Conference
ASAP/15: Not a Luxury
This conference is held at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Park Avenue Armory, Pratt Institute, and Weeksville Heritage Center.
Dates: Thu, Oct 17th to Sat, Oct 19th. See below for the full schedule, program, registration and more details.
Keynote
Precarious Luxuries: improvisation, performance, and planning for the unplanned
Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. This ASAP15 Keynote event is free and open to all. Registration required.
Opportunities, News & Call for Papers
Call for Papers and Creative Responses: Kafka in New York
Opportunities, News & Grants
Call for Applications: 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Grants
About
The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center encourages collaborative, creative and engaged work in the humanities and social sciences at CUNY and across the city through innovative programming, digital and print publications, and project-based public scholarship.
Advancing equitable climate solutions led by communities of color on the front lines of climate breakdown
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Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2)
Honoring the past, present, and future of public scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center
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Public Engagement
Promoting the diverse ways the humanities function in public life as a public good
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Selected Projects
Archives in Common: Migrant Practices / Knowledges / Memory
Archives in Common brings together community organizers, members of immigrant communities, and members of the university community to think collectively about how to build an archive of the commons during a crisis.
Just Research: Study, Struggle, Solidarity
“Just Research: Study, Struggle, Solidarity” is a short workshop series on conducting public scholarship and democratizing the production of knowledge.
CUNY Adjunct Incubator
The Center for the Humanities’ and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective’ CUNY Adjunct Incubator supports the critical and community-engaged scholarship and pedagogy work of adjuncts teaching across CUNY.
Lost & Found
Publishing unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers.
Distributaries
Ongoing publication series of collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY.
Featured
The Urban Politics of Climate Change: a conversation with Naomi Schiller
Monday, August 7, 2023
WSQ
An interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality.
Featured
WSQ: Solidão (Volume 49: Fall/Winter 2021)
Edited by Tanya Saunders, Luciane Ramos-Silva, and Sarah Soanirina Ohmer
Events
Symposium
How AI is Changing Art and the Humanities, and To What Ends
Exhibition, Exhibition Reception & Artist Talk
<em>Before…After</em> : A Two Part Exhibition by Elva Mulchrone
From the Archive
Keynote
Precarious Luxuries: improvisation, performance, and planning for the unplanned
Book Launch, Conversation & Reading
The Shifting Subject(s) & Position(s) of a New Erotics: A Launch and an Anti-lecture
News
News
NYC-EJA’s 2024 New Climate Justice Report Highlights Community-Endorsed Strategies for NYC and NYS to Address Climate Crisis Effectively, Urgently, and Equitably
Open Positions & Opportunities
Job Opportunity: College Assistant for the Center for the Humanities
News
Opinion: Climate Justice Could Live at CUNY
Opportunities, News & Call for Papers