Set in an Armenian mountain village immediately after the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, Abgaryan's To Go On Living traces the interconnected lives of villagers tending […]
Join CENTRO for a Cafecito Con…Professor Rudy Guevarra, author of Aloha Compadre -Latinxs in Hawai'i, the first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population […]
Join the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) for Echoes of East Harlem, a multisensory journey into the heart of El Barrio's past, brought to life through CENTRO’s archival materials. […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series On Compromise: Can A New Approach to Pluralism and Persuasion Heal Divided Communities? A polarized society like ours forces us to take sides […]
Robert Seltzer Series The Intolerance of Monotheism: Towards a Religious History of Antisemitism Because of their minority status in Medieval Islamic and Christian societies, Jews became the persecuted other who […]
Why This Matters Now More Than Ever We are living in a moment of deepening divides, systemic rollbacks, and policies that further marginalize communities most impacted by injustice. This symposium is an […]
We’re celebrating our Rooted + Relational Research initiative with a symposium aimed at contending with the material and theoretical importance of the archive in contemporary scholarship and research practices. Through […]
This groundbreaking forum will explore barriers faced by artists from working class backgrounds, addressing their critical lack of representation in the arts and proposing solutions towards a more economically inclusive culture that reflects the full breadth of the American experience in the twenty-first century. Speakers include Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, Olivier Award-winning playwright James […]
Join artist Glorimar Garcia & CENTRO Directora, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa, as we explore Garcia's contribution to Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery at the Silberman School of Social Work from March 13th - September 2025. Garcia's work draws on the Puerto Rican bobbin […]
Dr. Emily Wilson, renowned translator of Homer's epic poems and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Translating the Iliad’s violence”. This talk will argue that there is a large gap between modern and Homeric approaches to physical violence and agency. This difference is legible, I suggest, in influential critical […]
