Submit pictures of your mineral collection to Courtney for a chance to be featured on our social media sites for #MineralMonday! cdrayer@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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EES 2015 Election
It is now time to VOTE! Please take a few moments this week to vote for your EES student committee representatives. Please vote by Friday Sep. 25, 5pm, by following this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RFam_sM23znFnURNLD9RTc8HT3Jeqn2u2x4Fd1OVsUI/viewform?usp=send_form If there are any issues with a nomination please email us directly with questions. Please note that you will need to sign in with your Google account — to make sure everyone gets one vote – but do not worry, your vote will be anonymous! Here’s a list of current committee members below. It would be good to have some members carry over to the next year to help …
THE ETHICAL AND ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF INDIGENOUS RESILIENCE PLANNING
October 21st, 6:30-8:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198 (Basement) RENEWING RELATIVES: INDIGENOUS RESILIENCE PLANNING -Kyle Pows Whyte, (Philosophy, Timnick Chair in the Humanities; Michigan State University) INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF LANDSCAPE RESILIENCE IN THE NEW YORK CITY REGION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE VISIONMAKING -Eric Sanderson (Wildlife Conservation Society; www.visionmaker.us/nyc) *Sponsored by the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department (CUNY GC), hosted by the Economic Democracy Project, and co-sponsored by the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay (www.srijb.org) and Students for a Democratic alternative (SODA/CUNY). These two talks address the importance of indigenous perspectives in making rural and urban areas more ecologically sustainable and socially resilient. Kyle …
Prof. Roger Hart featured on @NPRinvisibilia #Podcast
Our very own Dr. Roger Hart was featured on NPR Podcast, Invisibilia, a podcast that explores the intangible forces that shape human behavior – things like ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions. The particular episode that featured Roger, entitled Fearless, aired on January 16, 2015. In the podcast Roger discusses his research conducted in Vermont which investigates everyday lives of children and children’s environments. Thanks for the info Kristen Hackett and @EnviroPyschGC!
Assistant Prof opening @IUBloomington
Climate Change and International Studies The Department of International Studies in the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with interests in the geopolitical, cultural and/or economic dimensions of climate change. We seek a scholar who employs interdisciplinary qualitative approaches to research in areas including human costs and impacts (migration, health, conflict, biodiversity loss); bioregional spaces of crisis; disaster prevention and management; legal and organizational regimes; sustainable futures (adaptation, mitigation, innovation/resilience). We welcome applications from scholars in Social Sciences, Humanities and in Science and Technology Studies …
Pedagogy in the Environmental Humanities Working Group
The Columbia Center for Science and Society will host a new working group on Pedagogy in the Environmental Humanities The group will meet monthly to facilitate dialogue among educators in the greater New York City area about teaching at the crossroads of environmental science and humanistic inquiry. The group will prepare a workbook of syllabi and host a symposium at the end of the 2015/2016 academic year to share research and experiences about instruction in this new interdisciplinary field. The first meeting will be held on Monday, September 28th, from 7-8:30 pm at Columbia University in Schermerhorn Hall 603 to …
9/23: Research Bites Grad School Reception @NYPL
Hudson River Fdn Fall 15 Seminars
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
On Wednesday, September 30 from 1:30-2:30pm the Graduate Center will host an information session for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. You can learn more about the Fellowship at: http://www.pdsoros.org/ See the following link for complete eligibility guidelines: http://www.pdsoros.org/competition/eligible.cfm
GC Digital Fellows – Open Office Hours for Digital Projects
Beginning next week, on September 23, the GC Digital Fellows will be holding office hours every Wednesday from 2-3pm in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414. You can find a full schedule of our office hours and staffing schedule on the GC Digital Fellows website. Our office hours are open to all GC students, faculty, and staff, however students are our priority since we also provide individual faculty consulting in conjunction with the New Media Lab. During office hours, a rotating staff of two GC Digital Fellows provide one-on-one assistance for your digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. Appointments are …
