Mark your calendar for these events, starting December 2
November 30, 2021
This week @ Baruch…
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.
- Register HERE.
12:30 PM-2:30 PM
Baruch Faculty Senate Plenary
The Senate assembles once per month during the academic year in order to address issues of importance to the Baruch community. During the past two years, guest speakers have been invited to present reports to the faculty on topics such as budget, strategic planning, accreditation, and student evaluations. Please note, we ask participants to keep their microphones muted upon entry. Open your Participants page and select the “raise hand” if and when you have a question or comment. The senate secretary will call upon participants in the order that hands were raised. When called upon, please unmute yourself and mute yourself again when finished speaking. The agenda for this meeting will be posted at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/facultysenate/.
- ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/97356476058
- PASSCODE: Senate
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
A Tour of the World in 6 Artworks: Filming Beliefs: A Filipina Dance Artist’s Quest for Creativity, speaker, Angela Sebastian
Born and raised in the Philippines, Angela Sebastian is excited to share and talk about her work as a choreographer. She integrates her performances with camera work and visual media projection, offering interpretations of surveillance culture created by social media and exploring what it means to be a witness. Focusing on her performance piece Saksi (witness), Angela will discuss her choreographic process by exploring the influences and nuances in the movement vocabulary of a migrating Filipino body, emphasizing memories, identity, and questions towards authentic Filipino cultural practices. This event is presented in the series A Tour of the World in 6 Artworks. It is developed by the Weissman Center for International Business, and is free and open to the Baruch community. Register for one or multiple events in the series at the Zoom link.
- Register HERE.
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.
- Register HERE.
Friday, December 3
11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Weissman Center International Business Seminar Series, speaker, Prof. Silpa Aggarwal, University of California
As a part of its IB seminars series, the Weissman Center for International Business will host Professor Silpa Aggarwal. Professor Aggarwal is a development economist at the prestigious Indian School of Business (ISB). She earned her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. A few years after earning her degree, she has already published in several leading journals of economics, including most recently in the Review of Economics and Statistics. She studies agriculture supply chains in India and Africa, trade, and micro finance in the context of economic development. For more details about her background visit here: https://www.isb.edu/en/research-thought-leadership/faculty/faculty-directory/shilpa-aggarwal.html.
- ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/88282557392
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
Looking Forward…
Sunday-Monday, December 5-6
48 Hour Showing
Free 48-hour streaming of Mr. Kaplan, the final film in our fall Jewish/Latinx film series
Join us as we close out our fall Jewish/Latinx film series with a streaming of Mr. Kaplan, directed by Alvaro Brechner, on 12/5-12/6. Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he’s become rather grumpy, fed up with his community and his family’s lack of interest in its own heritage. One beach bar may, however, provide him with an unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness and recover his family’s respect in the community: its owner, a quiet, elderly German, raises Mr. Kaplan’s suspicion that he is a runaway Nazi. Ignoring his family’s concerns about his health, Jacob secretly recruits Contreras, a more loyal than honest former police officer, to help him investigate. Together, they will try to repeat the historic capture of Adolf Eichmann, by unmasking and kidnapping the German and secretly taking him to Israel.
- To register, contact Carina Pasquesi.
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.
- Register HERE.
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).
- Register HERE.
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.