Join us for a conversation with Victoria Lomasko, author of The Last Soviet Artist, and a screening of the documentary Tree of Violence, which features her work and career! "The Last Soviet Artist" is a collection of graphic reportages by Victoria Lomasko, published by N+1 (New York, 2025). The book was created during trips across […]
Robert Seltzer Series Illiberal Religious Momfluencers: The Political Language of Wellness This talk examines illiberal Jewish and Christian women Instagram influencers who focus on wellness, domesticity, and motherhood. Using digital ethnography and interviews, Fader explores where and how influencers inspire each other and interact, elaborating a political illiberal religious women’s authority that creates change, while […]
Making Feminist Sense of The Moment: A Conversations about Colonialism, Immigration and Palestine Hear from an immigration justice advocate and a professor of international law and human rights at Gallatin School, New York University. Moderated by Rupal Oza, Professor Refreshments to follow!
Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year’s theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, […]
Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year’s theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Forum on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech: What Does it Mean for the Hunter Community? The panel discussion will cover two important and distinct subjects of interest to the Hunter community. The session will begin with a discussion of the purposes, source of rights, and contours of […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Finding Our Voices Speaker: Aarti Namdev Shahani Ms. Shahani is a working journalist and the author of Here We Are, a memoir. She is the creator and host of the Art of Power podcast.
To mark Transgender Day of Visibility, the LGBTQ Policy Center is pleased to announce a discussion on the policies impacting transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people in the criminal justice system—where they are disproportionately represented. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, they are arrested, incarcerated, and subjected to higher rates of community supervision than others […]
Czechoslovakia was liberated from the Nazis in May 1945, and was soon subjected to sovietization and the rising dominance of the Communist regime, which lasted for more than four decades, after the complete takeover in February, 1948. Thousands of Czechs and Slovaks (up to 300 000 in 1948-1989), who sought the return of freedom and […]
Semyon Khanin is a Riga-based poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of several books, including Tol'ko chto (2003), Opushchennye podrobnosti (2008), Vplav' (2013), A vam ne kazhetsa, chto eti vashi p'at' minut kak-to slishkom sil'no zat'anulis' (2015), No ne tem (selected poems, 2017), Posignal' (2019), and Dve vtoryh (2023). Khanin’s collections of poetry […]
