Due Nov 30 | COVID-19 Impact Project – Graduate Student Application Application [cunyhumanitiesalliance.us17.list-manage.com] due: Monday, November 30, 2020 The CUNY Humanities Alliance is pleased to announce an opportunity for doctoral students at The Graduate Center (enrolled in Fall 2020) to receive $1,000 stipends for contributions to a Covid-19 impact project documenting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, including related and interlocking impacts of economic, social and political… Read More
Oct 30 | Theorizing Race & Capitalism/Racial Capitalism This panel tackles theorizing racial capitalism from three perspectives. Historically we analyze the lessons learned from early pioneers of the study of the relationship between race, caste, and class. A racial capitalism lens is also used to analyze the school-to-prison pipeline and its connection to racial authoritarianism. Finally, an alternative theoretical framework to classical racial… Read More
Deadline Dec 1 | Japan Society Graduate Student Fellowship The Graduate Center is allowed to nominate up to four students for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Summer Research Program. Students conducting research in all fields of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences are included under this program. The Graduate Center’s internal deadline is December 1, 2020, 5pm. Students who wish to… Read More
Oct 28 | 6th Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Event CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Interested in digital humanities at CUNY? Have a project to share? Sign up to present your digital humanities project, research, or questions with students, faculty, and staff from across CUNY’s campuses. What: 6th Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks When: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM… Read More
Oct 21 | Transformative Learning in the Humanities: An Information Session We invite you to an information session on Wed, Oct 21 at 2-3 pm, for a new three-year initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, “Transformative Learning in the Humanities.” Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost José Luis Cruz (PI of the historic $10 million grant to CUNY, of which this is a part)… Read More
Deadline 1/15 | Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship Competition THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION FOR THE 2021-2022 ACADEMIC YEAR Applications Due: Friday, January 15, 2021, no later than 5:00pm GUIDELINES Eligibility Requirements Students must be officially advanced to candidacy (level III) before February 18, 2021. Dissertation Fellowships are intended for students who expect to complete the dissertation during 2021-2022 award year; the… Read More
Oct 15 | Beyond Populism: A Panel Discussion The American Studies Certificate Program invites you to join us on Thursday Oct. 15 at 4:30 p.m. for a panel discussion addressing issues raised in the newly released essay collection Beyond Populism: Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism (West Virginia UP, 2020), edited by the Graduate Center’s Jeff Maskovsky (Anthropology) and Vanderbilt University’s Sophie Bjork-James. The volume takes up… Read More
Due 11/6 | Early Research Initiative (ERI) Catalyst Grants Early Research Initiative (ERI) Catalyst Grants Deadline for Applications: 6 November 2020 by 3:00 PM In response to the unprecedented disruptions to academic work that have been one byproduct of the current global pandemic, The Provost’s Office is pleased to announce the Catalyst Grant program to provide short term support for doctoral student research… Read More
Oct 8 | American Studies Working Group Meeting Students and faculty interested in and/or affiliated with the American Studies Certificate Program are invited to attend an informal gathering of what we’ve dubbed our Working Group on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. The point first and foremost is to gather; we will discuss, among other things of current interest, Scott Kurashige’s 2019 American Studies Association Presidential Address,… Read More