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 …
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9/18: Student Meeting and Social
Student Meeting THIS FRIDAY! 3:30 (meeting) 5:00– party! in the EES LOUNGE Please add items to the google doc agenda via link sent in the EESSTDNT-L list serve.
May 21st: Stuart Elden at the CPCP
Please join us for an informal seminar and discussion on Terrain, Territory and Volume with Professor Stuart Elden Professor of Political Theory and Geography, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick Monash Warwick Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University Progressive Geographies blog Editor, Society and Space May 21, 2015 from 4:15-6:15 In the Center for Place, Culture and Politics seminar room 6408 RSVP: slow@gc.cuny.edu, sbostrig@gmail or manissa@gmail.com
April 30th! GEOS with Steve Kidder
Join us for this week’s spring colloquium: Steve Kidder of City College “How Squishy is the Middle Crust?” Thursday, April 30th at 5:30pm Science Center, Room 4102 at the Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave.
S. George Philander at the April 16th EES Colloquium
S. George Philander The Hedgehog and the Fox Global warming from a Nelson Mandela perspective. 5:30PM Room 6495 <-note! not the Science Center! The Graduate Center
This Week! Stuart Hall: Geographies of Resistance Conference 3/26 and 3/27
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Cholesterol and Glucose Testing Event at the GC
SAVE THE DATE! CHOLESTEROL & GLUCOSE TESTING EVENT Wednesday, March 25, 2015 10:00 am—2:00 pm CUNY Graduate Center Concourse Level Rooms C197/C198 Cholesterol and Glucose testing will be provided by Expert Diagnostic Imaging Inc. Nutrition information will also be available. Services are FREE and open to all students, faculty, and staff!! Sponsored by: The Wellness Center For more information, contact the: Wellness Center Student Health Services 365 Fifth Ave, Room 6422 212-817-7028 heathed@gc.cuny.edu http://cuny.is/wellnesscenter Follow us on Twitter @cunyGCwellness
Today! GC Digital Fellows Introduction to WordPress and A Digital Academic Identity
This semester, the GC Digital Fellows are offering free workshops for all students and faculty. These workshops will go beyond introducing software and websites; we’ll be suggesting new, digital approaches to ongoing research problems. Please join us for the latest event of the Spring 2015 term: WordPress 1: Establishing A Digital Academic Identity Thursday, March 19th 2015 – 6:30-8:00pm; Room C196.02 In this workshop, you will learn more about developing and customizing your WordPress site. If you have some knowledge of WordPress (i.e., you can make a page and a post and have used the dashboard), but you want to …
Spring Colloquium 3/19: David Stein on Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and the Civil Rights Movement for Guaranteed Jobs
March 19th: David Stein 5:30PM, Science Center, Room 4102
Spring Colloquium: Climate in Context Conference 3/13
The Climate in Context conference at the GC is coming up next Friday, the 13th (the preliminary program for which is attached ). The conference is meant to bring all CUNY climate scientists (both the physical and social sciences) together, to present research and to provide a forum to discuss new ideas. Sessions will include: Local Solutions: Education, Policy and Society. Global Science: Long-Term and Large Scale Analysis Local Science: Analysis of NYC in Relation to Climate Global Solutions: Harnessing Technology to Analyze Climate For further details, visit the website at http://opencuny.org/ccgcc/, and please come join us!