Events
Engaging our communities
Organizing Transformative Justice Responses to Gender-based Violence and Campus Sexual Violence
Xhercis Méndez in conversation with Dean Spade
Live transcription is available here. Resources mentioned during the conversation: – transformharm.org (online resource hub) – Fumbling Towards Repair (workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan) – Building Accountable Communities (transformative justice video series) – What is Transformative Justice? (video) – Podmapping Worksheet (by Mia Mingus for the BATJC) As university campuses struggle to meet […]
Read MoreThe Art of Madness: Catastrophe, Memory, Desire
Mimi Khúc, Jess X. Snow, and Bazeed, moderated by Vani Natarajan
Three multimedia artists whose work forges pathways to healing amid trauma and grief will present recent works and reflect in dialogue about their creative processes.
Read MoreMad Mapping: A Guide to Creating an Emotional Safety Plan
Antoinette Chen-See and Lilac Vylette Maldonado, Fireweed Collective
In Fireweed Collective's Mad Mapping workshop, we will explore anti-oppressive approaches to emotional wellbeing, as well as build strategies for coping with and transforming individual struggles, especially in the larger context of social injustice.
Read MoreThe Deep History of Incarceration
Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney
A lecture sketching the outlines of the prison in the ancient Mediterranean world, and how modern practices of incarceration are — and are not — unique.
Read MoreKweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference 2022
Join us March 25-27, 2022 for an incredible weekend with top editors, agents, authors and illustrators in the children's book publishing world.
Read MoreMad Blackness*: Rage, Resistance, Refusal
La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Kelly Baker Josephs, Théri Pickens, and JT Roane, moderated by Kaiama L. Glover
This panel in the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing," brings together scholars delving into the myriad ways that radical black creativity confronts quotidian anti-black violence and its ensuing traumas.
Read MoreUkraine Solidarity Event: (Getting Beyond) Doomsday Scrolling
Co-sponsored by BCRW AnomalousCo, an international transdisciplinary theatre collective based in New York City, is planning an urgent evening of solidarity with Ukraine and its refugees in New York. All proceeds from the benefit will go towards refugee assistance.Tickets can be purchased via the AnamalousCo website. The benefit will be held at The Center at West […]
Read MoreWORDY: Sabra Moore Opening Exhibition and Artist’s Talk
WORDY: Sabra Moore is an exhibition of painted and sewn wall works and artist’s books from 1982-2018, the artist's first exhibition at Barnard. Presented by the Barnard Archives and Special Collections.
Read MoreWhiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America
Helena Hansen in conversation with Beck Jordan-Young
For this year's Silver Science Lecture, in conjunction with the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing," psychiatrist-anthropologist Helena Hansen will be joined in by Beck Jordan-Young to discuss the material intersections of addiction, social conditions, and racial violence.
Read MoreAbolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice
Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade
Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned in #defundthepolice mobilizations, how this work fits into the larger abolitionist vision for a world without cages or borders, and the key strategic questions facing the movement now.
Read MoreThinking Through Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism in the Context of the Nordics
Presented by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities A cumulative attack on ‘critical race theory’ has recently emerged from within government offices in the Global North, including the Nordic countries. Some have resulted in state legislatures banning educators from teaching this area of study, namely in the United States. In Western […]
Read MoreLiving in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing
War, ecological destruction, land dispossession, occupation and policing, precarious access to shelter, and confinement in a total institution are among the conditions that are maddening, and yet upheld by powerful schemas that place value on profit, property, and hierarchy over collective wellbeing.
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