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 2021 Next SUNDAY26MONDAY271:00 PMMusic from Copland House UNDERSCORED: John HarbisonJohn Harbison is one of America’s most honored and formidable composers, having received the Pulitzer Prize (for his opera “The Great Gatsby,” premiered at the Metropolitan Opera),...ShareEvent Registration3:00 PM | 5:00 PMComparative Literature Open HouseThe PhD/MA Program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center cordially invites you to an Open House on 9/27/21 at 3 p.m. RSVP to complit@gc.cuny.edu for the zoom link to this information...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY2812:00 PMSeminar in Applied Economics: Wim VijverbergFall 2021 Seminar in Applied Economics will feature Wim Vijverberg. Professor Vijverberg will be presenting on "Factors, Filters, and Cross-Sectional Dependence: The Currency Implied Volatility...Share6:30 PMDystopian Present, Life in Common Past-Futures: Contesting Fantasies of CollapseAbstract This talk discusses decolonial and afropessimist accounts of contemporary discourses of catastrophe, reflecting on those circulating in the context of the pandemic. Following Yuderkys...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY292:00 PM | 3:30 PMThe Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies: A DiscussionThe discussion focuses on this collection of essays that offer a new discourse that interrogates interdisciplinary boundaries in fashion, by gathering fashion studies research across disciplines from...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 6:15 PMPhilosophy Colloquium: Anandi HattiangadiThis event features: Anandi Hattiangadi (Professor of Philosophy, Stockholm University) "Deductive Reasoning Without Rule Following" (with Corine Besson, University of...Share7:30 PMCity of Science: Quantum Computing WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS EVENT Quantum computing is the next step in the continual advancement of the speed with which computers can perform, tackling previously out-of-reach problems. This...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY3012:00 PM | 1:15 PMDispossessing Native America: Indigeneity, Land, and ReconciliationFocusing on the complex histories of Indigenous-colonial relations, Profs. Margaret Jacobs, Claudio Saunt, and Justin de Leon offer fresh perspectives on violent and non-violent forms of...ShareEvent Registration4:00 PM | 5:30 PMIsabel Martínez: “Intergenerational Mobility Along Multiple Dimensions: Evidence from Switzerland"We document intergenerational mobility in Switzerland along several dimensions. Using two large administrative datasets matched to census and survey data, which link i) the universe of labor incomes...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PMSupporting Your ScholarshipIn this professionalization session, we will discuss our field’s leading professional organizations and their annual conferences, including opportunities for presenting your scholarship and...Share4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Andres Saab, Associate Researcher, IIF-**SADAF-CONICETAndres Saab, Associate Researcher, *IIF-**SADAF-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) will present: On the pronominal origins of probes. A new look at the clitic...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY112:30 PMOpen 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 Share4:15 PMGary Wilder, "Concrete Utopianism: Recalling Samir Amin’s New internationalism of Peoples"The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2021 Colloquium series. Concrete Utopianism: Recalling Samir Amin’s New internationalism of Peoples Gary Wilder, Graduate...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY2SUNDAY3MONDAY44:00 PM | 5:00 PMVirtual Open House for M.A. Program in Digital HumanitiesJoin the master's program in Digital Humanities for this virtual open house. Program faculty will be on-hand to take your questions about all aspects of each program, as well as the application...ShareEvent Registration5:00 PM | 6:00 PMVirtual Open House M.S. Program in Data Analysis and VisualizationJoin the master's program in Data Analysis and Visualization for this virtual open house. Program faculty will be on-hand to take your questions about all aspects of each program, as well as the...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY512:00 PMSeminar in Applied Economics: Linda TesarFall 2021 Seminar in Applied Economics will feature Linda Tesar. Professor Tesar will be presenting on "A North-South Model of Structural Change and Growth". Please feel free to...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY64:15 PM | 6:15 PMPhilosophy Colloquium: Alison GopnikThis event features: Alison Gopnik (Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley) “Three Ages and Three Intelligences: Children/Adults/Elders:...Share7:30 PMSurvival of the City: Edward Glaeser and David Cutler in Conversation WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS EVENT In this age of isolation, are we on the brink of a post-urban world? In Survival of the City by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, one of our great urbanists and one of...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY74:00 PM | 5:30 PMAnna Indych-López: “Geographies of Class & Race in Mexico City’s Contemporary Artistic Practices"“DIY Aesthetics: Geographies of Class and Race in Mexico City’s Contemporary Artistic Practices" Beginning in the 1990s, artists in Mexico City, to an extent greater than previous...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 6:15 PMJohn Lauermann: "A Super-Gentrification Frontier? Mapping Luxury Housing Development in New York"John Lauermann: "A Super-Gentrification Frontier? Mapping Luxury Housing Development in New York"ShareAll EventsFRIDAY811:00 AM | 4:30 PMPhysics of Life: Students and Postdocs EditionFor this special online event, the Center for the Physics of Biological Function invites students and postdocs nominated by faculty mentors to present their research in a short talk format. This...Share3:00 PMImmigration Seminar Series: Rocio RosalesPresented by Rocío Rosales, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles This work examines the...Share3:30 PMObjectifying and Embodying Spanish: Third CUNY Symposium in Glottopolitical StudiesThe Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2021 Colloquium series. Objectifying and Embodying Spanish: Third CUNY Symposium in Glottopolitical Studies *Co-sponsored with...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY9SUNDAY10MONDAY11Columbus Day observed. Columbus Day observed. The Graduate Center is closed.ShareAll EventsTUESDAY1212:00 PM | 1:45 PMSeminar in Applied Economics: Refet S. GurkaynakFor the Fall 2021 Seminar in Applied Economics, Professor Refet S. Gurkaynak will be presenting on "News, Noise, and Anchoring Shape International Yield Curves". Abstract: We study the...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY131:00 PM | 2:00 PMTutorial on Computation with Physical SystemsLooking to engage more with symposia talks? Graduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in attending Computation with Physical Systems on Friday, October 15 are strongly encouraged to...Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMPhilosophy Colloquium: Myisha CherryThis event features: Myisha Cherry (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside) “Rage Renegades: A Message to ‘Allies’” Download a PDF...Share7:30 PMPolice Reform: What Is Community Safety? WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS EVENT In the dialogue around police reform, the topic of community or public safety is often at the center of the conversation. What does it mean to have a safe society?...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY144:00 PM | 5:30 PMKathleen Coll: “Beyond 'Sanctuary': Disputing Belonging, Local Citizenship and San Francisco Values"As federal immigration policy focuses on violence and exclusion, community organizers in San Francisco have fought to not only defend but expand the substance of belonging and citizenship rights at...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 7:15 PMEarth and Environmental Sciences Admissions Open HouseEarth and Environmental Sciences (EES) Admissions Open House 4:15–6:15pm: EES Colloquium featuring research presentations from our current doctoral students: Tenn Joe Lim, Derek Tesser,...Share4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Jeffrey Lidz Professor of Linguistics, University of MarylandJeffrey Lidz Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland presents The mental representation of quantifiers Abstract: Natural languages connect pronunciations with meanings. Linguistic...Share4:18 PMAnti-Racist Pedagogies in the Theatre and Performance Studies ClassroomThis session will provide resources for scholars and educators committed to anti-racism from the personal through the political. Addressing our own locations within the concrete effects of white...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY159:00 AMComputation with Physical SystemsThis event is online and aimed at the scientific community. Please register here to attend via Zoom. 9:00 - 9:45 AM Joni Dambre University of Ghent | about 9:45 - 10:30 AM Michał...Share12:00 PMFeeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish ReligionFeeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion Rachel B. Gross presents her new book, Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice (NYU Press, 2021). Beyond the...Share3:00 PMSociology Colloquium: Angela JonesPresented by Angela Jones, Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. This is an online event. Please register online to participate via...Share4:15 PMSarah Muir,"Routine Crisis:An Ethnography of Disillusion" w/ Jane Schneider & Juan Rodríguez AponteThe Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2021 Colloquium series. Book Launch! Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion Sarah Muir, Graduate Center and City College,...Share5:00 PM#FerranteFever@TheGraduateCenter A Showcase of Recent Doctoral Research on Elena FerrantePlease join us for #FerranteFever, a showcase of recent Doctoral research on Elena Ferrante, hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89481738522ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsSATURDAY16SUNDAY17MONDAY184:00 PMFrom Martha Graham to Eleanor Lansing Dulles: Women, Power, and Intrigue in Cold-War BerlinTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT PLEASE REGISTER HERE TO ACCESS THE ZOOM LINK AND ATTEND. The Center for the Study of Women and Society and Women Writing Women’s Lives present...Share7:00 PM | 8:30 PM Unmasking Bias: Stories and StrategiesAccording to the Prison Policy Initiative women make up 1 in 8 individuals released from state prisons every year, totaling 1.9 million women released from prisons and jails annually. Yet often the...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTUESDAY1912:00 PM | 1:45 PMSeminar in Applied Economics: Luigi PistaferriFall 2021 Seminar in Applied Economics will feature Luigi Pistaferri. Professor Pistaferri will be presenting on "Assortative Mating and Wealth Inequality" on October 19th at 12pm via zoom....Share6:00 PM | 7:10 PMScandalous Biographers & their PublishersWhen Philip Roth authorized Blake Bailey to write his biography, he told Bailey, “I don’t want you to rehabilitate me. Just make meinteresting.” Last spring, when the biography was...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY2012:00 PM | 1:30 PMSociety and Protest Workshop: Strategies and Symbols of Contentious Politics in Central AsiaJoin the Society and Protest Workshop on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm for the first session of the Fall 2021 semester under the theme of "Insider-Outsider Strategies"....ShareEvent Registration12:00 PM | 1:30 PMTutorial on Fluid Dynamics and Application on Climate and Atmospheric SciencesGraduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in attending the symposium on Fluid Dynamics and Application in Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (Fri Oct 22) are strongly encouraged to...Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMPhilosophy Colloquium: David BroockmanThis event features: David Broockman (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley) “Partisan Coverage Filtering: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Fox...Share7:30 PMPolice Reform: How to Invest in Communities to Improve Safety WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS EVENT While the slogans "Defund the Police" or "Disinvest and Reinvest" have received national attention, what would it really look like to move dollars...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY2112:00 PMNew York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and TransformationJoin us to learn from the award-winning urbanist Thomas Dyja and his lively, immersive history of New York City's four decade transformation, and the important lessons if offers for the citys...Share4:00 PM | 5:30 PMDapía: “Politics of Emotion from the Global South: León Rozitchner and the Logic of Ressentiment"The most detailed explorations of ressentiment are those of Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Scheler. For Nietzsche, ressentiment accounts for the emergence of Judeo-Christian morality. For Scheler, it is...ShareEvent Registration4:15 PM | 6:00 PMLinguistics Colloquium: Sarah Ita Levitan, Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNYSarah Ita Levitan, Assistand Professor of Computer Science, Hunter College presents Acoustic-Prosodic and Lexical Cues to Deception and Trust in Spoken Dialogue Linguistic Area: Computational...Share5:30 PM | 7:00 PMCoping with Race Related Stress and TraumaWithin this workshop, graduate students will learn about the concept of race based trauma and the corresponding mental health symptoms that they might be experiencing while operating in the world...Share6:00 PMMaintaining the Honour and Influence of the Family: The Letters of Duchess Elizabeth ButlerTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT PLEASE REGISTER HERE TO ACCESS THE ZOOM LINK AND ATTEND. The Center for the Study of Women and Society and the Society for the Study of Women in the...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY2211:00 AM | 3:00 PMFluid Dynamics and Applications in Climate and Atmospheric SciencesThis event is online and aimed at the scientific community. Please register here to attend via Zoom. On turbulence-mean-flow interactions in two dimensions Anna Frishman, Technion abstract |...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY23SUNDAY24MONDAY258:00 AMPRELUDE Festival 2021: Start Making Sense! 13 curators! 12 works-in-progress from New York’s theatre artists and ensembles! 7 offerings from across the US – spanning Austin, Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, Philadelphia,...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY262:00 PM | 3:00 PMComparative Literature Open HouseThe PhD/MA Program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center cordially invites you to an Open House on 10/26/21 at 2 p.m. RSVP to complit@gc.cuny.edu for the zoom link to this information...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY2712:00 PM | 1:15 PMThe Negev Bedouin: Emptied Lands and Displaced PeopleIsrael's treatment of the Negev Bedouin has been a story of displacement and dispossession. A wide-ranging conversation between Drs. Eli Karetny, Thabet Abu Rass, Yeela Raana, and Netta...ShareEvent Registration12:30 PM | 2:00 PMManaging Your Procrastination in Graduate School This workshop aims to empower students to manage their levels of procrastination in graduate school. Students will develop a better understanding of their procrastinating behaviors and the factors...Share1:00 PM | 2:00 PMTutorial on Machine Learning in ChemistryGraduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in attending the symposium on Machine Learning in Chemistry (Fri Oct 29) are invited to an hour of introductory material and discussion led by...Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMPhilosophy Colloquium - Workshop for MA Students Applying to PhD ProgramsThis event features: Workshop for MA Students Applying to PhD Programs, with Iakovos Vasiliou and Stephen Neale (restricted to the CUNY community) Download a PDF version of the Fall 2021...Share6:30 PMInternational Migration Studies — Virtual Open HouseSave the date for the Spring 2021 International Migration Studies open house. Join us to learn more about the program, faculty, application process, and more! Click here to register.Share6:30 PMDissertation to First Book TalkKen Wissoker, Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press and Director of Intellectual Publics at The Graduate Center (CUNY), will discuss the difference between a dissertation and a book, and...ShareEvent Registration7:30 PMThe Three Mothers: Anna Malaika Tubbs in Conversation with Robyn C. Spencer ONLINE EVENT - REGISTER ON ZOOM This event will be posted a few days later on our YOUTUBE CHANNEL. Join Anna Malaika Tubbs for a discussion of her groundbreaking and critically acclaimed book...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY2811:00 AMBreast Cancer Awareness WorkshopBreast Cancer Awareness Month with The Maurer Foundation Date: October 28, 2021 (Thursday) Time: 11 am-12 (noon) pm EST via Zoom Register in advance for this workshop (Please use your GC or SOJ...Share4:00 PM | 5:30 PMLaure Bereni: “Sustaining the Organizational Legitimacy of Diversity & Inclusion in NY and Paris"“Corporate Virtue at Work: Sustaining the Organizational Legitimacy of Diversity & Inclusion in New York and in Paris" Like other “responsible” corporate initiatives,...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY2910:00 AMA Jewish Community in a Slave SocietyAviva Ben-Ur (UMass Amherst) presents A Jewish Community in a Slave Society Co-sponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College. This is an online event. Please register here to...Share11:00 AMMachine Learning in ChemistryThis is an online event aimed at the scientific community. Please register here to participate via Zoom. 11:00 - 11:30 AM A Star Wars character beats Quantum Chemistry! A neural network...Share2:00 PMViajes y Registros audiovisuals: La búsqueda de la luz del norte en Lurralde Hotzak-Cold Lands(Travel and audiovisual records: The search for the northern light in Lurralde Hotzak-Cold Lands) La profesora y cineasta Iratxe Fresneda expondrá los procesos de investigación y creación de su...Share4:15 PMK. Anne Pyburn, "Grassroots Resource Preservation and Management in Kyrgyzstan”The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2021 Colloquium series. Grassroots Resource Preservation and Management in Kyrgyzstan: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Heritage on a...Share5:00 PMTalk on Reception Studies and Black Classics, Professor Allannah KarasTalk by Professor Allannah Karas, University of Miami A topic on reception studies and Black classics, title to follow.ShareAll EventsSATURDAY30SUNDAY31MONDAY1TUESDAY24:00 PMMyth, Time, and Place: Joan Jonas in conversation with Barbara LondonArt Science Connect is delighted to launch the Fall 2021 season with Joan Jonas, a founding figure of video and performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, in conversation with curator and writer Barbara...ShareEvent Registration6:00 PM | 7:15 PMDebby Applegate on Polly Adler, with Gerald HowardThe compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing,...ShareEvent Registration7:00 PM | 8:30 PMNo Study Without Stuggle: Book talk with Leigh PatelJoin Leigh Patel to discuss her new book No Study Without Struggle Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education. Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY31:00 PM | 2:00 PMTutorial on Recent Developments in Scattering AmplitudesGraduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in attending Recent Developments in Scattering Amplitudes (Fri Nov 5) are invited to an hour of introductory material and informal discussion...Share6:00 PMOpen House--Sociology ProgramRegister to receive the Zoom link. We are holding an open house for prospective students on October 27th. Join us to learn more about the curriculum, student experience, faculty, and admissions...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY44:00 PM | 5:30 PMCarlos Riobó: "Havana as Archive: The Performance of Cuban Identity"Carlos Riobó is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at The Graduate Center and at The City College of New York. He is also Professor of Comparative Literature at CCNY, the former...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY511:00 AM | 3:00 PMRecent Developments in Scattering AmplitudesThis event is online and aimed at the scientific community. Please register here to attend via Zoom. Scattering amplitudes provide a time-honored probe of the mathematical and physical content of...Share2:00 PM | 3:30 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Britta Ingebretson, Fordham UniversityBritta Ingebretson, Fordham University presents “She Has Two Sons”: Reproducing State Discourses in Rural China Abstract: TBA This is an online event. Register online to receive...Share4:15 PMElizabeth A. Davis, "On Presidents and Cannibals: A Conspiratology for Our Times"The Ph.D. Program in Anthropology invites you to attend our Fall 2021 Colloquium series. On Presidents and Cannibals: A Conspiratology for Our Times Elizabeth A. Davis, Princeton University...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY62:00 PMAlgosound 8: Khyam AllamiIn this workshop Khyam Allami will explore the subjects of tuning and the inherited biases of music technology through his collaborative project “Apotome” with creative studio...ShareEvent RegistrationAll Events