Marking Black History Month at Roosevelt House and Celebrating Legendary Writer and Hunter College Alumna Audre Lorde featuring Alexis Pauline Gumbs on her new book Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde in conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Roosevelt House, along with the Hunter College Department of Women and Gender Studies, is […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series The Intersection of Identity: Growing Up Palestinian-American Speaker: Susan Muaddi Darraj Ms. Muaddi Darraj a Palestinian-American author of books for adults and children, including the Farah Rocks series.
BOOK TALK EXPLORING TAIWAN WITH MISS CHIZURU: THE FICTIONAL CRAFT OF TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE How can a Taiwanese novel incorporate historical materials from its decades under Japanese colonial rule? How does two women’s travelogue become a work of fiction? This talk explores Taiwan Travelogue’s use of a “Shōwa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour” as its storytelling framework, […]
The departments of Women and Gender Studies and Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College invite you to join author Tavia Nyong’o for a special discussion on his book, Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World. About the Author A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Tavia Nyong’o is the William Lampson Professor of […]
This new book is an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together. Speaker: Loretta J. Ross Co-founder of SisterSong, Associate Professor of the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, MacArthur Fellow Class of 2022 Speaker: Carol Jenkins […]
Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Union Atlantic and Imagine Me Gone. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner of […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Leaving the Hasidic Community: Reality versus Popular Culture Speaker: Zalman Newfield, PhD Prof. Newfield is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology and the acting Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Hunter College Speaker: Heba Gowayed, PhD Prof. Gowayed is a faculty member in the Department […]
Spring Beginnings is almost here! Hunter College Blind and Visually Impaired Program, AVRT, and NYSAER invite you to a one-day conference. March 28, 2025 – 9:00am – 3:30pm EDT This will be a free, virtual conference. Our presentations this year are: "Speak Up Skills: The Big Hole in Blindness Education" Hannah Fairbairn Embrace the Golden […]
For this month's Library & Archives Lunch Hour, we are so excited to dive into the collection of Ibrahim Aqil Adbush Shakur González, known as Ibrahim González. González was a multifaceted artist; musician, photographer, radio host, activist, and educator born in East Harlem well known for helping set up one of the first Latino-Muslim organizations […]
Join CENTRO on the opening night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the CENTRO Gallery in El Barrio from March 13th, 2025 to September, 2025. This exhibition honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. The Puerto Rican diaspora can be understood as a collage […]
