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 21, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Simon Balto and Emily Thuma, moderated by Mariame Kaba
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.
October 2, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald
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.
November 11, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian
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.
September 26, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro
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.
September 17, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Gina Rippon, Daphna Joel, and Giordana Grossi, moderated by Beck Jordan-Young
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.
September 12, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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.
November 19, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace
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.
April 7, 2019 • 10:45 am
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037
Asha Futterman and Mariame Kaba
Learn about radical Black women who contributed to making Harlem a center of cultural innovation, radical politics and sustained activism throughout the twentieth century.
March 5, 2019 • 6:00 pm
The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Jeannette Ehlers, Ellen Nyman, and La Vaughn Belle
Join Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark/West Indies), Ellen Nyman (Sweden), and La Vaughn Belle (St. Croix) for a conversation on the aesthetics of decolonization.
February 8, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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.