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