Events
Careers Pursued by Humanities Majors
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
Writing on the Walls:
A Performance about Prison, Writing, and Survival in Ireland
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
Uninhabitable Places: Auschwitz and Angkor Wat in the Prose of Peter Weiss
Speaker
Professor Caroline Rupprecht
Monday, March 30, 2020
4:15 pm
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA
International Human Rights Art Festival: At the Intersection of Art, Society, and the Spirit
Speaker
Tom Block
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
12:15 pm
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)
Emmett, Down in My Heart
The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Clare Coss
Thursday, November 8, 2018
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)
Open Mic Night
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
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)
Somaliska kultur-och litteraturdagar
featuring
Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed
December 1 – 2, 2017
Kista Folkhögskola
Stockholm, Sweden
One-Day Literary Translation Institute
featuring
Professor Christopher Winks
Friday, June 16, 2017
10 am – 4:30 pm
LIU Brooklyn
1 University Plz
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Conoscenza e nuovi media per la ricostruzione somala
(Knowledge and New Media for Somalia Reconstruction)
with Professor Ali Ahmed
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
Friday, May 19, 2017
12:00 pm
Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Naples, Italy
Grace Jones by Helmut Newton
Beauty and the I of the Beholder
featuring
Professor Charles Martin
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
12:15 pm
Queens Hall, Room 120
The Mayor of Mogadishu
The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Andrew Harding
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2
words with wings
a student poetry reading
Thursday, December 1, 2016
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Queens Hall, Room 330F
Somali Week at SOAS:
A conversation with Prof. Ali Jimale Ahmed
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
The Alumni Theatre, Room 110
Paul Webley Wing of Senate House
London, United Kingdom
Through the Prism of Race, Gender & Class:
My Work in Human Rights
The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Glenda G. Grace
Thursday, September 15, 2016
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2
Translation Theory Today
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Thinking
May 5 and 6, 2016
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY
What Are Poets For?
A Reading With:
Ali Jimale Ahmed
Charles Cantalupo
Monday, May 2, 2016
LaGuardia Community College, Room M106
31-10 Thompson Ave.
Long Island City, NY
The Language Question: Notes of a Comparatist on Sanskritization and Ethnography
Speaker
Sowmya Dechamma
Thursday, December 5, 2019
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library, Room 230
Protest: From Civil Rights to the
Peace Movement to 2019
The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Wally Rosenthal
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)
The American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Summer 1964 and Beyond
The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
Mark Levy
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library
President’s Conference Room 2 (5th floor)
Midnight in the Century
with Christopher Winks
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
7:30 pm
The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Harlem Book Fair Fiction Festival
with Christopher Winks
Friday, July 11, 2014
10:00 am – 6:30 pm
Columbia University School of Law
435 116th St., Room 101
New York, NY
Abdias Nascimento: Artist, Activist, Author
Styling at the Afro Spot: Black Gods, Black Aesthetics
featuring
Professor Christopher Winks
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
12:15 pm
Godwin Ternbach Museum
Queens College
Poetry Reading of Aimé Cesairé
By Poet Clayton Eshleman
Professor Emeritus, Eastern Michigan University
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2
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
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2
Afrofuturism:
The Use of Narrative to Question Social Structures
The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
By Keith A. Miller
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
5 pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2
A New Universal for Human Rights?
The Particular, the Generalizable, the Political
The Literature and Human Rights Lecture Series
By Domna Stanton
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
12:15 pm
Rosenthal Library, Room 230
“War, What is it Good For in Homer’s Iliad?”
with Seth Schein
Department of Comparative Literature
University of California, Davis
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
12:15 – 1:30 pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2
Watch a Recreated Indian Myth
in Girish Karnad’s
Yayati
November 19, 2012
12:15 – 1:30 pm
7 – 8:15 pm
Little Theatre
King Hall, Room 115
A Poetry Reading by Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed
November 13, 2012
12:15 pm
Godwin Ternbach Museum
Queens College
Mahmood Mamdani
Define and Rule: Native as a Political Identity
Featuring Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed
November 12, 2012
7 pm
Proshansky Auditorium
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY
“Protest Contagion”: North Africa and the Middle East Today
Organized by Associate Professor Andrea Khalil
Monday, March 19, 2012
3 pm Reception
4 pm Keynote Speaker Muhsin al-Musawi
Dining Hall, Patio Room
Queens College
A Partial Screening of Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation and the Launch of Imagine Africa
with Christopher Winks
Friday, May 13, 2011
7 pm
Lilian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th St.
New York, NY