The Brooklyn College chapter of the PSC-CUNY invites you to start the academic year in dialogue with coworkers, colleagues from other institutions, alumni, and most importantly, our students as we look to the past for lessons and inspiration as we prepare for the future. RSVP here.
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Join us for one or both of these two events:
12:30 – 2:00pm
Challenging the New McCarthyism: A Conversation on Academic Freedom at CUNY and Beyond
Speakers:
* Shana Redmond, Columbia University, former President of the American Studies Association
* Ellen Schrecker, Emerita Professor of History, Yeshiva University
* Chenjerai Kumanyika, New York University, Member of the National AAUP Governing Council
* Evan Rothman, Co-Chair, Graduate Center Chapter of PSC-CUNY
Moderated by our Brooklyn College colleague Jeanne Theoharis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science
3:40 – 5:00 pm
Brooklyn College student activism in the 1960s: A screening of Making the Impossible Possible: The Story of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (D: Pam Sporn & Tami Gold, 2021, 34m)
Description:
Join director Pam Sporn (Hunter College and Brooklyn College), BC alumni featured in the film including Antonio Nadal co-founder of PRLS, and current students and faculty in a conversation about learning from our past to shape our future. Co-sponsored by the Department of Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies (PRLS).
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The Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC)
