Past Events
Fall 2012
- September 20: All You Jim Crow Fascists! Woody Guthrie's Freedom Songs with Will Kaufman
- September 22: Welcome Back Woody: Guthrie Centennial Conference
- September 23: MFA Student Reading at Sycamore
- October 4: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- October 10: From Brooklyn College to Vinland and Back with Annette Kolodny
- October 14: MFA Student Reading at Sycamore
- October 17: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Anselm Berrigan and Julie Otsuka
- October 25: Town Hall Meeting with Hakeem Jeffries
- October 25: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- *postponed October 29: The Rise of American Democracy with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 29: Folk Revival with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 30: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, I: Looking Back at 2008 with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 30: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, II: Taking a Long View, Past to Future with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 31: Role of Business in Electoral Politics with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *canceled October 31: Brooklyn On My Mind with Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, and Ben Lerner
- *postponed November 1: The Age of Reagan with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed November 1: Writing American History with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed November 1: Hess Scholar-in-Residence guest lecture with Sean Wilentz - The 2012 Election in Historical Perspective
- November 6: HeLa's Troubled Legacy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- November 7: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Alice Mattison and Lisa D'Amour
- November 8: What Gandhi Says with Norman Finkelstein and Karuna Mantena
- November 14: 3rd Annual Carribean Film Festival: West Indian Edition
- November 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- November 19: Abracadabrant: Two Collaborations with David Grubbs
- November 27: Shirley Chisholm Day: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice with Loretta Ross and Iris Lopez
- December 5: The "Death of Traditional America?" Our Post Election Future with Aura Bogado, Lawrence Johnson, Louis Prisock, and Alan Aja
- December 9: MFA Alumni Reading at Sycamore
- December 13: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
Spring 2012
- February 2: Sankofa Film Screening and Discussion
- February 8: Jim Crow Justice with Khalil Muhammad
- February 16: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
- February 22: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Cyrus Console and Erin Courtney
- March 8: Oscar Handlin's Legacy in the History of Migration
- March 13: Book party and conversation with Lynda Day
- March 14: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Francine Prose and Anne Washburn
- March 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
- March 15: A Charles Ives Song Marathon Completed by the Brooklyn Art Song Society
- March 20: Race, Civil Rights, and Military Service
- March 22: Whiting Seminar - Teaching and Research
- March 28: Wangari Maathai Symposium
- March 29: Shirley Chisholm Conference
- March 29: Reflections of Media Ethics with Annette Danto
- April 3: Race and Cultural Politics in Contemporary America with Matthew Jacobson, Nikhil Singh, and Kimberley Phillips
- April 19: A Celebration of Latin Jazz with The Arturo O'Farrill Ensemble & Brooklyn College Big Band
- April 25: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Julia Glass & Peter Gizzi
- April 25: Blowzy Women & Spineless Men?
- April 26: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
- April 30: Ewen lecture on Academic Freedom with Frank Pasquale
- May 1: Jewish Philanthropy in an Age of Assimilation: The [French] Rothschilds with Jonathan Helfand
- May 2: Talk and Book Signing: Fusion before Bitches Brew with Kevin Fellezs
- May 4: 16th Annual Day of the Poet with Matthew Burgess
- May 7: Race and Performance: Conversations through the Arts with Lynn Nottage
- May 9: Disavowed Knowledge with Peter Taubman
- May 17: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
Fall 2012
- September 20: All You Jim Crow Fascists! Woody Guthrie's Freedom Songs with Will Kaufman
- September 22: Welcome Back Woody: Guthrie Centennial Conference
- September 23: MFA Student Reading at Sycamore
- October 4: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- October 10: From Brooklyn College to Vinland and Back with Annette Kolodny
- October 14: MFA Student Reading at Sycamore
- October 17: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Anselm Berrigan and Julie Otsuka
- October 25: Town Hall Meeting with Hakeem Jeffries
- October 25: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- *postponed October 29: The Rise of American Democracy with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 29: Folk Revival with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 30: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, I: Looking Back at 2008 with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 30: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, II: Taking a Long View, Past to Future with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 31: Role of Business in Electoral Politics with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *canceled October 31: Brooklyn On My Mind with Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, and Ben Lerner
- *postponed November 1: The Age of Reagan with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed November 1: Writing American History with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed November 1: Hess Scholar-in-Residence guest lecture with Sean Wilentz - The 2012 Election in Historical Perspective
- November 6: HeLa's Troubled Legacy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- November 7: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Alice Mattison and Lisa D'Amour
- November 8: What Gandhi Says with Norman Finkelstein and Karuna Mantena
- November 14: 3rd Annual Carribean Film Festival: West Indian Edition
- November 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- November 19: Abracadabrant: Two Collaborations with David Grubbs
- November 27: Shirley Chisholm Day: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice with Loretta Ross and Iris Lopez
- December 5: The "Death of Traditional America?" Our Post Election Future with Aura Bogado, Lawrence Johnson, Louis Prisock, and Alan Aja
- December 9: MFA Alumni Reading at Sycamore
- December 13: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
Fall 2012
- September 20: All You Jim Crow Fascists! Woody Guthrie's Freedom Songs with Will Kaufman
- September 22: Welcome Back Woody: Guthrie Centennial Conference
- September 23: MFA Student Reading at Sycamore
- October 4: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- October 10: From Brooklyn College to Vinland and Back with Annette Kolodny
- October 14: MFA Student Reading at Sycamore
- October 17: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Anselm Berrigan and Julie Otsuka
- October 25: Town Hall Meeting with Hakeem Jeffries
- October 25: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- *postponed October 29: The Rise of American Democracy with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 29: Folk Revival with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 30: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, I: Looking Back at 2008 with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 30: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, II: Taking a Long View, Past to Future with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed October 31: Role of Business in Electoral Politics with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *canceled October 31: Brooklyn On My Mind with Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, and Ben Lerner
- *postponed November 1: The Age of Reagan with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed November 1: Writing American History with Hess Scholar-in-Residence Sean Wilentz
- *postponed November 1: Hess Scholar-in-Residence guest lecture with Sean Wilentz - The 2012 Election in Historical Perspective
- November 6: HeLa's Troubled Legacy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- November 7: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Alice Mattison and Lisa D'Amour
- November 8: What Gandhi Says with Norman Finkelstein and Karuna Mantena
- November 14: 3rd Annual Carribean Film Festival: West Indian Edition
- November 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
- November 19: Abracadabrant: Two Collaborations with David Grubbs
- November 27: Shirley Chisholm Day: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice with Loretta Ross and Iris Lopez
- December 5: The "Death of Traditional America?" Our Post Election Future with Aura Bogado, Lawrence Johnson, Louis Prisock, and Alan Aja
- December 9: MFA Alumni Reading at Sycamore
- December 13: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Law
Spring 2012
- February 2: Sankofa Film Screening and Discussion
- February 8: Jim Crow Justice with Khalil Muhammad
- February 16: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
- February 22: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Cyrus Console and Erin Courtney
- March 8: Oscar Handlin's Legacy in the History of Migration
- March 13: Book party and conversation with Lynda Day
- March 14: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Francine Prose and Anne Washburn
- March 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
- March 15: A Charles Ives Song Marathon Completed by the Brooklyn Art Song Society
- March 20: Race, Civil Rights, and Military Service
- March 22: Whiting Seminar - Teaching and Research
- March 28: Wangari Maathai Symposium
- March 29: Shirley Chisholm Conference
- March 29: Reflections of Media Ethics with Annette Danto
- April 3: Race and Cultural Politics in Contemporary America with Matthew Jacobson, Nikhil Singh, and Kimberley Phillips
- April 19: A Celebration of Latin Jazz with The Arturo O'Farrill Ensemble & Brooklyn College Big Band
- April 25: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Julia Glass & Peter Gizzi
- April 25: Blowzy Women & Spineless Men?
- April 26: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
- April 30: Ewen lecture on Academic Freedom with Frank Pasquale
- May 1: Jewish Philanthropy in an Age of Assimilation: The [French] Rothschilds with Jonathan Helfand
- May 2: Talk and Book Signing: Fusion before Bitches Brew with Kevin Fellezs
- May 4: 16th Annual Day of the Poet with Matthew Burgess
- May 7: Race and Performance: Conversations through the Arts with Lynn Nottage
- May 9: Disavowed Knowledge with Peter Taubman
- May 17: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
Fall 2011
- Sept. 15: Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and the Uses of Memoir
- 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
- Oct. 5: In the Belly of the Beeb with Peter Foges
- Oct. 6: Robot Law: A Legal Theory For Autonomous Artificial Agents
- Oct 11: Rebel Youth and Anarchy in Colonial India with Satadru Sen
- Oct. 12: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Jonathan Baumbach and Will Eno
- Oct. 13: New York City Stop and Frisk Policy
- Oct. 20: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group - Nietzsche: Life as Literature led by Samir Chopra
- Oct. 26: The Music of Jimi Hendrix with Will Fulton
- Oct. 27: Men Undressed
- Nov. 2: The Crisis of Black Identity
- Nov. 2: The Music of John Cage with Ben Picket
- Nov. 9: Gone to the Country with Ray Allen
- 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
- Nov. 15: Writing and History with Evelyne Troulliot
- Nov. 16: Almost a Family with John Darnton
- Nov. 16: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Marjorie Welish and Amy Bloom
- Nov. 29: Shirley Chisholm Day - The Value of Belonging: Reimagining Equality in 21st Century with Anita Hill
- Dec. 1: Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Everywhere? What's Next?
- Dec. 4: An Alumni Reading with Helen Phillips, Stephen Motika and Normandy Sherwood at Sycamore
- Dec. 5: Harvard Yard to Lubyanka? Academic Freedom and the Net in the Facebook Era with Eben Moglen
- 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
- Dec. 14: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Robert Viscusi and Sam Lipsyte
Spring 2011
- Feb. 9: Caroline Bergvall: A Poetry Reading
- March 2: What Spielberg Learns From Television
- March 8: Searching for Ernestine Potowski Rose
- March 9: Cultural Evolution of Fashion and Fads
- March 10: Martha Bell Memorial
- March 14: Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama
- March 14: A Reading by Gioia Timpanelli
- March 16: Melissa Gibson and Karen Russell
- March 21: Riot Grrrl Is Dead. Long Live Riot Grrrl: Political Activism, Nostalgia, and Historiography
- March 24: Islamic Art: A Project of Muslims, Jews, and Christians
- March 28: Remove the Records from Texas: Parsing Online Archives
- March 31: Teaching and Writing: A Whiting Seminar
- April 5: The East Cultural and Educational Center: A Jazz Celebration featuring the Charles Tolliver Quartet and Salim Washington and the Brooklyn College Ensemble
- April 7: What Can Animals Tell Us About Belief?
- April 7: Rethinking the Digital Humanities
- April 11: Milton Babbitt, Time, and Memory
- April 12: Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata: Ambassador of Italy to the United States
- April 27: Elizabeth Willis and Kate Walbert: A Reading
- April 28: Without Fear or Favor: Four Decades of Writing Truth to Power
- April 28: North Africa and the Wider World
- May 4: Brooklyn on My Mind: Writing Fiction and Non-Fiction
- May 4: Puerto Rican Citizen History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City
- May 5: Graduate Student Colloquium
- May 6: Day of the Poet
- May 9: Ignazio Silone and Italian American Literature
- May 9: Terror Chords and Jungle Drums: Music in Horror Films
- May 11: Frolic Architecture
Fall 2010
- Sept. 8: Why Fascism Was Not Able to Create an Italian Civil Religion
- Sept. 15: The Black Nile
- Sept. 20: Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway: Iconic Trades of NYC
- Sept. 21: New Voices of the Yiddish Stage II
- Ethyle R. Wolfe Memorial Service
- Oct. 4: Lee Bontecou: From Sputnik to Lincoln Center (A Wolfe Fellows Lecture)
- Oct. 12: Gary Rhoades: A Ewen Civil Liberties Lecture
- Oct. 13: Len Jenkins and Myla Goldberg: A Reading
- Oct. 27: A Newspaper Grows in Brooklyn
- Oct. 27: Brooklyn on My Mind: Writing Funny
- Nov. 4: Jefferson's Moose and the Laws of Cyberspace
- Nov. 8: Post-Black Education: Race, Politics, and Schooling in the U.S. (A Wolfe Fellows Lecture)
- Nov. 9: Austria, the EU, the US and Beyond: A Martin and Syma Mendelsohn Lectureship in International Relations
- Nov. 16: Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium
- Nov. 17: Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan: A Reading
- Nov. 18: The Battle for Gotham
- Nov. 18: Watching the Fighters: Exploring the Roman Fascination with Gladiators
- Nov. 18: The Tea Party Moment
- Nov. 30: Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
- Nov. 30: Being a Catalyst for Change: The Legacy of Shirley Chisholm
- Dec 1: Joan Baez at Spring Hill College: A Study of Intersecting Histories
- Dec 2: Henry James and Shakespeare
- Dec 12: MFA Alumni Reading with Zohra Saed, Emily Mitchell, and Rob Erickson
Spring 2010
- Feb. 11: Picking Up Pieces: Taking Women Seriously in Tallying the True Costs of the Iraq War
- Feb. 17: Writing Wrongs: The U.S. Press and the War in Iraq
- Feb. 22: Harlem Diary: Nine Voices of Resilience
- Feb. 24: Erik Ehn: A Reading
- March 4: Gender and Islam Day: Local to the Global Perspectives
- March 4: Navigating the Book Publishing Process in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Advice for Junior Faculty
- March 8-12: Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Week: Dr. Eleanor J. Sterling
- March 8: Courting Justice
- March 8: Sustainability and Community Health
- March 9: Human Devlopment and its Impacts on Diversity
- March 9: Coffee Talk
- March 10: You Don't Know What You've Got Till Its Gone: Sustaining Biological, Linguistic, and Cultural Diversity
- March 10: Imagining the Listener through American Experimental Music: NPR's RadioVisions
- March 11: BioBlitz Information Session
- March 11: Teaching and Research: A Whiting Seminar
- 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
- March 12: Biology Seminar on the Palmyra Atoll
- March 17: Joshua Ferris and Lisa Jarnot: A Reading
- March 17: Made in L.A.
- March 24: The Contradanza: Its Influences in Popular and Art Music of the Americas
- April 7: Mellon Makes Music
- April 14: Jonathan Dee and L.S. Asekoff: A Reading
- April 15: The Headscarf, Symbolic Exclusion, and the "Arabo-Muslim" in France
- April 19: Suno Buoni! The Story of Ronzoni Macaroni
- April 19: Late Edition: Print Journalism and the Future of Democracy
- April 20: Saving Our Lady of Loreto
- April 21: Teaching by Numbers: Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability
- April 21: Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
- April 22: Celebrating Cal Massey with Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble and Salim Washington and The Brooklyn College Big Band
- April 22: Multiple Englishes
- April 22: Pope Pius XII and the Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
- May 5: Brooklyn on My Mind: Emigres to Brooklyn
- May 5: The Haitian Revolution as a Generative Explosion of Popular Music
- May 5: The Reckoning
- May 6: Children in Wartime: Ancient Athens and Modern Europe
- May 7: The Day of the Poet
- May 10: Green Life/Green Business: Food, Packaging, Products
- May 12: Susan Howe Reading
- May 13: Gender and Islam: Local to the Global Perspective, Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities, and Self-Determinations
- May 13: Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium
- May 17: Why We Should Support Prison Reentry and Fatherhood Programs
Fall 2009
- Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group: Donna Haraway's When Species Meet
- Sept. 15: Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes and the Politics of Black Power
- Sept. 23: Joshua Henkin and Aaron Poochigian: A Reading of Fiction and Poetry
- Oct. 6: The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace
- Oct. 20: Race and Culture in Victorian New York
- Louis Armstrong's New Orleans
- Oct. 21: Benjamin Anastas and Sharon Mesmer: A Reading of Fiction and Poetry
- Oct. 21: Roxana Robinson and Mac Wellman: A Reading of Fiction and Playwriting
- Oct. 27: Global Media Series: Mobile Cultures -- Making and Selling Media in the Global Marketplace
- Oct. 28: Brooklyn on my Mind: Writers Teaching Writing at Brooklyn College
- Oct. 29: Dilemmas of Islamic Feminisms
- Nov. 10: Mother Choices: Evaluating Moms Evaluating News
- Nov. 17: John Hope Franklin Memorial Conference at Brooklyn College "Current Trends in African American History"
- Nov. 18: In Search of Authenticity: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Urban Folk Revival
- Nov. 19: Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium
- Dec. 3: Troy at Rome: Visual Representations of Epic (A Fromchuck Memorial Lecture)
- Dec. 4-5: Conference on Eastern and Western Philosophical Themes
- Dec. 7: In Walked Bud Powell: On Genius, Genre, and Gender
- Dec. 7: Poland, Europe, the United States: A New Opening?
- Dec. 8: Anselm Berrigan, Sara Shepard, and Erin Courtney: A Reading if Poetry, Fiction, and Playwriting from Brooklyn College Alumni
- Dec. 10: Reporter: A Film Screening and Discussion
Spring 2009
- Feb. 17, March 31, April 4,28: Music in Polycultural America, Sounds of the Sweat Shop: Pauline Oliveros and the Soundtrack to Maquilapolis
- Konefsky Memorial Lecture: Racial Justice and Immigration
- Feb. 18: MFA Reading Series: L.S. Asekoff & Jonathan Baumbach
- Feb. 18: Globalization on the Ground: What Bolivia Teaches Us
- Faculty Seminar, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
- Feb. 25: Visions of Success and Failure: A Film about the Remaking of Downtown Brooklyn
- March 9: Brooklyn on My Mind: New York's Mean Streets
- March 10: The Whiting Seminar: Teaching and Research
- March 18: MFA Reading Series: David Grubbs and Amy Hempel
- March 19: The Economic Crisis
- March 24: Women, Welfare, and Access to Higher Education
- Faculty Seminar, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
- March 31: MFA Reading Series: Vito Acconci
- April 2: Civility, Community, and the Multicultural Campus: Implications, Challenges, and Opportunities
- April 29: MFA Reading Series: Joseph O'Neill
- April 29: Transatlantic Relations at the Beginning of the 21st century
- May 4: Brooklyn on My Mind: Asian and Asian American Writers in the Literary Market
- May 6: Pizer Graduate Colloquium
- May 8: Day of the Poet
- May 11: A Beacon in Black: Obama and How Black America is Understood Globally
- May 18: Addiopizzo: Anti-Mafia Initiatives in Palermo
Fall 2008
- Sept. 9: Interpreter of Maladies
- Why We're Liberals
- Antonia Pantoja: Presente!
- Sept. 22: Shopping to Belong
- Sept. 24: Landscape Cleansing: From the Socialist to the Post-Socialist State in Eastern Europe
- Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Roots of Lyric 9/24
- Oct. 6: The Voices of Victims
- Oct. 6: Poetry Reading: Robert Kelly
- An Evening of Piano Music with Ursula Uppens 10/15
- Oct. 16: Alternative Armies
- Oct. 16: The Vanguard
- Brooklyn on My Mind: Election Left and Right
- Oct. 21: Battleground States in Presidential Elections
- Oct. 23: Wreckage of Reason
- Oct. 23: Otiose Otium: The Status of Writing in Late Republican Rome
- Where Are We Now?
- Oct. 27: Alternative Sources of Energy Policy
- Oct. 29: Twilight Becomes Night
- Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Voice 10/29
- Nov. 3: Greensboro: Closer to the Truth
- Change or Maverick
- Composer's Forum Celebrating Morton Subotnik 11/12
- Encuentro, 2008
- Nov. 17: Poetry Readng: Marjorie Welish
- City of Disorder
- Nov. 17: Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
- Graduate Student Colloquium
- Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Self 11/19
- Nov. 20: Nightshift
- Dec. 2: The Imperial Cult of Augustan Athens
- Sustainablility Group 12/4
- Salim Washington and Farah Jasmine Griffin 12/09
- Faculy Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Word / Lyric World 12/10
- Dec. 15: Poetry Reading: Julie Agoos
Spring 2008
- How Hot Will it Get
- Jan. 31: Poetry and Reflection
- Persuasion
- Darfur: Human Tragedy and the World's Response
- Feb. 19: Who Belongs?
- Feb. 20: You: or the Invention of Memory
- Feb. 20: Understanding the Brain via Music
- Feb. 26: The Great Debaters
- Brooklyn on My Mind
- March 3: Party / Politics
- March 5: Jon Scieszka
- March 5 - May 1: Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
- The Obama Phenomena
- Covering Israel
- March 19, April 2,17, May 1: Music in Polycultural America
- March 19: Susan Choi
- It was Self Defense
- March 26: Civil Rights and Conservative People
- March 27: Transnational Cervantes
- The Best Education is Democratic
- March 31: Crossing Lines
- Room at the Bottom or Spaces to be Invaded?
- April 7: Matthew Rotando
- April 8: Whiting: Teaching and Research
- April 9: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
- April 10: How to Think Money
- April 10: Multilingual America
- April 11: The Palestinian / Israeli Conflict
- April 14: Politics by Other Greens
- April 14: Stutter
- April 15: Autobiography and National Identity
- Ben Lerner
- April 30: Civil Rights
- The Constitution Comes Home
- Brooklyn on My Mind
- May 6: Conversations about Shirley Chisolm
- There will be Blood
- Pizer Graduate Student Collquium
Fall 2007
- Oct. 4: New Harsh Anti-Immigrant Measures
- Oct. 11: Charles Hamilton Houston
- Experiencing Palermo, Experiencing Resistance
- Oct. 18,25, Nov. 7, Dec. 3: Music in Polycultural America
- Temporarily Yours
- When and Why Did the Roman Empire End?
- Thomas Devaney
- Brooklyn on My Mind - Brooklyn Memoirs
- Doormen: Undergraduates and Other Inexperienced Observers
- Day of Absence
- Tracking Us Softly
- Nov. 7: Popular Power in a Globalizing World
- Nov. 8: Teaching the Levees
- Nov. 12: The Evolution of a Universal Moral Grammar
- Nov. 15: Decoding Liberation
- Memoir as Witness
- Nov. 15: The Possible Dream - Encuentro 2007
- Nov. 29: Can Intervention Help Women?
- Dec. 3: Other Rooms Press Poets
- Banished: an American Ethnic Cleansing
- Dec. 3,10: Italian American Relations
- Dec. 6: Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium
- A Storytelling Workshop
