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 Scholarship Practice Space (PS2)
Honoring the past, present, and future of public scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center
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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.
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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.
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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.

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WSQ: Solidão (Volume 49: Fall/Winter 2021)
Edited by Tanya Saunders, Luciane Ramos-Silva, and Sarah Soanirina Ohmer
Events
Conversation & Screening
Indigenous Women in Cinema: The Rage, The Healing, The Creativity

Conversation & Reading
Celebrating Elias Khoury and Mahmoud Darwish with Ammiel Alcalay and Sinan Antoon

Book Launch, Conversation & Reading
Consciousness, Interpretation, and Underground Organizing: The Aesthetics of Resistance in Translation

Workshop
Dear Tomorrow: Climate Writing Workshop led by Emily Raboteau and Tao Leigh Goffe

Conversation
Choreographies of Survival: A Black Feminist Climate Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe and Emily Raboteau

Our Science Ourselves: A Conversation with Christa Kuljian & Evelynn Hammonds

Conversation
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property with Eunsong Kim, Jessica Lynne, & Hrag Vartanian

Screening
Welcome Interplanetary and Sidereal Space Conquerors: Film screening & conversation with filmmaker

From the Archive
Book Launch & Conversation
You See What You See: Book Launch & Archival Conversation for Lois Elaine Griffith

Book Launch & Conversation
A New Classic: ABORTION STORIES, Launch Event & Conversation
