Events

With and Against Technoscience in the Aftermath

M. Murphy (University of Toronto)

Professor M. Murphy, author of The Economization of Life (Duke University Press, 2017), will deliver the BCRW Silver Science Lecture and F/ISTS Conference keynote.

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It’s All Policing, It’s All War: Chicago Organizers on Connecting Abolition and Demilitarization

Benji Hart, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Timmy Châu, and Dean Spade

ASL will be provided. Live transcription is available here. The prison and police abolition movement and the anti-war movement are often thought of as separate, siloed formations. However, in practice, organizers working to end racist, colonial, imperialist, patriarchial, ecocidal violence understand these to be the same fight. Join us for a conversation with Benji Hart, […]

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Abolition, antiwar

Unsilencing Slavery: A Celebration of Celia E. Naylor’s New Book

Celia Naylor (Barnard College) and Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University)

Celia E. Naylor (Professor of Africana Studies and History, Barnard College) will be joined by Natasha Lightfoot (Associate Professor of History, Columbia University) to discuss Naylor’s new book, Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica (University of Georgia Press, 2022, Gender and Slavery Series).

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Remaindered Life

Author Neferti Tadiar in Conversation with Erica Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir Puar

In Remaindered Life (Duke, 2022) Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life […]

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Kweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference

Presented by Kweli Journal Kweli’s annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference is designed to help emerging writers hone their craft, introduce them to established authors willing to share their experiences and expertise, and connect them with editors, agents and publishers who can introduce their art to the world. Over the years, dozens of writers—including Angeline Boulley, […]

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Essential to the Public: Libraries at the End of the World

Emily Drabinski

Live transcription is available here. Libraries are among the last funded public spaces open to the public. Anyone can enter a library and borrow a book, join a storytime, learn to read, meet with a friend, use the bathroom, warm up in the winter and cool down in the summer, among the many other resources […]

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Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College), Armaghan Ziaee (California State University, San Marcos), Eunice Seng (The University of Hong Kong), Ross Exo Adams (Bard College), and S.E. Eisterer (Princeton University), moderated by members of GSAPPX+ and Bryony Roberts

“Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” organized by Annoradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, is a multisited project consisting of articles and essays by authors around the world, published from 2019–2022 in the open-access online journals ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Aggregate.

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Mother Country Radicals

Zayd Ayers Dohrn (CU GSAS '06, Mother Country Radicals creator), Jamal Joseph (Columbia University), and Carol Becker (Columbia University School of the Arts)

Mother Country Radicals creator Zayd Ayers Dohrn ('06 GSAS) discusses the making of the podcast with Film professor Jamal Joseph and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.

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Survival and Mobilization: Mutual Aid in Migrant Justice Struggles

Nikki Marín Baena and Dean Spade

In conversation with Dean Spade, Nikki Marín Baena will share her experiences working for migrant justice with Mijente and Siembra NC.

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The 48th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Housing Justice/Housing Futures

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

This conference brings together housing scholars, city planners, tenant organizers, architects, designers, and artists and creatives whose work centers on the creation, preservation, and distribution of land and housing as a response to community needs. Drawing on years of collaborations facilitated by BCRW’s Housing and Poverty Working Group and the Undesign the Redline Exhibition project […]

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Abortion as Abolition

Rafa Kidvai (Repro Legal Defense Fund, founder)

The goal of this event is to bring light to activists and scholars dealing with the increased criminalization of abortion care and pregnancy outcomes, and how the police state and criminal legal system works in conflict with the principles of reproductive justice. Importantly, we want to frame self-managed abortion as an abolitionist praxis. We also […]

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Abolition, abortion

Trans Literature Now

Kay Gabriel, Denne Michele Norris, Casey Plett, and C. Riley Snorton, moderated by Jo Livingstone

Organized by the National Book Critics Circle and co-sponsored by BCRW, a conversation about the world of trans literature today.

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literature, trans