UPCOMING EVENTS
June 29, 2009 - Shape or Shaped?
In a city that has long-catered to the needs of global capital, what openings does the current fiscal crisis present for the re-shaping of NYC according to people's needs? Join us for the closing of the Jan-June Season of the Out of the Global City series, as we explore the cracks opening up space for our dreams, needs, and desires to take root.
Speakers from The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York) and The Right to the City will lead the discussion.
St. Mark's Church, 2nd Ave. and E.10th Street, 3.30 pm - 6.00 pm
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September 22,2009 - The Crisis Now:
Where We Are and Where We Should Go
A conversation between Alexander Cockburn and David Harvey
Moderated by Laura Flanders from GRIT/TV
Proshansky Auditorium, 7.30 pm
October 14,2009 - Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Nashqbandi
Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi (2009) is a feature length documentary that follows the relationship between an Afghani interpreter with his client, American journalist Christian Parenti. Together they construct a narrative of festering Taliban militancy, until Ajmal is kidnapped and finally executed. Following the screening, director Ian Olds, recipient of the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2009 Best New Documentary Filmmaker award, and Christian Parenti, correspondent for The Nation and author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, will discuss the social and cultural politics of producing journalism from the heart of the 21st century’s killing fields.
Moderated by Saadia Toor, Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island and Fiona Jeffries, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.
Proshansky Auditorium, 6.30 pm
Co-sponsored with the Center for Humanities and
the Ralph Bunche Institute
PAST EVENTS
May 30, 2009 - The Safe City
"Broken windows" style policing and security has had detrimental consequences for NYC's diverse communities and cultural landscape. It was also a major factor in New York's transformation into a global city - New York was bought and sold as "safe" to national and international financial and media conglomerates. Today, finances circulated here flow to fund security, prisons, and detention industries critical to America's 'War on Terror'. How have these ongoing transactions worked to create an even more contested space? How has New York City been made unsafe - and for whom?
Part of the "Out of the Global City" public dialogue series of
the Foundry Theatre.
St. Mark's Church, 2nd Ave. and E.10th Street, 3.30 pm - 6.00 pm
May 19, 2009 - Whose Land Is It? A conversation with Max Rameau
“Whose Land Is It?” is a roundtable discussion with Take Back the Land leader Max Rameau on land and housing; squatting, showdowns, and takeovers; and local and national movement-building.
Discussants include:
Peter Marcuse, Neil Smith, Brenda Stokely, and Frank Morales.
Martin Segal Theatre, 6.30 pm - 9.00 pm
May 4, 2009 - Breaking the Siege:Justice for Atenco
Documentary screening about social movements against the privatization of
development in Mexico
Martin Segal Theatre, 1.30 pm - 4.30 pm
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May 2, 2009 - We Are Gaza:
Connecting the Dots Between Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir & Pakistan
At the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street
6.30 pm - 9.00 pm
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April 20, 2009 - Profiling Alienated Labor:
Racism, Crisis and Prisons in the Age of Obama
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California
The Skylight Room (9th floor), 4.30 pm
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April 2 and 3, 2009 - Crisis States:
The Uncertain Future of Israel/Palestine
The Martin Segal Theatre, 10.30 am
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March 17, 2009 - Banishing Brazil:
The Politics of Place in 1920s Coffee Commerce
Micol Seigel, Assistant Professor of African Diaspora Studies,
Indiana University at Bloomington
The Skylight Room (9th floor), 6.30 pm
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March 11, 2009 - AIDS and Gender Violence
Panel discussion with authors Ida Susser and Sally Merry
Moderated by Neil Smith
Room C198, 6.30 pm; Reception to follow in the Brockway Room
March 10, 2009 - The Right to the City
Solidarity Reception
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Room 6107, 6.30 pm
February 25, 2009 - Armed Struggle and
The Future of Tamil Politics in Sri Lanka
The Skylight Room (9th floor), 6.30 pm
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February 4, 2009 - Uneven Development:
Nature, Capital and the Production of Space
(University of Georgia Press, 2009 [Third Edition])
Book party for Professor Neil Smith
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Room 6107 at 6.30 pm
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December 12, 2008 - Radical Urbanism:
Critical Discourse on the Right to the City
A one-day conference in honor of the
80th birthday of Professor Peter Marcuse
The Recital Hall, 9 AM - 6 PM, Reception to follow
Free and open to the public
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December 4, 2008 - Secular Devotion:
Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Verso, 2008)
Book party for Tim Brennan, University of Minnesota
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Room 6107 at 6.00 pm
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November 18, 2008 - Rebuilding Local Food Economies
Room 9204 at 6.00 pm
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November 13, 2008 - CPCP Film Series 2008: Manufactured Landscapes
Room 9206/9207 at 6.00 pm
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November 12, 2008 - New York For Sale: Community Planning
Confronts Global Real Estate (MIT Press, 2008)
Book party for Tom Angotti,
Professor of Urban Planning, Hunter College
The Sociology Lounge, Room 6112 at 6.00 pm
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November 11, 2008 - Postcolonial Perspectives on the
Financial Crisis
A panel discussion with:
Fernando Coronil, University of Michigan, Anthropology
Manu Goswami, New York University, History and East Asian Studies
Hester Eisentein, CUNY Graduate Center, Sociology
Don Robotham, CUNY Graduate Center, Anthropology
Moderated by:
Professor Ida Susser (CUNY Graduate Center, Anthropology) and
Padmini Biswas (Columbia University, Urban Planning)
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October 30, 2008 - Das Kapital Party
A reception celebrating the completion of Professor David Harvey's
free digital lectures on Das Kapital (www.davidharvey.org)
The Brockway Room (Room 6410), 5.30 pm
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October 29, 2008 - The Disruption: Left Interpretations
of the Financial Crisis
A panel discussion at 6.00 pm in the Proshansky Auditorium with:
Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor, University of York and Editor of the Socialist Register
Doug Henwood, Editor of The Left Business Observer
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, CUNY Graduate Center
Hector Figueroa, Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU Local 32BJ and affiliate, New York Civic Participation Project
Maliha Safri, Assistant Professor of Economics, Drew University
Co-sponsored with the Humanities Center
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October 7, 2008 - How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?
Being Young and Arab in America
Book party for Moustafa Bayoumi,
Professor Of English, Brooklyn College
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October 1, 2008 - Soybean Wars: Militarization, Agribusiness Exploitation and Community Resistance in Paraguay
Leticia Galeano, Campesina and youth leader from Paraguay
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September 11, 2008 - CPCP Film Series 2008: The Weather Underground
Discussion to follow with Cathy Wilkerson, former Weather Underground activist
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May 14, 2008 - CUNY Center for Place, Culture & Politics Spring Party!
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May 8, 2008 - Housing Not Warehousing : a panel on vacant property, gentrification, and the possibilities for resistance Featuring:
Ed Ott, New York City Central Labor Council
Helena Wong, Chinatown Tenants Union at the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence
Stephen Pimpare, PhD, author and academic
Housing campaign leaders from Picture the Homeless (www.picturethehomeless.org)
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May 6, 2008 - Conservative and Progressive Geopolitics: Paranoia, Force and Law: Paranoia, Force & Law
Gerry Kearns
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March 27, 2008 - The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
Gloria Munoz Ramirez
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March 28, 2008 - Demystifying Pakistan: Understanding the Current Crisis
Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa
Anil Kalhan
Kiran Khalid
Dr. Sahar Shafqat
Moderated by Saadia Toor
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March 25, 2008 - Precipitation and Event: Climate Change and the Politics of Water
Melinda Cooper
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March 17, 2008: Reception: Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World
Miriam Greenberg
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February 26, 2008 - Outlaw Bodies and Lawless Spaces: How Law Produces Abjection
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December 12, 2007 - Winter Celebration
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November 29, 2007 - Decoding Liberation
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November 13, 2007 - The Movement for Justice in el Barrio
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November 1, 2007 - The Living New Deal
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October 30, 2007 - Cities as Battlespace: The New Military Urbanism
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