Events
Engaging our communities
The Color of Children’s Literature Conference
Debbie Reese, Jean Mendoza, Linda Sue Park, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Kacen Callender, Roshani Chokshi, Michaela Goade, Raul the Third, Nikki Grimes, Adib Khorram, Minh Le, Nilah Bagruder, Aida Salazar, Traci Sorell, Duncan Tonatiuh, Ibi Zoboi, and more
Join Kweli for the third annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference, a conference for Indigenous and People of Color writers and illustrators to learn and connect with others in the industry. This year’s conference will honor the legacy of Walter Dean Myers, an award-winning Black writer of children’s and young adult literature.
Read MoreTrans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium
Elliot Montague, Emma Frankland, Texas Isaiah, Tourmaline, and Vick Quezada
#TransRevolutions Live captioning is available here. During the event, you can send questions for the Q&A by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu or via Twitter @bcrwtweets #TransRevolutions Trans*Revolutions is a virtual symposium featuring artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics. Elliot Montague (film), Emma Frankland (performance), Texas Isaiah […]
Read More[POSTPONED] Reproductive Injustice: A Salon Honoring Dána-Ain Davis
Dána-Ain Davis, Toni Bond, Cara Page, and Dorothy Roberts
Dána-Ain Davis’s new book Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU 2019) is a prescient investigation into the high rates of premature birth among Black women, finding that this problem is not explained by economic factors but ideas about race and reproduction with a deeper historical context rooted in the era of slavery.
Read More[CANCELED] Race for Profit: How the Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor & Charles H. Mcilwain University Preceptor Department of African American Studies
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (UNC Press 2019) uncovers how the the story of the end of housing discrimination through the prohibition of redlining in the late 1960s and early 1970s belies the continuation of exploitative real estate practices and a new, disasterous phenomenon of predatory inclusion.
Read MoreThe Haunted House of Classics
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Drawing on the writings of Avery Gordon, Saidiya Hartman, and César Sánchez Beras, Dan-el Padilla Peralta hopes to generate some critical momentum around the premise that Classics is a ghostly matter, haunted by its participation in global projects of race-making but insistent on denying responsibility for the violences committed in its name.
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean When We Say ‘Safety’?
Ariana Gonzalez Stokas and Mariame Kaba
What does it mean when we say 'safety'? You are invited to join a community project that explores this question through Barnard College and New York City archives.
Read MoreCritical Caribbean Feminisms: Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover
Join us for an evening with Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
Read MoreShange Salon
Join us to discuss Ntozake Shange's development as an artist over the course of her lifetime, and new ways of thinking about the confluence of language and movement and its implications for her work.
Read MoreDiscovery to Action: Change from the Poles to Our Shores
Robin E. Bell
Robin E. Bell will deliver the Roslyn Silver '27 Science Lecture to kick off the 45th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference.
Read More45th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Climate Crisis, Climate Justice
Hōkūlani K. Aikau, Xiye Bastida, Robin E. Bell, Ashley Dawson, Alexa Dietrich, Adriana Garriga-Lopez, Jane Gilbert, Alicia Grullón, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Meg McLagan, Marama Muru-Lanning, Fernando Ortiz-Baez, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Julie Sze, Neferti Tadiar, Lynnell Thomas, Juslene Tyresias, Paige West, and Thanu Yakupitiyage
This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will engage in site-specific analyses of climate crisis and climate justice in New York City, the Pacific, and the Caribbean and Gulf Coast. The conference will feature scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities alongside activists who will offer interdisciplinary approaches to the climate crisis and engage in discussions together and with the audience about where to go from here.
Read MoreThe Hottest August, a film by Brett Story
Director Brett Story and Meg McLagan, Visiting Professor of Professional Practice, Barnard College
A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present.
Read More‘A Woman Who Knows Her Magic’: An Immersive Shange Experience
Join us for a multimedia experience of words, sounds and images from Ntozake Shange’s works and influences. Built by Barnard students, faculty and staff. All welcome.
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