Federico García Lorca’s impact on modern and contemporary American poetry is vast; he is also one of Spain’s greatest dramatists, whose lyrical, revolutionary plays are rich with folk...

Share

Graduate Center President Bill Kelly speaks one-on-one with Marilynne Robinson, one of the country’s most singular and powerful literary voices. With her first novel, Housekeeping, published in...

Share

Event Registration

Broad Data: Technology Challenges on the emerging Web of data Abstract: "Big Data" usually refers to the very large datasets generated by scientists, to the many petabytes of data held...

Share

Registration for the Fall 2013 semester begins at 9:30 a.m. for those matriculated students enrolled during the Spring 2013 semester.

Share

Breakfast and lunch will be provided, but in order to provide enough food, please confirm your attendance via email. Also, please feel free to forward this invitation to your students and who ever...

Share

Music in Midtown concludes the spring season with a special concert featuring an illustrious group of New York City’s finest musicians. This presentation of some of the finest masterworks of...

Share

Computer Science Colloquium and NYTECH Thursday, May 2, 4:15 p.m., room 9205/06 Peter Bell hackNY Trends in Database Technologies Over the last few years we've seen a range of NoSQL...

Share

Writers and graduating students from the four City University of New York MFA Programs in Creative Writing (City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Queens College) come together for...

Share

What did Victorians think about race? Culminating in a keynote by Patrick Brantlinger, author of Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 (2003), this conference...

Share

For more information including full program: http://victorian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Share

The CUNY-NYSIEB Leadership Seminars are designed to support principals in the CUNY-NYSIEB Cohort 2 schools in the development of an Instructional Improvement Plan for their emergent bilinguals....

Share

Leonid Pryadko (UC Riverside) - "Quantum sparse-graph codes for future quantum computers."

Share

Now in its fifth year, the Chapbook Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Again this year the festival...

Share

Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers), “Carceral Aesthetics: Art and Visuality in the Era of Mass Incarceration” Talk three of Mentoring Future Faculty of Color Project. Popular entertainment,...

Share

Optimal Beam Search for Machine Translation Abstract: Beam search and cube pruning have become the de facto inference algorithms for phrase-based and syntactic translation respectively....

Share

Title: Optimal Beam Search for Machine Translation Speaker: Alexander Rush (Columbia) Time: 2:15pm-3:30pm, May 3, Friday Place: Room 6496, CUNY Graduate Center. 5th Ave & 34th...

Share

Why is female-female eros persistently imagined as Neoplatonic? Insofar as the term for the female-female couple appears but once in the whole of extant classical Greek texts—in Plato’s...

Share

Todd Reeser, French, University of Pittsburgh. In this talk, Professor Reeser will historicize queer theory’s insight that lesbianism is often linked to problems of representation by focusing...

Share

Speaker: Elizabeth Klee Affiliation: Federal Reserve Board Topic: TBA Organizer: Thom Thurston (tthurston@gc.cuny.edu).

Share

Share

Theory of Mind and embedding of perspective: A psychological test of a literary "sweet spot" (Joint work with Lisa Zunshine and Michael Holquist). Abstract: Theory of Mind...

Share

What things do people keep, hoping to pass them on to the next generations? What stories could these objects tell, if they only had a voice? This illustrated lecture explores the rich oral...

Share

9th Floor Build-Out Launch with President William Kelly and Provost Chase Robinson.

Share

Online feminist activism is the greatest innovation for feminism in 50 years, yet it is simultaneously “in crisis” because it is “underfunded and unsustainable,” according...

Share

Join James Gallery Curator Katherine Carl for a half-hour walk-through of the current exhibition, "After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer," guest-curated by Boris Groys. The...

Share

This lecture, lasting about 50 minutes, will be followed by a question and answer period of 50 minutes. The lecture series is offered in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies and Continuing...

Share

Knowledge Extraction and Taxonomization from the Web Abstract: Knowledge extraction and taxonomization have been of great interest to the research community for a long time. With the...

Share

Learning to Generate Understandable Animations of American Sign Language. Abstract: A majority of deaf high school graduates in the U.S. have a fourth-grade English reading level or...

Share

The cart men—unskilled workers who hauled goods on one-horse carts—were perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. Revised and re-issued in 2012, New York City...

Share

Event Registration

New York Women in Mathematics and Computing Network is pleased to announce that it has received another grant from NSF this year to support one more workshop. The workshop has been scheduled for...

Share

Giulio Biroli (IPhT-CEA,Saclay) TBA.

Share

Exploring methods from other fields: A case study in how Educational Data Mining (EDM) has achieved population validity in the detection of student affect. Abstract: As linguists look to...

Share

Ever notice how jingles you heard twenty years ago stay with you in perfect detail? Musical and rhythmic settings of language engage the brain in ways that are extremely helpful for language...

Share

Join us for the Annual Celebration of CUNY Women Scholars and Scholarship on Friday, May 10, 4:30-5:30pm, Rooms 9204/9205.

Share

In August 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the...

Share

What is the relationship between Young Adult literature and popular culture? Are YA dystopias high-minded attempts to educate the young or simply bids to cash in on a formula for commercial...

Share

Verb meaning, restructuring, and the grammar of complement control/ Landau (2000; 2004) draws a distinction between P(artial) C(ontrol) and E(xhaustive) C(ontrol): whereas PC predicates like...

Share

Sima Godfrey teaches in the Dept. of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. From 1999- 2007 she changed hats to establish and direct the Institute for European...

Share

Fifteenth week of the semester inculding Final Examination Period.

Share

The Institute conducts research on language, literacy, and bilingualism and their development and acquisition in urban societies. The central mission of RISLUS is to investigate those research...

Share

Kyungwha Park (Virginia Tech) TBA

Share

Re-thinking the Mexican Muralists Beginning in the early 1920s, the Mexican mural movement was one of the first visual art avant-garde movements in the Western hemisphere. What made it different...

Share

Adrian Hearn's presentation focuses on China’s growing economic role in the Americas and its challenges to many countries in this region to develop new approaches to trade, investment,...

Share

Based on her recent book Las relaciones exteriores de Mexico 1821 - 2000 (2012), Ambassador Roberta Lajous will lecture on the peaks and troughs of bilateral relations between Mexico and the...

Share

Forty-Ninth Doctoral Commencement Exercises The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York. 2013 Commencement Briefing

Share

May 28-31, 2013 Tuesday, May 28th, 9:00 a.m. Breakfast reception; First lecture 10:45 a.m. There will be four mini-courses pertaining to the main aspects of Jim Simons' published...

Share

Every Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - May 28, 2013 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. These workshops were developed especially for the doctoral students of the Graduate Center on the basis of the experiences...

Share

Experts from the City University of New York, public and nonprofit sectors, and city government discuss lessons learned from the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy. SESSION TOPICS: 1)...

Share

The CUNY Doctor of Public Health (DPH) Program welcomes you to our next Information Session. We look forward to assisting as you take this exciting step toward the pursuit of a DPH degree. The DPH...

Share