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 10, 2020 • 4:00 pm
bcrw.barnard.edu
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elliott Fukui
Join us online for a conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elliott Fukui on the intersections of disability justice and transformative justice.
February 26, 2020 • 4:00 pm
BCRW Conference Room, 6th Floor Milstein, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Ariana Gonzalez Stokas and Mariame Kaba
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.
July 31, 2020 • 4:00 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
BEYOND BOLD AND BRAVE presents the 3rd Biennial Black Lesbian Conference
February 7, 2020 • 6:00 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Director Brett Story and Meg McLagan, Visiting Professor of Professional Practice, Barnard College
A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present.
February 8, 2020 • 10:00 am
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Robin E. Bell
Robin E. Bell will deliver the Roslyn Silver '27 Science Lecture to kick off the 45th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference.
April 30, 2020 • 6:00 pm
Beth Richie, Mimi Kim, Nadine Naber, Cara Page, Shana M. Griffin, Kiri Sailiata, and Angela Y. Davis
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.
April 27, 2020 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
La Vaughn Belle and Jeanette Ehlers with Ariana Gonzalez Stokas and Mabel O. Wilson, moderated by Monica L. Miller
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.
April 7, 2020 • 6:30 pm
Digital Humanities Center, 103 Milstein Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Mengia Hong Tschalaer
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.
April 3, 2020 • 6:30 pm
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Debbie Reese, Jean Mendoza, Linda Sue Park, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Kacen Callender, Roshani Chokshi, Michaela Goade, Raul the Third, Nikki Grimes, Adib Khorram, Minh Le, Nilah Bagruder, Aida Salazar, Traci Sorell, Duncan Tonatiuh, Ibi Zoboi, and more
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.
March 24, 2020 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond, Cara Page, and Dorothy Roberts
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.