In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, join us for a presentation by Dr. Linda Rae Murray, an activist and national leader in community health and social justice in healthcare. 

Her talk, "When White America Gets Pneumonia: COVID19 and Structural Racism," will examine the historical experience of American medicine with the concept of race, demonstrating how structural racism has resulted in significant gaps in mortality based on race and ethnicity. She will further examine the role structural racism has played in the differential impact of COVID-19 on people of color. 

Dr. Murray will be introduced by Provost Peter Nwosu and Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing Elgloria Harrison.

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of Africana Studies.

Join the talk on Zoom 

Meeting ID: 830 788 0076

Join by phone at +1 929 205 6099 (New York)

Meeting ID: 830 788 0076 

To find your local number, please click here.

The 24th Annual Student-Faculty Read-In Celebrating Black Women in Prose, Poetry, and Song

In honor of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the Lehman College Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of Africana Studies present the 24th Annual Student-Faculty Read-In, with guest writer Ama Codjoe. Codjoe is the author of Blood of the Air (Northwestern Press, 2020), which won the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her forthcoming book, Bluest Nude, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2022. 

Join by Zoom 

Meeting ID: 861 4152 4943 

Passcode: 283451 

Join by telephone at +1 929 205 6099 (New York)

Meeting ID: 861 4152 4943 

Passcode: 283451 

To find your local number, please click here

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

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.

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

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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Yours for Justice: The Continued Relevance of Ida B. Wells' Diagnosis of Domestic Racial Terror  

Professor Jane Anna Gordon of the University of Connecticut Department Of Political Science 

Everyone who has heard of Ida B. Wells is familiar with her as an anti-lynching crusader. What was crucial about her work was that it framed the rise of lynching in the early 20th century as entirely a function of hostility to the end of slavery and the growth of the project of black freedom. Professor Jane Anna Gordon will speak about Wells’ work and how her framing of anti-black violence as domestic terror forces us to consider why such actions are, to this day, not considered and treated as treasonous.

Presented by The Department of Africana Studies & The Women’s And Gender Studies Program 

For more information, contact Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Chair at bertrade@lehman.cuny.edu

ZOOM MEETING ID: 854 9938 8356 ZOOM MEETING PASSCODE: 823053

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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In this brave new theoretical approach to human physicality, Julie E. Maybee traces societal constructions of disability and impairment through Western history along three dimensions of embodiment: the personal body, the interpersonal body, and the institutional body. Each dimension has played a part in defining people as disabled and impaired in terms of employment, healthcare, education, and social and political roles.

Because impairment and disability have been constructed along all three of these bodies, unmaking disability and making the future accessible will require restructuring Western institutions, including capitalism, changing how social roles are assigned, and transforming our deepest beliefs about impairment and disability to reconstruct people as capable. Ultimately, Maybee suggests, unmaking disability will require remaking our world.

Julie Maybee is Chair of the Philosophy Department, Professor of Philosophy, and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Disabilities Studies Program at Lehman College.