MESSAGE FROM ALEXANDRA
Dear All,
I hope you had a restful break and are enjoying the first bursts of spring.
These are difficult times as we enter the fourth week of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, with profound political, economic and social implications, including more than 3.5 million refugees, tens of thousands of deaths, displacement, separation and devastation. As people in Ukraine are fighting for their dignity and lives, we stand in solidarity with those who resist the bleak, authoritarian, and remorseless logic of this invasion and any military occupation. As we expressed in the Global Studies statement about the war, our program is committed to creating space for events and teach-ins to discuss the situation as it unfolds. Our next event will take place on April 7 and we will be sharing details soon. We have also put together a list of resources and information to learn more about the situation and consider ways to provide support.
Our program is also committed to developing a curriculum that offers tools to understand and respond to pressing global issues , considering their histories, their implications, and the intersections across different struggles. We invite you to take a look at our courses addressing questions about conflict and security, liberation struggles, political economy, international law and other topics. We are excited to announce two new courses: Global Humanitarianisms taught by political ethnographer Patrick Ciaschi, and Resistance Narratives from 21st Century Social Movements taught by Shanelle Matthews, communications director for the Movement for Black Lives.
As registration begins next week, check out the note below from our amazing academic advisor, Chris McElderry.
We are also excited about the Law and Social Change ULEC, which is one of the required courses for the new law and social change minor. There will be an opportunity to talk about the minor and more broadly about paths to law school during our first coffee hour of the semester on March 31. Claire Thomas, one of our own faculty and an amazing advocate and lawyer focusing on refugee and asylum law, will talk about her experience and answer questions from those interested in pursuing a career in law. We look forward to gathering in person and sharing snacks!
Finally, we are thrilled to announce that our Global Studies team is joined by Pilar Ortiz-Diaz, our new Student Assistant, whom some of you may already know. We’re excited to welcome her!
Warmly,
Alexandra Délano Alonso
Chair of Global Studies
delanoa@newschool.edu
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Message from Chris McElderry
Dear Students,
I hope this community message finds you well -- it's a time in the semester when work can start to build up and things can get intense. On top of that, summer and fall registration starts April 4th. The most important thing you can do is prepare: check your DegreeWorks, the program requirements, the course catalog, your registration date and time, whether you have holds, and then meet with me! You can make appointments with me through Starfish; if I'm not in your network we can coordinate over email.
I'm here to help you craft a Global Studies pathway that speaks to your passions and goals, but I can only do that if we communicate. Please reach out with any advising-related questions, at any time.
I look forward to seeing you at the Global Studies Coffee Hour on the 31st!
Best,
Chris
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Message from our Global Studies Student Assistant: Pilar Ortiz-Diaz
Dear Fellow Students,
I hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break. My name is Pilar Ortiz-Diaz and I am a third year Global Studies student with a Journalism + Design minor. I am so excited to start working with the Global Studies program as a Student Assistant. As a student liaison, I am constantly available to listen to students' suggestions or concerns about the program, and I will work to voice them to the program. Any changes or additions you would like to see, I am the student to voice those for you. Feel free to reach out to me at gsstudentassistant@newschool.edu.
Best regards,
Pilar Ortiz-Diaz
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Course registration opens on April 4th! Keep an eye out for our course bulletin, which we will release in a couple of days. In the meantime, you can find our course poster for Fall 2022. Check out some of our new and exciting courses:
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Join the Global Studies community in welcoming guest speaker Claire R. Thomas, Immigration and Refugee Law Professor and advocate, to our first Spring 2022 coffee hour! This event will take place on Thursday, March 31 at noon, in person, in the Glue Hub. We’re looking forward to seeing you all there! Coffee and snacks will be provided.
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GLOBAL STUDIES EVENTS
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On March 31st, Thomas Forster will present his most recent work in a departmental brown bag discussion, “Inclusive Governance of Food Systems and Ecological Restoration in the Urban-Rural Interface”. The thrust of this paper is to bring ecosystem restoration to the urban-rural interface, including the food system, through examining cases in different countries, platforms, and networks. In his presentation, Thomas will discuss key global food and environmental themes in the publication, followed by Q&A and participatory discussion moderated by Food Studies Program Chair Kristin Reynolds. Click here to register.
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On Thursday, April 7, from 10:00-11:40AM, The Global Studies class “Transnational Feminist Politics”, taught by Esther Franke, will host Radwa Khaled-Ibrahim for a talk titled, “From participation to radical resistance: (im)possibilities of decolonizing aid”. Radwa Khaled-Ibrahim is speaker for transformative aid and emergency aid at “medico international” and an associative lecturer at the department for political science at Marburg University and Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies. To register, please email globalstudies@newschool.edu.
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Join us on Apr 13, 2022 at noon for an online book launch with German sociologist Sebastian Garbe (University of Applied Sciences Fulda) for his recently published book, Weaving Solidarity: Decolonial Perspectives on Transnational Advocacy of and with the Mapuche (2022). Garbe offers a critical perspective on contemporary expressions of international solidarity and transnational advocacy. He combines approaches from critical race and decolonial studies with an activist ethnography on networked spaces of encounters created through solidarity activism by Mapuche and non-Mapuche actors. The book is an Open Access publication, available online through Transcript Publishing. To register for the event click here.
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STUDENT NEWS
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Aliyah Blackmore GS’16 has started a new position with Bloom Works as a Digital Writer and Strategist.
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New School Debate Team Member, Noor Lima Boudakian GS '22 qualified for the National Debate Tournament.
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AROUND TOWN
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The Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting an event titled “The Deep History of Incarceration”. The lecture will explore the deep history of incarceration, focusing on sites and experiences of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean world. We will see spaces of incarceration through 3D models, and we will read the words of people imprisoned thousands of years ago as preserved in their papyrus letters requesting food, clothing, and release from captivity. The event will take place on Mar 29, 2022. Click here to register.
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Please join our the Center for Research on Women for their next event in the online queer asylum series March 29 from 12-1:30pm EST. The series examines how intersecting forms of systemic violence shape the experiences of forced migration and everyday life for female- and nonbinary-identifying queer migrants who are living in, or seeking admission to, the United States. The series frames systemic violence that these migrants face as being rooted in and reproducing settler colonialism, colonialism, racial capitalism, and heteronormative gender and sexuality.
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JOBS, INTERNSHIPS, OPPORTUNITIES
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Jobs:
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Stone Barns Center (SBC) is hiring a Farmhand - Member Services Attendant. The position will be a part of a team working on exciting projects and learning about the intersection between food and farming through a variety of programs and events. In a Member Services Attendant capacity, the ideal candidate will assist in the areas of event, communications & marketing. In a Farmhand capacity, they will be a part of the field and greenhouse operations in collaboration with the crops team. It's a full-time position and the job profile lives here.
- Alianza Americas is seeking an experienced Strategic Narrative Manager. This person will work primarily under the direction of the Associate Director for Media and Communications and will work across programs and member organizations within the Alianza Americas network. This person will be the project lead in a communications initiative that seeks to elevate narratives that highlight the cultural traditions of care, strong family ties, and support networks within Latinx and Latin American immigrant communities in the United States.Click here to apply.
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Opportunities:
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The Migration Institute at Cornell University is opening applications for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scholars to apply now for the virtual 2022 Migrations Summer Institute, “The Ongoing Afterlife of Dispossession in Africa and the Americas.” From July 11 to 22, 20 participants will join a collaborative virtual space that engages with African studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, and settler colonial studies from a comparative perspective. A stipend of $2,000 supports each participant as they join a dialogue with other migration scholars, activists, and artists, design curricula and digital humanities resources, and contribute to a publication. Applications are due on April 4.
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