Past Events

Stonewall 50 at Brooklyn College
A Celebration in Honor of Robert Viscusi
Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program

Per Academic Year

2021–22

Spring 2022

February 9: Spring ’22 Campus Wide Reading Group (pdf)
February 18: LAMEM Community Kick-Off
Monday, February 28: John Hope Franklin Day
March 3: TrUDL: A path to anti-racist, anti-ableist inclusion with Dr. Maria Cioe-Pena
March 8: Women Empowering Women with Yasmin Dwedar, Esq. (pdf)
March 9: Spring ’22 Campus Wide Reading Group (pdf)
March 9: Racial Capitalism and Black Business in 20th Century Detroit with Kendra Boyd
March 10: American Puritanism and the Cognitive Style of Grace with Rachel Troccio
March 10: Underwater New York: Three Artists on Brooklyn’s Black Waterfront (pdf)
March 11: LAMEM – Words Beyond Speech with Julia Pare
March 14: Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond with Sonia Murrow and Robert Cohen (pdf)
March 16: Intergenre Reading with Emily Skillings and Carolyn Ferrell (pdf)
March 21: Women and the Social Revolt in Chile: The Butterfly Effect with Alejandra Matus
March 22: Commemorating Mothers: Historicizing Motherhood with Dr. Shamita Das Dasgupta
March 22: Australianama with Samia Khatun
March 28: Management Consulting in the Digital Age: Insights of the VP of Enterprise Consulting of Media.Monks Matthew Aaron Lentz
April 6: Spring 2022 Campus Wide Reading Group (pdf)
April 11: LAMEM—Retelling the History of Medieval Philosophy with Andrew Arlig and Christina Van Dyke
April 12: Domesticity, Agency in imperial and postimperial representations—Ayahs in literature and visual culture with Florian Stadtler
April 27: Womanifesto: Nigerian Woman Fighting for Equal Political Space (pdf)
May 6: LAMEM—Selective Kinship at Saint-Louis De Poissy with Sarah Celentano
May 11: Spring ’22 Campus Wide Reading Group (pdf)

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

2020–21

Summer 2021

June 30: Getting Up: Marking the Self with Graffiti with Maria Castillo (pdf)

Spring 2021

February 9: Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism with Samantha Noel (pdf)
February 18: The Brooklyn College Common Reader with Robert Jones Jr.
February 22: The Fight for Free Speech: The First Amendment in a Transforming Media Space with Ian Rosenberg
February 22: Advice from Industry Professional with Mike McCormack (pdf)
February 23: History and Public Memory: Tulsa and Other Race Riots in 20th Century US with John Franklin (pdf)
February 24: Social Justice through Sound and Film: Freedom Concert with Malcom J. Merriweather, Laura Karpman, and Janai Brugger (pdf)
March 2: Archaelogy in Mesoamerica: Birthplace of Urbanism and Complex Societies in North America with Veronica Perez-Rodriguez (pdf)
March 5: A Conversation with Transgender Prisoners’ Rights Activist and Litigator Dee Farmer (pdf)
March 8: Talk to the Founder/CEO of “Saved & Fabulous” Fashion Brand, Influencer, and Lifestyle coach Terry Ann Philips (pdf)
March 9: The Brooklyn College Common Reader/1619 Project with Cornel West (pdf)
March 15: How Has the Covid-19 Pandemic Affected Heineken Corp? The Insights of the Vp of Marketing Vikas Satyal (pdf)
March 18: A Conversation with Activist and Professor of Philosophy at University of Beunos Aires Blas Radi
March 21: Fitness Business, Life-time Fitness, and fitness at home during the Pandemic: From the perspective of a Hollywood Celebrity Fitness Expert with Scott Mills (pdf)
March 23: Black Bodies Matter with Aja Lans (pdf)
March 25: How to Stay Positive with Marsha McCray (pdf)
April 5: Culturally Responsive and Creative Activities for Working with Diverse Families with Zakiyyah Abdul-Mateen LCSW
April 6: When the Oppressed Become the Oppressor with Dr. Alfonso Ferguson
April 6: Insights into Famed Family Restaurant Le Circle Manhattan with Marco Maccioni (pdf)
April 6: Guest Speaker on Marketing with Terry-Ann Phillips
April 7: M.F.A Intergenre Reading Series with Douglas Kearney and Maaza Mengiste (pdf)
April 9: Discussing the Children’s Fashion Industry with Founder/CEO of Children’s Fashion Line POPPA Tohan Omorodion (pdf)
April 13: So Goes el Sur, So Goes the Nation: Liberatory & Abolitionist Theory through a Latinx & Central American Studies of the Global U.S. South with Johnathan Peraza-Campos (pdf)
April 19: A Conversation with Author, Activist, and Independent Scholar Barbara Smith (pdf)
April 19: T. Mudd – A Performance Lecture with Brandon Woolf (pdf)
April 20: Afro-Latinx Spiritualities in Defense of Black Life with Andrew Vinales (pdf)
April 21: Haidt Lecture Series – Three Early Modern Jewish Women Who Bent the Gender Binary (pdf)
April 22: Changing How Archeology is done in Native American Contexts: An Ndee (Apache) Case Study with Dr. Nicholas Laluk (pdf)
April 28: Haidt Lecture Series – Yisrael Ba’al Shem Tov and the Beginnings of Hasidism (pdf)
April 28: The Unafraid with Anyansi Prado (pdf)
May 5: The Rise of Hip Hop Music: From America’s Urban Centers to the Heart of American Culture with Marcus Reeves (pdf)
May 12: Not for Long – A Reading of a Play by Cherry Lou Sy (pdf)

Fall 2020

September 3: Classical Dance and Race with Delores Brown Abelson
September 21–25: Winona LaDuke: The Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence (pdf)
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 (pdf) with Cord Whitaker
October 20: On Science, Privilege, and Inequality with Jennifer Adams
October 21: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Moriel Rothman-Zecher and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (pdf)
October 27: How We Go Home: Voices From Indigenous North America with Sara Sinclair
October 28: Common Reader Project and The 1619 Project—Faculty Panel Discussion (pdf)
November 5: Leading While Black: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black Male School Leaders with Dr. Phillip Smith
November 9: Racial Disparities in NYC Schools with David Bloomfield
November 10: Expanding Byzantium: Displaying Arts of Africa in The Met’s Byzantine galleries with Andrea Achi
November 11: Afro-Latinx Representation in Children’s Literature with Eric Velasquez
November 12: LGBTQ and Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and their challenges in counseling with Florence Saint-Jean
November 18: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Rabih Alameddine and John Keene (pdf)
November 16 and 18: Workshop on Poetry and Technology with Samiya Bashir
November 18: Integrating Computer Science and Literacy for Emergent Bilinguals with Sara Vogel
November 19: Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica with Jackie Murray
November 20: Seminar in Museum Techniques with Braden Paynter
November 20: Who Owns the Past? Decolonizing Archeology with Dr. Nicholas Laluk
November 24: Colonial Theft and Indigenous Resistance in the Kleptocene with Kyle Keeler
November 26: Leading While Black and Male: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black Male School Leaders with Phillip Smith
December 1: The Construction of Language Learning Disorders in School-Age African American Children: The Role of Implicit Bias with Dr. Cecelia Davison
December 2: The Language & Art of Caribbean Dance with Sekou McMiller
December 3: Not Even Past: Salvation History in the Philosophy and Theology of Race with Sameer Yadav

2019–20

Spring 2020

February 19: Day of Remembrance (pdf) with Resistance at Tule Lake (pdf) filmmaker Konrad Aderer (pdf)
February 20: From WWII’s Incarceration Camps to Today’s Detention Sites (pdf)
February 27: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group—Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (LaDuke, 2005)
February 27: Heresy & Inquisition in the Writings of Julian of Norwich (pdf) (link) with Laurence Bond
March 1: M.F.A. Alumni Reading with Ted Dodson, Karinne Keithley Syers, and Heidi Diehl (pdf)
March 3: Brooklyn Research Exchange (pdf)
March 3: The Queen of Sheba’s Hairy Legs in Early Medieval Jewish Texts (pdf) (link) with Jillian Stinchcomb
March 5: When Brooklyn Was Queer (pdf) with author Hugh Ryan
March 11: Thinking with Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin: What Does It Mean to Think Poetically? (pdf) with Samantha Rose Hill
March 11: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Lisa Jarnot and Julie Orringer (pdf)

Fall 2019

September 16: The Faces of Cao Gui: Fact and Meaning in the Historiography of the Warring States and Former Han (pdf) with Andrew Meyer
September 17: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group—Our History Is the Future (Estes, 2019)
October 3: A Conversation With Salsa Soul Sisters
October 3: Indigenous Resistance, Planetary Dystopia, and the Politics of Environmental Justice (pdf) with Jaskiran Dhillon
October 3: On Doing Environmental History of the American West (pdf) with Sara Dant and Dan Flores
October 10: National Coming Out Day with Latinx poet River Mason (pdf)
October 10: La Voz de Lorca (pdf) with Pedro Enquirez
October 17: Latin American and Spanish Film Festival: Birds of Passage (Pájaros de Verano) (pdf)
October 17: The Significance of the Border Wall in American History (pdf) with Greg Grandin—Frederic Ewen Lecture on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom
October 22: How Do I Survive in an Era of “Fake News” (pdf)—Kurz Chair Public Lecture Series
October 22: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group—Our History Is the Future (Estes, 2019)
October 23: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Monica de la Torre and Susan Choi (pdf)
October 24: John Hope Franklin Day—400 Years Later: The Legacies of 1619 (pdf) with John W. Franklin and Steven Hahn, followed by a Freedom Concert
November 4: Salsa Soul Sisters Exhibit Closing Reception
November 4: Utter Joy: The Politics of Religious Affect From Reformation to Revolutionary England (pdf) with Stephen Spencer
November 6: Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City (pdf) with Ray Allen
November 15: Brooklyn Research Collaborative Breakfast (pdf)
November 19: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group—Our History Is the Future (Estes, 2019)
November 19: Trans Misogyny (pdf) with Paisley Currah
November 20: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Karan Mahajan and Clarence Coo (pdf)
December 3: World War I, The New World Order, and the Invention of Renaissance Literature (pdf) with Martin Elsky
December 9: BC Conversations Series: The New Immigration Crisis: Citizenship and Denaturalization in the US (pdf)
December 10: Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (pdf) with author Richard Bell
December 12: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group—Our History Is the Future (Estes, 2019)

2018–19

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) with journalist Joe Strupp
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)
March 18: Immigrants of New York City
March 19: What Else Can You Do with a Humanities Degree?
March 19: Decolonizing Education
March 19: Dézafi (pdf): Launching the English translation of Frankétienne’s masterful work (pdf)
March 20: Decolonizing the Imagination: Creatively Writing Sovereign States of Mind
March 20: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Fred Moten and Marisa Silver (pdf)
March 21: Writing the U.S.-Mexico Border: Tearing Down the Wall—Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture
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

September 13: A Celebration in Honor of Robert Viscusi (pdf)
September 24: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group (pdf)—Harlem Nocturne led by Robyn Spencer
October 1: Performing Haiti / Haiti in Performance (pdf)
October 15: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group (pdf)—Harlem Nocturne led by Robyn Spencer
October 16: Enlightenment Now? A Psychologist and a Historian Discuss Steven Pinker on Human Nature and Emotion (pdf)
October 24: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Ocean Vuong and Joan Silber (pdf)
October 25: Child Holocaust Survivors: Jewish Families after the Holocaust (pdf) with Joanna Michlic
October 29: Music in Polycultural America Series—Cars and Guitars: The Sound of Liberation? (pdf)
October 31: An American Soldier in Mexico: Edward Ashley Bowen Phelps and the Course of American Empire, 1846–1848 (pdf) with Ricardo A. Herrera
November 1: Translating Tragic Emotion in Early Modern England: Greek to English, Female to Male (pdf)
November 12: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group (pdf)—Harlem Nocturne led by Robyn Spencer
November 13: The Weeping Wound: Asceticism and Transformation in the Age of Tears (pdf)
November 15: Journalism Alumni Speak About Work and Life in a New America (pdf)
November 27: The Shirley Chisholm Project on Women’s Activism—Two Events Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Shirley Chisholm’s Election to Congress (pdf)
November 28: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Dawn Lundy Martin and Young Jean Lee (pdf)
November 29: Immigration Status: Get Free Information and Resources (pdf)
December 4: Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea, with Mae Ngai (pdf), a Frederic Ewen Lecture on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom
December 9: M.F.A. Alumni Reading with Brendan Lorber, Joanna Cantor, and Kristina Satter (pdf)
December 10: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group (pdf)—Harlem Nocturne led by Robyn Spencer
December 11: The Materiality of Emotion in Inscribed Jewish Prayers (pdf)

2017–18

Spring 2018

January 30: Academic Freedom in the Age of Trump (pdf) with Hans-Joerg Tiede
February 14: Black History Faculty Lecture Series: The Death and Life of Malcolm X (pdf)
February 21: Black History Faculty Lecture Series: Africa’s Early Contact with Europe and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (pdf)
February 26: Black History Faculty Lecture Series: The Groundings with My Brothers: Walter Rodney and the Legacy of Pan-Africanism and Black Power (pdf)
February 26: Black History Faculty Lecture Series: Slave Rebellions in the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean (pdf)
February 27: Immigrants’ Rights and Resources at CUNY (pdf)
February 27: Latina Life Stories with Frances Negron Muntaner (pdf)
February 28: John Hope Franklin Day: African American History and the Public Sphere; Freedom Concert (pdf)
March 6: A Century of Struggles in New York: Class, Race, Gender and Women’s Suffrage (pdf) with Professor Emerita Barbara Winslow
March 8: Opinionated: The World View of a Jewish Woman (pdf) with Professor Sara Reguer
March 15: Discussion with filmmaker Blair Foster (pdf)
March 21: Kurz Lecture on Constitutional Rights: The USA and President Trump: Democratic, Authoritarian, or Other? (pdf)
March 22: The Anatomy of a Protest: The Woman Behind the Abolition of Indian Indentured Labor in the British Empire (pdf) with Mrinalini Sinha
March 28: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Mei-mei Bersenbrugge and Yiyun Li (pdf)
Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program (pdf) (complete details available here (pdf))
- March 27: Politics of Immigration in U.S. Today
- March 27: TransHispaniola: Listening to Caribbean Women’s Stories
- March 28: Narrating Our Lives
- March 28: A Right to Be Here: Race, Immigration, and My Third Culture Kids with Edwidge Danticat
- March 29: Creating Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
April 10: The Yamasee War and the Development of South Carolina Slave Law (pdf) with Ed Rugemer
April 12: Global Commodities and the Making of the Early Modern World (pdf) with Francesca Trivellato
April 17: Symposium on Domestic Workers in Global Perspective (pdf)
April 17: Mirror or Projector: What Can Jewish Art Teach about Jewish History? (pdf) with Marc Michael Epstein
April 18: Islam and Pluralism: Lessons from a Lost Heritage with Mustafa Akyol
April 19: Shut up in Darkness: Exposing Slavery and Injustice in Religious Texts (pdf) with Ronald Charles and Brian Sowers
April 24: Eliana Ortega on Latin/a American Feminism
April 25: The Rise of the Diary in Early Modern England and New England (pdf) with Alan Stewart
April 25: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Madeleine Thien and Cedar Sigo (pdf)

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 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
November 16: Wolfe Fellowship presentation with Daniel Campos
November 30: New Lights on Women Suffragists, With Professor Emerita Barbara Winslow

2016–17

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

2015–16

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) documentary screening
March 7: True Cost (pdf) film screening
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) film screening
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 (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), with documentarian Miguel Macias
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), with Matthew Burgess
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) with Sinan Antoon
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) with Ginger Adams Otis
October 20: Vertical Slum (pdf) with documentarian Irene Sosa
October 21: Friendship, Love, and HipHop (pdf) with Katie Rose Hejtmanek
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), part two
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

2014–15

Spring 2015

February 24: Some Hearts Go Hungering: LGBT Homelessness and the Queer Shelter Movement (pdf) with Stephen Vider
March 9: Becoming Julia de Burgos (pdf) with Vanessa Perez Rosario
March 16: This is the Skin of the Whit[e] Man: The Material Culture of Violence in Sullivan’s Campaign (pdf) with Zara Anishanslin
March 19: Annual Frances Haidt Lecture Series—European Anti-Semitism: Past and Present (pdf) with David Berger
March 19: Writing an Early Modern Life: The Case of Richard Stonley (pdf) with Alan Stewart
March 23: Writing Public History (pdf)
March 23: Listening to What People Actually Say (pdf)
March 23: Pity the Billionaire (pdf)
March 23–26: Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program (pdf) with guest, Thomas Frank
March 24: Writing on the Left: Is There a Left Public Sphere? (pdf)
March 24: New Media and Journalism (pdf)
March 24: Commodify Your Dissent (pdf)
March 25: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Rae Armantrout and Brett Anthony Johnston (pdf)
March 25: One Market Under God (pdf)
March 25: Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture by Thomas Frank: Against Creativity (pdf)
March 27: Conquest of Cool (pdf)
March 27: On the Obama Legacy: A Dialogue with Thomas Frank and Paul Krugman (pdf)
March 30: Latino Core Communities in Transition: The Erasing of an Imaginary Nation (pdf) with Ed Morales
March 30: Understanding the Recent Israeli Elections (pdf)
March 30: Experiments in Joy: Black Feminist Performance Art (in) Practice (pdf) with Gabrielle Civil
April 2: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York (pdf) with Evan Rapport
April 20: Performing Race, Place, and Hybridity in the Music of the Talking Heads (pdf) with Jake Cohen
April 20: Wolfe Fellowship Symposium—Father at Home and Father of a Nation: Mahatma Gandhi and His Experiments with Education (pdf) with Swapna Banerjee
April 20: Reading and Conversation with Miguel Algarin (pdf)
April 22: #BringBackOurGirls: Boko Haram and Nigeria’s Bellwether Elections (pdf)
April 22: Enormous Smallness: A Story of E.E. Cummings (pdf) with Matthew Burgess
April 22: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with John Yau and Nell Freudenberger (pdf)
May 5: Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (pdf) with Chris Hedges
May 7: Whiting Seminar (pdf)
May 7: Brooklyn Voices (pdf) with Denis Hamill, Joe Richman, and Zetta Elliott
May 11: Foreign-Language Opera in New York: A Cultural Experiment, 1825–34 (pdf) with Jennifer CJ Wilson

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), with Laura Silver
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), with Luigi Bonaffini
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) with Katha Pollitt
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)

2013–14

Spring 2014

February 20: Poets on Poets, with David Mills on Langston Hughes (pdf)
February 24: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group—Lila Abu-Lughod’s Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, led by Moustafa Bayoumi
February 25: Remixing Nina Simone: Myth, Meme, and Icon of a Movement (pdf), with Salamishah Tillet
February 26: Hair (pdf) and the Gender Politics of Late-1960s Youth Culture (pdf), with Elizabeth Wollman
February 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) film screening followed by Q&A with Virginia Sanchez-Korrol
March 12: Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (pdf), with Samuel G. Freedman
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), with Najla Said
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

September 24: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group—Nicholas Mirzoeff’s The Right to Look, led by Joseph Entin and Mobina Hashmi
September 29: M.F.A. Student Reading at Freddy’s Bar, 4–6 p.m.
October 1: A Brief Wondrous Discussion of Oscar Wao: Language, Fukú, and the Dominican Diaspora (pdf)
October 9: M.F.A. Student Reading at Freddy’s Bar, 4–6 p.m.
October 16: Understanding Italian Politics: Key Trends and Future Prospects (pdf)
October 16: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series (pdf), with novelist Helen Schulman and poet Anna Moschovakis
October 21: Egypt at the Crossroads (pdf), with Abdalla Hassan and Louis Fishman
October 22: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group—Nicholas Mirzoeff’s The Right to Look, led by Joseph Entin and Mobina Hashmi
October 23: The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop (pdf), with Guthrie Ramsey
October 31: Poets on Poets (pdf), with Lou Asekoff on Robert Lowell
November 5: Listen, Whitey! The Sound of Black Power, 1965–1975, with Pat Thomas
November 7: The Francis Phenomenon (pdf), with Camille D’Arienzo and David Gibson
November 11: Understanding the Gezi Park Protests (pdf), with Louis Fishman and Kumru Toktamis
November 13: Freedom Ride: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement, an Opera (pdf), by Dan Shore
November 14: The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (pdf), with author Simone Cinotto
November 19: Shirley Chisholm Day (pdf), with Karen Lewis
November 20: Poets on Poets (pdf), with Michael Graves on James Wright
November 20: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series (pdf), with Sibyl Kempson and Stephen O’Connor
December 6–7: Philosophy of the City Conference (pdf)
December 8: M.F.A. Alumni Reading (pdf), with Elliott Holt, Ben Gassman and Ken Walker
December 11: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series (pdf), with Graham Foust and Sarah Ruhl

2012–13

Spring 2013

February 13: Stories From the Black Atlantic and Mediterranean (pdf), with Alessandra Di Maio
February 19: Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom—Priests of Our Democracy (pdf), with Marjorie Heins
February 20: Strangers in a Strange Land (pdf), with Jim Periconi
February 25: Conversations on Race and Performance: Reverberating Minstrels (pdf), with Spike Lee
February 26: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Gotlib
February 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

September 20: All You Jim Crow Fascists! Woody Guthrie’s Freedom Songs (pdf), with Will Kaufman
September 22: Welcome Back Woody: Guthrie Centennial Conference
September 23: M.F.A. Student Reading at Sycamore
October 4: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Law
October 10: From Brooklyn College to Vinland and Back (pdf), with Annette Kolodny
October 14: M.F.A. Student Reading at Sycamore
October 17: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Anselm Berrigan and Julie Otsuka (pdf)
October 25: Town Hall Meeting, with Hakeem Jeffries (pdf)
October 25: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Law
November 6: HeLa’s Troubled Legacy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (pdf)
November 7: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Alice Mattison and Lisa D’Amour (pdf)
November 8: What Gandhi Says (pdf), with Norman Finkelstein and Karuna Mantena
November 14: 3rd Annual Caribbean Film Festival: West Indian Edition (pdf)
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 (pdf)
December 5: The “Death of Traditional America?” Our Post Election Future (pdf), with Aura Bogado, Lawrence Johnson, Louis Prisock and Alan Aja
December 9: M.F.A. Alumni Reading (pdf) at Sycamore
December 13: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, led by Anna Law

2011–12

Spring 2012

February 2: Sankofa Film Screening and Discussion (pdf)
February 8: Jim Crow Justice, with Khalil Muhammad (pdf)
February 16: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group
February 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

September 15: Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying and the Uses of Memoir (pdf)
September 22: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group—Nietzsche: Life as Literature, led by Samir Chopra
October 3: Confronting Precarious Work: Toward a New Social Contract, with Arne Kalleberg (pdf)
October 5: In the Belly of the Beeb, with Peter Foges (pdf)
October 6: Robot Law: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents (pdf)
October 11: Rebel Youth and Anarchy in Colonial India, with Satadru Sen (pdf)
October 12: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Jonathan Baumbach and Will Eno (pdf)
October 13: New York City Stop and Frisk Policy (pdf)
October 20: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group—Nietzsche: Life as Literature, led by Samir Chopra
October 26: The Music of Jimi Hendrix, with Will Fulton (pdf)
October 27: Men Undressed (pdf)
November 2: The Crisis of Black Identity (pdf)
November 2: The Music of John Cage, with Ben Picket (pdf)
November 9: Gone to the Country, with Ray Allen (pdf)
November 10: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group—Nietzsche: Life as Literature, led by Samir Chopra
November 10: Alternative Media in Times of Unrest, with DeeDee Halleck (pdf)
November 15: Writing and History, with Evelyne Troulliot (pdf)
November 16: Almost a Family, with John Darnton (pdf)
November 16: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Marjorie Welish and Amy Bloom (pdf)
November 29: Shirley Chisholm Day—The Value of Belonging: Reimagining Equality in 21st Century, with Anita Hill (pdf)
December 1: Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Everywhere? What’s Next? (pdf)
December 4: An Alumni Reading, with Helen Phillips, Stephen Motika and Normandy Sherwood at Sycamore (pdf)
December 5: Harvard Yard to Lubyanka? Academic Freedom and the Net in the Facebook Era, with Eben Moglen (pdf)
December 8: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group—Nietzsche: Life as Literature, led by Samir Chopra
December 12: News for the People: The Epic Story of Race and the Media (pdf)
December 14: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with Robert Viscusi and Sam Lipsyte (pdf)

2010–11

Spring 2011

February 9: Caroline Bergvall: A Poetry Reading (pdf)
March 2: What Spielberg Learns From Television (pdf)
March 8: Searching for Ernestine Potowski Rose (pdf)
March 9: Cultural Evolution of Fashion and Fads (pdf)
March 10: Martha Bell Memorial (pdf)
March 14: Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama (pdf)
March 14: A Reading by Gioia Timpanelli (pdf)
March 16: Melissa Gibson and Karen Russell (pdf)
March 21: Riot Grrrl Is Dead. Long Live Riot Grrrl: Political Activism, Nostalgia and Historiography (pdf)
March 24: Islamic Art: A Project of Muslims, Jews and Christians (pdf)
March 28: Remove the Records From Texas: Parsing Online Archives (pdf)
March 31: Teaching and Writing: A Whiting Seminar (pdf)
April 5: The East Cultural and Educational Center: A Jazz Celebration Featuring the Charles Tolliver Quartet and Salim Washington and the Brooklyn College Ensemble (pdf)
April 7: What Can Animals Tell Us About Belief? (pdf)
April 7: Rethinking the Digital Humanities (pdf)
April 11: Milton Babbitt, Time and Memory (pdf)
April 12: Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata: Ambassador of Italy to the United States (pdf)
April 27: Elizabeth Willis and Kate Walbert: A Reading (pdf)
April 28: Without Fear or Favor: Four Decades of Writing Truth to Power (pdf)
April 28: North Africa and the Wider World (pdf)
May 4: Brooklyn on My Mind: Writing Fiction and Nonfiction (pdf)
May 4: Puerto Rican Citizen History and Political Identity in Twentieth-century New York City (pdf)
May 5: Graduate Student Colloquium (pdf)
May 6: Day of the Poet (pdf)
May 9: Ignazio Silone and Italian American Literature (pdf)
May 9: Terror Chords and Jungle Drums: Music in Horror Films (pdf)
May 11: Frolic Architecture (pdf)

Fall 2010

September 8: Why Fascism Was Not Able to Create an Italian Civil Religion (pdf)
September 15: The Black Nile (pdf)
September 20: Lox, Stocks and Backstage Broadway: Iconic Trades of NYC (pdf)
September 21: New Voices of the Yiddish Stage II (pdf)
September 22: Ethyle R. Wolfe Memorial Service
October 4: Lee Bontecou: From Sputnik to Lincoln Center (pdf) (A Wolfe Fellows Lecture)
October 12: Gary Rhoades: A Ewen Civil Liberties Lecture (pdf)
October 13: Len Jenkins and Myla Goldberg: A Reading (pdf)
October 27: A Newspaper Grows in Brooklyn (pdf)
October 27: Brooklyn on My Mind: Writing Funny (pdf)
November 4: Jefferson’s Moose and the Laws of Cyberspace (pdf)
November 8: Post-Black Education: Race, Politics and Schooling in the U.S. (pdf) (A Wolfe Fellows Lecture)
November 9: Austria, the EU, the US and Beyond: A Martin and Syma Mendelsohn Lectureship in International Relations (pdf)
November 16: Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium (pdf)
November 17: Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan: A Reading (pdf)
November 18: The Battle for Gotham (pdf)
November 18: Watching the Fighters: Exploring the Roman Fascination With Gladiators (pdf)
November 18: The Tea Party Moment (pdf)
November 30: Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (pdf)
November 30: Being a Catalyst for Change: The Legacy of Shirley Chisholm (pdf)
December 1: Joan Baez at Spring Hill College: A Study of Intersecting Histories (pdf)
December 2: Henry James and Shakespeare (pdf)
December 12: M.F.A. Alumni Reading, With Zohra Saed, Emily Mitchell and Rob Erickson (pdf)

2007–10

Fall 2008

September 9: Interpreter of Maladies (pdf)
Why We’re Liberals
Antonia Pantoja: Presente!
September 22: Shopping to Belong (pdf)
September 24: Landscape Cleansing: From the Socialist to the Post-socialist State in Eastern Europe (pdf)
September 24: Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Roots of Lyric
October 6: The Voices of Victims (pdf)
October 6: Poetry Reading: Robert Kelly (pdf)
October 15: An Evening of Piano Music With Ursula Oppens
October 16: Alternative Armies (pdf)
October 16: The Vanguard (pdf)
Brooklyn on My Mind: Election Left and Right
October 21: Battleground States in Presidential Elections (pdf)
October 23: Wreckage of Reason (pdf)
October 23: Otiose Otium: The Status of Writing in Late Republican Rome (pdf)
Where Are We Now?
October 27: Alternative Sources of Energy Policy (pdf)
October 29: Twilight Becomes Night (pdf)
October 29: Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Voice
November 3: Greensboro: Closer to the Truth (pdf)
Change or Maverick
November 12: Composer’s Forum Celebrating Morton Subotnik
Encuentro, 2008
November 17: Poetry Readng: Marjorie Welish (pdf)
City of Disorder
November 17: Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (pdf)
Graduate Student Colloquium
November 19: Faculty Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Self
November 20: Nightshift (pdf)
December 2: The Imperial Cult of Augustan Athens (pdf)
December 4: Sustainablility Group
December 9: Salim Washington and Farah Jasmine Griffin
December 10: Faculy Study Group, Lyric Poetry: Lyric Word / Lyric World
December 15: Poetry Reading: Julie Agoos (pdf)

Spring 2008

How Hot Will it Get
January 31: Poetry and Reflection (pdf)
Persuasion
Darfur: Human Tragedy and the World’s Response
February 19: Who Belongs? (pdf)
February 20: You: Or the Invention of Memory (pdf)
February 20: Understanding the Brain via Music (pdf)
February 26: The Great Debaters (pdf)
Brooklyn on My Mind
March 3: Party / Politics (pdf)
March 5: Jon Scieszka (pdf)
March 5–May 1: Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (pdf)
The Obama Phenomena
Covering Israel
March 19: Susan Choi (pdf)
March 19, April 2 and 17, May 1: Music in Polycultural America (pdf)
It Was Self Defense
March 26: Civil Rights and Conservative People (pdf)
March 27: Transnational Cervantes (pdf)
The Best Education Is Democratic
March 31: Crossing Lines (pdf)
Room at the Bottom or Spaces to Be Invaded?
April 7: Matthew Rotando (pdf)
April 8: Whiting: Teaching and Research (pdf)
April 9: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (pdf)
April 10: How to Think Money (pdf)
April 10: Multilingual America (pdf)
April 11: The Palestinian / Israeli Conflict (pdf)
April 14: Politics by Other Greens (pdf)
April 14: Stutter (pdf)
April 15: Autobiography and National Identity (pdf)
Ben Lerner
April 30: Civil Rights (pdf)
The Constitution Comes Home
Brooklyn on My Mind
May 6: Conversations About Shirley Chisholm (pdf)
There Will Be Blood
Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium

Fall 2007

October 4: New Harsh Anti-immigrant Measures (pdf)
October 11: Charles Hamilton Houston (pdf)
Experiencing Palermo, Experiencing Resistance
October 18 and 25, November 7, December 3: Music in Polycultural America (pdf)
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
November 7: Popular Power in a Globalizing World (pdf)
November 8: Teaching the Levees (pdf)
November 12: The Evolution of a Universal Moral Grammar (pdf)
November 15: Decoding Liberation (pdf)
Memoir as Witness
November 15: The Possible Dream—Encuentro 2007 (pdf)
November 29: Can Intervention Help Women? (pdf)
December 3: Other Rooms Press Poets (pdf)
Banished: an American Ethnic Cleansing
December 3 and 10: Italian American Relations (pdf)
December 6: Pizer Graduate Student Colloquium (pdf)
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