Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting tomorrow, March 25

March 24, 2022

Tomorrow…

Friday, March 25
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Showcase: Community Engaged and Field-based Teaching and Learning, speakers, Stephen Gosnell, Department of Natural Sciences, Vera Haller, Department of Journalism and the writing Professions, and Scott Newbert, The Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management

Join a virtual luncheon on community engaged and field-based teaching and learning. The luncheon will showcase journalism professor Vera Haller, entrepreneurship professor Scott Newbert, and biology professor Stephen Gosnell. Each panelist will discuss how they use learning that takes place outside the classroom, offering ways to build greater engagement between courses and outside communities. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/

Next week @ Baruch…

Tuesday, March 1 – Monday, April 4
Baruch Educational Technology Committee Survey
This is a reminder to please complete the survey prepared by the Baruch Educational Technology Committee that was distributed earlier this month. The last day will be Monday, April 4. Your responses will provide important insight into the educational technology needs for Baruch staff and faculty going forward. A similar survey was distributed in 2019 (prior to the pandemic), which provided useful, actionable information. This follow-on survey should yield new insights. The committee looks forward to your collective responses. Please feel free to direct any questions or comments regarding the survey to the committee chair, Eugene Marlow.

Complete the survey HERE.

Monday, March 28
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
“The Long Struggle for Gender Rights: The 50th Anniversary of the Congressional Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and its Legacy,” multiple speakers, introduction by Katherine Pence, Associate Professor of History and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies

A Discussion Featuring Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty and Jay Berman (Baruch class of 1959 and Baruch College Fund Trustee), who served as aide and Chief of Staff for Senator Birch Bayh, who authored both the ERA amendment and Title IX legislation. With Shelly Eversley, Professor of English and Chair of Black and Latinx Studies, Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor Emerita of History, and Ted Joyce, Professor of Economics. For more information on this event, click here.

Wednesday, March 30
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
“Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth,” speaker, Dr. Madga Teter, Fordham University

Professor Magda Teter specializes in early modern religious and cultural history, with emphasis on Jewish-Christian relations in eastern Europe, the politics of religion, and transmission of culture among Jews and Christians across Europe in the early modern period. Her research takes her to different archives in Europe, among them the Secret Vatican Archives and the Vatican Library. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (Cambridge UP, 2006), Sinners on Trial (Harvard UP, 2011) and most recently, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth (Harvard UP, 2020), as well as co-editor of and contributor to Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-modern Poland (Littman, 2011). This event is presented by the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center.

RSVP: pasquesi@baruch.cuny.edu

Thursday, March 31
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Library Building, room 750
PROVOST BOOK EVENT – Creative Infrastructures: Artists, Money and Entrepreneurial Action, speaker, Linda Essig, Provost and Senior Vice President

Join us for a conversation with Provost Linda Essig about her new book, Creative Infrastructures: Artists, Money and Entrepreneurial Action. This in-person event will include Professors John Casey (Marxe School of Public and International Affairs), David Milch (Fine and Performing Arts), and Lilia Ziamou (Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing & International Business).

RSVP preferred: baruchwsas@baruch.cuny.edu

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Black Futures in the Classroom, speakers, Angie Beeman, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs and Rojo Robles, Department of Black and Latino Studies

We believe that teaching is reciprocal: namely, that students and faculty share in the production of knowledge. The diversity among our student populations also offers a kind of local and global perspective that has been underutilized. In this fireside chat, scholars, and students will address the significance of Black Studies and African Studies. Following this intellectual and practical exchange, Dr. Angie Beeman, Dr. Rojo Robles, and other Baruch’s Black Studies Colloquium faculty will develop public knowledge projects with their students. Following this intellectual and practical exchange, Baruch’s Black Studies Colloquium faculty will develop public knowledge projects with their students inspired by the open education innovations of #Schomburg Syllabus and #PRSyllabus. All Baruch, faculty, and staff are encouraged to drop in, listen, chat, and reimagine what we can learn and create with Black studies in the classroom across different fields and disciplines.

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, NVC 14-230 (with remote option)
DELTA Seminar: Human Resource Governance Within a Workforce Ecosystem, speaker, Dr. Shad Morris, Brigham Young University

The Delta Seminar sponsored by the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management, Baruch College, CUNY presents “Human Resource Governance Within a Workforce Ecosystem,” by Dr. Shad Morris, the William F. Edwards Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University. To understand how human resources are governed outside of the traditional organizational context, the authors develop a framework to help reconcile strategic dualities found within a business ecosystem. Reconciling these tensions requires that firms engage in establishing a dynamic equilibrium through their configuration of capabilities, workforce composition, and cultures within the ecosystem. This review and framework provide the foundation of a theory of human resource governance.

Remote link can be requested from: lauren.aydinliyim@baruch.cuny.edu

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
The Role and Vision of Nonprofit News, moderated by, Prof. Gisele Regatão, Department of Journalism And The Writing Professions

Join this Zoom discussion featuring Susan Chira, editor-in-chief of the Pulitzer Prize winning, The Marshall Project, Akoto Ofori-Atta, co-founder and chief audience officer of Capital B, and Mazin Sidahmed, co-founder and co-executive director of Documented.

Friday, April 1
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Marxe DEI Fridays: Racism and Colorism in the International Context, speakers, Rubia Valente and Sonia Jarvis, 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 with questions.

Looking forward…

Tuesday, April 5
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Open Banking: The Ethical Pitfalls of a Revolution in Consumer Services, speakers, Prof. Nizan Geslevich Packin, Department of Law, Raúl Carrillo, LPE Project and Yale Law School, and Matthew Adam Bruckner, Howard University

During the last several years the Open Banking movement has quietly gathered pace in the United States with the help of entities that have become known as data aggregators. The rise of FinTech services, the popularity of smartphones, and even the Covid-19 pandemic have all increased consumers’ reliance on new products and services that have been enabled by Open Banking’s free flow of financial data. But open banking also raises many dilemmas, which relate to issues such as consumer privacy, innovation, cybersecurity, discrimination, financial stability, and even competition law. The panel on open banking will introduce and discuss these issues along with what regulators are doing to address the relevant concerns. Presented by the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.

Thursday, April 7
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Zotero 2: Advanced Zotero Workshop, presenter, Prof. Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library

The Zotero 2 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 1 Workshop and have the prerequisite software installed (see sign up page for details).

2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

CUNY Central Export Control Workshop for Researchers, speaker, Paul Kran, Research Integrity Training and Quality Assurance Specialist, CUNY

Per Asscociate Provost Price’s communication on August 31, 2021, all faculty, staff, administrators, and students who may be potentially engaged in export controlled activities must, among other requirements, attend the annual CUNY export control training event. This includes any researcher who may be working with or developing Export Administration Regulations (EAR) or International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) controlled technologies, but also any researcher involved in international collaborations. This CUNY Central workshop is targeted to researchers doing work that export control laws might impact and will also provide an overview of new Foreign Influence regulations and the preliminary steps CUNY has taken to address them. Should you have any questions about whether your activities may fall under export control regulations, please refer to the communication linked above, or reach out to Baruch’s Export Control Administrator, Keisha Peterson.

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (reception at 5:00 PM), Room 750, Baruch Library Building
Harman Writer Reading and Conversation, speaker, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Harman Writer-in-Residence

All members of the Baruch community are invited to this in-person event. Sotiropoulos is an award-winning Greek novelist and the first Harman Writer to work in Modern Greek. She has published more than a dozen works of fiction and poetry, which have won many awards, including Greece’s National Book Award (twice!), the Greek Book Critics’ Award, and the Athens Academy Prize. Her collection “Landscape with Dog: and Other Stories” appeared in English in 2009 in a translation by Karen Emmerich. Her novel “What’s Left of the Night” won the 2017 Prix Méditerranée Étranger in France and its English translation, also by Karen Emmerich, won the 2019 National Translation Award. For more information, contact Esther Allen.

Friday, April 8
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
VIRTUAL TEACH-IN: Mirrors, Doors, and Windows: Inter-Cultural Approaches to Teaching and Learning, speakers, Arlene Torres, Hunter College, and Colleagues from Tools for Clear Speech and the Writing Center.

Join members of the Baruch Community as we explore inter-cultural approaches to teaching and learning, grounded in culturally-responsive and culturally-sustaining pedagogies. Learn how to better support students from a variety of backgrounds (e.g., ethnicities, races, religions, cultures), including immigrants, international students, and multilingual students, using a strengths rather than deficits framework. We will have a keynote speaker, Arlene Torres (Hunter College), and a workshop facilitated by colleagues from Tools for Clear Speech and the Writing Center. You will have a chance to workshop some of your teaching material and get specific strategies to implement in your teaching. This event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and will be led by Dr. Anna D’Souza, the Provost Innovation Fellow for Inclusive Teaching and Associate Professor at the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

Tuesday, April 12
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Zicklin Talks Business Webinar Series: What Are the Key Risks Facing Global Banks and How Do They Manage Them?, speakers, Larry Zicklin, BBA ’57, Lisa Farkovits, Barclays, and Kenneth Abbott, Department of Law

Global banks face a host of challenges. Traditional risks include future changes in the macro economy, interest rates, liquidity, and competition; newer ones are digital transformation, cryptocurrencies, reputational risks, and ESG issues. Dare we even mention how they must be dealing with Russia’s intervention in Ukraine? How do these organizations measure and manage these risks? What are the potential implications of the failure of one such institution on the wider financial system? Larry Zicklin (BBA ‘57) discusses these questions with Lisa Farkovits, Managing Director and Global Head of Model Risk Management at Barclays, and with Kenneth Abbott, Lecturer in the Zicklin School Department of Law. With an introduction by Dean Fenwick Huss and a Q&A session moderated by Associate Dean Gwen Webb. For more information on this event and others, click here.

Thursday, April 14
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
A Conversation about Climate Justice, speaker, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author

Join us for a “Conversation about Climate Justice” with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. The conversation with Dr. Gumbs will be led by students from the Black and Latino Studies capstone course “Climate Justice is Racial Justice.” This event is presented by the Department of Black and Latino Studies, the Department of English via Globus Lectures, and the Dean’s Office at Baruch.