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

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE TALK!

Meeting ID: 829 5422 7373

Passcode: 436610

Or JOIN BY PHONE!

+1929 205 6099 (New York)

To find your local number, please click here!

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.

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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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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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Join New York-based poets Mariposa Fernandez (Bronx), LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Harlem), and Patricia Spears Jones (Brooklyn) in celebrating the publication of the Library of America’s history-making anthology, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, edited by Kevin Young, and their place within the Black poetic tradition.

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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

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE TALK!

Meeting ID: 829 5422 7373

Passcode: 436610

Or JOIN BY PHONE!

+1929 205 6099 (New York)

To find your local number, please click here!

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

Lehman College Writing Across the Curriculum Announces:

Anti-Racism 
and 
Radical Care Across the Curriculum: Activism in the  Classroom, Scholarship, and the Institution

A 2-Part Workshop Series

Facilitated by Sophia Hsu, PhD and Sarah Ohmer, PhD

APPLICATIONS DUE APRIL 11, 2021

• ●How have the past year’s events affected your teaching, scholarship, and self-care practices?
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• ●How does anti-racism, self-care, pleasure activism, and Black joy shape your teaching and/or scholarship?

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• ●How do you sustain or embark in activist scholarship and writing pedagogy in public higher education?

Day 1: April 30, 2021, 10am-1pm

Vulnerability and Compassion in Activist Scholarship and    Writing Pedagogy

How do we create life-giving spaces in the midst of a global pandemic and social injustice? How do vulnerability and compassion help to sustain activist scholarship and writing pedagogy in public higher education? Participants will identify concrete sites of anti-racist action in our day-to-day environments, academic or otherwise, and practice self-reflective writing (in part with the goal of preparing to engage our students in these same practices). We will share practices and projects we are developing in the midst of a global pandemic, 
white supremacy, homophobia, and transphobia, and discuss sustainable implementation. Dedicated quiet writing time will helpparticipants to move forward on current anti-racist projects.

Day 2: May 14, 2021, 10am-1pm Putting Anti-Racist Dreams in Practice

What are our dream visions for higher education, scholarship, teaching, and institutional environments? What resources do we need to make our dream work happen? Participants will expand on the ideas and projects they worked on in the previous session and engage in strategic planning to realize future ideas and projects. We will practice setting realistic and measurable goals in alignment with our personal and professional needs. Dedicated 
quiet writing time will help participants to move forward on current anti-racist projects, and to set concrete steps for the summer and the following academic year.

A small stipend will be offered to all participants.

All current Lehman College faculty members are welcome to apply. Applicants must commit to attending all twoworkshops. Due to the limited budget, we will prioritize applications that show demonstrated engagement in and/or specific ideas for developing projects or curricula that reference people of color’s scholarship and activism, focused on topics of anti-racism, intersectionality, social justice, and/or restorative justice.

To send an application, use the link in the flyer. 

Priority deadline: April 11, 2021

For more information, contact Vani Kannan, WAC Co-Coordinator.

Facilitator bios

Dr. Sophia Hsu (she/her) is Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College. Her research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the novel, medical humanities, and women’s and gender studies. 

Dr. Sarah Soanirina Ohmer is an Assistant Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies & Africana Studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, race, class and trauma in literature by Black Women from Cuba, Brazil, in US African American, Afro-Latinx, and Latinx communities. 

Lehman College Writing Across the Curriculum Announces:

Anti-Racism 
and 
Radical Care Across the Curriculum: Activism in the  Classroom, Scholarship, and the Institution

A 2-Part Workshop Series

Facilitated by Sophia Hsu, PhD and Sarah Ohmer, PhD

APPLICATIONS DUE APRIL 11, 2021

• ●How have the past year’s events affected your teaching, scholarship, and self-care practices?
•  
• ●How does anti-racism, self-care, pleasure activism, and Black joy shape your teaching and/or scholarship?

• 
  
• ●How do you sustain or embark in activist scholarship and writing pedagogy in public higher education?

Day 1: April 30, 2021, 10am-1pm

Vulnerability and Compassion in Activist Scholarship and    Writing Pedagogy

How do we create life-giving spaces in the midst of a global pandemic and social injustice? How do vulnerability and compassion help to sustain activist scholarship and writing pedagogy in public higher education? Participants will identify concrete sites of anti-racist action in our day-to-day environments, academic or otherwise, and practice self-reflective writing (in part with the goal of preparing to engage our students in these same practices). We will share practices and projects we are developing in the midst of a global pandemic, 
white supremacy, homophobia, and transphobia, and discuss sustainable implementation. Dedicated quiet writing time will helpparticipants to move forward on current anti-racist projects.

Day 2: May 14, 2021, 10am-1pm Putting Anti-Racist Dreams in Practice

What are our dream visions for higher education, scholarship, teaching, and institutional environments? What resources do we need to make our dream work happen? Participants will expand on the ideas and projects they worked on in the previous session and engage in strategic planning to realize future ideas and projects. We will practice setting realistic and measurable goals in alignment with our personal and professional needs. Dedicated 
quiet writing time will help participants to move forward on current anti-racist projects, and to set concrete steps for the summer and the following academic year.

A small stipend will be offered to all participants.

All current Lehman College faculty members are welcome to apply. Applicants must commit to attending all twoworkshops. Due to the limited budget, we will prioritize applications that show demonstrated engagement in and/or specific ideas for developing projects or curricula that reference people of color’s scholarship and activism, focused on topics of anti-racism, intersectionality, social justice, and/or restorative justice.

To send an application, use the link in the flyer. 

Priority deadline: April 11, 2021

For more information, contact Vani Kannan, WAC Co-Coordinator.

Facilitator bios

Dr. Sophia Hsu (she/her) is Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College. Her research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the novel, medical humanities, and women’s and gender studies. 

Dr. Sarah Soanirina Ohmer is an Assistant Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies & Africana Studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, race, class and trauma in literature by Black Women from Cuba, Brazil, in US African American, Afro-Latinx, and Latinx communities. 

Looking to start a new piece of writing or creative project? Longing to get back to the page, but finding yourself blocked? Join the NYCWP for three days of generating your own creative writing! Over this three-day “boot camp,” writers will have the opportunity to engage with a variety of prompts and participate in micro-studies surrounding various craft elements, creative forms, and model readings. While participating for all three sessions is encouraged, as the activities will build, a pop-in model is also acceptable for those with limited time. 

CTLE credit available.

Dates: June 1-3, 2021

Time: 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

Where: Online

Registration required by May 31, 2021.

To Register:  http://bit.ly/3bB5htO

Contact: Jane K. Higgins jane.higgins@lehman.cuny.edu

Looking to start a new piece of writing or creative project? Longing to get back to the page, but finding yourself blocked? Join the NYCWP for three days of generating your own creative writing! Over this three-day “boot camp,” writers will have the opportunity to engage with a variety of prompts and participate in micro-studies surrounding various craft elements, creative forms, and model readings. While participating for all three sessions is encouraged, as the activities will build, a pop-in model is also acceptable for those with limited time. 

CTLE credit available.

Dates: June 1-3, 2021

Time: 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

Where: Online

Registration required by May 31, 2021.

To Register:  http://bit.ly/3bB5htO

Contact: Jane K. Higgins jane.higgins@lehman.cuny.edu