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Call for papers: Narrating the Social (3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference)
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Published on November 14, 2011 10:36 am.Hunter College PSC chapter: Resolution on NYPD Spying
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Published on October 19, 2011 6:38 pm.The following resolution was passed by the executive committee of the Hunter College PSC chapter today (October 19, 2011): The executive committee of the Hunter College chapter of the Professional Staff Congress condemns the widespread spying on Muslim students and campus clubs by the New York Police Department that has been revealed in an on-going [...]
The Playwright and the CUNY Trustee
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Published on May 12, 2011 11:56 am.Barbara Bowen in the New York Times: Tony Kushner gets it right, again. The most important thing to emerge from the controversy about his being honored by CUNY is the need, as Mr. Kushner elegantly says, for “vigorous and consequential debate” about the conduct of one trustee and the board of trustees as a whole. [...]
CCNY Race Symposia
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Published on April 7, 2011 3:55 pm.From the CCNY sociology department: We are pleased to present two symposiums on race in America. The first one on April 8th is entitled “Race and Science: New Findings and Challenges.” The panelists are Gabriel Haslip Viera (CCNY), Alondra Nelson (Columbia), and Ann Morning (NYU). The second panel on April 15th is entitled, “Race and Categorization: Changing Terrains.” Its [...]
David Schleifer in the sociology colloquium
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Published on April 4, 2011 9:46 pm.The SSA is co-sponsoring the Sociology Colloquium on Friday, April 8, 2011. David Schleifer, Associate Research Scholar in the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, will give a presentation called “Molecules Make Markets: How Federal Trans-Fat Labeling Changed American Food.”
Solidarity with Wisconsin education workers
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Published on February 19, 2011 1:25 pm.CUNY contingent workers in the Adjunct Project drafted this solidarity letter: To Our Fellow Graduate Students, Students, Professors, Teachers, Workers and Protestors in Wisconsin, Education workers and students of Wisconsin, you are not alone. The Adjunct Project, the organization that works on behalf of contingent workers of the City University of New York, stands with [...]
2011 Graduate Center-Humboldt University Summer Seminar
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Published on February 7, 2011 12:51 pm.From John Mollenkopf in the Center for Urban Research: Applications are solicited for ten Graduate Center students to participate in a two-week intensive seminar in Berlin, Germany, exploring urban change in Europe, with a focus on the role of neighborhoods in the processes of gentrification, inclusion/exclusion, diversity, and immigrant integration as well as the impact [...]
CSCTW Colloquium Series
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Published on February 2, 2011 8:58 pm.The Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work just announced its spring 2011 colloquium series, “Technology and Subjectivity”: Technology is now the most ubiquitous signifier of global progress. In peace and war, economic development, education, health, the hard and social sciences and the arts, the technological fix has become the universal prescription. That [...]
Introducing Formations
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Published on December 5, 2010 1:22 pm.The first issue of the SSA-sponsored journal Formations is now available. We are happy to have a wide range of contributors in our inaugural issue. Read Abe Walker (sociology, CUNY Graduate Center) on the Anderson–Thompson debate in relation to historical–comparative sociology, Haj Yazdiha (sociology, Brooklyn College) on hybridity and cultural identity, Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo (anthropology, CUNY [...]
Formations launch
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Published on November 18, 2010 1:21 am.We are launching the inaugural issue of Formations on December 3! Join us and score a limited edition paper copy and free food.
