Category: Events

  • Talk: Constructing World’s Otherwise with Raúl Zibechi

    APRIL 21 2025 6:00 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY 365 FIFTH AVE Through a survey of the most marginalized voices across Latin America—feminists, the Indigenous, people of African descent, and inhabitants of urban favelas and rural towns—Zibechi introduces the Anglo world to a range of critical perspectives and new forms of struggle in…

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  • Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theatres of Immigration Law

    MARCH 28 2025 6:00-8:00PM | ROOM 9206/07 CUNY GRADUATE CENTER Michelle Castañeda is an activist and Professor of Performance Studies at NYU. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scene offers new insights about immigration law and the absurdist dynamics of carceral space. This book is presented in conversation…

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  • Somos Cumbia, somos Familia: talk and workshop by Cumbia dancer, choreographer, and teacher Karla Flórez.

    FEBRUARY 13, 2025 6:00-8:30 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY In times of crisis and upheaval, join us for a special talk and workshop with Karla Flórez, a renowned dancer, choreographer, and teacher from Barranquilla, Colombia, with over 45 years of experience in cumbia—a genre born from the cultural fusion of Indigenous, African, and…

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  • Book launch and Panel “Mapping Cuba’s Literary-Cultural History: The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature, edited by Vicky Unruh and Jacqueline Loss”

    JANUARY 30, 2024 6:00-8:30 PM | ROOM 9206/07, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY A book conversation with editors and authors: Vicky Unruh, University of KansasJacqueline Loss, University of ConnecticutEsther Allen, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch CollegeOdette Casamayor-Cisneros, University of PenssylvaniaCamilla Stevens, Rutgers UniversityIraida H López, Ramapo College Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge…

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  • Book Launch: Jardin en Tierra Fría by Fátima Vélez

    NOVEMBER 21, 2024 6:30-8:30 PM | ROOM 9206/07, GRADUATE CENTER CUNY This novel narrates twenty-four hours in the life of Primera V, the caretaker of the garden in Tierra Fría (Cold Land), which for years Papá V has built with plants brought from distant places and ruins of colonial palaces. She suspects that her father…

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