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2018 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Project

| Kahina Meziant

The Center for the Humanities’ CUNY Adjunct Incubator, co-sponsored by the Gittell Urban Studies Collective, is a framework for supporting the significant scholarly, creative, and pedagogical work of adjuncts teaching in the humanities and humanistic social sciences across CUNY. Providing social, logistical, financial, and professional support for the production and circulation of knowledge by CUNY adjuncts, this platform promotes the crucial work of part-time faculty across CUNY community and senior college campuses.

Learn more about the program here.

CUNY Adjunct Grant-Funded Projects & Scholarship 

In 2018, the CUNY Adjunct Incubator awarded grants to 13 CUNY adjuncts from 6 CUNY colleges to develop a wide-range of deeply impactful public and applied projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These projects range from addressing the needs and amplifying the successes of CUNY student-parents, to writing and performing new musical compositions for 3D-printed instruments, to photo-documentation of the erasure of Kurdish language from Kurdistan/Turkey, to food provision mapping that elucidates eating habits, access, and food inequities, and many more projects taking the form of concerts, dance, music, workshops, books, film, performance, classes, independent scholarship, and events. Read more about these grant-funded projects and the vital research and work by these outstanding CUNY adjuncts:

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THE LONG VIEW FILM SCREENING AND TALK

| Kahina Meziant

The Long View chronicles the efforts of Oakland’s students, educators, organizers, parents, and community members to create lasting solutions to the systemic inequities in the city’s public school system. The film unfolds over the course of a three-year community effort to come together and create change in schools and in the district as a whole.

6:30 pm refreshments in Room 4202
7:00-9:00 film screening Martin Segal Theater

Remarks following the film by Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director,
New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE)
and conversation with film’s director

Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in Urban Education, Critical Psychology,
the Public Science Project, the URBAN Research Network,
the Center for Advanced Study in Education and the Gittell Collective
Foundation support from:
The Stuart Foundation, The C.S. Mott Foundation, The Panta Rhea Foundation, The Nellie Mae Education Foundation, The California Endowment, The Hewlett Foundation, The Ruth Mott Foundation

Book Launch for Celina Su’s Landia featuring Youmna Chlala, Caroline Crumpacker, Paolo Javier, Cindi Katz, & Alissa Quart

| Kahina Meziant

Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM
The James Gallery

Join us for the book launch of Celina Su’s debut poetry collection Landia, which questions spatial practices, architecture and cities as they relate to language, the visual, and literature, featuring Caroline Crumpacker, Paolo Javier, Cindi Katz, Alissa Quart, and special guest Youmna Chlala, whose first collection The Paper Camera (Litmus Press) is forthcoming. Both Su and Chlala’s new books intersect with their artistic and academic practices in multiple ways along the lines of race, translation, movement, and displacement. In Landia (Belladonna* Series), Celina Su excavates literal and figurative borderlands—redrawn boundaries, architectural palimpsests, underground transport systems—to reckon with the historical and cultural forces that shape our cities and our intimate lives.

Co-sponsored by Belladonna* Series, Litmus Press, The James Gallery, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, the Gittell Collective, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.