CUNY Graduate Center

The Graduate Center (GC) is the principal doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York. Offering more than thirty doctoral degrees from Anthropology to Urban Education, and fostering globally significant research in a wide variety of centers and institutes, the GC provides rigorous academic training in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Through its extensive public programs—lectures, conferences, performances, and exhibitions—the Graduate Center contributes to the intellectual and cultural life of New York City and affirms its commitment to the premise that knowledge is a public good.

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Le féminisme doit être attentif aux contextes où se joue la lutte contre l’oppression des femmes et y adapter ses revendications. AtlasbyAtlas Studio/Shutterstock

Contre les oppressions subies par les femmes, décoloniser le féminisme

La philosophe états-unienne Serene J. Khader dénonce un « féminisme missionnaire » occidental qui entend « sauver » les femmes des Sud. Une analyse introduite et traduite en français par Manon Garcia.
Scientists have been consistently documenting environmental changes at research sites like this one in the Cascade Mountains for decades. US Forest Service

Climate change is already disrupting US forests and coasts – here’s what we’re seeing at 5 long‑term research sites

This kind of research, with consistent data collection at the same locations over time, helps support global understanding of climate change.
Manifestantes antimascarillas, antivacunas y antitest de covid en Londres en agosto de 2020. Shutterstock / T Salci

El escepticismo ante las vacunas: un reto en la era de la covid‑19

Se espera que en un tiempo récord se desarrolle una vacuna contra la covid-19 segura y eficaz, cuya aprobación podría producirse en algún momento de 2021.
The increasingly well-coordinated global anti-vaccine movement has repurposed itself to challenge the very reality of COVID-19. Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

COVID‑19: A global survey shows worrying signs of vaccine hesitancy

A safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be developed in record time and may be approved for production, distribution and acceptance some time in 2021.
Tommy Wiseau clutches a football in ‘The Room,’ the 2003 film he wrote, produced and starred in. Wiseau Films

What makes some art so bad that it’s good?

Sometimes a work of art is characterized by a string of failures, but nonetheless ends up being a gorgeous freak accident of nature.
Relatively few low-income Americans are getting welfare payments these days. Christine Hoi/Shutterstock.com

The bigotry baked into welfare cuts

Misleading stereotypes help explain why the share of families living in poverty who benefit from a core assistance program has plummeted – and why Trump wants new cuts.

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