Dec 9 | Aisha Beliso-De Jesús in conversation with Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez

REGISTER HERE Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor of American Studies at Princeton University and the chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America. A cultural and social anthropologist, she has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States, and police officers and Black and Brown communities affected… Read More

Nov 19 | On Performance, Poetics, and Authoritarianism

Tuesday, Nov 19, 4pm-6pm Room 9207 Join us as Christine Bacareza Balance presents ongoing research and writing from her book project, Making Sense of Martial Law. In it, she studies what the diverse and contradictory poetics of Philippine martial law (1972-1986) perform and reveal about authoritarianism and cultural memory, as illustrated by both U.S.- and… Read More

Nov 11 | Maya Wind in Conversation with Tarek Ismail

Please join us for a conversation with Maya Wind (UC Riverside) and Tarek Ismail (CUNY Law) about Wind’s urgent new book: Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso 2024). Monday, November 11, 2024, 6-8pm The Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center Organized by The Committee for Globalization and Social Change and CUNY Faculty and Staff… Read More

Nov 4 | The Future of Research

As part of the tenth-year anniversary of the Futures Initiative, this panel celebrates two exciting new publications and the brilliant scholars who produced this scholarship: FI Faculty Fellow Professor Amber Musser, whose book Between Shadow and Noise, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley praises as work that “will reshape current conversations in Black studies, feminist studies, art criticism,… Read More

Oct. 29: John Lewis: A Life

The Office of Public Programs at the Graduate Center is pleased to present David Greenberg, author of John Lewis: A Life, in conversation with Rachel L. Swarns on Tues., Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m. John Lewis: A Life David Greenberg in Conversation with Rachel L. Swarns Tuesday, October 29, 6:30 p.m. The CUNY Graduate Center, 365… Read More

Oct 4 | First meeting of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Transpacific Thought

The first meeting of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia will take place on October 4th. This session will be focused on Region, featuring Professor Gayatri Gopinath (NYU) in conversation with Kandice Chuh (CUNY GC). To register for the event and access readings (access will be provided to both… Read More

Oct 12 | FUTUREPOEM: REIMAGINING THE POETICS OF THE SMALL PRESS

​ Please join REVERIE for its first event of the fall 23 semester…! FUTUREPOEM: REIMAGINING THE POETICS OF THE SMALL PRESS A conversation and reading with New York City-based publishing collaborative Futurepoem Books, hosted by the REVERIE Poetry Series.   Thursday, October 12, 2023, 6:30pm  The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5414 New… Read More