Conversation
Eating Disorders in Life Writing with Leslie Jamison
CUNY Graduate Center (Kelly Skylight Room). Free and open to all. Registration required.
Book Launch, Conversation & Reading
<em>Budget Justice</em>: Book Launch, Reading & Conversation with Celina Su
The Skylight Room (9100) at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required.
Community Gathering
TLC x PS2 Fall 2025 Sip n Chat
Room 5103 (Center for the Humanities), CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to CUNY GC community. Register to attend.
Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious
Compassion Beyond Reason with Anaïs Duplan & Farnoosh Fathi
All are welcome. This 75-min online workshop series will take place virtually via Zoom. Register below to attend and we’ll email you the Zoom link.
Conversation, Reading & Celebration
<em>WSQ</em> “Body Matters” Special Issue Launch
This virtual launch event will take place online via Zoom livestream. Free and open to all. Register to attend online below. ASL interpretation will be provided.
Fellowships, Opportunities & Grants
2026 Lost & Found Archival Research Grants
Deadline
Fellowships & Opportunities
Summer Public Research Fellowships from ERI & PS2
Deadline
About
The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center encourages collaborative, creative and engaged work in the humanities and social sciences at CUNY and across the city through innovative programming, digital and print publications, and project-based public scholarship.
Advancing equitable climate solutions led by communities of color on the front lines of climate breakdown
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Public Engagement
Promoting the diverse ways the humanities function in public life as a public good
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Selected Projects
Archives in Common: Migrant Practices / Knowledges / Memory
Archives in Common brings together community organizers, members of immigrant communities, and members of the university community to think collectively about how to build an archive of the commons during a crisis.
Just Research: Study, Struggle, Solidarity
“Just Research: Study, Struggle, Solidarity” is a short workshop series on conducting public scholarship and democratizing the production of knowledge.
CUNY Adjunct Incubator
The Center for the Humanities’ and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective’ CUNY Adjunct Incubator supports the critical and community-engaged scholarship and pedagogy work of adjuncts teaching across CUNY.
Lost & Found
Publishing unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers.
Featured
Algeria, Capital: Algiers
By Anna Gréki
Translated by Marine Cornuet
Introduction by Ammiel Alcalay
Distributaries
Ongoing publication series of collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY.
Featured
The Urban Politics of Climate Change: a conversation with Naomi Schiller
Monday, August 7, 2023
WSQ
An interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality.
Featured
WSQ: No estamos a la intemperie: An Open Call (Volume 53: Spring/Summer 2025)
Edited by Ángeles Donoso Macaya and Kendra Sullivan
Events
Conversation
Eating Disorders in Life Writing with Leslie Jamison
Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious
Compassion Beyond Reason with Anaïs Duplan & Farnoosh Fathi
Book Launch, Conversation & Reading
<em>Budget Justice</em>: Book Launch, Reading & Conversation with Celina Su
Conversation, Reading & Celebration
<em>Black Owned:</em> The Revolutionary Life of The Black Bookstore with Char Adams
Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious
Compassion Beyond Reason with Anaïs Duplan
Conversation, Reading & Celebration
<em>WSQ</em> “Body Matters” Special Issue Launch
From the Archive
Panel Discussion, Reading & Celebration
Downtown and The Twilight of Bohemia
Performance
The Passion According to Janair: Performance and Discussion on the Work of Clarice Lispector
Meditation for Climate Activists and the Climate Conscious
Compassion Beyond Reason with Anaïs Duplan
Conversation & Reading
Exophony in New York o el inglés como lengua literaria
News
News
NYC Climate Justice Hub 2025-2026 Fellowship & Internship Programs Kick Off: Finding a Community!
Opportunities & Call for Papers
WSQ Call for Papers: Testimonio/s
Distributaries
“Dear Future Buddhas”: Allen Ginsberg vs. the IRS
Fellowships, Opportunities & Grants