Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Leaving the Hasidic Community: Reality versus Popular Culture Speaker: Zalman Newfield, PhD Prof. Newfield is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology and the acting Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Hunter College Speaker: Heba Gowayed, PhD Prof. Gowayed is a faculty member in the Department […]
For this month's Library & Archives Lunch Hour, we are so excited to dive into the collection of Ibrahim Aqil Adbush Shakur González, known as Ibrahim González. González was a multifaceted artist; musician, photographer, radio host, activist, and educator born in East Harlem well known for helping set up one of the first Latino-Muslim organizations […]
Join CENTRO on the opening night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the CENTRO Gallery in El Barrio from March 13th, 2025 to September, 2025. This exhibition honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. The Puerto Rican diaspora can be understood as a collage […]
Robert Seltzer Series Illiberal Religious Momfluencers: The Political Language of Wellness This talk examines illiberal Jewish and Christian women Instagram influencers who focus on wellness, domesticity, and motherhood. Using digital ethnography and interviews, Fader explores where and how influencers inspire each other and interact, elaborating a political illiberal religious women’s authority that creates change, while […]
Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year’s theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, […]
Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year’s theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Forum on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech: What Does it Mean for the Hunter Community? The panel discussion will cover two important and distinct subjects of interest to the Hunter community. The session will begin with a discussion of the purposes, source of rights, and contours of […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Finding Our Voices Speaker: Aarti Namdev Shahani Ms. Shahani is a working journalist and the author of Here We Are, a memoir. She is the creator and host of the Art of Power podcast.
To mark Transgender Day of Visibility, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to announce a discussion on the policies impacting transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people in the criminal justice system—where they are disproportionately represented. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, they are arrested, incarcerated, and subjected to higher rates of community supervision than others […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series A More Fair Playing Field: Trans Rights in School and Sports Speaker: Lex Horwitz Lex Horwitz (he/they) is a former transgender athlete who is a public speaker and consultant in the Northeast, focusing on transgender rights in sports. Speaker: Bobby Hodgson Bobby Hodgson is the assistant legal director […]
