In a moment when histories of marginalized peoples are being deliberately erased—alongside the ongoing erasure of Black Puerto Ricans—this webinar dives into a special issue of the CENTRO Journal offering a multidisciplinary approach to thinking about Black Puerto Rican pasts, presents, and futures. Join moderator Sarah Bruno, and panelists Daniel Morales-Armstrong, Milagros Denis-Rosario, and Isar […]
Title: "Accounting for the changes in household composition" (Conesa, Li and Zhou) Abstract: The composition of US households has experienced a drastic transformation since the 1960s, with declining marriage rates, […]
Fall 2025 Igna Ritcher Seminar Series Presents: Unconventional Strategies to Inactivate Oncogenic Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Fusions. Presented by Dr. Urko del Castillo, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine.
Join us for a conversation with Hunter professor Manu Bhagavan, as he discusses his new, definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—India's first woman cabinet minister, pioneering diplomat, and global icon. The Remarkable Madame Pandit brings to life a trailblazing figure who shaped 20th-century India and the international stage, from challenging colonial rule to confronting authoritarianism. Drawing […]
Kinda Hachem is an Associate Professor of Consumer Credit in the Global Economies and Markets area at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and a Financial Research Advisor […]
Stop by for a discussion highlighting how Afro-Latin Soul and Salsa challenged existing notions of what it meant to be Puerto Rican in America in the 60s and 70s, provided its listeners with the tools needed to contest existing colonial powers, and became a source of inspiration in the face of oppression. We’re honored to […]
Join CENTRO Summer researchers Conor Reed, Alexandria Ramos, and Estelle Maisonett for a conversation on their research this summer. The research theme, Archives: Memory & the Present Past of Puerto Rico, invites researchers to engage with the word “archives” as concept, practice, and theory by bringing together some of the most important framings of historically […]
The Italian Program at Hunter College is happy to invite you to a conversation with Professor Stefania Lucamante, who has studied crucial themes in modern and contemporary Italian literature: autobiography and self-writing, contemporary Italian women writers, gender studies, the representation of urban space in literature, narratives of trauma and memory, and second-generation Holocaust writing.
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series Reconstructing Identity: Music in Israel Modernity has produced several important chapters in Jewish history, including the advent of the State of Israel. This lunchtime talk explores ways in which music has been used in the development of the State of Israel, with special focus on ‘Ivriut (Hebraics), assimilation of sub-ethnic Jewish […]
Fall 2025 Igna Ritcher Seminar Series Presents: RNA-Protein Homeostasis in Healthy and Diseased Neurons. Presented by Dr. Francesco Lotti-Hunter MLS.
