Past Events

Fall 2020

September

Thursday, September 3: Classical Dance and Race with Delores Brown Abelson
Monday, September 21 - Friday, September 25: Winona LaDuke: The Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence (pdf)
Tuesday, September 22: Race, Violence, and Power (pdf) with Kobie Colemon

October

Friday, October 2: Creating an Anti-Racist, Inclusive Curriculum with Trevor Ngwane
Thursday, October 8: Shimmering Contraries: Medieval Grammar and the Rise of Race and Racism (pdf) with Cord Whitaker
Tuesday, October 20: On Science, Privilege, and Inequality with Jennifer Adams
Wednesday, October 21: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Moriel Rothman-Zecher and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (pdf)
Tuesday, October 27: How We Go Home: Voices From Indigenous North America with Sara Sinclair
Wednesday, October 28: Common Reader Project and The 1619 Project - Faculty Panel Discussion

November

Thursday, November 5: Leading While Black: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black Male School Leaders with Dr. Phillip Smith
Monday, November 9: Racial Disparities in NYC Schools with David Bloomfield
Tuesday, November 10: Expanding Byzantium: Displaying Arts of Africa in The Met's Byzantine galleries with Andrea Achi
Wednesday, November 11: Afro-Latinx Representation in Children's Literature with Eric Velasquez
Thursday, November 12: LGBTQ and Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and their challenges in counseling with Florence Saint-Jean
Wednesday, November 18: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Rabih Alameddine and John Keene (pdf)
Monday, November 16 and Wednesday, November 18: Workshop on Poetry and Technology with Samiya Bashir
Wednesday, November 18: Integrating Computer Science and Literacy for Emergent Bilinguals with Sara Vogel
Thursday, November 19: Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica with Jackie Murray
Thursday, November 20: Seminar in Museum Techniques with Braden Paynter
Friday, November 20: Who owns the Past? Decolonizing Archeology with Dr. Nicholas Laluk
Tuesday, November 24: Colonial Theft and Indigenous Resistance in the Kleptocene with Kyle Keeler
Thursday, November 26: Leading While Black and Male: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black Male school Leaders with Phillip Smith

December

Tuesday, December 1: The Construction of Language Learning Disorders in School-Age African American Children: The Role of Implicit Bias with Dr. Cecelia Davison
Wednesday, December 2: The Language & Art of Caribbean Dance with Sekou McMiller
Thursday, December 3: Not Even Past: Salvation History in the Philosophy and Theology of Race with Sameer Yadav

Spring 2020

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 (link) with Laurence Bond
March 1: MFA 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 (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 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 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 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 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 with Martin Elsky
December 9: BC Conversations Series: The New Immigration Crisis: Citizenship and Denaturalization in the US
December 10: Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home with author Richard Bell
December 12: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group—Our History Is the Future (Estes, 2019)

Spring 2019

February 21: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group
February 27: John Hope Franklin Series featuring Laylah Amatullah Barrayn (pdf)
*canceled March 4: UndocuAlly, a training session for faculty and staff
March 5: UndocuAlly, a training session for faculty and staff
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)
March 18-22: Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence Program with José David Saldívar (pdf)
Monday, March 18: Immigrants of New York City
Tuesday, March 19: What Else Can You Do with a Humanities Degree?
Tuesday, March 19: Decolonizing Education
Wednesday, March 20: Decolonizing the Imagination: Creatively Writing Sovereign States of Mind
Thursday, March 21: Writing the U.S.-Mexico Border: Tearing Down the Wall -- Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture
March 19: Dézafi (pdf): Launching the English translation of Frankétienne's masterful work (pdf)
March 20: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Fred Moten and Marisa Silver (pdf)
April 3: Trans Literacy Workshop
April 4: Zipporah's Pout: Temporality and the Emotional Life of (Jewish) Images
April 8: The Annual Frances Haidt Lecture -- History and Catastrophe: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto (pdf) with Samuel Kassow and a screening of Who Will Write Our History? (pdf)
April 8: A Wolfe Symposium with Amy Hughes (pdf)
April 9: LGBTQIA+ Mentors' Luncheon with keynote address by Victoria Cruz, registration required
April 9: Trans Activism Before, During, and After Stonewall with Victoria Cruz (pdf)
April 11: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group
April 11: Screening of Queens of Syria (pdf)
April 11: The Medieval/Early Modern Divide: Along the Franco-Spanish Conversion & the Paper Economy
April 11: Remembering Peter Abrahams (pdf)
April 17: MFA 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
September 24: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group—Harlem Nocturne led by Robyn Spencer
October 1: Performing Haiti / Haiti in Performance (pdf)
October 15: The Robert Viscusi Faculty Reading Group—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?
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—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—Harlem Nocturne led by Robyn Spencer
December 11: The Materiality of Emotion in Inscribed Jewish Prayers (pdf)

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: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Mei-mei Bersenbrugge and Yiyun Li (pdf)
Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program (pdf) (complete details available here)
- 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 (pdf) 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: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Madeleine Thien and Cedar Sigo (pdf)

Fall 2017

September 14: The State of Hip-Hop in Brooklyn
September 18: Latina Life Stories, With Sandra Cisneros
September 19: Situating Women in the History of Partition in South Asia, With Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
October 5: Midwood, Before Hollywood
October 18: Music in My Detroit: 1940s-1960s with Mark Slobin
October 18: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Madeleine George and Alan Felsenthal
October 19: Strategies to Combat Racism and Anti-Semitism: The Psychodynamics of American Politics 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
November 3-November 4: Legacies of Pauline Oliveros: A Symposium
November 6: Atlantic Revolutions Now: Thinking about America, France, and Haiti with Jeremy Popkins
November 9: Weapons of the Spirit
November 13: Panic in Panic in Mexico City: Atras del Cosmos (Behind the Cosmos), Free Improvisation, and Experimental Theater, 1964-1983 with Tamar Barzel
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
November 15: MFA 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

Spring 2017

February 22: Latina Life Stories with Josefína Báez
February 28: John Hope Franklin Memorial Day
March 9: Whiting Seminar
March 8–10: Women's Censored Film Festival
March 15: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series—Anna Rabinowitz and David Grubbs
Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, March 13–16

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, an interdisciplinary symposium
March 27: Photojournalism and the American Experience with Nina Berman
March 27: The Phenomenon called Muhammad Ali: Street Gesture, Islamic Soul, Black Body with Yutaka Nakamura
March 28: A Historical and Constitutional Assessment of Trump's Immigration EOs
March 29: Latina Life Stories with Helena Maria Viramontes
April 24: Ronit and Jamil with author Pam Laskin
April 25: Frances Haidt Lecture—Geto: The Historic Jewish Ghetto of Venice with Michael Philip Davis
April 26: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Kirstin Valdez Quade and Simone White
May 19–May 20: The Cost of Freedom: Debt and Slavery, 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
October 7–8: The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus
October 20: Establishing a Digital Humanities Program
October 24: Narratives of the Revolution, with author Alex Myers
October 25: Making History Real Through Fiction: A Conversation with New York Times bestselling author Adam Gidwitz
October 26: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, With Jenny Offill and Karen Weiser
October 27: Our Futures in Journalism
October 31: Herbert Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights: Mr. Trump versus the U.S. Constitution
November 2: The Italians of Brooklyn Revisited
November 3: Brooklyn J'ouvert: Reckoning with Caribbean Carnival's Past, Present, and Future
November 14: Leonard Bernstein and the Piano
November 16: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, With Lara Vapnyar and Rob Handel
November 22: The Long Movement Against Police Brutality in New York City, with Clarence Taylor
December 1: Doc Humes' "Don Peyote" (1960): An Unfinished Greenwich Village Quixote
December 4: M.F.A. Alumni Reading, With CJ Hauser, Dennis A. Allen II, and Vanessa Jimenez Gabb
December 5: Chelsea Manning, National Security Whistleblowing, and the Duties of Imperial Ignorance
December 8: Maritime and Underwater Archaeology: New Approaches and Challenges with Nicolas Lira

Spring 2016

February 8: Cuban composer and musician Guido López-Gavilán
February 11: Black History Month Celebration with Khalil Muhmmad
February 22: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Katie Rose Hejtmanek
February 23: Should the NYPD Be Spying on Our Campuses?
March 3: Children in Gold: The Refugee Crisis in Lesbos, Greece documentary screening
March 7: True Cost film screening
March 8: Narratives of the Revolution, Part II, with Laurie Halse Anderson
March 9: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with fiction writer Elizabeth Graver and playwright/screenwriter/fiction writer/biographer Wesley Brown
March 14: Apartheid & Memoir
March 14: True Cost film screening
March 14: Victoria's Big Secret: The Environmental Impact of the Fashion Industry
March 15: Speculative Nonfiction
March 15: Visualizing New York History
March 16: Military, War, and the Environment: Ecologies of the Aftermath
March 16: Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture: Slow Violence, Inequality and the Environmentalism of the Poor
March 17: How to Melt a Glacier in 3 Minutes: Telling Stories of Environmental Change
March 17: Bosses of the Biosphere? Earth Mastery, Plutocracy and Environmental Justice
March 17: Commodifying Sacred Spaces
March 21: Soca Music with Ray Allen
March 21: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Katie Rose Hejtmanek
March 21: Kalief Browder and the Challenges of Criminal Justice Reform
March 22: Screening of (T)error with director Lyric Cabral, Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom
April 4: The Crisis of my Friends, with documentarian Miguel Macias
April 5: Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story, with Ann Kirschner
April 6: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with fiction writer Jess Row and poet Monica de la Torre
April 11: Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space, with Matthew Burgess
April 12: From Roosevelt Hall to the Oval Office: A Brooklyn College Journalism Alum Discusses the Art of Covering Politics
April 14: Wolfe Fellows Symposium, with Michael Rawson, Anna Law, and Michael Menser
April 18: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Katie Rose Hejtmanek
April 19: Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani Music, Appropriation and Representation, with Carol Silverman
April 20: Jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles
May 4: The Corpse Washer with Sinan Antoon
May 5: The Annual Frances Haidt Lecture: FDR, the Jews, and the Holocaust: New Research on an Explosive Controversy, with Rafael Medoff
May 5: Christianity Underground: Death, Ritual, and the Catacombs of Ancient Rome
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
October 8: Ruth Gruber/Photojournalist Art Exhibit Opening Reception
October 15: Austerity of Its Discontent: The Fight to Reclaim Public Higher Education, a Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom
October 20: Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York's Bravest with Ginger Adams Otis
October 20: Vertical Slum with documentarian Irene Sosa
October 21: Friendship, Love, and HipHop with Katie Rose Hejtmanek
October 21: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series with Laura van den Berg and Aaron Kunin
October 26: LGBTQ Equality v Religious Rights?, a panel by the Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights
October 26: Spirituals as Art Songs 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, part two
November 11: American Folk Music: From Field to Archive, 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 with Tom Barbash and Jenny Schwartz
November 19: Narratives of the Revolution: A Series about Scholarly and Storytelling Approaches to History with M.T. Anderson and David Waldstreicher
November 23: Maghrebian Music in New York: Routes and Intersections with Samuel Torjman Thomas
December 7: Spirituals as Art Songs with Marti Newland, soprano, and Magdalena Stern-Baczewska, piano
December 15: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Brooklyn College Digital Humanities Working Group

Spring 2015

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

Fall 2014

September 18: Citizen Action on Climate Change: The Case for Hope, with Jim Shultz
September 29: Knishes: In Search of Jewish Soul Food, 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, with Dr. Stephen Vasciannie
October 16: Poets of the Italian Diaspora, with Luigi Bonaffini
October 20: From Staten Island to Ferguson: The Crisis of Police Legitimacy in (Post) Racial America
October 22: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Fiction Writer Dinaw Mengestu and Poet John Yau
October 23: 40th Anniversary Celebration of Africana Students at Brooklyn College: A Graduate Alumni Symposium
October 29: Women in Parliamentary Politics: The Experience of a Former Israeli Politician, with Anat Maor
October 29:Poets on Poets: Rosamond King on Jayne Cortez
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
November 6: Bed-Stuy in Crisis
November 12: Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom — The New Censorship: Net Discrimination, Net Neutrality, and Free Speech on the Internet, 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
November 18: Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights with Katha Pollitt
November 19: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series With Fiction Writer Adam Haslett and Heidi Schreck
November 20: Shirley Chisholm Day 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 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 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 with Liv Yarrow
December 7: M.F.A Alumni Reading with Victoria Bond, Cristina Moracho, and Ariel Stess

Spring 2014

Feb. 20: Poets on Poets, with David Mills on Langston Hughes
Feb. 24: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group — Lila Abu-Lughod's Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, led by Moustafa Bayoumi
Feb. 25: Remixing Nina Simone: Myth, Meme, and Icon of a Movement, with Salamishah Tillet
Feb. 26: Hair and the Gender Politics of Late-1960s Youth Culture, with Elizabeth Wollman
Feb. 27: Poets on Poets, with Ben Lerner on John Ashbery
March 3: Wolfe Fellowship Lecture Series — Slaves and Intoxicants: The Intermingled Economies of West Africa and Bahia, 1650-1750 with Chris Ebert
March 4: Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of the American Civil War 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, 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' The Circle
March 13: Frederic Ewen Lecture on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom, with David Lyon — Surveillance after Snowden: Decoding the "Snooping Scandal"
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
March 19: Stem Cell Dialogues
March 31: Linguistic Diversity: A Socio-linguistic Perspective, with Ilan Stavans
March 31: What Melting Pot? Multi-culturalism and American Jews: Oy, Are We a Pluribus?, with Ilan Stavans
April 1: Tweeting at Windmills: Cervantes and Don Quixote in the 21st Century, with Ilan Stavans and William Childers
April 1: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Women and Mine Ilan Stavans presents the Frances Haidt Annual Memorial Lecture
April 1: Screening of My Mexican Shivah
*Change in Location, April 2: Writing Memoirs About Making Films, with Susana Aikin
April 3: A New Sound in Hebrew: National Identity and the National Poet, with Miryam Segal
April 7: Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family, with Najla Said
April 7: Are We More Equal? 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
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, with Scott Dexter
April 9: M.F.A. Intergenre Reading Series, with poet Lisa Jarnot and fiction writer Susan Choi
April 10: The Performances of Everynight Life in the Sixties, with Tavia Nyong'o
April 24: Jewish Languages Used by Women and Other Jews as part of the Frances Haidt Lecture Series
April 30: Singing the Gods: Songs of Devotion, Praise and Invocation
April 30: MFA Reading Series with Richard Russo
May 5: Mr. Seymour Kaplan '76 — Eyewitness at Dachau
May 7: Finding Common Ground: Tolerance in Experimental Improvisation, with Dan Blake
May 7: 16th Charles Lawrence II Memorial Lecture
May 8: Whiting Seminar on Teaching and Research, 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, with Anat Cohen, Arturo O'Farrill and the Brooklyn College Jazz Ensemble

Fall 2013

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