Comparative Literature @ CUNY GC

Please join us tonight at 6pm at Baruch College for the first event of Polemos: A conference on the work of John Brenkman

📢 Hearing Cuban Voices in Times of Crisis
Join us for a powerful bilingual panel featuring Cuban scholars and artists reflecting on oral history, censorship, and academic freedom.

🗓️ Thursday, May 8 | 6 PM
📍 Rooms 9206/07, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
💻 Hybrid via Zoom
✉️ RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

The modern data-driven government emerged from the information order of the early modern state. How did cultural encounters change the relationship between power and information? Join @minareeslibrary.bsky.social for more!

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Five CUNY Faculty Members Win 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships – The City University of New York Five CUNY faculty members have won this year's prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships in recognition of their impactful and pioneering contributions to the arts and humanities. In addition, four CUNY alum...

Five faculty members and four alumni from CUNY have been named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — recognized for their groundbreaking work in film, music, literature, anthropology, and visual art.

How do you catch a reader's attention in any discipline? With a good hook! Join us next week @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for our "The Anatomy of a Good Hook" workshop where you'll learn a common strategy for getting readers interested in your argument. Register here: buff.ly/MfBZDAL

Preceding the event Tonya M. Foster will facilitate a free related writing workshop, and participants will be invited to briefly share their writings at the start this event. Map the array of influences that shape your intellectual and creative practices.

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TOMORROW!
The rage born of silence, the healing through shared narratives, and the creativity that bridges the two.
An evening honoring Women’s History Month: showcasing the lived experiences, struggles, and power of Indigenous women.

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Excerpt from CMOS Shop Talk article, "Joli Jensen talks about 'taming' your writing projects." CMOS: Describe the “ventilation file” you recommend. Do you see that as a temporary crutch or a lifelong tool? JJ: The ventilation file has been a lifelong tool for me. Writing, no matter how much we like our project or use various productivity techniques, can trigger all kinds of emotional baggage. Having a safe place to write about the frustration, fear, hatred, doubt, and misery you are feeling about your project works like a magic bullet. Acknowledging—rather than suppressing or talking yourself out of—whatever project-related feelings are coming up helps them dissipate. The colleagues I advise in our Faculty Writing Program at the University of Tulsa know that they can spend their daily fifteen minutes “ventilating,” and they usually reconnect and find a way forward in the next few days.

#WritingTip: Creating what Joli Jensen calls a "ventilation file," a place where you capture all your negative thoughts about your writing, can help you work through the emotions attached to your project and overcome writer's block.

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Upcoming Online Events: Dissertation and Thesis Deposit Information Session 📃
Virtual Info Sessions for Students Graduating June 2025

Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Mary Beard, “Misleading Lives: The Perils of Ancient Biography” Proshansky Auditorium

Tues, 3/11 at 6:30 p.m. ET – Mary Beard, renowned classicist & acclaimed author of many books on ancient Rome, gives the Leon Levy Biography Lecture, “Misleading Lives: The Perils of Ancient Biography” – reserve to join in person or online: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/annua... @wmarybeard.bsky.social

YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center The Comedic Genius of Elaine May: A Discussion and Performance

ICYMI - Watch “The Comedic Genius of Elaine May: A Discussion and Performance” - an evening celebrating May’s impact on stage & screen. Feat. Edward Miller, Elizabeth Alsop, Philip Wiles & improv group Binder Full of Women! youtu.be/WyZrq4fPKBI @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @elizabethalsop.bsky.social

Our inaugural bsky post!!
Our first talk of the spring semester:
Monica Miller and Sarah Lewis revisit Black dandyism
March 10 | 6:30pm ET | Zoom | Link in bio

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Applications are due by Sunday, March 16 for the Dissertation Showcase! More info here:
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There's still time to sign up for our "Writing a Book Review" workshop @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social , happening tomorrow at 3pm on Zoom. Here's the link: https://buff.ly/4ge8iP9

TOMORROW!

If you spent the weekend watching the SNL50th, come for more laughs and more comedy history!

DUE THURSDAY! Join the @cunypoetics.bsky.social team in archive exploration!

Overlooked No More: Fidelia Bridges, Artist Who Captured the Natural World A prolific artist, she was known for her graceful watercolors of birds, plants and butterflies, and was considered as the equal of Winslow Homer in her day.

More than 100 years after her death, Fidelia Bridges, an acclaimed and prolific painter, is recognized with an obituary in the New York Times. The remembrance is written by our own Bonnie Eissner and includes insights from Prof. Emerita Katherine Manthorne www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/a...

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