The Center for the Humanities

Grant Opportunity
Thursday, August 6, 2020

Call for Applications: 2020 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Grants

Blog
Friday, August 7, 2020

Why the Humanities Need to Go Public, and the Ways in Which They Already Are

Conversation
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Translating the Future: “Building Translator Communities and Communities for Translation,” with Paige Aniyah Morris, Shuchi Saraswat, Allison Markin Powell, & M Lynx Qualey

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Archive

Our archive contains video, audio, and information from previous events, conferences, seminars, and exhibitions.

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Collections

Selections from our archive are gathered into collections based on ongoing research themes.

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Public Engagement

These projects promote the diverse ways the humanities function in public life as a public good.

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Lost & Found

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative publishes unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers.

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James Gallery

The Amie and Tony James Gallery brings artists and scholars into public dialogue on topics of mutual concern through exhibitions as a form of advanced research.

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About

The Center for the Humanities encourages collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY and across the city through public programming, projects, seminars, conferences, publications and exhibitions.

Topics of focus include Accessibility Affect / Cognition Archives Art debt Diaspora / Migration Digital Culture Economics / Labor Environment Gender History Literarture Literature Medical Humanities Moving Image Music Pedagogy Performance Poetry Poetry / Literature Politics Postcolonialism Public Space Race / Ethnicity Religion Science Sexuality Social Justice / Activism Theatre Theory / Philosophy Translation Urbanism / Public Space Violence / War