As part of the Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research’s collaboration with community partner Danspace Project, GC PhD candidate in Theater, Janet Werther, has worked in archives at the Houghton Library at Harvard and the New York Public Library to study the life and work of the dancer John Bernd. This research has been…

In looking forward toSouffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics: An Introduction and Reading, we’d like to share some excerpts from the recently published anthology and reflections from its editors. On November 1st, the Center for the Humanities will present a bilingual reading in both the original Arabic and French…

In preparation for the panel discussion, “On Janus and Justice: Archives, Access, and Ethical Use of Video Evidence” on October 21st, we’d like to share some suggested readings. In the wake of both widespread calls for and criticisms of the adoption of police body cameras, this event will bring together archivists, activists, and law enforcement…

The Ecocriticism Seminar is a student group that was formed to bring together scholars working across the environmental humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY and in New York City. It meets every month to discuss readings and workshop writing related to the environment across different disciplines. The second meeting of the fall semester was a…

In looking forward to the celebration of translator Gregory Rabassa on October 21st, we encourage you to get to know his life and work. A beloved CUNY professor, author, and translator of a staggering number of 20th century Latin American literary masterpieces, Rabassa was hugely influential in bringing Spanish and Portuguese literature to English-language readers….

“All we need to live a good life surrounds us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds, and plants. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.” – Bill Mollison, co-founder of Permaculture The award-winning 2015 documentary film Inhabit – A Permaculture Perspective opens with this quote before…

“I stand at the threshold of cyberspace and wonder, is it possible that I am unwelcome here, too? Will I be allowed to construct a virtual reality that empowers me? Can invisible men see their own reflections? I’m carrying trauma into cyberspace––violent gestures, a fractured soul, short fuses, dreams of revenge…My primary public characteristics continue…

Allen began her conversation by pointing out the large strides that have occurred in the publishing industry toward embracing translations. In the early 1990s, editors would often refuse to publish translations, using the reason that “they just don’t sell.” The de facto result of this was neglecting 80% of the world’s…

From Casey Henry: Moderator Adam Shatz framed the night’s discussion by bringing up what he thought was a central component of Fouad’s writing: liminality. Fouad’s uniqueness was not only in presenting and toying with the boundaries between cultural and linguistic identities, but investing a humor and robustness into the depictions of…

When construction began on the Interstate Highway System in the 1950’s, the state began a project of social and cultural engineering that began to reconfigure how we understood mobility, cities, race, community and indeed America itself. However, we are likely to think little of this vast sprawling system except in traffic,…

Susan Bernofsky began “Fragments and Gestures between Languages in Translation” by discussing her particular choices in translating Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days. Issues that arose included how to best translate modernist-inflected fragments that themselves may be paraphrasing other historical or literary documents. A colorful example included the implicit citation by Erpenbeck of…

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative 2016 ARCHIVAL RESEARCH GRANT & DIANE DI PRIMA FELLOWSHIP Application Deadline: March 15, 2016 ARCHIVAL RESEARCH GRANT Lost & Found is a publishing project centered on student archival research in 20th century cultural materials. Poised at the intersection of scholarly investigation, innovative publishing, and cultural preservation, each…

This panel was organized and introduced by Gregory Sholette to be centered around the events of the Gulf Labor Coalition, whose the most recent initiative has involved worker rights at the construction site of the Guggenheim’s Abu Dhabi location. After introducing the most recent action, the Precarious Workers’ Pageant, which was performed on August 7th…

Pelin Tan’s “Tranvsersal Methodologies” was a discussion about what challenges Tan has identified and overcome while trying to sustain an educational infrastructure in a university in Southeast Turkey in a Kurdish area. One of her main questions for the evening was: how do we keep our institutions running without necessarily leading them to become…

In October, I had the pleasure of attending a screening of the classic Cuban-American film, El Super, followed by a conversation with the film’s screenwriter and producer, Manuel Arce Riocabo and GC Professor of Sociology, Sujatha Fernandes. The film, made in 1979, is now recognized as one of the great Cuban films of all time,…

A group of 40 students, teachers, administrators, and researchers convened for half a day to hear presentations on narrative research in community colleges, work in groups to read and discuss student narratives, and to generate ideas for improving the community college mission based on the student experiences in the narratives. The first breakout session grouped…