We’re pleased to announce that Lehman College’s 2023 Commencement ceremony will be held in person on campus on Thursday, June 1, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. 

We look forward to celebrating the hard work of the Class of ’23 this spring! If your Degree was awarded in Fall '22, Winter '23, Spring '23 or Summer '23, you are eligible to participate in the June 1st ceremony. 

More information can be found on the Class of 2023 Page.

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. 

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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: 
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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. 

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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:

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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

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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:
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Admission:
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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.

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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).

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CUNY Institute for Health Equity (CIHE)
Inaugural Speaker’s Series on:
Health Equity and Health Disparities

Nancy Breen, PhD, received her PhD in Economics from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1988. Her undergraduate degrees are in Political Science and French. Dr. Breen served as health economist at the National Institutes of Health: from 1991 to 2015 at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and from 2015 to 2019 at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). She co-edited the NIMHD-sponsored AJPH Supplement (January 2019) “New Perspectives to Advance Minority Health and Health Disparities Research”. Dr. Breen’s more than 100 peer-reviewed articles reflect her desire to improve the evidence base for understanding the social determinants underlying health disparities. Her published work has increasingly focused on how structures and policies lead to health disparities. Her objective is to inspire broad-based interventions leading to social justice and economic sustainability.

We begin with two important examples of public health policy, then survey the concepts of Fundamental Causes and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). After comparing how Fundamental Causes --structural racism and poverty—affect the health of racial/ethnic populations in the US, we will explore how some key SDoH --income, wealth, and housing stability—have evolved differentially for these same racial/ethnic populations over time. A deeper understanding of upstream determinants requires investigating economic inequality as a historical phenomenon. Today’s macroeconomy promotes financial inequality, consumer debt, and poor health in multiple ways. Finally, we return to public health policy by considering some interventions designed to address racial/ethnic and class inequalities in income, wealth and housing and end by probing how these policies might be refined using Community Based Participatory Research to become even more effective.

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Manteca
A tribute to Chano Pozo & Dizzy Gillespie
by the
Lehman College Latin Jazz Ensemble
Victor Rendón and Armando Rodríguez, Co-Directors

Premiering April 20 at 2pm on YouTube:
​youtube.com/watch?v=cE2BEgcsYAw

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. 

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Dance

We have a CUNY Dance Initiative hip hop workshop on  4/21 from 2:00-3:15 with Tweet Boogie 

https://www.tweetboogie.com/

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.

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Wendell «ΜΧ» Cooper, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre and Dance

 Ecstatic Disobedience: Gender Embodiment in Hip Hop, House, and Vogue

Mx. Oops aka Wendell Cooper will examine how Breakin’, House Dance, and Vogue Femme simultaneously critique gender expression norms and expand beyond them. Each dance form is based on a series of foundational movement elements, each borrowing from movement traditions with gendered histories — Salsa, Jazz, Capoeira, and more. By looking at how these Urban Dance forms remix fixed notions of masculinity and femininity, we will unpack their methodology of liberation.  

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

12:30 – 1:45pm

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CUNY Institute for Health Equity (CIHE) Inaugural Speaker’s Series on:
Health Equity and Health Disparities


Joan Davis Nagel joined NCATS’ Division of Clinical Innovation (DCI) as Program Director in September 2014. She oversees several of the multimillion-dollar Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) and works collaboratively with principal investigators to provide programmatic direction and oversight of their clinical and translational science projects. Nagel also represents NCATS on DCI’s Workforce Development Domain Task Force Lead team, a committee of 60+ representatives from CTSA Program hubs that help to provide strategic direction on education and workforce issues that impact the clinical and translational science workforce.
Nagel earned a B.A. in biology from Williams College, an M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her background includes training in obstetrics and gynecology, followed by a residency in general preventive medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Before assuming her current role, Nagel spent five years as a program director in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health, providing oversight for two large interdisciplinary women’s health research programs (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health and the Specialized Centers of Research on Sex Differences) and worked collaboratively with researche
Dr. Nagel earned a B.A. in biology from Williams College, an M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her background includes training in obstetrics and gynecology, followed by a residency in general preventive medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. In addition, Dr. Nagel worked as a city clinician for the New York City Department of Health Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and as a medical consultant for the Urban Women’s Retreat, a shelter for survivors of domestic violence in Harlem.

Teaching with Transformative  Texts

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

Exploring the Co-constructed

Systems of Racism and Ableism

Through

Transformational Disability

Studies Texts

Wednesday, April 28, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

GUEST SPEAKER

Jessica Bacon

Associate Professor, Montclair State University,  Department of Teaching & Learning

Made possible with support from the Teagle Foundation.

Register: tinyurl.com/ttt-Bacon

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Storm across the United States with activist and new father Ady Barkan in NOT GOING QUIETLY.
The powerful documentary follows a determined man’s fight for healthcare justice and a brighter
future.

Streaming virtually at @ReelAbilities from April 29-May 5.

Get your tickets at https://bit.ly/3lT6pN3

Join us in celebrating disability through film. ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York is the
largest festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of
the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with disabilities. The festival runs
from April 29-May 5 and features award winning films. The full program is available at
https://reelabilities.org/newyork/films. All films are streaming virtually.


OFFICE OF STUDENT DISABILITY SERVICES
For more information, please contact us at: 718-960-8441 or
disability.services@lehman.cuny.edu

Spring 2021

Multimedia

Performance Showcase

&

Spring Dance Concert

Friday and Saturday

May 7 and May 8

7:00 P.M.

Join us for the online premiere of these student-produced multimedia performance, theater, and dance projects! This year will be a special combined show of multimedia performance and advanced performance workshop students. This online event will premiere their works and be followed by a brief Q&A with the artists. 

YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/Xxgrto-386s

On May 13th at 7pm, Ensemble LCCM and the Lehman College Department of Music, Multimedia, Theater, and Dance cordially invite you to join us for our Spring 2021 virtual chamber music concert.

This semester’s musical selections focus on renewal, restoration, and hope for the future, highlighting collaborative chamber music selections from the fourteenth century to today. This presentation will stream live on the Ensemble LCCM Facebook page and Department of MMTD YouTube channel.

www.youtube.com/user/LehmanMusicDept/videos