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Playwriters and professional actors staged reading from "TheaterWorks! Short Plays on Caregiving at CUNY" in May, 2018. Photo by PK O'Leary.

02/01/2018

Check out these February events and opportunities from the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Free and open to the public.

10/04/2017

Join Humanities New York Thu, Oct 12 for "The Public Humanities Fellowship Showcase" at The Graduate Center, CUNY with The Center for the Humanities.

Six former Fellows will discuss the projects they've created under the program, such as a walking tour of historic Byrdcliffe, philosophy classes for the incarcerated, a website teaching and preserving the Seneca language, and taking the first steps towards establishing a museum in Kingston, NY. The Showcase will provide a view into current developments in the public humanities and demonstrate the vital role the humanities play in our communities, today and in the future.

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Join Humanities New York and its nine university partners in showcasing the innovative accomplishments of past recipients of the Public Humanities Fellowship. The Fellowship offers graduate students across New York State support and training to work with their communities on a project for public aud...

07/19/2017

Call for Participants: Free Writing Workshop with Bushra Rehman, "Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction"

Application Deadline: Tuesday, August 15th, 2017.

Eligibility: students, faculty, and staff of all CUNY (The City University of New York) schools & College and Community Fellowship.

The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY in collaboration with the Asian American Writers' Workshop is pleased to announce a free 8-week course, Bushra Rehman's "Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction." The course will teach students the craft of writing memoir, as well as elements of autoethnography – a form of writing the self that locates personal experience within the larger forces of culture and society. Writing exercises and techniques will be used to help explore themes including race, education, caregiving, loss, social inequality and social justice. Every writer will have the opportunity to workshop one original piece. All levels of writers are welcome.

About this Call for Participants The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY in collaboration with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop is pleased to announce a free 8-week course Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction. The course will teach students the cra...

05/06/2016

TONIGHT! Homi Bhabha's keynote talk of the Translation Theory Today conference will be live-streamed: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=34636

TONIGHT! Homi Bhabha's keynote talk of the Translation Theory Today conference will be live-streamed: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=34636 The Center for the Humanities The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY

03/30/2016

Tues, 4/5 - Margo Jefferson, recent winner of a National Book Critics Circle award for her memoir Negroland, is the guest on a live taping of Randy Cohen's radio show Person Place Thing! Free, reserve: http://bit.ly/1RyBzSF