Tina Neal: The Extraordinary 2018 Eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii
In the annual Roslyn Silver ’27 Science Lecture, Tina Neal describes the intense volcanic unrest and 2018 eruption at one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and the highest-threat volcano in the United States, Kīlauea Volcano on the Island of Hawaii.
Moving Mountains and Liberating Dialogues: Creating a Black Feminist Archaeology
Whitney Battle-Baptiste, describes her process of combining Black feminism and archaeology,
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Salon in Honor of Saidiya Hartman
Panel discussion featuring Saidiya Hartman, Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Alexander G. Weheliye, and Tina Campt.
Participatory Defense Campaigns as a Strategy for Freedom
Video from Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures panel featuring organizers, including criminalized survivors and their loved ones, exploring survivor defense campaigns as a strategy for freedom and decriminalization.
Organizing for Freedom Across Prison Walls
Video from a Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures workshop identifying strategies to build relationships and strengthen coalitions for freedom and safety across prison walls.
African Diasporic Countervisualities
Panelists discuss the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region.
Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging
Jarret Drake delivers the 2019 Scholar and Feminist Conference keynote, “Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging.”
S&F Conference: Building an Archive of Domestic Worker Organizing, Now and Before
Panel discussion featuring Jennifer Guglielmo, Michelle Joffroy, Premilla Nadasen, Monique Tú Nguyen, Riya Ortiz, Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra, moderated by Miriam Neptune
S&F Conference: Case Studies in Archiving for Activist Movements
S&F Conference panel featuring Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Laura McTighe, and Maria Cotera, moderated by Elizabeth Castelli
S&F Conference: Archiving Colonialism
Scholar and Feminist Conference panel featuring La Vaughn Belle, Justin Leroy, and Cameron Rowland, moderated by Saidiya Hartman
S&F Conference: The Politics and Ethics of the Archive: Introduction
Interim Director Elizabeth Castelli introduces the Scholar and Feminist Conference, The Politics and Ethics of the Archive.
S&F Literary Spotlight: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi
Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi joined BCRW for a conversation on literary considerations of history, archives, and memory.
Building from the Left: Strategies to Disrupt the Right
In the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections, Cara Page, Tarso Luís Ramos, and Pooja Gehi discuss intersectional strategies to build and sustain long-term resistance on the left.
Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Roxane Gay in Conversation with Katia D. Ulysse
Roxane Gay is joined by Katia D. Ulysse for a reading and conversation.
Capturing the Flag: Anne de Mare
Exploring themes that are constantly sensationalized and manipulated by the media, “Capturing The Flag” offers deeply personal, often surprising perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election and its aftermath.
Building Accountable Communities: Online Event
Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby joined us for an online discussion moderated by Mariame Kaba to explore models for building accountable communities for the purpose of healing and repair.
History, Memory, Craft: Zinzi Clemmons and Crystal Hana Kim
This reading and discussion features award-winning writers Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose (2017), and Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me (2018), whose works explore the intimate legacies of political upheaval, race, migration, sexuality, motherhood, trauma and loss, and the malleability of memory.
Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
Erna Brodber, author of Nothing’s Mat (2014) and The Rainmaker’s Mistake (2007), among other works, and Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun (2016), join us for a reading, followed by a discussion moderated by Kaiama L. Glover.
People Who do Harm are not Monsters
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 4
Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
Self-Accountability and Survivors
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 3
Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
What is Self-Accountability?
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 2
Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
What is Accountability?
Building Accountabile Communities // Part 1
Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby
Mary Helen Washington: Afterlives: Legacies of the Black Literary Left
Mary Helen Washington delivers the lecture, “Afterlives: Legacies of the Black Literary Left,” a keynote at the conference Global Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures held on September 22, 2018 at The People’s Forum in NYC.
Black Feminist Left Internationalism
Featuring Cheryl Higashida, Mariame Kaba, and John Munro, this panel examines the radical anti-racist, anti-colonial, socialist internationalist, and feminist visions of social change, that Mary Helen Washington terms “Black Left Feminism.”
Recovering Global Radicalism
Lisa Armstrong, S. Ani Mukherji, and Margaret Stevens recover lost and forgotten histories of shared global struggle
Vijay Prashad: What is the Meaning of the Left?
Vijay Prashad delivers the lecture, “What is the Meaning of the Left?” a keynote at the conference Global Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures held on September 22, 2018 at The People’s Forum in NYC.
Clare Hemmings: Emma Goldman’s Struggles for Utopia
In the annual Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture in Feminist Criticism and History, Clare Hemmings delivers a lecture titled “Emma Goldman’s Struggles for Utopia: Feminism and Ambivalence.” Emma Goldman (anarchist activist and thinker) was a life-long believer in anarchist revolution and the importance of prefigurative engagement with utopian ways of living that such revolution would […]
Valerie Seeley: Interview by Victoria Law
Seeley discusses being criminalized for self defense, being granted clemency after 17 years in prison, and why she’s fighting for the freedom of women and girls still inside.
Eli Clare: Gawking, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies
Disabled people, trans people, fat people, and people of color all know what it’s like to be stared at. Through words and images, Eli explores the internal experiences of living in marked bodies and the external meanings of oppression and bodily difference.
Trans Liberation, Not U.S. Invasion!
Speakers explore queer and trans resistance to militarism and the racist, sexist, transphobic, and environmental violence of U.S. imperialism.