Category: Events

  • Event: Slavery Database

    APRIL 16, 2026 6:00 PM | ROOM 9205/06 GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY – 365 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK NY 10016 Join us in this event where CLACLS’ Executive Director, Laird Bergad will present his most recent data collection enterprise. Bergad will be joined by Herman Bennett, Executive Officer and Distinguished Professor of Black, Race, and Ethnic…

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  • Event: El Salvador 1932. From Colonialism to CECOT

    April 30 2026 9:00AM-9:00PM | ROOM 9205/06 GRADUATE CENTER CUNY 365 FIFTH AVE PROGRAM II NY INTERNATIONAL FORUM “EL SALVADOR 1932: From Colonialism to CECOT” (This program is subject to change) 9:30 AM – Registration 10:00 AM – Opening remarks
Dr. Mila Burns & Daniel Flores y Ascencio   Pedro Escobar Castaneda (Universidad de El Salvador) Session…

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  • Movie Screening: La Red

    March 25 2026 6:30PM | Room C198 | GRADUATE CENTER CUNY 365 FIFTH AVE Film screening and Q&A with director, Juan David Cortés. The ass is far from the heart, and art, in the hands of La Red Comunitaria Trans, can be as monumental as a 12-meter inflatable that channels rage and pain in the…

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  • The Other Fridas

    March 26 2026 6PM | Room C201/202 | GRADUATE CENTER CUNY 365 FIFTH AVE Book talk and Q&A with editors Debora Thome, Joao Nemi Neto, Luciana Namorato, and contributors. Commentary by Enrique E. Cortez. 10:30 AM–12 PM: OpeningOther Fridas in Latin American Studies Book presentation by Enrique E. Cortez (Portland State University)Followed by remarks from…

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  • Before the Beginning

    March 30 2026 6PM | Skylight Room | GRADUATE CENTER CUNY 365 FIFTH AVE Followed by a Q&A with author “With a sober, precise, and tender style, the author offers us a book about fatherhood, biracial identity, and Blackness—but above all about the effort to reconstruct an identity shattered by the diaspora.” — Kalaf Epalanga…

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