Open Call for Grad Students

CCSP at Stony Brook is seeking applications from graduate students to serve on its Student Leadership Committee for the 2025–2026 and 2026-2027 academic years.

Learn More

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Sign up for our Climate Week storytelling workshop with The Moth + NYU!

Join The Moth and NYU for an interactive session on the art of storytelling, confidence-building, and community connection.
NYU Tandon, Brooklyn | Wed, Sept 24, 2025 | 2–5 p.m. ET
[Sign up now – spots are limited!]

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CCSP Executive Director Manisha Desai Receives 2025 ASA Jessie Bernard Award for Advancing Decolonial Feminist Scholarship

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Just Launched! Website of the Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract

Explore the new website of the Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract

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The GD campaign is finished but you can still support CCSP by selecting the designation "Center for Changing Systems of Power Excellence Fund"

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CCSP 2025 Summer Social Justice Grant 

Learn about our grant recipients' projects

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"Writing Beyond the Prison" featured in  The Statesman

 

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Read Stony Brook Press article featuring CCSP director, Manisha Desai

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On Indigenous Peoples' Day: Indigenous Activists Urge UN Leaders to Support Treaty

 Indigenous coalition members, activists and allies sent a letter to UN leaders urging them to support a treaty in the form of a new Optional Protocol to CEDAW to end violence against women and girls. 

Learn about this effort to secure a binding global framework to end the most widespread human rights violation on earth. 

 

	Upcoming
Sept 19		Philosophy and Gaza
	Past
Apr 30		The People's Way: Film Screening and Q&A with Film's Directors
Apr 23		No Other Land: Free Screening of  2024 Academy Award Best Documentary Film
Apr 10		Academic Freedom at Risk: A Symposium on Campus Policing, Surveillance, and Censorship
Mar 31		Growing Connections: Experiences from the St. Cloud State Community Garden
Feb 26		Suffolk County's Deadly Serious Roadway Problem: Unsafe. Unjust. Unequal
Nov 06		Writing Beyond the Prison: Digital Archive and Curriculum for Incarcerated Authors
Oct 22		Dissent, Democracy & Higher Ed: Under Attack
Sept 30		Non-Western Marxisms: A South-South Perspective
Sept 23		I am not the river Jhelum: Film Screening
Sept 19		Voices from Gaza and the West Bank: Healthcare in Crisis SB Press Coverage