David Burney, academic director of urban placemaking management; and visiting associate professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, published an opinion piece in Common Edge about public housing in Manhattan.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Film/Video Suneil Sanzgiri’s film, Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?), was reviewed in Dissent. Another film by Sanzgiri, What is Owed?, was featured by Prism in an article about the stakes of climate change. What is Owed? “interrogates the systems of power at the heart of climate change’s energy imbalance.”
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Observer and ArtNews featured Soft Network, an organization co-founded by Associate Professor of Photography Sara VanDerBeek to “support artists and estates with challenging legacy needs.”
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An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, by Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE of Writing Anna Moschovakis, was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books. “Moschovakis is a writer with an impressive toolbox of techniques, and they are employed here with a kinetic precision,” writes Annie Lou Martin. “The surface quakes, but at the core, Moschovakis maintains an expert sense of control: the result is a novel that’s endlessly rereadable, continuously shimmering at its edges, generating new meaning with each slight shift in tone or light.”
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Assistant Professor in the School of Information Kathy Carbone was a panelist on the Archives and Emotions: An International Interdisciplinary Dialogue roundtable at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting.
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Alex Strada, fine arts civic engagement fellow, has written an essay for the latest issue of Storefront for Art and Architecture called “The Right to Shelter.” Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice Carlos Motta also contributed to the issue.
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Adjust Assistant Professor of Film/Video Jacob Burckhardt has a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives from January 25–27, 2025. The series “shines a spotlight on Jacob Burckhardt, whose eclectic, resourceful, and always charming body of work spans fifty years (and counting) and a variety of different formats and genres.”
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Adjunct Professor of Undergraduate Communications Design Tim O’Brien was interviewed for Nautilus.
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Cole Raser, BFA Film ’21, and Abby Rhodes, BFA Fine Arts (Drawing) ’21, have launched their podcast Practically Happy. “We here at Practically Happy believe in shifting the ‘traditional model of success’ towards finding fulfillment in pursuit of your passions, despite our place in time and space. Through the podcast we aim to tackle the highs and lows of choosing a creative career, and reaffirm that we/you have what it takes.”
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The Conversation recommends Why We Can′t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property by Minh-Ha T. Pham, professor of humanities and media studies, on its recent list of “books that would make a great gift for the critical thinker on your shopping list.”
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