The Metropolitan Museum of Art is seeking eligible candidates for The Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Internship/Research Scholarship for 2018-2020. The Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Intern/Research Scholar is a two-year position funded jointly by the Decorative Arts Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This partnership seeks to provide hands-on curatorial experience for students and young… Read More


Thursday, February 22 6:30-8:30 PM Room 9205 Over the past generation, museums have undergone an enormous transition. No longer simply repositories of artifacts and authority, they are now, as the Smithsonian’s Stephen E. Weil once described, “a place for somebody.” As museums have moved toward a visitor-centered approach, their education departments have professionalized and developed… Read More


The Art Glass Forum, a New York-based nonprofit founded in 1999, invites young decorative arts students to submit proposals for its annual “Emerging Scholars” event on May 1. AGF supports scholarship about glass, from ancient shards to contemporary experiments. Each spring, AGF brings in two emerging scholars to each give a 20-minute presentation to an AGF… Read More


The Futures Initiative is pleased to invite you to attend the next event in our University Worth Fighting For series, “Co-Creating Social Change: Transformative Learning in a Community College.” It will be held tomorrow, February 14, 12:00pm-2:00pm, at the Graduate Center, CUNY in the Skylight Room (9100). The discussion will address timely topics, including active… Read More


Dear Students, Graduates, Faculty and Colleagues: The Urban Education Program is very excited to extend an invitation to you for this Spring 2018 exhibition.  Please join us! weaving ways of knowing  In the past decade there has been an explosion of visual and arts-based research projects across several disciplines.  This exhibition features the work of… Read More


The department of Political Science is delighted to announce the first workshop for the Political Theory subfield for the spring semester. The event will be held in the Political Science Lounge (5200.07), Thursday, February 15, 2018 @ 4:30pm ft. Professor George Shulman (New York University) (discussant: Nader Sadre).  The paper is attached to the e-mail.… Read More


Feeling overwhelmed by the start of the semester? Next Tuesday 2/13, 2:00pm-3:30pm, come for a meditation session in 5414. Please confirm attendance by email to [email protected] Link to Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1766177000356240/ — If you cannot make it to this session but are interested in attending meditation sessions, please also email [email protected] and specify which time… Read More


The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY and Humanities New York announce the call for applicants for the 2018-2019 Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship. The Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship was developed by Humanities New York in partnership with nine New York research universities to bring humanities scholarship into the public realm,… Read More


Community Event to Support International Student Instructors Friday, February 16, 1-3pm Last Fall, the Teaching and Learning Center conducted a survey of international students at the Graduate Center which revealed that three-quarters feel that the relationship between instructors and students at CUNY is markedly different than in their home country. Nearly two-thirds reported feeling that instructional… Read More


Graduate Center Early Research Initiative/Digital Initiatives Connect New York Fellowships Application Deadline: Friday, February 23, 3pm Located in the heart of Manhattan, the Graduate Center has long been a central hub for intellectual and scholarly conversations in New York City. Moreover, it has a long history of fostering and producing scholarly work focused on the… Read More