Tahj Ahmed wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language 37 minutes ago
Blog post 3Proposition: I am 20 years old > Truth Value: True > Truth Condition: For this to be true, I would have to be born in […]
Tomonori Nagano wrote a new post on the site Oral History in Interdisciplinary Community College Pedagogy 3 hours, 39 minutes ago
Call for Participants for the 2024-2025 seminar
We would like to invite faculty to participate in the NEH Seminar: Oral History in Interdisciplinary Community College Pedagogy that will […]
Janet Elise Johnson (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Gender and Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia Workshop 4 hours, 49 minutes ago
A Feminist Response to the War in Ukraine: Vlada Nedak in conversation with Janet Elise JohnsonFriday May 3 2pm to 3pm Vlada Nedak CEO of Project Kesher Ukraine and the Women’s Opportunity Fund of Ukraine In person at CUNY Graduate Center (room 5203, Ralph Bunche Institute) and Zoom Register here for the Zoom link Vlada Nedak is the CEO of Project Kesher Ukraine and the Women’s Opportunity Fund of Ukraine, which she founded in 2022. During her 20 years of leadership, she has been active in building Jewish life in Ukraine, developing a network of women community leaders, and building partnerships with women’s NGOs and other national and religious organizations. Some of her accomplishments include: designing and implementing the first women’s health programming on Hromadske (Ukrainian public) radio; commissioning and overseeing the creation of a year of Jewish holiday celebrations in Ukrainian, including the first Ukrainian-language haggadah; and administering over a million dollars of humanitarian aid for women and children in the past year. Vlada is a graduate of Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, and earned her MBA from Lviv Business School of Ukraine Catholic University where her work was recognized with a 2023 Alumni of the Year award. in conversation with Janet Elise Johnson, Endowed Chair in Women’s and Gender Studies, Brooklyn College, City University New York, and Professor, Political Science & Women’s/Gender Studies, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center Discussion format: For this session, there is no paper to read in advance. We ask that participants come with questions, including about what we as feminists can do to support feminist work in Ukraine. At the workshop, Dr. Johnson will pose a series of questions to Ms. Nedak, af […] “A Feminist Response to the War in Ukraine: Vlada Nedak in conversation with Janet Elise Johnson”
Justin Torres (He/him/his) wrote a new post on the site CT101 Digital Storytelling 5 hours, 58 minutes ago
My overall experience of my website
Well well well, it’s good to be back here sorry I haven’t blogged in two weeks I had a lot going on BUT! BOY I HAVE A STORY FOR YOU […]
laisha estevez wrote a new post on the site laisha's 110 portfolio 6 hours, 23 minutes ago
HeyBear with me as we go through this AC journey. This isn’t the best page or the best planed. But it was as far as I’ve gotten and the best that I can do.
George J.A. Murray wrote a new post on the site Sociology of Hip-Hop 6 hours, 42 minutes ago
For Wednesday, 1 MayPrep Gilbert B. Rodman, ‘Race … and Other Four-Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity’ (pass […]
Michael Branson Smith (he/him/his) wrote a new post on the site York College Communication Technology Media Labs 6 hours, 48 minutes ago
REality pixel bites
Last Friday, our studio manager, Fawwaz Allie, along with his colleague Paul Ward, journeyed to the ICVFX (In-Camera Visual Effects) […]
John Rice (he/Them) wrote a new post on the site MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation 8 hours, 32 minutes ago
Rajiv Mohabir – Sixth Finch
MFA alum Rajiv Mohabir has three poems in this Spring 2024 issue of Sixth Finch, out just today! Sixth Finch, is a quarterly journal of poetry and art, operating continuously since 2008. You should read Rajiv’s poems right now, then think about submitting your poems for the next […] “Rajiv Mohabir – Sixth Finch”
Juan P Acevedo wrote a new post on the site CLACLS 9 hours, 10 minutes ago
The South American Sex Wars: A Retrospective on Moral Battles Surrounding LGBTQI+ Rights in Brazil and Argentina
MAY 6, 2024 6:00 PM | ROOM 9205, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY Since the 2000s, various countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, […]
Yale Weiss wrote a new post on the site Logic and Metaphysics Workshop 10 hours, 14 minutes ago
Physicalism, intentionality and normativity: The essential explanatory gap (Anandi Hattiangadi)The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will meet on April 29th from 4:15-6:15 in-person at the Graduate Center (Room 7395) for a talk by Anandi […]
Writer Rivka Galchen talks about enigmatic terrains, from offbeat neighborhoods to scientific mysteries and arbitrary authority. (15:03) Artist Dasha Shishkin shares her delight in absurdity, decadence, and flawed materials. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRXplnS8bY[/embedyt]...
Reiner Leist talks about life-altering moments, from large-scale traumatic events to daily, barely noticed routines. Leo Rubinfien recounts his firsthand experience of the World Trade attacks and the years-long attempt to make sense of it. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeXFkNQTKOo[/embedyt]...
Cultural Exchanges: Artist Julie Curtiss talks about her multicultural upbringing and her attraction to French Surrealism and dark female archetypes. Art publisher and appraiser Alex Rosenberg reminisces about his long life and relations with notable artistic and political figures as well as his involvement with...
Artist A. K. Burns asks: what is valued? must art always be a salable object? and how do physical spaces direct our lives? Musician Ankit Shrestha talks about the importance of busking, doing cover tunes, and developing an international audience. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU-iBmEFEy8[/embedyt] ...
Francis Cape discusses woodworking as an angle on social injustice and the persistence of utopian ideals in late capitalist society. Moyra Davey demonstrates the power of triangular thinking, bringing together personal, historic, and artistic narratives that examine life in unique ways. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks5atBUD1wo[/embedyt]...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivql_aqBXWU[/embedyt] Vera Iliatova recalls the last days of the Soviet Union and adapting to life in New York in relation to her paintings, which depict teenage girls caught in a maelstrom of nostalgia. Nilko Andreas talks about his musical influences, from classical to Colombian folk...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aASl1B-pOw[/embedyt] Ben Gould tells how a recent diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome precipitated a career shift to performance art, through which he mines the expressive potential of his body's unpredictable energies. Hugo Montoya details how a lifestyle of beachcombing and photographing led to a discipline of...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1FgMXQDfo[/embedyt] Anne Lindberg talks about the temporal effects of landscape, literature as confidence, and discipline as generators for her work. Mary Chatham explains her process as discovery through materials, leaving preconceived ideas at the studio door, and embracing the in-between. ...
Coversations with Tabitha Soren, Carroll Dunham, Hugh Hayden, Lesley Lokko, Cheryl Donegan, Kevin Bewersdorf, Nanette Burstein, Mark Dion, Elaine Mayes, Olaf Breuning, Heidi Ewing, Chris Martin, Luc Sante, Laurie Lambrecht, Chelsea Culprit & Mary Carlson.[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaIadmMe1rQ[/embedyt]...
Mary Carlson shares her enthusiasm for the lives of female saints and their various depictions in Medieval and Renaissance art. (13:32) Chelsea Culprit talks about the expectations placed on female identity and visual strategies for overturning gender stereotypes. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7MjJVKAjA[/embedyt]...
