Inequality & Socio-Political Processes Working Group

GC Doctoral students researching or actively seeking to research topics within Inequality & Socio-Political Processes are invited to join this interdisciplinary doctoral student working group. The main goals of this group are to create a space for doctoral students to present and receive feedback on their research from, and connect with, other students steeped in the same or similar research areas of inequality, institutions and policies, and/or social processes. If you have any questions, please email Robby Murphy at rmurphy@gradcenter.cuny.edu.

Crime, Law and Society Workshop

• The CUNY Graduate Center’s Workshop on Crime, Law, and Society meets monthly to review and discuss draft manuscripts, book chapters, and dissertation chapters in a collaborative and critical setting. The workshop is open to all graduate students and faculty in the NYC area interested in criminology, law and society, and related fields. Rough drafts are circulated in advance of each workshop for participants to read and generate questions and feedback. The goal of the workshop is to build a community space at CUNY to discuss emerging theories, methods, and perspectives, and support each other in developing our respective work. The workshop is organized by Drs. Calvin John Smiley and Lynn Chancer, and student organizer Angela LaScala-Gruenewald. To join our listserv and learn about upcoming workshops, please email cuny.wcls@gmail.com.

Political Economy Workshop

• The Political Economy Workshop is a student-led group seeking to workshop papers through engaging in productive discussion that incorporates a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach on topics related to political economy. The goal of this workshop is to create a friendly environment for graduate students and scholars in the field of labor, political economy, Marxism and politics to discuss their research projects, learn from each other and build an academic-political community based on these shared interests. All members of the CUNY community regardless of their program are encouraged to join and contribute by submitting a paper or joining the discussions.
• Contacts: Juan Ferre – jcferre17@gmail.com and Joey Van der Naald – jvandernaald@gradcenter.cuny.edu. To check the workshop schedule click https://pewgc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Society and Protest Workshop

• This workshop brings together practitioners, PhD students, and faculty across disciplines in a space to reflect on the role of formal and informal Civil Society in expressing citizen demands. Civil society is itself contested and a battleground; both a site of struggle and organization is the domain of class politics. At the same time, formalized civil society and philanthropy are looking to social movements and critical thinking to open up new possibilities and ways of working.When: Selected Thursdays from 12-1:30 PM
• Contact: societyandprotestworkshop@gmail.com To check the workshop schedule click https://sapw.commons.gc.cuny.edu/fall-2020/  If interested, you can  RSVP HERE for any and all upcoming sessions.

Urban Studies Workshop

• 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 discipline). The writing pieces (article drafts, grant proposals, syllabi, etc.) will be circulated among the workshop participants at least a week before the meeting.
• Contact: Kasey Zapatka (kzapatka@gradcenter.cuny.edu)  To check the workshop schedule click https://urbanstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Qualitative Research and Cultural Analysis Workshop 

(organizing in progress)

• The main objective of this workshop is to cultivate a discussion of the finer points, interpretive processes, and analytic lenses associated with rich or “deep” qualitative research. On a more practical level, the twin aims of this workshop are to discuss an array of techniques for collecting and analyzing qualitative data, including field work, interviewing, content analysis, discourse analysis, historical methods, and visual analysis, among others, and to offer students and faculty an opportunity to present and receive constructive feedback on their work. It is therefore meant to be both informative and actively hands-on. All students and faculty are welcome to attend and present their work on any substantive topic at any stage of development.
• Contacts: Richard Ocejo – rocejo@jjay.cuny.edu, Tom DeGloma – tdegloma@hunter.cuny.edu, and Greg Smithsimon -gsmithsimon@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

Psychosocial Research and Reading Group 

(organizing in progress)

• This workshop, hoping to draw faculty and graduate students both from CUNY and from around the City, focuses on using a combination of sociology and psychological/psychoanalytic methods and theories to shed light on a range of empirical topics from trauma to the rise of authoritarianism nationally and internationally.
• Contact: Lynn Chancer – lchancer@gc.cuny.edu

Media, New Media and Public Sociology Workshop 

(organizing in progress)

• A new workshop, with about 18 interested students and faculty, focused on encouraging sociologists to use their research and perspectives to reach larger audiences through media and new media especially when engaged in “public sociology” already. An organizing meeting will soon be called but, if you are interested, please contact Anthony Capote.
• Contact: Anthony Capote at acapote@gradcenter.cuny.edu.

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