Thea Klapwald

TKlapwald@ccny.cuny.edu

Kima Jones, writer, public relations expert, and agent, and Michelle Valladares, director of The City College of New York MFA of Creative Writing

“Chai and Chat” discussion about book publishing

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The City College of New York
Rifkind Center, North Academic Center 6/316
160 Convent Ave., New York

Thea Klapwald, CCNY Public Relations, 310.980.1231, tklapwald@ccny.cuny.edu    

CCNY Professor and author Emily Raboteau in conversation with MIT Professor and essayist Garnette Cadogan

The City College of New York’s Professor and author Emily Raboteau is launching her latest book “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against 'the Apocalypse'” (Henry Holt & Co., 2024) into bookstores and online March 14. To celebrate, The Center for Fiction welcomes back the American Book Award-winning author and critic Raboteau (“The Professor’s Daughter,” “Searching for Zion”) with MIT Lecturer and essayist Garnette Cardogan for an in-person conversation that will also be livestreamed. Her landmark work of nonfiction, was reviewed in the “New York Times” and was an “LA Times” selection, offers Raboteau’s perspective as a mother raising children during this era of polycrises and existential threats, like the over-policing of Black bodies, the pandemic, and climate collapse and. Provocative and innovative, Raboteau’s innovative writing confronts the myriad, multiplying dangers, that constitute life in the 21st century, at the intersections of social, racial, and environmental justice, through the lens of motherhood. Her book is a moving exploration of what it takes to raise thriving children in a world of inequities, without coming undone yourself. During the discussion, Raboteau will share photographs from the book, and afterwards she will sign books. Her work has recently appeared in “The New York Review of Books,” “Orion,” and in “The Atlantic.” She was recently profiled in the “LA Times.” Admission is $7.50. Register here.

7 p.m., Thursday, Mar. 14.

The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217, info@centerforfiction.org , 212-755-6710

Thea Klapwald, CCNY Public Relations, T: 310.980.1231, E: tklapwald@ccny.cuny.edu

CCNY Professor and author Salar Abdoh
CCNY Professor and author Emily Raboteau

The City College of New York’s Professor and author Salar Abdoh is launching his latest book “A Nearby Country Called Love: A Novel” (Viking, 2023) into bookstores and online November 7. To celebrate, Abdoh and fellow CCNY English Professor and author Emily Raboteau will hold an in-person conversation at the Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 7.30 p.m. Abdoh’s book gives a captivating window into contemporary Iran, and is a sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves. The book has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from prominent publications, such as "Kirkus Reviews," "Publisher’s Weekly," "Foreign Affairs," "Pride Source," and "The Washington Post," where it was named a notable book. "Booklist" calls it “A poignant dark, dark dramedy exposing the elusive, performative nature of never quite true love.” Raboteau writes of the book, "Salar Abdoh writes masterfully against toxic masculinity in this intimate novel. I fell in love with his characters as they seek to cultivate tenderness in a culture of violence, and you will too." Born in Iran, Abdoh splits his time between Tehran and New York City. He is the author of the novels “Tehran at Twilight,” “The Poet Game,” “Opium,” and “Out of Mesopotamia” and the editor of “Tehran Noir.” He is the director of the Undergraduate Creative Writing at CCNY. A wine reception follows the talk. Make reservations for the free event here.

7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 7.

Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Andrea Weiss

Email: aweiss@ccny.cuny.edu

jezebelproductions.org

A panel discussion with Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT, and representatives from the NAACP and National Urban League, moderated by Juan Gonzalez, co-host of Pacific Radio's Democracy Now! They will be discussing co-director and co-producer Andrea Weiss' film "The Five Demands" and its relevance for today.

The Five Demands - Live Online Event Panel Discussion on Equity and Access in Education with Distinguished Panelists and Exclusive Clips from the New Film "The Five Demands"

Thursday, September 7 · 3:30pm ET

Online. Reserve your space here or use the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-five-demands-live-online-event-tickets…

Jay Mwamba, CCNY Public Relations, 917.892.0374
jmwamba@ccny.cuny.edu

Cohort of 36 Ukrainian high school students (primarily from Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum (UPML);

Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, Pres. The City College of New York;

Dr. Alexander Khanikaev, [event organizer and chair]; and others

Thirty-six students, from the UPML and other specialized high schools in Kyiv and Kharkiv for Ukraine’s mostgifted learners, are in New York for a three-week summer school program at CCNY. They will be joined by several New York students from Bronx HS of Science, Brooklyn Technical HS and CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering. The program, which runs through Aug. 12, begins on Tuesday, July 25, with a welcoming ceremony at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) located on the CCNY campus. The schedule includes talks, orientation, lab safety training and a tour of the ASRC, culminating in a mini conference where the visitors will present their research topics. Click here for more details about the gifted Ukrainian students’ CCNY summer camp.

10 a.m., Tuesday, July 25, 2023

ASRC auditorium, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, Manhattan.

Jay Mwamba, CCNY, 917.892.0374 or jmwamba@ccny.cuny.edu

U.S. Secretary of Labor Martin J. Walsh; 
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13);
U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel (ret.);
CCNY President Vincent Boudreau; and
Monica Garay, Legislative Director, Rep. Espaillat.
 

Launched this spring, The City College of New York-based Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Development Initiative (RIWI) aims to address the lack of modern infrastructure jobs in retired U.S. Representative Charles B. Rangel’s old congressional district. In one of its first undertakings, RIWI joins in the Second Avenue Subway Phase II construction, providing workforce and training opportunities. Headed to CCNY to discuss RIWI’s role in this major collaboration is a delegation led by United States Secretary of Labor Martin J. Walsh, Congressman Adriano Espaillat and Rep. Rangel. Initial support for RIWI includes $1.5 million in federal funding -- part of the $11.5 million package in community project funding secured  by Rep. Espaillat for New York’s 13th Congressional District that comprises Upper Manhattan and parts of the West Bronx. Congressman Espaillat also secured $2.2 million for the FY23 cycle.

11:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 9, 2022

The City College of New York, Shepard Hall, Rm. 109G; 160 Convent Ave., New York, NY., 10031 

Jay Mwamba, CCNY, 917.892.0374 or jmwamba@ccny.cuny.edu

                       The visiting diplomats include:
Santiago Villalba, Argentina;
Mario Artaza, Chile;
Susana Berenguer, Colombia;
Rolando Madrigal, Costa Rica;
Daniel Erazo, El Salvador;
Rosemary Arauz, Guatemala;
Jessica Canahuati, Honduras;
Jorge Islas & Ana Flores, Mexico;
Carlos Ortiz & Luis Dominguez, Paraguay;
Marita Landaveri, Peru and
the Consul General, Bolivia

                        Consul Generals from several Latino nations will tour The City College
                        of New York which is ranked by the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education 
                        magazine among the top 100 colleges and universities in the nation for students
                        that identify as Latinx/a/o. Approximately 37% of CCNY’s more than 18,000 students
                        identify themselves as such. The Consul Generals will hear presentations by City
                        University of New York Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and CCNY President
                       Vincent Boudreau. They will also tour the labs of noted physicistCarlos Meriles,
                       biophysicist Ronald Koder and neurophysiologist Hysell V. Oviedo. The Consul Generals are                         members of CLACNY, a coalition of Latin American consulates that provides a platform for
                      dialogue and the exchange of ideas and good practices for consulates.

                     2:30 - 3:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022

                      The City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave., New York, NY., 10031

CONTACT:  Jay Mwamba, CCNY Public Relations, 917.892.0374,  jmwamba@ccny.cuny.edu

WHO:    Hon. Charles B. Rangel;;
              Mayor Johnny Ford;
              Queen Mother Delois Blakely;
              Debra Fraser-Howze;
              Hazel N. Dukes;  
              Denise Tyler; and
              C. Virginia Fields. 

The World Conference of Mayors, Inc. and the Historic Black Towns
And Settlements Alliance (HBTSA), Inc. are honoring Former U.S. Rep.
Charles B. Rangel for his lifetime of service to his constituents and the 
nation. Hon. Rangel served New York's 13th Congressional District for 
nearly 50 years. He is a Korean War hero and was awarded the Purple 
Heart and Bronze Star for his combat service. He will receive a plaque 
from the Honorable Johnny Ford, founding president of the World 
Conference of Mayors and HBTSA.
 

1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 15.

Room S174, CCNY’s Shepard Hall, 160th Street at Convent Avenue, Manhattan. 

Jay Mwamba, CCNY, 917.892.0374, jmwamba@ccny.cuny.edu

Kedon Willis, professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literature at The City College. His research largely focuses on how contemporary queer authors of Caribbean heritage are complicating depictions of queer lives within the Antillean region.

Maisy Card, Jamaican-born author of “These Ghosts are Family,” which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Book Prizes Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. 

Naomi Jackson, author of “The Star Side of Bird Hill,” which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and the International Dublin Literary Award. The Black Caucus of the American Library Association named Jackson’s novel an Honor Book for Fiction. 

Jamaica Kincaid, 2021 Langston Hughes Medalist.

In addition, other notable guests include:
Journalist Linda Villarosa;
Poet Lauren K. Alleyne; 
Author Joanne C. Hillhouse; and
Musician Helado Negro;  
 

Award-winning author and scholar Jamaica Kincaid receives the 2021 
Langston Hughes Medal from The City College of New York in a virtual 
ceremony. The award presentation will be preceded by a virtual 
symposium featuring noted Caribbean authors and scholars celebrating 
Kincaid’s legacy.
 

The online symposium starts at 12:30 p.m., Thurs. Nov. 18, 2021. Click here to register.

The award ceremony is at 6 p.m., Nov. 18. Click here to register. 
 

Two online events from The City College of New York.

Andrea Weiss andrea@jezebel.org

Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss, writer/producers from Jezebel 
Productions; and independent producer Tracy Daniels. Special guests 
Ilyasah Shabazz, educator/ activist and daughter of Malcolm X; and 
Malobe Sampson, CCNY MFA student and activist.
 

In April 1969, Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City 
College of New York with five basic demands. Fueled by the 
revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon turned into an 
uprising, leading to the extended occupation of the South Campus, 
classes being canceled, buildings set on fire, and the resignation of the 
college president. “The Five Demands,” a documentary in development 
by Jezebel Productions tells the story of the explosive student takeover 
from a myriad of perspectives and its consequent, controversial 25-year 
experiment of Open Admissions which radically remade the university 
into the most diverse college campus in the country. To move the film 
into the next stage of production, Jezebel Productions announces the 
launch of a crowdfunding campaign on the Seed & Spark platform, 
beginning May 16. The event includes a discussion by producers and 
writers, special guests and film clips.
 

4 p.m., Sunday, May 16, 2021.

Online. Click here to register.