Programming
performance and book talk
Wed, May 1, 2024,
12:30 PM –
02:00 PM
Performance + Book Talk: Ava Chin “Mott Street”
Discussion
Wed, Apr 17, 2024,
06:00 PM –
07:30 PM
Haiti and the Fictions of History with Kaiama L. Glover
Diasporican Archives Summer Research Fellowship
Diasporican Archives Summer Research Fellowship
Book Launch and Conversation
Thu, Mar 14, 2024,
05:30 PM –
07:30 PM
This is an Archive in Common: The Book of Beans by chef Natalia Méndez
Seminar Presentation
Thu, Mar 7, 2024,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Agrarian Reform and the Making of the Chilean Farmland: A Feminist Visual Exploration by Ángeles Donoso Macaya
L&F Fellows Showcase
Fri, Dec 8, 2023,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects
Book Launch, Reading and Discussion
Sun, Jun 4, 2023,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Book Launch: Jumping into the American River New and Selected Poems, Vol 1 by Mary Norbert Korte with Iris Cushing, Jason Weiss, & M.C. Kinniburgh
Book Launch Celebration
Thu, Feb 9, 2023,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
All about the squash: sisters of the milpa book launch!
Book Launch Celebration
Sat, Nov 5, 2022,
02:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Book Launch: Las hermanas de la milpa: comienza con la calabaza / The sisters of the milpa: it begins with the squash
Symposium
Fri, Oct 28, 2022,
09:00 AM –
06:00 PM
Keats and Shelley on the Move- A Romantic Bicentennials Curran Symposium
Book Launch Celebration
Thu, Oct 27, 2022,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Book Launch: The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976–1980
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Oct 27, 2022,
05:00 PM –
07:00 PM
Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century—A Conversation with Rowena Kennedy-Epstein & Francesca Wade
Fellows Showcase
Thu, May 12, 2022,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Fellows’ Showcase: Accessibility, Interdisciplinarity, and Intersectionality in the Puerto Rico Syllabus
Lecture
Wed, Apr 6, 2022,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Documentary Reverberations: "Exploring the Photographic Field in Chile under Dictatorship" a lecture by Ángeles Donoso Macaya
Conference
Thu, Nov 18, 2021 –
Fri, Nov 19, 2021,
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Women, Photography, and Feminisms
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Nov 2, 2021,
07:00 PM –
08:00 PM
ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On Helene Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance
25th Anniversary Celebration Event
Mon, Oct 18, 2021,
06:00 PM –
07:00 PM
¡Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords: Iris Morales in conversation with Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Centro Library Lunch Hour
Tue, Oct 12, 2021,
12:00 PM –
01:00 PM
Centro's Library Lunch Hour Charas Collection: Puerto Ricans Organizing in the East Village
Data Hub Coffee Hour
Wed, Sep 22, 2021,
02:00 PM –
03:00 PM
Centro’s Data Hub Coffee Hour: Hurricane Maria Through an Intersectional Lens
Call for Participants
Fri, Apr 16, 2021,
01:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Oral History Workshop with Nyssa Chow—Inviting Authorship: Oral History as Spontaneous Literature
Conversation
Wed, Apr 14, 2021,
03:00 PM –
04:30 PM
John Wieners' Letters for the Voices: A Conversation with Michael Seth Stewart, Ammiel Alcalay & Eileen Myles
Editors Panel Discussion
Fri, Mar 5, 2021,
11:00 AM –
12:00 PM
The Craft We Didn't Learn: Retroactive Writing Advice from the Archives
NYPL's Doc Chat Series
Thu, Feb 18, 2021,
03:30 PM –
04:00 PM
Teaching the #Syllabus with Yarimar Bonilla and Zakiya Collier: NYPL Doc Chat Episode 16
Opportunity
Fri, Nov 13, 2020 –
Sun, Dec 6, 2020,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Curricular Fellowship & Research Assistantship for the Puerto Rico Syllabus
Event
Fri, Nov 13, 2020,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
CUNY Black~Puerto Rican~Third World Feminist Studies Now with Johanna Fernández, Carmen Kynard, & Vani Kannan
Conversation and Workshop
Thu, Nov 12, 2020,
03:30 PM –
05:30 PM
Activating June Jordan’s "Life Studies": Notes, Conversation, and Workshop with Maryam Parhizkar, Talia Shalev, Conor Tomás Reed
Opportunity
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 –
Mon, Feb 10, 2020,
04:07 AM – 11:59 PM
04:07 AM – 11:59 PM
2020 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Conversation
Thu, Nov 7, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Archival Poetics: A Discussion and Traveling Exhibition of the Maud/Olson Library
Lecture
Mon, Oct 21, 2019,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
"Sister Doctors: Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell" by Janice P. Nimura
Performance and Conversation
Thu, May 23, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Extending Radical Empathy: A Listening Party and Book Launch!
Workshop
Tue, May 21, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
VHS Archives: End of the Year Party, Workshop, and Demo
Conference
Thu, Apr 11, 2019 –
Fri, Apr 12, 2019,
09:30 AM – 06:30 PM
09:30 AM – 06:30 PM
Erasures: Excision and Indelibility in the Art of the Americas
Screening and Conversation
Fri, Apr 5, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Dis-Ease Film Screening with Mariam Ghani
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
Opportunity
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 –
Fri, Feb 8, 2019,
04:07 AM – 11:59 PM
04:07 AM – 11:59 PM
2019 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Conversation
Wed, Feb 6, 2019,
06:00 PM –
07:30 PM
Inside the Box: A Conversation on the Life of Artists’ Estates
Performance and Conversation
Wed, Dec 12, 2018,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!
Reading and Conversation
Sat, Oct 27, 2018,
02:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Indo-Caribbean Stories: Sharing, Recording, and Archiving Stories of the West Indies & Movement to the USA
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
Opportunity
Fri, Aug 17, 2018 –
Mon, Sep 10, 2018,
08:00 AM – 11:59 PM
08:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Applications: Editor Opportunity for The City Amplified
Opportunity
Thu, Nov 16, 2017 –
Mon, Aug 20, 2018,
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
Call for Participants: Where Are the Asians? Queering the Archives
Opportunity
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 –
Wed, Aug 15, 2018,
04:07 AM – 11:59 PM
04:07 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop with Sady Sullivan
Conversation
Tue, Apr 24, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Marcel Duchamp, The Blind Man, and New York Dada: Institutional Critique and Editorial Practices
Opportunity
Sat, Apr 14, 2018,
10:00 AM –
02:00 PM
Saturdays at NYPL: Open House for Archival Encounters
Symposium
Thu, Mar 29, 2018,
09:00 AM –
05:30 PM
Shared Sacred Sites Symposium: Perspectives on Pluralism from the Mediterranean to the United States
Opportunity
Mon, Jan 8, 2018 –
Fri, Feb 2, 2018,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: Theater Works! Performance/Playwriting Workshop on Caregiving at CUNY
Opportunity
Fri, Dec 15, 2017 –
Tue, Jan 30, 2018,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
2018 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Opportunity
Tue, Nov 28, 2017 –
Mon, Dec 18, 2017,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Writers: New Approaches to Reparations
Screening and Conversation
Wed, Nov 15, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Culture Capture: A Screening of The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Nov 7, 2017,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Passwords: Cedar Sigo on Joanne Kyger
Lecture
Mon, Oct 16, 2017,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
A Bio/Memoir, or: Seven years (for each) of Working with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir
Reading and Conversation
Fri, Sep 22, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
After Kathy Acker: Chris Kraus in Conversation with Anne Boyer & Ariana Reines
Opportunity
Wed, Sep 6, 2017 –
Tue, Sep 19, 2017,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: Fall 2017 Collaborative Research Seminar on Archives and Special Collections
Opportunity
Fri, Sep 8, 2017,
11:59 PM –
11:59 PM
Call for Participants: Workshop with Chris Kraus on Writing Biography
Opportunity
Wed, Jun 14, 2017 –
Mon, Jun 26, 2017,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for CUNY Graduate Research Fellow
Conversation
Thu, May 11, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Letters, Friendship, & Feminism: Hettie Jones & Claudia Moreno Parsons
Opportunity
Wed, Mar 29, 2017 –
Mon, Apr 24, 2017,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Lost & Found 2017 Grants and Fellowships
Discussion
Thu, Mar 30, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel
Screening and Conversation
Fri, Mar 17, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Interventions in the Interview, Fugitive Subjects: Amber Hawk Swanson & Stephen Winter
Opportunity
Mon, Feb 27, 2017,
11:50 PM –
11:59 PM
Call for Participants: Collaborative Research Seminar on Archives and Special Collections
Lecture
Wed, Feb 8, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Judicial Truth and Cinematographic Truth: The Filming of the Eichmann Trial
Gallery Tour
Tue, Nov 22, 2016,
06:30 PM –
07:30 PM
Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives, 1966-2016
Panel Discussion
Mon, Nov 21, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Achieving Rapport: Art and Archives at Foksal Gallery
Opening Reception
Fri, Nov 18, 2016,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives, 1966-2016
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Nov 1, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics: An Introduction and Reading
Panel Discussion
Fri, Oct 21, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
On Janus and Justice: Archives, Access, and Ethical Use of Video Evidence
Panel Discussion
Wed, Sep 14, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Building a Usable History: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
Opportunity
Tue, Jun 28, 2016 –
Fri, Jul 15, 2016,
11:30 AM – 11:30 PM
11:30 AM – 11:30 PM
Call for Papers, Proposals, and Participation: Jane Marcus Feminist University
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Jun 7, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Beat & Beyond: "Lost & Found" at Bowery Poetry Club
Event
Thu, Apr 14, 2016 –
Thu, May 26, 2016,
12:00 PM – 03:00 PM
12:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Christian Palestinian Archive: Open Call
Lecture
Wed, May 11, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Ariella Azoulay—The Imperial Condition of Photography in Palestine: Archives, Looting, and the Figure of the Infiltrator
Event
Fri, Apr 15, 2016,
09:00 AM –
07:30 PM
Mediating the Archive: A Conference on Moving Images and Social Histories
Opening Reception
Thu, Apr 7, 2016,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Christian Palestinian Archive: A Project by Dor Guez Opening Reception
Event
Fri, Feb 19, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Sovereign Selves? Choreography and Human Rights in the Archive
Event
Wed, Apr 1, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Five Years of Lost & Found: New American Poetry & Beyond
Event
Tue, Mar 31, 2015,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Lost & Found Series V Launch and Opening Reception: Seeking the Glyph
Panel Discussion
Fri, Feb 6, 2015,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Teaching CUNY at CUNY: Engaging with CUNY Histories and Archives
Event
Fri, Dec 5, 2014,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Editing Archival Materials: Robin Blaser’s Astonishment Tapes
Event
Wed, Dec 3, 2014,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
A Question of Africa: Saidiya Hartman and M. NourbeSe Philip
Event
Wed, Oct 15, 2014,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Destruction and Documentation: Saving Syria’s Cultural Heritage
Event
Thu, Mar 6, 2014,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Paper Paper Tape Tape DVD Person PDF Staple Tee Shirt Pile
Event
Fri, Feb 21, 2014,
09:30 AM –
05:30 PM
Sexing Sound: Music Cultures Audio Practices and Contemporary Art
.jpg)
Event
Fri, Apr 19, 2013,
05:00 PM –
05:00 PM
Women in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men: Galleries Books and Political Allegories in Seventeenth-Century France
Event
Wed, Mar 20, 2013,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
The Cultural Work of Interactive Memorials: Lessons from the AIDS Memorial Quilt Digital Experience Project
Event
Fri, Oct 12, 2012,
01:00 PM –
01:00 PM
Encounters in the Archives: A Transdisciplinary Discussion
Project
Sat, Feb 22, 2025,
04:07 AM –
04:07 AM
Securitizing Resistance in Gafsa: Stratified Vulnerability and Surplus Labor Accumulation
Project
Sat, Feb 22, 2025,
04:07 AM –
04:07 AM
Creating a Literary Commons: Engaging Students in Digital Archives
Project
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 –
Sat, Feb 22, 2025
The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop
Project
Sat, Feb 22, 2025,
04:07 AM –
04:07 AM
The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy (Spring 2019)
Project
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 –
Sat, Feb 22, 2025
The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives
Public Seminars
Working Groups
Nuyorican Artists in the Cafe
This Nuyorican Artists in the Cafe working group is looking to document the influence of artists who have emerged from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, from its inception in 1973 and onward.
The City Amplified Working Group
VHS Archives
Primary Source: On Special Collections, Archives, and Libraries
