The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy

The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars, students and activists across disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy. This year's conference includes panels and papers on a wide array of issues, ranging from teaching for social justice, to feminist pedagogy in the museum setting, to teaching survivors of war trauma.

Michelle Fine will give the keynote address entitled, "Slanted practices of inquiry and pedagogy."

Through the conference we aim to create a space where people can discuss the politics, problems, and transformative potential of feminist pedagogical practices in classrooms and community settings.

See http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/wgp for a complete schedule and registration information, or contact organizers Pamela Burger and Jennifer Sugg at feministpedagogy@gmail.com.

The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Ed Tech Lab cordially invite Queens College faculty to a conversation on teaching online, led by faculty from Weekend College who have been experimenting with teaching online:

Terry Balkaran
Nancy Hemmes
Anique Qureshi

Our guest presenters span levels of expertise, from beginner (one is teaching online for the first time) to advanced. They will share what they have learned about teaching practices and evaluating student learning, addressing both the assets and liabilities of online instruction.

Please register online by clicking here. Space is limited, and registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Date: November 10, 2009
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Place: Razran 318

Time: 11:30 - 1:30pm
Location: Kiely 12th floor conference room

This year's Colloquium on Second Language Acquisition at Queensborough Community College focuses on feedback practices. The speaker is:

Hansun Zhang Waring
Teachers College, Columbia University

Date: November 13, 2009
Time: 1-3 p.m.
Place: Queensborough Community College

For more information, please contact Jilani Warsi

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Let's celebrate General Education!

Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend an evening of presentations and discussion that celebrate General Education at Queens College. This celebration is the kickoff event that will launch “The Year of Gen Ed.”

Our new provost, James Stellar, and faculty will offer their views on the opportunities that the new curriculum affords us as we begin to envision its possibilities across the disciplines.

Light refreshments will follow in the Atrium.

If you plan to attend, RSVP via email to president@qc.cuny.edu or by telephone to extension 7-5556.

Time: 4 - 7pm
Location: Lefrak Concert Hall, Music Building

General Education Advisory Committee meeting.

Time: 12:15 - 1:30pm
Location: Razran 318

New faculty are invited to attend a roundtable discussion that will cover topics of interest and relevance to someone growing roots in the Queens College community and looking to successfully navigate the QC infrastructure to reach personal and professional goals in an academic career.

This will be the second roundtable event for the fall semester. More details and information on how to register coming soon.

Time: 11am - 2pm
Location: to be announced

You and your colleagues are invitated to attend the
8th Annual CUNY IT Conference - December 4, 2009 at John Jay College.

This year's conference, again chaired by George Otte, has somehow managed to surpass previous conferences in both the quantity and quality of the presentations, as a look at the program will confirm, but it also builds on prior successes -- notably with the return, by popular demand, of last year's highly successful keynoter, David Pogue, New York Times technology columnist, Emmy-winning CBS news correspondent, and best-selling author.

The Conference begins at 9:15am with Check-in for Registrants, Vendor Exhibits, and Breakfast. The first set of concurrent presentations will start at 9:45am. At 11:00am, we will hear from our Keynote speaker, David Pogue. Lunch will be provided from 12:10pm -2:10 in the Exhibit area. Concurrent presentations will resume at 12:40pm and continue to 4:00pm, followed by a wrap-up session in the Exhibit area. A special feature of the day will be the presentation of the 5th Annual Mike Ribaudo Award for Technological Innovation.

The Conference Program is available at the URL below, which also links to the Conference e-registration application. Given previous years' "full house" attendance, I urge you to register in advance. Registration is free to all members of the CUNY community, but space is limited.

Here is where you go to view the Conference Program and to register:


http://www.convergemag.com/events/CUNY-8th-Annual-IT-Conference.html