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In the Room Where It Happens: In-Person Events Are Back
Remember in-person events? They're slowly making a comeback at Baruch. Here are a few opportunities to be in the real world with colleagues at your side, asking questions without waiting to be unmuted, and maybe even enjoying a beverage or snack that did not come from your own kitchen.
Of course, lots of great events are still taking place virtually this semester; please see the list at the bottom of the newsletter for Zoom events.
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HARMAN WRITER: Lecture by Harman Writer-in-Residence Ersi Sotiropoulos, April 7, 6 pm, Room 750, Baruch Library Building. Reception at 5 pm. Open only to Baruch staff, students, faculty.
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HAPPY HOUR: End-of-year Celebratory Happy Hour for Weissman faculty and staff. Co-sponsored by the WSAS Dean’s Office and the WSAS DEI Alliance. May 3, 5 pm-7 pm. Room 750, Baruch Library Building.
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MISHKIN GALLERY: Now open to visitors! At 135 E. 22nd St., first floor on the left, Monday-Friday, 11 am-6 pm. BLUES features work by the Sierra Leone-born, New York-based musician and artist Lamin Fofana. Fofana’s music is offered as a conduit for engaging with issues involving Blackness, migration, displacement, and race through collective listening. The exhibition centers on a trilogy of sound works along with texts by Sylvia Wynter, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Amiri Baraka, and videos and photographs by Fofana and his collaborators Jim C. Nedd and Nicolas Premier.
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Faculty Publications, Podcasts, and Media Mentions |
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Professor Elizabeth M. Minei (Communication Studies) won the Sage Business Cases Editors Choice Award for 2022 for a case study she wrote called "'The Policy is Nice but Not Really Written for Us': LGBTQ+ Workplace Challenges." The award recognizes "the best of the best in the Sage Case Collection for originality of concept, classroom utility, timeliness of subject, and quality of writing." Read more about the study and Minei's work here.
Minei has published three other articles this year. They are:
Professor Abby Anderton (Fine and Performing Arts) was quoted by The New York Times for an article called "Ukrainians Fill Streets With Music, Echoing Past War Zones." “They’re trying to recreate community, which has been fractured by war,” she said. “People have a real desire to create normalcy, even if everything around them seems to be disintegrating.” The Times noted that Anderton "has studied music in the aftermath of war." Anderton's 2019 book, Rubble Music, explores the classical music culture of post-World War II Berlin.
Professor Gisele Regatao (Journalism) has produced and directed a new fiction podcast series for Radiotopia Presents called a hit dog will holler. It's about Gina, a pro-Black, popular, and political-yet-entertaining podcaster whose life gets interrupted by a loud roar. Also on Apple Podcasts.
Professor Eric Tsimi (Modern Languages & Comparative Literature) is the author of a new book, L'antiracisme rend-il heureux? race et ethnicité dans les espaces francophones (Does anti-racism makes anyone happier? race and ethnicity in the French-speaking Worlds). Jointly published in France and Senegal, the book is a sequel to Tsimi's last book, De quoi la littérature africaine est-elle la littérature? Tsimi says the new volume "explains how the plural narrative of the waves of pan-Africanism and decolonial movements breaks the circularity of the postcolonial infrastructure by disrupting the linearity of the paradigms through which Francophone Africa was framed."
Professor Geanne Belton (Journalism) was quoted in the Red Hook Star-Revue for a story about the high school journalism program she runs, which recently received a major grant from Google.
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EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AND ITS LEGACY: The Long Struggle for Gender Rights: The 50th Anniversary of the Congressional Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and its Legacy. A discussion featuring women’s and gender studies faculty and Jay Berman, (Baruch Class of 1959 and Baruch College Fund Trustee), who served as aide and Chief of Staff for the late US Sen. Birch Bayh, author of the ERA amendment and Title IX legislation. Also on the panel: Black and Latino Studies Chair Shelly Eversley; Presidential Professor Emerita Carol Berkin (History); Professor Ted Joyce (Economics). Introduction by Professor Katherine Pence (History), director of Women’s and Gender Studies. March 28 (TONIGHT, MONDAY), 5 pm-6:30 pm ET. Register here.
BLOOD LIBEL: The Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center presents Fordham University Judaic Studies/History Professor Magda Teter discussing her book, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth, March 30, 6:30 pm ET, via Zoom. Register here.
NONPROFIT NEWS: “The Role and Vision of Nonprofit News.” Speakers: Susan Chira, editor-in-chief, The Marshall Project; Akoto Ofori-Atta, co-founder and chief audience officer, Capital B, written by and for Black people; Mazin Sidahmed; co-founder and co-executive director of Documented, covering NYC’s immigrant community. Moderator: Professor Gisele Regatão (Journalism). March 31, 5:30-7 pm. Register here.
INDONESIA: Professor Rianne Subijanto (Communication Studies) will speak on "Revolutionary Communication and Global Emancipation in Colonial Indonesia," part of the Global Asia Lecture Series held by the Center for Asian Research at Arizona State University, via Zoom on April 1, 1 pm ET. Register here.
BLACK STUDIES COLLOQUIUM:
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Black Life Futures in the Classroom, Part I, March 31, 12:30 pm. Register here.
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Black Life Futures in the Classroom, Part II, April 5, 12:30 pm. Register here.
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"Such is Aunt Nancy:” Gender, Scavenging, and Racial Capitalism on the Harlem Renaissance Stage," a works-in-progress presentation by Professor Erica Richardson (English), April 28, 6 pm. Register here.
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NEW MEDIA ARTSPACE: Artist Pinar Yolaçan gives a livestreamed lecture April 5, 6 pm ET. Register here. The exhibition Pinar Yolaçan: Body-Image is online through May 9. Body-Image includes studio images in which the artist paints and adorns the bodies of her subjects, alongside documentary work with Brazilian Amazon Indigenous communities who practice full-body painting.
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CLIMATE JUSTICE: "A Conversation about Climate Justice" with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. The conversation with Dr. Gumbs will be led by students from the Black and Latino Studies capstone course “Climate Justice is Racial Justice.” This event is presented by the Department of Black and Latino Studies, the Department of English via Globus Lectures, and the Weissman Dean’s Office. April 14, 1 pm. Register here.
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Last Call: Deadlines Approaching
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WSAS FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS: This new program offers five $1,000 awards, one in each of these areas: excellence for part-time teaching; excellence for full-time teaching; scholarly or artistic achievement; institutional leadership or service; and mentorship of students and/or peers. Nominations by colleagues and chairpersons, as well as self-nominations, must be submitted by email by March 31 to Katheryn.Lypides@baruch.cuny.edu in the Dean’s office. Nominations should include a statement addressing the candidate’s achievements in the area of the award and the candidate’s qualifications. Nominees will be contacted by the Dean’s office and must submit a CV and a 500-word personal statement by April 7. Details here.
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WHAT IS HOME? Baruch students who are taking a journalism class or who have taken one in the past are invited to compete for cash prizes by entering the “What Is Home?” essay contest. Students may submit one personal essay of creative nonfiction, 600-800 words, by midnight, April 5. Details on how to enter are here. Contest prizes are $1,500 for first place, $1,000 for second place, $500 for third place, and $200 for honorable mention. The contest is funded by the Shulman Family Fund.
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LIVE MUSIC: A performance by students is planned for May 12 at 1 pm, outside on the Clivner=Field Plaza. Please help spread the word. Students should send a video or MP3 of their music to abby.anderton@baruch.cuny.edu by March 31. All musical styles, acts, and genres welcome.
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Past newsletters here. Next newsletter: April 11. Weissman blog here.
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