[All of the following events are happening at the same time.]
Spring 2012 Program Planning Meeting
Tuesday, April 3 at 6 PM
Diana Center, Room 504
An open-house informational meeting where we discuss the broad structure of our curricular requirements, introduce our faculty, answer questions, and announce the courses that will be offered next term.
From One Island to Another: Dominican Immigration to New York, 1892-1924
A lecture by Ramona Hernández
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 6 PM
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall
More than 5,000 Dominicans came to New York City through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924, and many of them came with the idea of staying permanently. How do these Dominicans differ from those who followed them in the 1960s? How do Dominicans who came through Ellis Island resemble other Caribbean Hispanics who lived in New York City at the dawn of the 20th century? Using Ellis Island documents and other institutional archival records, Ramona Hernández paints a compelling portrait of Dominicans who wanted to make New York theirpermanent home. Hernández is director of the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York, CUNY, and professor of sociology at City College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of several works on migration and labor, including The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States. This event is sponsored by the Forum on Migration and Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race as part of the Migration, Race, and Ethnicity lecture series.
Perpetual Revolution: Creating Space for Dialogue through Public Projects
Ruth Sergel and Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani in conversation
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 6:00-8:00PM.
Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Room 801.
420 W. 118th Street, 8th floor.
Gabrielle is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary practice on place and dialogue, Buscada, through which she creates projects, such as the Triangle Open Archive and Museum, that engender dialogue between communities, individuals and disciplines to explore critical questions of place and visual urbanism. Ruth is the founder of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which united over 250 partners nationwide to create the March 2011 centennial commemoration. She also co-founded Voices of 9.11, which recorded over 500 video testimonies and has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the New York Historical Society and the Theatre de la Ville (Paris).
Recent departmental news
Urban Studies major Ana Maria Cruz (BC '09) named Luce Scholar
What can you do with an Urban Studies major?
Our program was featured in the March 2012 issue of Career Connections, from Barnard Career Development.
A Lesson in Philanthropy
"A group of students at Columbia University and Barnard College had $10,000 to play with, provided by the Learning by Giving Foundation, and all they had to do was pick one worthy cause." Prof. Tom Kamber's Urban Studies course in Social Entrepreneurship, featured in the December 12 edition of the Wall Street Journal.
