MEMEAC hosts numerous events that are open to the public, such as book conversations, conferences, film series, lectures, and photo exhibitions. The Center also collaborates with other programs and centers within the Graduate Center and with groups outside the Graduate Center to sponsor events.
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MEMEAC supports the Committee on Academic Freedom’s call for Kingsborough Community College, CUNY to respect free speech rights and academic freedom Dr. Claudia V. Schrader President, Kingsborough Community College President@kbcc.cuny.edu, Claudia.Schrader@kbcc.cuny.eduDr. Vita C. Rabinowitz Interim Chancellor, The City University of New York chancellor@cuny.edu, Vita.Rabinowitz@cuny.eduDear President Schrader and Chancellor Rabinowitz: …
Demography and Democracy: Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa The Middle East and North Africa have recently experienced one of the highest population growth rates in the world, something which has profoundly affected the wider region and its institutions. In addition, the recent period of unprecedented political turbulence …
December 19, 2018 Dear Friends of MEMEAC: As 2018 comes to a close, we would like to highlight our activities this past year and the exciting plans that we have for the coming year. Over the summer, we launched a new website, showcasing the work of alumni, faculty, and students. …
We at MEMEAC are excited to announce that dozens of our affiliated faculty and students will present their research at the annual Middle East Studies Association’s conference to be held in San Antonio, Texas from November 15th to November 18th, 2018 CUNY Participants MESA 2018 11:00AM-1:00PM Friday November 16: Deen …
MEMEAC congratulates alumna Aleksandra Majstorac-Kobiljski (History, 2010) who is currently a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and director of Centre de Recherches sur le Japon (CRJ) in Paris for receiving the European Research Council Grant. HOW JAPAN BECAME ASIA’S FIRST INDUSTRIAL POWER © Shutterstock …
MEMEAC is excited to be hosting the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies’ 47th Annual Conference with the theme of “Impact of Emerging Digital Technology and Social Media on Muslim Communities” on Friday, September 14th, 2018. To register, please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naaims-47th-annual-conference-impact-of-emerging-digital-technology-and-social-media-on-muslim-registration-48164284672 Please note, if you are a member …
“I will leave The Graduate Center with pride in its standing and confidence in its future.” Dear Colleagues: As you enjoy the final days of summer and complete your preparations for the fall semester, I want to share important news. After a decade of service to The Graduate Center and …
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Dear Colleagues:
As you enjoy the final days of summer and complete your preparations for the fall semester, I want to share important news.
After a decade of service to The Graduate Center and The City University of New York, I will be stepping down as president. In December, I will take up the position of Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s two museums of Asian art in Washington, D.C. David J. Skorton, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, made the announcement today.
I will leave The Graduate Center with pride in its standing and confidence in its future. The Graduate Center holds a unique position in public higher education. At a time of increased income inequality, political polarization, and a precipitous decline in political and cultural discourse, the research and teaching of our students and faculty have never been more important. It has been a personal and professional honor to lead our collective commitment to advancing research for the public good.
My time at The Graduate Center has been deeply gratifying. Together, we have recruited dozens of world-class faculty; enhanced traditional strengths in the humanities and built new ones in the experimental and theoretical sciences; established a national reputation in interdisciplinarity, digital pedagogy, and research, including the study of socio-economic inequality; increased the diversity of our faculty ranks and student body; admitted and enrolled students of unprecedented quality; doubled our master’s offerings and master’s enrollment; and strengthened our Foundation Board. While I take tremendous pride in these accomplishments, they are a product of the collective efforts of my very talented colleagues.
Provost and Senior Vice President Joy Connolly, former Interim Provost Louise Lennihan, our deans and executive officers, both past and present—they all exemplify the very best of public education. Members of The Graduate Center Foundation, led by Peter Darrow, have been generous in sharing their time, talents, and advice. And my senior staff members, along with the members of the cabinet, have served our community with great distinction.
Of course, it’s not administrators who are at the heart of The Graduate Center. It’s faculty, staff, and students, whose talents and energies animate our offices, classrooms, labs, and public spaces, and in whose accomplishments we are all fortunate to share. To them all, I am immensely grateful.
CUNY Interim Chancellor Vita Rabinowitz will soon announce the appointment of an interim president. In due course, a national search for the sixth president of The Graduate Center will commence. To ensure a smooth and productive transition, I will continue to serve as president through the fall term.
The Freer|Sackler exists “to enhance understanding and appreciation across cultures.” My decision to leave The Graduate Center was eased by the close affinity between this mission and the principles that I have been able to champion here. My work at the Smithsonian will continue the work that I started in this remarkable community of scholars and students. I am grateful for the support of the CUNY Board of Trustees, which is so ably led by Chairperson William Thompson and Vice Chairperson Barry Schwartz, and to Interim Chancellor Rabinowitz for her commitment to the values of CUNY.
Thank you for making my time at the GC such a privilege.
Kind regards,
Chase F. Robinson
President
Centennial of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution May 24, 2019 The Graduate Center, CUNY The 1919 Egyptian Revolution changed Egypt, affecting politics, culture, history, and art, and reverberating globally. Speakers at this conference will cover the impact of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution on society and memory 9:30 – 10:00 | Registration …
MEMEAC supports the Committee on Academic Freedom’s call for Kingsborough Community College, CUNY to respect free speech rights and academic freedom Dr. Claudia V. Schrader President, Kingsborough Community College President@kbcc.cuny.edu, Claudia.Schrader@kbcc.cuny.eduDr. Vita C. Rabinowitz Interim Chancellor, The City University of New York chancellor@cuny.edu, Vita.Rabinowitz@cuny.eduDear President Schrader and Chancellor Rabinowitz: …
Demography and Democracy: Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa The Middle East and North Africa have recently experienced one of the highest population growth rates in the world, something which has profoundly affected the wider region and its institutions. In addition, the recent period of unprecedented political turbulence …
Introduction to the 2019 New York Forum of Amazigh Film Tuesday, April 30 2019 at 5:00 PM in Room 9205 Join Forum co-curators Dr. Habiba Boumlik and Lucy McNair in a screening and discussion of Amazigh Film with focus on preserving cultural identity through film.
Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus: A Book Talk with Prof. Elizabeth Macaulay Lewis Thursday, April 11 2019 at 6:30 PM in Room C197 One of the largest and most important palatial houses of late 18th- and early 19th-century Damascus belonged to the Farhi family, who served …
Sharia Scripts: A Historical Anthropology – Prof. Brinkley Messick in conversation with Prof. Mandana Limbert Thursday, March 21 2019 at 6:30 PM in Room 9205 A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Scripts is a …
Book Salon: Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity Thursday, February 28th at 6:00 PM in Room 9206/9207 of the Graduate Center, CUNY Join Professors Karen B. Stern (History, Brooklyn College), Robert Hoyland (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU), and Annette Y. Reed …
December 19, 2018 Dear Friends of MEMEAC: As 2018 comes to a close, we would like to highlight our activities this past year and the exciting plans that we have for the coming year. Over the summer, we launched a new website, showcasing the work of alumni, faculty, and students. …
MEMEAC is excited to announce that Sara Pursley (PhD in History, 2012) has published her first manuscript Familiar Futures Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2019). Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. …
In 2018, Deen Sharp (PhD in Earth & Environmental Sciences, 2018) has achieved several professional milestones. In July, he published his first peer-reviewed academic journal in Progress in Human Geography on the relationship between geography and area studies. On September 4, he successfully defended his PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences …
Centennial of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution May 24, 2019 The Graduate Center, CUNY The 1919 Egyptian Revolution changed Egypt, affecting politics, culture, history, and art, and reverberating globally. Speakers at this conference will cover the impact of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution on society and memory 9:30 – 10:00 | Registration …
Introduction to the 2019 New York Forum of Amazigh Film Tuesday, April 30 2019 at 5:00 PM in Room 9205 Join Forum co-curators Dr. Habiba Boumlik and Lucy McNair in a screening and discussion of Amazigh Film with focus on preserving cultural identity through film.
