CUNY Academic Commons | Shifra Sharlin | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ssharlin/activity/ Activity feed for Shifra Sharlin. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 b221976f6d624e2e806c4c0bbdf99bd7 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=744 Sat, 03 May 2014 23:24:37 -0400  

Monday, May 5 6:30-8 pm – Asian Society – Art Talk: Art in a Transnational World: Okwui Enwezor, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Melissa Chiu – Join Okwui Enwezor, internationally acclaimed curator of the upcoming […]

]]> 11b23db2ab46deb835e3e6a4bc1f660c Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=741 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:07:02 -0400 The city in its complete sense, then, is a geographic plexus, an economic organization, an institutional process, a theater of social action, and an aesthetic symbol of collective unity. The city fosters art and […]

]]> f0c4aa8d2907bd582e92807650041fdd Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=738 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:59:59 -0400 A few years ago I ended a relationship because I found out he was using porn to masturbate. I’ve run into this problem in relationships before.  He told me that porn was less messy. I suppose simulated sex would […]

]]> 9b6560266c8d60861b00efe7449cd74e Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=736 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:52:12 -0400 Monday, April 28 6:30 pm – Museum of Natural History – Side Slam – Library Special Collections at the American Museum of Natural History is proud to launch its wide-ranging new online database of digital […]

]]> 902743477b698c158c2d2ec9b0d40646 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=726 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:24:23 -0400 April 15, Tuesday 11 am – Metropolitan Museum of Art – Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Style – The Museum’s newly installed galleries of Dutch paintings (galleries 631 through 638) place twenty works by Rembrandt and […]

]]> f914f8e394d5652949291d0ad4bbb854 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=711 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:44:54 -0400 ThumbnailArticles addressing the “science” of monogamy are everywhere. Is it a biological imperative; entirely constructed in society; a practice designed to promote family building and social order? Do other animals […]

]]> 320f9b358813e98192d669a1683151e5 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=657 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:25:13 -0400 There are only two books that have survived my original teenage bookshelf. One of those was called Open Marriage. It’s still available forty-two years after having been a bestseller. In this groundbreaking work, […]

]]> ca99c7e8c2ccf3dd45137999a5fafc40 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=651 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:26:22 -0400 Dee Dee sat in the corner cubicle of our office, playing SimCity or snoozing, listening to and singing John Legend’s “Tonight (Best You Ever Had),” and occasionally making or taking phone calls about program […]

]]> b0b3c113c563e49a0dc4f21c98b8b03d Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=649 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:24:24 -0400 For me, this word, community, conjures up images of concentric circles. It starts off with the individual, filled with personal histories and beliefs about the world. Stepping out, the circle includes more people; […]

]]> 1c9b37ef5ca6465744eacee92d6ae4d7 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=645 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:20:26 -0400 com·mu·ni·ty :

a unified body of individuals; society at large; joint ownership or participation

Moving between conversations within feminist/queer theory and social justice work, I frequently feel torn […]

]]> dd228609f8c53581e1b0506ee6226e2a Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=642 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:52:35 -0400 He was in the streets. With him: big crowds, a mass of protesters, rallies of chanting thousands in the streets.

People were demonstrating, demanding the end of the military rule.

It was a clear, sunny […]

]]> d7ccfbc236781d9707fe2287f0c4aa12 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=639 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:49:48 -0400 Maria Carreon:

Breaking the Peace

When many people imagine protests, they think of anarchy. Protest, however, is not inherently anarchic. If anything, it is inherently democratic – a people exercising their […]

]]> cf80aee3c937f2c3a005e9a9df89af16 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=636 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:46:52 -0400  

Protests have a tragic air to them. For millennia, they have been society’s most participatory form of politics. The dispossessed, disenfranchised, and disillusioned take to the streets in desperation, only […]

]]> 48dfd4041f58a950fdc00dfbec79a7fb Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=611 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:52:26 -0400 ThumbnailRestaurant Review by Rachael Benavidez
58 Park Avenue,
(between 37th & 38th Streets)
New York, NY 10016
212-686-4230
Smörgås Chef: http://www.smorgas.com/index_scandinaviahouse.htm
Scandinavia House: <a […]

]]> 24dfb82d3d97806a90142ebc0ccba2b4 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=285 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:57:12 -0400 A class discussion made me think about the way we think about love and what kind of love we love best.  According to the Guinness World Records, the world’s oldest love poem is from approximately 4000 years ago, […]

]]> 09c064a610946fb89501fa79520738f2 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=281 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:51:33 -0400 How does one change? How does one grow? What does it take to rise above one’s own personal weariness? How does one acquire the will to change one’s point of view?

Change is hard because it requires a leap of […]

]]> 4020a43e645eb408a235765121911da0 Shifra Sharlin wrote a new post on the site Room 4108: student journal of the Masters Program in Liberal Studies http://room4108.org/?p=272 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:33:02 -0400 When night falls, life inside the subway changes.  The experience of the nighttime subway varies depending on who you are and where you are going.  The experience of women differs from that of men.  And the […]

]]> 6ea8bcc2559e558b3c1a3c4d3c5268c9 Shifra Sharlin posted a new activity comment https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/77150/#acomment-77158 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:12:07 -0400 Thanks! Will do.

In reply to - Matthew K. Gold (he/him) posted an update Welcome to the Commons, @ssharlin ! Please let me know whether you have questions as you begin to use the site. ]]> b6edada25d91f7439157a571f1b78c57 Shifra Sharlin became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/77122/ Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:58:25 -0400