Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting April 15

April 14, 2021

Thursday and Friday @ Baruch…

Thursday, April 15
1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Globus Conversation with Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Michigan State University
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Vasquez, a scholar of U.S. Latinx Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Hispanic literature and culture, and author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. She will be in conversation with Baruch students who have read her work, or have an interest in the intersections between Latinx and Black Studies. Many of us have read her interdisciplinary essay, “Your Lips: Mapping Afro-Boricua feminist Becomings” and/or visited “Afro-Boricua Archives: Paperless People and Photo/Poetics as Resistance,”; all are welcome to explore them in advance.

1:00 PM-2:00 PM
A Tour of the World in Six Artworks: Guo Xi’s Early Spring and 11th-Century Chinese Landscape of Power, Eremitism, and Ecology, speaker, Heping Liu, Wellesley College.
Heping Liu, Associate Professor of Art History at Wellesley College, will introduce us to a landscape masterpiece by Guo Xi of the Imperial Painting Academy in light of the changing political, social, and natural environments of the Northern Song Dynasty China. The series “Tour of the World in Six Artworks” aims to present global works of art to Baruch students, placing the works in cultural context. This series by art historians will connect world cultures with the fine arts, a search for an alternate way to become globally-accomplished students. Open to the Baruch community. For more information on this event, click here.

5:00 PM-6:00 PM
From Impossible to I’m Possible: Suicide Prevention CPR, speaker, Joshua Rivedal
The Counseling Center in Collaboration with the USG is hosting a Suicide Prevention Workshop. Faculty and Staff are welcome to attend. Please share it with the students you serve and support.

Zoom ID: 862 1080 5994
Passcode: selflove

Friday, April 16
9:00 AM-10:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Managing the Zoom Class and Report Options, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL
Explore the Zoom class and report options. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Ron Whiteman and Tamara Gubernat, CTL
This informal online check-in session is an opportunity to connect with colleagues during this time of distance learning. Join CTL members, Ron Whiteman and Tamara Gubernat, as we celebrate teaching successes and collectively work through any challenges you may be facing. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Next week…

Tuesday, April 20
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Zotero Workshop, speaker, Prof. Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library
This workshop provides a hands on introduction to Zotero, a free open-source, bibliographic citation management tool that allows you to collect, store, and organize information as you research, and to rapidly generate citations and bibliographies with your word processor in a variety of styles as you write. You will learn to install Zotero, capture items into your personal library, generate in-text citation and bibliographies, sync to the cloud, and utilize many of the software’s functions.

Thursday, April 22
9:00 AM-10:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Engaging Students with Zoom: Breakout Rooms and More, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL
Explore ways of engaging student participation in Zoom classes. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

10:00 AM-11:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Zoom Class Management: Reporting Tools and New Updates, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL
Explore the Zoom class and report options. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

12:30 PM-1:45 PM
The Information Systems and Statistics Research Seminar Series, speaker, Ji Meng Loh, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Professor Loh will discuss topics in Spatial Sampling Design using the Generalized Neyman-Scott Process. For more information, contact Prof. Zeda Li.

Zoom link: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/3601957288
Passcode: spring2021

Friday, April 23
12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Ron Whiteman and Tamara Gubernat, CTL
This informal online check-in session is an opportunity to connect with colleagues during this time of distance learning. Join CTL members, Ron Whiteman and Tamara Gubernat, as we celebrate teaching successes and collectively work through any challenges you may be facing. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Looking forward…

Thursday, April 29
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
The Role of Insurers in Delivering a Greener Future. Speakers: Deborah Balk, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs; Christian Braneon, Goddard Space Flight Center at National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Gabriela Hermosilla, AXA; Greg Lindsay, NewCities; Andrew MacFarlane, Global Markets, AXA XL; and Scott Smith, Changeist.
Insurance is fundamentally a form of risk management whereby decisions are made based on possible future events and their likely impacts. The better an insurance company can predict and avoid future risk, the more successful the company. It is with this eye toward the future that French insurance titan AXA developed its latest Foresight Report, 2040: Exploring Society’s Future Challenges. The report identifies climate change as one of the three main challenges facing society and details how the insurance industry is uniquely positioned to influence behaviors that impact the climate for the better. By looking at the big picture, AXA aims not only for more success, but also to contribute solutions to the interconnected challenges of tomorrow. For more information, click HERE.

Events for the weekly email of the Office of the Associate Provost must be submitted by noon on Wednesday of the week before the event takes place. To submit an event, please click here.