Social Justice Activism
Conversation
LIVING ROOM: June Jordan’s legacy in a time of genocide, policing, & Trump’s return
Thu, Dec 12, 2024
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
University-Community Partnerships and Urban Environmental Justice
Tue, Sep 24, 2024
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Screening
Embracing “Meanwhile”: A Visionary Cinematic Exploration of Race and Resistance
Wed, May 1, 2024
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Launch & Conversation
This is an Archive in Common: The Book of Beans by chef Natalia Méndez
Thu, Mar 14, 2024
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
The Perhaps Unexpected with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Rosamond S. King
Thu, Nov 9, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Launch & Conversation
Disruptive Engagement Handbook Launch
Thu, Oct 12, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Panel Discussion & Project Launch
NYC Climate Justice Hub Launch
Tue, Sep 19, 2023
11:15 AM – 3:30 PM
Celebration & Colloquium
Honoring Dr. E. Babette Edwards: Harlem’s “Othermother”
Wed, Apr 5, 2023
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice
Fri, Feb 3, 2023
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Book Launch, Reading & Celebration
The Children of the People Write!
Thu, Sep 15, 2022
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Presentation
Fellows’ Showcase: Accessibility, Interdisciplinarity, and Intersectionality in the Puerto Rico Syllabus
Thu, May 12, 2022
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Lecture
Documentary Reverberations: “Exploring the Photographic Field in Chile under Dictatorship” a lecture by Ángeles Donoso Macaya
Wed, Apr 6, 2022
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Colloquium
Activism in Academia V: Friday Forums | Honors Research Colloquium
Fri, Feb 11, 2022 –
Fri, Apr 1, 2022
Presentation
Lunchtime Showcase of Community Education and Public Learning Projects
Thu, Dec 9, 2021
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation
Afternoon Tertulia — Decolonizing Solidarity: Black and Puerto Rican History in Action
Wed, Oct 27, 2021
5:00 PM – 6:00 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
Understanding Coastal Afro-Puerto Rican Ecological Knowledge with Hilda Lloréns and Carlos García-Quijano
Tue, Oct 19, 2021
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Conversation
Puerto Rico’s Taino Movements: Sherina Feliciano & Yarimar Bonilla in Dialogue
Thu, Oct 7, 2021
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Conversation & Screening
Food Justice in the Lower East Side: Film Screening & Conversation at Sixth Street Community Center
Wed, Oct 6, 2021
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Screening
Fighting Back Racism and Food Injustice Thru Green Spaces
Wed, Sep 15, 2021
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Conversation
Food Justice, Activism, and the Public University: A Conversation
Fri, May 1, 2020 –
Sat, Sep 11, 2021
Lecture
Categorical Oppression and Migrant Labour: A Talk by Dr. Jayaseelan Raj
Thu, Feb 18, 2021
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Conversation & Screening
The School of Toni Cade Bambara with Makeba Lavan, Linda J. Holmes, Thabiti Lewis, & Louis Massiah
Tue, Dec 15, 2020
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Mind, Body & Soul: Afrofuturist Sacred Sounds
Fri, Dec 4, 2020
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Conversation
Reading Audre Lorde in Community with The Audre Lorde Reading Group
Fri, Nov 20, 2020
6:00 PM – 8:00 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
Workshop & Conversation
Activating June Jordan’s “Life Studies”: Notes, Conversation, and Workshop with Maryam Parhizkar, Talia Shalev, Conor Tomás Reed
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Conversation
Just Strategies: Pathways to Water, Food and Wellness
Fri, Oct 30, 2020
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Workshop
Brewing Memories: A Medicinal Herbs Workshop with La Morada Chef Carolina Saavedra
Sat, Nov 5, 2022
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Working Group
Activism in Academia IV: Adjuncts in Dialogue & Action
Fri, Jul 10, 2020 –
Fri, May 21, 2021
***openingReception***
Pressing Public Issues Presentations and Exhibition Launch
Thu, May 30, 2019
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
***openingReception***
Pressing Public Issues Discussion and Exhibition Reception
Mon, Jun 3, 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
Conversation
Housing Literacy: Understanding Your Lease, the Rent Law Fight, and Your Rent History
Wed, May 1, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation
Mapping the Sacred: Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex
Thu, Mar 7, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
Records of Resistance Listening Party
Wed, Mar 13, 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
Radical Writing, Feminism and Black Futures: with Saidiya Hartman, Erica Hunt, Dawn Lundy Martin and Claudia Rankine
Thu, Dec 6, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Screening
Happy Birthday Marsha!: Documentary Screening & Filmmaker Talk-back
Fri, Nov 2, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
Theater for Social Change: (In)Visible Freedom
Thu, Oct 25, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!
Wed, Dec 12, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Power, Collective Struggle, and the Poetic Imagination
Mon, Oct 1, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Workshop
Writers Lab Workshops at the Academy for Young Writers
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
Conversation & Reading
Writing and Resistance Today: Abdellah Taïa and Chiké Frankie Edozien in Conversation with Mythili Rao
Mon, Apr 9, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
Solidarity Economy in the Performing Arts: What’s Reparations Got to Do With It?
Mon, Sep 17, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Autoethnographies of CUNY: The Power of Storytelling
Mon, Apr 30, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation
Imperialism and Latin America: Land Grabbing of Garífuna Communities
Thu, Oct 26, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
Unintentional Community, from Shared Experience to Action
Wed, Sep 27, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Panel Discussion
The Future of Public Education? Searching for The Public Good Amid Gentrification, Privatization, and Inequality
Tue, Sep 26, 2017
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Conversation
“South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s” Kellie Jones in conversation with Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
Mon, May 15, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Event
Consciousness and Revolution II: Educating for Change in the Era of Authoritarian Populism
Fri, May 5, 2017 –
Sat, May 6, 2017
Conversation
Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education
Mon, Mar 6, 2017
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Conversation
Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel
Thu, Mar 30, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Workshop
State in Time Workshop: The Crisis of Oppositional Politics Today
Thu, Mar 16, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation
In Theory and Practice: Accessible Cultural Education
Thu, Feb 23, 2017
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich and the Feminist Superhero: The Poetics of Women’s Political Resistance
Fri, Feb 17, 2017
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Conversation
Public History and Civic Engagement: Practitioners’ Perspectives
Fri, Feb 3, 2017
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation
The Anatomy of Change: NYPD’s Surveillance of Muslim Communities
Fri, Oct 28, 2016
6:30 PM
Panel Discussion
The Anatomy of Change: Cliff Levy’s ‘Broken Homes’
Wed, Sep 14, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Panel Discussion
On Janus and Justice: Archives, Access, and Ethical Use of Video Evidence
Fri, Oct 21, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Panel Discussion
Building a Usable History: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
Wed, Sep 14, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
***meeting***
Changing the Public Conversation around Social Welfare Policy and Restoring the Social Safety Net
Fri, Jan 15, 2016
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Lecture
Ariella Azoulay—The Imperial Condition of Photography in Palestine: Archives, Looting, and the Figure of the Infiltrator
Wed, May 11, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Panel Discussion
New Approaches on the Study of Race in Puerto Rico
Thu, Apr 14, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
Palestine: Nothing Makes Sense Why Should I?: A Performance by Suad Amiry
Thu, Feb 18, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation
Critical Perspectives on Community Based Research and Praxis
Mon, Nov 2, 2015
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Conversation & Screening
The Hand That Feeds: Migrant Workers’ Poetry Performance and Film
Fri, Oct 30, 2015
6:30 PM
Conversation
Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression
Thu, Oct 8, 2015
6:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Katrina AfterMaps—10 Years On: A Discussion of Unnatural Disaster
Fri, Sep 18, 2015
4:30 PM
Event
The Ruse of Reconciliation?: Discursive Contours Impossibilities and Modes of Resistance in the South African ‘Reconciliation Project’
Tue, Aug 18, 2015
3:00 PM
Event
Resisting U.S. Militarism in Okinawa: Film Screening of The Targeted Village
Thu, May 21, 2015
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Event
Right to the City Screening Series Presents: Rerooting the Motor City: Notes on a City in Transformation
Thu, May 7, 2015
7:00 PM
Event
Political Printmaking: Favianna Rodriguez and Lincoln Cushing in Conversation
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
6:30 PM
Event
The City is Ours the Body is Mine: Urban Spatial Practices in Contemporary Latin America
Mon, Apr 27, 2015
10:00 AM – 6:30 PM
Event
Right to the City Screening Series Presents: Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
7:00 PM
Event
Tierralismo Good Earth Film Tour Screening and Conversation: Stories from a Cooperative Farm
Mon, Apr 13, 2015
6:30 PM
Panel Discussion
Teaching CUNY at CUNY: Engaging with CUNY Histories and Archives
Fri, Feb 6, 2015
4:00 PM
Event
The Cultural Work of Interactive Memorials: Lessons from the AIDS Memorial Quilt Digital Experience Project
Wed, Mar 20, 2013
6:30 PM
Event
Poverty and Dispossession: Land Grabs and the Right to Land and Resources
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
6:30 PM
Event
Adolescents Narrating Civic Action in Northern Ireland South Africa and the United States
Tue, Dec 11, 2012
6:00 PM
Event
Structural Violence and Migrants in the Global Frontier: Central-America México and North-America
Fri, Oct 5, 2012
12:00 AM
Event
Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
7:00 PM
Event
Protest and Sacrifice: A Discussion on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
6:30 PM
Event
Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex: Bridging Struggles Transforming Resistance
Mon, Dec 5, 2011
2:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Event
Roderick Ferguson: Lumumba-Zapata and the Proliferation of Minority Difference
Thu, Sep 15, 2011
4:00 PM
Event
Freedom Fences and Fallacy: Public Education and Prison in California
Thu, Sep 8, 2011
6:30 PM