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2024 Stuart Z. Katz Professorship Installation
A special celebration for Professor Boukary Sawadogo as The 2024-2025 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in Humanities and the Arts
Tuesday, October 29 · 4:30 - 7pm EDT
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
85 Saint Nicholas Terrace Auditorium New York, NY 10031
About Professor Boukary Sawadogo
Boukary Sawadogo is a scholar and practitioner of African cinemas, the author four books on African film, including two editions of his widely adopted textbook African Film Studies: An Introduction (2022 and 2018) with an edition in Arabic language soon to be released, West African Screen Media: Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization (2019), and Les cinémas francophones ouest africains (1990–2005) in 2013. Also, Professor Sawadogo is the founding director of the Harlem African Animation Festival, the first film festival in the United States that is exclusively devoted to African animated film and series. Beyond film, Boukary Sawadogo has broadened his research and teaching interests to encompass African immigration to the United States, and Harlem as a site of global encounters and exchanges. In this regard, he has authored the book Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story (2022) and has recently completed a book manuscript, No Uninteresting Part of America, on what it means to be an African (migrant) in the United States. Professor Sawadogo is using the Stuart Z. Katz Professorship to conduct archival research as part of his book on African animation, which looks at the history, aesthetics, theory, and the emerging market of animation in Africa, and also to maintain public programming of animated cinema at the City College during the 2024-2025 academic year. His lecture “Of Here and Afar: The World in Me” is an excerpt of his forthcoming book No Uninteresting Part of America.
About Stuart Z. Katz Professorship
The Stuart Z. Katz Professorship in the Humanities & the Arts at The City College of New York was established in 2017 by a generous gift from Mr. Stuart Z. Katz, a 1964 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of CCNY. The endowment supports one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division of Humanities & the Arts for an academic year, providing the professor up to two months of summer salary plus $10,000 to support research and creative activity.
Mr. Katz, a retired attorney, established the gift for the importance of the study of humanities and the arts for a thorough education and life.
A celebration for Review 108: Literature and Arts of the Americas
The Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures, the M.A. Program in Spanish, and Routledge/Taylor &Francis Group
are pleased to invite the general public to a celebration for
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
Contemporary Latin American Women Writers (no. 108)
Thursday, November 7, 2024, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (ET) Shepard Hall 291 (Screening Room)
160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031 For further information:
dshapiro@ccny.cuny.edu
The event will be led by Daniel Shapiro, Editor; with remarks by Dr. Carlos Riobó, Chair, Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures; followed by a conversation, in English, with co-Guest Editors Carmen Boullosa (CUNY) and Lucía Melgar (ITAM).
Review 108, guest-edited by Carmen Boullosa (Macaulay Honors College, CUNY) and Lucía Melgar (ITAM, Mexico) showcases the work of women scholars as well as fiction and non-fiction writers and poets active throughout Latin America.
Cover image by Magali Lara. Cover design: Daimys García.
Review is published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, in association with The City College of New York, CUNY, Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures.
Sweet Basil Sessions: A Conversation with Mel Litoff
Join Music Librarian Michael Crowley in a conversation with Mel Litoff, a CCNY alum and former owner of the Manhattan jazz club, Sweet Basil. The event will include highlights from the Sweet Basil Jazz LP collection, a performance by a student jazz ensemble, and audience Q&A throughout. Lunch will be served to all event attendees.
Date: Tuesday, September 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Location: Shepard Hall, Room 306
Register here! https://forms.gle/FE6h9uiceTzUFZDB9
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Renata Kobetts Miller named Dean
of the Division of Humanities & the Arts
Author and Professor Renata Kobetts Miller has been appointed dean of the Division of Humanities and the Arts at
The City College of New York.
Full story here.
Congratulations to the Class of 2024!
HIGHLIGHTS
Humanities Ceremony - Thursday, May 23, 2024
https://video214.com/play/OPcaUK1kczQJm0O0Gte8qQ/s/dark
Arts Ceremony - Friday, May 24, 2024
2024 CUNY Jazz Festival
2024 CUNY JAZZ FESTIVAL on May 8th, 2024, has been relocated to The Harlem School of the Arts at Dorothy Maynor Hall. Here are the latest details:
🎶 CCNY Jazz Day May 8th, 2024
📍 Harlem School of the Arts, Dorothy Maynor Hall - 645 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY
✨ FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
Schedule:
1:00 PM - CCNY Faculty Jazz Ensemble
Featuring: Steve Wilson – alto sax, Ray Gallon - piano, Martin Wind – bass, Carl Allen – drums
1:50 PM - Graduate Ensemble, The 12 PM Group Directed by Steve Wilson
2:30 PM - Undergraduate Small Ensembles Directed by Ray Gallon
4:00 PM - Dayna Stephens Master class and Jam Session
6:00 PM - Graduate Ensemble, The 10 AM Group Directed by Steve Wilson
6:45 PM - Intermission
8:00 PM - Dayna Stephens Quartet
Featuring: Dayna Stephens – tenor sax, Emmanuel Michael – Guitar, Kanoa Mendenhall – Bass, Jongkuk Kim – Drums
"Self-Representation in Harlem Renaissance Arts"
As part of the Harlem 2032 activities on campus this spring, Karen Taborn, author of Walking Harlem: The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2018), will speak on Tuesday, April 2, at 12:30 p.m. in Shepard Hall 306.
This event will also be hosted virtually via Zoom: https://ccny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwod-2tqTksGdQOmRhhWEtVK4IwzjkhduGp
A resident of Harlem, New York for over 40 years, Karen Taborn began her research on the community in the early 1990s as the historical consultant for The Strivers Center project—a consortium of professionals gathered by the Harlem Chamber of Commerce to acknowledge the rich history of Harlem culminating in the creation of the Harlem Walk-of-Fame on West 135th Street between Adam Clayton Powell (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in Harlem. Taborn taught Harlem history in the 1990s at the New School (now the New School University) in New York City and she currently gives talks and tours on and in the community of Harlem.
Taborn holds double master's degrees in jazz (NYU, 1987) and in ethnomusicology (Hunter College, 2006). To learn more about Karen Taborn's work in Harlem, visit her website at karentabornwalkingharlem.com
Pulitzer-winning author Colson Whitehead is the 2024 CCNY Langston Hughes Medalist
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead is this year’s City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal recipient. He’ll receive the Medal at CCNY's 45th annual Langston Hughes Festival on Thursday, February 1, 2023.
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