The Graduate Center Library has a great line-up of workshops and events in February:   Introduction to Library Resources (2/3 @ 1-2pm and 2/11 @ 4:15-5:15pm) Introduction to Grants Resources and Grant Writing (2/11 @ 3-5pm) Introduction to Zotero for Citation Management (2/17 @ 2-3:30pm and 2/18 @ 6:30-8pm) Queering the Map: Theoretical Reflections on Spatial Methods for Action Research (2/19 @ 12-2pm, organized by the Futures Initiative and co-sponsored by the Library) Digital Tools for Managing Your Research (2/24 @ 6:30-8pm) Introduction to SPSS (2/25 @ 6:30-7:30pm)   For workshop descriptions and RSVP links, go to: https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/

Come to our first colloquium series talk with Brian Rosa! “Ambivalent Monuments: Re-examining the Material and Symbolic Politics of Urban Elevated Railways” 2/5/2015 5:30 PM Room 4102 at the Graduate Center Science Center

Teaching #BlackLivesMatter: Countering the Pedagogies of Anti-Black Racism Friday, December 19 10:00-12:00 in the Skylight Conference Room at The Graduate Center, CUNY Co-sponsored by Revolutionizing American Studies & the Advanced Research Collaborative An event where we can think through how to address racialization and state power as scholar-teachers, working at the level of both immediately executable plans for teaching/research, and longer term strategies for making the academy accountable to racial violence. On social media, #BlackLivesMatter mobilized critiques against the grand jury decisions not to indict officers Darrell Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo. Rallying around the unjust death of Michael Brown, Eric …

Please join us for the next Labor & Working-Class History Seminar at Roosevelt House, Hunter College, on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Our presenter and commentator will be: Jefferson Cowie (Cornell University), “Rethinking the New Deal in American History” Daniel Walkowitz (New York University) We will meet in the second-floor seminar room at Roosevelt House, 47 – 49 E. 65th Street, New York City.

CALL FOR PAPERS Feminist Pedagogy Conference: Transformations April 17, 2015 Hosted by the Feminist Studies Group and the Center for the Study of Women and Society The Feminist Pedagogy Conference seeks participants for a day-long conference entitled “Feminist Pedagogy: Transformations.” The conference will be held on April 17, 2015 at the CUNY Graduate Center, in New York, NY. The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars and activists across the disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy. Building on previous work, this is a forum to …

We are happy to announce a video of Gwendolyn Warren and Cindi Katz in conversation from our colloquium on October 16th. The October 16th Event Description: Join us for a conversation about the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (1968-72), a radical project of community based collaborative scholarship-activism and liberatory education, with Gwendolyn Warren, the project’s co-director, and Professor Cindi Katz. Warren shaped many of the DGEI’s mapping projects and was a leader of its extraordinary educational component, which brought hundreds of young people from Detroit to Michigan State University, where they formed a sort of autonomous university–revolutionary in its implications and not …

The CUNY Graduate Center and NYU are hosting this amazing event on November 20 and 21 on Confronting Racial Capitalism: The Black Radical Tradition & Cultures of Liberation.  It’s open to the public and no RSVP is required. The program and more information can be found here: http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/confronting-racial-capitalism-the-black-radical-traditioncultures-of-liberation/

Join us for an EES Colloquium with Professor Gail Ashley of Rutgers University! Thursday 6 November at 5:30