This documentary reflects on the life of Bayard Rustin, master strategist and tireless activist, best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Helping mold Martin Luther King, Jr. into an international peace symbol, he suffered backlash for being an openly gay man.
On February 10th from 12-2 the Public Space Working Group and the Center for the Humanities will host a special event in the James Gallery on the ground floor of the Graduate Center. We hope you will join us for this exciting and provocative talk about urban space in Cairo during the Arab Spring with a response by our own Claire Panetta.
Clean Up and Shape Up! Revolution, Bodies and Urban Space in Egpyt
with
Jessica Winegar | Anthropology | Northwestern University
response by Claire Panetta | Anthropology | the CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, February 10, 2012 | 12-2pm
The James Gallery | ground floor
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, NYC
This working paper discusses young, middle class activists’ attempts to remake people’s relationships to urban space in the aftermath of Mubarak’s resignation in February 2011. It examines the deep political-economic factors, from the Mubarak era, that led to a deluge of garbage cleaning and urban beautification projects, as well as campaigns to change people’s movement and behavior in public space. The reproduction of social hierarchies in these projects suggests the limits of revolutionary practice.
For working group members there will be a bridge piece circulated before the talk. The presentation will be followed by an open discussion. See you there!
This event is free and open to the public.
The first African to win the coveted Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah has been described by Salman Rushdie as “one of the finest contemporary African novelists.” Educated in Somalia and India, Farah was hounded into exile by the Somali government in the Seventies for his writing. Farah has since lived in several African countries as well as holding teaching positions in Europe and the United States (he currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa). The author of over a dozen books, Farah recently completed his third trilogy of novels with the publication of Crossbones.
Join us in celebrating the end of the fall semester and new books from Frances Fox Piven and former PCP fellow Amy Chazkel!
Join us for a conversation on the contemporary relevance of
Regulating the Poor
with
Frances Fox Piven
Distinguished Professor of Political Science
The CUNY Graduate Center
December 2, 2011 | 2-4pm
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics | Room 6107
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, NYC
This conversation will be the first in a series bringing together scholars, graduate students and activists to talk about their work on poverty and the contemporary welfare state. The format is intended to be a discussion, so please come and be part of the conversation. For more information on the series, check out http://opencuny.org/welfarestudies/
Readings: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, Pantheon Books, 1971.
Introduction, Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race, Joe Soss, Richard Fording and Sanford Schram. University of Chicago Press, 2011
For access to the readings, please email Maggie Dickinson at Maggie.dickinson@gmail.com
Free and open to the public.
Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide.
She has written several non-fiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire. Roy was featured in the BBC television documentary Dam/age, which is about the struggle against big dams in India. A collection of interviews with Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian was published as The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile. Her recent work includes Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, and a contribution to the forthcoming anthology Kashmir: The Case for Freedom. Her latest book, Walking with the Comrades was just published by Penguin Books. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.
South African Climate Justice activist Patrick Bond will be leading a discussion of Climate Justice (CJ) strategy for the upcoming United Nations Conference of Parties Summit (COP17) in Durban, South Africa regarding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol […]
Max moved from Washington, DC to Miami, FL in 1991. As the devastating impacts of gentrification began to take root, Max shifted his attention to the subject and in the summer of 2006 helped found the organization which eventually became known as Take Back the Land. In October 2006, Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot in Miami and built the Umoja Village, a full urban shantytown
