Provost’s Distinguished Scholars Lectures http://www.york.cuny.edu In this lecture series, prominent national and international scholars, creative artists, and public figures, are invited to visit York College and address important issues of the day or pertaining to their research or creative work. daily 1 2008-09-24T16:56:37Z Cancelled Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture-Nancy Morejón http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/provost-distinguished-scholars-lecture-nancy-morejon With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba Nancy Morejón Hernández, born in Havana in 1944, is the Afro-Cuban poet who has had the greatest influence on the poetry of her country since 1959. Her most important mentor in her early years was the famous poet of revolutionary Cuba, Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989).

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]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Provost Distinguished Scholars Lectures Current Student Faculty/Staff 2012-10-24T20:05:00Z Event What to Eat http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/what-to-eat Personal Responsibility vs. Social Responsibility What we eat affects our health in ways that range from obesity to food safety, but what determines what, when, and how much we eat? How much does individual responsibility come to bear on food choices or are food company marketing and government policy what really counts?

Guest Speaker: Dr. Marion Nestle
Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition,
Food Studies and Public Health
New York University

 

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]]> No publisher miguelbernard Provost Distinguished Scholars Lectures Current Student Faculty/Staff 2009-05-11T15:14:07Z Event "It Tore Through The Rock and The Mountains": Earthquakes, Faults and People in Hispaniola http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/it-tore-through-the-rock-and-the-mountains-earthquakes-faults-and-people-in-hispaniola The Caribbean Plate is moving eastward with respect to much larger North and South American plates. This movement causes deformation in the rocks at the plate's boundary. The energy stored in the rocks can be released as earthquakes when a slip occurs on any one of the many faults in the region. A few of these earthquakes are very large and potentially catastrophic.

Join York College for this Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture with Dr. Grenville Draper from the Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University.

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]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Faculty/Staff Provost Distinguished Scholars Lectures 2010-02-26T00:23:34Z Event Punishment and Crime in the Caribbean http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/punishment-and-crime-in-the-caribbean Research Conversations Series with Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith Provost & Senior Vice President Office of Academic Affairs The Caribbean has the dubious distinction of having the world’s highest per capita murder rate. The high crime rate and deficiencies in the criminal justice architecture of many countries have had a domino effect on prisons they are over-crowded and under-resourced in several respects. This presentation will provide a portrait of crime in the Caribbean, examine the nexus between crime and incarceration as a response to the crime, and posit the necessity for penal reform.

Gang of the Caribbean

Sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research (3E07b) at York College.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Faculty/Staff Provost Distinguished Scholars Lectures Provost Lecture Series 2010-11-09T23:50:00Z Event Slavery Today: Bondage and Abolition in the 21st Century http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/slavery-today-bondage-and-abolition-in-the-21st-century Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture presents Dr. Zoe Trodd – Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Departments of Biology, Social Sciences, History & Philosophy, the African-American Studies Center and York College Auxiliary Enterprises. There are 27 million slaves alive in today’s world—more than at any point in history.” Drawing on new research and dozens of narratives by modern-day slaves, Zoe Trodd will discuss 21st century slavery, the contemporary slave narrative, and today’s anti-slavery movement.

]]> No publisher Rafael Nunez Prospective Student Provost Distinguished Scholars Lectures Visitors Current Student Faculty/Staff Academics 2009-04-15T18:32:11Z Event An Evening With Edwidge Danticat http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/an-evening-with-edwidge-danticat A conversation with the distinguished Haitian writer, Edwidge Danticat. Renowned Haitian American Writer And Narrator To  Inaugurate The York College 2009 Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series

Renowned Haitian American writer and narrator Edwidge Danticat will inaugurate York College’s 2009 Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series, Monday, September 14, 2009, at 7 p.m., in the College’s Performing Arts Center, 94-45 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY.  The event is free and open to the public. Danticat will read from recent works and engage the audience in conversation. Her recent work centers on the politics of memory, self-making, self-representation, and reconciliation. Her latest work, 2007 Books Critics Circle Award winning Brother, I’m Dying, is a powerful piece of non-fiction; an autobiography of the man she knew as father for much of her youth, who died in captivity in a Homeland Security detention facility in Florida.

“This courageous book breaks new ground for Danticat, known throughout the pan-Caribbean and literature circles alike as a first-rate novelist and a scribe for her generation, not only as a Haitian American but as a Black woman," said York College Assistant Professor Mark Schuller, African American Studies and Anthropology Department of Social Sciences.

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Edwidge Danticat – Writer, Narrator

Born in Haiti, Danticat moved to the U.S. when she was twelve. She is the author of several books, including 2007 Books Critics Circle Award winning Brother, I’m Dying; Oprah Book Club selection Breath, Eyes, Memory; National Book Award finalist Krik? Krak!,; American Book Award winner The Farming of Bones; After the Dance, and the Dew Breaker. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures. Danticat has a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, winning the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University.

Reception to follow.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Provost Distinguished Scholars Lectures Current Student Faculty/Staff Public 2009-08-26T17:30:00Z Event Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/climate-change-africa Dr. Balgis Osman-Elasha (Senior Researcher at the Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources in Sudan) Dr. Osman-Elasha will discuss her research which is focused on the development of climate change adaptation strategies for drought-prone regions in Sudan and Africa.  She will report findings from her involvement in the AIACC Initiative entitled: Environmental Strategies for Increasing Human Resilience to Climate Change Impacts in Sudan, lessons for Northern and Eastern Africa.  She holds a Ph.D. in Forestry Science, Master in Environmental Science and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honor in Forestry and Agricultural Science.


    She is also a member of served as a leading member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which in 2007 together with former Vice-President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Balgis Osman Elasha

 

]]> No publisher miguelbernard Provost Distinguished Scholars Lectures Faculty/Staff 2009-02-04T21:15:00Z Event Elizabeth Nunez - Anna In-Between http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/elizabeth-nunez-anna-in-between Please join Dr. Nunez as she speaks about her latest work as part of the Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series at York College. Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez's finest literary achievement to date. In spare prose, with laser like attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns to her themes of emotional alienation, within the context of class and color discrimination, so richly developed in her earlier novels. In a convergence of craftsmanship, unflinching honesty, and the ability to universalize the lives of her characters, Nunez tells a story that explores our longing for belonging to a community, the age-old love-repulsion relationship between mother and daughter, the Freudian overtones in the love between daughter and father, and the mutual respect that is essential for a successful marriage. (City University of New York) 

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Anna In-Between a novel by Elizabeth Nunez

“A new book by Elizabeth Nunez is always excellent news. Probing and lyrical, this fantastic novel is one of her best yet. Fall intoher prose. Immerse yourself in her world. You will not be disappointed.” —Edwidge Danticat, author of Brother, I’m Dying

“Elizabeth Nunez has written a contemplative, lush, and measured examination of how a family history can reflect the social history 
of an island, and how twined together, like fragrant vines, the two can remain.” —Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales

“Gripping and richly imagined . . . Nunez is a master at pacing and plotting.” —New York Times (Editors’ Choice), on Prospero’s Daughter

“Nunez’s fiction, with its lush, lyric cadences and whirlwind narrative, casts a seductive spell.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“[An] exquisite retelling of The Tempest . . . Masterful.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review), on Prospero’s Daughter

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Provost Distinguished Scholars Lectures Current Student 2009-09-15T19:20:00Z Event Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture: Boundaries http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/events/boundaries Dr. Elizabeth Nunez will read from her new novel, Boundaries as part of the Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series. Dr. Nunez is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice (see review here). Please join us for a taste of what theNYT review calls “Nunez’s deft straddling of realism and satire” and please encourage your students to attend.

Professor Fabiola Salek (Department of Foreign Languages, Humanities & ESL) will introduce Dr. Nunez and there will be a book signing following the reading. Refreshments will be served.

 

Excerpts from Boundaries and Anna In-Between (Nunez’s previous novel) are available by request from Dr. Kelly Josephs (kjosephs@york.cuny.edu)

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