The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

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The GPIA 10 Year Anniversary Seminar Series has been announced! Visit the listing of events and media here.

Announcement from The New School:

The New School wishes to ensure a safe start of the semester for everyone. Due to potential storm conditions in the New York area caused by Hurricane Irene, the university has instituted the following precautions:

All university facilities, including academic offices and computer laboratories, will close at their regular times on Friday, August 26. They will remain closed on Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28. Student residences will remain open throughout the weekend.

All events scheduled for Saturday and Sunday are cancelled, including:

• The New School for Public Engagement's Crash Course in New School Resources
• Field Day in Central Park
• Fashion Show
• New School Scavenger Hunt
• Classical Music Brunch

Dormitory residents should try to avoid moving in on Sunday. We encourage students to move in to student residences on Friday, Saturday, or Monday and to use their best judgment based on weather conditions.

The university will be open on Monday, August 29th and classes will be in session. Faculty and staff should make their best effort to arrive on time though consideration will be given for any public transportation delays Monday morning. Students who are unable to be in class on Monday will not be penalized.

Any changes or updates will be posted here over the weekend.

Everyone at The New School should remain attentive to conditions throughout the weekend. We ask that you not put yourselves at risk in any way. We appreciate your patience and cooperation and look forward to the start of classes on Monday.

Advising will take place between March 28 and April 1, 2011. Second semester students need to select their concentration and advisor by filling out this form. We will again be booking advising appointments through Genbook. Keep an eye out for future emails regarding making appointments.

Registration beings April 4, 2011, and will continue through the end of the month. During registration you will be able to register for Summer and Fall classes. Be sure to review program requirements prior to your advising meeting. Click here for Fall 2011 courses. Summer courses will be posted shortly.

Important Dates Spring 2011

Last day to add a class: Friday, February 4th
Last day to drop a class: Friday, February 11th

Resources on important dates and information about registration

GPIA instructor Peter Lucas and current student Emma Saloranta will present at Amnesty International's "Protecting and Promoting the Human Rights of Children Around the World" event Wednesday, December 9th, from 6-9pm. Click here for the program.

Milano Management Programs department will hold an open Group Advising Session, Wednesday, November 3, from 5:00-8:30pm at 72 Fifth Avenue, 7th floor lobby. Feel free to attend this if you are interested in taking courses in Management at Milano, but you will not be able to receive your PIN at this session. 

Current GPIA Students:

Make sure you are connected! Sign up for the listserv and join your course discussion groups. Read this short guide to take full advantage of program communications.

We are pleased to announce that early summer registration online for entering Graduate Program in International Affairs students opens on July 6th and closes August 9th. For more information on online and in-person advising and registration, click here.

Good luck to everyone finishing up the Spring 2010 semester! A reminder to those completing a thesis this semester - the deadline is Friday, May 7th.

The GPIA Student Government will be conducting online student support and program advising. Email them at gpiapeeradvising@gmail.com to with questions.

Have questions about Milano courses? Come to the advising session at 72 5th Ave., Room 321 from 5:30 - 7:30pm Thursday, April 1st. Milano admininistration, faculty and students will be there to answer your questions.

Advising and Registration for Continuing Students for the Summer 2010 and Fall 2010 courses:

Advising: Monday, March 29 – Wednesday, April 7

Online Registration: 9:00 a.m. Monday, April 5 – 11:59 p.m. Friday, April 23

Click here for more information about Advising and Registration.

Congratulations Graduates of 2010! Separate recognition ceremonies are held each year for NSGS graduates in addition to the university wide commencement ceremony. To prevent confusion, please learn more about the differences between these ceremonies and plan accordingly with family and friends.

Due to inclement weather, all NSU classes and activities are canceled today. All offices are closed for Friday, February 26th.

Classes and offices are canceled for tomorrow Wednesday, February 10th. All events are also canceled. Keep an eye out for rescheduling information on the listserv and this site.

The call for abstract submissions for the upcoming international Conference “Adolescent Girls – Cornerstone of Society: Building Evidence and Policies for Inclusive Societies,” (April 26-28, 2010 in New York) has been extended to 07 February, 2010.

This conference will be jointly hosted by UNICEF and GPIA at The New School, NY, and will have an emphasis on reviewing existing evidence and policies. The conference will focus on the role and potential agency of adolescent girls in meeting emerging global challenges (esp. economic crises, demographic transition, climate change and innovation and technology). For more information on the conference and instrustion on submiting an abstract, please visit www.equityforchildren.org.

2nd International Call 2009-2010 Essays and Audiovisual Presentations for "Bicentennials in Action" Conference

The aim of this Call is to join efforts to understand how the bicentennial commemorations are affected by the important current economic, political, and social processes, and how, at the same time, the Bicentennials affect these processes.

The 5 awarded authors will present their work at an international conference in Mexico in 2011. The awarded works and the mentions will be published in a book in 2011.

More information about guidelines and the conference.

To subscribe to the GPIA listserv send an email, from the address that you want subscribed, to majordomo@listserv.newschool.edu. Leave the subject line blank and type "subscribe GPIA" into the body of the message. More on GPIA Listservs.

UNICEF and GPIA initiative, Equity for Children, will host their annual conference this April. This year's theme is "Adolescent Girls - Cornerstone of Society: Building Evidence and Policies for Inclusive Societies". To learn more about the conference or to submit your abstract, read the conference's Background Paper and Call for Papers.

Web registration for Spring 2010 courses re-opened on December 3rd and will remain open until the add deadline which is February 5th. 

Join us to celebrate the 2009 winter graduates, Friday, December 11th from 8 - 10pm with food, drink, and music at the Theresa Lang Community Center on West 13th Street. Details here. Hope to see you there!

Check out photos from the GPIA End of Semester Party last Friday!

Spring 2010 advising will begin November 9th. Please review these instructions, the Spring 2010 courses, and refer to the updated Student Handbook, to prepare for advising and registration. 

Call for Papers: Examining "The Places We Live": Slums & Urban Poverty in the Developing World

• Win a trip to World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janeiro in March 2010
• Be published in an online publication edited by The World Bank and other sponsors
• Get invited to an interactive policy workshop with urban development practitioners in Washington, DC, in February 2010

Deadline: Abstracts due by Nov. 16, 2009

For more information, please see official flier

The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) will convene a one and a half day workshop on contemporary issues in the theory and practice of human rights on September 25 and 26, 2009.  The Practice of Human Rights Workshop will promote critical analysis, scholarship and discussion on urgent questions in the field of human rights today, from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Are current ways of practicing human rights effective? Can and should human rights shape economic policy? Can human rights ever avoid implication in imperial strategies? 

Ashoka Launch Event - Social Entrepreneurship: How Everyone Can Be a Change Maker

Monday, September 21, 6:00-8:00 pm
55 West 13th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Aves)
Admission is free, but you must reserve a seat here.

Join us for the launch of an exciting new partnership between The New School in New York City and Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Bruce Nussbaum, faculty member at Parsons The New School Design and BusinessWeek editor, will moderate a discussion with leading social entrepreneurs tackling diverse global challenges from poverty to climate change.
Diana Wells, President of Ashoka, will make introductory remarks about the new Ashoka/New School Partnership. More information

There is a limited number of positions for GPIA research and program assistants for the Fall semester. Positions are for 100 hours per semester @ $12/hr unless otherwise noted.  Positions and application process.

The GPIA is proud to announce its new High School Mentoring Program in partnership with the non-profit organization Urban Assembly, which creates and manages a community of New York City Public Schools attended by students from under-resourced neighborhoods. Beginning in the Fall 2009 semester the UA-GPIA partnership will give selected GPIA students the opportunity to become personal mentors to UA students, to develop a one-to-one bond with a young student and to make a critical contribution to his or her intellectual, emotional and social progress.

The New School has been selected by Ashoka as a “2009-2010 Changemaker Campus,” and is forming a university “core team” committee of six students - three graduate and three undergraduate. We are hoping at least one GPIA student will be on the committee.

The initiative is a national program to increase social entrepreneurship activities, curriculum and discussion in universities. The student should be interested in “transforming their university into an active breeding ground for aspiring social entrepreneurs and everyday changemakers.” The committee will be an opportunity to network with some of the world’s leading experts and practitioners on new partnerships that match theory to practice and bring the classroom to the world.

To download an application (due Monday, Sept. 14) and for more information, click here.

We have four additions to our full-time faculty this semester. Please welcome Nehal Bhuta, Sean Jacobs, and Terra Lawson-Remer to the program and congratulate Everita Silina on her full-time appointment! All four have been appointed as Assistant Professors of International Affairs.

If you are having troubles subscribing to the listserv, please check to make sure you are sending the message to this address - majordomo@listserv.newschool.edu and NOT majordomo@newsite.newschool.edu. The address was recently changed and still appeared in some information. We are correcting this asap. Proper instructions here.

The International Field Program invites you to vote in our 3rd Annual IFP Photography Competition.  All of the photographs submitted were taken by GPIA students while on their International Field Programs in the summer of 2009.  For seven days, starting on September 2nd, anyone with a New School e-mail will be able to vote for what they feel are the three best photographs.

GPIA students - welcome to the Fall 2009 semester! Please review the New Student Communications Guide to find out how to join the listserv and more about GPIA.info. You can find more details about the site here. Email help with any questions. Have a great semester!

The Graduate Program in International Affairs and the International Field Program invites GPIA students who participated in the 2009 IFP to submit their photographs for the 3rd annual IFP Photo Competition. To enter, please follow these instructions. Good luck!

August 24th is the Opening of School for the Fall 09 semester! Find information about registration and the answers to frequently asked questions in the Opening of School Reference Guide.

Congratulations to all of the 108 GPIA graduates for this academic year! We look forward to hearing what are your next steps and we are of course available to be helpful if needed.   

Once again, Congratulations to Nick Barber and Teo Balve for receiving GPIA Distinguished Thesis Award as well as the Cities Alliance PIA team of Allison Castaldi, Louise Daniels Moreira, Allie Essinger, Mark Farrell-Javits, Silvana Gramajo, Daniel Liswood, Cinthya Marquez, and Marc Mousky who were awarded the GPIA Distinguished Practicum. The team was supported by Pamela Hershey and Barbara Camus. I would also like to wish everyone a great summer.  

Warm regards,
Professor Michael Cohen 

(Professor Cohen's recognition speech)

A call for abstracts! The Urban Symposium 2009 will be the first annual student conference focusing on urban development hosted by the Graduate Program in International Affairs and we are looking for abstracts. Please read more about the conference and the requirements for participating here.

Advisement for Summer and Fall registration will take place from Monday, Apr 6th through Tuesday, Apr 14th. To make an advising appointment, advisor sign-up sheets are available in the GPIA office. Web Registration will run from April 15th through April 24th.