We invite faculty and staff to join us for end-of-year digital drinks, music, and good vibes as we reflect on and celebrate the first year of the Black Studies Colloquium. Register Here: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucu2urz8qGNTcYv4eCkVFeXW4rXSVWmBK
Greeting Faculty and Staff! On April 20 at 6:00 pm the Black Studies Colloquium will delve into a conversation about Black Studies focusing on the work of our esteemed colleague Zachariah Mampilly. In this round table discussion, we will consider a diasporic framing of Black Studies. This conversation will build from a section (pp. 25-34) […]
The Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) invites faculty and staff to a Community Event and Happy Hour to provide space for interdisciplinary discussion and idea generation related to Black Studies scholarship at Baruch College. At this event, we aim to create connections and consider future events, including but not limited to writing workshops, reading series, […]
The Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) and the Black and Latino Studies (BLS) Department at Baruch College will host a talk entitled “Black and Indigenous Resistance to Racist Backlash Across the Americas” by Juliet Hooker, an agenda-setting scholar-activist of Blackness, Indigeneity, and gender in the Americas. This talk will discuss the findings of Black and Indigenous Resistance […]
Purpose: This anti-racist teach-in will bring together students and faculty to develop critical language and perspectives for organizing a collective antiracist movement at Baruch. Initiatives promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have grown in popularity as a liberal solution to historical patterns of racial exclusion. In this teach-in we will consider what is liberalism and […]
This year residents across the city of New York have been forced to contend with long-running racial and economic disparities in public health, housing security, policing, and education. These political and social dimensions of structural inequality have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. This town hall will feature student, academic, and policy voices in […]
Students have the opportunity to work with the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, playwright and artist, Stew this Spring in his class, Playwriting: The Musical, ENG/JRN 3630/3630H, THE 3052/3052H, Wed. 2:30 – 5:25. Stew has produced multiple award-winning albums, both in his solo career and with his band, The Negro Problem. In 2008, his musical Passing Strange […]
On October 29 at 6:00 pm, Professor Erica Richardson will host a live roundtable discussion of the music theater piece dwb or “Driving While Black” by Roberta Gumble and Susan Kander. dwb depicts a black mother’s love for her son from infancy to adolescence and her increasing concern regarding police brutality. Through an eclectic blend of […]
The Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) and the Black and Latino Studies (BLS) Department at Baruch College will host a talk entitled “Abolition and the Policing of Black Mothers” by acclaimed scholar of law, race, and gender, Dorothy E. Roberts. Professor Roberts’s path-breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, […]
The Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) seeks to provide a space for interdisciplinary discussion and idea generation for all scholars of black studies at Baruch College. Through a series of meetings during the fall and spring semester, the BSC will provide a forum for faculty to engage with exciting scholars, activists, and public intellectuals whose works speak […]
