Defending the Humanities: A Conversation With Hess Scholars Paul Ortiz and Barbara Smith We bring together two Hess Scholars to discuss current attacks on the humanities. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith to Lecture at Brooklyn College on March 16 One of her first public appearances since 2020 will serve as an extraordinary complement to Brooklyn College’s Women’s History Month celebration. Read More
BC President Welcomes 2022-23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith 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 Read More
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 Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith Serving as Brooklyn College’s Hess Scholar-in-Residence for 2022-23 The independent scholar has opened up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. On November 29, Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with Jeanne Theoharis to discuss selected clips from the newly released documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis’ research and book of the same name. Read More
Brooklyn College Welcomes Lisa Lowe, Ph.D., as Its 2021–2022 Hess Scholar in Residence Professor of American Studies at Yale University will headline discussions on the Asian-American experience, legacies of settler colonialism, slavery, and empire in the contemporary United States. Read More
Hess Scholar in Residence Winona LaDuke Says We Must Take the “Green Path” to Restore Our Environment and Economy Looking to indigenous people for guidance is a good start, said the First Nation activist. Read More
Faculty and Staff Reading Group Spring 2020 Schedule All faculty and staff are invited to selected readings of Winona LaDuke’s Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (South End Press, 2005), performed by Brooklyn College Professor Read More
‘The World Is Before You, and You Need Not Take It or Leave It as You Came In,’ Says Hess Scholar in Residence Edwidge Danticat The award-winning Haitian-American author and activist spoke at the annual Hess Memorial Lecture about the shared experience of people of the African diaspora and how to work together for positive change. Read More
Nobel-Prize Winning Columnist Paul Krugman and Political Analyst Thomas Frank Discuss the Obama Legacy Talk is part of the college’s annual Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture. Read More
