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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival features staged readings of new full-length works by Hunter’s 2025 graduating class: Mo Alani, Brandon Bogle, Maddie Dennis-Yates, Morgan McGuire, and Levi J. Shrader. Readings will be held May 5-9 at 4pm daily in the Frederick Loewe Theatre at Hunter College (119 East 68th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues). […]
The Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival features staged readings of new full-length works by Hunter’s 2025 graduating class: Mo Alani, Brandon Bogle, Maddie Dennis-Yates, Morgan McGuire, and Levi J. Shrader. Readings will be held May 5-9 at 4pm daily in the Frederick Loewe Theatre at Hunter College (119 East 68th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues). […]
