Events
Upcoming
November 10, 2026 • 6:00 pm
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Maja Horn, Carlos U. Decena, Rosamond S. King, Mariley Melo, and Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Join us for an intergenerational conversation in celebration of Maja Horn's Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture (University Press of Florida, 2025).
Past events
October 22, 2021 • 3:00 pm
Online
Adania Shibli in conversation with Layli Long Soldier and Madeleine Thien
Adania Shibli will be joined by poet Layli Long Soldier and novelist Madeleine Thien to discuss Shibli's haunting novel, Minor Detail.
May 7, 2021 • 2:00 pm
Naomi Klein, Dean Spade, adrienne maree brown, Klee Benally, and Chandan Reddy (moderator)
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.
April 5, 2021 • 6:30 pm
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Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College
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.
April 16, 2021 • 2:00 pm
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May 4, 2021 • 6:30 pm
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Victoria Law and Andrea J. Ritchie
What dangerous myths are driving criminalization, policing, and incarceration? What steps can we take to abolish prisons?
March 15, 2021 • 6:30 pm
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Cauleen Smith (filmmaker, Professor, California Institute of the Arts) in conversation with Tina Campt (Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University)
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.
March 11, 2021 • 7:00 pm
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Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, RJ Maccani, India Harris, YaliniDream, and Woods Ervin, moderated by Kenyon Farrow
What are the tools, conversations, and actions we need to take in this moment of transformative justice and abolition work?
March 18, 2021 • 6:30 pm
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Nicole Fleetwood
Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.
April 1, 2021 • 6:30 pm
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Asha Futterman (BC '21), Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Evie Shockley, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
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.
February 9, 2021 • 6:30 pm