Minor Detail: The Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Salon in Honor of Adania Shibli
Adania Shibli will be joined by poet Layli Long Soldier and novelist Madeleine Thien to discuss Shibli’s haunting novel, Minor Detail.
Survival and Resistance: Mutual Aid in Disastrous Times
As we face cascading crises caused by the extractive systems that still determine the material conditions of our lives, mutual aid is proliferating and drawing more people into resistance work.
Soft Borders: Conversation with Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi
Visual artists Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi will be joined by Kaiama L. Glover to discuss migration, colonialism, memory, and identity in their artistic work and practice.
Livestreamed Concert by Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens performing live with Francesco Turrisi ASL interpretation by Brandon Kazen-Maddox Live transcription is available here. Introduction by Beck Jordan-Young Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with […]
“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
What dangerous myths are driving criminalization, policing, and incarceration? What steps can we take to abolish prisons?
“Pilgrim” and “Crow Requiem”: Screening and Talk with Cauleen Smith
Cauleen Smith’s short films “Pilgrim” (2016) and “Crow Requiem” (2015) offer two journeys through Black presence, life, culture, and history, provoking viewers into an experience of time and place that exceeds habitual borders.
Transformative Justice in the Apocalypse: Beyond Survival One Year Later
What are the tools, conversations, and actions we need to take in this moment of transformative justice and abolition work?
Visions of Abolition: Black Women’s Fight to End Mass Incarceration
Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.
“And what shall we do, we who did not die?”: A Reckoning with June Jordan
During this harrowing year, many of us have returned to June Jordan and her contemporaries in our search for wisdom, as well as provocation, to guide us through the calamities our time.
Teach In: Money-Handling and Taxes for Mutual Aid Groups
Click here to access Mike’s powerpoint slides from this event. This online teach-in is for mutual aid groups facing nuts and bolts issues that come with the work we’ve all been doing. How has your group been funnelling money to people in need, and what are the tax consequences? How should we store money we […]
Kweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference
Join us April 9th – 11th, 2021 for an incredible weekend with top editors, agents, authors and illustrators in the children’s book publishing world.
Crafting Objects, Crafting Community: Gender and Material Culture in American Religion
Jodi Eichler-Levine and Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada will be in conversation about their new books examining the role of material culture in shaping gender, memory, community, and identity in American Judaism and Catholicism.
Feed the Fire: A Cyber Symposium in Honor of Geri Allen
Celebrating the work of the late pianist, composer, improvisor, and educator Geri Allen, and launching the special issue of the journal Jazz and Culture, “The Power of Geri Allen.”
Queer Asylum: ‘This is Who I Am’ – LGBTQI+ Experiences of the UK Asylum Process
Performers will read first-hand accounts of the particular challenges faced by LGBTQI+ individuals seeking sanctuary and basic human rights in the UK.
We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity
Dean Spade, Ejeris Dixon, and Mariame Kaba discuss mutual aid as an abolitionist project.
Transformative Justice in the Era of #DefundPolice: Lessons from the Past, Strategizing for the Future
Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim will join us for a conversation about the history and development of transformative justice, its importance in current movements towards liberation, and everyday practices.
Taking Children: A History of American Terror
The three panelists will address the long history of policies of family separation in light of the current anti-migrant federal policy on the southern border of the United States.
The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics
A conversation on The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics, a new book by Janet Jakobsen.
Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration
Live transcription available at http://bit.ly/pastasprologue2020 Register here. This event will take place online from 4pm – 6pm ET on 5/8/20. Live captions will be provided. Contact bcrw@barnard.edu with any questions. For centuries incarcerated people and others have painted a grim and gruesome picture of conditions inside prisons and jails. There have been countless reports, testimonies, […]
Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium
#TransRevolutions Live captioning is available here. During the event, you can send questions for the Q&A by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu or via Twitter @bcrwtweets #TransRevolutions Trans*Revolutions is a virtual symposium featuring artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics. Elliot Montague (film), Emma Frankland (performance), Texas Isaiah […]
Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative Justice
Join us online for a conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elliott Fukui on the intersections of disability justice and transformative justice.
What Does It Mean When We Say ‘Safety’?
What does it mean when we say ‘safety’? You are invited to join a community project that explores this question through Barnard College and New York City archives.
Black Lesbian Conference: Revolutionary Wellness
BEYOND BOLD AND BRAVE presents the 3rd Biennial Black Lesbian Conference
The Hottest August, a film by Brett Story
A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present.
Discovery to Action: Change from the Poles to Our Shores
Robin E. Bell will deliver the Roslyn Silver ’27 Science Lecture to kick off the 45th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference.
Abolition Feminism: Celebrating 20 years of INCITE!
Join founders and generations of leaders of INCITE! for a discussion of the origins, genealogies, and futures of abolition feminism. The conversation will be followed by a reception honoring INCITE!’s 20 year anniversary.
“I Am Queen Mary”: Public Art and the Politics of Representation
In October 2019, an historic sculpture entitled “I Am Queen Mary” co-created by artists LaVaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers arrived at Barnard College on a long-term loan. Speakers will discuss how “I Am Queen Mary” contributes to and challenges the politics of public art, depictions of Black women in public art, and the history of Black women and representations of Black women in art at Barnard College.
[Postponed] Queer Asylum in Germany: Between Queer Liberalisms and Colonial Sexualities
Taking several specific case studies as point of departure, the project illustrates the central role of Eurocentric sexual regimes in determining the parameters of asylum the il/legal.
The Color of Children’s Literature Conference
Join Kweli for the third annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference, a conference for Indigenous and People of Color writers and illustrators to learn and connect with others in the industry. This year’s conference will honor the legacy of Walter Dean Myers, an award-winning Black writer of children’s and young adult literature.
[POSTPONED] Reproductive Injustice: A Salon Honoring Dána-Ain Davis
Dána-Ain Davis’s new book Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU 2019) is a prescient investigation into the high rates of premature birth among Black women, finding that this problem is not explained by economic factors but ideas about race and reproduction with a deeper historical context rooted in the era of slavery.