
Programming


Reading and Conversation
Thu, May 2, 2024,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
“The Hollow Pillars of the Law”: Chilean Poetry in the Time of Pinochet

performance and book talk
Wed, May 1, 2024,
12:30 PM –
02:00 PM
Performance + Book Talk: Ava Chin “Mott Street”

A celebration of the life and work of Burton Pike
Fri, Nov 17, 2023,
06:00 PM –
07:30 PM
A Celebration of Burton Pike

Virtual Town Hall Discussion
Wed, Nov 9, 2022,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Virtual Town Hall Discussion of Tastes Like War

Research Colloquium Series
Fri, Feb 11, 2022 –
Fri, Apr 1, 2022,
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Activism in Academia V: Friday Forums | Honors Research Colloquium

Celebration
Wed, Nov 17, 2021,
05:30 PM –
06:30 PM
PEN International: 100 Years Celebrating Literature and Promoting Freedom of Expression

Conference
Translating the Future

Reading and Conversation
Tue, Mar 9, 2021,
06:30 PM –
07:15 PM
Jacqueline Woodson: A Reading and Conversation

Conference and Conversation Series
Fri, Sep 25, 2020,
10:00 AM –
12:00 PM
Translating the Future Finale: A Flight of Tokarczuk Translators

Conference and Conversation Series
Thu, Sep 24, 2020,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Translating the Future Finale: "Democracy and Translation" with Natalie Diaz, Marilyn Nelson, & Ken Liu

Conference and Conversation Series
Wed, Sep 23, 2020,
08:00 PM –
09:00 PM
Translating the Future Finale at Columbia University: Translating for a World on Fire, with Maria Dahvana Headley and Emily Wilson, moderated by Susan Bernofsky

Conference and Conversation Series
Wed, Sep 23, 2020,
06:00 PM –
07:30 PM
Translating the Future Finale: Postmonolingual New York with Ava Chin, Jasmine Claude-Narcisse, Damion Searls, and Lisandro Pérez

Conference and Conversation Series
Tue, Sep 22, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future Finale: “On the Elusive Art of Translation,” with Kate Briggs and Tracy K. Smith, moderated by Magdalena Edwards

Conversation
Tue, Sep 15, 2020,
12:00 PM –
01:00 PM
Translating the Future: “Activist Translation,” with Anton Hur, Sevinç Türkkan, and Jen Hofer

Conversation
Tue, Sep 8, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Translating Trauma” with Ellen Elias-Bursac, Aaron Robertson and Julia Sanches, moderated by Queenie Sukhadia

Conversation
Tue, Sep 1, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Untranslating the Classics,” with Laurie Patton, Gopal Sukhu & Vivek Narayanan

Conversation
Tue, Aug 25, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Language as Polis,” with Madeleine Cohen, LaTasha Diggs & Mary Ann Newman

Conversation
Tue, Aug 18, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings III,” with Janet Hong, Pierre Joris & María José Giménez

Conversation
Tue, Aug 11, 2020,
10:00 AM –
11:30 AM
Translating the Future: “Building Translator Communities and Communities for Translation,” with Paige Aniyah Morris, Shuchi Saraswat, Allison Markin Powell, & M Lynx Qualey


Conversation
Tue, Jul 28, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Channeling Ghost Languages of Europe” with Martin Puchner and Peter Constantine, moderated by Tess Lewis

Conversation
Tue, Jul 21, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings II” with Boris Dralyuk, Eric Tsimi, and Rajiv Mohabir

Conversation
Tue, Jul 14, 2020,
10:00 AM –
11:00 AM
Translating the Future: “Subtitling Subtleties,” with Darcy Paquet, Linda Hoaglund, and Xiaolu Guo

Conference and Conversation Series
Tue, Jul 7, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "21st-Century Translation: What Has the Future Brought Us?" with Gabriella Page-Fort, Samantha Schnee, and Chad W. Post

Conference and Conversation Series
Tue, Jun 30, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Queer Literature, Queer Legacies: Looking Toward the Future of LGBTQ Translation" with Achy Obejas and Sean Gasper Bye, moderated by Elizabeth Rose

Conference
Tue, Jun 23, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings I" Mónica de la Torre and Jeffrey Angles, with Bruna Dantas Lobato

Conference
Tue, Jun 9, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "A Manifesto For Our Time" featuring Elizabeth Lowe, Matthew Harrington, and Larissa Kyzer

Conference
Tue, Jun 2, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Children’s Literature in Translation" with Lawrence Schimel and Daniel Hahn

Conference
Tue, May 26, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Global Ecopoetics: Poetry, Translation, Climate Change & Public Health," with Forrest Gander & Raquel Salas Rivera

Conference
Tue, May 19, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Translating the Uncertain Present," Madhu Kaza in conversation with Lina Mounzer

Conference
Tue, May 12, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "From 1970 to 2020: Translation Transformations" with David Bellos and Karen Emmerich

Festival
Fri, Feb 28, 2020 –
Sun, Mar 1, 2020,
05:00 PM – 05:00 PM
05:00 PM – 05:00 PM
Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival New York 2020

Reading
Wed, Dec 11, 2019,
04:30 PM –
06:30 PM
GC Poetics Presents Show n' Tell: poetry & other works in progress

Reading and Conversation
Wed, Dec 4, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
André Aciman on Find Me: In Conversation with Hilton Als

Conversation
Thu, Nov 7, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Archival Poetics: A Discussion and Traveling Exhibition of the Maud/Olson Library

Reading and Conversation
Tue, Nov 5, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Writing Fiction as a Reparative Act with Jess Row and Claudia Rankine

Conference
Fri, May 3, 2019,
09:00 AM –
06:00 PM
The Wars of Peace: The Mundane Violence of the Victorians


Lecture
Mon, Mar 18, 2019,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Queen of the Underworld: the story of Sophie Lyons, America’s most notorious con woman

Performance and Conversation
Wed, Dec 12, 2018,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!

Lecture
Mon, Oct 15, 2018,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Writing the Women’s Movement, 1963 - 1991: Honor Moore and Alix Kates Shulman

Opportunity
Wed, Sep 5, 2018 –
Wed, Oct 3, 2018,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: TheaterWorks! Performance/Playwriting Workshop on Caregiving at CUNY




Conference
Fri, May 4, 2018,
09:00 AM –
07:00 PM
Victorian Ecotime: Inventing, Forecasting, Temporalizing

Reading and Conversation
Mon, Apr 30, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Autoethnographies of CUNY: The Power of Storytelling



Discussion
Wed, Mar 1, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Revisiting Eastern Europe: The Politics of Translation

Project
Sat, Feb 15, 2025,
07:01 PM –
07:01 PM
Creating a Literary Commons: Engaging Students in Digital Archives

Project
Sat, Feb 15, 2025,
07:01 PM –
07:01 PM