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Distinguished Professor of History, authored a new
book Greater Gotham that explores NYC history
from 1898 to 1919, available now from Oxford University Press.
David
Kennedy,
Professor
and Director of the National Network for Safe Communities, spoke as
part of a panel on the Uniform Crime Reports during the Smart on
Crime Conference on October 10.
Martin
F. Horn, Distinguished Lecturer in
Corrections, participated in a NY Women's Bar Association panel
discussion on October 19 following a screening of the documentary
film "Rikers: An American Jail."
Erin
Thompson,
Professor
of Art Crime, commissioned a written piece by a former Guantanamo
detainee in the New York Times Sunday Review: "In Our Prison on the Sea." Thompson also
published an op-ed in The Paris Review: "Art from Guantanamo."
Presidential
Scholar and Professor of Psychology Margaret Bull Kovera has been
invited to give a lecture by the National Science Foundation called
"The Case for Double-Blind Lineup administration" on April
12, 2018.
Principato
Young Entertainment, a film and TV production company based in
Beverly Hills, has optioned For the Thrill of It, a book by Simon Baatz,
Professor of History, on the 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder, a landmark
case in American legal history. Baatz's next book, The Girl on the Velvet Swing, will be
published by Little, Brown & Co. in January 2018.
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9:00
AM - 5:00 PM
The
President's Gallery, 6th Floor, Haaren Hall
October 30, 2017
4:15 PM, L.63 NB
Nov. 7, 2017
4:30 PM, L.63 NB
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'Smart
On Crime' Conference Brings Together Local and National Voices to
Highlight Innovative Justice Reform
On
October 10 and 11, John Jay College, in partnership with the Center
for American Progress and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation,
hosted the first Smart on Crime conference, bringing together a
diverse group of bipartisan elected officials, researchers,
non-profit advocates, and other national leaders to discuss criminal
justice reform. Among the speakers invited were Former U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder, U.S Senator for New Jersey Cory Booker, John Jay
Professor David Kennedy, and more.
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The Prison-to-College Pipeline is
Expanding Educational Opportunity
for Students Both Inside and Out
At
the Otisville Correctional Facility, students enrolled in the
Prison-to-College -Pipeline (P2CP) anxiously waited to greet a group
of visitors who had traveled to the prison specifically to meet them.
"This is a special event," said Dylan Knapp, a current P2CP
student who was scheduled to speak on a panel later in the afternoon.
"We've spent a lot of time preparing for this." Read more
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Unmet Needs Roundtable Campaign
In
the wake of four natural disasters, which tragically struck within
weeks of each other, the John Jay community has mobilized to support
those affected by these tragic events. Read more
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John Jay and CUNY Push
for DACA Renewal
There
has been an outpouring of criticism in academic circles across the
U.S., and especially at CUNY and John Jay, in reaction to efforts to
rescind DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The
Obama Administration put DACA in place to protect young immigrants
from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as
children and have remained here ever since. Read more
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In the Anthropology Department, Students are Building
a Creative Community Inclusive of All
Students
looking for a creative home at John Jay College need look no further
than the Anthropology Department, where the student collective and
magazine known as A Home @ The End of the World will celebrate its
one year anniversary this November. Read more
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Celebrating the Latinx
Community at John Jay with
a Series of Month-long Events
Javier
Avila's experience moving from Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania when he
was thirty-one inspired him to resist discrimination with art in the
form of a one-man show that he recently performed in the Gerald W.
Lynch Theater.
"In the show, I explore what is wrong with prejudice and what's
at the root of it-fear," said Avila in one of his videos.
"But I also explore how positive it is to embrace
diversity." Read more
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For Purple Day, John Jay Students Speak Out Against
Domestic Violence
This
October, the Women's Center for Gender Justice is hosting a series of
events for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in order to spread
awareness about intimate partner violence (IPV). Included in the
Center's programming were workshops on October 18 and 19, and
students who attended the workshops received purple t-shirts to wear
for Purple Day, National Domestic Violence Awareness Day. Read more
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