Events
Engaging our communities
Shange 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.
Read MoreThe Rest I Make Up
Michelle Memran, filmmaker and Dasha Amsterdam Epstein Visiting Artist in Theatre, in conversation with Gabri Christa, moderated by Alice Reagan
A film celebrating the life and spirit of Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes (1930-2018) by Michelle Memran, Dasha Amsterdam Epstein Visiting Artist in Theatre, Barnard College.
Read MoreThe View From Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting “Objectivity”
Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace
Transgender journalists will address the problems of "objectivity" for trans journalists and trans subjects, and discuss how to chart a path of rigor, conscious subjectivity, and community accountability in the worlds of journalism and non-fiction storytelling.
Read MoreFilm screening: Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build
Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian
In “Decade of Fire,” Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires that consumed the South Bronx in the 1970s, uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our cities, and offering hope to communities on the brink today.
Read MoreTestosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis, moderated by Helena Hansen
In their new book, Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, sociomedical scientist Rebecca Jordan-Young and cultural anthropologist Katrina Karkazis write a debunking life story of a molecule, prying it loose from over a century of misconceptions that undermine science even as they make myths and legends about this hormone seem scientific.
Read MoreS&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs
Andrea J. Ritchie
Celebrating the newest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, "Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures," guest edited by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske (BC '18), which invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what?
Read MoreTransforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability
Mariame Kaba, Stas Schmiedt, and Lea Roth
What do we mean when we talk about transformative justice and accountability? What does a survivor-centered response look like in practice?
Read MoreOn the Road to Abolition: Archiving Resistance to the Carceral State
Simon Balto and Emily Thuma, moderated by Mariame Kaba
Emily Thuma and Simon Balto, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss histories of resistance to prisons and policing, offering roadmaps and lessons for contemporary struggles.
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