Teaching and Learning Center Fellowships, 2016-17 The CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center invites applications for Teaching and Learning Center Fellowships for the 2016-17 academic year. TLC Fellows support CUNY Graduate Center students who are teaching across CUNY by holding open office hours, developing workshops and other public programs, producing TLC Guides for the Center’s web site, and contributing to a variety of special projects. During the 2015-16 academic year, TLC fellows produced guides and workshops relating to educational technology, writing pedagogy, and working with diverse student populations. During the 2016-17 academic year these themes will continue, and will expand to …
Volcanoes, Climate, and Society Reading Group
Please join Professor Black for a new proposed monthly reading group that brings together Earth scientists and geographers at CUNY to discuss shared research interests. An initial theme could be “Volcanoes, Climate, and Society,” but this could easily evolve, for example to emphasize readings of manuscripts or proposals in progress. The main goal is to bring graduate students and faculty together for an informal hour or so of lively discussion. With this in mind, what about a first meeting on April 21 at 7:15 PM at the Graduate Center, following Maria Tzortziou’s seminar and the wine and cheese social? We …
#EESPublishes: Prof #RezaKhanbilvardi of @citycollegeny reviews #GDE (Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem) in @MDPIOpenAccess
Professor of Reza Khanbilvardi City College co-authored a paper in Geoscience called: A Review of Advances in the Identification and Characterization of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Using Geospatial Technologies. Abstract: Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem (GDE) protection is increasingly being recognized as essential for the sustainable management and allocation of water resources. GDE services are crucial for human well-being and for a variety of flora and fauna. However, the conservation of GDEs is only possible if knowledge about their location and extent is available. Several studies have focused on the identification of GDEs at specific locations using ground-based measurements. However, recent progress in …
Don’t miss #AmandaMatles on Cross Pollination: Stats & Embodied Methods in Critical Participatory Action Research at 1:20 (Marker Hotel, LL) #AAG2016
1:20 – 3:00 Queer Data II: Locating Desire, Tension, and (In)Difference in the Data Mine Vienna North, Marker Hotel, Lower Level Author: Amanda Matles (@amatles): Cross Pollination: Stats and Embodied Methods in Critical Participatory Action Research
T-10 mins until @blactivist of @GC_CUNY on @NYC: Struggles Over the Narrative of the Solidarity Economy (4th fl, Hilton) #AAG2016
Thursday, March 31 10:00 – 11:40 Relational Poverty 6: Solidarity Economy Post-Capitalist Practices and the Geographies of Exclusion and Marginalization Union Square 16, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor Author: Lauren Hudson: New York City: Struggles Over the Narrative of the Solidarity Economy
@jcknorton goes on in 15 mins! Public-Private Partnership in the Post-Keynesian Landscape (Marker Hotel-Lobby Level) #AAG2016
8:00 – 9:40 PREM: Critical Penal Geographies I: Histories, Political Economies, and Epistemologies of the Carceral State Paris South, Marker Hotel, Lobby Level Author: Jack Norton: Financing the Carceral State: Public-Private Partnership in the Post-Keynesian Landscape
5 minutes until #MaeganMiller on Domestic Lawfare & Constitutional Patchwork of US Homeland Security (Hilton 6th fl) #AAG2016
2:40 – 4:20 Home: Critical Geographies of the Home(land) II – law, settlement, dispossession Mason B, Hilton Hotel, 6th Floor Author: Maegan Miller: Domestic Lawfare and the Constitutional Patchwork of the U.S. Homeland Security State
Check out the #CriticalGeographies of the Homeland Session in 10 mins at Hilton 6th fl organized by #MaeganMiller w/ author #BenjaminRubin #AAG2016
12:40 – 2:20 Home: Critical Geographies of the Home(land) I – Gender, Family, (in)security Mason B, Hilton Hotel, 6th Floor Session Organizer: Maegan Miller Author: Benjamin Rubin: Risk in the Home: Child Protection, and the Parent as Threat
@rakewadada goes on in 15 mins on the 6th fl of the Hilton on Infrastructure, Development & Social Reproduction in Tanzania #AAG2016
12:40 – 2:20 Critical Logistics I: Making Logistical Space Sutter Room B, Hilton Hotel, 6th Floor Author: Rakhee Kewada: ‘Till China and Africa Meet: Infrastructure, Development and Social Reproduction in Bagamoyo, Tanzania
Catch @rgoffe in Athens N, Marker Hotel, LL on Informal Land Tenure & Reproduction of Agricultural Labor #AAG2016 right now!
Tuesday, March 29 8:00 – 9:40 Race and the Agrarian Question I Athens North, Marker Hotel, Lower Level Author: Rachel Goffe: Capture and Abandon: Informal Land Tenure and the Reproduction of Agricultural Labor
