Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting November 15

November 11, 2021

Next Week @ Baruch…

Monday, November 15
11:00 AM-11:45 AM
Interfolio Clinic, hosted by The Office of Academic Administration, staff

Interfolio is an online environment used to manage the academic personnel processes for full-time faculty at Baruch. Please join us for a 45-minute clinic geared towards faculty applying for scholarly leaves (fellowship leaves and scholarly incentive awards) for the upcoming year using Interfolio.

Tuesday, November 16
9:00 AM-10:00 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
Mitsui Virtual Forum: Risk, Learn, Grow: Insuring an Increasingly Uncertain Future, speaker, Patrick Brennan, Treasurer, Progressive Corporation

How is insurance shifting in today’s climate and what does it mean? Join us as we learn on how insurance companies are navigating through these changes. The Weissman Center for International Business is pleased to present our Mitsui Virtual-Time Forum of the fall semester. Patrick Brennan, Treasurer, Progressive Corporation, will speak on “Risk, Learn, Grow: Insuring an Increasingly Uncertain Future.”

Wednesday, November 17
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Is the Metaverse the Future of Work and Play?, moderated by Michael Baxter, Editor in Chief, “Techopian”

The panel will touch on issues at the intersection of metaverse and its potentialities in reorganizing the way people work and play. The panelists will provide a brief overview of the metaverse concept and relate it to recent history as well as outline the current ecosystem. The panel will then explore why the idea of metaverses has the potential to be transformational at this particular moment in time, and the how the current incarnation of metaverses can bridge the chasm between the physical world and the (metaverse leveraged) virtual world while discussing concrete examples in different domains. For more information on this event and a full list of panelists, click HERE. Presented by the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics.

Thursday, November 18
9:00 AM-10:00 AM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Zoom Updates, End-of-Semester Clean-up, and Planning for Spring 2022, hosted by Catherine Kawalek, CTL

Reviewing the latest Zoom updates, saving your recordings, and options for your Spring Online Classes. Before attending this class please update your Zoom application to the latest version (5.8.3 or higher). 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. Ling Xue, Georgia State University

Title: Flourish or Perish? The Impact of Technological Acquisitions on Contributions to Open-Source Software
Abstract: This study examines the impact of technological acquisitions on contributions to firm-sponsored community-based open-source software (OSS). We distinguish between internal contributors affiliated with target firms and external contributors from the community, and examine how they respond to technological acquisitions differently. Theoretically, we examine how technological acquisition influences contributors’ uncertainty about project quality through a signaling effect and influences their uncertainty about project continuity through potential resource combination. We connect uncertainties with contributors’ motivations to theorize their responses to acquisitions. For more information on this event, please contact Prof. Shuting Wang.

ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/5756942273
Passcode: 2273

12:00-1:30 PM
Weissman Center International Business Seminar Series, speaker, Prof. Saul Estrin, London School of Economics

Professor Estrin will present a paper entitled Unpacking the effects of business group affiliation on exporting performance in emerging markets. His research has focused on the micro-economics of comparative economic systems, with recent focus on foreign direct investment to emerging economies, and the impact of that investment on the host countries, as well as the study of archetypical enterprise types in emerging economies, namely Business Groups and State-Owned firms. Professor Estrin research has been published in leading journals of international economics and business. He was recently appointed a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in recognition of his contribution to the field. To learn more about Estrin background please visit here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/management/people/emeriti-visiting-staff/sestrin.

ZOOM LINK: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/89820570473

12:30-1:45 PM
The Slander Industry, speakers, Kashmir Hill, New York Times, and Yafit Lev-Aretz, RZCCI Tech Director

In April 2021, New York Times reporters Kashmir Hill and Aaron Krolick offered a deep look into what they referred to as “the slander industry.” This industry consists of a web of sites hosting unverified and potentially life-ruining claims about individuals. The slanders are quickly duplicated by other websites and soon dominate search results on Google. The report further revealed a symbiotic relationship between the sites that host slander and the “reputation management” companies who remove it. Join us for a fascinating conversation with New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill on the slander industry, its cozy relationship with reputation management firms, ethical boundaries, and regulatory challenges. For more information on this event, visit: https://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/event/theslanderindustry/.

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.

Friday, November 19
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
A Provost’s Innovation Fellows Event Series: Rethinking Grading: Anti-Racist Assessment of Student Writing, hosted by the Office of the Provost and the Marxe DEI Committee

Join us for a discussion of anti-racist pedagogy, specifically related to assessing student writing, led by Associate Professor Tiffany Lewis of the Marxe School. This is the first of a series of monthly discussions centered on Inclusive Pedagogy, and supported by the Provost Innovation Fellowship Program and the Marxe DEI Committee. The spring series will be announced in January. All are welcome. For more information on this event, please contact Prof. Anna D’Souza.

Looking Forward…

Thursday, December 2
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Zotero Workshop, hosted by Prof. Joseph Hartnett, Library

Friday, December 3
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Natural Sciences Globus Seminar, speaker, Ivan Anastassov, San Francisco State University

Prof. Anastassov will present of 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