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
March 21, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm The Hidden Stories of Institutionalization: Our Stories Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Listen to the stories of adults who were institutionalized as young children.
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
February 28, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Gender Affirming Medical Rights—A Presentation by Erin Reed Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The overturning of Roe v. Wade has had corollary deleterious impacts on trans lives, especially youth in need of gender-affirming medical care. To learn more, attend this special presentation from Erin Reed,
February 21, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm The Intersection of Africana Philosophy and Critical Philosophies of Race: Decolonizing Initiatives in Academia and Beyond Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The LGBTQ+ Center is co-sponsoring the Philosophy Department’s Africana Philosophy Talk. Professors Kris Sealey (Fairfield University) and Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University) will discuss the present state of Black philosophy, the
