In Virginia Inés Vergara’s photographic series, Subductions, imagery suggesting geology, landforms, and earthly minerals intersect with her deconstruction of art-historical monuments to create dynamic pictorial works. The exhibition at Hunter East Harlem Gallery is composed of six archival pigment prints presented together for the first time. Her process involves photographing fragments of everyday “flat” textbook […]
Guests: Iris Morales in Conversation with Frances Negron Moderator: Yarimar Bonilla Host: Kimberly Roa Join us on Monday, October 18, 2021 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ¡Palante, Siempre Palante! Day. Proclaimed on October 18th, 1996 by then Manhattan Borough President, Ruth Messinger, ¡Palante, Siempre Palante! Day honors the rich history of Puerto Rican activists […]
Greg Pardlo's poetry collection Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer judges cited his "clear voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America, rich with thought, ideas and histories public and private." Pardlo's book Totem won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His work has been praised for its "language […]
Life as Activity: David Lamelas Curated by Harper Montgomery, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art with Sarah Watson, Chief Curator, and Re’al Christian, Lazarus Graduate Curatorial Fellow, and with MA and MFA students enrolled in the curatorial practicum seminar: The Transgressive Itineraries of Conceptualism. Hunter College Art Galleries Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery […]
Celebrated Hunter alumnus Bill Cheng is best known for his novel, Southern Cross the Dog, which follows the story of a boy who survives the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and then spends several decades as a refugee, an abandoned orphan, and then an itinerant laborer. HarperCollins describes the book as "teeming with language that […]
One of the most anticipated books of 2018, Leslie Jamison's The Recovering is a deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage that turns the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that recovery can be as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Jamison is also the bestselling author of The Empathy Exams for […]
Prepare to be inspired by students and faculty conducting research in geography and environmental science/studies and GIScience as they use the latest geospatial technologies, perform fieldwork in different regions of the world and develop creative and innovative solutions to address global and local challenges. As part of the geography and environmental science department’s Geography Awareness […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: “I Am Now at War Again” Jewish World War I Veterans and Kristallnacht Presented by: Michael Geheran This talk examines the responses of German Jewish World War I veterans to the state-sponsored violence the Nazis unleashed against Jews on 9 November 1938. Like other victims of the Pogrom, […]
Geography Awareness Week Keynote Speaker. Dr. Charles Vörösmarty is Director of the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) and Professor of Civil Engineering at the City College of New York. He is a senior researcher and has led numerous interdisciplinary studies, carrying out studies on hydrology and water resource systems […]
In recognition of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) held in Glasgow, Scotland (Oct 31-Nov 12) we are excited to announce our Climate Change 2021: Post-COP26 virtual seminar organized and hosted by the Greenbelt Society of Hunter College (CUNY). Speakers and Presentations: "Sugar Water - The End of the Everglades" presented by Alexander Krause, Geography and Environmental Science […]
