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The New Normal: Presidential Politics & the University, 2017

Mar 7, 2017 — Many of us are looking for new frameworks through which to analyze and assess the current political moment in the United States.


Joseph LeDoux: Have We Misunderstood Fear & Anxiety?

His work is focused on the brain mechanisms of memory and emotion and he is the author of The Emotional Brain, Synaptic Self, and Anxious. LeDoux has received ...


OUR STAFF - THE RIFKIND CENTER - CUNY

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MIKHAL DEKEL (Center Director) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at CCNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the recipient of various awards, ...


Ruth Leys – Imitation, Emotion, and Mirror Neurons - THE ...

Ruth Leys is a historian of the human sciences with a special interest in the history of the neurosciences, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry. Her books ...


Agents of Contact Symposium - THE RIFKIND CENTER

Our one-day symposium will present research on the impact of books and print on intellectual contact (broadly construed) within Europe as well as between ...


Two Events with Sandra Cisneros - THE RIFKIND CENTER

Laura Callahan, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Sponsors included President Lisa S. Coico, the School ...


PAST SPEAKERS & EVENTS - THE RIFKIND CENTER

The Rifkind Center supports faculty research and organizes and sponsors special events, conferences and lectures, interdisciplinary faculty seminars, ...


The Rifkind Center

The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities & the Arts was established in 1986 through a grant from the Winston Foundation, “in recognition of a revered ...


2015-2016 SEMINAR - THE RIFKIND CENTER

The Rifkind seminar sought to interrogate experiences of migration, deportation, exile – and their aftermaths – through multiple disciplinary lenses.


A talk with Edward Greenstein – The Book of Job as a Parody ...

Edward L. Greenstein, Professor of Biblical Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, is a veteran scholar of Biblical and ancient Near Eastern language and ...


Film Blackness and the Politics of Black Becoming - THE ...

Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor of Film, Department of Media and Communication Arts and the Black Studies Program at City College.


The Rifkind Seminar

The Rikfind Center Arts & Humanities Faculty Seminar was created by Mikhal Dekel, Emily Greble, and Andras Kisery in 2014. The goal of the Interdisciplinary ...


Latest Issue of Endeavour Published with Danian Hu, Ph.D. as ...

Endeavour issue “Science, Technology, and Medicine in China's Cultural Revolution” has been officially published online. Partly under the support of the ...


Upcoming at The Documentary Forum - THE RIFKIND CENTER

Upcoming at Documentary Forum, a screening of Deported by Rachèle Magloire and Chantal Regnault. Deported follows a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: ...


Home is Where the Hatred Is - THE RIFKIND CENTER

On Thursday, April 27th Michael Gillespie will deliver a talk at City College entitled, “Home is Where the Hatred Is: Film Blackness and the Politics of ...


What Is Sex For? – A discussion with David Halperin - THE ...

David Halperin 2016-march-david-halperin. Fri, Mar 18, 2016. David Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of …


Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning - THE ...

Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016. Professor Snyder is Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University. Black Earth has attracted controversy, ...


An Interdisciplinary Forum (with photos from the event) - THE ...

Emotional Politics: An Interdisciplinary Forum (with photos from the event). Photos from “Emotional Politics: An Interdisciplinary Forum” (04/28/2017):.


What's a Feminist to Do? A Talk by Dr. Kate Levin - THE ...

In this talk, Dr. Levin will use Eliza Haywood's eighteenth-century novella “Fantomina” as a case study to explore how her feminist teaching evolves (or ...


Convergence of the Humanities & Sciences - THE RIFKIND ...

The Rifkind Center invites you to a roundtable discussion commemorating the 75th anniversary of the isolation of Plutonium on Wednesday, October 18th from ...


Watching Without Seeing – A Talk by Thomas Keenan - THE ...

Please join us for “Watching Without Seeing: Police Violence, Eyewitness Video, Justice”, a talk by Professor Thomas Keenan on Tuesday, April 10th, ...


The Natural History of Rape – A Talk by Ariella Azoulay - THE ...

Please join us for “The Natural History of Rape”, a talk by Professor Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature, ...


A talk with Stanley Fish - THE RIFKIND CENTER

Thursday, February 26, 2015. Stanley Fish, author most recently of Versions of Academic Freedom and How to Write a Sentence (And How to Read One), ...


November 6, 2018: Gustave Le Gray's Sea and Sky - THE ...

Join us on November 6, 2018: Dr. Kaja Silverman “Stopping before Gustave Le Gray's Sea and Sky” LOCATION: Rifkind Room NAC, 6/316. TIME: 6:00 – 7:30 PM.


A Talk with Sayed Kashua - THE RIFKIND CENTER

Feb 6, 2018 — Sayed Kashua is a Palestinian writer, journalist, and screenwriter writing in Hebrew. Kashua is a columnist for the daily Ha'artz and the author ...


Bones of Contention – A Film by Andrea Weiss - THE RIFKIND ...

Please join us for a screening of Bones of Contention on Thursday April 26th, 2018 at 6:30PM – Shepard Hall Room 291.


An Evening with Betsy Sussler – Make the Connection - THE ...

Explore alternatives for breaking into the publishing industry by writing book reviews, literary criticism, and essays, plus conducting interviews with writers.


hello, we moved - THE RIFKIND CENTER

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VISIT NEW SITE. The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities & the Arts. North Academic Center, Room 6/316 160 Convent Avenue


October 2014 - THE RIFKIND CENTER

October 2014 · October 2014 · An Evening with Betsy Sussler – Make the Connection.


Video - THE RIFKIND CENTER

Video · Video · Joseph LeDoux: Have We Misunderstood Fear & Anxiety?