Tuesday, April 8, 2025
6:30PM
Kelly Skylight Room 9100
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
We Know Our Rights! Cross-CUNY Sanctuary Campus Info and Organizing Session
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
6:30PM
Room 9205/9206/9207
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
Consciousness, Interpretation, and Underground Organizing: The Aesthetics of Resistance in Translation
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
6PM
Room 9206
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics (CPCP) and the Center for the Humanities presents:
Plotting Abolition
Friday, February 28, 2025
4PM
Room C204/205
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics (CPCP) presents:
A Book Talk: Ragás, Because the Sea has no place to Grab
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
6PM
Room 9206
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics (CPCP) presents:
Apply to be a 2025-2026 CPCP Faculty Fellow
Applications Due: Friday, February 7, 2025 no later than 5:00 p.m.
The application form and instructions can be found here.
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics Faculty Fellowship is open to faculty from any discipline whose research articulates with topics that have contemporary urgency, regardless of period or methodological approach. The Center runs a lively weekly seminar in which we discuss fellows’ work-in-progress. We also host distinguished lecture series and other special programming, and sponsor conferences organized around annual themes. Recent yearlong topics have included “Urban Uprisings,” “Mobilizations and Migrations,” “Consciousness and Revolution,” and “The Agrarian Question Today.”
We invite faculty fellow applicants to provide a statement (1,500 words) on their research that highlights the linkages of their research with the Center’s ongoing interdisciplinary agenda (see below for complete application instructions and application form). Kindly note: acceptance of the award is contingent on being able to attend the CPCP’s Wednesday morning (10am-12pm) seminar during the academic year.
Apply to be a 2025-2026 CPCP Seminar Fellow!
Mobility: Transit and Transformation
CPCP Seminar Theme for 2025-2026
Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement—and the unending state efforts to classify them as deserving or undeserving, as economic, environmental, or asylum-based—or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities. How do shifts in forms of mobility inform or mediate the conditions of social change? What are the links between transit and transition? Do contemporary logics of mobility, at different scales, temporalities and intensities, represent counter-hegemonic realms of possibility, political imagination, and new ways to think and express transformation?
For the 2025-2026 seminar, CPCP invites applicants to examine mobility and immobility from a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches. What are the relevant conditions of material change for organizers and scholars? How should we understand mobility: as a way to rethink political economy, as the inevitable undoing of the nation-state, as an ontological condition? What methodologies are adequate to understanding the movement (or not) of people across the planet, and what happens when we broaden the frame to include the things that people move with and against: commodities, capital, viruses, racialized infrastructures, ecologies, abolition imaginaries and practices? The seminar will explore the possible parameters of praxis and the production of knowledge that attends them. How can mobility itself be mobilized?
More information about the seminar fellowships can be found here.
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