The Center for the Humanities

Mission Creep: Over-Policing the Poetic Imagination
A Sit-in at the Library: '68 Revisited
The Object Library: Material starting points for knowledge
lecture
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Mission Creep: Over-Policing the Poetic Imagination

Performance & Conversation
Monday, November 26, 2018

A Sit-in at the Library: '68 Revisited

project
Monday, November 19, 2018

The Object Library: Material starting points for knowledge

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

Topics of focus include Accessibility Affect / Cognition Ambassador of Technology, Art and Healthcare Archives Art Climate Action Lab Fellow Community College Archival Research Fellow Community Partner debt Diane di Prima Fellow Diaspora / Migration Digital Culture Digital Publics Fellow Economics / Labor Environment Faculty Co-Leader Faculty coleader Fellow Fellow Type Freshkills Park Reclaimed Lands Conference Planning Fellow Gender History Legacy Fieldwork Fellow Legacy Fieldwork Fellows Literature Lost & Found Archival Research Fellow Lost & Found Archival Research Fellows Medical Humanities Moving Image Music Pedagogy Performance Poetry Poetry / Literature Poets House Special Collections Research and Writing Fellow Postcolonialism Presidential Research Fellow for The James Gallery Public Humanities Fellow Public Space Race / Ethnicity Religion Research Fellow Science Sexuality Social Justice / Activism Teaching Fellow Theater Fellow Theatre Documentarian Theory / Philosophy Translation Urbanism / Public Space Violence / War Y.E.S. Project Director Youth Education Summit (Y.E.S) Intern