RARE OPPORTUNITY ...

***Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in Conversation***

Panelists include:

Meena Alexander (English, Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Judith Butler (Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley)
Patricia Clough (Sociology, Queens College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Drucilla Cornell (Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers)
Rosalind Morris (Anthropology, Columbia University)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Robert Young (English, Comparative Literature, New York University)
Moderated by Kyoo Lee (Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY).
Wednesday, March 2nd, 6:30pm

Proshansky Auditorium
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005

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Opera: Postcard from Morocco

A fully staged production with chamber orchestra, featuring students from the QC Opera Studio; James John, Music Director; David Ronis, Stage Director; and Bruce Norris, Musical Preparation. Please note additional date: Saturday, February 26, 8 pm; Sunday, February 27, 3 pm; and Tuesday, March 1, 10 am. LeFrak Concert Hall. Tickets: $15/$12 QCID, QC alumni, seniors; $25 March 1 performance only. Box office: 718-793-8080.

Spring 2011 Turnstyle Reading Series

Wednesday, March 9th
Segal Theater at the Center for Humanities: CUNY Grad Ctr.
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan
6:30pm sharp
TURNSTYLE is a mixer designed to bring together the talented MFA students from CUNY’s four creative writing MFA programs: Queens, City, Hunter, and Brooklyn. Each night, two students from each campus read alongside two members of the faculty. The series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Affiliation Group, The Center for the Humanities, and the Office of Academic Affairs. Turnstyle is now in its third year.

The MFA readers:
Elizabeth Gross
Jason Baker
Jon Jensen
Erienne Rojas
Susan Penn
Curtis Jensen
Jonathan Alexandratos
Hoyt Jacobs

Faculty readers:
Jeffery Allen
Paul Oppenheimer

Marginalia meets Caesura

'So-called Marginalia' is a reading series for critical academics and social justice activists who are also creative writers or whose work leads them into the territory of narrative or poetics (broadly conceived). Marginalia meet Caesura showcases scholars who are also visual artists, highlighting that the dual role of scholar and artist finds its expression in other genres. Participants this time include: Naomi Adiv (Geography), Jesse Goldstein (Sociology), Setha Low (Environmental Psychology, Anthropology, Geography), Mona Salim (Anthropology), Manissa McCleave Maharawal (Anthropology), and Daisy Deomampo (Anthropology).


Friday, February 18th 6:30pm

THE JAMES GALLERY

The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005



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Thanks to All the Volunteers at AWP Conference!

Anne Hays (left) and Kimiko Hahn (right) extend their thanks to all the CUNY volunteers to peopled the CUNY MFA booth--this was a particularly great run!

(If you have some good conference photos, please forward to one or both of us!)

*The Business of Theater*

Theater Development Fund (TDF) and Baruch Performing Arts Center at CUNY present a free moderated discussion with professional theater producers and managers, including Robert Fried (American Idiot, Billy Elliot, among others), Sue Frost (Memphis, A Chorus Line tour, among others) and Carl Pasjberg (Guys and Dolls, Memphis, among others).

The discussion is moderated by Victoria Bailey, TDF Executive Director & Educator, and is free to all CUNY students and the public.
Date:
February 10, 2011
Time:
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
College:
Baruch College
Address:
55 Lexington Avenue
Manhattan
Building:
Newman Vertical Campus
Room:
BPAC's Engelman Recital Hall, Level B2
Phone:
646-312-5073
Website:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/calendar/event.php?id=638
Admission:
Free

**LAHM Residencies**

Congratulations to MFA students Brian Kim and Melissa Bobe, who will both hold residencies at the Louis Armstrong Archive House and Museum this spring! We all look forward to hearing them read their work in May in a reading at the Armstrong House!

**Cartwheels in a Sari**

Jayanti Tamm Reads From her New Memoir
Monday February 7, 5pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room, 5th Floor

Jayanti Tamm is a visiting professor in the MFA Program and the English Department at Queens College. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, DC, where she studied fiction and playwriting. Following graduation, she had a number of stories published in literary journals in North America. In 2000, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2005, her one-act play, The Suicide Bomber won the New England Academy of Theatre One Act Play Award. In 2009, Random House published her memoir, Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult, which received glowing reviews. In December, the book was released as a paperback.

A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.

Turnstyle Reading Series

*Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and the CUNY MFA Affiliation Group*

Turnstyle, a cross-genre MFA reading series, features the faculty and students of four CUNY graduate creative writing programs. Two faculty readers and seven second year MFA creative writing students read a mix of non-fiction, plays, fiction, and poems.

MFA Readers
Jill Noel Shreve, Hunter College
Thierry Saintine, City College of New York
A.J. Kandathil, Hunter College
Catherine Tung, Brooklyn College
Julia Jackson, Brooklyn College
Brian Kim, Queens College
Katie Vane, Hunter College


Faculty Readers
Roger Sedart, Queens College, author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic.
Harold Aram Veeser, The City College of New York, author of Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism

Tuesday, February 1st, 6:30pm

Martin E. Segal Theater
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005

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Maxine Hong Kingston

A rare appearance:
The Asian American Writers' Workshop presents a special event with novelist Maxine Hong Kingston on February 1, 2011.
For details and to buy tickets:
http://aaww.org/#february1.