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Welcome to The Center for the Humanities
Founded in 1993, The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY provides a forum for CUNY students and faculty to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue with other scholars as well as prominent journalists, artists, and civic leaders. By bringing together diverse voices from both inside and outside the academy, the Center seeks to broaden the relevance of the Humanities in contemporary life. Our programs include lectures, symposia, performances, and exhibitions, and in keeping with CUNY's commitment to ensuring access to the highest levels of educational opportunity for all New Yorkers, they are open to the public.
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>> Please click here for information about the 2008-2009 Great Issues Forum
Fellowship Program.
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A Selection of Upcoming Events > Click here for the full Spring 2008 Program Schedule
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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Junot Diaz & Francisco Goldman
Acclaimed writers Junot Diaz and Francisco Goldman discuss writing lives, through history and fiction with Lynn Di Iorio, Assistant Professor of English at City College and The Graduate Center. Junot Diaz is the author of Drown and The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Francisco Goldman is the author the award winning novels The Long Night of White Chickens, The Ordinary Seaman, and The Divine Husband.
April 3, Thursday, 6:30 – 7:30pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
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Writing the World: Literature and the Environment
This discussion will explore the ways literature moves an issue such as global warming from the isolated realm of scientific discourse into the broader cultural imagination. Featuring ecologist Bill McKibben, author of numerous books, including Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future; Daniel Hillel, a researcher at Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems Research, and the author of many books, including The Natural History of the Bible; poet Susan Howe, whose most recent collection of poetry is Souls of the Labadie Tract; and others. Moderated by Joan Richardson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
April 9, Wednesday, 6:30 – 8:00pm, Proshansky Auditorium
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Rites of Return: Poetics and Politics
What is driving the contemporary obsession with the recovery of roots? Join world-renowned scholars, writers, artists, and curators as they explore questions of origin and identity, national and cultural memory, “trauma tourism” and museums of conscience. Participants include writers Daniel Mendelsohn, Saidiya Hartman, and Eva Hoffman; photographers Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormick, and Susan Meiselas; journalist Amira Hass; and scholars Svetlana Boym, Marianne Hirsch, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Nancy K. Miller, Leo Spitzer, Diana Taylor, David Troutt, and Patricia Williams.
A two-day symposium on April 10 and 11th. Columbia University Law School on April 10th and continues throughout Friday, April 11th, in the Elebash Recital Hall at the Graduate Center. For a complete conference schedule, please click here.
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