Past Events
Spring 2022
February
March
April
May
Fall 2021
September 17: What is Premodernity and Why is it Important? with Andrew Arlig, Jenn Ball, Lauren Mancia, Andy Meyer, Brian Sowers, Karl Steel (pdf)
September 24: Decolonizing Archeology with Dr. Micheal Blakey (pdf)
September 28: Viscusi Reading Group - The Lives of Objects by Maia Kotrosits
September 30: Eye Contact: Feminist and Queer/Cuir Cultures in Chile's Social Revolt with Professor Carl Fischer (pdf)
October 20: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading with Christian Hawkey and Jacqueline Woodson
October 21: Viscusi Reading Group - The Lives of Objects by Maia Kotrosits
November 9: How Modern Playwrights Thrive: Transformational Practices within the Art Industry with Charly Evon Simpson, Natasha Sina, Will Arbery, Sybil Kempson
November 17: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading with Latasha Diggs, Haruna Lee, and Aya Ogawa
November 18: Viscusi Reading Group - The Lives of Objects by Maia Kotrosits
December 2: Viscusi Reading Group - The Lives of Objects by Maia Kotrosits
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Thursday, September 3: Classical Dance and Race with Delores Brown Abelson
Monday, September 21 - Friday, September 25: Winona LaDuke: The Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence (pdf)
Tuesday, September 22: Race, Violence, and Power (pdf) with Kobie Colemon
Friday, October 2: Creating an Anti-Racist, Inclusive Curriculum with Trevor Ngwane
Thursday, October 8: Shimmering Contraries: Medieval Grammar and the Rise of Race and Racism (pdf) with Cord Whitaker
Tuesday, October 20: On Science, Privilege, and Inequality with Jennifer Adams
Wednesday, October 21: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Moriel Rothman-Zecher and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (pdf)
Tuesday, October 27: How We Go Home: Voices From Indigenous North America with Sara Sinclair
Wednesday, October 28: Common Reader Project and The 1619 Project - Faculty Panel Discussion (pdf)
Thursday, November 5: Leading While Black: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black Male School Leaders with Dr. Phillip Smith
Monday, November 9: Racial Disparities in NYC Schools with David Bloomfield
Tuesday, November 10: Expanding Byzantium: Displaying Arts of Africa in The Met's Byzantine galleries with Andrea Achi
Wednesday, November 11: Afro-Latinx Representation in Children's Literature with Eric Velasquez
Thursday, November 12: LGBTQ and Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and their challenges in counseling with Florence Saint-Jean
Wednesday, November 18: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Rabih Alameddine and John Keene (pdf)
Monday, November 16 and Wednesday, November 18: Workshop on Poetry and Technology with Samiya Bashir
Wednesday, November 18: Integrating Computer Science and Literacy for Emergent Bilinguals with Sara Vogel
Thursday, November 19: Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica with Jackie Murray
Thursday, November 20: Seminar in Museum Techniques with Braden Paynter
Friday, November 20: Who owns the Past? Decolonizing Archeology with Dr. Nicholas Laluk
Tuesday, November 24: Colonial Theft and Indigenous Resistance in the Kleptocene with Kyle Keeler
Thursday, November 26: Leading While Black and Male: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black Male school Leaders with Phillip Smith
Tuesday, December 1: The Construction of Language Learning Disorders in School-Age African American Children: The Role of Implicit Bias with Dr. Cecelia Davison
Wednesday, December 2: The Language & Art of Caribbean Dance with Sekou McMiller
Thursday, December 3: Not Even Past: Salvation History in the Philosophy and Theology of Race with Sameer Yadav
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
Spring 2019
February 21: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group
February 27: John Hope Franklin Series featuring Laylah Amatullah Barrayn (pdf)
*canceled March 4: UndocuAlly, a training session for faculty and staff (pdf)
March 5: UndocuAlly, a training session for faculty and staff (pdf)
March 5: Transmission: a bilingual performance by Barbara Herr (pdf)
March 7: The State of Native and Indigenous Studies at CUNY a conversation with Vanessa Stone-Cadena (pdf)
March 12: Transgender Lives in Nineteenth-Century America by Jesse Bayker (pdf) , reception to follow celebrating 10th Anniversary of the minor in LGBTQ Studies
March 12: Killing Journalism: How Greed and Laziness (and Donald Trump) are Destroying News and How We Can Save It (pdf)
March 13: Film Screening and Discussion of Alfonso Cuaron's Roma (jpg) (pdf)
March 18-22: Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence Program with José David Saldívar (pdf)
Monday, March 18: Immigrants of New York City
Tuesday, March 19: What Else Can You Do with a Humanities Degree?
Tuesday, March 19: Decolonizing Education
Wednesday, March 20: Decolonizing the Imagination: Creatively Writing Sovereign States of Mind
Thursday, March 21: Writing the U.S.-Mexico Border: Tearing Down the Wall -- Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture
March 19: Dézafi (pdf) : Launching the English translation of Frankétienne's masterful work (pdf)
March 20: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Fred Moten and Marisa Silver (pdf)
April 3: Trans Literacy Workshop
April 4: Zipporah's Pout: Temporality and the Emotional Life of (Jewish) Images
April 8: The Annual Frances Haidt Lecture -- History and Catastrophe: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto (pdf) with Samuel Kassow and a screening of Who Will Write Our History? (pdf)
April 8: A Wolfe Symposium with Amy Hughes (pdf)
April 9: LGBTQIA+ Mentors' Luncheon with keynote address by Victoria Cruz, registration required
April 9: Trans Activism Before, During, and After Stonewall with Victoria Cruz (pdf)
April 11: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group
April 11: Screening of Queens of Syria (pdf)
April 11: The Medieval/Early Modern Divide: Along the Franco-Spanish Conversion & the Paper Economy
April 11: Remembering Peter Abrahams (pdf)
April 17: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with poet Celina Su and Rattawut Lapcharoensap (pdf)
May 1: Odysseus, Nostos, and the Art of Survival (pdf) with Thodoris Gonis
May 9: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
September 14: The State of Hip-Hop in Brooklyn (pdf)
September 18: Latina Life Stories, With Sandra Cisneros (pdf)
September 19: Situating Women in the History of Partition in South Asia, With Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
October 5: Midwood, Before Hollywood (pdf)
October 18: Music in My Detroit: 1940s-1960s with Mark Slobin (pdf)
October 18: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Madeleine George and Alan Felsenthal (pdf)
October 19: Strategies to Combat Racism and Anti-Semitism: The Psychodynamics of American Politics (pdf) with Rabbi Michael Lerner
October 19: Ernestine Rose: International Feminist Pioneer:
The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter, With Professor Emerita Bonnie Anderson
October 25: The Power and Glory of Steel of Steel Pan with Kendall Williams (pdf)
November 3-November 4: Legacies of Pauline Oliveros: A Symposium (pdf)
November 6: Atlantic Revolutions Now: Thinking about America, France, and Haiti (pdf) with Jeremy Popkins
November 9: Weapons of the Spirit (pdf)
November 13: Panic in Panic in Mexico City: Atra (pdf) s del Cosmos (Behind the Cosmos), Free Improvisation, and Experimental Theater, 1964-1983 with Tamar Barzel (pdf)
November 14: Labor in the Family: Theoretical Perspectives From Early Chinese Feminism, With Professor Rebecca Karl
November 14: Debating the Future of Policing with Heather MacDonald and Alex Vitale (pdf)
November 15: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Eleanor Henderson and Rosa Alcala (pdf)
November 16: Wolfe Fellowship presentation with Daniel Campos (pdf)
November 30: New Lights on Women Suffragists, With Professor Emerita Barbara Winslow
Spring 2017
February 22: Latina Life Stories (pdf) with Josefína Báez
February 28: (pdf)John Hope Franklin Memorial Day (pdf)
March 9: Whiting Seminar (pdf)
March 8–10: Women's Censored Film Festival (pdf)
March 15: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series—Anna Rabinowitz and David Grubbs (pdf) Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, March 13–16 (pdf)
March 13: Real Boroughs: From Harlem to Brooklyn
March 14: On Being Real: Authenticity and Sincerity
March 14: Creating Anthroman
March 14: Israel in Africa: Black Jews in an African Context
March 15: Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture by Dean John L. Jackson, Jr.
March 16: Harlem: Giuliani, Bloomberg, to DeBlasio?
March 16: Race, Class, & Gender: Intersectionality in Urban America
March 16: Political Correctness in the Classroom?
March 23: Building the Outer Boroughs (pdf) , an interdisciplinary symposium
March 27: Photojournalism and the American Experience (pdf) with Nina Berman
March 27: The Phenomenon called Muhammad Ali: Street Gesture, Islamic Soul, Black Body (pdf) with Yutaka Nakamura
March 28: A Historical and Constitutional Assessment of Trump's Immigration EOs (pdf)
March 29: Latina Life Stories with Helena Maria Viramontes (pdf)
April 24: Ronit and Jamil with author Pam Laskin
April 25: Frances Haidt Lecture—Geto: The Historic Jewish Ghetto of Venice (pdf) with Michael Philip Davis
April 26: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Kirstin Valdez Quade and Simone White (pdf)
May 19–May 20: The Cost of Freedom: Debt and Slavery (pdf) , a Frederic Ewen Lecture Series on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom
Fall 2016
September 27: Open House at the Women's Center, featuring author Tanwi Nandini Islam (pdf)
October 7–8: The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus (pdf)
October 20: Establishing a Digital Humanities Program (pdf)
October 24: Narratives of the Revolution, with author Alex Myers (pdf)
October 25: Making History Real Through Fiction (pdf) : A Conversation with New York Times bestselling author Adam Gidwitz
October 26: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, With Jenny Offill and Karen Weiser (pdf)
October 27: Our Futures in Journalism (pdf)
October 31: Herbert Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights: Mr. Trump versus the U.S. Constitution (pdf)
November 2: The Italians of Brooklyn Revisited (pdf)
November 3: Brooklyn J'ouvert: Reckoning with Caribbean Carnival's Past, Present, and Future (pdf)
November 14: Leonard Bernstein and the Piano (pdf)
November 16: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, With Lara Vapnyar and Rob Handel (pdf)
November 22: The Long Movement Against Police Brutality in New York City (pdf) , with Clarence Taylor
December 1: Doc Humes' "Don Peyote" (1960): An Unfinished Greenwich Village Quixote (pdf)
December 4: M.F.A. Alumni Reading, With CJ Hauser, Dennis A. Allen II, and Vanessa Jimenez Gabb (pdf)
December 5: Chelsea Manning, National Security Whistleblowing, and the Duties of Imperial Ignorance (pdf)
December 8: Maritime and Underwater Archaeology: New Approaches and Challenges (pdf) with Nicolas Lira
Spring 2016
February 8: Cuban composer and musician Guido López-Gavilán (pdf)
February 11: Black History Month Celebration with Khalil Muhmmad (pdf)
February 22: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Katie Rose Hejtmanek
February 23: Should the NYPD Be Spying on Our Campuses? (pdf)
March 3: Children in Gold: The Refugee Crisis in Lesbos, Greece (pdf)
March 7: True Cost (pdf)
March 8: Narratives of the Revolution, Part II, with Laurie Halse Anderson (pdf)
March 9: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with fiction writer Elizabeth Graver and playwright/screenwriter/fiction writer/biographer Wesley Brown (pdf)
March 14: Apartheid & Memoir (pdf)
March 14: True Cost (pdf)
March 14: Victoria's Big Secret: The Environmental Impact of the Fashion Industry (pdf)
March 15: Speculative Nonfiction (pdf)
March 15: Visualizing New York History (pdf)
March 16: Military, War, and the Environment: Ecologies of the Aftermath (pdf)
March 16: Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture: Slow Violence, Inequality and the Environmentalism of the Poor (pdf)
March 17: How to Melt a Glacier in 3 Minutes: Telling Stories of Environmental Change (pdf)
March 17: Bosses of the Biosphere? Earth Mastery, Plutocracy and Environmental Justice (pdf)
March 17: Commodifying Sacred Spaces (pdf)
March 21: Soca Music with Ray Allen (pdf)
March 21: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Katie Rose Hejtmanek
March 21: Kalief Browder and the Challenges of Criminal Justice Reform (pdf)
March 22: Screening of (pdf) (T)error (pdf) with director Lyric Cabral (pdf) , Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom
April 4: The Crisis of my Friends (pdf) ,
April 5: Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story (pdf)with Ann Kirschner (pdf)
April 6: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with fiction writer Jess Row and poet Monica de la Torre (pdf)
April 11: Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space (pdf) ,
April 12: From Roosevelt Hall to the Oval Office: A Brooklyn College Journalism Alum Discusses the Art of Covering Politics (pdf)
April 14: Wolfe Fellows Symposium, with Michael Rawson, Anna Law, and Michael Menser (pdf)
April 18: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Katie Rose Hejtmanek
April 19: Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani Music, Appropriation and Representation (pdf) , with Carol Silverman
April 20: Jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles (pdf)
May 4: The Corpse Washer (pdf)
May 5: The Annual Frances Haidt Lecture: FDR, the Jews, and the Holocaust: New Research on an Explosive Controversy (pdf) , with Rafael Medoff
May 5: Christianity Underground: Death, Ritual, and the Catacombs of Ancient Rome (pdf)
May 9: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Katie Rose Hejtmanek
Fall 2015
September 29: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Brooklyn College Digital Humanities Working Group
September 30: An Unlikely Union with Paul Moses (pdf)
October 8: Ruth Gruber/Photojournalist (pdf) Art Exhibit Opening Reception
October 15: Austerity of Its Discontent: The Fight to Reclaim Public Higher Education (pdf) , a Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom
October 20: Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York's Bravest (pdf)
October 20: Vertical Slum (pdf)
October 21: Friendship, Love, and HipHop (pdf)
October 21: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series (pdf) with Laura van den Berg and Aaron Kunin
October 26: LGBTQ Equality v Religious Rights? (pdf) , a panel by the Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights
October 26: Spirituals as Art Songs (pdf) with Marti Newland, soprano, and Magdalena Stern-Baczewska, piano
October 27: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Brooklyn College Digital Humanities Working Group
November 4: Friendship, Love, and HipHop (pdf)
November 11: American Folk Music: From Field to Archive (pdf) , featuring The Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen
November 17: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Brooklyn College Digital Humanities Working Group
November 18: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series (pdf) with Tom Barbash and Jenny Schwartz
November 19: Narratives of the Revolution: A Series about Scholarly and Storytelling Approaches to History (pdf) with M.T. Anderson and David Waldstreicher
November 23: Maghrebian Music in New York: Routes and Intersections (pdf) with Samuel Torjman Thomas
December 7: Spirituals as Art Songs with Marti Newland, soprano, and Magdalena Stern-Baczewska, piano
December 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Brooklyn College Digital Humanities Working Group
Spring 2015
Fall 2014
September 18: Citizen Action on Climate Change: The Case for Hope (pdf) , with Jim Shultz
September 29: Knishes: In Search of Jewish Soul Food (pdf)
October 16: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Andrew Arlig
October 16: 2014 Martin and Syma Mendelsohn Lectureship in International Relations: Jamaica and Its Place in the Global Landscape (pdf) , with Dr. Stephen Vasciannie
October 16: Poets of the Italian Diaspora (pdf)
October 20: From Staten Island to Ferguson: The Crisis of Police Legitimacy in (Post) Racial America (pdf)
October 22: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Fiction Writer Dinaw Mengestu and Poet John Yau (pdf)
October 23: 40th Anniversary Celebration of Africana Students at Brooklyn College: A Graduate Alumni Symposium (pdf)
October 29: Women in Parliamentary Politics: The Experience of a Former Israeli Politician (pdf) , with Anat Maor
October 29:Poets on Poets: Rosamond King on Jayne Cortez (pdf)
November 4: Rediscovering the Player Piano Roll with Jeffrey Taylor
November 6: The Long Costs of War: Perspectives From a War Correspondent and an Archaeologist (pdf)
November 6: Bed-Stuy in Crisis (pdf)
November 12: Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom — The New Censorship: Net Discrimination, Net Neutrality, and Free Speech on the Internet (pdf) , with Dawn Nunziato
November 13: Past, Present and the Future of Societies with Eric Sanderson
November 17: Creating Alliances: My Years in the Israeli Parliament (pdf)
November 18: Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (pdf)
November 19: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Fiction Writer Adam Haslett and Heidi Schreck (pdf)
November 20: Shirley Chisholm Day (pdf) with Reverend Al Sharpton
November 20: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Andrew Arlig
November 20: We Got the Jazz: Next Generation Jazz, Hip Hop, and the Digital Scene (pdf) with Aja Burrell Wood
November 24: Jewish Jazz Middleman with Robert Cherry and Jennifer Griffith
December 3: The Formation of Modern Satire in Renaissance France (pdf) with Bernd Renner
December 4: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Andrew Arlig
December 4: The Tree and the Sun Motif: The Long Shadow of Roman Imperialism on Modern Representations of Africa (pdf) with Liv Yarrow
December 7: M.F.A Alumni Reading with Victoria Bond, Cristina Moracho, and Ariel Stess (pdf)
Spring 2014
Feb. 20: Poets on Poets, with David Mills on Langston Hughes (pdf)
Feb. 24: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Lila Abu-Lughod's Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, led by Moustafa Bayoumi
Feb. 25: Remixing Nina Simone: Myth, Meme, and Icon of a Movement (pdf) , with Salamishah Tillet
Feb. 26: Hair (pdf) and the Gender Politics of Late-1960s Youth Culture (pdf) , with Elizabeth Wollman
Feb. 27: Poets on Poets, with Ben Lerner on John Ashbery (pdf)
March 3: Wolfe Fellowship Lecture Series — Slaves and Intoxicants: The Intermingled Economies of West Africa and Bahia, 1650-1750 (pdf) with Chris Ebert
March 4: Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of the American Civil War (pdf)
March 12: Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (pdf) ,
March 12: Frederic Ewen Lecture on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom, with David Lyon — Distributed Dystopia: Surveillance and Visibility in Dave Eggers' (pdf) The Circle (pdf)
March 13: Frederic Ewen Lecture on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom, with David Lyon — Surveillance after Snowden: Decoding the "Snooping Scandal" (pdf)
March 17: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Lila Abu-Lughod's Do Muslim Women Need Saving? , led by Moustafa Bayoumi
March 19: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with poet Dana Ward, Donna Di Novelli and Adam Ross (pdf)
March 19: Stem Cell Dialogues (pdf)
March 31: Linguistic Diversity: A Socio-linguistic Perspective, (pdf) with Ilan Stavans
March 31: What Melting Pot? Multi-culturalism and American Jews: Oy, Are We a Pluribus? (pdf) , with Ilan Stavans
April 1: Tweeting at Windmills: Cervantes and Don Quixote in the 21st Century (pdf) , with Ilan Stavans and William Childers
April 1: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Women and Mine (pdf) Ilan Stavans presents the Frances Haidt Annual Memorial Lecture
April 1: Screening of My Mexican Shivah (pdf)
*Change in Location, April 2: Writing Memoirs About Making Films (pdf) , with Susana Aikin
April 3: A New Sound in Hebrew: National Identity and the National Poet (pdf) , with Miryam Segal
April 7: Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family (pdf)
April 7: Are We More Equal? 60th Anniversary of (pdf) Brown v. Board of Education (pdf)
April 7: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Lila Abu-Lughod's Do Muslim Women Need Saving? , led by Moustafa Bayoumi
April 9: Wolfe Fellowship Lecture Series — The American Android: Sex, Suffrage and Science Fiction (pdf) , with Scott Dexter
April 9: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with poet Lisa Jarnot and fiction writer Susan Choi (pdf)
April 10: The Performances of Everynight Life in the Sixties (pdf) , with Tavia Nyong'o
April 24: Jewish Languages Used by Women and Other Jews (pdf) as part of the Frances Haidt Lecture Series
April 30: Singing the Gods: Songs of Devotion, Praise and Invocation (pdf)
April 30: M.F.A. Reading Series with Richard Russo (pdf)
May 5: Mr. Seymour Kaplan '76 — Eyewitness at Dachau (pdf)
May 7: Finding Common Ground: Tolerance in Experimental Improvisation (pdf) , with Dan Blake
May 7: 16th Charles Lawrence II Memorial Lecture (pdf)
May 8: Whiting Seminar on Teaching and Research (pdf) , with Brigid O'Keeffe and David Schur
May 12: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Lila Abu-Lughod's Do Muslim Women Need Saving? , led by Moustafa Bayoumi
May 15: Latin/Jewish Jazz (pdf) , with Anat Cohen, Arturo O'Farrill and the Brooklyn College Jazz Ensemble
Fall 2013
Sept. 24: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Nicholas Mirzoeff's The Right to Look , led by Joseph Entin and Mobina Hashmi
Sept. 29: M.F.A. Student Reading at Freddy's Bar, 4–6 p.m.
Oct. 1: A Brief Wondrous Discussion of Oscar Wao: Language, Fukú, and the Dominican Diaspora (pdf)
Oct. 9: M.F.A. Student Reading at Freddy's Bar, 4-6 p.m.
Oct. 16: Understanding Italian Politics: Key Trends and Future Prospects (pdf)
Oct. 16: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series (pdf) , with novelist Helen Schulman and poet Anna Moschovakis
Oct. 21: Egypt at the Crossroads (pdf) , with Abdalla Hassan and Louis Fishman
Oct. 22:Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Nicholas Mirzoeff's The Right to Look, led by Joseph Entin and Mobina Hashmi
Oct. 23: The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop (pdf) , with Guthrie Ramsey
Oct. 31: Poets on Poets (pdf) , with Lou Asekoff on Robert Lowell
Nov. 5: Listen, Whitey! The Sound of Black Power, 1965–1975, with Pat Thomas
Nov. 7: The Francis Phenomenon (pdf) , with Camille D'Arienzo and David Gibson
Nov. 11: Understanding the Gezi Park Protests (pdf) , with Louis Fishman and Kumru Toktamis
Nov. 13: Freedom Ride: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement, an Opera (pdf) , by Dan Shore
Nov. 14: The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (pdf), with author Simone Cinotto
Nov. 19: Shirley Chisholm Day (pdf) , with Karen Lewis
Nov. 20: Poets on Poets (pdf) , with Michael Graves on James Wright
Nov. 20: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series (pdf) , with Sibyl Kempson and Stephen O'Connor
Dec. 6 – 7: Philosophy of the City Conference (pdf)
Dec. 8: M.F.A. Alumni Reading (pdf) , with Elliott Holt, Ben Gassman and Ken Walker
Dec. 11: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series (pdf) , with Graham Foust and Sarah Ruhl
Spring 2013
Feb. 13: Stories From the Black Atlantic and Mediterranean (pdf) , with Alessandra Di Maio
Feb. 19: Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom — Priests of Our Democracy (pdf) , with Marjorie Heins
Feb. 20: Strangers in a Strange Land (pdf) , with Jim Periconi
Feb. 25: Conversations on Race and Performance: Reverberating Minstrels (pdf) , with Spike Lee
Feb. 26: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Gotlib
Feb. 27: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Erica Hunt and Julia Jarcho (pdf)
March 4: The 39th Konefsky Lecture: Civil Liberties and Endless War in the Age of Obama (pdf) , with Glenn Greenwald
March 6: Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (pdf) , with Elliott Abrams
March 14: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Gotlib
March 18: Writing American History, Part I (pdf)
March 18: Media and the Election (pdf)
March 19: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, I: Looking Back at 2012 (pdf)
March 19: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, II: Taking a Long View, Past to Future (pdf)
March 20: The Role of Business in Electoral Politics (pdf)
March 20: The Singing Newspaper: Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan (pdf)
March 20: Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (pdf) , with Nicole Fleetwood
March 20: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Darin Strauss and Jackie Sibblies Drury (pdf)
March 20: Brooklyn on My Mind (pdf) , with Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Ben Lerner and Leonard Lopate
March 21: The Age of Reagan (pdf)
March 21: Writing American History, Part II (pdf)
March 21: Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture by Sean Wilentz — A Historical View of the 2012 Elections (pdf)
April 9: Whiting Seminar (pdf) , with Alan Aja, Amy E. Hughes, Stephanie Jenson-Moulton, Karl Steel, Karen B. Stern and Justin Steinberg
April 11: New Colombian Music in New York City (pdf) , with Jorge Arévalo Mateus
April 11: Can Language Create Identity? Hebrew as the DNA of the Jewish People (pdf) , with Alan Mintz
April 15: Disability Studies and American Culture (pdf) , with Rachel Adams
April 18: Are We Safer? Costs, Benefits, and Alternatives to 20 Years of Aggressive Street Policing (pdf)
April 18: Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium's Annual Jazz Festival, with Papo Vasquez
April 23: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Gotlib
April 24: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, With Timothy Donnelly and Elizabeth Strout (pdf)
May 2: Bring That Beat Back: The Development of Beat Making Techniques From Turntables to the Sampler (pdf) , with Patrick Rivers and Will Fulton
May 2: The 15th Charles Lawrence Lecture — The Sweet Enchantment of Post-Civil Rights Racism: America's Racial Nightmare From the 1970s Until the Obama Moment (pdf)
May 6: Annie Lanzillotto Reads From L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir (pdf)
May 9: The Peter Zaneteas Award Presents: The Riddle of the Labyrinth (pdf) , with Margalit Fox
May 16: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Gotlib
Fall 2012
Sept. 20: All You Jim Crow Fascists! Woody Guthrie's Freedom Songs (pdf) , with Will Kaufman
Sept. 22: Welcome Back Woody: Guthrie Centennial Conference
Sept. 23: M.F.A. Student Reading at Sycamore
Oct. 4: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Law
Oct. 10: From Brooklyn College to Vinland and Back (pdf) , with Annette Kolodny
Oct. 14: M.F.A. Student Reading at Sycamore
Oct. 17: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Anselm Berrigan and Julie Otsuka (pdf)
Oct. 25: Town Hall Meeting, with Hakeem Jeffries (pdf)
Oct. 25: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Law
Nov. 6: HeLa's Troubled Legacy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (pdf)
Nov. 7: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Alice Mattison and Lisa D'Amour (pdf)
Nov. 8: What Gandhi Says (pdf) , with Norman Finkelstein and Karuna Mantena
Nov. 14: 3rd Annual Caribbean Film Festival: West Indian Edition (pdf)
Nov. 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Law
Nov. 19: Abracadabrant: Two Collaborations, with David Grubbs
Nov. 27: Shirley Chisholm Day: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice, with Loretta Ross and Iris Lopez (pdf)
Dec. 5: The "Death of Traditional America?" Our Post Election Future (pdf) , with Aura Bogado, Lawrence Johnson, Louis Prisock and Alan Aja
Dec. 9: M.F.A. Alumni Reading (pdf) at Sycamore
Dec. 13: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Law
Spring 2012
Feb. 2: Sankofa Film Screening and Discussion (pdf)
Feb. 8: Jim Crow Justice, with Khalil Muhammad (pdf)
Feb. 16: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
Feb. 22: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Cyrus Console and Erin Courtney (pdf)
March 8: Oscar Handlin's Legacy in the History of Migration (pdf)
March 13: Book Party and Conversation With Lynda Day (pdf)
March 14: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Francine Prose and Anne Washburn (pdf)
March 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
March 15: A Charles Ives Song Marathon Completed by the Brooklyn Art Song Society (pdf)
March 20: Race, Civil Rights and Military Service (pdf)
March 22: Whiting Seminar — Teaching and Research (pdf)
March 28: Wangari Maathai Symposium (pdf)
March 29: Shirley Chisholm Conference (pdf)
March 29: Reflections of Media Ethics, with Annette Danto (pdf)
April 3: Race and Cultural Politics in Contemporary America, with Matthew Jacobson, Nikhil Singh and Kimberley Phillips (pdf)
April 19: A Celebration of Latin Jazz, with The Arturo O'Farrill Ensemble and Brooklyn College Big Band (pdf)
April 25: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Julia Glass and Peter Gizzi (pdf)
April 25: Blowzy Women & Spineless Men? (pdf)
April 26: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
April 30: Ewen Lecture on Academic Freedom, with Frank Pasquale (pdf)
May 1: Jewish Philanthropy in an Age of Assimilation: The [French] Rothschilds, with Jonathan Helfand (pdf)
May 2: Talk and Book Signing: Fusion Before Bitches Brew, with Kevin Fellezs (pdf)
May 4: 16th Annual Day of the Poet, with Matthew Burgess (pdf)
May 7: Race and Performance: Conversations Through the Arts, with Lynn Nottage (pdf)
May 9: Disavowed Knowledge, with Peter Taubman (pdf)
May 17: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
Fall 2011
Sept. 15: Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and the Uses of Memoir (pdf)
Sept. 22: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Nietzsche: Life as Literature, led by Samir Chopra
Oct. 3: Confronting Precarious Work: Toward a New Social Contract, with Arne Kalleberg (pdf)
Oct. 5: In the Belly of the Beeb, with Peter Foges (pdf)
Oct. 6: Robot Law: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents (pdf)
Oct 11: Rebel Youth and Anarchy in Colonial India, with Satadru Sen (pdf)
Oct. 12: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Jonathan Baumbach and Will Eno (pdf)
Oct. 13: New York City Stop and Frisk Policy (pdf)
Oct. 20: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Nietzsche: Life as Literature, led by Samir Chopra
Oct. 26: The Music of Jimi Hendrix, with Will Fulton (pdf)
Oct. 27: Men Undressed (pdf)
Nov. 2: The Crisis of Black Identity (pdf)
Nov. 2: The Music of John Cage, with Ben Picket (pdf)
Nov. 9: Gone to the Country, with Ray Allen (pdf)
Nov. 10: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Nietzsche: Life as Literature, led by Samir Chopra
Nov. 10: Alternative Media in Times of Unrest, with DeeDee Halleck (pdf)
Nov. 15: Writing and History, with Evelyne Troulliot (pdf)
Nov. 16: Almost a Family, with John Darnton (pdf)
Nov. 16: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Marjorie Welish and Amy Bloom (pdf)
Nov. 29: Shirley Chisholm Day — The Value of Belonging: Reimagining Equality in 21st Century, with Anita Hill (pdf)
Dec. 1: Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Everywhere? What's Next? (pdf)
Dec. 4: An Alumni Reading, with Helen Phillips, Stephen Motika and Normandy Sherwood at Sycamore (pdf)
Dec. 5: Harvard Yard to Lubyanka? Academic Freedom and the Net in the Facebook Era, with Eben Moglen (pdf)
Dec. 8: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Nietzsche: Life as Literature, led by Samir Chopra
Dec. 12: News for the People: The Epic Story of Race and the Media (pdf)
Dec. 14: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Robert Viscusi and Sam Lipsyte (pdf)
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Feb. 11: Picking Up Pieces: Taking Women Seriously in Tallying the True Costs of the Iraq War (pdf)
Feb. 17: Writing Wrongs: The U.S. Press and the War in Iraq (pdf)
Feb. 22: Harlem Diary: Nine Voices of Resilience (pdf)
Feb. 24: Erik Ehn: A Reading (pdf)
March 4: Gender and Islam Day: Local to the Global Perspectives (pdf)
March 4: Navigating the Book Publishing Process in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Advice for Junior Faculty (pdf)
March 8: Courting Justice (pdf)
March 8: Sustainability and Community Health (pdf)
March 8–12: Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Week: Dr. Eleanor J. Sterling (pdf)
March 9: Human Devlopment and Its Impacts on Diversity (pdf)
March 9: Coffee Talk (pdf)
March 10: You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone: Sustaining Biological, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity (pdf)
March 10: Imagining the Listener Through American Experimental Music: NPR's RadioVisions (pdf)
March 11: BioBlitz Information Session (pdf)
March 11: Teaching and Research: A Whiting Seminar (pdf)
March 11: Harry Potter, Philip Pullman's Dark Materials, and the Legacy of the Iron Curtain: Children's Literature in Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe in Children's Literature (pdf)
March 12: Biology Seminar on the Palmyra Atoll (pdf)
March 17: Joshua Ferris and Lisa Jarnot: A Reading (pdf)
March 17: Made in L.A. (pdf)
March 24: The Contradanza: Its Influences in Popular and Art Music of the Americas (pdf)
April 7: Mellon Makes Music (pdf)
April 14: Jonathan Dee and L.S. Asekoff: A Reading (pdf)
April 15: The Headscarf, Symbolic Exclusion and the "Arabo-Muslim" in France (pdf)
April 19: Sono Buoni! The Story of Ronzoni Macaroni (pdf)
April 19: Late Edition: Print Journalism and the Future of Democracy (pdf)
April 20: Saving Our Lady of Loreto (pdf)
April 21: Teaching by Numbers: Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability (pdf)
April 21: Teaching Italian American Literature, Film and Popular Culture (pdf)
April 22: Celebrating Cal Massey, with Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble and Salim Washington and the Brooklyn College Big Band (pdf)
April 22: Multiple Englishes (pdf)
April 22: Pope Pius XII and the Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust (pdf)
May 5: Brooklyn on My Mind: Emigres to Brooklyn (pdf)
May 5: The Haitian Revolution as a Generative Explosion of Popular Music (pdf)
May 5: The Reckoning (pdf)
May 6: Children in Wartime: Ancient Athens and Modern Europe (pdf)
May 7: The Day of the Poet (pdf)
May 10: Green Life/Green Business: Food, Packaging, Products (pdf)
May 12: Susan Howe Reading (pdf)
May 13: Gender and Islam: Local to the Global Perspective, Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities and Self-determinations (pdf)
May 13: Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium (pdf)
May 17: Why We Should Support Prison Reentry and Fatherhood Programs (pdf)
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
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