Date: October 15, 2026 Time: 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Location: Building 3, Room 130 (The Forum) Monroe Community College’s Institute for the Humanities will celebrate the recent relaunch of The Empty Closet, Rochester’s now-famed LGBTQ+ newspaper. Enjoying continuous monthly publication from 1971 to 2020, The Empty Closet is not only an impressive cultural achievement […]

Date: Monday, October 20, 2025 Time: 3:30pm to 5:00 pm Location: Monroe Community College Brighton Campus, Building 5-100 Alexandra Oprea, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University at Buffalo, will give the McMurry Lecture. Can’t come to campus? Check out the McMurry Lecture 2025 Livestream. Sponsored by the MCC Institute for the […]

Date: April 8, 2025 Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Location: Monroe Community College Brighton Campus, Building 3, Monroe A & B Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss, Memorial Art Gallery and Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics at URMC, will give a talk on portrayals of HIV/AIDS from the 1980’s to the present in posters, photography, and […]

Date: March 12, 2025 Time: 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm Location: Monroe Community College Brighton Campus, Building 5, Room 100 Living without health insurance or with inadequate health insurance exposes people to numerous hassles in daily life, financial catastrophe, and suffering and death from treatable medical conditions. In 2024, St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center located in […]

Date: April 17, 2024 Time: 3:30 to 5:00 pm Location: Monroe Community College Brighton Campus, Building 5, Room 5-300 Artificial Intelligence (AI)  has moved from the labs of major tech companies into the awareness of most of us.  But few of us know what AI is, how it works, and the potential and risks it […]

Date: October 26, 2023 Time: 6:00 to 8:15 pm Location: Rochester Academy of Medicine A forum on the power of storytelling to convey the moral, legal, and psychological effects of fatal medical error, this event will feature a dramatic reading of Deborah Salem Smith’s play Love Alone (performed by MCC Theatre students) and a panel […]

Please join us for a lecture by Ilina Asova — mountaineer, environmental activist, artist, and one of only 70 women to complete the World’s Extreme Mountaineering Challenge, reaching the highest summits on all seven continents. Arsova was also a nominee for the 2012 US State Department Sports Mentoring Program, which fosters a global network of […]

Join us on October 11th, 2022 as we present: Title IX @ 50: The History and Future of Landmark Legislation In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, this event explores and celebrates the legislation’s impact on American society through a photography exhibition and panel of experts who […]

Strengthening Community by Building a City of Asylum in Rochester In 2004, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh opened with a mission: to provide sanctuary to literary writers who were exiled and under threat of persecution. Since then, this fertile organization has grown and enriched the entire Pittsburgh community. Through its public arts programming, bookstore featuring works in […]

Bridging Rochester’s Past & Present April 28, 2021, 12:00-1:30 pm (EDT) How can our past inform the present to help us build a better future? Our region has an incredibly rich history steeped in a sense of community and mutual obligation and has played​​ an important role in a range of activist movements promoting justice […]