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Nanette Shaw
Sex, violence, Bomba, immigration, and architecture are some of the topics the History Forum will explore this fall at The CUNY Graduate Center. The programs are presented by the newly formed Gotham Center for New York City History and sponsored by Fleet. Featuring prominent historians and history-makers, all the programs are free, open to the public, and will be held at The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. For further information call the Office of Continuing Education and Public Programs at 1-212-817-8215, or visit its Web site at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/. The fall semester schedule includes: Friday, September 22 9:00am-4:00pm Free Nueva York: Historical Reflections on Puerto Ricans in New York City From 1945 to the Present This all-day mini-conference, featuring Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, will provide a critical overview of the historical, political and cultural development of New York's Puerto Rican community. Thursday, September 28 7:00-9:00pm Free From Bomba to Hip-Hop: A History of Latino Music in New York City, with a Live Band Juan Flores, Graduate Center professor and author of From Bomba to Hip Hop, will team up with band leader Nelson González (and Son Mondano), and with music producer René López. In alternate takes of talking and playing, they will analyze and illustrate the changes in Latino music wrought by successive waves of immigrants, developments in the music industry, and larger transformations in New York City. Thursday, October 12 6:30-8:30pm Free Sex and the City: An Illustrated Talk about the History of Sex in The Big Apple Alison Maddex, the Director of the new Museum of Sex, will look at how and why the museum intends to display erotic artifacts. Her talk, accompanied by slides, will also lay out the current state of the museum's opening exhibition on the History of Sex in New York City. Carol Groneman, John Jay College Professor and author of the new book Nymphomania: A History, will comment on the Museum's evolving direction from the perspective of a leading historian of sexuality and Richard Rabinowitz of the American History Workshop will comment on its museology. Thursday, October 26 6:30-8:30pm Free Why Hasn't More Great Architecture Been Built in NYC in the Last 50 Years (and what can be done about it)? Herbert Muschamp, architectural critic of the New York Times, has been vigorously protesting the paucity of brilliant buildings built here in recent years, a problem which arguably dates back decades. Muschamp will lay out his analysis and proposals for change. An all-star lineup of architects and architectural scholars will speak to the issues. Tuesday, November 14 6:30-8:30pm Free From the Third Degree to Abner Louima: The History of Police Violence in New York City Since the 1880's This evening's discussion will attempt to shift the focus of the discussion of "police brutality," and analyze the last hundred plus years of conflict in terms of what the dominant forces of the larger cultural, social, economic and political order have called upon police to do. Historians and experts will guide us from the late nineteenth century to the present. Tuesday, December 12 6:30-8:30pm Free What's New about the New Immigrants? Nancy Foner will discuss her new book, From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. The book compares today's new immigrants in the city with those a hundred years ago. It reassesses the myths that have grown up around the earlier Jewish and Italian immigration and that color how today's Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean arrivals are seen. Scholars Peter Kwong and Silvio-Torres Saillant will comment. Tuesday, January 9 6:30-8:30pm Free 'Hood History: The South Bronx, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and East New York Scholars Craig Wilder, Wendell Pritchett, and Evelyn Gonzalez will consider the history of culture, people, and politics in the three neighborhoods, noting contrasts and commonalities. |