Perspectives on National Trends and Recent Successes Friday, March 24, 2017, 12-6pm Murphy Institute, CUNY, 25 West 43rd St. 18th Fl. Free | Lunch provided Register here This half-day conference brings together scholars, unionists, and adjuncts to explore the latest research on the academic precariat and recent breakthroughs in adjunct organizing. How has austerity reshaped […]
Author Archive | Rukshana Jalil
Call for Editors: Early Modern Women Journal
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal ACMRS (the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at Arizona State University is seeking an editor or editorial team of two to three in related fields to edit Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal for a (renewable) three-year term beginning 1 December 2017. (more…)
Due Apr 21 | Applications for USS Scholarships (Ernesto Malave Merit, Graduate Mentoring & Passantino)
The University Student Senate (USS) is pleased to announce their Ernesto Malave Merit, Donald and Mary Ellen Passantino, and Graduate Peer Mentoring Scholarships competition. (more…)
Mar 1 | Putting NYC to Work: Using Place-Based Assignments in Your Courses
March 1, 2017, 6:30-8:30, Room 9207 In the second installment of the TLC’s two-part workshop series on place-based learning, we’ll explore strategies for creating and integrating creative assignments that take advantage of New York’s cultural resources, including its many archives, museums, libraries, performing arts institutions, green spaces, etc. (more…)
Office of Career Planning Workshops
By Rukshana Jalil on February 21, 2017 in Professional Development, Professional Development Workshops
Cultivating a Public Voice for Your Research 02/28/2017 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm in room 9206 Digital media technologies have become increasingly important in academic life, offering both new opportunities and new challenges. Digital technologies provide academics an array of platforms on which to share their work, broaden its reach, gain recognition and involve a […]
Due Feb 27 | Collaborative Research Seminar on Archives and Special Collections
Call for Participants: Collaborative Research Seminar on Archives and Special Collections by The Graduate Center, CUNY Library and The New York Public Library. A pilot program for cross-institutional collaboration in special collections and archival research methods. (more…)
Feb 23 | “Bastards and their Families in Medieval Europe”
Thursday, February 23 at 4:30 PM ARC, Room 5318 Sara McDougall Professor of History, John Jay College; French and History, CUNY Graduate Center This talk will address illegitimate children and their families in Medieval Europe, with a focus on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In principle, birth to anything other than legitimate marriage rendered a […]
Graduate Writing Consultations Available
Graduate writing consultants at the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development are available to meet with students to review students’ written materials and to discuss writing-related issues. Students can bring writing from a variety of genres, including course assignments, conference and dissertation materials, and more. Consultants address questions on both the micro (e.g. sentence […]
Feb 22 | Teaching as an International Student
By Rukshana Jalil on February 17, 2017 in Professional Development, Professional Development Workshops
Teaching as an International Student Wednesday 2/22, 1-3pm, room 9206 As international graduate students, we often don’t know what to expect when we first step into the classroom as teaching fellows or adjuncts. We might have questions about our students’ lives, their cultural and academic backgrounds, and about the American university system in general and CUNY more […]
Deadline extended April 7 | CFP – Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture (Issue 10)
Shift, Issue 10, Call for Papers Submission deadline: March 22, 2017 http://shiftjournal.org Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture welcomes academic papers, exhibition and book reviews, translations of important texts into English, as well as other texts—of traditional or experimental format— addressing issues relevant to our visual and material world from current graduate students. […]
