Monday, September 15, 2008, 6pm

Room 9204; Refreshments following in Room 6412.

Submerged: Tales from the Basin, is an anthology of literature, memoir, and art created by more than thirty women to benefit those who survived Hurricane Katrina. The title refers to a fear many of us had as young children, of having our heads submerged under water while our mothers washed our hair. The stories, essays, poems, and art of Submerged are an exploration of each contributor’s relationship with her hair, in most cases emotional, often humorous, and consistently generated from youth. An African American writer discusses having her hair ironed straight in the 1960s, with her mother trying hard to keep her from looking like a Black Panther. A Southern writer laments her childhood braid lying in a box in perpetual youth while she, herself, ages. A young woman watches her aging grandmother go bald. A lonely widow rediscovers intimacy from the remote touch of her wax technician. A New Orleans performance group talks about Hurricane Katrina, gender stereotypes, and hair as stagecraft. Artist Lorien Jordan has created a series of drawings in response to these essays, memoirs, and poems. A percentage of the book’s proceeds will help support charities based in New Orleans that work with ongoing relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina survivors.

Readers:

Kelly A. Gola, Lauren González, Ellen Hagan, Rebecca O. Johnson, Carla Porch, Alyssa Robbins.

Kelly A. Gola is a recent graduate of the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies; read more about her here.

About the book:

Edited by Lauren González, Images by Lorien Jordan

Available September 1, 2008

ISBN 978-0-9802300-2-4/LCCN 2008932593

Soft cover/US $19.95

The Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Howard Gilman Foundation cordially invite you to:

The Cohen-Nunn Dialogues

PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND:
THE CHALLENGES TO AMERICA’S HOMELAND SECURITY

Monday, April 28, 2008
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
New York University - Tishman Auditorium
40 Washington Square South (between MacDougal and Sullivan)

Hosted by
The Honorable William Cohen
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, and former U.S. Senator (R-Maine)
The Honorable Sam Nunn
Chairman, CSIS Board of Trustees, and former U.S. Senator (D-Georgia)

Welcome:
John Sexton - President, New York University
Introduction:
Admiral James Loy, Former Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

Discussants:
The Hon. Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, New York City
Stephen Flynn, Author, America The Vulnerable
Jessica Stern, Author, Terror in the Name of God

RSVP to Ethan Frish (CUNY BA Student and Gilman Foundation Policy Associate), efrish@gilman.org or 212-408-0432

Andrew Filippone Jr. (Studies in Film Form and Aesthetics) will be exhibiting his documentary film on April 20 at UnionDocs in Brooklyn. The film is called “Happy Monday.” Filippone describes it as a “documentary film object” because it’s a film that’s left the screen and become a tangible and physical thing; it is essentially a large light box that audiences walk up to and linger over. This documentary has been previously shown at the Rhode Island International Film Festival (August 2007) and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (October 2007). Information on the UnionDocs exhibit is here: http://www.uniondocs.org/blog/happy-monday/  Information and photographs of “Happy Monday” can be found here:  http://web.mac.com/afilipponejr/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonday/ 

Rebecca Journey (International Politics and Humanitarian Development) received the Amelia Ottinger Award for Excellence in Public Speaking at the Harvard University National Model United Nations.

Heather McCown (Partnership for Social Justice) received John Jay College’s first Keith L.T. Wright Service Award for her work at John Jay on Darfur Day, 2006) and her community work on reinstating the ferry in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Jared Rodriguez (History of the Americas) has just received both the Mellon Mays Fellowship and a Kaye Scholarship.  For the Mellon Mays Fellowship, he hopes to travel to Brazil this summer for a research project on “Black Political Consciousness in a Post-Dictatorship Society.”  Rodriguez is also a professional photographer who has had his first book cover published (”Road from ar Ramadi”).

For CUNY Baccalaureate students interested in delving into the world of black literature, the Ninth National Black Writers Conference titled Black Writers: Reading and Writing to Transform Their Lives and the World shall take place on Friday, March 28, 2008 through Sunday, March 30, 2008. The event includes riveting material: ranging from a roundtable on the impact of Hurricane Katrina and 911 on black literature; to writing talkshops on publishing and the fiction, poetry, and non-fiction genres; on to book signings, open mics and much more. This year’s roster includes a stellar array of authors and scholars such as Amiri Baraka, Terry McMillan, and Kevin Powell, amongst others. CUNY students receive a special discount registration rate: $30 for three-day and $15 for one-day admission. The conference, taking place at Medgar Evers College/CUNY, is hosted biennially by the Center for Black Literature. For further information, please call: 718 270-4811, email: nbwc@mec.cuny.edu, or visit: www.mec.cuny.edu/nbwc.

The Chelsea Opera seeks 6-8 CUNY BA students to usher for one or more performances of The Ballad of Baby Doe:  Thur, Fri and Sat at 7.30pm and Sun at 3pm, May 15-18, at St. Peter’s Church in Chelsea (346 West 20th Street).  Students would need to arrive no later than one hour before curtain. In return, they will get to see the show for FREE!!!! If they’d like a spouse/partner or friend to come along (they have to usher, too), that’s fine. Students who are interested in volunteering should email Lynne Hayden-Findlay at ChelseaOpera@aol.com.  For information about other Chelsea Opera events, visit chelseaopera.org.   
 

The Other “F” Word

Feminists young and old gather at Hunter College this weekend for “Freedom on Our Terms: From Houston 1977 - New York 2007″ commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first National Women’s Conference. Liz Abzug, president and co-founder of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute and Jerin Alam (CUNY BA Student), president of the Hunter Women¹s Rights Coalition (HWRC) talk about trying to “pass the torch” from one generation of feminists to another.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/11/07

You are invited to a special evening for students, staff and friends of the CUNY Baccalaureate Program

Friday, November 16th, 5:30-7:30pm at
The American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd Street, NYC
(between 5th and 6th Avenues)

Free entrance and live music; cash bar and café

An opportunity to mingle and also explore the Museum’s permanent collection of traditional and contemporary art, as well as its special exhibition:

“Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel”

The exhibition traces the journey of Jewish woodcarvers and other artisans from Eastern and Central Europe to America and the unsung role they played in establishing a distinct Jewish culture in communities throughout the United States.

(No RSVP is necessary. Guests are welcome.)

Jeffrey Reynolds (2004 Smith Fellow,) Melissa Marlin (2002 Smith Fellow,) Thomas W. Smith, Tyleen Kelly (2007 Smith Fellow), Meghan Duffy (1995 Smith Fellow)

On October 1, 2007, Thomas W. Smith and CUNY BA Program hosted a reception in celebration of 500 Thomas W. Smith Fellows. Entertainment was provided by Smith Fellows (see photo above.) The party was quite a success and everybody had a wonderful time.

Lots more photos are available in our Photo Gallery.

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Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowships are funded through a donation by Mr. Thomas Smith to the CUNY Baccalaureate Program to recognize academic excellence within the Program. Subject to maintenance of good academic standing, awards are renewable until the recipient completes all degree contract credits and graduates from the Program. Because the Smith Fellowship recognizes academic excellence, significant weight is given to the applicant’s GPA and to the seriousness of the applicant’s academic interests and plans. The next application will be available for download in November, and the application deadline will be in February 2008.

Please join the Academic Advisors at CUNY BA for an event for all CUNY BA students who are interested in studying, researching, or volunteering abroad. Come learn from your fellow students and who have had experience in these and other areas. Destinations have included Greece, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Japan, and Argentina. Please RSVP to Kate McPherson (kmcpherson@gc.cuny.edu).

Study Abroad Forum
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 6:00-8:00pm
Room C204