Upcoming Events
Explores how storytelling rooted in personal experience, Zambian proverbs, and mother tongues can heal colonial harms and preserve culture, featuring Mubanga Kalimamukwento, an award-winning Zambian author, magazine founder, and University of Minnesota Feminist Studies PhD student.
Free and open to the public.
Please join us as Vassar Anthropology Professor April Beisaw discusses her recently published new book, The Archaeology of American Protest.
Professor Rosalind Galt of King’s College, London will be giving a giving a Dean’s Lecture on “Imperfect Archives.”
Professor Omer, of the University of Notre Dame, will present this year’s annual Frederic C. Wood Lecture.
This event is open to the public.
Acclaimed writer Lydia Millet will deliver the 2025 William Gifford Lecture on November 5, 2025. The event is free and open to the public.
Hilton Als will lecture on the photographer Diane Arbus in Manhattan. An Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture sponsored by the Art Department.
This event is open to the public.
This program on the power of narratives will wrestle with timely questions about how stories can inform our views of ourselves and each other. Participants will hear from academics, economists, journalists, comedy writers, and performers.
Day One: The evolving narrative about higher education
Day Two: Using media and theater to tell meaningful stories
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Join us for the Pride and Prejudice Film Festival in celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. The first screening is on Friday, November 7, 2025 from 7–9 p.m. See the full schedule. This event is free and open to the public.
Baye and Asa will perform their recent work Suck it Up. The program will also feature their dance film Second Seed. A Q&A session with the artists will immediately follow the performance.
Ongoing Events
Beyond Survival is a documentary that tells the story of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) and the powerful leadership of currently and formerly incarcerated survivors in creating change. Through compelling interviews with legislators, judges, and advocates, including survivors of abuse and long-term incarceration, Beyond Survival narrates the 10-year Coalition for Women Prisoners campaign for the DVSJA and spotlights critical efforts to implement this groundbreaking sentencing reform.
Ukrainian born artist Larissa Tokmakova’s latest paintings will be on view at the Palmer Gallery from October 16 to November 23.
Mondays: 7:00–8:00 p.m. (Zoom)
Wednesdays: 5:00 p.m.