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CWE Offers Hip-Hop Book Lecture Series

A new lecture series from The City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education will provide a forum for discussion with authors who chart what people know and understand about hip-hop. “Reading Hip Hop: Off the Records, In the Books,” which runs September 9 through December 2, will address hip-hop fiction, the business of hip-hop, music sampling, fashion, marketing, music politics and culture.
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Free Speech at CCNY Exhibit on Display at CWE

“The Struggle for Free Speech at the City College of New York: 1931-42,” an exhibition documenting student and faculty political activism at CCNY in the 1930s, will be on display at The City College Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, seventh floor, 25 Broadway, September 6-October 28, 2011. Carol Smith, a retired CCNY faculty member, curates the exhibition, which was made available courtesy of City College Libraries. The Puffin Foundation and Yip Harburg Foundation provided additional funding.
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Book Talk Lectures Focus on African-Derived Religions’ Aesthetics

The aesthetics that emerge from the spiritual practices of “African-derived” religions will be the focal point of The City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies Fall 2011 Book Talk Lecture Series. Presenters include Guggenheim Fellows Donald Cosentino and Colin Dayan.
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Exhibit at CCNY Showcases Dominican Republic From the Sky

Now you can see the Dominican Republic from the sky without boarding an airplane. Just visit “New Perspectives: Dominican Republic,” a new exhibit of 56 aerial photographs, August 30 through October 31 at the Amsterdam Plaza on the City College of New York campus.
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Pilgrimage From Japan Honors CCNY Founder July 13

The Hon. Naoki Ishii, mayor of Shimoda, Japan, will lead an eight-member delegation on a pilgrimage to The City College of New York July 13 to honor CCNY’s founder, Townsend Harris, who also opened the first U.S. consulate in Japan. The party will be the 25th from Shimoda to visit CCNY to pay homage to Harris, who founded The College as The Free Academy in 1847.
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Conference to Honor Professor Catherine Fosnot

Shortly after she joined the faculty of The City College of New York School of Education, Dr. Catherine Fosnot established the Mathematics in the City (MitC) center at CCNY in collaboration with the Freudenthal Institute at University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Under her leadership, MitC became a national center for professional development in K-8 math education, with support from the National Science Foundation, ExxonMobil Foundation and the New York City Department of Education.
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Security Expert Sees Cyber Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

A cyber attack earlier this year on an Iranian nuclear facility may have set back Iran’s alleged plan to build an atom bomb. However, the target of that incident, the plant’s control and monitoring systems, has implications for a wide range of strategic infrastructure, according to cyber security expert Dr. Tarek Saadawi, director, Center for Information Networking, and professor of electrical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York.
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New Professional Theatre Company to Debut at CCNY

Harlem is getting a new entertainment option this summer. The New Haarlem Arts Theatre (NHAT), a new professional theatre company launched by The City College of New York Department of Theatre and Speech, will offer two productions in its premiere season.
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Geoffrey Canada to Address CCNY’S 165th Commencement June 3

Geoffrey Canada, the founder and chief executive officer of Harlem Children’s Zone and a nationally recognized education reform advocate, will be the guest speaker at The City College of New York’s 165th Commencement Exercises, 10 a.m., Friday, June 3 on the CCNY campus.
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Michio Kaku to Deliver Samuel Rudin Lecture May 16

Dr. Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Chair and Professor of Theoretical Physics at The City College of New York, has been in great demand around the country to speak on his best-selling book, “Physics of the Future.” He will have home court advantage, however, when he presents the Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 16 in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus, 160 Convent Avenue, New York. The event is free and open to the public.
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CCNY Libraries Hosts Cherry Blossom Film Festival

The City College of New York Libraries celebrate Japanese culture by hosting a Cherry Blossom Film Festival April 28 – May 5 in the Cohen Library Archives Reading Room on the fifth floor of the North Academic Center. During the festival, four noted Japanese films with socio-cultural themes from CCNY’s collection will be screened in their entirety or partially. Four East Asia scholars from CCNY, Baruch College and Yale University will host and/or discuss the films, as well.
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