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Upcoming Events
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Colloquium on Higher Education
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The Center is organizing a colloquium on higher
education scheduled to meet on Friday, November 16, 3pm,
in the lounge of the sociology department at The CUNY
Graduate Center (room 6112). Vincent Tirelli will be
presenting work on "The Corporate University and
Contingent Academic Labor." Participation is open to
everyone.
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Left Forum is accepting panel proposals through December
15, 2007, for its 2008 conference to be held March
14–16, 2008, at The Cooper Union in New York City.
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The Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and
Work at the Graduate School and University Center of
the City University of New York opened in 1988. Since its
inception, the Center has focused on fostering connections
between intellectuals and activists, and translating
theoretical and conceptual work into practice.
Toward this end, the Center has sponsored conferences,
colloquia, and workshops in diverse areas, including: the
crisis of urbanism; globalization and resistance movements;
education; technology (technoscience); and the future of
work. The Center also supported the development of the Paolo
Freire Institute, an organization of educational activists
focused on advocating the democratization of education,
especially for access to educational opportunity for
traditionally excluded groups.
The Center sponsors Situations:
Project of the Radical Imagination, a journal
initiated to address the lapse of radical imagination in both
left theory and in popular consciousness; and First of
the Month, a popular tabloid with a distribution of
approximately 7000. Previously, the Center produced Found
Object, a student-run journal dedicated to bridging
the gap between academic and non-academic work. The Center
has also undertaken several action research projects on
problems of work and education in collaboration with SEIU
Local 1199, Musicians Union Local 802, the three Library
Locals of DC 37, and various other agencies.
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Past Activities
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The Politics of Religion and Sexuality: A
Symposium at The CUNY Graduate Center, held on
November 8–9, 2007. The conference featured an opening
plenary and four high-profile panels.
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This conference, organized by the Center in Fall 2001,
educated activists to the broad range of issues raised by
globalization, generating a dialogue among the various
strands of the emerging global justice movement. In light of
recent events surrounding the World Trade Center, the
emphasis of the conference included broad ranging discussion
and action plans on the effects and implications of this
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Found Object is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed publication of the
Center for the Study of Work, Technology, and Culture at the
City University of New York, Graduate Center. The editorial
collective figures cultural studies to be an expansive
anti-discipline, in which the divisions of
scholarship—economics/culture, science/humanities, and
technology/body—are collapsed in rigorous, intellectual
interventions. <more> |
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