Keynote & Conference
What We Desire: Critical Perspectives on Beauty, Pleasure, and Value
Rooms 8301/8304 & 9206/9207 at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave. Free and open to all. Registration suggested.
Conversation
We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent
Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Please register to attend.
Conversation & Reading
Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power
Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Workshop
CCAP: Public Forum
Hunter College, 904 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10065.
Opportunities & Call for Papers
WSQ Call for Papers: Indigenous Feminist Pedagogies
Deadline
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.
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
Conversation
We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent
Conversation & Reading
Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power
From the Archive
Keynote & Conference
What We Desire: Critical Perspectives on Beauty, Pleasure, and Value
Workshop & Symposium
NYC-CJH Classes & Curriculum Spring Symposium and Workshop
Parallel Processes: Interactive Poetry Book Talk and Publishing Workshop
News
Distributaries
(Dis)placing Us on the Map: An Interactive Exhibition and Reflection
Distributaries
Samuel R. Delany & Kevin Killian: 1985-1993 Correspondence
Distributaries
Between Delivery: Letter Threads After the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Archive (Part II)
News