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 28, 2022 • 10:00 am
Online
April 12, 2022 • 6:30 pm
Online
Mimi Khúc, Jess X. Snow, and Bazeed, moderated by Vani Natarajan
Three multimedia artists whose work forges pathways to healing amid trauma and grief will present recent works and reflect in dialogue about their creative processes.
April 7, 2022 • 6:00 pm
Online
Antoinette Chen-See and Lilac Vylette Maldonado, Fireweed Collective
In Fireweed Collective's Mad Mapping workshop, we will explore anti-oppressive approaches to emotional wellbeing, as well as build strategies for coping with and transforming individual struggles, especially in the larger context of social injustice.
March 22, 2022 • 6:30 pm
Online
La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Kelly Baker Josephs, Théri Pickens, and JT Roane, moderated by Kaiama L. Glover
This panel in the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing," brings together scholars delving into the myriad ways that radical black creativity confronts quotidian anti-black violence and its ensuing traumas.
March 8, 2022 • 6:30 pm
Online
Helena Hansen in conversation with Beck Jordan-Young
For this year's Silver Science Lecture, in conjunction with the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing," psychiatrist-anthropologist Helena Hansen will be joined in by Beck Jordan-Young to discuss the material intersections of addiction, social conditions, and racial violence.
February 23, 2022 • 6:30 pm
Online
Liat Ben-Moshe, Emily Ng, Camille Robcis, and Lara Sheehi, moderated by Ann Pellegrini
Part of the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "Living in Madness," this panel explores institutional histories of psychiatry, focused on anti-institutional movements, radical institution-building, and alternate approaches to psychic life by practitioners and clinicians challenging the use of mental health systems as sites of state power, political oppression, and psychic violence.
March 1, 2022 • 7:00 pm
Online
Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade
Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned in #defundthepolice mobilizations, how this work fits into the larger abolitionist vision for a world without cages or borders, and the key strategic questions facing the movement now.
February 23, 2022 • 6:30 pm
Online
War, ecological destruction, land dispossession, occupation and policing, precarious access to shelter, and confinement in a total institution are among the conditions that are maddening, and yet upheld by powerful schemas that place value on profit, property, and hierarchy over collective wellbeing.
January 27, 2022 • 6:30 pm
Online
Eve Kausch ‘18, Alex Volgyesi ‘22, Tapiwa Gambura ‘24, Janet Jakobsen, Temma Kaplan, and Tina Campt
Students, faculty, and staff from BCRW's 50 year history will join us to discuss the significance of our varied legacies and how to carry them forward.
March 29, 2022 • 6:30 pm
Online
Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney
A lecture sketching the outlines of the prison in the ancient Mediterranean world, and how modern practices of incarceration are — and are not — unique.