CUNY Graduate Center

The CUNY Graduate Center is a leader in public graduate education devoted to enhancing the public good through pioneering research, serious learning, and reasoned debate. The CUNY Graduate Center offers ambitious students more than 40 doctoral and master’s programs of the highest caliber, taught by top faculty from throughout CUNY — the nation’s largest public urban university. Through its nearly 40 centers, institutes, and initiatives, including its Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), The Graduate Center influences public policy and discourse and shapes innovation. The CUNY Graduate Center Graduate Center’s extensive public programs make it a home for culture and conversation.

CUNY Graduate Center is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 189 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts CUNY Graduate Center, a society show with 189 episodes published.

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  New York’s Revolutionary Past Comes Alive

  Jun 11, 202645 min

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  Philosophy Draws a Crowd

  May 26, 202634 min

  In this episode of The Thought Project, host Tanya Domi speaks with Eno Agolli, assistant director of the Saul Kripke Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, about bringing philosophy out of the ivory tower and into public conversation. Agolli is helping expand the reach of the Saul Kripke Center, named for the late Saul Kripke, a former distinguished professor at the Graduate Center who is considered one of the greatest American philosophers of the last half-century. One of Agolli’s newest initiatives is the Analytic Salon, a public series designed to make analytic philosophy accessible, lively, and welcoming. The salons require no homework and no background in philosophy. Instead, participants gather to consider big questions, about artificial intelligence, skepticism, morality, knowledge, and free will, through clear, jargon-free discussion. The salons are carried out in the spirit of Kripke’s own philosophical practice, centered on sharp puzzles, rigorous reasoning, and questions that can be stated clearly in ordinary language. The response has been striking. The salons, capped at 35 people, have filled quickly, sometimes within minutes, and draw many repeat attendees. For Agolli, that enthusiasm points to a real public hunger for philosophy, and for spaces where people can think together.

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  Helping LGBTQ+ Jews Find Support in Orthodox and Hasidic Communities

  May 21, 202658 min

  In this episode of The Thought Project, host Tanya Domi speaks with Mordechai Levovitz, M.S.W., a Ph.D. student in the Social Welfare program at the CUNY Graduate Center, about being queer and Jewish, and about the search for safety, support, and acceptance within Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities. Levovitz founded and served as executive director of JQY, Jewish Queer Youth, a nonprofit organization that provides crisis, communal, and clinical support for LGBTQ+ and queer teens growing up in Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families. He discusses how LGBTQ+ Jews, including transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people, often face isolation when coming out, especially when family, religious law, and community expectations appear to leave little room for a queer life. His work grows out of his personal experience and years of helping queer Jews find support, language, safety, and community. He entered the Social Welfare Ph.D. program to deepen that work through research, advocacy, and policymaking, with a focus on the needs of LGBTQ+ people in religious communities. The conversation also explores how Judaism contains a more expansive history of gender than many people realize, including rabbinic discussions of seven or eight gender categories. For Levovitz, that history matters. So does the ability to change one’s name, an act that can affirm identity, dignity, and the right to be fully seen.

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  How Immigration Policy Affects New Yorkers, and What Comes Next

  May 7, 20261h 7m

  Professor Robert C. Smith of the CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College and Manuel Castro, the former New York City commissioner of immigrant affairs and a Baruch graduate, join The Thought Project for a timely conversation about immigration policy at a moment of deep uncertainty. Smith draws on decades of research on Mexican migration, legal status, and intergenerational mobility, as well as his legal advocacy on DACA and birthright citizenship, to explain how current policy choices are reshaping the lives of immigrant families. Castro brings the perspective of a former undocumented immigrant, longtime advocate, and city official who has worked at the center of New York’s response to immigrant communities. Together, he and Smith argue that today’s crisis did not emerge overnight: Comprehensive immigration reform has remained out of reach for years, leaving millions vulnerable to shifting enforcement priorities and legal uncertainty. They discuss asylum, mixed-status families, the limits of local protections, and why expanding access to citizenship and legal status remains essential. The episode connects scholarship, public service, and lived experience in a clear call for reform grounded in both policy and human consequences.

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  Can Biodegradable Fashion Outlast Fast Fashion?

  Apr 19, 202637 min

  From mushroom leather to algae-based garments, Elizabeth Wissinger, a professor of Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and of social sciences at Borough of Manhattan Community College, explores whether bio-based materials can offer a real alternative to synthetic fabrics, fast fashion, and clothing waste. On this episode of The Thought Project, she discusses the rise of bio-couture, the environmental problems driving interest in biodegradable textiles, and the ethical questions raised by using living organisms in design. She also examines the challenges these materials still face, including durability, scalability, and the possibility that, if they are made for short-term use and quickly discarded, they could reproduce the same wear-once, throwaway logic that defines fast fashion.

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