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
February 11, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
La Vaughn Belle, Vanessa Valdes, and Dixa Ramirez, moderated by Tina Campt
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.
February 9, 2019 • 8:00 pm
The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Akwaeke Emezi, Jarrett Drake, Chinelo Okparanta, C. Riley Snorton, and more.
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.
April 9, 2019 • 6:30 pm
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Tina Neal
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.
April 11, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Robyn Maynard, author of best-selling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
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.
March 11, 2019 • 6:30 pm
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Whitney Battle-Baptiste
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.
March 4, 2019 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Saidiya Hartman with Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, and Alexander G. Weheliye, moderated by Tina Campt
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?”
February 25, 2019 • 6:30 pm
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Avery Gordon
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?
October 30, 2018 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Filmmaker Anne de Mare with Flora Davidson
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.
October 22, 2018 • 6:00 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center
Zinzi Clemmons and Crystal Hana Kim
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.
September 22, 2018 • 10:00 am
The People's Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018
Mary Helen Washington, Vijay Prashad, and others
Scholar-activists and organizers will discuss the hidden legacies of internationalist movements and reveal the potentials of decolonized feminist futures.