DECARBONIZE CUNY TOWN HALL

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

CPCP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2022: REVOLUTIONARY ARTS

The CPCP presents its annual conference 2022:

REVOLUTIONARY ARTS

Wednesday May 4, 2022 6-9pm Film Screening
Thursday May 5, 2022 1-8:30pm
Conference

The People’s Forum
320 West 37th St. NY, NY 10018

*proof of vaccination is required for entry

 

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Transforming CUNY: admissions, studies, movements

Transforming CUNY: admissions, studies, movements

January 20, 6-8:15 PM EST

This is an online event and will take place on Zoom. 
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This event will include live 
captioning in English.
Livestreaming will also occur on Youtube.

The history of how Black and Puerto Rican youth movements led the transformation of CUNY’s admissions and curricula contains lessons for public education/city struggles nationwide. Tami Gold, Pam Sporn, and Gisely Colón López will share their new film MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE, about how Black and Puerto Rican student-led struggles won Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College in the late 1960s. Ricardo Gabriel will speak about the historical and geopolitical context that led to the Puerto Rican student movement and the demand for Puerto Rican studies at CUNY from 1969 through the early 1970s. Amaka Okechukwu will present about the 1970 creation and 1999 termination of the Open Admissions policy at CUNY, detailed in her new book To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsAnna Zeemont will discuss gender justice and intersectionality in 1990s CUNY activist/arts publications and movements.

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Please join Garth Stevens, Brett Bowman, Gillian Eagle, & Kevin Whitehead from the Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa for this symposium. Tuesday, August 18th, 2015, 3:00-5:00 pm, Room 6304.01 (Psychology) The Ruse of Reconciliation? Discursive Contours, Impossibilities, and Modes of Resistance in the South African ‘Reconciliation Project’ In this symposium we interrogate the ‘reconciliation project’ in South Africa that has become embedded in the trope of the exceptional miracle and highlight the prospects and problematics of reconciliation. The symposium addresses three related arguments. We first explore forgiveness and reconciliation as a fluid discourse that has served varied socio-political functions across historical periods. Second, we examine the limitations of forgiveness and its circular impossibility, as the injunction to forgive calls on us to forgive that which is unforgiveable in the Derridean sense. Third, we argue that in the absence of social repair and with growing inequality, the historical and collective trauma of apartheid violence is drawn upon as a psychological and socio-political resource. The symposium concludes with a commentary on reconciliation as a discourse that is implicated in the constitution of relations of power, both at the level of its reproduction and resistance in South African life. Garth Stevens is a Full Professor and Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development, at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His research focuses on race, racism and related social asymmetries; critical psychology, ideology, power and discourse; violence and its prevention; and historical/collective trauma and memory. He has published widely in these areas, including Race, memory and the apartheid archive: Towards a transformative psychosocial praxis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).   Brett Bowman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development, at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His research is on the intersections of violence and social asymmetries in low-middle income countries. His current research examines how risks for violence translate into its enactments. He has published widely and contributed to the World Bank’s Diseases and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Violence prevention in low- and middle income countries and the World Health Organization’s Violence and health in the WHO African region.   Gillian Eagle is a Full Professor of Psychology in the School of Human and Community Development at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and a Clinical Psychologist. She conducts research on socio-cultural, historical and political aspects of trauma and violence, focusing on the inter-relationship between the socio-political and intra-individual domains of human experience. Her 2010 co-authored book, Traumatic stress in South Africa, has re-invigorated the construct, continuous traumatic stress, and she co-edited a 2013 special issue of Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology on this topic.   Kevin Whitehead is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development, at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His current research involves applying ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to embodied action-in-interaction in order to examine how violent encounters unfold in situ. He has published methodological and empirical research articles in a range of international journals including Social Psychology Quarterly, British Journal of Social Psychology, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Discourse& Society, and Ethnic and Racial Studies, amongst many others.   Co-Sponsors: Critical Psychology Cluster (PhD Programs in Critical Social/Personality Psychology and Environmental Psychology); PhD Programs in Psychology, Sociology, and Geography; Africana Studies; The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics; Committee on Globalization and Social Change; The Public Science Project; The Center for Human Environments; and The Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY   This event is free and open to the public

France Through Post-Colony

Mayanthi Fernando (Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California Santa Cruz) “France is my Bled’: The Unpredictable Future of Impolite Citizenship” and Yarimar Bonilla (Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University) “Non-Sovereign Futures? French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment”

In discussion with: Tony Alessandrini, English, Kingsborough Community College Vincent Crapanzano, Distinguished Professor, Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center

Kaiama L. Glover, Associate Professor, Department of French and the Africana Studies Program, Barnard College, Columbia University Judith Surkis, Associate Professor, Department of History, The School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University

Friday, March 8th, 2013
2pm-5pm

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5109