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The Thought Project - Episode 9 - Interview with Manu Bhagavan Jan 31, 2018

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This week’s guest is Manu Bhagavan, professor of history and human rights at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Professor Bhagavan is a specialist on modern India focusing on the 20th Century late-colonial and post-colonial periods, with particular interests in human rights, nationalism and questions of sovereignty. He is author of the critically acclaimed The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World published by Harper Collins in 2012.

The Thought Project - Episode 8 - Interview with Meena Alexander Jan 24, 2018

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This week’s guest Meena Alexander, is a distinguished professor of English, Hunter College and the Graduate Center. As a practicing poet, and scholar Professor Alexander has a special interest in postcolonial writings and contemporary poetry and poetics. These areas are tied in with her ongoing reflections on autobiographical writing, feminism, Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms, transnational migration, trauma, memory and identity.

The Thought Project - Episode 7 - Interview with Richard Alba Jan 19, 2018

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This week’s guest Richard Alba, is a distinguished professor of sociology who became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. Author of numerous books and known for his scholarship on race and urban sociology, which has developed a comparative focus, encompassing the immigration of North American societies and Western Europe. Today he joins us to discuss his latest effort as a member of the New York City Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers.

The Thought Project - Episode 6 - Interview with Matt Gold Jan 17, 2018

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This week’s guest Matt Gold, is an Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, where he holds teaching appointments in the Ph.D. Program in English, the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies (MALS), and the doctoral certificate programs in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and American Studies. He serves as Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, Director of the CUNY Academic Commons, Co-Director of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, and Director of the GC Digital Scholarship Lab. In all of these roles, he works to integrate digital tools and methods into the core research and teaching missions of the Graduate Center.

The Thought Project - Episode 5 - Interview with Heath Brown Jan 11, 2018

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This week’s guest Heath Brown, is an associate professor of public policy at the Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY. He obtained his PhD in public administration and public policy at the George Washington University and a Masters’ degree at the Elliot School of International Affairs, also at GW. He is author of four books, three of which apply to today's podcast conversation that includes Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Non Profit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change; Pay to Play Politics: How Money Defines American Democracy and for today’s purposes, the Tea Party Divided: The Hidden Diversity of a Maturing Movement.

The Thought Project - Episode 4 - Interview with Tony Ro Jan 10, 2018

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This week’s guest Tony Ro is a presidential professor of psychology and biology and director of the Ro Lab at Graduate Center. Ro and his colleagues are investigating the brain’s deeply complex cognitive and neuronal architecture, and its role in determining our attention, perceptions and action. Ro joined the Graduate Center in 2015 after 7 years at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at CUNY’s City College. Ro will direct a new Masters’ program in Cognitive Neuro Science in Fall 2018.

The Thought Project - Episode 3 - Interview with Steven Romalewski Jan 03, 2018

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This week’s guest is Steve Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center. The CUNY Mapping Service is supporting a fair and accurate Census 2020 Count and is working with a coalition of civil rights groups, philanthropic foundations and others to map in “hard to count” communities in advance of the 2020 Census.

The Thought Project - Episode 2 - Interview with David Bloomfield Dec 07, 2017

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Interview with David Bloomfield, professor of Educational Leadership, Law and Policy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. Professor Bloomfield specializes in education law, school district management, school reform and legislative matters.

The Thought Project - Episode 1 - Interview With Lev Manovich Nov 29, 2017

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Interview with Lev Manovich, a professor of computer science at the Graduate Center and director of the Cultural Analytics Lab, who is discussing a new study "Visual Earth," that shines a light on how people around the world are expanding and curating the global photo-sharing gallery, possibly shaping a historical view of the current era.

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