March 13, 2023 @ 9:00 am - March 17, 2023 @ 10:00 pm Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith Join us in a week-long event with author, activist, and independent scholar, Barbara Smith! She has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about
March 13, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm BC President Welcomes 2022-23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson and the BC community welcome 2022-23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith to campus. Speakers: Gaston Alonso, Interim Director, Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and Professor of
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
June 8, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Symposium: “Great Circles: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Poetry” Symposium: “Great Circles: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Poetry” Student Center, Room 502, State Room “Great Circles: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Poetry” will gather an interdisciplinary group of international scholars to discuss the relationship between mathematics, philosophy, and poetry.
June 9, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 6:00 pm Event Series Symposium: “Great Circles: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Poetry” Symposium: “Great Circles: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Poetry” Student Center, Room 502, State Room “Great Circles: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Poetry” will gather an interdisciplinary group of international scholars to discuss the relationship between mathematics, philosophy, and poetry.
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 11, 2023 @ 12:50 pm - 2:05 pm The Making and Un-Making of Columbus Day Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium A conversation with Professor Patricia Antoniello and Associate Professor Naomi Schiller, Anthropology.
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 19, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm New Books by BC Faculty Series: Immanuel Ness, “Migration as Economic Imperialism” This event celebrates the publication of Immanuel Ness’s latest book, Migration is Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries (Polity, 2023). Ness, professor and chairperson
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 2, 2023 @ 12:50 pm - 2:15 pm New Books by BC Faculty Series: Revolutionary Feminists—A Conversation With Barbara Winslow, Zinga Fraser, and Jeanne Theoharis Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium A celebration of the publication of Professor Barbara Winslow's latest book, Revolutionary Feminists.
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.