Black Lives: Research & Action
In Fall 2020, the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities will organize Black Lives: Research & Action. This engagement series can include speakers, workshops, or panels, and will include Black women and Black trans people.
In line with the 2020-2021 Wolfe theme, transforming, these speakers will share with the Brooklyn College community research, activism, or creative work that is related to Black lives and that is transforming our Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, state, or national communities.
The Wolfe institute encourages every department, program, and institute at Brooklyn College to pledge to bring at least one Black speaker to campus this Fall. The Wolfe Institute will help to financially support events in the series, in addition to our regular support of a wide range of programs promoting interdisciplinary conversations grounded in the humanities and social sciences.
The first speaker will be announced in August as the Fall term begins.
How can I submit an event?
Fill out the Institute's Submit an Event form.
Fall 2020 Events (to be held virtually)
- September 3: Classical Dance and Race with Delores Brown Abelson
- September 22: Race, Violence, and Power (pdf) with Kobie Colemon
- October 2: Creating an Anti-Racist, Inclusive Curriculum with Trevor Ngwane
- October 8: Shimmering Contraries: Medieval Grammar and the Rise of Race and Racism with Cord Whitaker
- October 20: On Science, Privilege, and Inequality with Jennifer Adams
- November 10: Expanding Byzantium: Displaying Arts of Africa in The Met's Byzantine galleries with Andrea Achi
- November 16 and 18: Workshop on Poetry and Technology with Samiya Bashir
- November 19: Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica with Jackie Murray
- December 2: The Language & Art of Caribbean Dance with Sekou McMiller
