April 3 | “Spring Symposium: Pedagogy, Research, Social Change” Please join faculty and students from this year’s team-taught courses, Futures Initiative Peer Mentors, and the Humanities Alliance for our Spring Symposium: Pedagogy, Research & Social Change. As the final event in this year’s University Worth Fighting For series, this daylong symposium will celebrate work that connects student-centered learning to institutional and social change. Where:… Read More
Invitation to: Launch Party for the Graduate Center’s Urban Education Program’s Online Journal: TRAUE’s Special Issue: #BlackLivesMatter: Conversations Across Launch Party for the Graduate Center’s Urban Education Program’s Online Journal: TRAUE’s Special Issue: #BlackLivesMatter: Conversations Across Educational and Community Spaces WHEN: Friday, March 31, 2017 WHERE: Graduate Center’s Urban Education Program Lounge, 4th floor, Room: 4202 Located at: 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016 TIME: 5-8pmPlease RSVP hereCome celebrate and experience the… Read More
Interdisciplinary Initiative by the Mathematics Department at GC Letter from Enrique Pujals: Having been inspired by the interdisciplinary spirit and collaboration across disciplines, I would like to call attention to an initiative of the Math Department at the GC, coordinated by Enrique Pujals, that will take place throughout the current Spring semester. Entitled, “Dynamical Systems: Ideas in Applications”, the idea is to bring… Read More
Mar 16 | State in Time Workshop: The Crisis of Oppositional Politics Today Join the Center for the Humanities on Thursday, March 16th at 6:30am-8:30pm for State in Time The Crisis of Oppositional Politics Today in The James Gallery at The Graduate Center, CUNY. This workshop opens a space to rethink key concepts that in the era of Trumpism feel exhausted and in crisis – e.g. “critique” and “resistance,” being… Read More
Mar 10 | Imagining Walls: Farm Worker Futurism and the Political History of the Present Curtis Marez (University of California, San Diego) Friday, March 10th • 2:00-3:30pm, The Skylight Room (9100) The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue Even before Donald Trump promised to build one, U.S. entertainment media was preoccupied with walls—most famously in Game of Thrones—and such images build upon a longer history of struggles over technology and… Read More
Mar 7 | CITY OF SEDITION: The History of New York During the Civil War Labor, Literature and Landmark Lecture Series, Winter/Spring 2017 The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen is pleased to present CITY OF SEDITION: The History of New York During the Civil War, With Author John Strausbaugh Tuesday, March 7th AT THE GENERAL SOCIETY LIBRARY The Program starts at 6:30 P.M. BOOK-SIGNING AND RECEPTION TO FOLLOW… Read More
Feb 22 | The Camp & the City: Architectures of Refuge The Camp & the City: Architectures of Refuge Wednesday Feb. 22, 2017 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm in the Skylight Room https://www.facebook.com/events/1316178445107956/… Read More
Feb 24 | Reflections on Fugitive Testimony Please join us at 4:00 pm on Friday. February 24th in room 4406 (English Student Lounge) for a discussion focused on Janet Neary’s Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives (Fordham University Press, 2016).… Read More
Feb 6 | In the Wake: On Blackness and Being: Christina Sharpe in conversation with John Keene Please join Intellectual Publics for In the Wake: On Blackness and Being featuring Christina Sharpe in conversation with John Keene. February 6, 6:30 pm in room 9100, Skylight Room In In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Christina Sharpe initiates and describes a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of “the wake,”… Read More