Sujatha Fernandes is a Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. Her work explores social movements, storytelling, and cultural politics in the Americas and globally. Her books include Cuba Represent! (2006), Who Can Stop the Drums? (2010), and most recently Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (2017). Her literary work includes a memoir on global hip hop, Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation (2011), as well as essays and short stories published and forthcoming in the New York Times, The Nation, The Maine Review, Aster(ix), and elsewhere. Fernandes has also worked as a faculty co-leader in the Narrating Change, Changing Narratives research group of the 2014-2016 Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Programming

Reading and Conversation
Mon, Oct 1, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Power, Collective Struggle, and the Poetic Imagination


Screening and Conversation
Fri, Oct 30, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
The Hand That Feeds: Migrant Workers' Poetry Performance and Film

Conversation
Thu, Oct 8, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression

Event
Mon, Apr 27, 2015,
10:00 AM –
06:30 PM
The City is Ours the Body is Mine: Urban Spatial Practices in Contemporary Latin America

Event
Wed, Mar 4, 2015,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Stories of Struggle: Histories of Childcare Activism at CUNY


Event
Wed, Feb 5, 2014,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Academics Writing Fiction: Ruth Behar and Paul Stoller in Conversation


Event
Wed, Apr 17, 2013,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Narrating Labor Struggles: Storytelling and Social Change

Event
Thu, Feb 16, 2012,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Protest and Sacrifice: A Discussion on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Seminars & Working Groups

Narrating Change, Changing Narratives
We study and employ narration as a guide for social change.
