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Liat Ben-Moshe, Emily Ng, Camille Robcis, and Lara Sheehi, moderated by Ann Pellegrini
Part of the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "Living in Madness," this panel explores institutional histories of psychiatry, focused on anti-institutional movements, radical institution-building, and alternate approaches to psychic life by practitioners and clinicians challenging the use of mental health systems as sites of state power, political oppression, and psychic violence.
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.
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.
Eve Kausch ‘18, Alex Volgyesi ‘22, Tapiwa Gambura ‘24, Janet Jakobsen, Temma Kaplan, and Tina Campt
Students, faculty, and staff from BCRW's 50 year history will join us to discuss the significance of our varied legacies and how to carry them forward.
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.
Hope L. and John L. Furth Archives Reading Room, Barnard Archives and Special Collections, 423 Milstein Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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.