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Announcements:

Spring 2016 CLAGS Events Calendar Teaching and Learning Center has launched its website

Jobs:

College Assistant Position at the Teaching and Learning Center

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2016-2017 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship (Application Deadline: Friday, February 12, 2016) 2

Events:

Battersby Memorial Lecture on February 3rd 2016 @ Queens College Ideas in Circulation: Open Scholarship for Social Justice ( February 5th 2016 from 1:00 - 2:00 PM) Save the Date: Teach@CUNY Day, May 2nd , 2016 Left orumF 2016 (May 20th - 22nd)

Others:

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SPRING 2016 EVENTS CALENDAR

Film Screening: Pamahikan with Director Q&A Thurs, Feb 4 | CUNY Graduate Center | Room 9100 7:00pm-9:00pm

Winner of the Vail Film Screenplay Competition for Narrative Shorts, DIrector Angelo Santos screens Pamahikan, a film about an interracial couple that aims to address the quirkiness of interracial relationships, the dysfunction in family, and challenges traditional views on marriage while making us laugh. Kevin Nadal (Executive Director, CLAGS, The Graduate Center (CUNY), Associate of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), and President, Asian American Psychological Association) will moderate the Q&A afterwards.

After Marriage Equality in Ireland Thurs, Feb 11 | CUNY Graduate Center | Room 9207 7:00pm-9:00pm

The recent marriage equality referendum in Ireland was a historic event and is what could be the first of many countries throughout Europe who pass marriage equality through a vote. CLAGS, in partnership with the Queens College Irish Studies Program, will be the first to host speaker Quentin Fottrell, an Irish member of the LGBT community and a journalist for the Wall Street Journal to convey the background, buildup and aftermath of the vote in the historically Catholic country. Q&A and Discussion revolving around the referendum, history of LGBT exclusion at the St. Patrick's Day Parade and about the future implications for marriage equality across all of Europe.

Audre Lorde Birthday Celebration & Anthology Party Thurs, Feb 18 | Kay Playhouse | 695 Park Avenue 6:30pm - 10:00pm

This year, Audre Lorde's birthday will also celebrate the release of The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde, an anthology of writings by people who knew Audre Lorde, edited by her partner Dr. Gloria I. Joseph and Linda Villarosa. Join us for a night of celebration, poetry, musical performances, a slide show, of and tribute to Audre's unparalleled contribution to human rights.

Queer People of Color and Gentrification in Thurs, Feb. 25 | CUNY Graduate Center | Room C198 7:00pm-9:00pm

What is the state of of Color lives in this time of unconstrained displacement? What new and/or traditional political forms are thriving in this era of precarity? This set of talks seeks not answers, but dialogue on the place and potential of QPOC perspectives and experiences on New York City in local and global context In a world of endless war,statelessness/homelessness as a prevailing reality, and the domestic exploitation of people of color in electoral politics, we also see the rising of Black Lives Matter, The Dream Defenders and Solidarity with Palestine, joined increasingly by student movements focused on both inclusion and transformation. We organize these events to call into question the mediating role of New York City itself, as a site of silenced histories and of unprecedented expressions of nostalgia, of futurity and potential. 4

CLAGS 25th Anniversary Conference Fri, March 4 | CUNY Graduate Center | Elebash Hall 9:00am-6:00pm

CLAGS was founded at CUNY in April 1991 as the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to LGBTQ lives. Our 25th Anniversary celebration is a one-day interdisciplinary conference will reflect on the past, present, and future of . Keynote speaker is CLAGS Founder Martin Duberman. Other panels will feature Jill Dolan, Paisley Currah, Alisa Solomon, Sarah Chinn, Kevin Nadal, Darnell Moore, Jonathan Ned Katz, Yoruba Richen, Tucker Pamella Farley, Jose Quiroga, Carmen Vasquez, andré carrington, Andrew Spieldenner, Marta Esquilin, David Rivera, and more.

What is Sex For? With David Halperin Fri, March 18 | City College CUNY | NAC Ballroom (160 Convent Avenue) 5:00pm-7:00pm

David Halperin is professor of the history and theory of sexuality at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This lecture examines if sex have any erotic purpose? The greatest philosophers of classical antiquity said no. Halperin examines arguments which offer a serious challenge to modern interpretations of love, including but not limited to psychoanalytic interpretations, that understand love in sexual terms and that view all erotic desire as an expression of sexuality. Halperin argues that some contemporary gay male writing represents a singular effort to work through the confusions and the anguish that the modern sexualization of erotic desire has bequeathed to us. A reception will follow shortly after his talk.

Shifting the Stigma of HIV/AIDS Mon, March 21 | CUNY Graduate Center | Room C205 6:30pm-8:30pm

Steven Thrasher (Contributing Editor of Buzzfeed and Journalist), Linda Villarosa (Author, Former Editor at the New York Times and Program Director for The Division of Humanities and the Arts at The ) , and Viviane Namaste (Concordia University Research Chair in HIV/AIDS) discuss the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS in a panel moderated by Ian Bradley Perrin (HIV/AIDS Activist, Advocate, and Policy Analyst).

Ka-Man Tse & Carl Sylvestre: Narrow Distances Tues, March 22 | CUNY Graduate Center | Room C205 6:30pm-8:30pm

Ka-Man Tse, the 2014-2015 Robert Giard Fellow, will present her recent work, Narrow Distances, a series of photographs made within the LGBTQ community in Hong Kong between 2014-2015. She will also screen her video Gahp Song, an ongoing participatory video project that is about food as language, memory, intimacy, trust and play. Filmed over the course of six years, the meals take place in public places and private homes throughout New York, California, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. (running time of video, 20 minutes)

Sci-Fi Alien(ation): Diversity Under Attack, Racism, , & Sexism at Hugo Awards & Beyond Fri, April 8 | IRIDAC | TBA

A panel discussion of scholars and science fiction authors including andré carrington, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Craig Laurance Gidney discuss racism, homophobia, and sexism in the world of sci-fi publishing and fandom in general, 5

and the highly-publicized hate campaign at the 2015 Hugo Awards. A group calling itself the "Sad Puppies" gamed the voting system to assure that most award nominees were white, male, and straight, voicing public statements about gay, black, and women's themes and authors ruining the genre. Many non-white, queer, and women authors have received rape threats and death threats in association with this campaign. This episode mirrors "gamer-gate," where similar rape and death threats against women in the video game industry who have complained about sexism.

The Rainbow Book Fair Sat, April 9 | John Jay College, CUNY | 2nd floor Student Dining Hall 12:00pm-6:00pm

The New York Rainbow Book Fair is America's oldest LGBT book fair and the largest LGBT book event in the country. It has grown every year since its beginning in 2009. It brings together thoughtful, interesting people of all ages, from early teens to those in their 70s and 80s; from a spectrum of countries, ethnicities, gender identities, and viewpoints, but also publishers, editors, agents, and media attention-people who have never experienced queer culture, and others who have made it the focus of their lives.

Back to the City: A Lecture and Roundtable on Timothy Stewart-Winter's Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics Mon, April 18 | CUNY Graduate Center | Room 9204 7:00pm-9:00pm

In this lecture and roundtable discussion, Timothy Stewart-Winter and panelists will discuss his book Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), which argues that big-city municipal politics was central to the gay movement's path since the 1950s, from the closets to the corridors of power while also shifting the story from the coastal meccas to the nation's great inland metropolis. Themes will include the role of policing in LGBTQ mobilization, the gay movement's debt to urban black politics, the politics of region and spatial scale, and the present and future of urban queer activism. Following Stewart-Winter's mini-lecture, Thomas J. Sugrue will lead a discussion by Phil Tiemeyer, Pauline Park, Alexandra Moffett-Bateau, and members of the audience.

Gay American History Conference, feat. Susan Stryker Thurs & Fri May 5-6 |

The now-classic book, Gay American History, developed out of Jonathan Ned Katz's documentary play, Coming Out!, produced by New York's Gay Activists Alliance in June 1972. The book, intended for two audiences, will also address the general public and academic researches whom will together will explore and analyze the theories, categories, research methods and priorities that have been constructed, challenged, and reconstructed over the last forty years of historical research on sexuality and gender. Featuring scholarly presentations, visual art and performances inspired by LGBTQ and heterosexual history, Keynote speakers include Susan Stryker, among others.

CLAGS 25th Anniversary Party Fri. May 6 | The LGBT Center of NYC | 208 W 13th St. | Room 301 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Join the CLAGS board, staff, and volunteers as we celebrate 25 years as the first university-based LGBTQ research center in the United States committed to funding cutting-edge scholarship, events, arts, and activism on queer & trans lives. Conference panelists, organizers, attendees, armchair queer history buffs, and all your lovers and friends are invited to toast to 25 more years of community and history, and support CLAGS' continued work. 6

Teaching and Learning Center has launched its website

Dear Colleagues,

Please alert students in your programs that the Teaching and Learning Center has launched its website, which can be accessed at http://cuny.is/teaching.

To read about the site and the TLC's programming and plans for growth, see: http://tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/01/28/the-tlc-is-open/.

Our office hours for the upcoming semester are: http://tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/office-hours/.

Finally, we encourage all in the GC community to consider joining the TLC Group on the CUNY Academic Commons, at http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/teaching-and-learning-center/, where members will be able to receive announcements and participate in ongoing conversations about teaching and learning at CUNY and beyond.

Many thanks, Luke

-- Luke Waltzer, Ph.D. Director, The Teaching and Learning Center The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300.21 New York, NY 10016 Tel: 212.817.7275 Email: [email protected] 7

College Assistant, The Teaching and Learning Center The Teaching and Learning Center at the CUNY Graduate Center seeks a College Assistant to join its staff. Reporting to the Director, the TLC’s College Assistant will help plan, schedule, and facilitate events and meetings, support recruitment and on-boarding of fellows and additional staff, coordinate activities with other administrative offices at the Graduate Center, and help develop and maintain the web presence for the Teaching and Learning Center.

The position is for 20 hours a week, pays $15 an hour, and includes health insurance after 90 days. The position requires strong organizational, oral and written communication, and technical skills, as well as the ability to work effectively with others.

To apply: please send a statement of interest (no more than 2 pages), a CV, and the names of three references via email to Luke Waltzer, Director, Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, at [email protected]. Review of applications will begin immediately, and the position will be filled as soon as possible.

About the Teaching and Learning Center The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) was founded in 2015 to create new opportunities for Graduate Center students to evolve as educators. Its work includes preparing new college teachers for their entry into the classroom, guiding developing teachers as they refine their practices, and helping experienced teachers think through how to best apply their teaching experiences in the next stages of their careers, whether those careers be inside the classroom or out. The TLC offers a series of workshops and professional development for new and experienced Grad Center teachers, and collaborates with sister units across the Graduate Center and CUNY on special projects meant to empower CUNY’s faculty and students to get their most out their time teaching and learning together. 8

2016-2017 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship

Application Deadline: Friday, February 12, 2016

The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, and the New York Council for the Humanities announce the call for applicants for the 2016-2017 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship.

The Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship was developed by the New York Council for the Humanities in partnership with seven New York research universities to bring humanities scholarship into the public realm, encourage emerging humanities scholars to conceive of their work in relation to the public sphere, develop scholars’ skills for doing public work, and strengthen the public humanities community in New York State. The year-long Fellowship will involve a combination of training in the methods and approaches of public scholarship and work by the Fellow to explore the public dimensions of their own scholarship in partnership with a community organization.

The skills and experiences afforded by the Fellowship are intended to serve scholars who have a record of working with the public as well as those who are starting to explore the public humanities. It is equally valuable for scholars who plan to pursue careers within the academy and those who plan to pursue other career paths.

FELLOWSHIP REQUIREMENTS:

The Fellow is required to attend a two-day orientation run by the New York Council for the Humanities at their New York City office on Monday, August 22 and Tuesday, August 23, 2016.

During the Fellowship year, the Fellow will develop a plan to implement a public humanities project and identify community partners for that project.

The Fellow will participate in webinars and workshops throughout the Fellowship year and attend a final meeting of the Fellows in June 2017.

The Fellow will present the outcomes of their research and public work to the university community in coordination with The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center and submit a final report to the New York Council for the Humanities.

During the course of the Fellowship, Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in events sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. Fellows are also eligible for project funds from the Council to support public programs developed during the course of their Fellowship. Throughout the Fellowship, Fellows are encouraged to work collaboratively with the Council to identify community partners, explore public humanities methods and programs, and share findings as their research progresses. The Graduate Center Fellows will be part of a cohort from these six other New York universities: , Cornell University, , SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Stony Brook, and Syracuse University. 9

ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be residents of New York State and enrolled as a graduate student in a humanities discipline, broadly defined, at one of these seven universities: The City University of New York Graduate Center, Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Stony Brook, or Syracuse University. Must be second-year PhD candidate or above.

DURATION & STIPEND: Duration of the Fellowship is August 2016 to June 2017, including mandatory attendance at a two-day orientation on August 22-23, 2016 in New York City. The Fellowship stipend is $8,000, plus a $500 travel and research stipend. The Fellowship is supported by grants from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

TO APPLY: Interested applicants should submit an online application, including a resume/CV and two references, by Friday, February 12, 2016. The link to the application is here: Public Humanities Fellowship Application

Applicants will be notified of final decisions by Friday, April 8, 2016.

CONTACT: New York Council for the Humanities Program Officer Adam Capitanio (212-233- 1131 / [email protected])

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES The Center for the Humanities encourages collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY and across the city through seminars, publications, and public events. Free and open to the public, our programs aim to inspire sustained, engaged conversation and to forge an open and diverse intellectual community.

ABOUT THE NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: The mission of the New York Council for the Humanities is to help all New Yorkers become thoughtful participants in our communities by promoting critical inquiry, cultural understanding, and civic engagement. Founded in 1975, the New York Council for the Humanities is the sole statewide proponent of public access to the humanities. The Council is a private 501(c)3 that receives Federal, State, and private funding.

For more information, visit: http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/program- 2016-2017-graduate-student-public-humanities-fellowship

The Center for the Humanities The Graduate Center, CUNY 10

The Battersby Memorial Lecture

Dear Students & Faculty,

Please see attached flyer and message from Dr. Halperin below. Come join us for the Battersby Memorial Lecture on February 3rd 2016, in the Campbell Dome from 12:15 to 1:30pm. We encourage you to attend, as this will be an interesting and beneficial talk given by Dr. Daniel Robinson.

Students please note that you will be given two colloquium credits for attendance at this event. Please be sure to sign the attendance sheet provided to Dr. Jennifer Stewart in order to receive credit. We look forward to seeing you all there.

The Psychology Department is pleased to announce the Battersby Memorial Lecture, entitled, “VISION AND SEEING: Yet another “gap”, which will be presented by Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D. in Campbell Dome on Wednesday February 3 from 12:15 – 1:30. Dr. Robinson was the first person to receive a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1965, based on research conducted at Queens College. He has gone on to have an extraordinary career. He is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Faculty Fellow at Oxford University. He has authored and edited numerous books including classics such as An Intellectual History of Psychology and Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present.

Best, Danielle Lucania Graduate Programs Assistant Psychology Dept. Science Bldng. Room E318 718-997-3630 11

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Ideas in Circulation: Open Scholarship for Social Justice

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us next Friday, February 5 for "Ideas in Circulation: Open Scholarship for Social Justice.” This discussion will focus on access, equality, and diversity in the context of open scholarship and scholarly communication.

More details are available below, and ayou c n RSVP here. Please share this invitation with faculty, students, and staff in your programs. We hope you can join us!

Best, Katina Rogers

— Katina Rogers Deputy Director, The Futures Initiative The Graduate Center City University of New York

Friday, February 5 | 1 PM to 2 PM | http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live | #fight4edu | RSVP

Details WHERE: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue Room: 9205 WHEN: Friday, February 5, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CONTACT INFO: [email protected]; (212) 817-7201

Description Join us at the Graduate Center on February 5 from 1-2 PM for an open, livestreamed discussion with several special guests:

 April Hathcock (Librarian for Scholarly Communications, NYU)  Matthew K. Gold (Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities; Executive Officer, MA Program in Liberal Studies)  Michelle Fine (Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Urban Education, and Women’s Studies; Advisor of the Public Science Project  Stephen Zweibel (Data and Digital Projects Librarian, The Graduate Center)

This is the fifth of eight conversations in The University Worth Fighting For, a year-long project designed to tie student-centered, engaged practices in our classrooms to larger issues of institutional change, equality, race, gender, and all forms of social justice. 13

This event will focus on access, equality, and diversity in the context of open scholarship, and scholarly communication. The event will include discussion about the “digital divide,” academic libraries, open-source development, and more.

Online Discussion Group To help build momentum and to provide a place to discuss related theory and research in greater depth, we also invite you to join this student-led reading group that will open on HASTAC. The discussion group will remain open for three weeks following the workshop.

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Save the Date: Teach@CUNY Day, May 2, 2016

Dear All,

I’m writing to ask that you reserve May 2, 2016 to attend and participate in the first Teach@CUNY Day. This event will take place from 10am-4pm on the Concourse Level of the Graduate Center. It will be open to the entire CUNY community, but we especially encourage attendance by students at the Graduate Center who will be teaching their first college courses in Fall 2016.

Teach@CUNY Day will feature a series of talks and workshops that explore what it means to teach at CUNY, and will immerse attendees in a range of pedagogical approaches used throughout the university. It will be a terrific opportunity to join and help further build a community of practitioners who are committed to making CUNY’s classrooms inspiring and transformative spaces.

Please put May 2 on your calendar, and stay tuned for more information on Teach@CUNY Day.

Best wishes for a smooth start to your semester.

Luke Waltzer

-- Luke Waltzer, Ph.D. Director, The Teaching and Learning Center The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300.21 New York, NY 10016 Tel: 212.817.7275 Email: [email protected] 15

Conference Theme - Rage, Rebellion...

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A French-American Family Seeking To Rent An Apartment

A French-American family of academics, a couple and their 15-year old son, is looking for a furnished 2-bedroom (or larger) apartment in NY for the academic year 2016-2017. On sabbatical, visiting respectively Hunter College and NYU, they are seeking to rent a place from August 1, 2016 until June 30, 2017.

Please contact : [email protected] and [email protected]

Thank you!