Lectures and Events

Join scholar Khaled Beydoun for a small group discussion. Breakfast will be served.

Campus community only, please.

Join scholar Ken Stern for a small group discussion on antisemitism and hate. Lunch will be served. RSVP is required.

Campus community only, please.

Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University Khaled Beydoun and Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, legal scholar Ken Stern will engage in a moderated dialogue with Associate Professor of Religion Kirsten Wesselhoeft about Islamophobia, antisemitism, free speech/expression and hate. This event is open to the public. Vassar attendees will need to show their ID. Non-Vassar attendees will need to register.

Vassar Randolph Fellow Professor Sa'ed Atshan will moderate this panel with Swarthmore College Professor Tariq al-Jamil and University of Michigan Professor Su'ad Abdul Khabeer on the diverse experiences of Black Americans. They will reflect on questions around race and faith, Blackness, cultural production, political consciousness, and civic engagement among African American Muslims. The panel will be followed by an Iftar and this is open to the entire Vassar community, all are welcome! Please RSVP.

Campus community only, please.

Nicole Holliday, Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, will present her latest research on how tone-detection systems and digital voice assistants like Siri and Alexa reinforce linguistic and racial bias.

This event is open to the public.

Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University and one of the nation’s leading urban ethnographers, discusses his book The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. Open to the public.

Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Audre Lorde’s manuscript archives, will give a talk on her new book, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Open to the public.

A CUNY sociology professor discusses how reentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality.

By situating racism and capitalism as interlocking systems of dispossession and displacement, University of Toronto Associate Professor of Sociology Prentiss Dantzler brings the “housing question” into perspective as a way to understand broader calls for reparative justice.

Novuyo Tshuma will give a lecture and read excerpts from her novel Digging Stars.