February 16, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia With Alle the Faith of Haly Kyrke: Vernacular Teaching and the Crisis of Authority in Late Fourteenth-Century England Boylan Hall, Room 2405 with Laurence Bond ’17, History, John Hopkins University This event is also on Zoom. E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel for the Zoom links and if you have any questions. All students and faculty
February 28, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia The Uluburun Shipwreck: The Key to Understanding Large-Scale Tin Trade in Late Bronze Age Eurasia Boylan Hall, Room 2405 with Wayne Powell, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College This event is also on Zoom. E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel for the Zoom links and if you have any questions. All students and
March 9, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Looking for the Classical in the Renaissance: Roman Antiquities Outside Italy Boylan Hall, Room 2405 with William Stenhouse, History, Yeshiva University This event is also on Zoom. E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel for the Zoom links and if you have any questions. All students and faculty are welcome.
March 27, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Event Series CUNY Week CUNY Week at Brooklyn College: Meet the Brooklyn College Deans Online CUNY Week is a recruitment opportunity where each CUNY college can highlight its campus to attract freshman, transfer, veterans, second degrees, visiting, and non-degree students and, in our case, briefly
March 27, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Sidney’s Penetrations: Poetry and Vulnerability Online Matthew Harrison, English, West Texas A&M E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel for the Zoom links and if you have any questions. All students and faculty are welcome.
March 30, 2023 @ 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Council on Academic Accreditation – Notice of Public Meeting Boylan Hall, Room 4223 The CUNY Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) program invites community members to attend a public meeting during the re-accreditation site visit. More Information (pdf)
April 19, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Thalassophilia: A Hermeneutics of Depth by Ship/wreck in Dante’s Divine Comedy Boylan Hall, Room 2405 Alexa Climaldi ’22, English, Brooklyn College This event is also on Zoom. E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel for the Zoom links and if you have any questions. All students and faculty are welcome.
April 24, 2023 Event Series Humanities and Social Sciences Student Expo Humanities and Social Sciences Student Expo Student Center A two-day event where students in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences present their research at this end-of-year event in a single forum. The expo is also a tremendous
April 25, 2023 Event Series Humanities and Social Sciences Student Expo Humanities and Social Sciences Student Expo Student Center A two-day event where students in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences present their research at this end-of-year event in a single forum. The expo is also a tremendous
April 26, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 10:45 am Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia On Medieval Jewish Women’s Work Boylan Hall, Room 3153 with Sarah Ifft Decker, History, Rhodes College This event is in person (HIST 3002 class). E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel if you have any questions. All students and faculty are welcome.
May 2, 2023 - December 31, 2023 Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Magisterial Feminae: How Women Who Studied the Ancient World Innovated Brooklyn College, the Latin/Greek Institute, and Beyond Library, Exhibit Area The exhibit focuses on BC female faculty members from 1930-1980, their contributions to the study of the pre-modern world, their teaching legacies, and their service to the college
May 2, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm BC Library Archives Exhibition Opening: Brooklyn College’s Female Premodernists, 1930-1980 Library, Exhibit Area Come to the opening of the BC Library Archives exhibition on the unsung female professors who taught the history, literature, art, and culture of the world before 1600 C.E. Learn
May 4, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Lecture: Faith and Rational Deference to Authority Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Sprague & Taylor Annual Lecture: Professor Lara Buchak, Princeton University Lara Buchak argues that it can be rational to defer to an authority in what to believe or what to
May 17, 2023 Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Faculty Day 2023: Medieval/Modern: Confronting the Audience in Monasticism and Performance Art Student Center with Lauren Mancia, in panel on “Christianity in Unexpected Places.” E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel if you have any questions. All students and faculty are welcome. This event is part of Faculty
May 17, 2023 Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Faculty Day 2023: Why Study the Premodern World? Student Center Lunchtime roundtable with David Brodsky, Lauren Mancia, Nicola Masciandaro, Tanya Pollard, David Schur, and Karl Steel. E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel if you have any questions. All students and faculty are welcome.
June 5, 2023 - June 6, 2023 Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Fragments of Experience: Approaching “Lived Religion” From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages Library, Room 411, Samuel and Bernice Gottlieb Room Poster for Fragments of Experience: Approaching “Lived Religion” From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages With papers on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the conference considers the question of “lived
September 6, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Fall 2023 Colloquia Will, Subjectivity, and Contemplative Practice in the Cloud author and Walter Hilton Boylan Hall, Room 2405 with Joseph Romano, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions or for the Zoom links. All students and faculty are welcome.
September 7, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting
September 13, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm “Black Classicisms:” Celebrating the Life and Works of Professor Gail Smith Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium A memorial lecture by Patrice Rankine ’92.
September 26, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm New Books by BC Faculty Series: Daniel Campos “Sino peripatetico” On Transnational Lives/Sobre las vidas transnacionales Online Philosophy Professor Daniel Campos's philosophical memoir Sino peripatético (New York: Sudaquia Editores, 2023) will serve as the starting point for a conversation on the transnational lives of people who, in the
September 28, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Advocating Empathy and Reconciliation in the Midst of Conflict Student Center, Room 618, Gold Room Professor Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi and Rabbi Jill Jacobs will speak about how to advocate for empathy, even when one’s own community is caught up in a conflict.
October 2, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm “The Fight for Free Speech”: A conversation with author Ian Rosenberg and Brooklyn College Interim Provost April Whatley Bedford Online Ian Rosenberg and Brooklyn College Interim Provost April Whatley Bedford will discuss his important and timely book, The Fight for Free Speech.
October 3, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm New Books by BC Faculty Series: Gunja SenGupta, “History Without Borders: The Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds” Online Professor Edward Rugemer, Yale University, joins History Professor Gunja SenGupta, Brooklyn College, for a conversation on SenGupta's recent co-authored book Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in
October 4, 2023 - October 6, 2023 Philosophy of the City 10th Anniversary Conference Student Center The 10th Anniversary Conference of the Philosophy of the City Research Group
October 5, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting
October 12, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm New Books by BC Faculty Series: Rachel M. Brownstein, “American Born: An Immigrant Story, A Daughter’s Memoir” Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This event celebrates the publication of Rachel M. Brownstein's new book American Born: An Immigrant Story, A Daughter’s Memoir.
October 17, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Event Series LAMEM Fall 2023 Colloquia SOULS STINK Online Part of LAMEM's Fall 2023 Colloquia
October 24, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Using Visual Approaches To Enhance Experiential Learning and Teaching Online Professor Jerry Krase (Department of Sociology) will lead an illustrated conversation about integrating visual materials and approaches into teaching in the classroom and out in the field.
October 24, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Event Series Graduate Open House 2023 Graduate Open House – Magner Career Center, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop (Online) Online Are you interested in a career in business? Our Magner Career Center will be hosting an event to talk about the different internship and career opportunities available to a Brooklyn College student.
October 24, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Graduate Open House 2023 Graduate Open House – School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Speech-Language Pathology, M.S. (Online) Online Meet with faculty and admissions representatives to discuss academic programs, admission requirements, and the application process.
October 24, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Graduate Open House 2023 Graduate Open House – School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Creative Writing, M.F.A. and English, M.A. Programs (Online) Online Meet with faculty and admissions representatives to discuss academic programs, admission requirements, and the application process.
October 24, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Event Series Graduate Open House 2023 Graduate Open House – School of Humanities and Social Sciences, History, M.A. (Online) Online Meet with faculty and admissions representatives to discuss academic programs, admission requirements, and the application process.
October 25, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Graduate Open House 2023 Graduate Open House – School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Advanced Certificate (Online) Online Meet with faculty and admissions representatives to discuss academic programs, admission requirements, and the application process.
October 25, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Graduate Open House 2023 Graduate Open House – School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Political Science, M.A. International Affairs and Global Justice Specialization (Online) Online Meet with faculty and admissions representatives to discuss academic programs, admission requirements, and the application process.
October 26, 2023 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm New Books by BC Faculty Series: Ben Lerner, “The Lights: Poems” Library, Room 411, Samuel and Bernice Gottlieb Room The event celebrates the publication of Ben Lerner’s latest book, The Lights: Poems.
November 8, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Fall 2023 Colloquia Domestic Disobedience, Political Disorder: Women and Animals in the Livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry (France, 14th c.) Boylan Hall, Room 2405 Part of LAMEM's Fall 2023 Colloquia
November 9, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting
November 9, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Melissa Murray To Deliver Samuel J. Konefsky Memorial Lecture: “Dobbs, Democracy, and Distrust” Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Melissa Murray will deliver the Samuel J. Konefsky Memorial Lecture, titled "Dobbs, Democracy and Distrust" On November 9.
November 27, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Fall 2023 Colloquia Blackness as Chaos and Old Night: The Provenance of Paradise Lost and Black Revolt Boylan Hall, Room 2405 with Lecturer/Doctoral Scholar Dorell Thomas, Brooklyn College E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions or for the Zoom links. All students and faculty are welcome.
November 30, 2023 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Defending the Humanities: A Conversation With Hess Scholars Paul Ortiz and Barbara Smith Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium We bring together two Hess Scholars to discuss current attacks on the humanities.
December 7, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting
December 15, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Gang Proliferation and the Political Crisis in Haiti: An Intricate Web Whitehead Hall, Room 222 Devlopman Gang ak Kriz Politik ann Ayiti: On Sitiyasyon Mangonmen Presenter / Konferansye: Djems Olivier, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher Université du Québec en Outaouais Moderator / Moderate: Menes Dejoie, Espas Kreyòl
February 2 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Spring 2024 Colloquia Experiencing Medieval Monasticism The Met Cloisters How can we uncover the lived religious experiences of distant historical subjects, like medieval monks from 1,000 years ago?
February 8 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting