The Center for the Humanities

12/22/2025

A teaser of work from as part of the CUNY Adjunct Incubator. Link in bio or Distributaries highlight for more!

12/09/2025

Congratulations to ​​Kendra Sullivan, our Director at the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY, & Publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative who was awarded a 2026 Pushcart Prize for “Reps,” her first full-length poetry collection from Ugly Duckling Presse. The award honors alumna Kendra Sullivan’s debut poetry collection exploring narrative, memory, and climate justice.

“I’ve worked with eco art collective Mare Liberum since 2012 to build boats, teach people to build boats, and get people out on local bodies of water. My book draws from my experiences getting to know the New York City archipelago from the perspective of its many rivers, creeks, and tidal kills. I hope my book lends readers a sense of engagement with the many environmental histories of New York City!" --Kendra Sullivan

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The award honors alumna Kendra Sullivan’s debut poetry collection exploring narrative, memory, and climate justice.

12/01/2025

Join us Fri, Dec 12, 5:30 PM at the The Graduate Center, CUNY for "Still Candy: Visions, Alters," a performance lecture by poet, artist, and GC Alumni Ronaldo V. Wilson embodying form and place through language, dance, song, and video, igniting questions of racialized in/visibility, exilic loss and psychic agency.

This event will be introduced by poet, critic, artist, and filmmaker Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.

This event is free and open to all and will be followed by reception. Click here to join and for more info: https://centerforthehumanities.org/event/still-candy-visions-alters-with-ronaldo-v-wilson/

12/01/2025

Join us Thu, Dec 11, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM at The Graduate Center, CUNY for a free generative workshop "Instant/ce Installations" led by poet and artist Ronaldo V. Wilson. Instant/ce Installations invites students to bring a selection of materials from their current archive: i.e. something from “home”; a brief selection of writings, theirs or something they are studying; a recording device/camera/phone, etc.; themselves in body, mind, and soul. Inspired by brief in-class readings, conversation, and related exercises, we will create new works for documentation and live performance. This free creative workshop is open to all graduate students, but space is limited so please register here to attend:
https://centerforthehumanities.org/event/instant-ce-installations-a-creative-workshop-with-ronaldo-v-wilson/

12/01/2025

Join us Thu, Dec 11, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM at TThe Graduate Center, CUNYfor a free generative workshop "Instant/ce Installations" led by poet and artist Ronaldo V. Wilson. Instant/ce Installations invites students to bring a selection of materials from their current archive: i.e. something from “home”; a brief selection of writings, theirs or something they are studying; a recording device/camera/phone, etc.; themselves in body, mind, and soul. Inspired by brief in-class readings, conversation, and related exercises, we will create new works for documentation and live performance. This free creative workshop is open to all graduate students, but space is limited so please register here to attend:

Join us for a free generative workshop Instant/ce Installations led by poet and artist Ronaldo V. Wilson. Instant/ce Installations invites students to bring a selection of materials from their current archive: i.e. something from “home”; a brief selection of writings, theirs or something they ar...

12/01/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of Celina Su's Budget Justice at The Graduate Center, CUNY. It was an inspiring night with Su in conversation with Liza Featherstone and Kesi Foster, for solidarity in public policy. If you couldn't make it, there are photos and video up on our website now! https://centerforthehumanities.org/event/budget-justice-book-launch/

12/01/2025

11/20/2025

WSQ “Body Matters” Special Issue Launch
Fri, Dec 5, 4:00 PM

Within the current paradigm of colonial exploitation, our bodies are sites of scrutiny, violence, commodification, racialization, policing, displacement, and strategic dehumanization. This moment demands renewed feminist critique of body politics and personhood. This special issue explores bodies marked by intersectional identities as sites of social and political violence but also as the vehicle for resistance, triumph, and decolonial justice.

Join us to mark the launch of the WSQ special issue, “Body Matters,” co-edited by Shereen Inayatulla and Andie Silva. This event will feature a reading and reflections from the “Alerts and Provocations” contributor, Dr. Dana M. Olwan.

This virtual launch event will take place online via Zoom livestream. Register in bio or upcoming events highlight.

11/20/2025

Decompress and contemplate between holidays using tools of earth-based practices. Join us for the third and final part of monthly workshop series - Wed, Dec 3, at 10:00 AM on zoom. All are welcome, bring a friend, bring someone from outside of CUNY.

Register in link in bio or upcoming events highlight.

11/17/2025

FRIDAY on Zoom!

Please join us with the Center for the Study of Women in Society for a virtual book talk with author Char Adams (CUNY Graduate Center Women’s and Gender Studies MA alum ’20)! We will be discussing her forthcoming book, Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Char Adams is a former reporter for NBC News and for People. Her writing on race and identity has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Oprah Daily, Vice, Teen Vogue, and Bustle. She is a proud Philadelphia native and now lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

11/07/2025

Join us for Worms for Brains, a graduate student conference that takes up “the worm” as a subject and paradigm for studying visual arts. Like a compost pile, where heterogeneous materials intermingle and decompose into nutrient-rich soil, the conference will combine varied perspectives from Art History, Arts Education, Film and Media Studies, Musicology, and Performance Studies. Panels will examine placemaking through participation, the worm’s-eye view, and critical methodologies as grunt. Presentations will wiggle between sonic, visual, and textual elements of worms, as a subject and as a theoretical springboard. This is an in-person event.

Register in bio or upcoming events highlight!