Reading and Conversation
Thu, May 2, 2024,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
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
Reading and Book Launch Celebration
Thu, Sep 15, 2022,
05:30 PM –
07:00 PM
The Children of the People Write!
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
Discussion
Thu, Oct 7, 2021,
04:00 PM –
05:00 PM
Puerto Rico's Taino Movements: Sherina Feliciano & Yarimar Bonilla in Dialogue
Conversation
Wed, Sep 29, 2021,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Puerto Ricans at the Fault Lines: A Conversation with Yarimar Bonilla
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
Dorothy O. Helly Works-in-Progress Lecture
Mon, Mar 15, 2021,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Rebecca Donner on “Mildred Harnack and the German Resistance to Hitler”
Conversation
Wed, Jan 20, 2021,
06:00 PM –
08:15 PM
Transforming CUNY Admissions, Studies, Movements
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
Thu, Apr 30, 2020,
08:30 AM –
10:00 AM
Contagious Cities: Facing and Understanding the Pandemic
Conversation
Tue, Feb 11, 2020,
04:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Artist Talks on Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism
Opportunity
Sun, Feb 8, 2026 –
Mon, Feb 10, 2020,
08:54 AM – 11:59 PM
08:54 AM – 11:59 PM
2020 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Screening and Conversation
Wed, Feb 5, 2020,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Yonia Fain's Map of Refugee Modernism
Lecture
Mon, Oct 21, 2019,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
"Sister Doctors: Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell" by Janice P. Nimura
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!
Discussion
Thu, May 16, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
The Aesthetics of Toxicity, Vieques: on Sound, Media, and Violence in the Caribbean
Conference
Fri, May 3, 2019,
09:00 AM –
06:00 PM
The Wars of Peace: The Mundane Violence of the Victorians
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
Panel Discussion
Wed, Apr 10, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
The Making of a Slum: A Discussion on Immigration, Housing & Health Policy in New York City, Past & Present
Reading and Conversation
Thu, Apr 4, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Life/Signs in the Clamoring Mouth: Memory, Politics, & Poetries of Ghostly Mattering
Performance
Mon, Mar 18, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Translated Movements: The Unlikely Paths of Israeli Folk Dance
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
Sun, Feb 8, 2026 –
Fri, Feb 8, 2019,
08:54 AM – 11:59 PM
08:54 AM – 11:59 PM
2019 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Performance and Conversation
Wed, Dec 12, 2018,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!
Performance and Conversation
Mon, Nov 26, 2018,
01:00 PM –
08:00 PM
A Sit-in at the Library: '68 Revisited
Symposium
Fri, Nov 16, 2018,
12:45 PM –
07:00 PM
Édouard Glissant's Tout-Monde: Transnational Perspectives
Meeting
Fri, Nov 16, 2018,
01:00 PM –
04:30 PM
Organizational Meeting for “A Sit-in at the Library: '68 Revisited”
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
Conversation
Thu, Oct 11, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Infectious Disease and the Spanish Flu—Lessons for Science and Society
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, Feb 8, 2026 –
Wed, Aug 15, 2018,
08:54 AM – 11:59 PM
08:54 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop with Sady Sullivan
Conference
Fri, May 4, 2018,
09:00 AM –
07:00 PM
Victorian Ecotime: Inventing, Forecasting, Temporalizing
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
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
Conference
Fri, Mar 23, 2018,
09:00 AM –
06:45 PM
Haunted History in France and America: When the Ghosts of Slavery Resurface
Lecture
Mon, Nov 20, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
George Packer: The 22nd Annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture
Conference
Fri, Nov 17, 2017,
10:30 AM –
06:00 PM
It's Not What You Think: Challenging Assumptions Through Public History
Discussion
Thu, Oct 26, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Imperialism and Latin America: Land Grabbing of Garífuna Communities
Performance and Conversation
Tue, Oct 24, 2017,
05:00 PM –
06:30 PM
Celebration of the Parthenon Frieze Arriving at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Symposium
Tue, Oct 24, 2017,
11:30 AM –
05:00 PM
Casting the Curriculum: The Parthenon Marbles, Plaster Casts, and Public Sculpture
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
Conference
Fri, Oct 13, 2017,
09:30 AM –
07:00 PM
Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe
Opportunity
Mon, Aug 7, 2017 –
Fri, Sep 22, 2017,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Participants: The CUNY Public History Collective Second Annual Conference
Workshop
Thu, Sep 14, 2017 –
Fri, Sep 15, 2017,
02:00 PM – 08:00 PM
02:00 PM – 08:00 PM
LGBTQIA Representations and Italian Media
Opportunity
Fri, Sep 8, 2017,
11:59 PM –
11:59 PM
Call for Participants: Workshop with Chris Kraus on Writing Biography
Panel Discussion
Thu, Sep 7, 2017,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
The Performance of Blackness in Contemporary Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic
Opportunity
Tue, Aug 1, 2017 –
Sun, Aug 20, 2017,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Papers: Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Graduate Student Conference on Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe
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
Conference
Fri, May 5, 2017,
08:45 AM –
06:00 PM
The Woman Card: Feminism and Victorian Studies, Past, Present, and Future
Conference
Wed, May 3, 2017,
09:30 AM –
06:00 PM
In Black and White: Photography, Race, and the Modern Impulse in Brazil at Midcentury
Panel Discussion
Tue, May 2, 2017,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Keynote Panel for "In Black and White: Photography, Race, and the Modern Impulse in Brazil at Midcentury"
Panel Discussion
Mon, May 1, 2017,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Future Perfect: Recording the History of Now with Ian Buruma, Mark Lilla, and Sam Tanenhaus
Conversation
Tue, Apr 25, 2017,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Moral Economies of Neoliberalism: A Workshop around Melinda Cooper’s Family Values
Conversation
Thu, Apr 20, 2017,
05:30 PM –
07:00 PM
Shahzia Sikander in Conversation with David Joselit
Conversation
Fri, Mar 31, 2017,
03:30 PM –
05:00 PM
New York Humanities Graduate Public Humanities Fellowship Talk
Lecture
Mon, Mar 20, 2017,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
“Something to Offend Everyone”: The Muckraking Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Discussion
Wed, Mar 1, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Revisiting Eastern Europe: The Politics of Translation
Lecture
Wed, Feb 8, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Judicial Truth and Cinematographic Truth: The Filming of the Eichmann Trial
Conversation
Fri, Feb 3, 2017,
01:00 PM –
02:30 PM
Public History and Civic Engagement: Practitioners' Perspectives
Conversation
Tue, Dec 13, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
The Future of the Republic: A Post-Election Prognosis
Lecture
Wed, Dec 7, 2016,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Thomas Jefferson and Black Nationalism: The 7th Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture
Conversation
Thu, Nov 17, 2016,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
"Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After" A Conversation with Blanche Wiesen Cook
Discussion
Tue, Nov 15, 2016,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Reason After Its Eclipse: A Conversation with Martin Jay
Panel Discussion
Wed, Sep 14, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Building a Usable History: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
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
Event
Thu, May 5, 2016,
12:00 PM –
06:00 PM
The Political Biography of the Caribbean & Other Lessons: A Symposium in Honor of Colin A. Palmer
Symposium
Tue, Apr 12, 2016,
02:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Art, Race, and Fluidity in Dominican Republic and Haiti
Event
Fri, Apr 8, 2016,
09:00 AM –
06:00 PM
Through Their Words: Poetics, Aesthetics and Literary Theory in the Graeco-Roman World
Opening Reception
Thu, Apr 7, 2016,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Christian Palestinian Archive: A Project by Dor Guez Opening Reception
Conversation
Wed, Nov 18, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Transversal Methods and Social Choreography: Pelin Tan
Conversation
Thu, Oct 8, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression
Event
Wed, Sep 21, 2011,
07:00 PM –
07:00 PM
The Fourth Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Hilary Spurling
Event
Thu, Sep 15, 2011,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Roderick Ferguson: Lumumba-Zapata and the Proliferation of Minority Difference
Event
Mon, Apr 11, 2011,
02:00 PM –
02:00 PM
Exhibition Histories: Abstract Cabinet and the Modern Narrative
Event
Thu, Apr 7, 2011,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Magic Realism in 1943: Reconsidering MoMA’s Exhibition History
Project
Sun, Feb 8, 2026 –
Sun, Feb 8, 2026
Rosa Parks' Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks
Project
Sun, Feb 8, 2026 –
Sun, Feb 8, 2026
The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop
Project
Sun, Feb 8, 2026 –
Sun, Feb 8, 2026
United Nations, Queens: A Local History of the 1947 Israel-Palestine Partition
Project
Sun, Feb 8, 2026,
08:54 AM –
08:54 AM
The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy (Spring 2019)
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