Gather around with us for a Centro Town Hall event on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at 2 PM EST. Centro’s Mellon grant coordinator, Cristel Jusino Díaz, and the Co-conveners of Centro’s new Decolonization Study Group for a brief discussion of Centro’s new program “Bridging the Divides” funded by a $1.2 million grant from the Andrew […]
Enhancing Social Interactions and Academic Success Do you feel nervous or self-conscious around others? This workshop offers you strategies to reduce social anxiety and problematic thinking patterns, while practicing self-compassion, to become more engaged, active, and successful. Tuesday, March 28 Registration required. Click the RSVP link above Via Zoom
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Program with the CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) invite you to a screening of the documentary short By Your Side followed by a discussion with the directors, Michael and Debbie Davis moderated by CalvinJohn Smiley, Hunter College Associate Professor of Sociology. Debbie and Michael (Africa) Davis are two members of the MOVE […]
Navigating Professional Relationships Join us for a conversation that will support you in your personal and professional development by helping you understand your unique strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Learn how this awareness can help you be successful when looking for job opportunities and interviewing, and in the workplace. In person, 805 East Building
Is statehood a pathway towards decolonization? What are the implications of Puerto Rico shifting its status from an unincorporated territory to a state? As part of the Bridging the Divides Decolonization study group, CENTRO Directora will have a conversation with Prof. Christina D. Ponsa Kraus and Rep. José Bernardo Márquez on statehood as an alternative […]
With welcome by LGBTQ Policy Center Director, Erin Mayo-Adam. The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House invites you to attend an event celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility. The event brings together a panel of New York City-based advocates, academics, and policymakers who are working toward what activists call the “liberation” of transgender and nonbinary communities. […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House marks the 60th anniversary of the death, and 90th anniversary of the birth year, of one of the 20th century’s most essential writers: Sylvia Plath. To commemorate these anniversaries, The Sylvia Plath Symposium at Hunter College will bring together some of the nation’s foremost scholars, authors, performers, and activists to celebrate and explore the […]
Join CENTRO for the opening night of Ida y Vuelta: Art Culture and the Diasporican Experience at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery on March 30th. The exhibit, whose name translates to Round Trip, Migration Experiences in Contemporary Puerto Rican Art, is curated by Laura Bravo and features 19 Puerto Rican artists whose works respond […]
Join Anaida Hernández as she explores her work, La rueda de la fortuna - el sueño americano (1999), on display as part of the exhibition, Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery. La rueda de la fortuna was part of Hernández solo exhibition […]
This public lecture focuses on Dr. Rachel Afi Quinn's recent book Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo. The lecture investigates the ways Dominican visual culture portrays Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities […]
