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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 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.
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Algeria, Capital: Algiers
By Anna Gréki
Translated by Marine Cornuet
Introduction by Ammiel Alcalay
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
Van Gogh and the End of Nature – Michael Lobel in Conversation with Peter Groffman
Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious
Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious: Session 3, Spring 2025
Conversation
What’s Left for the Animals? A discussion on multispecies politics and anticapitalist resistance
Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious
Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious: Session 4, Spring 2025
From the Archive
Lend & Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities
Conversation & Reading
“All poetry is revolution”: Reading & Discussion of Anna Greki’s Algeria, Capital: Algiers with Marine Cornuet & Ammiel Alcalay
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