Center for the Humanities

Palestinian History Between Past and Present Colloquium

Friday, March 6th, 2026

3:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to all. Please register to attend.

Motherless Tongues: Harmonics of Belonging and Estrangement by Amelia Rosselli and Etel Adnan

Friday, March 6th, 2026

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

4406: English Student Lounge, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. No registration required.

Krulwich, Sara, "City University Students at Federal Hall in 1989 protesting a proposed tuition increase.” Courtesy of CUNY Digital History Archive

Conference

Tuesday, March 10th, 2026

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center. This conference is free and open to the public. Registration required.

Community Gathering, Conversation & Celebration

Poetics of Refusal

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to all. Please register to attend.

La Lotería Niuyorkina: A pedagogical toolkit to explore Spanish varieties through the Linguistic Landscape

February 17, 2026

Conversation & Panel Discussion

Making NYC a Nature City

Thursday, March 19th, 2026

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Please register to attend.

Opportunities & Call for Papers

WSQ Call for Papers: Testimonio/s

Deadline

March 13, 2026

Against Innocence: Miriam Ticktin in Conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. This free event is open to all. Please register to attend.

Sara Ahmed presents NO!: The Art and Activism of Complaining with Roxane Gay

The cover for ‘No! The Art and Activism of Complaining,’ Sara Ahmed, and Roxane Gay

Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Register to attend in-person or onlive via livestream.

Federico García Lorca: From the Archive into the World—An Interview with Laura García-Lorca

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Leave Home, Meet Strangers, Learn to Draw: An Interview with Basil King by Michael Seth Stewart

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Center for the Humanities Annual Report 2024-25

November 20, 2025

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Advancing equitable climate solutions led by communities of color on the front lines of climate breakdown

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CUNY students’ climate justice documentaries on CUNY TV

NYC Climate Justice Hub Fellowship and Academy Program: There is no climate justice fight without joy

Joining Forces for Climate Justice with a $4M Start-up Grant

Honoring the past, present, and future of public scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center

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2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows

2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Awardees

2024 ERI/ PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows

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.