Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting November 1

October 28, 2021

Next Week @ Baruch…

Monday, November 1
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
A conversation with attorney/activist Ady Barkan, presented by the Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center

Join us for a special evening with attorney/activist Ady Barkan, co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC, who has long worked with the Center for Popular Democracy. In 2016, shortly after his first child was born, Ady was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a terminal neurodegenerative illness. Since his diagnosis, he has become a fierce advocate for health care rights. In December 2017, Ady was filmed engaging with Senator Jeff Flake (Arizona)—the two were on the same airplane—about his impending vote that would lead to cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. The exchange went viral, and since then Ady has become a sought-after speaker and interlocutor, meeting with presidential candidates, testifying before the US House Committee on Rules, and becoming a leading advocate for healthcare coverage as a human right. Barkan was described as the “the most powerful activist in America” by Politico and named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2020.

Email: Carina Pasquesi for free streaming access from 10/28-10/29 to the documentary about Barkan: Not Going Quietly.

Tuesday, November 2
9:30 AM-10:30 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Designing Student Engagement with Zoom, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL

Discuss your ideas and challenges for building engagement into online synchronous class meetings. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Fireside Chat: Calibrating Your Moral Compass and Leading with Integrity, speakers, Paquita Y. Davis-Friday, Zicklin School of Business and Mark Martinelli, Synchrony

Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity for a fireside chat with Mark Martinelli, EVP and Chief Audit Executive of Synchrony, and Professor Paquita Y. Davis-Friday, Senior Associate Dean in the Zicklin School of Business. Mr. Martinelli will detail his professional journey and draw upon his experiences to highlight the importance of establishing a moral compass early in one’s career and using it to navigate decision making. Mr. Martinelli and Professor Davis-Friday will discuss how leaders can develop a workplace that operates with integrity and fosters a corporate culture that values ethics.

To learn more about this event or to register, click HERE.

4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Weissman Center International Business Seminar Series, speaker, Prof. Hari Bapuji, The University of Melbourne

Professor Bapuji’s research focuses on the impact of economic inequality on organizations, and vice versa. His research in this area has appeared in leading management journals, including Academy of Management Annals, Business and Society, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, among others. His work also has been cited extensively in general media outlets. For additional details about Bapuji’s background please visit: www.haribapuji.org.

ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/82876530488

Wednesday, November 3
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Black Studies Colloquium Faculty Presentation: The Fight Against Racial Capitalism: From Maroon Communities to the Haitian Revolution, speaker, Tshombe Miles, Department of Black and Latino Studies

Professor Miles will present his work on the Black Radical Tradition using examples from maroon communities to the Haitian Revolution. The talk will focus on the question of how these communities created spaces of economic development in the face of racial capitalism despite the explicit intent to destroy those communities. This event will be moderated by Professor Rojo Robles of Baruch’s Department of Black and Latino Studies. For more information on the Black Studies Colloquium, click here.

7:00 PM-8:00 PM
Two Big Differences, Reading, speaker, Ian Ross Singleton, Department of English

Ian Ross Singleton’s debut novel Two Big Differences has been described as, “brightly original, structurally inventive, thoughtful and wise” by Mikhail Iossel and, “a rich linguistic treat on every page” by Leland Cheuk. Join the author, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the English Department at Baruch, for a reading and Q&A with Evan Smith and Seth Graves, also of the English Department at Baruch.

Thursday, November 4
9:30 AM-10:30 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Designing Student Engagement with Zoom, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL

Discuss your ideas and challenges for building engagement into online synchronous class meetings. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Information Systems and Statistics Research Seminar Series, speaker, Prof. Ali Tafti, University of Illinois

Ali Tafti is an associate professor of information and decision sciences in the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include economic and strategic impacts of information technology investment, social and collaborative networks, and causal inference methods, and his work has been published in premier journals. Professor Tafti will give a talk about “Leveraging Causal Structure in Randomized Experiments for Theory and Practice.” For more information on this event, please contact Prof. Shuting Wang.

ZOOM Meeting ID: 575 694 2273
Passcode: 2273

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. 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: Formation of the Self in Longitudinal Documentary speaker, Jonathan Goodman Levitt, Film Producer

Join the Global Student Certificate Program for a special series of Arts Masterclasses. Hear directly from artists, gallerists, and performers about their artwork and philosophies as well as how their work helps us understand societies around the world. Jonathan Goodman Levitt’s work personalizes social issues and motivates social change by charting people’s lives as they unfold on-screen. He will discuss whether and how filming such ideas is possible. What happens when someone is diagnosed with a mental illness and forced to reconsider who he is? How do teenagers learn to separate themselves from what their parents think? To what extent are poverty and a lack of school choice drivers of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan? And how can these topics be portrayed on camera thoughtfully, provocatively, and fairly at the same time?

Looking Forward…

Tuesday, November 9
9:30 AM-10:30 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Engaging Students with Zoom: Breakout Rooms Deep Dive, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL

Review the teaming options in a Zoom synchronous class. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Thursday, November 18
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.

4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Climate Change: Artists Respond, moderated by Julie Reiss, Art Historian, and Katherine Behar, Department of Fine and Performing Arts

This panel brings together contemporary artists whose artwork contributes to a broader public understanding of the consequences of climate change for human and non-human existence, and the urgent need for action and mitigation. The seemingly overwhelming scale of the climate crisis is a recognized barrier to public participation in tackling the climate crisis. Art can overcome this resistance through myriad methods, from educating and raising awareness to modeling problem solving or giving voice and form to intangible forces. Xavier Cortada, Anina Gerchick, Mary Mattingly, and Katherine Behar have created art that is both geographically specific and universally relevant, providing entry points around which people can coalesce. Supported by We Are Climate Action (WACA) in collaboration with the New Media Artspace.