In celebration of Trans Day of Visibility, CLAGS is co-hosting a Live Recording of ‘Love in a F*cked Up World,’ the Podcast! Dean Spade hosts Vicky Osterweil in a rebellious conversation “Toward a Trans Politics of Looting.” Tuesday, March 31, 2026 4:00 pm — 5:30 pm.  RSVP Here   Join us for an episode of Love… Read More


Please join us for a virtual conversation between three of our most important Indigenous theorists on the occasion of these two brilliant new books—Jodi Byrd’s Indigenomicon, which challenges modes of Indigenous erasure by means of the digital world—and Joseph M. Pierce’s Speculative Relations, which reveals how speculation as a form of situated knowledge production can… Read More


The Ph.D. Program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center Presents… The 13th Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture Mary Bilder on “The Perils of Sex: Catharine Macaulay’s Constitution of Liberty” Wednesday, February 25th 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM   The influential constitutional historian Catharine Macaulay published the first female-authored constitutional plan in 1767.… Read More


From the Museum of the City of New York: Coming up this Wednesday, November 12th is The Robert A. And Elizabeth Jeffe Distinguished Lecture in Urban History: Brooklynites, a talk with Prithi Kanakamedala (Bronx Community College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) about her book, Brooklynites, which explores the history of Brooklyn’s free Black communities. Prithi will… Read More


The American Studies Certificate Program and the Leon Levy Center for Biography present Downtown and The Twilight of Bohemia – Panel Discussion Elebash Recital Hall Tuesday, November 4th 6:30pm-7:45pm RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/3nas3dr4 What is “Downtown”? Is it the Abstract Expressionists’ West 9th Street, or the Soho and Tribeca of succeeding generations of artists? Is it the East… Read More


CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies would like to invite all GC students, faculty and staff to join us at the 33rd annual Kessler Lecture honoring Robert F. Reid-Pharr on Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM. This year is the 40th anniversary of CLAGS so we’re particularly eager to fill as many seats as… Read More