Events
Engaging our communities
Abolish Mandatory Reporting and Family Policing
A conversation with Erin Miles Cloud, Jasmine Wali, and Shannon Perez-Darby moderated by Dean Spade
How do movements for abolition of mandatory reporting and family policing intersect with larger movements for abolition of the criminal legal system?
Read MoreAbolitionist Feminism in the Archive
Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma in conversation with Eve Glazier (BC '23)
Scholars, activists, and archivists will discuss the relationship between archives, the carceral state, and documenting resistance movements against prisons.
Read MoreCombat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America
Conversation with author Nadia Abu El-Haj and journalist Anjali Kamat
Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans’ psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve? As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues in her new book, Combat Trauma: War, Citizenship, and Post-9/11 America (2022), in the American public’s imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad, with […]
Read MoreReproductive Injustice
The Helen Pond McIntyre '28 Lecture by Dana-Ain Davis, in conversation with Sarah Haley
Dana-Ain Davis will discuss her work on the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants.
Read MoreThe Only Way To Survive Is By Taking Care of One Another: Reflections on Care Work
Ai-jen Poo, President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
The inaugural Grace Lee Boggs ‘35 Lecture given by keynote speaker Ai-jen Poo, President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, followed by a conversation with Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History and co-Director of BCRW.
Read MoreParadoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice
Book launch with co-editors Janet Jakobsen and Elizabeth Bernstein and contributors
A conversation with contributors to a new book addressing the paradoxical persistence of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the pursuit of a more just world.
Read MoreChoice or Chance? Driver-labor and Reproductive Justice
Co-authors Kasturi Ray (BC '83) and Julietta Hua in conversation with Janet Jakobsen
Co-authors of Spent Behind the Wheel will discuss the ways traditional taxis and the gigged driving sector profit from unfettered access to drivers’ reproductive labor.
Read MoreListening to the Archives: Movements Against Women’s Imprisonment
A conversation with Anisah Sabur-Mumin, Andrea Williams, and Rhea Mallett, moderated by Obden Mondésir
A conversation between former members of the Coalition for Women Prisoners on archives, oral history, and organizing.
Read MoreLabor of Love: Performance and Politics in the South Asian Diaspora
A weekend symposium asking, "What is the work of the immigrant?"
Read MoreMother of Strangers
A reading with Suad Amiry and conversation with Rashid Khalidi
A reading with Suad Amiry from her new novel followed by a conversation with Rashid Khalidi
Read MoreRedlining, Section 9, and the Future of Public Housing
April De Simone, Samelys Lopez '01, and Ramona Ferreyra, moderated by Vanessa Thill '13
Join us for a panel discussion and closing event for Undesign the Redline @ Barnard, a year-long exhibition and event series exploring the continued impact of redlining and predatory real estate practices on communities in Northern Manhattan and beyond. Our panelists will discuss issues facing New York’s public housing – which provides affordable homes for […]
Read MoreBlack, Queer & Trans: Mobilizing in the Caribbean and Beyond
Amanda Taylor BC '22 in conversation with Kymm Foster, Emani Edwards, and Chaday Emmanuel
Live transcription is available here. Embracing the spirit of the recent publication, Beyond Homophobia: Centering LGBTQ experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean (2020), activist photographer Amanda Taylor, BC ’22 will be in conversation with leading LGBTQ+ mobilizers who are creating networks of visibility and support for queer and trans life in Jamaica and beyond. Speakers include: Kymm […]
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