Prithi Kanakamedala (she/ her/ hers) PS2 Faculty Coordinator. Prithi is an Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College CUNY, and a faculty member in the MALS program at CUNY Graduate Center. She is an active public historian and has worked with a number of cultural organizations across the city. Prithi’s work examines the archives, material culture, and community-building, race, and citizenship in Brooklyn and New York’s 19th-century free Black communities.
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Programming
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Public Scholarship Practice Space
Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2)
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Grant Opportunity
Tue, Jul 16, 2024 –
Mon, Aug 31, 2020
Call for Applications: 2020 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Grants
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Performance and Conversation
Thu, May 23, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Extending Radical Empathy: A Listening Party and Book Launch!
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Conversation
Wed, Apr 3, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Contested City: Art, Planning, and Community Power
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Performance and Conversation
Wed, Dec 12, 2018,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!
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Opportunity
Fri, Aug 17, 2018 –
Mon, Sep 10, 2018,
08:00 AM – 11:59 PM
08:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Applications: Editor Opportunity for The City Amplified
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Opportunity
Tue, Jul 16, 2024 –
Wed, Aug 15, 2018,
12:37 AM – 11:59 PM
12:37 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop with Sady Sullivan
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Project
Tue, Jul 16, 2024 –
Tue, Jul 16, 2024
The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop
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Project
Tue, Jul 16, 2024 –
Tue, Jul 16, 2024