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 February 2020 Next SUNDAY26MONDAY27TUESDAY2812:00 PM | 2:00 PMStatistical mechanics of human behaviorA Center for the Physics of Biological Function seminar Speaker: Christopher W. Lynn (University of Pennsylvania) Location: Room 5209 Humans exhibit a wide range of complex behaviors, from...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY296:00 PM | 7:30 PMJocelyn Lai, pianoPROGRAM J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D Major, BWV 874 W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Sonata in B-flat Major, K333 Francis Battah (b. 1995) Toccate (2013) Intermission J....ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY306:30 PM | 8:30 PMCLACLS: Language Justice and Workers' Rights RoundtableTraducción en español disponible A roundtable in conversation with indigenous community leaders and commissioners from NYC agencies. Moderated by Dr. Victoria Stone-Cadena, Associate Director,...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY3111:00 AM | 12:00 PMITS Seminar with Tomaz ProsenTomaz Prosen of University of Ljubljana gives an ITS seminar titled "Exact Results on Quantum Many-Body Chaos." Location: Room 5209 I will discuss two recent analytical results on...Share2:00 PM | 4:00 PMProfessional Development: Edith Gonzalez (GC Executive Director Research and Sponsored Projects)Edith Gonzalez (GC Executive Director Research and Sponsored Projects) presents: Applying for GrantsShare4:00 PMBeyond Representation: What Do We Mean by Diversity?In On Being Included by Sara Ahmed, she describes how “diversity work does not simply generate knowledge about institutions[...]; it generates knowledge of institutions in the process of...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY1SUNDAY2MONDAY3TUESDAY4WEDNESDAY56:30 PM | 8:00 PMAmazonian Time: Aproximations from Art, Cultural Management and Curatorship/ Christian BendayanBendayan is a painter, curator and cultural promoter. In 2019 he participated in the individual exposition “Indios antropófagos” at the Venice Biennale 2019. He specializes in Amazonian...Share6:30 PM | 8:00 PMJames Kaplan on Irving BerlinIrving Berlin (1888–1989) has been called—by George Gershwin, among others—the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. “Berlin has no place in...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsTHURSDAY612:00 PM | 1:00 PMCP&PD Webinar: Making the Most of an Academic ConferenceAbout this Webinar We are often reminded of the importance of attending academic conferences in our chosen discipline. Attendance and visibility at conferences will enhance your job and career...ShareEvent Registration3:00 PM | 4:00 PMITS Seminar with Yehuda PinchoverITS Nonlinear PDE Analysis seminar with Yehuda Pinchover (The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) "How large can hardy-weight be?" In the first part of the talk we will discuss...Share4:15 PM | 6:15 PMCharles Chang (Boston University)Charles Chang (Boston University) presents: L3 perception as a window onto similarity and timing effects in acquisition In this talk, I will report on a study examining the role of...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMScience and Technology Master's Programs Open HousePlease join the Dean for Master’s Programs, faculty, current students, and the Office of Admissions for our upcoming Open House for Science and Technology Master's Programs. Learn about...Share7:30 PM | 9:00 PMProf. Thomas Sauer, Faculty RecitalPROGRAM TBAShareAll EventsFRIDAY711:00 AMHillel Kieval: Blood Inscriptions: Ritual Murder in an Age of DisenchantmentWhen trials against Jews for “ritual murder” reappeared in Central Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, after a hiatus of three centuries, they seemed to be a...Share4:00 PMShame Affect and EC ComicsQiana Whitted, Professor of English and African African American Studies and Director of the African American Studies program at the University of South Carolina presents a talk from her recent book,...Share4:15 PMFall 2020 Colloquium: Nina Glick SchillerDispossession: A Conjunctural Analysis Nina Glick Schiller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Abstract: Analyses of emerging processes of capital accumulation through dispossession...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY8SUNDAY9MONDAY106:00 PM | 7:30 PMJennifer Roderer, mezzo-sopranoPROGRAM Jennifer Roderer, mezzo-soprano Albin E. Konopka, piano Augusta Browne (1820-1882) Bird of the Gentle Wing (Roswell Park) A Song for New England (H.W....ShareAll EventsTUESDAY114:00 PM | 6:00 PMViolence & Democracy in Latin America"Illicit Governance on Colombia’s Frontiers" This talk focuses on two regions: Urabá, a drug and human smuggling transit region in the north, and Putumayo, a coca producing area in...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMHumanities and Social Sciences Master's Programs Open HouseLearn about our master’s degrees in Biography and Memoir, Classics, Comparative Literature, Data Analysis and Visualization, Digital Humanities, International Migration Studies, Liberal...Share6:00 PM | 8:00 PMCP&PD Event: Careers in Research & Development in IndustryAbout this Career Panel Come join us for a career panel to meet Graduate Center alumni who are working in research and development (R&D) positions in industry fields such as pharmaceuticals,...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:00 PMThe Moving City: Transportation Infrastructures of New YorkSince the days of Robert Moses, communities throughout New York City have been dealing with a legacy of highways that divided historic neighborhoods from one another and complicated access to other...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsWEDNESDAY12THURSDAY1312:00 PM | 1:00 PMBeing a Scholar in PublicThis event is part of the University Worth Fighting For series. More details will be posted soon.Share3:00 PM | 4:00 PMITS Seminar with Mimi DaiITS Nonlinear PDE Analysis Seminar with Mimi Dai (UI-Chicago) "Wild Solutions for MHD Models" We will discuss some wild behaviors exhibited by weak solutions of the...Share4:00 PM | 6:00 PMConservative Turn in Brazil: Sources & Dynamics During his visit to The Graduate Center, Professor Rennó will discuss public opinion shifts and the Bolsonaro presidency. In addition, he will be available to meet with faculty/students to discuss...Share6:00 PMEarly Modern Oceans This panel assembles three scholars shaping the emerging field of Ocean Studies. Lowell Duckert specializes in early modern drama and travel literature, and is the author of For all Waters: finding...Share6:30 PMEast Lake Meadows: A Screening and Conversation Reservations are full. Before East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story airs on PBS in March, join the filmmakers for a special preview of highlights and a discussion. The documentary, which...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsFRIDAY1411:00 AM | 12:00 PMITS Seminar with Alexandra ThomsonAlex Thomson (Caltech) will give an ITS seminar titled "Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene." Location: Room 5209Share2:00 PM | 4:00 PMSociolinguistics Lunch: Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà (Université de Lausanne)Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà (Université de Lausanne) presents: The goal of this paper is to analyze the ideological constructions of English and French at the International Committee of the Red Cross...Share4:00 PMPostcolonial/Decolonial: A RoundtableIn “Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality, and the Grammar of Decoloniality,” Walter D. Mignolo describes decolonial thought as marking a shift away from the...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY15SUNDAY16MONDAY17TUESDAY186:00 PM | 8:30 PMIntro to PythonPython is a programming language that can be used for a wide range of tasks, including collecting and analyzing data in a variety of formats, building web applications, and much more. It is an...Share7:30 PM | 9:00 PMAlexis Rodda, sopranoPROGRAM Egon Lustgarten (1887–1961) Diverse Volkslieder I. Veilchen II. Schiffahrt III. Wer bin ich, dass ich’s wage IV. Liebliche Harften lasset erklingen V. Erhoere mich ...ShareAll EventsWEDNESDAY193:00 PM | 4:30 PMCP&PD Event: Info Session with ClinilabsAbout the Event Clinilabs Drug Development Corporation is a contract research organization that provides clinical drug development services to industry. Representatives from Clinilabs will be at...ShareEvent Registration6:00 PM | 7:30 PMBook Salon: You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered RacismTsedale M. Melaku will be in conversation with Angie Beeman about her book, You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism. You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMReproducible Data Analysis in RThe RStudio environment makes truly reproducible research accessible. Reporting your work and ensuring that your code will run in any environment is made easier with RMarkdown and R Projects. In this...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY201:00 PM | 2:00 PMMusic In MidtownMusic In Midtown begins the spring semester with the Trio Entartete, a chamber group comprised of three of New York City’s most in demand performers: violist Junah Chung, pianist Eric Huebner,...Share3:00 PM | 4:00 PMITS Seminar with Liming SunITS Nonlinear PDE Analysis Seminar with Liming Sun (Johns Hopkins University) Share4:30 PMImmigration Seminar Series Spring 2020 Immigration Seminar Series February 20th, 4:30-6:00 pm "Immigration and the Remaking of Black America," Tod G. Hamilton, Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty...Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMValerie Preston Presents: "It's a White Man's World ... even in Multicultural Toronto"The Toronto metropolitan area is rapidly becoming a ‘majority minority city’ marked by social differentiation within and between ethno-racial minorities. Even in this officially...Share4:30 PM | 6:30 PMM.S. Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Open HouseThe M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience at The Graduate Center—the only program of its kind in the United States—is excellent preparation for further doctoral study. This affordable...Share6:00 PM | 7:30 PMGardens Feminine: Locating Edens within Early Modern Garden CultureSamuel Nicolosi (English, The Graduate Center, CUNY) on "Gardens Feminine: Locating Edens within Early Modern Garden Culture." Co-sponsored with the Society for the Study of Women in the...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY2110:00 AM | 6:00 PMInformation flow in bacterial communitiesUnicellular organisms do not lead solitary lives. They sense one another, both passively and through active signaling; they share nutrients, both competing and cooperating; and they exchange genetic...Share11:00 AM | 12:00 PMITS Seminar with Katharine HyattKatharine Hyatt (Flatiron Institute) will give an ITS seminar. Title TBA. Location: Room 5209Share3:00 PMOrdinal Citizenship Marion Fourcade Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. Description: The expansion of social...Share4:00 PMFeminism, Technology, Eastern PraxisIn this talk Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College) explores the potential intersections of Eastern philosophy and cultural studies in the context of contemporary digital media. Beyond critiques of...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY2210:00 AM | 4:00 PMCreative Inquiry for Classrooms, Communities, and Social MovementsThis workshop delves in to what it means to create research for public good in the borderlands between the universities and the communities that surround them. Using examples of projects in NYC and...ShareEvent RegistrationAll EventsSUNDAY23MONDAY2412:30 PM | 2:00 PMHow Do I Respond: Navigating and Coping with Racial Microaggressions in Graduate EducationResearch has shown that graduate students of color are often navigating personal and professional relationships and race-related experiences like racial microaggressions that contribute significantly...Share5:30 PMOpen House MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization Join the master's programs in Digital Humanities and Data Analysis and Visualization for this open house where prospective students can learn about both of these Graduate Center programs....Share5:30 PMOpen House M.A. Program in Digital Humanities Join the master's programs in Digital Humanities and Data Analysis and Visualization for this open house where prospective students can learn about both of these Graduate Center programs....Share6:00 PM | 7:30 PMAlexei Tartakovsky, pianoPROGRAM Alexei Tartakovsky, piano Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) 24 Preludes, Op. 28 (1839) INTERMISSION Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) Passionale (2003) Franz Schubert...Share6:30 PMSelf-Devouring Growth: Julie Livingston in conversation with Brian LarkinUnder capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to...ShareAll EventsTUESDAY25WEDNESDAY263:00 PM | 4:30 PMCP&PD Event: Info Session with NYC Dept. of Small Business ServicesAbout SBS & the Neighborhood 360° Fellowship The Neighborhood 360° Fellows help community-based organizations complete commercial revitalization projects and connect local stakeholders...ShareEvent Registration6:00 PM | 8:00 PMOpen House for the International Migration Studies Master's Programs at The Graduate Center, CUNYSave the date for the Spring 2020 International Migration Studies open house. Join us to learn more about the program, faculty, application process, and more! Please RSVP:...Share6:30 PMA History of New York City in 27 Buildings: Sam Roberts in Conversation This event will be livestreamed. Sam Roberts, longtime reporter at The New York Times and host of CUNY-TV's program The New York Times Close Up, speaks about his new book A History of New...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMData Visualization in RVisualizing data effectively is an important component of any research project, from initial data exploration to the final research product. The same data can tell many stories, and this workshop...ShareAll EventsTHURSDAY2712:00 PM | 1:00 PMCP&PD Webinar: How to Find the Right Internship for YouAbout this Webinar An internship can provide invaluable experience that will help you launch your next career in the right direction. This webinar will explore how you can find and secure...ShareEvent Registration4:30 PM | 6:30 PMSarah Bishop Presents: “Communication and Culture in the Search for Asylum”"A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in the Search for Asylum" This project critically analyzes the roles of communication and culture in credible fear interviews and...Share6:30 PMRace in Early Modernity“Race in Early Modernity,” a panel with Carol Mejia-Laperle (Wright State), Dennis Britton (New Hampshire), and Jennifer Morgan (NYU), moderated by Erika Lin (Graduate Center) Share6:30 PMPlagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright - Paul Hendrickson in Conversation This event will be livestreamed. In a reassessment of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose creative brilliance was matched by his rank egotism, Paul Hendrickson has produced a biography that...ShareEvent Registration6:30 PM | 8:30 PMCLACLS: LGBTQ Education, Gender Ideology and the New Far Right in Brazil Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidency in 2018 in part by mobilizing conservative opposition to policies to combat lgbtqphobia and promote gender equality instituted by Workers Party...ShareAll EventsFRIDAY282:00 PM | 4:00 PMProfessional Development: Suzanne van der Feest (GC Linguistics Prof. Dev. Coordinator)Suzanne van der Feest (GC Linguistics Prof. Dev. Coordinator) presents: Writing Support Session: Writing Effective AbstractsShare4:00 PMRepresentations and Spaces in/of Children's LiteratureIn Children’s Geographies, Sarah Holloway and Gill Valentine identify three key loci for children: Playing, Living, and Learning. The collection explores children's places from playgrounds,...ShareAll EventsSATURDAY29