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
February 24, 2023 • 6:00 pm
The Diana Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Keynote by Rhonda Y. Williams (Vanderbilt University) and Keisha-Khan Perry (University of Pennsylvania), presentations by Ariana Allensworth (artist), Lisa Bates (Portland State University), April DeSimone (We Arch.), Sekiya Dorsett (filmmaker, I Love Bed-Stuy), Jenna Freedman (Barnard College), Nicole Greaves (Bridge Street Development Corporation),Renee Gregory (The Brownstoners), Lisa Lee (National Public Housing Museum), Oksana Mironova (Community Service Society of New York), Obden Mondésir (Barnard College), Sam Rabiyah (THE CITY and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project), Elora Lee Raymond (Georgia Tech), Mary Rocco (Barnard College), Akira Drake Rodriguez (University of Pennsylvania), Save Section 9, Jacqueline Paul Sims (Affordable Housing Resources, Inc.), Vanessa Thill (Barnard College), Tela Troge (Law Offices of Tela L. Troge), Michael Williams (Nostrand Willoughby Block Association), Stefani Zinerman (Assemblymember 56th District, New York), and a live performance by Sydnie L. Mosley Dances
December 1, 2022 • 6:00 pm
BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Author Manijeh Moradian in Conversation with Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai
Manijeh Moradian will be joined by Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai to discuss her new book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022).
December 10, 2022 • 4:30 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Ai-jen Poo, President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
The inaugural Grace Lee Boggs ‘35 Lecture given by keynote speaker Ai-jen Poo, President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, followed by a conversation with Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History and co-Director of BCRW.
September 23, 2022 • 4:00 pm
Glicker Milstein Theatre, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
A weekend symposium asking, "What is the work of the immigrant?"
December 7, 2022 • 6:00 pm
LL 002, Milstein Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Malkia Okech
Join us for an archive and art workshop that considers grounding our resistance to police and prisons through history and art.
October 26, 2022 • 6:00 pm
Online
Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma in conversation with Eve Glazier (BC '23)
Scholars, activists, and archivists will discuss the relationship between archives, the carceral state, and documenting resistance movements against prisons.
September 28, 2022 • 6:00 pm
Online
A conversation with Anisah Sabur-Mumin, Andrea Williams, and Rhea Mallett, moderated by Obden Mondésir
A conversation between former members of the Coalition for Women Prisoners on archives, oral history, and organizing.
November 15, 2022 • 7:00 pm
Online
A conversation with Harsha Walia, William Anderson, and Dean Spade
This event gathers three leading thinkers whose work questions the desire to take over the state, to discuss the stakes of this question for abolitionist work right now.
November 10, 2022 • 7:00 pm
Online
A conversation with Erin Miles Cloud, Jasmine Wali, and Shannon Perez-Darby moderated by Dean Spade
How do movements for abolition of mandatory reporting and family policing intersect with larger movements for abolition of the criminal legal system?
October 19, 2022 • 6:00 pm
Event Oval, The Diana Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
The Helen Pond McIntyre '28 Lecture by Dana-Ain Davis, in conversation with Sarah Haley
Dana-Ain Davis will discuss her work on the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants.