Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting December 2

November 22, 2021

Coming after Thanksgiving Break…

Thursday, December 2
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Zotero Workshop, hosted by Prof. Joseph Hartnett, 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.

6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Artist Talk, speaker, Ralph Gibson, photographer

Join the Mishkin Gallery and the Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center for an intimate conversation with world-renowned photographer Ralph Gibson, whose work has been in the Baruch College Art Collection as a resource for students and the public for decades. Gibson is an American photographer best known for his images that utilize abstraction to explore surreal visual representations of the subconscious. He founded Lustrum Press in 1969 in order to support and publish photography books of his and his peers’ work. Gibson’s works can be found in several significant private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Whitney, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, has been awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence, and is a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. In 2018 he was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the president of France.

Friday, December 3
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Natural Sciences Globus Seminar, speaker, Ivan Anastassov, San Francisco State University

Prof. Anastassov will present on the topic of “Organization of circuits for dim light vision in a unique vertebrate retina.” For more information on this event, please contact Prof. Krista Dobi.

ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/89131051577
PASSCODE: 517343

Tuesday, December 7
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Sayed Kashua in conversation with Dr. Brian Horowitz, speakers, Sayed Kashua, journalist/novelist and Dr. Brian Horowitz, Tulane University

The Wasserman Jewish Studies Center is honored to host novelist and journalist Sayed Kashua, in conversation with Professor Brian Horowitz, Sizeler Family Professor, Dept. of Jewish Studies, Tulane University. Kashua is the author of the novels Dancing Arabs, Let It Be Morning (which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Second Person Singular (winner of the prestigious Bemstein Prize), and Track Changes. Kashua wrote a weekly column for Haaretz and is the creator of the prize-winning sitcom, Arab Labor. Kashua was born in Israel to Palestinian parents and was a resident of Beit Safafa before moving to a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem. From the beginning of his career, Kashua wrote exclusively in Hebrew despite having grown up speaking exclusively Arabic. This was an intentional choice on his part in reaction to the poor representation of Palestinian characters in Hebrew books. He currently teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. For more information, contact Carina Pasquesi.

Thursday, December 9
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Zotero 2: Advanced Zotero Workshop, hosted by Prof. Joseph Hartnett, Library

The Zotero 2 workshop will show you how to maximize Zotero’s capacity and streamline the research and writing process with the help of Zotfile, Dropbox, PDF editor, and Zotero Bookmarklet software. This workshop is open to all students and faculty at Baruch and CUNY SPS who previously completed the Zotero 1 Workshop and have the prerequisite software installed (see sign up page for details).

Friday, December 10
2:30 PM-3:45 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Innovations in the Macaulay Honors Seminars, moderated by Allison Lehr Samuels, CTL and Jody Clark Vaisman, Honors Program

Throughout their first two years of undergraduate study, Macaulay honors students take four required seminars that introduce them to the academic disciplines. The seminars feature creative inquiry and hands-on exploration of the city’s resources to understand the cultural, natural, social, and economic forces that shape the contemporary urban landscape. At this session sponsored by the Baruch CTL, faculty members teaching the Macaulay Seminars will share how undergraduate research, experiential learning, and collaborative projects build students’ professional profiles; foster their awareness of New York City’s communities and history; inspire their imaginative engagement with the city; and develop their sense of belonging as students, creators, and citizens. The interdisciplinary, creative, and hands-on inquiry featured in the seminars can be transferred to classes across the curriculum to engage students at all levels of their undergraduate careers. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

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