October 10, 2023 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Book Launch and Conversation: Kristen Ghodsee’s Everyday Utopia—What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life, with Liza Featherstone Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Book launch and conversation about feminist utopian ideas of love and care.
September 22, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm First Brooklyn Blood Cancers Symposium Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The scientific and clinical component of the symposium will include research and clinical talks.
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.
May 9, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm I AM AFRICANA Conference: With Keynote Speaker and Africana Studies Alumna, Guggenheim Fellow Ja’Tovia Gary Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The Department of Africana Studies at Brooklyn College presents the “I AM AFRICANA Conference.” Join us as we celebrate Africana Studies at Brooklyn College and welcome our keynote speaker, Africana
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
April 26, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Brooklyn College Archives and YWCA Brooklyn present: “Women of Slender Means” – A film by Allison Prete Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Women of Slender Means follows five of the 300 women living at the YWCA Brooklyn.
April 20, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Walt Whitman, A Brooklyn (College) Boy Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is a book born in Brooklyn that continues to inspire the world. The poet began his literary career here, printing the first edition of his
April 19, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Is Black Male Studies an End of Race-Gender Theory? Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This keynote lecture will address the following topic: Black Male Studies argues that the purpose of racism is to lessen the demographic presence and social capital of oppressed groups through the oppression and lethal extermination of racialized males. This thesis, supported by multiple evidence-based accounts, is met with hostility in philosophy and other humanist sciences despite its empirical basis. If patriarchy and racism are directed toward eliminating racialized males, could race and gender theory as currently conceptualized survive?
March 30, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Artist-In-Residence Materiality and Blackness and the Figure and the Future Artist Talk by Robert Pruitt Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium We are thrilled to announce an upcoming artist talk by Robert Pruitt, as part of our Artist-In-Residence program. The talk, titled "Materiality and Blackness and the Figure and the Future,"
March 23, 2023 @ 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm “Reckonings”: Documentary and Discussion about Post-Holocaust Reconciliation Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The Judaic Studies Department will be screening of the documentary, Reckonings, followed by a panel discussion by experts about the reconciliation process between Germany and the Jewish people following the
