Hello everybody!
Well, it looks like we (almost) made it! So congratulations to all. In order to celebrate some of the highlights of this semester and provide some recommendations for the winter break, here it goes our second newsletter! I hope you will enjoy and, once again, if you have some suggestions to add, we will be happy to add them in the next iteration.
We are proud of our Sociology Club!!
Students from the sociology and psychology clubs felt the need to understand better the issue of immigration under the current political atmosphere. So, on Nov. 6, we invited a writer, Sergio Troncoso, to present his stories. We also showed a CUNY TV interview with our colleague Shirley Leyro discussing anti-immigrant sentiment. More than 40 people attended the event, and students were very engaged in the discussion. At the end, we played a trivia game and gave away six copies of Troncoso’s book “Nobody’s Pilgrims.” We’re hoping to work with the psych and criminal justice student clubs to organize another panel on immigration in Spring 2025.
Also, the sociology and psychology clubs organized a trip to the Tenement Museum on Nov. 24. We had lunch at an Indian restaurant, and a couple of students said that was the first time they had tried Indian cuisine. The guided tour at the Tenement Museum was amazing! An Ashkenazi Jewish student shared his own family stories during the tour, and a Sephardic Jewish student pointed out the racial construct in the U.S.
The student club ended the fall semester with an escape room blast! One student in the picture is transferring to Hunter next spring and plans to continue studying sociology.
Something you may find interesting:
The International Center of Photography (IFP) features We Are Here: Scenes from the Streets, which showcases how “the streets” are the places of community, self-expression, advocacy, changing landscapes, and social dynamics through street photographers’ perspectives.
Hysterical history revision on Broadway
So, some humor is definitely welcome after an intense semester. Oh, Mary! goes totally tongue-in-cheek with its queer-coded revision of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s marriage. If you can catch Cole Escola—who also wrote the play—playing Mary (until January 19), you’ll definitely be in”oh!”.
The first director of the Morgan Library
Maybe a library isn’t the first place you’d think of to disconnect from the semester, but the Morgan Library, beyond the beauty of its building, is hosting a fascinating exhibition about Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the institution, starting in 1924. The exhibition traces Greene’s remarkable life, from her roots in a predominantly Black community in Washington, D.C., to her distinguished career leading one of the world’s great research libraries. You can also save it for next semester, as the exhibition will be open until May
Happy holidays everybody!
Mateo & Paoyi
