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  • An Evening with Wrong Criticism Magazine Hosted by Chloë Bass

    Francis Kite Club 40 Loisaida Ave, New York, NY, United States

    Led by Chloë Bass, Associate Professor at Queens College CUNY and co-director of Social Practice CUNY, alongside special guest Aaron Landsman, a distinguished performance-maker, writer, and educator, Wrong Criticism Magazine presents an opportunity to engage in productive mistakes. Delve into the realm of conceptual humor turned reality during a series of conversational evenings revisiting forms of faulty critical thinking, now more pertinent in 2024 than ever before.

  • Parliament (RSVP required)

    The Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Over the past decade, at least a thousand people (among them philosophers, office workers, professional dancers, scientists, students, and artists) have participated in Parliament sessions from Athens to NYC. For all its potency, Parliament resists any attempt to describe what it is. It resists authorship too. Choreographer and artist Michael Kliën prefers to say he discovered it, or wished for it, from within “a felt urgency that things are just not sustainable." The Martin E. Segal Center is proud to present the third New York iteration of Parliament in cooperation with Social Practice CUNY. RSVP required.

    Free

  • Panel Discussion with Michael Kliën and Social Practice CUNY

    The Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Choreographer and artist Michael Kliën will speak about Parliament and his practice of social choreography that he has developed at the Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke University. He will be joined by SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Emily Raboteau and Cory Tamler, author of A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography (2022). Co-presented with the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. Open to the public, no RSVP required.

    Free

  • Identity in Context: Building the American LGBTQ+ Museum

    The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

    In a time when students and museum professionals are questioning the structures and even the founding principles of older museums and cultural institutions, this program looks at the more recent creation of the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City. Featuring Ben Garcia, the Museum’s Executive Director and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, Director of Public Programs & Partnership.

  • LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL Book Launch

    The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Book launch for SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Emily Raboteau's highly-anticipated collection of essays, LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL: Mothering Against "the Apocalypse" at the Center for Fiction.

  • Redefining and Decentering the Political Within ‘Political’ and Socially Engaged Art

    CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

    This presentation analyzes the socially transformative potential of artistic practice to confront dictatorial and neoauthoritarianism in historical and contemporary times. By engaging with a variety of interconnected case studies in Southern Europe, the Americas, and Africa, the aim is to challenge the centrality of Western-based genealogies within the histories of political and socially engaged art.

  • The Future of New York City: Who Decides?

    Virtual See event for details

    Discover insights on community activism and urban development in a virtual celebration of Associate Professor of Anthropology and former SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Naomi Schiller's latest co-authored book as she delves into discussions on the role individuals can undertake in shaping their neighborhoods and cities, exploring the challenges community organizers face in navigating New York City's intricate decision-making processes to advocate for housing and foster vibrant, sustainable communities.

  • Outlawing Homosexuality in Nazi Germany: Reflections on the film, “BENT”

    The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

    During the Holocaust, homosexual men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear inverted pink triangle badges on their uniforms, a symbol that was later reclaimed as an emblem of Gay Pride. Join Dr. Jake Newsome, Scholar and Author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, and Dr. Kerry Whigham, Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University and Co-Director of its Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, for a conversation about “BENT,” the 1979 play subsequently adapted for the big screen, which explores the persecution of Queer men in Nazi Germany, during and after the Night of Long Knives in 1934.

  • Letters from Anne and Martin: Live Performance

    Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC) 222-05 56th Ave, Queens, NY, United States

    Letters from Anne and Martin, a two-person short play, highlights the lives of Anne Frank and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring the direct words from Anne’s diary and Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Following the performance, the actors and an educator from the Anne Frank Center will engage with the audience about the parallels between the two figures and their moments in history, as well as how we can learn from Anne and Dr. King to combat intolerance today.

  • PERFORMANCE AS WITNESS: RECOGNIZING THE RHETORIC THAT LEADS TO VIOLENCE

    The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

    Join Dr. Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, for a discussion about how the rise of political extremism and hate speech contributes to a growing atmosphere of insecurity and dehumanization in our society. Dr. Hinton will also reflect upon how the plays, “Julio Ain’t Goin Down Like That” and “Letters from Anne and Martin,” as well as the film, “BENT,” use performance to come to terms with antisemitism, transphobia, and racism.