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On the day that Zadie Smith receives City College of New York’s venerated Langston Hughes Medal, scholars and writers hold a symposium at CCNY on Nov. 16 to deconstruct the noted novelist’s work. Entitled “I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me," the event runs 12:30 – 3 p.m. in City College’s Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B, located at 135th St. and Convent Ave. It is free and open to the public. Click here to register. Participants in the Langston Hughes Festival symposium include: Novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn; Writer Kaitlyn Greenidge; Scholar and writer Robert Higney (City

“ Bones of Contention,” a documentary by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Andrea Weiss, premieres Saturday, Oct. 21 at Cinépolis Chelsea. This is one of latest releases by faculty in T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Department of Media and Communication Arts. The film focuses on the brutal Franco dictatorship, during whose reign up to 120,000 opponents of fascism were buried in unmarked graves all over Spain. A 2014 Fulbright Scholars award funded Weiss’ research. Legendary poet and playwright Federico Garcia-Lorca came to symbolize those that disappeared, and is called “the first LGBT victim of the

Attendees encouraged to bring disaster relief donations The aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico is the focus of a panel discussion at the City College Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education on October 24. Entitled “ State of Disaster: Puerto Rico and U.S. Relations in the Aftermath of Hurricanes,” the discussion highlights the historical relationship between P.R. and the United States and examines the social, economic and political conditions the Island faces as it struggles to recover from the hurricane devastation. The event, 6 – 8 p.m., is

For decades psychologists have studied how people regulate emotions using a multitude of ways to conceptualize and assess emotion regulation. Now a recent study published this week in the journal PLOS ONE by Elliot Jurist and David M. Greenberg of T��ɫ��Ƶ, shows how a new assessment model can give clinicians an exciting new way to think about clinical diagnoses including anxiety, mood, and developmental disorders. The authors developed the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS) – a novel assessment model which breaks emotion regulation into three elements: · Identifying: the

Two new rankings reflect T��ɫ��Ƶ’s impressive academic standing internationally and its ability to boost remarkably the social mobility of its students. In its 2017 appraisal of the top schools globally, the Center for World University Rankings places City College, whose student population represents 89.6% of the world’s 193 sovereign states, in the top 1.2%. CCNY ranked # 323 among the more than 27,000 degree-granting institutions of higher education worldwide according to the CWUR, which conducts the largest academic ranking of global universities. At home, The Chronicle

Internationally renowned jazz pianist, composer and arranger Mike Holober is T��ɫ��Ƶ’s inaugural Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. Holober’s appointment is for one year. The selection committee cited Holober for “a long record of quality productivity as a jazz performer, composer, and arranger. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by leading jazz orchestras in North America and Europe.” The

Acclaimed Mexican writer Mónica Lavín co-presents T��ɫ��Ƶ’s fifth Cátedra Vargas Llosa, Oct. 24 -27, an international academic project honoring Spanish-language literary giant and Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Lavín and Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor in City College’s Division of Humanities and the Arts, lead a one-credit seminar for both graduate and undergraduate students entitled “ Mario Vargas Llosa’s “La fiesta del Chivo” : History, Reality and Literature.” The discourse focuses on Vargas Llosa’s historical novel “ La fiesta del Chivo” (2000)

City College of New York poet and filmmaker, Michelle Yasmine Valladares is the Americas Poetry Festival of New York’s Poet of the Year. The award is for her “lifelong literary achievements and for her poetry that reflects the rich multicultural spirit of The Americas.” Valladares, who is director of City College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, was among 60 poets from around the world that participated in the Americas Poetry Festival in New York. The multilingual event featured readings in five languages. Born in India and raised in Kuwait, Valladares is the author of “ Nortada, The North

Coffee is bad for you. No, it’s good for you. You need 30 minutes of daily activity – or is it 10? Come hear the latest on how to stay healthy on Wednesday Oct 18 at the first Mini-Medical School hosted by the CUNY School of Medicine at T��ɫ��Ƶ. The latest health information will be shared and refreshments will be served at the event, which is free and open to the public from 5:30 – 7 p.m. at CCNY’s North Academic Center (Room 1/201). Click here to RSVP. The idea for the Mini-Medical School started with medical student Hazeezat Shittu. As part of an Independent Study

“ Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, Second Edition,” a follow up to the comprehensive study of the city’s Latino population published in 1996, is one of the new books by City College of New York faculty. It is co-edited by Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership professors Sherrie Baver, Gabriel Haslip-Viera (Emeritus), and Angelo Falcón, co-founder of the National Institute for Latino Policy. This new edition captures the most significant continuities, discontinuities, and changes of the last two decades in the local Latino community as a whole and among the various