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 […]
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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.
Introduction Marnia Lazreg was a pathbreaking sociologist who made important contributions to a wide variety of fields, including the study of women, torture, colonialism, Islam, Foucault, international development, and her native Algeria. Much of this work was informed by an abiding belief in the emancipatory potential of a universalistic conception of the human—an approach that […]
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 […]
The Office of the Arts invites you to join Hunter artists for refreshments and snacks and meet fellow artists from other departments. Talk to the OOA staff about how we can help you build your practice and make this office better! OFFICE OF THE ARTS Baker Theatre Building 307 Enter from Hunter East via […]
Engage in a necessary reframing of the scripts that bolstered dispossession in the name of development across New York City in the mid-20th century. By delving into the lived experiences of the community’s residents, Afterlives of San Juan Hill highlights the individual stories of Lincoln Square residents during this pivotal time. If you’ve watched West Side Story, […]
Roosevelt House is honored to present a conversation with Hunter College Professor of Public Policy Joseph P. Viteritti about his new book Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education (Oxford). An authoritative history of the school choice movement, as well as a heartfelt memoir from one of the country’s leading education scholars, Radical Dreamers chronicles school choice from […]
