The Center for the Humanities

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Book Launch Celebration
Thursday, February 9, 2023

All about the squash: sisters of the milpa book launch!

Discussion
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

The ABC of the Projectariat

Blog
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Submerging Within the Environmental Humanities

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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.

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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 Food Justice Gender Health History Literarture Literature Medical Humanities Mindcapes Mindscapes Moving Image Music Pedagogy Performance Poetry Poetry / Literature Politics Postcolonialism Public Space Race / Ethnicity Religion Science Sexuality Social Justice / Activism Theatre Theory / Philosophy Translation Urban Farming Urbanism / Public Space Violence / War