PS2 x @humanitiescuny.bsky.social congratulates our friend & colleague Kemi Ilesanmi on her Honorary Doctorate to be awarded at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 2026 Commencement Congrats to all of our graduates 🎓🎉💙 Read More www.gc.cuny.edu/commencement...

CCAP has been busy! A deliberative democracy initiative that empowers Hunter students to shape sustainable waste strategies for urban campuses. Read more about everything they've been up to here! centerforthehumanities.org/ccap-recap-c...

In advance of America’s 250th – when the capitol will be awash in spectacle, nostalgia, and triumph – this symposium gathers scholars for theoretical interventions and reflections on American history and politics. Register and more! centerforthehumanities.org/event/americ... @gcpolisci.bsky.social

These projects reflect the creative, critical, and community-engaged work that is happening right now at CUNY, and it was an honor to work with each awardee to bring their respective projects into focus. Discover them here: centerforthehumanities.org/celebrating-... @cunygcps2.bsky.social

TOMORROW!

Chronic explores new ways to live with, and understand the challenges of chronic illness. Join us for this launch! centerforthehumanities.org/event/wsq-ch... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @feministpress.bsky.social @tahneeroksman.bsky.social @mathewrodriguez.bsky.social @kateschnur.bsky.social

THURSDAY!

Welcome Dr. Dasharah Green, Ph.D. ‘26, English @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Congrats to our PS2 colleague on an excellent dissertation defense. Chair: @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Dr. Green joins Cheyney University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English + Writing Center Director this fall

This series seeks to reinstate Griffith’s essential role as a founder, and honor Griffith’s stewardship of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s archive. Please join us! centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-f... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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These projects reflect the creative, critical, and community-engaged work that is happening right now at CUNY, and it was an honor to work with each awardee to bring their respective projects into focus. Discover them here: centerforthehumanities.org/celebrating-... @cunygcps2.bsky.social

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If the weather wont get sunny we're going to have to keep hosting events!

Seeking contributions that push back against colonial ways of teaching and employ decolonial research methods from Indigenous and First Peoples and their allies working on or toward Indigenous feminisms. centerforthehumanities.org/wsq-call-ind... @feministpress.bsky.social

With a focus on the US intervention that began in 2001, the collection marks a decolonial turn in Afghanistan and American studies. We hope you can join us to mark this moment. centerforthehumanities.org/event/decolo... @dukepress.bsky.social @wazhmah.bsky.social @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

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"I began ...to build a map and archive of underrepresented/underfunded LGBTQIA+ spaces in New York City." Read more about this project here! centerforthehumanities.org/displacing-u... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @laguardiacc.bsky.social @laguardiawagner.bsky.social @lamamaetc.bsky.social

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@gctlc.bsky.social x PS2 present Sip n Chat S26 edition • meet your peers committed to public-facing, community-engaged work, grab a snack, & create community @humanitiescuny.bsky.social Open to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social students only RSVP: centerforthehumanities.org/event/tlc-x-...

Announcing presenters in the 2026 Dissertation Showcase! Swapnil Landge, Maura McCreight, John Mwihaki, Clare Monfredo, Paul Odér, Julie Hecht, Siobhán O'Connor, Ivana Mellers, Rutika Patel, Kelly Brady, Evan Knight & Melanie Paul Austin. RESERVE for Mon, 5/11 event: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/insid...

We are excited to announce a partnership w/ the Chicago Review! These pieces introduce the significance of understudied poets for New American Poetry through fellows’ archival objects. We are thrilled to share our first collaboration by @julysses000.bsky.social www.chicagoreview.org/cuny-lost-an...

Seeking contributions that push back against colonial ways of teaching and employ decolonial research methods from Indigenous and First Peoples and their allies working on or toward Indigenous feminisms. centerforthehumanities.org/wsq-call-ind... @feministpress.bsky.social

"If I were to answer, I might say this: my relationship with Theresa is different from my relationship with kimchi. And yet, both are layered, complicated, and impossible to disentangle from who I am." Read @julysses000.bsky.social on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

To propose an alternative approach to thinking about Asia Modern, we ask: how do Asian modernisms emerge through the negotiation of borders? Here, borders may be understood as Cartographic Borders, Cultural Borders, and/or Aesthetic Borders. For more information! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Coming up soon! An event co-organized by @cunypoetics.bsky.social fellow Lucien Baskin. www.eventbrite.com/e/antiracist...

This is just a fragment of letters between writers Kevin Killian & Samuel Delany. They are taken up here as part of an archival research project by L&F fellow Rebecca Teich, from which she offers proliferations, detours, and provocations. Read more: centerforthehumanities.org/samuel-r-del...

Join us for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses: the importance of collecting and preserving our stories in times of political upheaval, and archival strategies for navigating the present conjuncture. centerforthehumanities.org/event/we-kno...

Among the questions this conference asks is, how is desire formed by the systems, memories, and material conditions through which value is produced, circulated, and lived? How does desire shape our understanding of value itself? Register: centerforthehumanities.org/event/what-w...

Hosted by an NYC-CJH Fellow: Join for a hands-on mask-making workshop where we will transform recyclables into wearable art. Participants will create expressive masks while exploring how waste connects to climate justice, environmental justice, and waste equity. www.eventbrite.com/e/wearable-w...

WEDNESDAY!

🎧🎙️ 10 days left to apply — open to GC Students only @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

A critical bridge between frontline communities of color across NYC and CUNY. The goal is to move beyond theoretical discussion and into the active “retooling” of our classrooms to support a Just Transition for New York City. centerforthehumanities.org/event/climat... @nycejalliance.bsky.social

Hosted by an NYC-CJH Fellow: Join for a hands-on mask-making workshop where we will transform recyclables into wearable art. Participants will create expressive masks while exploring how waste connects to climate justice, environmental justice, and waste equity. www.eventbrite.com/e/wearable-w...

OPEN TO CURRENT GC STUDENTS ONLY This workshop series introduces Graduate Center students to feminist oral history, transnational archival practices, and public-facing scholarship methods. centerforthehumanities.org/event/transn... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

In this interactive event, we hope to indulge in Gauri’s talk on the process of writing Mother Wound and Lina’s workshop on taking your manuscript from draft to published. Bring your imaginations and curiosities! centerforthehumanities.org/event/parall...

What can studying these histories of repression teach us about today’s campus crackdowns? What role does collecting and preserving our stories play in times of political upheaval, and what archival strategies might we use to navigate the present crisis?

This event is also celebrating the release of a new online resource: The Red Scare at CUNY is a comprehensive guide to archives documenting anti-communist political repression of faculty, staff, and students at CUNY, primarily from the 1930s-1960s.

✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨ We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center! @prisonculture.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social

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Digital colonialism includes everything from social media platforms to AI surveillance services. This panel discussion will focus in particular on the role of digital technologies in so-called environmental conservation strategies like carbon offsetting. centerforthehumanities.org/event/digita...

A conference exploring the intersections of LGBTQ & class, w/ keynotes by queer labor organizer Anne Balay, queer-caste theorist Anjali Arondekar, and genderqueer, disabled, class writer Eli Clare. Sliding scale registration! centerforthehumanities.org/event/queer-...

Two weeks!