History
Conversation & Reading
“The Hollow Pillars of the Law”: Chilean Poetry in the Time of Pinochet
Thu, May 2, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Performance + Book Talk: Ava Chin “Mott Street”
Wed, May 1, 2024
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Conversation
Haiti and the Fictions of History with Kaiama L. Glover
Wed, Apr 17, 2024
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Book Launch, Reading & Celebration
The Children of the People Write!
Thu, Sep 15, 2022
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On Helene Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance
Tue, Nov 2, 2021
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Celebration
¡Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords: Iris Morales in conversation with Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Mon, Oct 18, 2021
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation
Puerto Rico’s Taino Movements: Sherina Feliciano & Yarimar Bonilla in Dialogue
Thu, Oct 7, 2021
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Conversation
Puerto Ricans at the Fault Lines: A Conversation with Yarimar Bonilla
Wed, Sep 29, 2021
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Lecture
Rebecca Donner on “Mildred Harnack and the German Resistance to Hitler”
Mon, Mar 15, 2021
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Event
CUNY Black~Puerto Rican~Third World Feminist Studies Now with Johanna Fernández, Carmen Kynard, & Vani Kannan
Fri, Nov 13, 2020
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
Contagious Cities: Facing and Understanding the Pandemic
Thu, Apr 30, 2020
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Conversation
Artist Talks on Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism
Tue, Feb 11, 2020
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Lecture
“Sister Doctors: Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell” by Janice P. Nimura
Mon, Oct 21, 2019
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
***openingReception***
Pressing Public Issues Presentations and Exhibition Launch
Thu, May 30, 2019
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Conversation
The Aesthetics of Toxicity, Vieques: on Sound, Media, and Violence in the Caribbean
Thu, May 16, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
Extending Radical Empathy: A Listening Party and Book Launch!
Thu, May 23, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Event
Erasures: Excision and Indelibility in the Art of the Americas
Thu, Apr 11, 2019 –
Fri, Apr 12, 2019
Lecture
Queen of the Underworld: the story of Sophie Lyons, America’s most notorious con woman
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Panel Discussion
The Making of a Slum: A Discussion on Immigration, Housing & Health Policy in New York City, Past & Present
Wed, Apr 10, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Life/Signs in the Clamoring Mouth: Memory, Politics, & Poetries of Ghostly Mattering
Thu, Apr 4, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Performance
Translated Movements: The Unlikely Paths of Israeli Folk Dance
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
A Sit-in at the Library: ’68 Revisited
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
***meeting***
Organizational Meeting for “A Sit-in at the Library: ’68 Revisited”
Fri, Nov 16, 2018
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Indo-Caribbean Stories: Sharing, Recording, and Archiving Stories of the West Indies & Movement to the USA
Sat, Oct 27, 2018
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!
Wed, Dec 12, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Symposium
Édouard Glissant’s Tout-Monde: Transnational Perspectives
Fri, Nov 16, 2018
12:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation
Infectious Disease and the Spanish Flu—Lessons for Science and Society
Thu, Oct 11, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Symposium
Shared Sacred Sites Symposium: Perspectives on Pluralism from the Mediterranean to the United States
Thu, Mar 29, 2018
9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Event
Haunted History in France and America: When the Ghosts of Slavery Resurface
Fri, Mar 23, 2018
9:00 AM – 6:45 PM
Lecture
A Bio/Memoir, or: Seven years (for each) of Working with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir
Mon, Oct 16, 2017
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Celebration of the Parthenon Frieze Arriving at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Tue, Oct 24, 2017
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Symposium
Casting the Curriculum: The Parthenon Marbles, Plaster Casts, and Public Sculpture
Tue, Oct 24, 2017
11:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Lecture
George Packer: The 22nd Annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture
Mon, Nov 20, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
Imperialism and Latin America: Land Grabbing of Garífuna Communities
Thu, Oct 26, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Event
It’s Not What You Think: Challenging Assumptions Through Public History
Fri, Nov 17, 2017
10:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Event
Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe
Fri, Oct 13, 2017
9:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Panel Discussion
The Performance of Blackness in Contemporary Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic
Thu, Sep 7, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Keynote Panel for “In Black and White: Photography, Race, and the Modern Impulse in Brazil at Midcentury”
Tue, May 2, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
New York Humanities Graduate Public Humanities Fellowship Talk
Fri, Mar 31, 2017
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Event
Consciousness and Revolution II: Educating for Change in the Era of Authoritarian Populism
Fri, May 5, 2017 –
Sat, May 6, 2017
Conversation
Shahzia Sikander in Conversation with David Joselit
Thu, Apr 20, 2017
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation
Moral Economies of Neoliberalism: A Workshop around Melinda Cooper’s Family Values
Tue, Apr 25, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Future Perfect: Recording the History of Now with Ian Buruma, Mark Lilla, and Sam Tanenhaus
Mon, May 1, 2017
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Lecture
“Something to Offend Everyone”: The Muckraking Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Mon, Mar 20, 2017
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Event
The Woman Card: Feminism and Victorian Studies, Past, Present, and Future
Fri, May 5, 2017
8:45 AM – 6:00 PM
Event
In Black and White: Photography, Race, and the Modern Impulse in Brazil at Midcentury
Wed, May 3, 2017
9:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Conversation
Revisiting Eastern Europe: The Politics of Translation
Wed, Mar 1, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Lecture
Judicial Truth and Cinematographic Truth: The Filming of the Eichmann Trial
Wed, Feb 8, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation
Public History and Civic Engagement: Practitioners’ Perspectives
Fri, Feb 3, 2017
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Lecture
Thomas Jefferson and Black Nationalism: The 7th Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture
Wed, Dec 7, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
The Future of the Republic: A Post-Election Prognosis
Tue, Dec 13, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
“Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After” A Conversation with Blanche Wiesen Cook
Thu, Nov 17, 2016
6:30 PM
Conversation
Reason After Its Eclipse: A Conversation with Martin Jay
Tue, Nov 15, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Building a Usable History: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
Wed, Sep 14, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Event
The Political Biography of the Caribbean & Other Lessons: A Symposium in Honor of Colin A. Palmer
Thu, May 5, 2016
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
***openingReception***
Christian Palestinian Archive: A Project by Dor Guez Opening Reception
Thu, Apr 7, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Symposium
Art, Race, and Fluidity in Dominican Republic and Haiti
Tue, Apr 12, 2016
2:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Event
Through Their Words: Poetics, Aesthetics and Literary Theory in the Graeco-Roman World
Fri, Apr 8, 2016
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Conversation
Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression
Thu, Oct 8, 2015
6:30 PM
Event
Roderick Ferguson: Lumumba-Zapata and the Proliferation of Minority Difference
Thu, Sep 15, 2011
4:00 PM
