Past Events

Spring 2013

Feb. 13: Stories From the Black Atlantic and Mediterranean, With Alessandra Di Maio
Feb. 19: Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom — Priests of Our Democracy, With Marjorie Heins
Feb. 20: Strangers in a Strange Land, With Jim Periconi
Feb. 25: Conversations on Race and Performance: Reverberating Minstrels, 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
March 4: The 39th Konefsky Lecture: Civil Liberties and Endless War in the Age of Obama, With Glenn Greenwald
March 6: Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, With Elliott Abrams
March 14: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, Led by Anna Gotlib
March 18: Writing American History, Part I
March 18: Media and the Election
March 19: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, I: Looking Back at 2012
March 19: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, II: Taking a Long View, Past to Future
March 20: The Role of Business in Electoral Politics
March 20: The Singing Newspaper: Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan
March 20: Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, With Nicole Fleetwood
March 20: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Darin Strauss and Jackie Sibblies Drury
March 20: Brooklyn on My Mind, With Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Ben Lerner and Leonard Lopate
March 21: The Age of Reagan
March 21: Writing American History, Part II
March 21: Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture by Sean Wilentz — A Historical View of the 2012 Elections
April 9: Whiting Seminar, 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, With Jorge Arévalo Mateus
April 11: Can Language Create Identity? Hebrew as the DNA of the Jewish People, With Alan Mintz
April 15: Disability Studies and American Culture, With Rachel Adams
April 18: Are We Safer? Costs, Benefits, and Alternatives to 20 Years of Aggressive Street Policing
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
May 2: Bring That Beat Back: The Development of Beat Making Techniques From Turntables to the Sampler, 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
May 6: Annie Lanzillotto Reads From L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
May 9: The Peter Zaneteas Award Presents: The Riddle of the Labyrinth, 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, 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, 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
Oct. 25: Town Hall Meeting, With Hakeem Jeffries
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
Nov. 7: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, With Alice Mattison and Lisa D'Amour
Nov. 8: What Gandhi Says, With Norman Finkelstein and Karuna Mantena
Nov. 14: 3rd Annual Carribean Film Festival: West Indian Edition
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
Dec. 5: The "Death of Traditional America?" Our Post Election Future, With Aura Bogado, Lawrence Johnson, Louis Prisock and Alan Aja
Dec. 9: M.F.A. Alumni Reading at Sycamore
Dec. 13: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, Led by Anna Law

Spring 2012

Feb. 2: Sankofa Film Screening and Discussion
Feb. 8: Jim Crow Justice, With Khalil Muhammad
Feb. 16: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
Feb. 22: M.F.A. 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: M.F.A. 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 and Brooklyn College Big Band
April 25: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, With Julia Glass and 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: M.F.A. 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: M.F.A. 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: M.F.A. 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 Nonfiction
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
Sept. 22: 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: M.F.A. 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: Courting Justice
March 8: Sustainability and Community Health
March 8–12: Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Week: Dr. Eleanor J. Sterling
March 9: Human Devlopment and Its Impacts on Diversity
March 9: Coffee Talk
March 10: You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's 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: Sono 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 of Poetry, Fiction and Playwriting from Brooklyn College Alumni
Dec. 10: Reporter: A Film Screening and Discussion

Spring 2009

Feb. 17, March 31, April 4 and 28: Music in Polycultural America, Sounds of the Sweat Shop: Pauline Oliveros and the Soundtrack to Maquilapolis
Konefsky Memorial Lecture: Racial Justice and Immigration/li>
Feb. 18: M.F.A. Reading Series: L.S. Asekoff and 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: M.F.A. 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: M.F.A. Reading Series: Vito Acconci
April 2: Civility, Community and the Multicultural Campus: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities
April 29: M.F.A. 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
Sept. 24: Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Roots of Lyric
Oct. 6: The Voices of Victims
Oct. 6: Poetry Reading: Robert Kelly
Oct. 15: An Evening of Piano Music With Ursula Oppens
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
Oct. 29: Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Voice
Nov. 3: Greensboro: Closer to the Truth
Change or Maverick
Nov. 12: Composer's Forum Celebrating Morton Subotnik
Encuentro, 2008
Nov. 17: Poetry Readng: Marjorie Welish
City of Disorder
Nov. 17: Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
Graduate Student Colloquium
Nov. 19: Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Self
Nov. 20: Nightshift
Dec. 2: The Imperial Cult of Augustan Athens
Dec. 4: Sustainablility Group
Dec. 9: Salim Washington and Farah Jasmine Griffin
Dec. 10: Faculy Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Word / Lyric World
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: Susan Choi
March 19, April 2 and 17, May 1: Music in Polycultural America
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 Chisholm
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 and 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 and 10: Italian American Relations
Dec. 6: Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium
A Storytelling Workshop

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