[CANCELED] Race for Profit: How the Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (UNC Press 2019) uncovers how the the story of the end of housing discrimination through the prohibition of redlining in the late 1960s and early 1970s belies the continuation of exploitative real estate practices and a new, disasterous phenomenon of predatory inclusion.
The Haunted House of Classics
Drawing on the writings of Avery Gordon, Saidiya Hartman, and César Sánchez Beras, Dan-el Padilla Peralta hopes to generate some critical momentum around the premise that Classics is a ghostly matter, haunted by its participation in global projects of race-making but insistent on denying responsibility for the violences committed in its name.
Shange Salon
Join us to discuss Ntozake Shange’s development as an artist over the course of her lifetime, and new ways of thinking about the confluence of language and movement and its implications for her work.
‘A Woman Who Knows Her Magic’: An Immersive Shange Experience
Join us for a multimedia experience of words, sounds and images from Ntozake Shange’s works and influences. Built by Barnard students, faculty and staff. All welcome.
Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Join us for an evening with Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
45th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Climate Crisis, Climate Justice
This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will engage in site-specific analyses of climate crisis and climate justice in New York City, the Pacific, and the Caribbean and Gulf Coast. The conference will feature scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities alongside activists who will offer interdisciplinary approaches to the climate crisis and engage in discussions together and with the audience about where to go from here.
The Rest I Make Up
A film celebrating the life and spirit of Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes (1930-2018) by Michelle Memran, Dasha Amsterdam Epstein Visiting Artist in Theatre, Barnard College.
S&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs
Celebrating the newest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, “Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures,” guest edited by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske (BC ’18), which invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what?
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
In their new book, Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, sociomedical scientist Rebecca Jordan-Young and cultural anthropologist Katrina Karkazis write a debunking life story of a molecule, prying it loose from over a century of misconceptions that undermine science even as they make myths and legends about this hormone seem scientific.
Transforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability
What do we mean when we talk about transformative justice and accountability? What does a survivor-centered response look like in practice?
On the Road to Abolition: Archiving Resistance to the Carceral State
Emily Thuma and Simon Balto, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss histories of resistance to prisons and policing, offering roadmaps and lessons for contemporary struggles.
What We Mean When We Say Free Them All: Lessons from the Social Justice Initiative
Join the BCRW Social Justice Institute residents La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald for a discussion of their work as artists, organizers, scholars, and visionaries responding to histories and ongoing manifestations of state and interpersonal violence.
Film screening: Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build
In “Decade of Fire,” Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires that consumed the South Bronx in the 1970s, uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our cities, and offering hope to communities on the brink today.
Engaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule: A Conversation
This conversation will highlight engagements with the archival record of the Danish West Indies, the islands now known as the United States Virgin Islands, featuring speakers who work on archival practice, and who are working to address structural inequalities in the ways these documents are situated.
A Gendered Brain? Shattering Sexist Science
Neuroscientist Gina Rippon will discuss the historical and political conditions that produced ideas of binary gender differences in our brains, how and why these misperceptions have persisted into the 21st century, and how the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience dispel these fallacies.
“If We Forget Ourselves, Who Will Be Left to Remember Us?”: A Conversation with Cherríe Moraga
Celebrated writer and activist Cherríe Moraga will speak to the issue of cultural amnesia in the United States and the recuperation of ancestral memory toward the radicalization of political consciousness and activism for the future.
The View From Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting “Objectivity”
Transgender journalists will address the problems of “objectivity” for trans journalists and trans subjects, and discuss how to chart a path of rigor, conscious subjectivity, and community accountability in the worlds of journalism and non-fiction storytelling.
Radical Black Women of Harlem: A Walking Tour
Learn about radical Black women who contributed to making Harlem a center of cultural innovation, radical politics and sustained activism throughout the twentieth century.
Black Imaginaries, Scandinavian Diasporas
Join Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark/West Indies), Ellen Nyman (Sweden), and La Vaughn Belle (St. Croix) for a conversation on the aesthetics of decolonization.
S&F Literary Spotlight: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi
Join award-winning writers Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness Like Water, and Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater, in a conversation on literary approaches to history, archives, and memory, moderated by Yvette Christiansë.
African Diasporic Countervisualities
This panel challenges the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region, highlighting inconvenient histories previously ignored, erased, silenced, ghosted.
Scholar and Feminist Conference: The Politics and Ethics of the Archive
The S&F Conference will bring together archivists, librarians, artists, activists, and scholars to discuss the particular political and ethical challenges that reside in the project of creating archives for communities and social justice movements.
The Extraordinary 2018 Eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii
Tina Neal will describe this summer’s intense volcanic unrest and eruption at one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and the highest-threat volcano in the United States, Kīlauea Volcano on the Island of Hawaii.
Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness
Robyn Maynard will discuss similarities and differences in histories, tactics, modes, and consequences of state violence targeting Black communities in the U.S., Canada and at the border, articulating critical questions and strategies for cross-border solidarity, organizing, and resistance in the current political moment.
“Moving Mountains and Liberating Dialogues”: Creating a Black Feminist Archaeology
Battle-Baptiste will discuss how she approached the work of studying the material past of captive African peoples, combining inquiries into her own identity and relationship to the field of archaeology, and an intersectional approach to African Diaspora archaeology through a Black feminist theoretical lens.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Salon in Honor of Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman’s highly anticipated new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (Norton, February 2019) wrestles with the question, “What is a free life?”
We Will Have Been Living Otherwise: Archiving in the Future Perfect Tense
What kind of archive safeguards or keeps company with or “summons,” to use Chimurenga Library’s words, a past that the present hasn’t yet caught up with? Can such a past or such an archive be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative?
Documentary Screening: Capturing the Flag
Exploring themes that are constantly sensationalized and manipulated by the media, “Capturing The Flag” offers deeply personal, often surprising perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election and its aftermath.
Literary Salon: History, Memory, Craft
Award-winning writers Zinzi Clemmons author of What We Lose (2017), and Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me (2018), will read from their novels and discuss related themes in their work.
Global Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures
Scholar-activists and organizers will discuss the hidden legacies of internationalist movements and reveal the potentials of decolonized feminist futures.