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
April 9, 2021 • 8:00 am
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Elizabeth Acevedo, Thanhha Lai, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and more
Join us April 9th - 11th, 2021 for an incredible weekend with top editors, agents, authors and illustrators in the children's book publishing world.
January 21, 2021 • 5:30 pm
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada
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.
November 5, 2020 • 9:30 am
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Terri Lyne Carrington, Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Fred Moten, and more
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.”
October 14, 2020 • 4:00 pm
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Performers will read first-hand accounts of the particular challenges faced by LGBTQI+ individuals seeking sanctuary and basic human rights in the UK.
November 12, 2020 • 7:00 pm
Dean Spade, Mariame Kaba, and Ejeris Dixon
Dean Spade, Ejeris Dixon, and Mariame Kaba discuss mutual aid as an abolitionist project.
October 21, 2020 • 4:00 pm
Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim
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.
December 1, 2020 • 6:30 pm
Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, Valeria Luiselli
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.
October 1, 2020 • 7:00 pm
bcrw.barnard.edu
Janet Jakobsen in conversation with Sydnie Mosley, Ann Pellegrini, Pamela Phillips, Dean Spade, and Tourmaline
A conversation on The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics, a new book by Janet Jakobsen.
May 8, 2020 • 4:00 pm
Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.
March 27, 2020 • 2:00 pm