Events

Careers Pursued by Humanities Majors

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Are you thinking about majoring in English, comparative literature or philosophy
but wondering what sort of career you might pursue after college? If so, you will
want to listen to successful Queens College alumni talk about their careers as
college professors, lawyers, and administrators.

Monday, October 30, 2023
12:15 – 1:30 PM
Honors Hall Room 17

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Writing on the Walls:
A Performance about Prison, Writing, and Survival in Ireland

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Come see Irish writer, poet, and playwright Roseleen Walsh’s
performance Interned about her prison experiences.

Thursday, September 21, 2023
3:10 – 4:25 PM
Kiely Hall Room 273

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Uninhabitable Places: Auschwitz and Angkor Wat in the Prose of Peter Weiss

Speaker
Professor Caroline Rupprecht

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Monday, March 30, 2020
4:15 pm

Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA

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International Human Rights Art Festival: At the Intersection of Art, Society, and the Spirit

Speaker
Tom Block

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020
12:15 pm

President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)

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The Language Question: Notes of a Comparatist on Sanskritization and Ethnography

Speaker
Sowmya Dechamma

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Thursday, December 5, 2019
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library, Room 230

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Protest: From Civil Rights to the
Peace Movement to 2019

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Wally Rosenthal

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)

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The American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Summer 1964 and Beyond

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Mark Levy

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)

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Emmett, Down in My Heart

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Clare Coss

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Thursday, November 8, 2018
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)

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Open Mic Night

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
4 – 6:30 pm

Student Art Gallery
Klapper Hall, Room 405

 

Superstate Africa and the Diaspora

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Chuma Nwokolo

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)

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Somaliska kultur-och litteraturdagar

featuring
Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed

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December 1 – 2, 2017

Kista Folkhögskola
Stockholm, Sweden

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One-Day Literary Translation Institute

featuring
Professor Christopher Winks

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Friday, June 16, 2017
10 am – 4:30 pm

LIU Brooklyn
1 University Plz
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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Conoscenza e nuovi media per la ricostruzione somala

(Knowledge and New Media for Somalia Reconstruction)
with Professor Ali Ahmed

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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
3:30 pm

Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Rome, Italy

 

Memory, Knowledge, Discourse: (Re)molding Subjectivities and Cultures

 with Professor Ali Ahmed

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Friday, May 19, 2017
12:00 pm

Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Naples, Italy

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Grace Jones by Helmut Newton
Beauty and the I of the Beholder

featuring
Professor Charles Martin

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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
12:15 pm

Queens Hall, Room 120

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The Mayor of Mogadishu

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Andrew Harding

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2

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words with wings

a student poetry reading

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Thursday, December 1, 2016
3:30 – 4:30 pm

Queens Hall, Room 330F

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Somali Week at SOAS:

A conversation with Prof. Ali Jimale Ahmed

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The Alumni Theatre, Room 110
Paul Webley Wing of Senate House
London, United Kingdom

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Through the Prism of Race, Gender & Class:
My Work in Human Rights

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Glenda G. Grace

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Thursday, September 15, 2016
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2

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Translation Theory Today

An Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Thinking

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May 5 and 6, 2016

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY

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What Are Poets For?

A Reading With:
Ali Jimale Ahmed
Charles Cantalupo

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Monday, May 2, 2016

LaGuardia Community College, Room M106
31-10 Thompson Ave.
Long Island City, NY

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Safeguarding the Rights of Survivorsin the City, the State, and the Nation:
Domestic Violence & Human Trafficking

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series

By Azaleea Carlea

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2

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Afrofuturism:
The Use of Narrative to Question Social Structures

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series

By Keith A. Miller

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
5 pm

Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2

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A New Universal for Human Rights?
The Particular, the Generalizable, the Political

The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series

By Domna Stanton

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library, Room 230

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Midnight in the Century

with Christopher Winks

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014
7:30 pm

The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

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Harlem Book Fair Fiction Festival

with Christopher Winks

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Friday, July 11, 2014
10:00 am – 6:30 pm

Columbia University School of Law
435 116th St., Room 101
New York, NY

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Abdias Nascimento: Artist, Activist, Author
Styling at the Afro Spot: Black Gods, Black Aesthetics

featuring
Professor Christopher Winks

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
12:15 pm

Godwin Ternbach Museum
Queens College

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Poetry Reading of Aimé Cesairé

By Poet Clayton Eshleman
Professor Emeritus, Eastern Michigan University

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Tuesday, May 6, 2014
12:15 pm

Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2

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“War, What is it Good For in Homer’s Iliad?”

with Seth Schein
Department of Comparative Literature
University of California, Davis

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
12:15 – 1:30 pm

Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2

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Watch a Recreated Indian Myth

in Girish Karnad’s
Yayati

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November 19, 2012
12:15 – 1:30 pm
7 – 8:15 pm

Little Theatre
King Hall, Room 115

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A Poetry Reading by Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed

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12:15 pm

Godwin Ternbach Museum
Queens College

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Mahmood Mamdani
Define and Rule: Native as a Political Identity

Featuring Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed

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November 12, 2012
7 pm

Proshansky Auditorium
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY

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“Protest Contagion”: North Africa and the Middle East Today

Organized by Associate Professor Andrea Khalil

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Monday, March 19, 2012
3 pm Reception
4 pm Keynote Speaker Muhsin al-Musawi

Dining Hall, Patio Room
Queens College

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A Partial Screening of Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation and the Launch of Imagine Africa

with Christopher Winks

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Friday, May 13, 2011
7 pm

Lilian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th St.
New York, NY

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