Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America
Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans’ psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve? As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues in her new book, Combat Trauma: War, Citizenship, and Post-9/11 America (2022), in the American public’s imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad, with […]
Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice
A conversation with contributors to a new book addressing the paradoxical persistence of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the pursuit of a more just world.
Choice or Chance? Driver-labor and Reproductive Justice
Co-authors of Spent Behind the Wheel will discuss the ways traditional taxis and the gigged driving sector profit from unfettered access to drivers’ reproductive labor.
Mother of Strangers
A reading with Suad Amiry from her new novel followed by a conversation with Rashid Khalidi
Redlining, Section 9, and the Future of Public Housing
Join us for a panel discussion and closing event for Undesign the Redline @ Barnard, a year-long exhibition and event series exploring the continued impact of redlining and predatory real estate practices on communities in Northern Manhattan and beyond. Our panelists will discuss issues facing New York’s public housing – which provides affordable homes for […]
Black, Queer & Trans: Mobilizing in the Caribbean and Beyond
Live transcription is available here. Embracing the spirit of the recent publication, Beyond Homophobia: Centering LGBTQ experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean (2020), activist photographer Amanda Taylor, BC ’22 will be in conversation with leading LGBTQ+ mobilizers who are creating networks of visibility and support for queer and trans life in Jamaica and beyond. Speakers include: Kymm […]
Ukraine Solidarity Event: (Getting Beyond) Doomsday Scrolling
Co-sponsored by BCRW AnomalousCo, an international transdisciplinary theatre collective based in New York City, is planning an urgent evening of solidarity with Ukraine and its refugees in New York. All proceeds from the benefit will go towards refugee assistance.Tickets can be purchased via the AnamalousCo website. The benefit will be held at The Center at West […]
Kweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference 2022
Join us March 25-27, 2022 for an incredible weekend with top editors, agents, authors and illustrators in the children’s book publishing world.
Organizing Transformative Justice Responses to Gender-based Violence and Campus Sexual Violence
Live transcription is available here. Resources mentioned during the conversation: – transformharm.org (online resource hub) – Fumbling Towards Repair (workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan) – Building Accountable Communities (transformative justice video series) – What is Transformative Justice? (video) – Podmapping Worksheet (by Mia Mingus for the BATJC) As university campuses struggle to meet […]
Faculty and Staff Cite-a-Thon
Kicking off the Cite Black Barnard spring programming and Black History Month, the second annual Black Barnard Cite-a-Thon on Thursday 2/10 will be an opportunity to collaboratively build a resource designed to recognize the contributions of Black Barnard faculty to scholarship, public intellectual life, and the arts. Participants will have time during the event to […]
Thinking Through Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism in the Context of the Nordics
Presented by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities A cumulative attack on ‘critical race theory’ has recently emerged from within government offices in the Global North, including the Nordic countries. Some have resulted in state legislatures banning educators from teaching this area of study, namely in the United States. In Western […]
The Art of Madness: Catastrophe, Memory, Desire
Three multimedia artists whose work forges pathways to healing amid trauma and grief will present recent works and reflect in dialogue about their creative processes.
Mad Mapping: A Guide to Creating an Emotional Safety Plan
In Fireweed Collective’s Mad Mapping workshop, we will explore anti-oppressive approaches to emotional wellbeing, as well as build strategies for coping with and transforming individual struggles, especially in the larger context of social injustice.
Mad Blackness*: Rage, Resistance, Refusal
This panel in the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, “Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing,” brings together scholars delving into the myriad ways that radical black creativity confronts quotidian anti-black violence and its ensuing traumas.
Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America
For this year’s Silver Science Lecture, in conjunction with the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, “Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing,” psychiatrist-anthropologist Helena Hansen will be joined in by Beck Jordan-Young to discuss the material intersections of addiction, social conditions, and racial violence.
Willful Subjects*: Decolonizing the Psychiatric Institution
Part of the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, “Living in Madness,” this panel explores institutional histories of psychiatry, focused on anti-institutional movements, radical institution-building, and alternate approaches to psychic life by practitioners and clinicians challenging the use of mental health systems as sites of state power, political oppression, and psychic violence.
Abolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice
Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned in #defundthepolice mobilizations, how this work fits into the larger abolitionist vision for a world without cages or borders, and the key strategic questions facing the movement now.
Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing
War, ecological destruction, land dispossession, occupation and policing, precarious access to shelter, and confinement in a total institution are among the conditions that are maddening, and yet upheld by powerful schemas that place value on profit, property, and hierarchy over collective wellbeing.
BCRW@50 Launch
Students, faculty, and staff from BCRW’s 50 year history will join us to discuss the significance of our varied legacies and how to carry them forward.
The Deep History of Incarceration
A lecture sketching the outlines of the prison in the ancient Mediterranean world, and how modern practices of incarceration are — and are not — unique.
WORDY: Sabra Moore Opening Exhibition and Artist’s Talk
WORDY: Sabra Moore is an exhibition of painted and sewn wall works and artist’s books from 1982-2018, the artist’s first exhibition at Barnard. Presented by the Barnard Archives and Special Collections.
Undesign the Redline @ Barnard Symposium
Undesign the Redline @ Barnard is an interactive exhibition that combines history, art, and storytelling with community outreach and collaboration.
Making Land Work For Good
Presented by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, a lecture by Molly Burhans (founder and director of GoodLands), moderated by Manan Ahmed (Department of History, Columbia University).
Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands
Tami Navarro will discuss her new book, Virgin Capital, with Tamara K. Nopper.
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 4): Bringing New People into the Work
How do we recruit more people to our groups, help them get deeply plugged in and feel co-stewardship of the work? How do we create and maintain supportive group culture as new people join? How do we set shared expectations and help new members build skills for accountability in the work? This workshop is part […]
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 3): Skills for Abolitionist Practice
A workshop with Dean Spade about giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups. Slides Poll results Resources Workshop template – slide deck template to put on a workshop about group culture and feedback in your mutual aid group (Google slideshow) Turning Toward Each Other: A Conflict Workbook In It Together – a new workbook/toolkit […]
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making
A workshop on planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups. This workshop is part of a series of four. Links to additional workshops in the series are below. Slides Poll results Resources Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video) Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video) Building Capacity […]
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes!
A workshop on group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
We Keep Us Safe: Collective Care and Resilience in New York City Public Housing
A conversation around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residents of NYCHA and how residents built networks of care and solidarity for each other.
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
La Marr Jurelle Bruce, author of How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity, will be joined in conversation by Farah Jasmine Griffin.