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
December 4, 2024 • 7:00 pm
Online
Margo Okazawa-Rey, Elif Sarican, Gwyn Kirk, Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen
Launching the Scholar and Feminist issue 20.1 with guest editors Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican and contributors Gwyn Kirk and Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen.
February 13, 2025 • 12:00 pm
BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center
Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel
How can humor be feminist? How can humor help us tell the hard truths?
April 11, 2024 • 12:00 pm
BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center, Barnard College
Anooradha Siddiqi (Assistant Professor of Architecture, Barnard College)
Join Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi for a conversation on Architecture of Migration, exploring the Dadaab refugee camps as complex architectural, political, and material landscapes. Siddiqi challenges notions of refugee camps as temporary, placeless environments, revealing how histories of migration, colonialism, humanitarianism, and settlement shape their spaces and communities.
April 18, 2024 • 6:30 pm
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) and Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) will be joined by Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss her new book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2023), a powerful critique of capitalist care relations and the economic profit extracted from care.
April 16, 2024 • 6:30 pm
Online
Anna Elena Torres, Kenyon Zimmer, and Samuel Brody, moderated by Janet Jakobsen
Join Anna Elena Torres, Kenyon Zimmer, and Samuel Brody for a conversation on With Freedom in Our Ears, exploring the overlooked history of Jewish anarchism. The discussion examines its influence on radical labor, political theory, literature, and culture, revealing a diverse, international tradition shaped by secular, religious, and revolutionary ideas.
April 10, 2024 • 6:30 pm
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, Barnard College
Hilary S. Callahan (Barnard College), Elizabeth M. Cook (Barnard College), and María S. Rivera Maulucci (Barnard College)
Co-editors and contributors will discuss their book investigating how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation.
April 6, 2024 • 9:30 am
Diana Center, Event Oval, Barnard College
This conference will bring together scholars, organizers, and artists to think together about the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change. The conference will draw on the long history of organizing, study, thinking, and praxis forged by feminist activists, organizers, scholars, and artists who have expanded our political analysis […]
December 4, 2023 • 6:00 pm
Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall in Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University), Jafari Sinclaire Allen (Columbia University), Jack Halberstam (Columbia University), Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College), Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College), moderated by Sarah Haley (Columbia University)
October 26, 2023 • 4:30 pm
BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center, Barnard College
November 9, 2023 • 7:30 pm
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall