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The City and the University: A Symposium

Anupama Rao and C. Riley Snorton

May 2, 2026

Student-led symposium exploring universities’ roles in society, examining social inequality, segregation, and education through critical research, archives, and activism, connecting campus histories with broader…

Off the Spectrum: The Lost Girls of Autism

Gina Rippon and Rebecca Jordan-Young

April 30, 2026

For decades, autism research has focused overwhelmingly on boys and men, and some autism researchers even see autism itself as “masculine.” Drawing on her…

Freedom Dreaming and Worldmaking: Tourmaline and Hope Dector on Marsha P. Johnson’s Inspiring Life

October 20, 2025

Award-winning artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist Tourmaline has spent over two decades lovingly researching and preserving Marsha P. Johnson’s life. In two books published…

“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire

October 6, 2025

Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Africana Studies Kim F. Hall’s new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the…

The Scholar and Feminist: Fifty Years of Meeting the Moment

Keynote by Judith Butler, Performance by Toshi Reagon

September 25, 2025

For half of a century, The Scholar and Feminist Conference has provided a mutually activating space for scholars, activists, and artists to confront the…

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean

Kim Hall, Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

August 18, 2025

Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Africana Studies Kim Hall’s new book The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo…

We Will Not Be Erased: Queer Archives, Trans Histories

Steven Watson and Tourmaline

August 18, 2025

For over forty years, cultural historian Steven Watson has documented the stories and artwork at the leading edge of artistic and cultural movements, including…

Caste, Gender, Diaspora

Gaiutra Bahadur and Yashica Dutt in conversation with Anupama Rao

October 12, 2023

The transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement has incited communities across the globe to raise their voices against discrimination and inequality and…

The Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law

Lila Abu-Lughod, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Karen Engle, Janet R. Jakobsen, Vasuki Nesiah, and Rafia Zakaria

September 7, 2023

Contributors to The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke 2023) discuss how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.

Gender Without Identity

Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini

August 25, 2023

Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with…

Crafting Objects, Crafting Community: Gender and Material Culture in American Religion

Jodi Eichler-Levine, Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada

January 4, 2021

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,…

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration

Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.

May 5, 2020

Live transcription available at http://bit.ly/pastasprologue2020 Register here. This event will take place online from 4pm - 6pm ET on 5/8/20. Live captions will be…

Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium

Elliot Montague, Emma Frankland, Texas Isaiah, Tourmaline, and Vick Quezada

March 18, 2020

#TransRevolutions Live captioning is available here. During the event, you can send questions for the Q&A by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu or via Twitter @bcrwtweets #TransRevolutions…

A Gendered Brain? Shattering Sexist Science

Gina Rippon, Daphna Joel, and Giordana Grossi, moderated by Beck Jordan-Young

May 30, 2019

Neuroscientist Gina Rippon will discuss the historical and political conditions that produced ideas of binary gender differences in our brains, how and why these…

African Diasporic Countervisualities

February 11, 2019

Panelists discuss the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region.

November 13, 2018

The latest issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, entitled "Women and Community in Early Modern Europe: Approaches and Perspectives," explores how we can broaden…

Invisible No More: Policing Girls

November 4, 2017

Featuring Cedra Sebastien (Associate Director, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Firdaws Roufai (Youth Leader, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Miaija Jawara (Urban Youth Collaborative), and Octavia Y. Lewis…

Invisible No More: Policing Motherhood

November 4, 2017

Featuring Erin Cloud (Team Leader, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders), Victoria Law (author), Dorothy Roberts (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), Jeanne Flavin (Professor, Fordham University),…

Invisible No More: Policing Gender and Sex

November 3, 2017

Featuring Gabriel Arkles (Senior Staff Attorney, LGBT & HIV Project of the ACLU), Dean Spade (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women),…

Invisible No More: Chicago

October 18, 2017

Invisible No More, a panel discussion featuring Beth Richie, Cynthia Blair, Nadine Naber, Barbara Ransby, Deana Lewis, Janaé Bonsu, Page May, Sangeetha Ravichandran, Alexis…

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…

In the Wake: A Salon in Honor of Christina Sharpe

February 2, 2017

Christina Sharpe in conversation with Hazel Carby, Kaiama Glover, Saidiya Hartman, Arthur Jafa, and Alex Weheliye.

Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

January 18, 2017

Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.

Harmattan Winds, Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment

Belinda Archibong

December 16, 2016

Research on gender-based educational disparities in the Global South has focused on differential investment in the education of boys versus girls, higher costs and…

Dean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture

December 9, 2016

"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"

The Personal Things

November 20, 2016

Short featuring Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. Directed by Tourmaline with art by Micah Bazant and animation by Pamela Chavez. Produced by Tourmaline, Hope Dector, and…

Dreams are Colder than Death: Screening & Talk with Arthur Jafa

September 29, 2016

Featuring Arthur Jafa, Christina Sharpe, Tourmaline, and Tavia Nyong'o.
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