Join us Fridays at noon for the latest Turnbull series that examines queer and binary representation within the world of art and design, as well as its audiences. The series coincides with and is conceptually aligned with Lehman College Art Gallery’s spring 2023 exhibition, Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art. 

Moderated by David Schwittek, associate professor of Digital Media and Graphic Design in the Art Department of Lehman College.

March 10
Designing with the Queer User in Mind
Dani Lucchese 
Faculty Member at Lehman College

March 17
Design Activism
Ali Bibbo
Associate Art Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

March 24
Artist Response
David Rios Ferriera
Artist, director of Public Programs and curator of Contemporary Art,
Children's Museum of Manhattan

March 31
Artist Response
C. Finlay
Artist, Founder and Curator of the Every Woman Biennial,
Director of La MaMa Galleria

The Sara Little Turnbull Visiting Designer Speaker Series is made possible by a grant from the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation.

Register for the full series here:
https://lehman-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nCjJj-xmQJqI2z8u5dL6QQ

Join us on Wednesday, March 29 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM to get some tips about interviewing for graduate school admissions.  If you are applying to a program that requires an interview as part of their admissions procedure, this session is for you!  Come and get some tips to help you prepare.   

Zoom link:   

https://zoom.us/j/96024664498?pwd=ZnZZS2d5RytFdTEyVHFjSHRsbkkrQT09

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Lehman College's Leonard Lief Library is partnering with the New York City Human Library [https://www.humanlibrarynyc.org/] for an online Human Library event:

• Sunday, January 24, 2021
• 2:00 - 4:00 PM
• Zoom

What is the Human Library?
The Human Library is an organization that began in Denmark in 2000 and now has chapters [called Depots] all over the world.  In a Human Library, real people are “Books” on loan to Readers, giving Readers the opportunity to listen to their stories first-hand. 

Human Library NYC public events break down social barriers by providing a safe platform for individuals to challenge their own stereotypes and prejudices.

If you would like to register to be a Book or a Reader - please fill out this Interest Form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdM9RHKvp8BU6R8E_WGKXcLw1I5FxZGnZGlzCBiqReFUtJwLA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1feSuLB1sQwMJZlbXden3fjHrtVor2jJ0A0t5-8RwgPV_t63URt0t9zAs

What is a Book in the Human Library?

A Book is a volunteer who represents a stigmatized group, willing to share their story, and help challenge what is being shared and understood about their topic.

What is a Reader?

A Reader is curious about the Book, can ask questions of the Book, and is respectful of the Book they are reading.

Your Story is Important.

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Throughout Black History Month, One Book One Bronx, in collaboration with the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College, will host a series of eclectic programs and reading groups as part of the yearlong initiative Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters. Sponsored by the Library of America and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lift Every Voice seeks to engage participants in a multifaceted exploration of African American poetry. 

Join us on Tuesdays in February for a three-part discussion of Olio by Tyehimba Jess, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. Part fact, part fiction, the book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African-American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I.

Click here to register

Presented by Eve Eure, assistant professor, Department of English \ School of Arts and Humanities Lehman College

Thursday, February 4, 2:00 p.m.

Professor Eure will discuss Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative, the first book-length fugitive slave narrative to be published by a black woman in the United States. Focusing on how Jacobs navigates the legal and social enclosures of slavery, Professor Eure explores how Jacobs’s text opens possibilities for rethinking notions of kinship, kinlessness, and Black fugitivity.

Register in advance for this program: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpd-ioqjkqEtTLJD09mW90_FympxQKLQZQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Throughout Black History Month, One Book One Bronx, in collaboration with the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College, will host a series of eclectic programs and reading groups as part of the yearlong initiative Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters. Sponsored by the Library of America and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lift Every Voice seeks to engage participants in a multifaceted exploration of African American poetry. 

Join us on Tuesdays in February for a three-part discussion of Olio by Tyehimba Jess, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. Part fact, part fiction, the book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African-American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I.

Click here to register

Celebrate Black History Month with a theatrical presentation filled with music, poetry, and monologues, featuring Lacresha Berry.

RSVP at clubs.lehman.edu

I. Augustus Durham, assistant professor, Department of English School of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College

Tuesday Feb. 16, 2-3 p.m.

In the wake of his 200th birthday, Frederick Douglass has sustained cultural relevance in manners that exceed his life as a writer and abolitionist. In "The Nine Lives of Frederick Douglass," Durham examines Douglass as a living multiplicity, and how our imaginations continue to grasp at all that he was, is, and presumably will be.

Register in advance for this program: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwud-mhpzwiG9ZSdV1nCDFPNp54P0XKNOSn

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Department of Africana Studies Presents Black History Month Speaker Series

CIVIL RIGHTS,
EQUITABLE POLICING,
AND
SOCIAL JUSTICE

R E G I S T E R   H E R E:

 Z O O M

Tara Betts is the author of Arc & Hue and the chapbooks 7 x 7: kwansabas and THE GREATEST!: An Homage to Muhammad Ali. She received her Ph.D. at Binghamton University and her MFA from New England College. In addition to performing her poems across the country and internationally, her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Betts has taught writing at Rutgers University, Binghamton University, and University of Illinois-Chicago. She is a Cave Canem alum.

The event is one of a series of eclectic programs organized by One Book One Bronx, in collaboration with the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College, as part of the Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters initiative.  Lift Every Voice seeks to engage participants in a multifaceted exploration of African American poetry. It is sponsored by the Library of America and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 

Click here to register

This workshop, for Lehman students, offers a review of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, essential tools for research-based writing. We’ll address how careful use of these tools helps us to avoid plagiarism.

Registration Link: Meeting Registration - Zoom

A month-long online reading group centered around Tyehimba Jess’s Olio culminates in this exciting event, where Jess himself joins the conversation.

The talk is one of a series of eclectic programs organized by One Book One Bronx, in collaboration with the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College, as part of the Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters initiative. Sponsored by the Library of America and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lift Every Voice seeks to engage participants in a multifaceted exploration of African American poetry. 

Click here to register

Wednesday, Feb. 24, 6 -7 p.m.

In the final lecture of the series, join Professor Eure and Professor Durham for a conversation about the ongoing significance of Harriet Jacobs' and Frederick Douglass' work to Black artists and social movements today.

Register in advance for this program: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sc-Csrj4oGNWb61Hag6zgaEfuAVwctoGJ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The pandemic has underscored the importance of barrier-free public accessibility of scholarly and pedagogical works.  You need easier access to others’ works - and they need easier access to yours. Funders are increasingly mandating Open Access to the research they fund.

This online Webinar will cover the basics of Open Access publishing:  what it is and how it started.  You’ll leave with practical tips for locating freely available research produced by others - as well as finding quality Open Access venues to share your own work. 

After registration you will receive a separate email from the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs with the Zoom information.

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in her 1967 occasional poem “The Chicago Picasso,” observed that: “Art hurts. Art urges voyages-/ and it is easier to stay at home, / the nice beer ready.” This notion invites the consideration of a lyric: Darling, you send me. Written in 1955 by the late singer Sam Cooke and released in 1957, “You Send Me” is timeless in theme and durability. How might a poem ‘send’ us? Leafing through Kevin Young’s repertoire of poets and poems, we’ll situate ‘sending’ as an effect responsive to desire and surrender. Featuring poets Rodney Terich Leonard, Lise Esdaile, Trapeta B. Mayson, and Monnette Sudler.

The event is one of a series of eclectic programs organized by One Book One Bronx, in collaboration with the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College, as part of the Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters initiative. Lift Every Voice seeks to engage participants in a multifaceted exploration of African American poetry. It is sponsored by the Library of America and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 

Click here to register

With Jane K. Cleland

Learn how to discover Professional Writing opportunities, apply for the jobs, and nail the interview!

All students (of all majors and minors) are welcome!

In this workshop, we’ll discuss:

• Technical Writing
• Social Media Writing
• Advertising & Copywriting
• Science, Medical & Healthcare Writing
• How can I find current job listings?
• What are the jobs really like?
• What experience, skills, and education
• do I need to qualify?
• How much can I earn?

This workshop helps Lehman students develop strategies for reading various types of texts, including scholarly articles drawn from different disciplines.

Registration Link: Meeting Registration - Zoom

This 90-minute workshop (not a series) provides, for Lehman students, an overview of APA citation basics, including when and how to cite sources in your paper.
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This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum. Guided by Maxine Greene’s philosophy of Aesthetic Education, the authors discuss the social justice implications of marginalized students having access to the arts and opportunities to find their voices through creative expression. They aim to demystify the process of inquiry-based learning through the arts for teachers and teacher educators by offering examples of lessons taught in high school classrooms and graduate level teaching methods courses. Examples of student writing and art work show how creative interactions with the arts can help learners of all ages deepen their skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.

Amanda Gulla is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in English Education at Lehman College.

Read the ebook through the Leonard Lief Library.

This workshop, for Lehman students, offers a review of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, essential tools for research-based writing. We’ll address how careful use of these tools helps us to avoid plagiarism.

Registration Link: Meeting Registration - Zoom

This workshop helps Lehman students develop strategies for reading various types of texts, including scholarly articles drawn from different disciplines.
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THE BRONX JOURNAL

present

NYC Council District 15 Candidates Debate

Monday, March 15
6:30 p.m.

LIVE!

On Bronx Journal Radio, the radio station of the Lehman College Department of Journalism & Media Studies

Ask the candidates your question:
Tweet @LehmanJMS with #BxDistrict15debate

Moderators:

Claudia Irizarry Aponte
Bronx Reporter
THE CITY

Harold Peña
Journalism Student
Lehman College

LISTEN LIVE

Teaching with Transformative    Texts

Join us for the first faculty workshop and idea exchange in the ATLAS series.

Fighting Structural Racism:

Transformative Texts for

 a Critical Pedagogy

Wednesday, March 17, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

GUEST SPEAKER

Silvio Almeida

Mellon Visiting Professor,

Center for International & Global Studies, Duke University

Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil

Associate Professor,

Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Business Administration, São Paulo, Brazil

  
     Register: tinyurl.com/TTTAlmeida

Made possible with support from the Teagle Foundation.

Polaroid Stories
(Naomi Iizuka)

Directed by Tamala Bakkensen (Lehman College, Theatre Program)

Friday March 19 [link] and Saturday March 20 [link] 2021 at 7 PM
A year and a day from our original opening of Polaroid Stories by Naomi Iizuka, we'll be presenting a live stream of the performance. It has been a challenging but rewarding process and we are super excited to share and blow you away!

Polaroid Stories was the winner of the 1998 PEN Center West Award for Drama, and is inspired in part by Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story takes place on an abandoned pier on the outermost edge of a city, a way stop for dreamers, dealers and desperadoes, a no-man's land where runaways seek camaraderie, refuge, and escape. There will be Zoom [link] talkbacks with cast and crew members after each showing.

Lehman College, CUNY will convene some of the nation’s leading environmental and climate scientists, educators and advocates for its inaugural Bronx Environmental Summit on March 22-23, 2021.

Addressing the world’s—and the Bronx’s--most pervasive environmental and public health problems will increasingly rely upon comprehensive and integrated strategies developed by experts across academic disciplines in collaboration with government, nonprofit organizations, and private stakeholder groups.

All climate change is local. Made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Lehman College, CUNY’s first Bronx Environmental Summit is a no-cost, two-day, virtual conference that will engage local, regional and national leaders in climate and environmental science in a discussion about climate change, environmental justice and health equity and how the current and developing policies and initiatives aimed at addressing them may impact the Bronx, New York City and the world.

Developing future leaders. Uniquely, the Bronx Environmental Summit also aims to introduce student attendees to academic and career paths they may take to become scientists, advocates and policy makers equipped to solve the most pressing environmental problems in the 21st Century.


Keynote Speakers:

Our normal hours are:
 
 Mon – Thur:    8am – 8pm

         Fri – Sun:        9am – 5pm        

This 90-minute workshop (not a series) provides, for Lehman students, an overview of APA citation basics, including when and how to cite sources in your paper.
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Our normal hours are:
 
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Women’s & Gender Studies / Lehman College-CUNY

Spring Lecture Series

Asthma and particulate matter (PM) pollution: Insights from health survey and air quality monitoring in the Buzzard Point, Washington DC neighborhood

Dr. Elgloria Harrison

Dean, School of Health Sciences, Human Services and Nursing, CUNY Institute of Health Equity, Lehman College

Dr. Harrison will discuss her community-based research on preventing the devastating effects of asthma on the child and the family in urban setting through preventative education about symptoms. Her work also considers climate changes and other environmental issues as well as connections between chronic diseases and physical inactivity (more prevalent in minority communities of color and older adults). As a community-based researcher, this line of research is important to purse real answers to these stubborn problems. This work was published in Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

12:30 – 1:45pm

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE MEETING!

(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86159163899?pwd=K3J3cHF6UlFRT21hNHpwejJDNXN1QT09) 

Meeting ID: 861 5916 3899

Passcode: 075972

Or JOIN BY PHONE!

+1 929 205 6099 (New York)

To find your local number, please click here!

Discussion led by:
Serigne M. Gningue, Executive-in-Charge,
Lehman College School of Education

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Join Dr. Melissa Castillo Planas, author of A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture, alongside Mexican MCs Juan Carlos Romero and Audry Funk for a virtual discussion on Mexican creativity in New York City. The book explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumented Mexican population in New York City since September 11, 2001. This book is based on ten years of fieldwork with members of a vibrant community of Mexican migrants, focusing on youth culture including hip hop, graffiti, muralism, labor activism, arts entrepreneurship, and collective making. The spoken word poets will perform their work, followed by a Q&A. Moderated by Saralinda Lichtblau, HRM Assistant Director, Education.

*Support provided by Art Bridges. This program was developed in collaboration with The Mexican Studies Institute at the City University of New York, Lehman College

Registration Required:
https://hudsonriver.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F5G00000L3mGRUAZ

Admission:
This event is free

Special Hours:   (Spring Recess)

3/28  –  Closed
4/4    –  Closed

Teaching with Transformative          Texts

Join us for the second faculty workshop  and idea exchange in the ATLAS series.


Educating for Freedom: Frederick  Douglass as  a Transformative Text

Monday, April 5, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

GUEST SPEAKER: 

Roosevelt Montas
Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, and Director of the Freedom and Citizenship Program in  the Center for American Studies at Columbia University.

Register: tinyurl.com/TTT-Montas

Made possible with support from the Teagle Foundation.

Our normal hours are:
 
 Mon – Thur:    8am – 8pm

         Fri – Sun:        9am – 5pm        

Art Gallery

Wednesday, April 7, 3:30-4:30 pm

“Musical Notes Pattern Collage.” 

Join  via Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82387040114 

Meeting ID: 823 8704 0114

Join us for the third in our series with contemporary Mexican artists who are making their mark on the international scene. Javier Marin (b. 1962) is one of the most influential and controversial artists working in Mexico today, with a wide body of work developed throughout 35 years, consistently recognized by international art institutions. During this rare virtual visit to his studio in Mexico City, he will talk about his working process, his sculptures and monumental works for public spaces, with emphasis on his newest project, the Fábrica de San Pedro Cultural Center in Uruapan, in the State of Michoacan.

This groundbreaking project is a collaboration between architects, restorers, curators, historians, designers, and artists, organized by the Javier Marin Foundation. This nineteenth-century textile factory brings together skilled artisans and contemporary artists to preserve and strengthen their unique cultural identity and community. To talk about the project, the artist has invited two of the main collaborators in this adventure: Estefania Angeles, Director at the Javier Marin Foundation and Eduardo Mier y Terán, Director at Terreno Baldío Art Gallery.

Where: Zoom

Admission: This event is free

Registration Required: https://hudsonriver.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F5G00000L3mGWUAZ

*Support provided by Art Bridges. This program was developed in collaboration with The Mexican Studies Institute at the City University of New York, Lehman College, the Lehman College Art Gallery, the Javier Marin Foundation, and Terreno Baldío Art Gallery (Mexico).

Our normal hours are:
 
 Mon – Thur:    8am – 8pm

         Fri – Sun:        9am – 5pm        

This 90-minute workshop (not a series) provides, for Lehman students, an overview of APA citation basics, including when and how to cite sources in your paper.

Our normal hours are:
 
 Mon – Thur:    8am – 8pm

         Fri – Sun:        9am – 5pm        

Our normal hours are:
 
 Mon – Thur:    8am – 8pm

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