Events & Programs Submissions

The Center for the Humanities is a gathering place for collaboration, creativity, and discourse across the humanities and social sciences. Our public programs bring people together to share ideas, bridge perspectives, build community, and spark change at CUNY and across NYC.

Have an idea for an event? We’d love to collaborate. The Center provides space, hospitality, honoraria, small grants, logistical support, and event promotion. Proposals are accepted at the start of each semester for the following term.

Submissions Now Open

Submissions for events, working groups, and projects are now open for Fall 2026 programs. Submit your proposals by May 5, 2026.

Submission Form

Tiered Programs

The Center for the Humanities offers tiered infrastructural support for programs, working groups, and public research projects:

1. Media Co-sponsorship: The Center promotes and helps publicize your event by publishing a page on our website, including it in newsletter blasts, and amplifying through social media channels. Please submit the event at least a month in advance.

2. Program Partnership: We will work in collaboration with you and your other partners to book an event space at the CUNY Graduate Center, secure financial support for honorariums, catering, and design, and/or help plan and manage event logistics, including publicity, hospitality, run of show, AV support, and more.

Public Programming

Public programs are at the heart of what we do. Curated by CUNY faculty, students, and community partners, these events amplify CUNY voices and connect scholarship to pressing public debates.

Program formats include:

  • Lectures and panels
  • Screenings and readings
  • Workshops and research sprints
  • Conferences and public dialogues

What We Support

Program proposals should reflect the Center’s core values—critical thinking, radical imagining, and community collaboration. Proposals should align with the key themes reflected by our key platforms: Public Scholarship Practice Space, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, CUNY Climate Assembly Project, or NYC Climate Justice Hub.

Working Groups & Research Projects

Beyond public events, the Center provides resources to support transdisciplinary working groups, reading groups, and public research projects. Led by students, faculty, and community partners, these initiatives may include public programming alongside other outputs—such as publications, exhibitions, performances, archives, actions, or podcasts.

Get Involved

To get in touch with the Center for the Humanities about programming, submit a proposal below.

Submission Form

Frequently Asked Questions

When do submissions open?

Submissions open at the beginning of each academic semester. Submissions are reviewed during the semester with results announced in the following month.

What are some examples of events hosted by C4H?

Free and open to the public, our programs inspire sustained, engaged conversation and forge an open and diverse intellectual community. To view some past events organized by the Center, click below:

View Archive

What are some examples of working groups?

Organized by faculty and graduate students at The CUNY Graduate Center, Working Groups stem from our ongoing Seminars in the Humanities series. Working Groups provide the time, space, sociality, and institutional support necessary for participants to develop and implement sustained intellectual inquiry in extra-disciplinary fields. To view some past working groups, click below:

What are some examples of public research projects?

These projects promote the diverse ways the humanities function in public life as a public good. To view some past projects organized by the Center, click below:

What if I have more questions about programming?

Please reach out to the Center for the Humanities at [email protected].