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
March 7, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Online
Nikki Marín Baena and Dean Spade
In conversation with Dean Spade, Nikki Marín Baena will share her experiences working for migrant justice with Mijente and Siembra NC.
March 21, 2023 • 6:30 pm
Online
February 17, 2023 • 5:00 pm
March 9, 2023 • 6:30 pm
The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Columbia University
Zayd Ayers Dohrn (CU GSAS '06, Mother Country Radicals creator), Jamal Joseph (Columbia University), and Carol Becker (Columbia University School of the Arts)
Mother Country Radicals creator Zayd Ayers Dohrn ('06 GSAS) discusses the making of the podcast with Film professor Jamal Joseph and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.
February 16, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Online
Kay Gabriel, Denne Michele Norris, Casey Plett, and C. Riley Snorton, moderated by Jo Livingstone
Organized by the National Book Critics Circle and co-sponsored by BCRW, a conversation about the world of trans literature today.
April 27, 2023 • 6:00 pm
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
M. Murphy (University of Toronto)
Professor M. Murphy, author of The Economization of Life (Duke University Press, 2017), will deliver the BCRW Silver Science Lecture and F/ISTS Conference keynote.
March 20, 2023 • 6:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, and online
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College), Armaghan Ziaee (California State University, San Marcos), Eunice Seng (The University of Hong Kong), Ross Exo Adams (Bard College), and S.E. Eisterer (Princeton University), moderated by members of GSAPPX+ and Bryony Roberts
“Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” organized by Annoradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, is a multisited project consisting of articles and essays by authors around the world, published from 2019–2022 in the open-access online journals ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Aggregate.
April 19, 2023 • 6:00 pm
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Celia Naylor (Barnard College) and Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University)
Celia E. Naylor (Professor of Africana Studies and History, Barnard College) will be joined by Natasha Lightfoot (Associate Professor of History, Columbia University) to discuss Naylor’s new book, Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica (University of Georgia Press, 2022, Gender and Slavery Series).
January 25, 2023 • 6:00 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Julia Bacha (Director of Boycott), Ramya Krishnan (Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University), Alan Leveritt (Arkansas Times), and Lawrence Glickman (Professor of American Studies at Cornell University), moderated by Rozina Ali (The New York Times Magazine)
Join us for a screening of Boycott, a 2022 film that examines laws requiring states to certify a non-boycott of Israel to receive federal funds, and their far-reaching implications.
January 5, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Online
Dean Spade
Explore a vexing question being discussed in many movement groups: Should people be paid to do this work?