Fellowships, Opportunities & Grants
2026 Lost & Found Archival Research Grants
Deadline
Conference
Student Movements and Social Justice: Histories and Futures
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center. This conference is free and open to the public. Registration required.
2026 Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects
The Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required.
Conversation & Screening
TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center. This free screening is open to all. Space is limited. Please register to attend.
Workshop
“Realizing the Dream of a Black University”: Pedagogy Workshop on Toni Cade Bambara
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center. This free workshop is open to all CUNY students and adjuncts. Space is limited. Please register to attend.
Opportunities & News
Opportunity for Hunter College Students: CUNY Climate Assembly Project (CCAP) Delegate Lottery Application
Deadline
Community Gathering, Conversation & Celebration
Poetics of Refusal
Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to all. Please register to attend.
Opportunities, News & Working Groups
Call for Participants: Samuel Delany 1968, Samuel Delany 1969 Reading Group Spring 2026
Deadline
Book Launch & Conversation
Against Innocence: Miriam Ticktin in Conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. This free event is open to all. Please register to attend.
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 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.
Featured
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: No estamos a la intemperie: An Open Call (Volume 53: Spring/Summer 2025)
Edited by Ángeles Donoso Macaya and Kendra Sullivan
Events
2026 Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects
Celebration & Project Launch
CCAP Public Launch & Civic Lottery Event
Conversation
Feminist Biography and Social Justice: A Conversation
Workshop
“Realizing the Dream of a Black University”: Pedagogy Workshop on Toni Cade Bambara
Conversation & Screening
TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
Conference
Student Movements and Social Justice: Histories and Futures
Community Gathering & Celebration
La Lotería Niuyorkina: An Educational Game to Explore the City’s Linguistic Landscape
From the Archive
Conversation & Screening
Graduate Center Shorts: An Evening of Films and Discussion
Lecture & Performance
Still Candy: Visions, Alters with Ronaldo V. Wilson
Workshop
Instant/ce Installations: A Creative Workshop with Ronaldo V. Wilson
Conversation, Reading & Celebration
<em>WSQ</em> “Body Matters” Special Issue Launch
News
Opportunities, News & Working Groups
Call for Participants: Samuel Delany 1968, Samuel Delany 1969 Reading Group Spring 2026
News
The NYC Climate Justice Hub’s 2025 In Review
Distributaries
All Is Not Lost ∞ Noguchi near Milton in Queens
Distributaries
