Ralph Bunche Institute

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The Ralph Bunche Institute offers a wealth of research and public programming on international affairs, human rights, and conflict resolution.

“Fleeing a Home, Seeking a Home: Jewish Refugees in Modern Times”

In the thick of a refugee crisis, with an official count of 82.4 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (GC--CUNY) and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (NYU) continue to offer a year-long series that tackles historical and current cases. 

Please join us on Thursday, 28 April 2022.  12:00-1:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time): 

“Fleeing a Home, Seeking a Home: Jewish Refugees in Modern Times”

 

This panel grapples with refugee Jews displaced by war in three different geopolitical contexts: Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Profs Jeff Veidlinger, Eliyana Adler, and Shay Hazkani recapture lost voices of displacement and rethink the meaning of “refugee” as they explore the experiences of Ukrainian Jews who left their homes in the wake of anti-Jewish violence unleashed during the Russian Civil War; Polish Jews who, in  the midst of the Holocaust, fled the Germans and were deported by the Soviets to Central Asia; and of Moroccan Jews, who immigrated to Israel shortly after the establishment of the Jewish state. Chair: Prof. Elissa Bemporad.

This event is hosted in association with The Holocaust and The United Nations Outreach Programme, Outreach Division, Department of Global Communications, United Nations.

CGEP: Carol Hay on “Women are Women”

Graduate Center, Room 5302 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Carol Hay (UMass Lowell)Thursday, April 28, 6:30 p.m. (ET)CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5382And online via Zoom We are excited to welcome feminist philosopher Carol Hay as our fourth and final

Women are Women by Carol Hay (UMass Lowell)

Graduate Center, Room 5302 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Women are Women Carol Hay (UMass Lowell) Thursday, April 28, 6:30 p.m. (ET) CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5382 And online via Zoom This week, we

Besieged Voices from Ukraine (part 2)

Russia's attack on Ukraine has caused the death and injury of thousands, the forced flight of millions, and the physical destruction of cities and towns. Poet Iya Kiva, journalist Olga Tokariuk, and art historian expert on Jewish heritage in Ukraine, Eugeny Kotlyar, will address the complexities of lives disrupted and the experience of unfolding war from the perspectives of their three professions. Please join us to learn from them.
Co-Chairs: Natalya Lazar and Elissa Bemporad.

Suppression of Self-Determination

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Launch of a report into Spain's influence on the tools of repression used to silence activists around the world. September 21, 2022 1PM - 3PM

Agential Power and Structural Power, Causal and Non-Causal

Political Science Lounge, GC Room 5200 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Agential Power and Structural Power, Causal and Non-Causal Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)Thursday, October 13, 6:30 p.m. (ET)Political Science Lounge, GC Room 5200 And online via ZoomCo-sponsored by the GC Political Theory

“Post-Roe America: Women and Human Rights”

Virtual bit.ly/3QVelvP, New York

The historical record is marked by voids: elided events; disappeared people; erased accounts; marginalized communities.  So is our own era.   The Center for the