Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting April 25
April 21, 2022
Next week @ Baruch…
Monday, April 25
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Mishkin Gallery, 135 E. 22nd St
Mishkin Gallery After Hours, featuring Lamin Fofana: BLUES
We are keeping our doors open late on Monday, April 25! Join us for an evening in the gallery and an opportunity to see the exhibition Lamin Fofana: BLUES before it closes on May 6. The exhibition centers on a trilogy of sound works comprising the albums Black Metamorphosis, Darkwater, and Blues that engage with seminal texts by Sylvia Wynter, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Amiri Baraka to reflect on historical and epistemological trajectories of contemporary social and political thought through the lens of Black Studies. For more information on this event, visit https://weissman.baruch.cuny.edu/mishkin-gallery/current/ or email Alexandra Tell.
Tuesday, April 26
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Ackerman Lecture: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Immigrant Adults’ Mental Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Resilience, speaker, Margarita Alegría, Ph.D, Disparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine & the Mongan Institute
Dr. Alegría will lay the groundwork for understanding the multiple factors contributing to health disparities for immigrant adults and older adults. She will then share findings from her two randomized clinical trials testing evidence-based interventions to address mental health symptoms and physical disability. She will examine the impact of COVID-19 on barriers to and facilitators of mental health services for these vulnerable populations, emphasizing both policy and community-based initiatives to achieve health equity. For more information, click here.
Thursday, April 28
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Grassroots Lobbying and Big Tech, speakers, Yafit Lev-Aretz, Department of Law, Abbey Stemler, Indiana University, and Ira Rubinstein, Information Law Institute
The use of microtargeting ads, which are dependent on the collection and analysis of information about users, raise concerns from privacy advocates. With the Cambridge-Analytica scandal exposing the risks associated with microtargeting in political contexts, these concerns have been heightened. The debate around microtargeting has recently further intensified, with the understanding that big technology companies leverage microtargeting to mobilize their users to take tech-friendly political action. We will be joined by Professors Abbey Stemler and Ira Rubinstein, who will discuss the challenges presented by this relatively new form of political power and its effects on individual autonomy and deliberative democracy. For more information on this event, visit https://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/event/grassroots-lobbying-and-big-tech/. Presented by The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
“Such is Aunt Nancy:” Gender, Scavenging, and Racial Capitalism on the Harlem Renaissance Stage” a Faculty Works in Progress Presentation, speaker, Erica Richardson, Department of English; Affiliated Faculty – Black and Latino Studies
In what spaces can poor Black women’s work be economically and socially valued? Is scavenging labor? And what does it mean to depict these issues in the context of the emerging Black Modernity of the Harlem Renaissance? In this Work-in-Progress style presentation, Professor Erica Richardson (English, affiliated faculty in Black and Latino Studies) will respond to these questions through an excavation of the play “The Chip Woman’s Fortune” (1923) by Willis Richardson (no relation to Professor Richardson). This presentation will consider how Black women, through scavenging, can transform discarded items into value and what it means for such a narrative to be presented in the context of the Harlem Renaissance. This event will be moderated by Professor Angie Beeman (Marxe School of Public and International Affairs). Click here for more information.
Friday, April 29
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Empowering Student Researchers: Baruch Faculty Share Their Undergraduate Assignments and Tips, session 3, speakers: Adam Sheffer, Department of Natural Science, Rebecca Spokony, Department of Natural Science, Stephen Gosnell, Department of Natural Science
Join in a discussion of practical tips for guiding undergraduate students through research projects. This session (Labs, Numbers, and Data: Preparing Students for Conducting and Presenting Quantitative and Scientific Research) focuses on research in math and sciences. It will include discussion of mentoring research in and out of the classroom, in labs, independent studies and in preparation for conferences.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Marxe DEI Fridays: Integrating DEI into Faculty Development, speakers, Milagros Castillo-Montoya, UConn, Sylk Sotto, Indiana University, and Liza Ann Bolitzer, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Explore ways to further integrate the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice into your teaching, research, and service. Marxe DEI Fridays are a series of weekly virtual events in which our Baruch community can come together to explore and discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion topics ranging from the systemic and structural to the individual and personal. Come reflect, connect, and explore with us. All are welcome! Contact Prof. Anna D’Souza (Provost Innovation Fellow) with questions.
Looking forward…
Thursday, May 5
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Addison Gayle Seminar: A conversation with Amber Musser, author; moderated by two students: Michelle Hernandez and Dana Stevens
The English Department and Department of Black and Latino Studies present the Addison Gayle Seminar, featuring Amber Musser, author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance.
Friday, May 6
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Marxe DEI Fridays: Using an Equity Lens in Faculty Hiring, speaker, Cristina Balboa, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Marxe DEI Fridays are a series of weekly virtual events in which our Baruch community can come together to explore and discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion topics ranging from the systemic and structural to the individual and personal. Come reflect, connect, and explore with us. All are welcome! Contact Anna D’Souza (Provost Innovation Fellow) with questions.
Friday, May 13
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Marxe DEI Fridays: Integrating DEI into Staff Development, speaker, Leora M. Johnson, Graduate Admissions and Enrollment Services, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Marxe DEI Fridays are a series of weekly virtual events in which our Baruch community can come together to explore and discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion topics ranging from the systemic and structural to the individual and personal. Come reflect, connect, and explore with us. All are welcome! Contact Anna D’Souza (Provost Innovation Fellow) with questions.