Bildner Center

Fosters policy-oriented research concerning the governance, security, and economic well-being of people of the Americas

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“She lives her life without leaving a mark.”

🎬 Join us for a screening & discussion of Dirt, moderated by Jerry W. Carlson, Bildner Center Senior Fellow & CUNY Professor.

🗓 Friday, May 15 | 6:00 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter

RSVP: [email protected]

#cunyevents

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📋How do you conduct fieldwork in places in crisis? How do you interview elites? Where do research ethics fit in?

Find out at our Professional Development Workshop
🗓 Monday, May 11 | 6:30 PM
📍 PSC Thesis Room (5200.07), The Graduate Center, CUNY

Co-sponsored by the Bildner

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TODAY at 6 PM at The Graduate Center, CUNY (Segal Theatre)

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🎬 Film Screening & Discussion: Santitos (Mexico, 1999)

Join us for a special screening followed by a discussion

🗓 Friday, May 8 | 6 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY

RSVP: [email protected]

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🌳 The Amazon is under threat. Who is fighting back?

Join us for a conference on extraction, security, and the environmental challenges facing the Amazon and other critical regions.

🗓 Thursday, April 30 | 12 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center

RSVP: [email protected]

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🎬 Film Screening & Discussion: Santitos (Mexico, 1999)

Join us for a special screening followed by a discussion

🗓 Friday, May 8 | 6 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY

RSVP: [email protected]

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⏰ Don't miss "U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America," a panel discussion with experts from WOLA, Inter-American Dialogue & the Council on Foreign Relations.

🗓 Thursday, April 2 | 4:00 PM
📍 Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center

RSVP: [email protected]

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A conversation in Spanish on what it means to be an independent journalist in Cuba today.

Lunes 27 de abril · 6 PM
Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY

RSVP en [email protected]

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📢 Join us TONIGHT for our Spring 2026 Public Policy Workshop!

🎙️ "From Research to Policy: Fieldwork and Applied Scholarship" with Mark Ungar, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the GC.

🗓 March 9 | 🕡 6:30 PM | 📍 PSC Thesis Room, The Graduate Center, CUNY

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Join the Bildner Center this March and April for film screenings and panels on authoritarianism, foreign policy, and the environment in Latin America at The Graduate Center, CUNY

Learn more at https://t.co/JPoXoddomF.

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Varieties of Authoritarianism in Latin America

Friday, March 20 | 12:30 PM
Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY

RSVP: [email protected]

#Authoritarianism #CUNY #AcademicEvents

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🎬 Film Screening & Discussion
Central Station (Brazil, 1998)

🗓️ Wednesday, March 11 | 6:00 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center

Join us for a screening and conversation around this acclaimed film.

RSVP: [email protected]
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Brazil is approaching a pivotal moment. Join us for a panel discussion examining the political, social, and economic challenges shaping Brazil ahead of the 2026 elections.

🗓️ Wed, Feb 25 | 3:00 PM
📍 The Graduate Center, CUNY | Room 9207
📧 RSVP: [email protected]

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What happens when borders become battlegrounds?

Join us for a screening and discussion of Border Incident (1949)

🗓️ Feb 11 | 6:00 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY
RSVP: [email protected]

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Happening tomorrow at 6 p.m.—don’t miss it.

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Join us for a screening of María Antonia — a powerful classic of Cuban cinema

🗓️ Tuesday, December 2 – 6 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY

👉 RSVP: [email protected]

Co-sponsored by The Columbia University Seminar on Cuba.

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Join us for a screening of María Antonia — a powerful classic of Cuban cinema

🗓️ Tuesday, December 2 – 6 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY

👉 RSVP: [email protected]

Co-sponsored by The Columbia University Seminar on Cuba.

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Anthony Fontes examines how state actors engage in mass disappearance in El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States.

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Dairee Ramírez shows how criminal groups make their moral vocabularies concrete through naming practices, ritual sponsorship, event order, and routine negotiations with officials in Mexico.

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Verónica Zubillaga examines the dynamics of “mano dura” policies in Venezuela.

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Angélica Durán-Martínez breaks down the roles of greed and grievance in driving crime in Colombia.

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Dennis Rodgers discusses gangs and the socialization of violence in Nicaragua.