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
September 17, 2025 • 5:30 pm
The Herb Alpert Center, Harlem School of the Arts
Dylan Rodríguez and Ezekiel Dixon-Román
Organized on the occasion of the centennial of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon, Freedom and Insurgence brings together Dylan Rodríguez and Ezekiel Dixon-Román for a conversation about capacious and generative approaches to mass intellectuality. The speakers approach the global legacies of Fanon’s thought on ‘archives of the possible,’ which illuminate approaches to the problem of democratic education and the crisis of the university in our times.
August 19, 2025 • 4:00 pm
BCRW Conference Room, Milstein 614
Milisuthando Bongela and Amelia Herbert
MILISUTHANDO is a deeply intimate portrait of filmmaker, writer and poet Milisuthando Bongela’s youth in South Africa. The self-titled documentary explores love, friendship and belonging in a South Africa stratified by racism, proving that only if we understand its tentacles, can we begin to extricate ourselves from its clutches.
October 30, 2025 • 6:30 pm
Online
Kim Hall, Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura
Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Africana Studies Kim Hall’s new book The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean (The University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2025) centers the complicated history of sugar in order to ask what lies beyond its narrative of pleasure.
April 8, 2026 • 6:30 pm
Steven Watson and Tourmaline
For over forty years, cultural historian Steven Watson has documented the stories and artwork at the leading edge of artistic and cultural movements, including the movement for queer and trans liberation. Working in collaboration with filmmaker William Markarian-Martin, Steven recently launched Artifacts, making his collection of rare, firsthand accounts from pioneers such as Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Holly Woodlawn, and many others accessible to students, researchers, and anyone interested in connecting to queer and trans history. Watson’s archival collection foregrounds the importance of engaging with and animating trans and queer histories in order to combat the present-day erasure of trans lives.
October 2, 2025 • 6:30 pm
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, Barnard College
Darlène Dubuisson, Prisca Gayles, Amelia Simone Herbert, and Maricarmen Hernandez
Join us for an engaging joint-book discussion with Professors Darlène Dubuisson (University of California - Berkeley) and Prisca Gayles (University of Nevada - Reno) as they explore the intersecting themes of their recent books, Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures and Pain into Purpose.
November 6, 2025 • 6:30 pm
Event Oval, Diana Center, Barnard College
Tourmaline in conversation with C. Riley Snorton
For the Helen Pond McIntyre ‘48 Lecture, Tourmaline will join C. Riley Snorton for a discussion of her new biography of Marsha P. Johnson. They will explore finding creative guidance in the archive, the power of Johnson’s life as a blueprint for living today, and the continued struggle for queer and trans liberation.
May 22, 2025 • 6:00 pm
Online
The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back in conversation with Aaron Scott & Ciara Taylor
Drawing from personal experience, history, religion, political strategy, and more, Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back argue that American poverty will through a mass movement open to all and led by the poor.
February 26, 2025 • 7:00 pm
Dean Spade (author) and Thảo Nguyễn (Thao and the Get Down Stay Down)
Explore how we can challenge harmful cultural norms around sex, dating, romance and friendship while building relationships rooted in freedom and healing.
April 24, 2025 • 6:30 pm
150 W 62nd Street, Room 3-03, Fordham Law School
Banu Subramaniam (Wellesley College), Rebecca Jordan-Young (Barnard College), and Natali Valdez (Fordham University)
Banu Subramanian, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Natali Valdez will discuss how botany’s foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions.
April 22, 2025 • 12:00 pm
BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center
Gale L. Kenny
Exploring the origins of a new world order in Christian imperial feminism.