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A striking black and white portrait of an African American woman with natural hair, showcasing strength and resilience.
October 22, 2025 • 7:00 pm

Schomburg Center

Saul Williams on Black Experimentation, Fugitive Pedagogies, and the Art of Resistance

Saul Williams and Shana L. Redmond

Poet, musician, filmmaker, actor and intellectual Saul Williams discusses the relationships between aesthetic forms and political education in conversation with Dr. Shana Redmond, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference. Reflecting on practices of Black experimentation—in language, music, and film—this dialogue explores the various sites of enclosure and foreclosure, from the nation state to the university, that bear upon the present and what practices are necessary to enact more just futures.
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October 2, 2025 • 6:30 pm

James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, Barnard College

Black Feminist Ethnographies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Darlène Dubuisson, Prisca Gayles, Amelia Simone Herbert, and Maricarmen Hernandez

Join us for an engaging joint-book discussion with Professors Darlène Dubuisson (University of California - Berkeley) and Prisca Gayles (University of Nevada - Reno) as they explore the intersecting themes of their recent books, Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures and Pain into Purpose.
A powerful black-and-white portrait of a confident woman.
August 19, 2025 • 4:00 pm

BCRW Conference Room, Milstein 614

Milisuthando: Intimacy, Race, and Belonging in Apartheid South Africa

Milisuthando Bongela and Amelia Herbert

MILISUTHANDO is a deeply intimate portrait of filmmaker, writer and poet Milisuthando Bongela’s youth in South Africa. The self-titled documentary explores love, friendship and belonging in a South Africa stratified by racism, proving that only if we understand its tentacles, can we begin to extricate ourselves from its clutches.
Alternative text: Protest poster with bold text urging organization to end poverty, featuring authors Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss.
May 22, 2025 • 6:00 pm

Online

You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back in conversation with Aaron Scott & Ciara Taylor

Drawing from personal experience, history, religion, political strategy, and more, Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back argue that American poverty will through a mass movement open to all and led by the poor.
Alt text: Cover of "Botany of Empire" book featuring green foliage and a scientific plant illustration.
April 24, 2025 • 6:30 pm

150 W 62nd Street, Room 3-03, Fordham Law School

Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism

Banu Subramaniam (Wellesley College), Rebecca Jordan-Young (Barnard College), and Natali Valdez (Fordham University)

Banu Subramanian, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Natali Valdez will discuss how botany’s foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions.
Diverse women and children in line, illustrated with vibrant colors emphasizing community and hope.
April 22, 2025 • 12:00 pm

BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center

Missionary Women and the Imperial Roots of White Evangelical Feminism

Gale L. Kenny

Exploring the origins of a new world order in Christian imperial feminism.
Bright yellow background with "LOVE" repeated in bold red text, emphasizing themes of love and connection.
February 26, 2025 • 7:00 pm

Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

Dean Spade (author) and Thảo Nguyễn (Thao and the Get Down Stay Down)

Explore how we can challenge harmful cultural norms around sex, dating, romance and friendship while building relationships rooted in freedom and healing.
Close-up of book cover titled "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Nina Sharma, featuring vibrant orange, yellow, and blue text design.
February 13, 2025 • 12:00 pm

BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center

The Way You Make Me Funny

Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel

How can humor be feminist? How can humor help us tell the hard truths?
Rage, struggle, freedom
December 4, 2024 • 7:00 pm

Online

Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Unveiling Feminist Perspectives on Global Crises

Margo Okazawa-Rey, Elif Sarican, Gwyn Kirk, Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen

Launching the Scholar and Feminist issue 20.1 with guest editors Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican and contributors Gwyn Kirk and Şervîn Nûdem, moderated by Premilla Nadasen.
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April 18, 2024 • 6:30 pm

Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) and Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)

Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) will be joined by Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss her new book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2023), a powerful critique of capitalist care relations and the economic profit extracted from care.
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