The Center for the Humanities

After Kathy Acker: Chris Kraus in Conversation with Anne Boyer & Ariana Reines
The Future of Public Education? Searching for The Public Good Amid Gentrification, Privatization, and Inequality
Unintentional Community, from Shared Experience to Action
Reading & Conversation
Friday, September 22, 2017

After Kathy Acker: Chris Kraus in Conversation with Anne Boyer & Ariana Reines

Panel Discussion
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

The Future of Public Education? Searching for The Public Good Amid Gentrification, Privatization, and Inequality

conversation
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Unintentional Community, from Shared Experience to Action

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Archive

Our archive contains video, audio, and information from previous events, conferences, seminars, and exhibitions.

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Collections

Selections from our archive are gathered into collections based on ongoing research themes.

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Public Engagement

These projects promote the diverse ways the humanities function in public life as a public good.

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Lost & Found

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative publishes unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers.

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James Gallery

The Amie and Tony James Gallery brings artists and scholars into public dialogue on topics of mutual concern through exhibitions as a form of advanced research.

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Block Party
exhibition
Fri, Sep 15, 2017 – Sat, Oct 28, 2017

Block Party

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About

The Center for the Humanities encourages collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY and across the city through seminars, conferences, publications and exhibitions.

Topics of focus include Accessibility Affect / Cognition Archives Art Community College Archival Research Fellow Diane di Prima Fellow Diaspora / Migration Digital Culture Digital Publics Fellow Economics / Labor Environment Fellow Type Gender Gender History Legacy Fieldwork Fellow Legacy Fieldwork Fellows Literature Lost & Found Archival Research Fellow Lost & Found Archival Research Fellows Moving Image Music Pedagogy Performance Poetry / Literature Poets House Special Collections Research and Writing Fellow Postcolonialism Public Humanities Fellow Race / Ethnicity Religion Religon Sexuality Social Justice / Activism Teaching Fellow Theory / Philosophy Translation Urbanism / Public Space Violence / War