Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Sep 14, 2017 | 6:00PM

Listening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt

Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas

What happens when we shift our way of engaging with photography? When we go beyond looking at images and, instead, listen to them? Tina Campt, director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, delves into lost archives of historically dismissed photographs to deepen our understanding of the lives of black subjects throughout the black […]

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Africana Studies, Black diaspora, colonialism, resistance, Tina Campt
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Apr 25, 2017 | 6:00PM

Poetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand

BCRW is thrilled to host Poetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand, moderated by BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro, on the power and necessity of poetry in resisting the contemporary manifestations of racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy. This event is very much a response to the current political moment in the […]

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African diaspora, anti-blackness, Black diaspora, Caribbean diaspora, Caribbean feminisms, Claudia Rankine, Dionne Brand, racism