Events

Consciousness and Revolution II: Educating for Change in the Era of Authoritarian Populism: May 5th–6th 2017

05/05/2017 - 05/06/2017
All Day
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Consciousness and Revolution II: Educating for Change in the Era of Authoritarian Populism: May 5th–6th 2017 05/05/2017 - 05/06/2017 All Day The Graduate Center, CUNY The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics presents: Consciousness and Revolution II: Educating for Change in the Era of Authoritarian Populism May 5th–6th 2017   The profound contemporary alienations shaped by long-term [read more»]

4/25: Moral Economies of Neoliberalism: A Workshop around Melinda Cooper’s Family Values

04/25/2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor
4/25: Moral Economies of Neoliberalism: A Workshop around Melinda Cooper’s Family Values 04/25/2017 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor Tuesday, April 25 6:00 – 8:00 PM Skylight Room (9100) Michel Foucault famously argued that Chicago school neoliberalism was beyond normativity, uninterested in the disciplinary categories of perversion or deviance. Yet neoliberal scholars were [read more»]

3/29: Book Launch: Celebrating Innovative New Work In Anthropology

03/29/2017
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor
3/29: Book Launch: Celebrating Innovative New Work In Anthropology 03/29/2017 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor 3/29: Book Launch: Celebrating Innovative New Work In Anthropology March 29, 2017 5pm-6pm: Discussion @ Skylight Room (9th Floor) 6pm – 7:30pm: Reception @ Room 6304.01 Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/407276386304688/   Spatializing Culture, by Setha Low (CUNY Graduate Center) [read more»]

3/24: New York City Screening: America Divided – A House Divided

03/24/2017
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Elebash Recital Hall
3/24: New York City Screening: America Divided – A House Divided 03/24/2017 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Elebash Recital Hall 3/24: New York City Screening: America Divided – A House Divided Friday March 24, 2017 6:00pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave. Elebash Recital Hall New York NY 10016 You Must RSVP to Attend* *Thank you for your [read more»]

3/16: Narrative in Practice: Opacity, Dissonance, Encounter, Underground, Erasure

03/16/2017
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Room 9205
3/16: Narrative in Practice: Opacity, Dissonance, Encounter, Underground, Erasure 03/16/2017 10:00 am - 4:30 pm Room 9205 March 16, 2017 10am-4:30pm Room 9205 The “narrative turn” in the social sciences, as manifested through the renewed emphasis on human agency, the centrality of language to the negotiation of meaning and the construction of identity in everyday life, has marked [read more»]

3/7: Film Screening and Dialogue: Carré Rouge Sur Fond Noir / Red Square on the Blackboard

03/07/2017
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor
3/7: Film Screening and Dialogue: Carré Rouge Sur Fond Noir / Red Square on the Blackboard 03/07/2017 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor 3/7: Film Screening and Dialogue: Carré Rouge Sur Fond Noir / Red Square on the Blackboard Tuesday, March 7, 6-9pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave, Skylight Room (9th floor) [read more»]

3/6: Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education

03/06/2017
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor
3/6: Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education 03/06/2017 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor 3/6: Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education Monday, March 6, 2017 2 pm – 4 pm Skylight Room (9100) Livestream: bit.ly/fight4edu-live RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-perspectives-on-the-fight-for-higher-education-registration-32250509141 Join the Futures Initiative for a roundtable discussion on “Global Perspectives on the [read more»]

BOOK EVENT: Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest have Imperiled the American Dream

02/15/2017
6:30 pm
Sociology Lounge, Room 6112
BOOK EVENT: Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest have Imperiled the American Dream 02/15/2017 6:30 pm Sociology Lounge, Room 6112 February 15, 2017 6:30 Sociology Lounge, Room 6112 America of recent decades is a land of contradictions: Soaring wealth and a poverty level above that of 1973; productivity up but wages for [read more»]