Poet, musician, filmmaker, actor and intellectual Saul Williams discusses the relationships between aesthetic forms and political education in conversation with Dr. Shana Redmond, Director…
Join award-winning writers Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness Like Water, and Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater, in a conversation…
Maggie Nelson, Christina Crosby, Saidiya Hartman, Sam Huber, and Heather Love
December 10, 2015
[su_button url="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-argonauts-a-salon-in-honor-of-maggie-nelson-tickets-19955133341" background="#ed6f1e" center="yes"]RSVP[/su_button] ABOUT THE EVENT In her widely acclaimed memoir, The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson writes, "There is much to be learned from…
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[su_button url="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caribbean-feminisms-on-the-page-iv-tickets-19954840465" background="#ed6f1e" center="yes"]RSVP[/su_button] ABOUT THE EVENT This literary series pairs established writers with emerging novelists to discuss their work, their engagements with the…
ABOUT THE EVENT Barnard alumna Edwidge Danticat and novelist Victoria Brown come together in the second event in the series, Caribbean Feminisms on the…
“The Worlds of Ntozake Shange” highlights Shange’s centrality to black feminism and the continuing impact of her work both within and outside the academy.…
In medieval and Renaissance literature, ugliness often serves as an outward mark of a character’s internal depravity. Such a character is self-condemned, destroyed from…
In this paper, Community Activist and Student Coordinator Che Gossett examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle by excavating June Jordan…
Distinguished writer Jamaica Kincaid, originally from Antigua, and debut novelist Tiphanie Yanique, who grew up in St. Thomas, come together with Barnard Associate Professor…
Christina Crosby, Lisa Cohen, Leigh Gilmore, Laura Grappo, Maggie Nelson, Gayle Pemberton, Gayle Salamon
January 9, 2015
"Body Undone" focuses on Christina Crosby's forthcoming memoir of living with disability, A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain. In 2003 Professor Crosby…
REGISTER EVENT INFORMATION Event Informaton Click here to register. This three-day conference investigates how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community…
