Capital/Today

Wednesday, October 16, 2024
10am-12pm
Room 9205
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue

The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics (CPCP) presents:

Capital/Today

A roundtable discussion of the new English translation of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital (Volume One).

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The Question of Palestine: War, Gaza, Justice

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
6pm-8pm
Room 9205-9206
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue

Has war become the main feature of Israel’s military occupation of 1967? Reckoning with the tragic features of Israel’s unprecedented war on Gaza –triggered by Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attacks – this talk asks what this new conjuncture means for occupied Palestinians and the question of Palestine. Has justice been rolled back for another generation – or is there new hope?

Bashir Abu-Manneh is Reader in Postcolonial Literature in the School of Classics, English, and History, University of Kent (UK), and has served as Head of School from 2021 to 2024. He is author of The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present (2016) and Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913–1939 (2011). He has also edited a collection of articles on Edward Said entitled After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2018). He writes regularly on Israel-Palestine for Jacobin magazine.

Marc Lamont Hill is a Presidential Professor of Urban Education and Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is a cultural anthropologist, critical policy scholar, and radical educator whose work explores issues of race, education, citizenship, and state violence in the United States and Middle East. Hill is the author of seven books, including Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. He is also the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera English.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. It is free and open to the public

TIAA Exposed: Pesticides and land grabs harming Black communities and the climate

Tuesday September 24
6:00pm-7:30pm ET
Register for the Webinar on Zoom or In-PersonSpeakers: Members of TIAA Exposed from Phillips County Arkansas
Introduction: Doug Hertzler, Stop Land Grabs Campaign, ActionAid USA
Moderator: Abigayle Reese, TIAA-Divest

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. It is free and open to the public.
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DECARBONIZE CUNY TOWN HALL

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5th
6:30PM
ELEBASH RECITAL HALL
365 FIFTH AVENUE
REGISTER HERE

The passage of the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) unleashed the potential of the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to dramatically expand renewable energy production and energy conservation, and the NYPA has promised to publish its plans in January 2025. However, we must push them to include a robust plan to decarbonize CUNY and other public buildings. Fighting climate change isn’t just about saving the planet—it’s also an opportunity to make our air and water cleaner, save us money, prevent blackouts, and create high-quality union jobs.

CUNY is in a unique position to be both a hub and a model for large public decarbonization efforts, and this Town Hall is a step toward building the public support and partnerships needed to build the clean energy future we deserve.

Hosted by the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, the Center for the Humanities, and the Ecocriticism Working Group on Thursday, September 5th, 6:30 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center, join faculty, students, staff, environmental organizations, community leaders, and union members for a discussion with an array of people working to create a healthy, sustainable, and fossil-free future, both at CUNY and across the nation. We will discuss how CUNY can be the leader in the green energy transition by demanding the state and NYPA take action now.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. It is free and open to the public.

The Center for Place, Culture and Politics’ Annual Conference 2024: Abolition and/as Activism

Friday May 3, 5PM-8:30 PM & Saturday May 4 10AM-8:30PM
The People’s Forum (320 West 37th Street)

The Center for Place, Culture and Politics’ Annual Conference 2024:
Abolition and/as Activism

Register here for the in-person conference. This event will also be livestreamed. HERE is the link for May 3. HERE is the link for May 4.

 

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