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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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). […]
