Programming
NYC Climate Justice Fellowship and Academy Program
NYC Climate Justice Hub Fellowship and Academy Program: There is no climate justice fight without joy
Film Screening and Discussion
Wed, May 1, 2024,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Embracing "Meanwhile": A Visionary Cinematic Exploration of Race and Resistance
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
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Nov 9, 2023,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
The Perhaps Unexpected with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Rosamond S. King
Book Launch Celebration
Thu, Oct 12, 2023,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Disruptive Engagement Handbook Launch
Celebration & Spring Colloquium
Wed, Apr 5, 2023,
05:00 PM –
07:00 PM
Honoring Dr. E. Babette Edwards: Harlem’s “Othermother”
Reading and Book Discussion
Fri, Feb 3, 2023,
03:00 PM –
04:15 PM
The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice
Workshop
Sat, Nov 5, 2022,
12:00 PM –
02:00 PM
Brewing Memories: A Medicinal Herbs Workshop with La Morada Chef Carolina Saavedra
Reading and Book Launch Celebration
Thu, Sep 15, 2022,
05:30 PM –
07:00 PM
The Children of the People Write!
Working Group and Opportunity to Participate
Mon, Mar 15, 2021 –
Tue, May 31, 2022
Ethics and Labor in Art History: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
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
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
Public Humanities Showcase
Thu, Dec 9, 2021,
12:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Lunchtime Showcase of Community Education and Public Learning Projects
Afternoon Tertulia
Wed, Oct 27, 2021,
05:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Afternoon Tertulia — Decolonizing Solidarity: Black and Puerto Rican History in Action
Discussion
Tue, Oct 19, 2021,
10:30 AM –
12:30 PM
Understanding Coastal Afro-Puerto Rican Ecological Knowledge with Hilda Lloréns and Carlos García-Quijano
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
Discussion
Thu, Oct 7, 2021,
04:00 PM –
05:00 PM
Puerto Rico's Taino Movements: Sherina Feliciano & Yarimar Bonilla in Dialogue
Screening and Conversation
Wed, Oct 6, 2021,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Food Justice in the Lower East Side: Film Screening & Conversation at Sixth Street Community Center
Film Screening and Conversation
Wed, Sep 15, 2021,
07:00 PM –
09:30 PM
Fighting Back Racism and Food Injustice Thru Green Spaces
A conversation and video
Food Justice, Activism, and the Public University: A Conversation
Working Group
Fri, Jul 10, 2020 –
Fri, May 21, 2021,
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Activism in Academia IV: Adjuncts in Dialogue & Action
Lecture
Thu, Feb 18, 2021,
11:00 AM –
12:00 PM
Categorical Oppression and Migrant Labour: A Talk by Dr. Jayaseelan Raj
Conversation
Wed, Jan 20, 2021,
06:00 PM –
08:15 PM
Transforming CUNY Admissions, Studies, Movements
Conversation and Film Screening
Tue, Dec 15, 2020,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
The School of Toni Cade Bambara with Makeba Lavan, Linda J. Holmes, Thabiti Lewis, & Louis Massiah
Artist Talk and Performance Series
Fri, Dec 4, 2020,
04:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Mind, Body & Soul: Afrofuturist Sacred Sounds
Conversation and Readin Group
Fri, Nov 20, 2020,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Reading Audre Lorde in Community with The Audre Lorde Reading Group
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
Conversation
Fri, Oct 30, 2020,
01:00 PM –
03:00 PM
Just Strategies: Pathways to Water, Food and Wellness
Project
Sun, May 25, 2025 –
Wed, Apr 1, 2020,
01:18 AM – 12:00 AM
01:18 AM – 12:00 AM
Enhancing CUNY-Wide Capacity to Promote Collaborative Gender Justice
Opening Reception
Mon, Jun 3, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Pressing Public Issues Discussion and Exhibition Reception
Opening Reception
Thu, May 30, 2019,
12:00 PM –
02:00 PM
Pressing Public Issues Presentations and Exhibition Launch
Performance and Conversation
Thu, May 23, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Extending Radical Empathy: A Listening Party and Book Launch!
Conversation
Wed, May 1, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Housing Literacy: Understanding Your Lease, the Rent Law Fight, and Your Rent History
Conversation
Wed, Apr 3, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Contested City: Art, Planning, and Community Power
Performance and Conversation
Wed, Mar 13, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Records of Resistance Listening Party
Conversation
Thu, Mar 7, 2019,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Mapping the Sacred: Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex
Performance and Conversation
Wed, Dec 12, 2018,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Dec 6, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Radical Writing, Feminism and Black Futures: with Saidiya Hartman, Erica Hunt, Dawn Lundy Martin and Claudia Rankine
Performance and Conversation
Mon, Nov 26, 2018,
01:00 PM –
08:00 PM
A Sit-in at the Library: '68 Revisited
Meeting
Fri, Nov 16, 2018,
01:00 PM –
04:30 PM
Organizational Meeting for “A Sit-in at the Library: '68 Revisited”
Screening and Conversation
Fri, Nov 2, 2018,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Happy Birthday Marsha!: Documentary Screening & Filmmaker Talk-back
Performance and Conversation
Thu, Oct 25, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Theater for Social Change: (In)Visible Freedom
Conference
Fri, Oct 5, 2018 –
Sat, Oct 6, 2018,
09:30 AM – 07:00 PM
09:30 AM – 07:00 PM
"#MeToo and Epistemic Injustice" Conference
Reading and Conversation
Mon, Oct 1, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Power, Collective Struggle, and the Poetic Imagination
Conversation
Mon, Sep 17, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Solidarity Economy in the Performing Arts: What’s Reparations Got to Do With It?
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
Sun, May 25, 2025 –
Wed, Aug 15, 2018,
01:18 AM – 11:59 PM
01:18 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop with Sady Sullivan
Opportunity
Sun, May 25, 2025 –
Fri, Jul 13, 2018,
01:18 AM – 08:00 PM
01:18 AM – 08:00 PM
Call for Interns: Organize a YOUth-Led Summit on Education Justice, Art, and Activism!
Opportunity
Wed, Jun 13, 2018 –
Fri, Jul 6, 2018,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: Climate Action Lab
Reading and Conversation
Mon, Apr 30, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Autoethnographies of CUNY: The Power of Storytelling
Conference
Fri, Apr 13, 2018 –
Sat, Apr 14, 2018,
12:30 PM – 09:00 PM
12:30 PM – 09:00 PM
Insurgent Solidarities: histories, formations, futures
Reading and Conversation
Mon, Apr 9, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Writing and Resistance Today: Abdellah Taïa and Chiké Frankie Edozien in Conversation with Mythili Rao
Discussion
Thu, Oct 26, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Imperialism and Latin America: Land Grabbing of Garífuna Communities
Conversation
Wed, Sep 27, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Unintentional Community, from Shared Experience to Action
Panel Discussion
Tue, Sep 26, 2017,
07:00 PM –
09:00 PM
The Future of Public Education? Searching for The Public Good Amid Gentrification, Privatization, and Inequality
Opportunity
Tue, Aug 15, 2017 –
Tue, Aug 15, 2017
Call for Participants: Writing Workshop with Bushra Rehman
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
Mon, May 15, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
"South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s” Kellie Jones in conversation with Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
Conference
Fri, May 5, 2017 –
Sat, May 6, 2017,
09:30 AM – 04:00 PM
09:30 AM – 04:00 PM
Consciousness and Revolution II: Educating for Change in the Era of Authoritarian Populism
Discussion
Thu, Mar 30, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel
Workshop
Thu, Mar 16, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
State in Time Workshop: The Crisis of Oppositional Politics Today
Discussion
Mon, Mar 6, 2017,
02:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education
Conversation
Thu, Feb 23, 2017,
04:00 PM –
06:00 PM
In Theory and Practice: Accessible Cultural Education
Performance and Conversation
Fri, Feb 17, 2017,
05:00 PM –
09:00 PM
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich and the Feminist Superhero: The Poetics of Women's Political Resistance
Conversation
Fri, Feb 3, 2017,
01:00 PM –
02:30 PM
Public History and Civic Engagement: Practitioners' Perspectives
Discussion
Fri, Oct 28, 2016,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
The Anatomy of Change: NYPD's Surveillance of Muslim Communities
Panel Discussion
Fri, Oct 21, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
On Janus and Justice: Archives, Access, and Ethical Use of Video Evidence
Conversation
Wed, Oct 19, 2016,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Cleaning Up New York City in the 1960s and 1970s
Panel Discussion
Wed, Sep 14, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Building a Usable History: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
Panel Discussion
Wed, Sep 14, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
The Anatomy of Change: Cliff Levy's 'Broken Homes'
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
Panel Discussion
Thu, Apr 14, 2016,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
New Approaches on the Study of Race in Puerto Rico
Performance and Conversation
Thu, Feb 18, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Palestine: Nothing Makes Sense Why Should I?: A Performance by Suad Amiry
Meeting
Fri, Jan 15, 2016,
12:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Changing the Public Conversation around Social Welfare Policy and Restoring the Social Safety Net
Conversation
Mon, Nov 2, 2015,
10:00 AM –
11:30 AM
Critical Perspectives on Community Based Research and Praxis
Screening and Conversation
Fri, Oct 30, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
The Hand That Feeds: Migrant Workers' Poetry Performance and Film
Workshop
Fri, Oct 23, 2015,
09:30 AM –
09:30 AM
Narrating America in the Contemporary Community College
Screening and Conversation
Mon, Oct 19, 2015,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
El Super Film Screening & Discussion
Conversation
Thu, Oct 8, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression
Performance and Conversation
Fri, Sep 18, 2015,
04:30 PM –
04:30 PM
Katrina AfterMaps—10 Years On: A Discussion of Unnatural Disaster
Event
Tue, Aug 18, 2015,
03:00 PM –
03:00 PM
The Ruse of Reconciliation?: Discursive Contours Impossibilities and Modes of Resistance in the South African ‘Reconciliation Project’
Event
Thu, May 21, 2015,
06:30 PM –
09:00 PM
Resisting U.S. Militarism in Okinawa: Film Screening of The Targeted Village
Event
Thu, May 7, 2015,
07:00 PM –
07:00 PM
Right to the City Screening Series Presents: Rerooting the Motor City: Notes on a City in Transformation
Event
Thu, May 7, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Participatory Research and Political Art: California to New York
Event
Thu, Apr 30, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Political Printmaking: Favianna Rodriguez and Lincoln Cushing in Conversation
Event
Mon, Apr 27, 2015,
10:00 AM –
06:30 PM
The City is Ours the Body is Mine: Urban Spatial Practices in Contemporary Latin America
Event
Thu, Apr 16, 2015,
07:00 PM –
07:00 PM
Right to the City Screening Series Presents: Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits
Event
Mon, Apr 13, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Tierralismo Good Earth Film Tour Screening and Conversation: Stories from a Cooperative Farm
Event
Thu, Mar 5, 2015,
07:00 PM –
07:00 PM
Right to the City Screening Series Presents: Rezoning Harlem
Event
Wed, Mar 4, 2015,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Stories of Struggle: Histories of Childcare Activism at CUNY
Panel Discussion
Fri, Feb 6, 2015,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Teaching CUNY at CUNY: Engaging with CUNY Histories and Archives
Event
Thu, Dec 5, 2013,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
(Un)Making a Dominican: The Context for Denationalization
Event
Fri, Nov 22, 2013,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Holocaust Internationalism: The Witness as World-Traveller
Event
Wed, Apr 17, 2013,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Narrating Labor Struggles: Storytelling and Social Change
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
Thu, Mar 14, 2013,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Poverty and Dispossession: Land Grabs and the Right to Land and Resources
Event
Fri, Feb 15, 2013,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Representing Dissent: Political Movements and Graphic Narrative
Event
Tue, Dec 11, 2012,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Adolescents Narrating Civic Action in Northern Ireland South Africa and the United States
Event
Fri, Oct 5, 2012,
12:00 AM –
12:00 AM
Structural Violence and Migrants in the Global Frontier: Central-America México and North-America
Event
Mon, Apr 30, 2012,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Sovereignty Redefined: Citizenship Subjectivity and Freedom
Event
Mon, Mar 26, 2012,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Radical Freedom: Feminist Collaborations and Hybrid Aesthetics
Event
Tue, Feb 28, 2012,
07:00 PM –
07:00 PM
Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists
Event
Mon, Feb 27, 2012,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Freedom to Occupy? Reclaiming Space and Reinventing Protest
Event
Thu, Feb 16, 2012,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Protest and Sacrifice: A Discussion on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Event
Mon, Dec 5, 2011,
02:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex: Bridging Struggles Transforming Resistance
Event
Mon, Nov 7, 2011,
08:45 PM –
08:45 PM
Cells Genes and Stories: HeLa's Journey from Lab to Literature
Event
Thu, Sep 15, 2011,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Roderick Ferguson: Lumumba-Zapata and the Proliferation of Minority Difference
Event
Thu, Sep 8, 2011,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Freedom Fences and Fallacy: Public Education and Prison in California
Project
Sun, May 25, 2025 –
Sun, May 25, 2025
Rosa Parks' Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks
Project
Sun, May 25, 2025,
01:18 AM –
01:18 AM
Ethnography of Food Provisioning in Newark, NJ: Food Practices, Health Status, Social Identities, and Place of Residency
Project
Sun, May 25, 2025,
01:18 AM –
01:18 AM
The Right to the Image: Syrian Film Collective Abounaddara’s Emergency Cinema
Project
Sun, May 25, 2025 –
Sun, May 25, 2025
The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop
Project
Sun, May 25, 2025,
01:18 AM –
01:18 AM
The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy (Spring 2019)
Project
Sun, May 25, 2025 –
Sun, May 25, 2025
The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives
Public Seminars
Narrating Change, Changing Narratives
We study and employ narration as a guide for social change.
Social Choreography
We look at how art movements and social movements align.
On Display: Activating Networks, Systems, and Environments
Art, Activism, and the Environment
Public Education and Racial Justice
Allies in Education: Building Coalitions for Youth-Driven Research and Advocacy
Autoethnographies of Public Education and Racial (In)Justice
We The Pupils: A Racial and Educational Justice Podcast
The Schools We Need: Lessons Learned from Harlem
The Puerto Rico Syllabus
