Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting February 22
February 18, 2022
Next week @ Baruch…
Tuesday, February 22
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Weissman Center International Business Seminar Series, presenter, Pol Antras, Harvard University
The Weissman Center will be welcoming Pol Antras, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Prof. Antras studies international economies, and recently has focused on global supply chains and their impact on inequality and redistribution. His work in these areas has been published in leading economic journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of International Economics, and the Annual Review of Economics, among other journals. He earned his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Zotero Workshop, presenter, 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.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
The New Baruch Strategic Plan and Climate Change, presenters, Baruch Climate Action Collaborative and Baruch Task Force on Sustainability
The Baruch Climate Action Collaborative and the Baruch Task Force on Sustainability invite you to join us to discuss the next Baruch Strategic Plan and climate change education. NYU and Columbia University have robust climate programs preparing students for future challenges and growing career opportunities. Baruch students are likely to stay in NYC, and most will return to home neighborhoods; historically disadvantaged and minority communities are most vulnerable to predicted climate impacts. Federal and state investments in decarbonizing the economy are spurring job growth in renewable energy and climate change mitigation and resilience. Baruch students need academic programs to prepare them for jobs and leadership roles geared towards tackling climate change and its impacts. We have an opportunity to create the interdisciplinary climate education our students deserve to help them contribute to a vibrant and equitable NYC, nation and planet.
Wednesday, February 23
10:30 AM – 11:30 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Spring 2022 Semester Check-in Session, speakers, Tamara Gubernat and Ron Whiteman, CTL
This informal online check-in session is an opportunity to connect with colleagues: to celebrate teaching 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/
- Register in advance HERE.
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Work Visa Options for International Graduates, presenter, Mark Rhoads, Immigration Attorney
The Graduate Career Management Center in The Zicklin School of Business at the Baruch College will host a presentation on work visa options available to international graduates who wish to stay and work in the United States after graduation. This program is open to ALL Baruch and CUNY students and alumni (undergraduate and graduate), as well as faculty and staff. The presenter will be Mark Rhoads, an experienced immigration attorney who works with employers and international students all over the country. Mark also serves as the legal counsel for the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). He will discuss the most common work visa options, including Optional Practical Training for F-1 students and the popular H1B visa. Topics will include strategies for the H1B quota, as well as the costs and timing of work visa processing. This program will be recorded and will be shared with everyone who RSVPs.
2:00PM – 3:00 PM
Work Visa Options for International Graduates – Faculty/Staff ONLY follow up Program, presenter, Mark Rhoads, Immigration Attorney
Mark Rhoads host a follow up session for CUNY/Baruch Faculty & Staff to answer any questions we have about working with international students. Mark spoke at Baruch/CUNY five years ago and was terrific!
Wednesday, February 23 – Saturday, February 26
Free Film Screening
Jewish/Latinx Film Series: Argentina double feature, Nine Queens (dir. Fabian Bielinsky, 2000) and Yidishe Gauchos (dir. Mark Freeman, 1989)
The Wasserman Jewish Studies Center opens its spring Jewish/Latinx film series with a special double feature: Nine Queens (feature film, dir. Fabian Bielinsky, Argentina, 2000) and The Yidishe Guachos (documentary, dir. Mark Freeman, Argentina, 1989). Free streaming access February 23rd through February 26th. Generously co-sponsored by Black and Latinx Studies (BLS), the Initiative for the Study of Latin America (ISLA) and Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC).
- RSVP to Carina Pasquesi for screening links and passwords.
Thursday, February 24
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
CTL Conversation: Building Student Reflection into Your Course, speakers, Seth Graves and Tamara Gubernat, CTL
In this conversation session, we’ll talk about asking students to write reflections—alongside assignments or generally about the course. Having students reflect on their experience of learning concepts or completing assignments can help us understand how they’re navigating our courses. They can also help with our assessment models for assignments, projects, and examinations. CTL Conversations offer faculty and staff a time to come together to virtually and informally workshop, brainstorm, and discuss topics related to teaching, with different topics each week. You are welcome to drop in for all or part of the session. Feel free to bring a snack and join the conversation! For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/
- Register in advance HERE.
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
An evening with the comedy duo the El Salomons: a married Jewish-Palestinian lesbian couple, speakers, Jess Solomon and Eman El-Hussein, comediennes
The El-Salomons are a married Jewish-Palestinian lesbian comedy couple who after years of performing solo decided to add yet another challenge to their relationship: A duo act! Now they tell jokes about one another, in front each other, a sacrifice they make for the fans. Jess and Eman mix jokes and stories inspired by the politics of their relationship with observational humor about love in general. They met and fell in love at a comedy club in Montreal a decade ago. After just one year of performing together they recorded a comedy special, “A Marriage of Convenience,” at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival. They are also the hosts of the top-rated podcast Comedians vs. the News on the BBC World Service. This virtual event is presented by Wasserman Jewish Studies Center.
- RSVP: pasquesi@baruch.cuny.edu
Saturday, February 26
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Walking Tour: Public Art in Gramercy, speakers, Alaina Feldman and Alexandra Tell, Mishkin Gallery
While Gramercy Park is often thought of as an exclusive neighborhood, this walking tour visits several significant public art works on and around the Baruch College campus that challenge such exclusivity. Through these works, which span from the early 20th century to the contemporary, the tour foregrounds accessibility—asking how and for whom public art is made, and what makes a work truly public. The tour stops include the Mishkin Gallery’s New Deal-era building—formerly the New York Domestic Relations Court Building—designed by Charles B. Meyers with façade reliefs by H.P. Camden (1939); “Brier Patch,” Hugh Hayden’s installation in Madison Square Park (2022); Kindred McLeary’s Works Progress Administration-sponsored murals of New York City life located in the Madison Square Station Post Office (1939); and Martin Wong’s “Traffic Sign for the Hearing Impaired” (1991), installed outside P.S. 347 – The American Sign Language School. For more information, click here.
Looking forward…
Tuesday, March 1
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
The Future of Higher Ed | Baruch Alumni Panel & Network Launch, moderated by, Scott Evenbeck, Chair of the Higher Education Administration Program of Baruch’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Join this conversation with alumni higher education leaders about their campus’ responses to the pandemic, current efforts to return to “a new normal,” and insights regarding the future of higher education for professionals and students alike. Dr. Nancy Aries, Interim Dean of the Marxe School will provide welcoming remarks. This program is open to all alumni, faculty, staff, and HEA students.
- For a full list of panelists and to register click HERE.
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Building More Ethical Tech by Reducing Ethical Debt, speakers, Yafit Lev-Aretz, Baruch College and Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder
Zoombombing, Cambridge Analytica, AI bias, misinformation, hate speech…when tech companies and researchers come under fire, people wonder: why are they not thinking about potential harms? Unintended consequences of technology are a significant social issue, and when we “move fast and break things,” ethical considerations often get pushed to the side. Like technical debt, the implied cost of future bug fixes when we rush to release technology, ethical debt is what we accumulate when we don’t consider ethical and social implications during the design process. How can we help technologists speculate about the future? Also how might we understand real impacts of technological harms on everyone, and give everyone the knowledge and tools to be more critical of technology? Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity as we welcome Casey Fiesler for a discussion with Prof. Yafit Lev-Aretz, Director of the Robert Zicklin Center’s Program on Tech Ethics. Click HERE for more information on this event.
- Register HERE.
Thursday, March 10
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Zotero Workshop II: Advanced Zotero, presenter, Prof. Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library
The Zotero II 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 I Workshop and have the prerequisite software installed (see sign-up page for details).