Events
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Boycott
Julia Bacha (Director of Boycott), Ramya Krishnan (Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University), Alan Leveritt (Arkansas Times), and Lawrence Glickman (Professor of American Studies at Cornell University), moderated by Rozina Ali (The New York Times Magazine)
Join us for a screening of Boycott, a 2022 film that examines laws requiring states to certify a non-boycott of Israel to receive federal funds, and their far-reaching implications.
Read MoreShould Social Movement Work be Paid?
Dean Spade
Explore a vexing question being discussed in many movement groups: Should people be paid to do this work?
Read MoreTeaching with the Archive: Feminist Abolition
Malkia Okech
Join us for an archive and art workshop that considers grounding our resistance to police and prisons through history and art.
Read MoreThis Flame Within
Author Manijeh Moradian in Conversation with Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai
Manijeh Moradian will be joined by Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai to discuss her new book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022).
Read MoreNo borders! No prisons! No cops! No war! No state?
A conversation with Harsha Walia, William Anderson, and Dean Spade
This event gathers three leading thinkers whose work questions the desire to take over the state, to discuss the stakes of this question for abolitionist work right now.
Read MoreAbolish 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.
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