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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…
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…
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…
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.”
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…
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,…
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…
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…
We are launching the inaugural issue of Formations on December 3! Join us and score a limited edition paper copy and free food.
