The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. Please come and join us! Light refreshments will be served. Contacts: Daeshin Hayden Ju – haydendaeshinju@gmail.com Janina Selzer – jselzer@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Special Criminology Workshop -"Corona Crime and Fear Itself" Presenter: Candace McCoy, Professor of Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center and John Jay College Discussant: Jayne Mooney, Professor of Sociology, the Graduate Center and John Jay College. Description: Once the virus wanes, what then? Alarmists cry that an economic depression will produce widespread looting and violent crime. The... Read more »
The Urban Studies Workshop is a student-run workshop that meets once a month. Each session includes two parts: workshopping students’ writing, and reading sessions (discussions of new developments in the... Read more »
The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. Please come and join us! Light refreshments... Read more »
“Trump and the Rise of Authoritarianism” Speaker: Kieran Durkin, York University Psychosocial Reading Group is an international once a month reading and discussion group that is run by Lynn Chancer and Neil McLaughlin with people participating by Zoom from Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and other places around the world. Our focus is on how to better... Read more »
"Ethnoracial Inequality in Egalitarian Sweden: Swedish Exceptionalism and Racial Legacies" Beiyi Hu, CUNY Graduate Center The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. We are now soliciting papers to be presented during our workshop. The purpose of our workshop is... Read more »
"Latinx Food Startup Founders: Adaptation Strategies and New Businesses in COVID-19 Era New York" Ivana Mellers, CUNY Graduate Center The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. We are now soliciting papers to be presented during our workshop. The purpose... Read more »
“Contemporary Ramifications of the Historic Fromm/Marcuse Debate” Speaker: Matheus Romanetto, Tuebingen University, Germany Psychosocial Reading Group is an international once a month reading and discussion group that is run by Lynn Chancer and Neil McLaughlin with people participating by Zoom from Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and other places around the world. Our focus is on how to... Read more »
"Finding Their Place – How Declining Cities Envision a Politics of Belonging for the Forcibly Displaced" Janina Selzer, CUNY Graduate Center The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. We are now soliciting papers to be presented during our workshop.... Read more »
REFORM NATION: THE FIRST STEP ACT AND THE MOVEMENT TO END MASS INCARCERATION (STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023). Colleen Eren (‘13), Professor, and the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program Director at William Paterson University This book looks at the passage of one federal law and what it tells us about the nationalizing and mainstreaming of the criminal justice... Read more »
