Barnard Center for Research on Women https://bcrw.barnard.edu Bringing together feminist scholars and activists for research, collaboration, and work towards social transformation Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:04:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-BCRW-web-logo-2-32x32.jpg Barnard Center for Research on Women https://bcrw.barnard.edu 32 32 The City and the University: A Symposium https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-city-and-the-university-a-symposium/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:25:42 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=8891 REGISTER The University in/and Crisis Working Group invites you to attend a symposium featuring research and activism by students at Barnard College, Teachers College, and Columbia University. Students will present work that adopts methods drawn from the field of “critical university studies,” and that draws on archives and repositories held on campus and across the Harlem neighborhood to…

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]]> Who Gets to Travel? Race and the Politics of Student Travel in an Era of Global Crisis https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/ethical-student-travel-in-the-africana-world-gender-and-racial-politics-institutional-challenges-and-best-practices/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:42:01 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=8890 REGISTER Coming on the heels of the MMUF Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Christopher Loperena, join Neriko Doerr and Devin Walker for a lunchtime conversation on the politics, challenges, and best practices associated with crafting ethical student travel experiences for the 21st century. This event is hosted by BCRW’s Africana Routes, Africana Migrations faculty working group convened by…

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]]> A Conversation with Marisa Solomon on The Elsewhere is Black https://bcrw.barnard.edu/a-conversation-with-marisa-solomon-on-the-elsewhere-is-black/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:03:30 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?p=8857 Barnard Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Marisa Solomon’s new book, The Elsewhere Is Black, examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism. Tracing the flow of trash and waste across Black spaces, from Brooklyn’s historically Black Bedford-Stuyvesant to the post-plantation towns of Virginia’s Tidewater…

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]]> Why AI Needs Feminism: From Campus Surveillance to Global Conflicts https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/why-ai-needs-feminism-from-campus-surveillance-to-global-conflicts/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:02:05 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=8849 REGISTER Why AI Needs Feminism brings together feminist critical technologists Lauren Klein (Emory University) and Meredith Broussard (NYU) with Barnard’s Saima Akhtar (Vagelos Computational Science Center) and Gabrielle Gutierrez (Neuroscience) to examine how algorithmic surveillance is reshaping everyday life—from predictive policing in New York neighborhoods of color to the data…

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]]> Annual Report 2023-2025 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/publications/annual-report-2023-2025/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:08:44 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=publications&p=8838 Read the 2023-2025 Annual Report (PDF) August 2025 Dear BCRW Community, This year, the federal government made the extraordinary move to deny scientific consensus on the science of sex and gender, rejected decades of increasing legal and social recognition for trans people, and implemented scores of measures to punish programs promoting racial justice. This is the most challenging…

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]]> Off the Spectrum: The Lost Girls of Autism https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/off-the-spectrum-the-lost-girls-of-autism/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:50:49 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=8827 REGISTER For decades, autism research has focused overwhelmingly on boys and men, and some autism researchers even see autism itself as “masculine.” Drawing on her own decades of research with autistic women and girls, Neuroscientist Gina Rippon upends this view. Beyond highlighting autism’s manifestations in women and girls, Rippon’s research illuminates the entangled matter of gender/sex…

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]]> ‘Wayward’ Mythography: Zora Neale Hurston and Ancient Greece https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/wayward-mythography-zora-neale-hurston-and-ancient-greece/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:37:52 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=8825 Join us for the Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture with Justine McConnell, McMillan-Stewart Fellow at Harvard University and Reader in Comparative Literature and Classical Reception at King’s College London. McConnell’s lecture, “‘Wayward’ Mythography: Zora Neale Hurston and Ancient Greece,” will be followed by a conversation co-moderated by Monica Miller (Africana Studies, Barnard) and Rosa…

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]]> The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-elsewhere-is-black-ecological-violence-and-improvised-life/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:55:31 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=8818 The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life with J.T. Roane (Geography, Rutgers) and Mon M. (Survived & Punished), moderated by C. Riley Snorton (English & Comparative Literature and ISSG, Columbia). ]]> REGISTER Join us for an exciting book salon in celebration of Barnard Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies Marisa Solomon’s The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life with J.T. Roane (Geography, Rutgers) and Mon M. (Survived & Punished), moderated by C. Riley Snorton (English & Comparative Literature and ISSG, Columbia). In The Elsewhere Is Black…

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]]> Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction https://bcrw.barnard.edu/publications/abolition-feminism-and-the-politics-of-reproduction/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:52:56 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=publications&p=8815 F Online issue 21.1 Available here. Guest editors Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma gather contributions that examine how gendered, racialized, and classed forms of life are both sustained and constrained by carceral systems, and how abolitionist praxis reimagines and rebuilds the reproduction of the social otherwise. Abolition feminism here operates as analytic and an ethic: a refusal of state…

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]]> A Conversation with the Editors: Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/abolition-feminism-and-the-politics-of-reproduction-launch-conversation/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:58:05 +0000 https://bcrw.barnard.edu/?post_type=event&p=8802 Join guest editors Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma, S&F Online Senior Editor Sandra Moyano-Ariza, and S&F Online Executive Editor Rebecca Jordan-Young to mark the release of the Fall 2025 issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, “Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction.” This conversation will focus on the issue’s development and key questions and themes, as well as its special release in…

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