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 of Hawai'i. Since the early 1830s, the Latinx community continues to help shape Hawai'i’s history, yet their contributions are often overlooked. Latinxs have been a […]
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. This special gathering invites elders from the El Barrio/East Harlem community to reflect on the neighborhood’s history and share their own lived experiences. Participants will […]
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 and retreat to camps on a wide set of complicated issues, and in such an environment it is harder and harder to constitute community across […]
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 justified Christian and Muslim belief in their own supersession or replacement theology. Even in the modern, more secular era, baked-in religious prejudices informed the dynamics […]
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 invitation to come together, listen and act. This gathering is a space for bold collaboration, transformative storytelling, and deep dialogue—where community leaders, educators, and advocates come […]
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 a day of panels, the inaugural cohort of CENTRO research associates, hybrid-fellows, artists in residence, and dissertation fellow will engage with contestation, archival reckoning, archival […]
Join us at the Maralyn G. Cohn LGBTQ+ Community Space, Thomas Hunter Room 311 for a workshop detailing the rights available to transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming New Yorkers on Wednesday, April 30th, at 2:30PM! We will be hearing from the New York City Commission on Human Rights about discrimination protections under the City Human […]
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 us in our special event hosting Susan Isaacs, author of Bad, Bad Seymour Brown. “Jane Austen with a schmear” - Susan Isaacs, best selling author, screen writer, and previous editor at Seventeen magazine and freelace political speechwriter. An alumna of Queens College, Isaacs chaired the board of directors of Poets & Writers, the literary […]
Technology is advancing rapidly, reshaping language resources and access, and the translation and interpretation (TI) fields across industry sectors, from the legal to the educational. How is this evolution impacting literature and creative contents? Is technology hindering or advancing creativity, and will multilingual expressions become more (in)visible, (ir)relevant, and (in)accessible? These critical questions suggest a […]
