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 26, 2018 • 4:00 pm
bcrw.barnard.edu
Kiyomi Fujikawa, Shannon Perez-Darby, and Mariame Kaba
Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing of those who do harm?
November 13, 2018 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Pooja Gehi, Cara Page, and Tarso Luís Ramos, moderated by Janet Jakobsen
How can the left develop more robust strategies to undermine and disrupt the powerful ascendance of the U.S. Right, and build a transformative intersectional social justice agenda?
November 8, 2018 • 7:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center
Roxane Gay and Katia D. Ulysse
These authors will discuss issues including the Caribbean and its diaspora, method, feminism, and gender in their work. The conversation with be followed by a moderated discussion.
April 24, 2018 • 4:00 pm
Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
A celebration of BCRW's work, appreciation for our incredible Director Tina Campt, and welcoming incoming Interim Director Elizabeth Castelli.
April 14, 2018 • 9:00 am
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, New York, NY 10027
Andrea Bible, Victoria Law, Andrea James, Valerie Seeley & Julia Shaw
The Survived and Punished NYC Mass Commutation Organizing Campaign is working to pressure NY State to commute the sentences of survivors of intimate partner violence and other racialized, gender-based violence who are in prison throughout the state.
July 27, 2018 • 6:00 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center
This will be the second bi-annual gathering for Black/African Descent Lesbians* and supporters to responsibly consider and engage important issues that can strengthen and support our individual and collective community work.
March 1, 2018 • 6:00 pm
Held Lecture Hall, 304 Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016), an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s current research examines race and public policy including American housing policies.
April 18, 2018 • 6:00 pm
Lehman Auditorium, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Clare Hemmings
Clare Hemmings will explore 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman conflicting views on gender, sexuality, race, and the means to bring about a political revolution. Hemmings shows that these are not contradictions but offerings for means of thinking through current dilemmas and power relations, and living through uncertainties.
October 9, 2018 • 6:00 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center
Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
Join us for a reading and conversation between authors Erna Brodber (Nothing’s Mat and The Rainmaker’s Mistake, among others) and Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun) in the expanded series Critical Caribbean Feminisms.
March 19, 2018 • 6:00 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Karen Barad
Karen Barad will consider the ways in which quantum physics troubles modernist conceptions of time, and asks whether quantum temporalities might offer radical political imaginaries for cohabiting this planet more justly.