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Marissa Alexander: Survived and Punished

June 20, 2017

Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot…

Joan Little: Survived and Punished

June 20, 2017

Joan Little was the first woman acquitted of murder on the grounds of of self-defense against sexual violence. Learn about her story and the…

Nevertheless, She Persisted: Barnard Students Read Coretta Scott King’s Letter

February 28, 2017

Barnard students read the letter by Coretta Scott King that Senator Elizabeth Warren was blocked from reading during the Senate confirmation hearing of Trump…

New Media: Encoding, Decoding, Coding – Panel at Stuart Hall Conference

September 26, 2015

Panel featuring featuring Henry Jenkins, Nicholas Mirzoeff, and chair Rob King from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique."

Reconstructing the Popular Round Table at Stuart Hall Conference

September 24, 2015

Discussion featuring featuring Jane Gaines, Rob King, Bruce Robbins, and chair E. Ann Kaplan from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the…

Sexual Difference in a Time of Terror

Ellen Mortensen

August 13, 2013

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and wounded many others in a bombing and mass shooting in Norway motivated by…

Utopia Afternoon Keynotes Questions and Answers

March 2, 2013

Responses by Jennifer Miller and Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius.

Jennifer Miller: Queer Pedagogies in Public Places

March 2, 2013

Presentation by Jennifer Miller.

Utopia Morning Keynotes Questions and Answers

March 2, 2013

Responses by Melanie Cervantes, Elandria Williams, Shaowen Bardzell, and Youngsuk Altieri.

Building Utopia: Stitching the Lessons from Stories and Visions of Women in Our Lives

March 2, 2013

Presentations by Melanie Cervantes and Elandria Williams.

Utopia

January 3, 2013

LIVE-TWEETING DESCRIPTION PROGRAM VIDEOS & MORE Live-Tweeting Tweets about "#sfutopia" Participant Twitter Handles Gwendolyn Beetham @gwendolynb K. Tempest Bradford @tinytempest Melanie Cervantes @Meloniousfunk Francesca…

Ziba Mir-Hosseini: The Potential and Promise of Feminist Voices in Islam

October 4, 2012

Full-length video of Ziba Mir-Hosseini's lecture, "The Potential and Promise of Feminist Voices in Islam."

Ziba Mir-Hosseini

October 4, 2012

Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a legal anthropologist specializing in Islamic law, gender, and development. She is currently Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for…

A Way Out of the “Dead-End ” of Feminism vs. Islam : The Potential and Promise of Feminist Voices in Islam

Ziba Mir-Hosseini

August 8, 2012

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a growing confrontation between political Islam and feminism made links between theology, law, and politics…

Carceral Politics in Palestine and Beyond: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison

Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Mai Masri, Lena Meari

April 5, 2012

This panel will explore comparative approaches to Israeli prisons and detention. PANELISTS: Judith Butler, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Angela Davis, Prison Activist…

Reimagining Equality

Anita Hill

February 27, 2012

Registration for this event is overbooked, and no additional tickets will be released. If you have already registered for the event, you must arrive…

Seeing Like a Peacebuilder: An Ethnography of International Intervention

Séverine Autesserre

November 15, 2011

Why do international interventions so often fail to secure a sustainable peace? Why do others succeed? To answer these questions, we need to analyze…

Injured Cities, Urban Afterlives

October 15, 2011

What are the effects of catastrophe on cities, their inhabitants, and the larger world? How can we address the politics of terror with which…

May 2, 2009

Contributors include Nafeesah Allen, Christina Ama Ata Aidoo, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Makini Boothe, Gabri Christa, Yvette Christiansë, Christine Cynn, Angela Davis, Lani Guinier, Kim…

The State of Feminism: Post-Election Race and Gender Analysis

Laura Flanders '85 and Patricia Williams

April 2, 2009

BCRW's 2008 "Scholar and Feminist" Conference examined the state of democracy, and now that the election results are in and a new President has…

Laura Flanders and Patricia Williams: Post-Election Race and Gender Analysis

April 2, 2009

Patricia J. Williams, renowned legal scholar and expert on race in the U.S., joins Laura Flanders, Barnard alumna and feminist activist and journalist, in…

Pedagogy of the Dispossessed: Decolonization and the Struggle for Democracy

Sandy Grande

February 18, 2009

The post 9-11 deployment of unfettered neoliberalism (i.e. deregulation, privatization, downsizing, outsourcing) has led to a plethora of critiques of the U.S. as ushering…

Angela Davis: Abolition Democracy and Global Politics

October 30, 2008

Delivering this year's Helen Pond McIntyre '48 lecture less than one week before Barack Obama's presidential election, Angela Y. Davis presents a new and…

Angela Davis: Civil Rights, Prisons & Justice (Excerpts)

October 30, 2008

Excerpts from the lecture "Abolition Democracy and Global Politics."

Abolition Democracy and Global Politics

Angela Davis

October 30, 2008

Since well before the publication of the feminist classic, Women, Race, and Class in 1981, this year's Helen Pond McIntyre '48 lecturer Angela Y.…

Angela Davis: Obama’s Collective Victory (Excerpts)

October 30, 2008

Excerpts from the lecture "Abolition Democracy and Global Politics."

Angela Davis: Abolition Democracy and Global Politics

October 30, 2008

Full-length video of Angela Davis's lecture "Abolition Democracy and Global Politics."

Lani Guinier: Electocracy and Accountability (Excerpt)

March 1, 2008

An excerpt from Lani Guinier’s keynote lecture at the 2008 Scholar & Feminist Conference, "The State of Democracy: Gender and Political Participation.”

Lani Guinier: Who Designed the Game? (Excerpt)

March 1, 2008

An excerpt from Lani Guinier’s keynote lecture at the 2008 Scholar & Feminist Conference, "The State of Democracy: Gender and Political Participation.”
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