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

The Lehman College Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre & Dance presents

Kenopsia: A fairy tale for the apocalypse

Friday, Nov. 20 and Saturday, Nov. 21

7 p.m.

Show will be followed by a conversation with the cast.

Description:

Kenopsia is a word, coined by John Koening, from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It describes "the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet." This theme served as a starting point for a devised piece created collaboratively with the cast and designers. The story is told through a variety of mediums including movement, text, costumes, sound, and images. Through a process of improvisation and collaboration, performers have created characters and content drawn from archetypal imagery and their own imaginations.

Conceived and directed by Amy Larimer

Written by Natasha Collado, Carolyn Gutierrez, Amy Larimer, Bereket Mengistu, Ryan Mercedes, Frank Moncion, Zullyvette Muniz, Bethany Rondon, Leonardo Salome, Kassandra Sustache and Jaciaihus Watson

Video Design Monica Duncan

Lighting Design Miriam Crowe

Scenic Design and Visual Art Kyle Higgins

Costume Design and Makeup Anthony Paul-Cavaretta

Sound Design Luke Santy

Technical Direction Chris Higgins

Stage Management Alyssa VanGorder

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Please see attached flyer and join us via Zoom on November 30^th at 5:30 PM to learn more about getting involved in research. Everyone is welcome!! You will hear students from different majors and disciplines talk about how they got involved and what they are doing. You will learn about strategies to approach Professors and how to find research opportunities. You will learn about what it is like to do research from students who are actively involved in research.

Please contact Chair of the Student Research Advisory Board, Dr. Amanda Sisselman-Borgia, at Amanda.sisselman@lehman.cuny.edu with any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

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This Giving Tuesday hear from students, celebrities and more about why you should support The Campaign for Lehman College.  

Livestream at www.lehman.edu

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The 2020 JohnnyPacheco 

Latin Music and Jazz Festival 

at Lehman College

on BronxNet TV

The 2020 Pacheco Festival Highlights will be broadcast weekly every Friday on “Giant Steps from the Bronx", starting on Friday December 4, and continuing on Friday, December 11, 18, 25 and January 1 and 8, at 8:00 p.m., EST each evening.

The first episode on Friday, Dec. 4, at 8:00 p.m. features:

Virtual Student Ensembles from Lehman College and Okinawa, Japan

A Behind the Scenes Look at Online Music Education

A 2019 and Pacheco Festival Review and a 2020 Festival Update

A Preview of Musical Performances by New Friends from Afar

Watch on 

BronxNet channel 67 Optimum 

+ 2133 FiOS in the Bronx 

and https://www.bronxnet.tv worldwide.

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WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET will be aired on Bronxnet, Optimum and Fios and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide, beginning December 10. Please enjoy this production of the Collaborative Musical Theatre Troupe at Lehman composed by Professor Penny Prince. The work featured various members of the Lehman College community, including current students, alumni, and staff. You can see Lehman College alumni Colette Ambo pictured below.

Other information:

MUSHROOM PLANET plus the Interview feature Eduardo Resendiz directed will be aired on Bronxnet channel 68 Optimum and 2134 Fios, and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide. It will also be accessible via live stream around the world via http://bronxnet.tv

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WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET will be aired on Bronxnet, Optimum and Fios and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide, beginning December 10. Please enjoy this production of the Collaborative Musical Theatre Troupe at Lehman composed by Professor Penny Prince. The work featured various members of the Lehman College community, including current students, alumni, and staff. You can see Lehman College alumni Colette Ambo pictured below.

Other information:

MUSHROOM PLANET plus the Interview feature Eduardo Resendiz directed will be aired on Bronxnet channel 68 Optimum and 2134 Fios, and www.bronxnet.tv worldwide. It will also be accessible via live stream around the world via http://bronxnet.tv

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

Admission Info/Additional Info:

The 2020 Pacheco Festival Highlights will be broadcast on “Giant Steps from the Bronx" BronxNet channel 67 Optimum + 2133 FiOS in the Bronx and http://bronxnet.tv worldwide.

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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