OAR News & Events

A wide array of diverse events are hosted and/or sponsored by the Office for the Advancement of Research. These include book talks by noted authors, scholarly lectures, conferences, and professional development for our faculty and staff.

Our Past Events

We invite you to participate in the Decolonizing Criminology Symposium, which seeks to reckon with the legacy and impact of colonial thought on criminology discourse, crime, and punishment.

It also offers an opportunity to deepen our understanding of how colonial legacies continue to shape criminology discourse and practice and to collaborate on ways to decolonize this field.

The symposium will occur at John Jay College, room 9.64NB, on Thursday, April 20th, from 9 am to 6 pm and will feature presentations, workshops, and panel discussions from distinguished scholars.

The event will include a keynote address from Dr. Viviane Saleh-Hanna, UMass Dartmouth, Dr. Onwubiko Agozino, Virginia Tech, and Dr. Nigel South, University of Essex.

Participants will be able to engage in productive discussions and learn from experts in the field. The symposium is open to everyone interested, including academics, practitioners, students, and community members.

Pre-registration is free and can be done here or by emailing rbahati@jjay.cuny.edu.

We hope you can join us for a day of thought-provoking discussions and engaging presentations.

Invitation to Book Talk on Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists 1960 to 2020 by Dr. Claudia Calirman

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 from 5.30 to 6.45 pm

We invite you to a book talk on "Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Art ists 1960 to 2020" by Dr. Claudia Calirman, the Chair and Associate Professor of Art History at John Jay College.

The talk will take place on Wednesday, May 3rd, from 5.30 to 6.45 pm in room L.61, followed by an exhibition opening reception at Shiva Gallery at 7 pm.

The event will feature roundtable discussion by:

Julia Bryan-Wilson is a Professor of Contemporary Art and LGBTQ+ Studies at the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University. She is the Curator-at-Large, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo.

André Lepecki is a Full Professor & Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is an essayist and independent curator based in New York City, and editor of several anthologies on dance and performance theory.

Vivian Crockett is a curator at the New Museum in New York and a Brazilian-American scholar focusing mainly on modern and contemporary art of African diasporas, Latinx diasporas, and the Americas at the varied intersections of race, gender, and queer theory.

Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s, explores how artists responded to social change. Although many of them in the 1960s and 1970s disavowed the term feminism, they still employed feminist strategies.

Please register to attend and we look forward to seeing you at the event and engaging in an insightful conversation about the power of art in challenging societal norms and promoting social justice.

Contact rbahati@jjay.cuny.edu with questions