.Share1:00 PM | 2:00 PMMusic In MidtownMusic In Midtown ends the fall semester with a program of chamber works, performed by our extraordinary artists in the DMA program in music performance here at The Graduate Center. Our performers...Share3:00 PM | 8:00 PMMaster Class Three: Italian Cinema-CUNYFor this 2019 season, IC-CUNY will showcase a Master class with international and award - winning costume designers in dialogue with American colleagues.ShareEvent Registration3:30 PM | 4:30 PMCP&PD Event: Info Session with Vera Institute of JusticeAbout this Information Session The Vera Institute of Justice’s mission is to build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities. To do this,...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 Registration4:15 PM | 6:15 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Sudha Arunachalam (NYU Steinhardt)Sudha Arunachalam, NYU Steinhardt presents: "How children learn words that denote events from their linguistic context" Lexical acquisition in the preschool years is a protracted...Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMMatt Brim Presents: Vocational Queer StudiesHow can the field of queer studies improve the work lives of CUNY’s majority working-class and poor students? How can it make these students, who are already part- and full-time workers, better...Share6:30 PMCITY OF SCIENCE: Michael S. Lubell: Navigating the Maze of Science and Technology Policy Reservations are full. This event will be LIVE-STREAMED. Michael S. Lubell’s new book, Navigating the Maze: How Science and Technology Policies Shape America and the World, is a...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY69:30 AM | 6:00 PMAdaptationLiving systems achieve their extraordinary functions in part by adapting their strategies to the structure of their environment. We explore examples of this phenomenon in systems from bacteria to...Share3:00 PMWhen Does Neighborhood Poverty Matter? Using Large-Scale Data to Understand Heterogeneity Mario Small Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Bio Description: Research across the social sciences has demonstrated repeatedly that neighborhoods matter. At this juncture,...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY7SUNDAY8MONDAY912:00 PM | 1:30 PMPolicing the WombJoin us on December 9, 2019 at 12:30PM for a conversation between Michele Goodwin, Professor of Law at UC-Irvine School of Law and author of Policing the Womb (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and...Share6:30 PM | 9:00 PMAn Evening with Romina Paula (Argentina)Romina Paula is one of Argentina’s most celebrated emerging playwrights, winning critical acclaim both at home and abroad, but to date none of her plays have been translated into English. In...Share8:00 PM | 9:30 PMNew Music Laboratory: Final ConcertPROGRAM TBAShareAll EventsTUESDAY106:30 PMThe Future of Global Capitalism: Branko Milanovic in Conversation Reservations are full. This event will be LIVE-STREAMED. In a timely new book, as the U.S. and China compete for dominance, Branko Milanovic asks: What are the prospects for a fairer world now...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMCIRCL: Anthony Vicario (Computational Linguistics)Anthony Vicario will present on a topic in Computational Linguistics. Title TBAShare6:30 PM | 8:30 PMCIRCL: Lara Novic (Computational Linguistics & Speech Science)Lara Novic will present on a topic in Computational Linguistics & Speech Science. Title TBAShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY119:30 AMFluid phases of matter: from electron liquids to active matterTopics will include the experimental discovery of hydrodynamic electron flow in graphene and other materials, the prediction and observation of odd elasticity and viscosity in active matter, and new...Share4:00 PM | 6:00 PMInequality in Brazil"The evolution of inequality in Brazil" Professor Marcelo Medeiros’ talk discusses the trends of income inequality in Brazil from 1926 to nowadays based on recent studies, new...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY122:00 PM | 9:00 PMPerforming Knowledge: What Does Learning Feel Like?What can knowledge feel or look like? How might it move us? What might the emotional and aesthetic effects of knowledge be, in addition to the cognitive? How does one know or come to know? What place...Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMProfessional Development: Cynthia Blanco (Duolingo)Cynthia Blanco (Duolingo) presents: Careers in Linguistics: From Academia to IndustryShare4:30 PM | 6:30 PMJeff Williams Presents: Brave New University The university looms in the American imagination as well as its politics and culture. It is often dismissed as an “ivory tower” but it is actually a foremost civic institution, drawing...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMFatima Shama on Navigating a Career in the Im/migration Industry Fatima Shama is the current executive director of the Fresh Air Fund and the former commissioner of the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. She will be discussing her work and efforts in...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY1311:00 AMMikhal Dekel, The Flight East: WW2 Refugees in Tashkent, Tehran and Tel AvivThe Flight East: WW2 Refugees in Tashkent, Tehran and Tel Aviv Beginning in September 1941 and throughout the war, Central Asia and Iran became places of refuge to hundreds of thousands of Jewish...ShareReading DayReading Day.Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMStephanie LevyThe Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2019 Colloquium series. STEPHANIE LEVY Hunter College & Graduate Center Human Energetics in a Changing Climate Share7:00 PMAdam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra and Brooklyn Raga Massive This project brings together two innovative groups—Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra and Brooklyn Raga Massive—for an exploration into new dimensions, based around...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsSATURDAY14Final Examination Period (Dec 14 - Dec 20)Final Examination Period (Dec 14 - Dec 20)ShareAll EventsSUNDAY15MONDAY166:30 PM | 9:00 PM Qingqing Yang’s Four Dreams (China)Qingqing Yang’s research focuses on creation through dreams. Her work uses the practice of subconscious painting to evoke a dream-like state in which she is uninhibited to explore the...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMSarah Watling on The Olivier Sisters, with Jill NorgrenFrom the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly 'wild'. Rupert Brooke was said to be in...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY177:30 PM | 9:00 PMAlina Kiryayeva, pianoPROGRAM Alina Kiryayeva, piano Modern Piano Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) arr. by Georgy Cziffra (1921-1994) Flight of the Bumblebee Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Hungarian...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY186:30 PM | 9:00 PM Italian Playwrights ProjectJoin us for an evening celebrating the publication of the second edition of the Segal Center’s IPP Italian Playwrights Project with a reading of Event Horizon by Elisa Casseri, translated by...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY197:30 PM | 9:00 PMGC Composers RecitalPROGRAM TBAShareAll EventsFRIDAY20SATURDAY21SUNDAY22MONDAY23TUESDAY24WEDNESDAY25THURSDAY26FRIDAY27Final Grade Submission DeadlineFinal Grade Submission Deadline.ShareAll EventsSATURDAY28SUNDAY29MONDAY30TUESDAY31WEDNESDAY1THURSDAY2FRIDAY3SATURDAY4