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Making Land Work For Good
Molly Burhans
Presented by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, a lecture by Molly Burhans (founder and director of GoodLands), moderated by Manan Ahmed (Department of History, Columbia University).
Read MoreSurvival and Resistance: Mutual Aid in Disastrous Times
Naomi Klein, Dean Spade, adrienne maree brown, Klee Benally, and Chandan Reddy (moderator)
As we face cascading crises caused by the extractive systems that still determine the material conditions of our lives, mutual aid is proliferating and drawing more people into resistance work.
Read More“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
Victoria Law and Andrea J. Ritchie
What dangerous myths are driving criminalization, policing, and incarceration? What steps can we take to abolish prisons?
Read MoreLivestreamed Concert by Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens performing live with Francesco Turrisi ASL interpretation by Brandon Kazen-Maddox Live transcription is available here. Introduction by Beck Jordan-Young Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with […]
Read MoreKweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference
Elizabeth Acevedo, Thanhha Lai, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and more
Join us April 9th - 11th, 2021 for an incredible weekend with top editors, agents, authors and illustrators in the children's book publishing world.
Read MoreSoft Borders: Conversation with Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi
Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College
Visual artists Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi will be joined by Kaiama L. Glover to discuss migration, colonialism, memory, and identity in their artistic work and practice.
Read More“And what shall we do, we who did not die?”: A Reckoning with June Jordan
Asha Futterman (BC '21), Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Evie Shockley, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
During this harrowing year, many of us have returned to June Jordan and her contemporaries in our search for wisdom, as well as provocation, to guide us through the calamities our time.
Read MoreVisions of Abolition: Black Women’s Fight to End Mass Incarceration
Nicole Fleetwood
Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.
Read More“Pilgrim” and “Crow Requiem”: Screening and Talk with Cauleen Smith
Cauleen Smith (filmmaker, Professor, California Institute of the Arts) in conversation with Tina Campt (Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University)
Cauleen Smith’s short films “Pilgrim” (2016) and “Crow Requiem” (2015) offer two journeys through Black presence, life, culture, and history, provoking viewers into an experience of time and place that exceeds habitual borders.
Read MoreTransformative Justice in the Apocalypse: Beyond Survival One Year Later
Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, RJ Maccani, India Harris, YaliniDream, and Woods Ervin, moderated by Kenyon Farrow
What are the tools, conversations, and actions we need to take in this moment of transformative justice and abolition work?
Read MoreTeach In: Money-Handling and Taxes for Mutual Aid Groups
Mike Haber and Dean Spade
Click here to access Mike’s powerpoint slides from this event. This online teach-in is for mutual aid groups facing nuts and bolts issues that come with the work we’ve all been doing. How has your group been funnelling money to people in need, and what are the tax consequences? How should we store money we […]
Read MoreCrafting Objects, Crafting Community: Gender and Material Culture in American Religion
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada
Jodi Eichler-Levine and Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada will be in conversation about their new books examining the role of material culture in shaping gender, memory, community, and identity in American Judaism and Catholicism.
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