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Events

Events

Upcoming

November 10, 2026 • 6:00 pm

James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall

Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture

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

1968 protest newspaper cover
March 6, 2018 • 6:00 pm

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York

1968 and Its Afterlives: Reflecting on Campus Activism Past, Present and Future

Elizabeth Langer '68, Nancy Biberman (SDS) '69, Karla Spurlock-Evans (SAS) '71, DaMonique Ballou '17, and Krish Bhatt '18

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the historic 1968 protests at Barnard and Columbia, BCRW will host a conversation reflecting on the role of Barnard students in these transformative events and the history of campus activism that converged in 1968 and continue into the present.
surveillance camera
February 16, 2018 • 6:00 pm

Diana Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

S&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence

Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade

This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.
Gwendolyn Brooks
November 16, 2017 • 7:00 pm

Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway

A Centennial Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks

Jericho Brown, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Erica Hunt, Darryl Pinckney, and others

Combahee River Collective Mixtape: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent Then and Now
November 15, 2017 • 6:00 pm

Event Oval, The Dana Center, 3009 Broadway

Invisible No More
November 3, 2017 • 4:00 pm

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York

Invisible No More: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color in Troubled Times

Barbara Smith, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Tourmaline, Mariame Kaba & others

This conference is the first in a series of events taking place in the midwest, south, and west coast to explore and support ongoing resistance to police violence against Black women and women of color.
Occupied toilet
October 16, 2017 • 6:00 pm

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York

Public housing protest photo large
October 10, 2017 • 6:00 pm

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York

Pauli Murray
September 25, 2017 • 6:00 pm

Diana Event Oval, 3009 Broadway, New York, New York

‘Song in a Weary Throat’: Pauli Murray’s Life and Legacy

Rosalind Rosenberg, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) & Monica L. Miller

Listening to Images by Tina Campt (entire cover)
September 14, 2017 • 6:00 pm

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York

Listening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt

Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas

Harlem Walking
April 3, 2017 • 6:00 pm

Ella Weed Room, Milbank Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

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