PD+Talks+Forums+Conferences

=**Professional Development Links**= Here is a list of potential talk,s, forums, conferences that can count for your pd hours. If you find something you think is relevant please feel free to email Edwin or Cynthia to get the okay.

**Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture** **presents, free & open to the public,**

= **Sunday, September 25** **@ 11am **  = **"City Parents Fight Back: Charters, 'Race to the Top' and the Struggle for a Quality Education in New York City"** **A talk by Leonie Haimson** From suing the city Department of Education over its strategy of supporting charters over existing public schools operating in a building, to taking on its contract with Murdoch’s News Corp., Leonie Haimson and her group Class Size Matters are there, fighting for democratic schooling. Ms. Haimson also is editor of the NYC Public School Parent blog and a columnist for the Huffington Post. She is a founding member of Parents Across America, an organization dedicated to making the parent voice heard in the national debate over education reform.

@ 1:30 pm "The Inconvenient Truth about Waiting for Superman" **A video & panel discussion co sponsored by the** **Green Party and the Ethical Action Committee of BSEC** A compelling documentary produced, directed, filmed and edited by teachers, parents and social workers in the public school system. We reject “Waiting for Superman” and the privatization of PUBLIC Education by hedge fund millionaires and corporate interests. PUBLIC Education is not for sale!

**__Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture__,** **53 Prospect Park West (bet 1st St. & 2nd St.).** **(F train to 7th ave. or 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza)**

**Come at 11am or 1:30pm. Lunch will be available for those staying for both.**

4PM to 7:30PM, at Pace University, One Pace Plaza
Please join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) this week for a co-sponsored event, **We are a Family: Reflections of 9/11 by Chinese New Yorkers**, on Thursday, September 22, 2011, from 4PM to 7:30PM, at Pace University, One Pace Plaza - Student Union, Manhattan. This event is co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute at Pace University, and is free and open to the general public.

__**Program**__


 * 4PM to 5PM** - Exhibition of contemporary Chinese painting and calligraphy on the themes of memorializing 9/11 and the harmony, happiness, peace, and tranquility of the mid-autumn Chinese Moon festival. Chinese folk music by Chinese Theatre Works.


 * 5PM** - Talk on "Moon and Rice: A Tribute to 9/11 using Chinese Cultural Symbolism" by artist Chee Wong Ng, whose "Red, White, and Blue" installation is on display in the campus library.


 * 5:30PM** - Reception and brief remarks by Pace officials and local dignitaries.

For details on this and all of AAARI's upcoming activities, please visit __ www.aaari.info __. Sincerely, Antony Wong Program Coordinator Asian American / Asian Research Institute City University of New York
 * 6:30PM** - Panel discussion with community members and scholars from CUNY, Pace, and Adelphi universities:
 * Jiao-xian Chen
 * Lt. David Chen
 * Paul Lee
 * Jean Lau Chin, Adelphi University
 * Joyce Moy, Asian American / Asian Research Institute - CUNY
 * Joseph Lee, Pace University

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(9/30-10/2) **Preemptive Education Conference**
Dear friends, allies, educators, teachers, mentors and community leaders:

This fall, Urban Word NYC partners with NYU Steinhardt and NYU’s Center for Multicultural Education and Programs to present our annual Preemptive Education Conference. This year, using the power of spoken word poetry and hip-hop as the lens to explore multiple facets of violence and promote healing, participants will learn best practices in stu­dent-centered and critical pedagogy from professionals in the fields of education, youth development, and spoken word & hip-hop education. This year’s theme, “ Beyond Violence: Promoting Healing through Spoken Word, Hip Hop, & Critical Pedagogy ,” situates conference workshops around the areas of Solution-oriented praxis, Community Building, and Student-Centered Freirian Pedagogy. SAVE the DATES, SEPT. 30-OCT. 2 FRIDAY SEPT. 30 OPENING PANEL and PERFORMANCE features Dr. Michelle Fine, Joanne Smith & 2011 Urban Word NYC slam team. FREE to the PUBLIC. OCT. 1-2 features weekend workshops, keynote speeches and interactive presentations. Full schedule to come.

Register now with Mikal@urbanwordnyc.org Suggested donation for weekend training is $100, discounts and scholarships available.

In peace and poetry,

Michael

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
‎1hr 40min‎‎ - Documentary‎ Director: Göran Olsson

Cast: Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Erykah Badu, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson, Talib Kweli

THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television

==New York University will host “Listening to the Women of Bosnia,” a screening and book presentation on the Bosnian genocide, on Monday, October 17, 7-9 p.m. at NYU’s Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th St. (at University Place).== The event’s speakers include: Margaret Wallström, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict at the United Nations; Mirsada Colakovic, Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission of Bosnia-Herzegovina at the United Nations; Peggy Kuo, former prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; Mohamed Sacerby, former minister and ambassador of Bosnia-Herzegovina; George Mason University Professor Gregory Stanton, founder and director of Genocide Watch; PBS Producer Pamela Hogan; and author, University of Amsterdam Professor and CNRS NYU Research Fellow, Selma Leydesdorff. The event is free and open to the public. **To RSVP, email to valerie.dubois@nyu.edu. For more information, call 212.992.7488**.

The evening will include a screening of Hogan’s “I Came to Testify,” the story of how a group of 16 women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca stepped forward to take the witness stand in an international court of law. “I Came to Testify” is part of PBS’s five-part series, “Women, War & Peace,” which premieres in October.

In addition, participants will discuss Leydesdorff’s //Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak// (2011), an account of the July 1995 Srebrenica killings by the Serbian Army. Srebrenica had been designated a “safe area” by the U.N. and was ostensibly under the protection of Dutch soldiers. Leydesdorff’s work is composed of interviews with female survivors of the Srebrenica massacre, many of whom still live in refugee camps. The event, in collaboration with PBS, is co-sponsored by the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences/UMI 3199 “Transitions”, a joint initiative of France’s CNRS and NYU, the University of Amsterdam, and NYU’s Center for NYU’s Center for Mediterranean and European Studies. **The event will be podcast at www.cnrsnyu.com.**