Conference
Student Movements and Social Justice: Histories and Futures
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center. This conference is free and open to the public. Registration required.
Community Gathering, Conversation & Celebration
Poetics of Refusal
Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to all. Please register to attend.
Conversation & Panel Discussion
Making NYC a Nature City
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Please register to attend.
Book Launch & Conversation
Against Innocence: Miriam Ticktin in Conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. This free event is open to all. Please register to attend.
Book Launch & Conversation
Sara Ahmed presents NO!: The Art and Activism of Complaining with Roxane Gay
Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Register to attend in-person or onlive via livestream.
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
Conference
Student Movements and Social Justice: Histories and Futures
Community Gathering & Celebration
La Lotería Niuyorkina: An Educational Game to Explore the City’s Linguistic Landscape
Community Gathering, Conversation & Celebration
Poetics of Refusal
Reading, Celebration & Artist Talk
Pills & Protest: Abortion Access in Ireland by Brenna McCaffrey
Book Launch & Conversation
Against Innocence: Miriam Ticktin in Conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
2026 Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival: Mosaics
Exhibition
(Dis)Placing Us On The Map: An Interactive Exhibition of LGBTQIA+ Spaces
From the Archive
Lecture & Reading
Janice Nimura on Knowing Her Place: Rachel Carson and the Women Who Came Before Her
Conversation & Presentation
Motherless Tongues: Harmonics of Belonging and Estrangement by Amelia Rosselli and Etel Adnan
Conversation & Screening
TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
News
Distributaries
Enhancing Media Literacy Skills in the Digital Age
Distributaries
Investigating the Intersection of Housing & Immigration
Opportunities & Call for Papers
Call for Papers — What We Desire: Critical Perspectives on Beauty, Pleasure, and Value, 2026 ESA Conference
Distributaries