June 15 | May Sumak: Quichwa Film Showcase May Sumak: Quichwa Film Showcase A FREE series featuring three days of Quechua/Kichwa film screenings and discussions throughout New York City and New Jersey. The showcase is a celebration of Indigenous and community filmmaking in the Quechua languages spoken throughout the Andes and by immigrants in the United States. INDIGENOUS FILMMAKING THEN AND NOW (link)… Read More
May 24 | TLC Grading Social 12-4pm, room 3318 Dear GC Community, It’s the time of the semester where students’ final work is piling up and we’re rushing to finish our own projects too. For Graduate Center student instructors, grading student work at the end of the term can be overwhelming, lonely, and—even in successful courses—frustrating. Come get a head start… Read More
May 11 | O, Earth! by Casey Llewellyn: A Staged Reading Please join the Center for the Humanities on Friday, May 11th for “O, Earth! by Casey Llewellyn: A Staged Reading” at 7:00 pm in the Martin E. Segal Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. This staged reading of O, Earth!, a play written by Casey Llewellyn is led by Baruch College students Zeynep Akca, Roberta Cooper, Reuven… Read More
May 16 | The Digital GC: End-of-Year Showcase 4:15 – 6:30 pm in the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Are you using digital technologies in your research? Are you interested in learning about digital initiatives at the Graduate Center? The Digital GC: End of Year Showcase is an annual celebration of students’ digital scholarship and pedagogy at the Graduate Center. Come learn about… Read More
May 29 | Race for Profit: Black Homeownership and the End of the Urban Crisis Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture Keeanga-Yamhtta Taylor [aas.princeton.edu], Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University 3:30pm, LaGuardia’s Main Stage Theater Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016), is an examination of the history… Read More
May 3 | Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance Thursday, May 3 | 12:15 to 2 PM | The Graduate Center, Room C201 RSVP at bit.ly/TeachingCUNYHums Join The Futures Initiative and the CUNY Humanities Alliance for a discussion about community college student-centered teaching and learning in the humanities and social sciences! In this roundtable discussion, Graduate Teaching Fellows will discuss their experiences and what they have learned… Read More
May, 2018 – CUNY Academy Events May, 2018 “CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences” Events: The Abraham S. and Paulette Smith Eisenstadt lecture on U.S. History – “Herbert H. Lehman: A Man of Conscience in the Political Arena” presented by Professor Duane Tananbaum. Tuesday, May 1, 2018, in the Graduate Center, Room 7113 , from 6:30 – 8:30 PM. This event… Read More
April 16 | Book Reading & Discussion by Antoine Idier, PhD Book Reading & Discussion by Antoine Idier, PhD – Director of Studies and Research at the Paris-Cergy National Graduate School of Arts (ENSAPC) Monday April 16, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm, The Graduate Center Room 9206-9207. Antoine Idier’s 2017 book The Lives of Guy Hocquenhem: Politics, Sexuality, Culture resurrects an important and complex twentieth-century thinker. Idier argues… Read More
April 16 | Black Women in the Public Sphere: Black Women in Higher Education Exploring African American women as a potent force within American politics, culture, and society, this new series serves as a platform where visionary black female leaders can discuss their work and how the country might move forward in these complicated times. We begin with higher education, welcoming two high-profile college presidents-Valerie Smith of Swarthmore and Karol… Read More