Sanctuary City: Three Artists Explore the Refugee Experience in New York City is an exhibition that looks at three artists— Shimon Attie, Catalina Antonio Granados, and Zac Hacmon — who investigate the complicated, nuanced, and unique experience of being a refugee in the United States. Through building personal relationships, each of the exhibiting artists was […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series From Kitchen Judaism to Combat Kashrut: Keeping Kosher in WWII Presented by Daniel Bronstein of Hunter College. The onset of World War Two inspired hundreds […]
Announcing a webinar discussion with notable political geographers who have familiarity and expertise on the topic of geopolitics in post-Soviet space and on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its ramifications. Please join us on Zoom for the opportunity to learn more and ask questions to our esteemed panelists. Co-organized and co-moderated by CUNY faculty, Dr. Peter […]
Play ball! Join us for a Library Lunch Hour - Raul Ramos: Baseball Writer on Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 at 12pm EST. In this event, Centro Library Manager, Aníbal Arocho and baseball writer, Raúl Ramos, will discuss legendary baseball player Francisco Pancho Coímbre and Raúl’s book, Francisco Coímbre: Los bates grandes se respetan. As part of […]
Poet and essayist Mary Ruefle has published over a dozen books of poetry, including Dunce (2019), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, My Private Property (2016), Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007), and The Adamant (1989), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection, Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012) and the […]
Technology and Society in the Next Generation: Growth, Security, and Well-Being A Three-Day Conference Presented in Person and on Zoom - April 6-8, 2022 Technological innovation is giving rise to a future infused with the tension between progress and risk. In the coming decades, technological innovation across a range of fields could hasten important advances […]
Join us on Thursday, April 7th, 2022 at 5 PM EST for an Afternoon Tertulia: PR Studies in CUNY - 50 Years. We’ll be joined by Dr. Virginia Sanchez-Korrol and Dr. María E. Pérez y Gonzalez, Conor Tomás Reed, and Edna Acosta-Belento discuss the creation of the book Puerto Rican Studies in the City University of […]
Join us for a Cafecito con Rocio Zambrana on April 8th, 2022 at 4 PM EST. Professor Rocio Zambrana will be in conversation with Dr. Raquel Salaz Rivera in presenting her new book Colonial Debts. Colonial Debts explores neoliberal coloniality out of Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and the ways in which debt functions as a way of using […]
Join us on Saturday, April 9th, 2022 at 4:30 PM EST for a Cafecito Con… Casa Pueblo: Puerto Rican Model of Self-Reliance. We’ll be joined by Casa Pueblo founder, Alexis Massol, Centro Research Director, Jennifer Hinojosa, and Malín Falú as moderator in discussing community self management and the importance of protecting natural and cultural resources. This conversation will be preceded by […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Stanley Kubrick - New York Jewish Intellectual Presented by Nathan Abrams, professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, Wales. Legendary director Stanley Kubrick was born […]
