Tag Archives: urban studies
BOOK EVENT: Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements
18 November 2021, 1PM EST (NYC), 8PM SAST (Johannesburg)
Online event, register here.
Please join author Trevor Ngwame as he discusses his book Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements with Peter Hitchcock and Ashley Dawson.
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.
Register here to attend.
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 Admissions. Anna Zeemont will discuss gender justice and intersectionality in 1990s CUNY activist/arts publications and movements.
5/6-13: Online Film Screening: False Belief
The CPCP is pleased to cosponsor the free streaming of the film FALSE BELIEF for one week only, from:
May 6, 12pm – May 13, 2020
To view, go to: https://kunstnerneshus.no/en/cinema/hjemmekino-lene-berg
Lene Berg’s critically acclaimed film False Belief (2019) is based on autobiographical events and reconstructs the filmmaker’s Kafkaesque journey through the American criminal justice system after her partner gets arrested, put on trial and eventually imprisoned for no reason.
This event is in lieu of a live screening and discussion we hoped to have this spring. We recommend the book of former CPCP visiting scholar, Christina Hanhardt, Safe Space, as a companion piece for this film.
