Intellectual Publics

Intellectual Publics While speakers include stellar theorists actively shaping their fields, the questions, ideas, and approaches are the main attraction.

Intellectual Publics provides a multi-faceted forum for cutting-edge scholarship across the humanities and social sciences as well as advice on how to best articulate and publish such work. We present the ideas and approaches that engage the most visionary thinkers of our time through talks and conversations for an audience invested in the ideas themselves. Intellectual Publics brings together an

audience that includes faculty and students from CUNY and beyond, as well as artists, writers, and scholars from outside the academy. Intellectual Publics brings that same creative focus to book publishing, a way of writing for an audience invested in the ideas and methodologies, not just the objects of study themselves. Directed by Ken Wissoker, who is also Editorial Director at Duke University Press, Intellectual Publics offers the Graduate Center and CUNY guidance for scholars -- from graduate students to senior faculty -- on writing and publishing their work. Both components of Intellectual Publics assume there are thinkers, writers, and readers engaged in ideas beyond those limited to academic niches or to the larger media’s sense of what will appeal to the general public. Intellectual Publics looks to reconstitute the intellectual landscape through promoting those alternatives. http://www.gc.cuny.edu/intellectualpublics

Thank you to everyone who attended "Writing & Publishing Now: Strategies for Turbulent Times" and made the event so spec...
05/20/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended "Writing & Publishing Now: Strategies for Turbulent Times" and made the event so special. In particular thanks to Kandice Chuh & Ken Wissoker for sharing their insights, advice and experience!

We are excited to share the recording and will post here once it is up.

Join us tonight! 6.30pm ET | ONLINEKen Wissoker (Duke UP) in conversation with Kandice Chuh (CUNY Graduate Center) regar...
05/18/2026

Join us tonight!

6.30pm ET | ONLINE

Ken Wissoker (Duke UP) in conversation with Kandice Chuh (CUNY Graduate Center) regarding the growth of critical work across the disciplines, current obstacles to it, and where to from here.

Link to register: https://bit.ly/3ORvTxg

EVENT TOMORROW | 6.30pm ET | ONLINEReminder that tomorrow Monday May 18 we will be hosting a conversation between Ken Wi...
05/17/2026

EVENT TOMORROW | 6.30pm ET | ONLINE

Reminder that tomorrow Monday May 18 we will be hosting a conversation between Ken Wissoker (Duke University Press) and Kandice Chuh (The Graduate Center, CUNY) on the occasion of the centennial of Duke University Press, titled "Writing and Publishing Now: Strategies for Turbulent Times." Speakers will discuss the growth of critical work across the disciplines, current obstacles to it, and how to best move forward from here.

All are welcome to attend!

Register here: bit.ly/3ORvTxg

Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures talk is now up for viewing! Many thanks to Kathi Weeks and Sophie Lewis for sharing...
05/11/2026

Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures talk is now up for viewing! Many thanks to Kathi Weeks and Sophie Lewis for sharing their time and insights.

Kathi Weeks, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University in conversation with Sophie Lewis, scholar at the Center for Research in...

Almost one week until our upcoming conversation with Kandice Chuh and Ken Wissoker on the centennial of Duke University ...
05/09/2026

Almost one week until our upcoming conversation with Kandice Chuh and Ken Wissoker on the centennial of Duke University Press. Looking forward!

Register at: bit.ly/3ORvTxg

Join us for our upcoming event 6.30PM MAY 18 | ONLINEWRITING AND PUBLISHING NOW: Strategies for turbulent times This is ...
05/04/2026

Join us for our upcoming event 6.30PM MAY 18 | ONLINE

WRITING AND PUBLISHING NOW: Strategies for turbulent times

This is a massively difficult time for universities, scholars, and academic publishers alike; a moment when our research, political commitments, and theoretical work are challenged at every turn—and yet are more important than ever. Join CUNY Graduate Center Professor Kandice Chuh and Duke University Press editor Ken Wissoker as they look backwards and forwards, considering the growth of critical work across the disciplines, current obstacles to it, and how to best move forward from here. They will give advice to scholars on how they can think about their own writing and publishing today, while exploring the histories that have brought us to this current conjuncture.

Register: https://bit.ly/3ORvTxg

Thank you to all the wonderful people who attended our event w/ Kathi Weeks and Sophie Lewis, discussing Weeks's book 'A...
04/23/2026

Thank you to all the wonderful people who attended our event w/ Kathi Weeks and Sophie Lewis, discussing Weeks's book 'Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures.' It was a profound and provocative discussion by two brilliant thinkers, who we were grateful to have been able to host.

Recording up soon!

Now posted on Youtube: Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of DispossessionA CONVERSATION W...
04/23/2026

Now posted on Youtube: Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

A CONVERSATION WITH JODI BYRD (Chickasaw Nation), JOSEPH M. PIERCE (Cherokee Nation), AND AUDRA SIMPSON (Kahnawà:ke Mohawk)

Watch at: bit.ly/4e6ygGM

This fall Duke University Press was thrilled to publish "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader," edited with an In...
10/27/2024

This fall Duke University Press was thrilled to publish "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader," edited with an Introduction by McKenzie Wark, who thought her way through Stryker's writing, and put together the fabulous selection. Tomorrow night, Monday night October 28, at 6:30 eastern, they will be in conversation at Intellectual Publics talking about Susan's work (and McKenzie's too), trans life, thinking and studies. It will be smart fabulous and fun, not to mention much needed at this historical moment! Register here: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WYWTsIehRSe60cLJpieJWQ #/registration

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