May 18 | NY Metro – American Studies Association annual brunch NYMASA BRUNCH 5/18/2025 SUNDAY (11am – 2pm) It’s time again for the legendary NYMASA (NY Metro chapter of the American Studies Association – nymasa.com) Spring Brunch on Sun, May 18 11AM-2PM! Hosted by a NYMASA member, the brunch is a terrific way to meet fellow Americanists from the region, catch up with friends, and eat… Read More
American Revolutions in the Digital Age Webinar Series You are invited to a four-part webinar series with editors of and contributors to the new volume, American Revolutions in the Digital Age (Cornell University Press, 2024). You can access a PDF of the book at this link. This innovative text explores how scholars are using newly digitized materials and emerging digital methods to re-examine the… Read More
05/15 Book Talk; Oliver Radclyffe’s “Frighten the Horses” The Center for the Study of Women and Society invites you to join us for our final book talk of the year with Oliver Radclyffe, author of FRIGHTEN THE HOURSES, a textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one’s life and embracing one’s truest self in a world that… Read More
Tomorrow May 11 | Queer Student Social Queer Student Social Tomorrow, May 11th at 6:30 PM in Room 5414 Join us for a queer night filled with chat, conversations, laughter, food and drinks. The schedule is as follows: 6:30 PM : Meet and Greet 6:45 PM- 8:30 PM: Queer Socials All GC/CUNY students are welcome! Please Register through… Read More
May 10 | The GC Digital Showcase We are delighted to share that we will be hosting the GC Digital Showcase this year on Wednesday, May 10th. The event is hybrid, and attendees can join in-person at the Graduate Center Segal Theater or over Zoom. The event will feature student projects from the MA in Digital Humanities Praxis seminar, the Provost Digital… Read More
May 18 | Anti-Racism Committee Event Please join the Ph.D. Theatre and Performance program for an Anti-Racist and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resource Gathering facilitated by students. At this gathering, the Theatre and Performance program’s Anti-Racism Committee hopes to build connections and collectively strategize with colleagues across the Graduate Center who have been engaged in anti-racist work. This will serve as… Read More
April 18 | Experimental Aging and U.S. Modernisms April 18, 6pm, room 4406 A lecture by Scott Herring This talk rehearses core arguments from Scott Herring’s recent book, Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life (Columbia University Press, 2022). Canvassing artists, performers, and writers such as Mabel Hampton, Indra B. Tamang, and Tillie Olsen, my research illuminates how old age… Read More
Nov 18 | The Polish Oscars: A Discussion with Andrzej Krakowski Friday, November 18, 2022 at 5:00pm Room 9205 Attendees must register in advance at https://bit.ly/3gtTi68 Andrzej Krakowski is a director, screenwriter, film producer, writer, educator, and cartoonist who has made over seventy films and TV series. He received the Outstanding Pole Abroad award in 2022 for researching the Polish roots of Hollywood. This event will… Read More
Nov 17 | Native American Film Screening and Community Dialogue Docs & Dialogue: We, the People Join us for a critical screening of a youth-produced film examining Native American identity and representation in NYC. Did you know that there are 9.7 million Native Americans living in the United States today and that New York City has the largest population of Native Americans out of any… Read More
May 6 | New Directions in Film and Media Cultures 3pm-5pm, Recital Hall (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Register at https://tinyurl.com/3f3hmvdb Meet film and media faculty from CUNY Featured speakers: Monica Filimon, Associate Professor, Department of English, Kingsborough Community College “New Romanian Cinema: Origins, Polemics, Major Directors.” Monica Filimon’s research focuses on Spanish, French, German, and Romanian cinema. Her first book, Cristi Puiu: Ineffable Experiences of the… Read More