Black Futures

a book talk with Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham An archive of collective memory and exuberant testimony A luminous map to navigate an opaque and disorienting present An infinite geography of possible futures What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of …

Queer/Feminist/Indigenous Approaches to Climate Crisis: from the Caribbean to the Pacific

 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 20, 2020. PLESE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES! a conversation with Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua & Angelique V. Nixon, moderated by Dean Itsuji Saranillio   This panel places in conversation scholar/activists situated in the Caribbean and the Pacific to highlight the interrconnections between these two regions through a queer, feminist, and …

October 23: QUEER TROUBLE IN CARIBBEAN ART & ACTIVISM

a conversation with Rosamond S. King & Angelique V. Nixon October 23, Tuesday, 6 to 8 pm CSGS, 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor Rosamond S. King, English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Angelique V. Nixon, Institute for Gender & Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad Two award winning artist-scholars …

October 11: SEXUAL POLITICS IN A TRANSNATIONAL FRAME

a roundtable with Sa’ed Atshan, Sara Mourad, Jyoti Puri, & Evren Savci October 11, Thursday, 6 to 8 pm CSGS, 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor Sa’ed Atshan, Peace & Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College Sara Mourad, Media Studies, American University in Beirut Jyoti Puri, Sociology, Simmons College Evren Savci, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University Taxonomies …

April 25 :: STANDING ROCK & THE SEVENTH GENERATION: An Economics for Us All

Standing Rock & the Seventh Generation: An Economics for Us All an Albert Gallatin Lecture with Winona LaDuke April 25, Tuesday 6:30 to 8:30 pm Please register here! Winona LaDuke, rural development economist and author “The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one third of the world’s resources is unsustainable. …

March 6: The AIDS Generation

The AIDS Generation a panel discussion with Eric Bartley, Jack Drescher, & Perry N. Halkitis Thursday, March 6 7:30 to 9:30 pm Eric Bartley, AIDS activist and Housing Works, Inc. Board of Directors member Jack Drescher, psychiatrist & psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City Perry N. Halkitis, Applied Psychology, Public Health & Medicine …

How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20

How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel I Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street free On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider “general standards of decency and respect” in …