CANCELLED: Rebecca Boger on Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability

Our Spring Colloquium Series Presents: Thursday, Feb 13th at 5:30 in Room 4102 Transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability science and education in Barbuda, West Indies with Rebecca Boger, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College, and Doctoral Prgram in Earth and Environmental Science, The Graduate Center

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Tomorrow! EES Colloquium with Jean Carmalt

Our Spring Colloquium Series Schedule: Thursdays at 5:30 in Room 4102 February 6: Prioritizing Health: Disaster, Vulnerability, and Urbanization in New Orleans and Port au Prince Jean Carmalt, Department of Political Science, John Jay College, and Doctoral Prgram in Earth and Environmental Science, The Graduate Center  

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Public Humanities Fellowship

2014-2015 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship We are pleased to offer this Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship opportunity. Please spread this announcement to any students who may be eligible or interested in this Fellowship opportunity. Thank you, The Center for the Humanities 2014-2015 The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY  Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship In Partnership with the New York Council for the Humanities The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the New York Council for the Humanities announce the call for applicants for the 2014-2015 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship. The …

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Congratulations! A Year in Faculty Awards

Congratulations to all of our faculty members who received awards this year!   Sean Ahearn—New York City Department of Environmental Protection; Natural Resource Program Data Management Services: GIS, WALIS, and Streams Geodatabase, February 2013-January 2014   Teresa Bandosz—Mead Westvaco Corporation: Gas Service Testing, December 2012-October 2013   James Biles—NSF EAGER/Collaborative Research: Overcoming Barriers to Diffusion and Adoption of Sustainable and Resilient Buildings Materials in Coastal Areas of Southern Mexico, June 2013-May 2015; EL CONCIYTEY: Strengthening the Value Chain for Chile Habanero from the Yucatán Peninsula by Means of Understanding its Food System, February 2013-January 2014   Jeffrey Bird—University of California-Berkeley …

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CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities Research Assistant

CISC Research Assistant    The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities (CISC) is seeking a research assistant to contribute to a large-scale international research project focusing on urban coastal resilience and transformation in response to extreme events and climate change. The research assistant will work closely with the Institute Director and Program Manager to collect and analyze data, review background literature, develop presentations, and make substantial contributions to the various research products that will be generated from the project.   Applicant must be a current CUNY graduate student with a background in geography, environmental science/studies, planning or similar discipline with significant …

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Philosophy of the City Conference at Brooklyn College

December 5-7, 2013 on the CUNY, Brooklyn College Campus Boylan Hall, 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11210 Throughout human history, the city has been a site for the articulation of new forms of knowledge, political community, economy and individuality with respect to the (sometimes conflicting) norms of freedom, equality, and justice. Yet, the continued urbanization of the globe poses tremendous problems, particularly in this time of ecological crisis, economic inequality and political uncertainty. Philosophy began in the city (Plato, Aristotle), and the city is a recurrent topic for major writers in the history of philosophy (Aquinas, Machiavelli), and the …

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David Spataro Speaks at Interference Archive!

    From Free Stores to Really Really Free Markets: Radical political space between “ticketless theater” & the commons Monday December 9, 2013 7pm The Interference Archive will host David Spataro, Interference Archive’s first scholar in residence for a presentation on his research on radical spaces and the commons

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