Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, beginning October 23, 2020
October 22, 2020
Tomorrow @ Baruch…
Friday, October 23
9:00 AM-9:00 PM
dwb (Driving While Black), performers, Roberta Gumbel, Hannah Collins, Michael Compitello
Presented by Baruch Performing Arts Center at Baruch College and Opera Omaha, this taut 44-minute sung drama is a musical provocation to engage with the essential conversation of our day: racial injustice. dwb has been directed explicitly for streaming presentation. It documents the all-too-familiar story of an African American parent whose beautiful brown boy approaches driving age. What should be a celebration of independence and maturity turns out to be fraught with the anxiety of driving while black. This event will run through October 23-29. For more information click here.
RSVP: https://ci.ovationtix.com/1091/production/1031671
Coming next week…
Tuesday, October 27
9:00 AM-10:30 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Zoom Your Way! Zoom Hacks and Shortcuts for ease of use in the Classroom, host, Catherine Kawalek, Center for Teaching and Learning
Review of Zoom functions to make teaching and learning rewarding. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.
Kindly register in advance HERE.
12:30 PM-2:00PM
Weissman Center for International Business Seminar, presenter, Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago
Professor Tintelnot, assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, with previous positions at Princeton and Stanford Universities, will present his paper “The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States.” To learn more about Professor Tintelot visit: http://felix-tintelnot.wikidot.com/. For question about this event, contact Prof. Lilac Nachum.
ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/85914785035
MEETING ID: 859 1478 5035
PASSCODE: 350926
Thursday, October 29
11:00 AM-12:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Transition to Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosts, Tamara Gubernat and Seth Graves, Center for Teaching and Learning
This weekly check-in session is an opportunity to connect with colleagues: to celebrate successes and collectively work through any challenges that may arise. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.
Kindly register in advance HERE.
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
How Did We Do?: Baruch College Revisits a 2006 Conference on Pandemic Preparedness, moderated by, David Rosenberg, Director, Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity
Nearly fourteen years ago, Baruch College’s Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity hosted “Avian Flu: Ethical, Financial and Management Implications for Business”. The half-day event explored the business community’s role in an effective response to an influenza pandemic. Presenters discussed topics including: How should government balance the demands of public safety and business continuity? Who defines “essential” workers and to what degree can businesses protect them or be held liable for their exposure? Who gets scarce medical resources? Fast forward 14 years and we can see countless parallels between the issues raised in a hypothetical influenza outbreak and those we are living through now with the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us on October 29th as we welcome back key voices from our 2006 conference to hear their thoughts on: Did today’s decision makers heed the advice of our 2006 experts? What did we get right and wrong back in 2006? Have we over/underreacted to COVID-19? For full list of speakers, click here. Presented by The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.
12:30 PM-1:30PM
Zotero Workshop, host, 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. General Note: This virtual Zotero workshop will be held online via ZOOM. After you register, you will receive a unique link to join the session on ZOOM the day of before the session. This workshop is open to all students and faculty at Baruch and at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Artist-Community Dialogue on Racial Injustice and Driving While Black, speakers, Roberta Gumbel, Librettist and performer of dwb, J.T Roane, Arizona State University, Erica Richardson, Teona Pagan, Baruch College Senior and President of the Black Student Union, and Yael Meegan, Baruch College Junior.
Presented by Baruch Performing Arts Center at Baruch College. Join this discussion on racial injustice in today’s America, provoked by BPAC’s presentation of a 44-minute music-theatre work considering the phenomenon of of dwb (Driving While Black) and why/how art provides a platform for issues of social justice. For more information click here.
EVENT LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlvBCZ7WIuo&feature=youtu.be (available on 10/29 only an hour before start of program.)
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Identity Politics and Campaign 2020, speakers, Michael Fortner, The Graduate Center, Viviana Rivera-Burgos, Political Science, and Tanisha Mahmud, Political Science/English Dual Major
In the final week of this charged and consequential election season, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Political Science Department, in partnership with the Department of Black and Latinx Studies, is convening a roundtable conversation to discuss the role played by Identity Politics – the mobilization of racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, and religious identity by both political parties – during Campaign 2020. For more information visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/identity-politics-and-campaign-2020-tickets-125613028951
Please REGISTER HERE via Eventbrite to receive the Zoom login information.
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence, speaker, Seth Dobrin, Chief Data Officer, IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to make data-driven decisions in a range of business domains, managers need to understand how to deal with different biases that can manifest themselves in business analytics projects. Pre-existing human biases can be mitigated or amplified by how organizations use AI in data-driven decisions. In the recent past, bias in AI has led to poor decisions in many areas such as sub-optimal hiring decisions in recruitment and lost revenue opportunities in consumer lending. Dr. Seth Dobrin will provide a non-technical overview of bias in AI and explain why managers need to care about it. He will talk about the different types of AI biases and how to manage them in organizations. Presented by the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics.
Friday, October 30
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
History, Memory, Media, speakers, May Joseph and Nicolas Premier
History is a media [sic], a work in progress that is constantly being rewritten. Artists often employ personal biography in order to provoke comparisons to “official” histories and to challenge metanarratives through their own memory and experiences. May Joseph will read from her newly published “ghosts of lumumba,” a book of poetry written over a lifetime that reflects the ongoing influences from her upbringing as an Asian woman in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Nicolas Premier is a Franco-Congolese artist whose newest film, “Africa is the Future,” draws on over a century of popular vernacular images that, when viewed together, create a personal reflection of charged and racialized images. Both artists draw on their own memories as a mechanism for rewriting and questioning history. The event will be moderated by Shelly Eversley, Interim Chair of Black and Latinx Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. Sponsored by the Mishkin Gallery. For more information on this event, visit www.baruch.cuny.edu/mishkin or email Visnja Begovic.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/y3zkcw4f
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