Presented in partnership with Barnard’s Asian Diaspora and Asian American Studies (ADAAS), the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS), and the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), please join us for a screening of The Dawn is Too Far, a powerful documentary capturing the Iranian-American community’s stories of exile, resilience, and bonds formed through community, art, and love.
Following the screening, Professor Manijeh Moradian (Barnard WGSS) will facilitate a Q&A session with Co-Director Dr. Persis Karim.
REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/h6A5Wb2FqyWtLhds7
The film screening will be on Thursday, October 9th, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. The event will be hosted at BCRW in Milstein 614 (Barnard College). The event is open to all Columbia University Affiliates. If you are not an affiliate and wish to attend, please indicate your status on the RSVP form and we will register you as a guest accordingly. To all guests, RSVP using the link above.
Join Producer Jhane Myers for a special screening and discussion of a new documentary on American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier. Focused on the struggle of one of the American Indian Movement’s most important activists, this special event has been arranged as part of the university’s recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day. All CU/BC ID holders are warmly encouraged to attend. Members of the surrounding NYC community are also welcome, providing that they email sfowles@barnard.edu by the end of day on Saturday, Oct 11 with their name and phone number.
Co-sponsored by the BC/CU Anthropology Department, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, BC American Studies Department, and CU Native American Council.
ENCUENT(R)OS FALL 2025
Presented by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Aster(ix) Journal, and Casa Hispánica
Conversation and Dinner with Quiara Alegria Hudes
Thursday, October 16th, 6-7:30PM
Casa Hispánica (612 W 116th St.)
FREE BOOKS & DINNER PROVIDED!
Quiara Alegria Hudes is a playwright, memoirist and novelist. Her plays and musicals include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful and Tony Award-winning In the Heights. More recently, she published a memoir, My Broken Language, and her debut novel, The White Hot, is forthcoming November 2025. She is the founder of Emancipated Stories. https://www.quiara.com
Co-sponsored by Barnard College Creative Writing Fellows and The Radio in the Orchard
Dalit Journeys for Dignity is a facilitated discussion about the radical, field-shifting subfield of Dalit Studies within South Asian Studies. This event centers around the publication of this second volume, the Dalit Studies Volume Two (April 2025, SUNY Press and Permanent Black), using this occasion to reflect on the developments in this field since its formal inauguration with the Dalit Studies (Duke, 2016) by Ramnarayan S. Rawat (Delaware) and Kusuma Satyanarayana (EFL-U, Hyderabad) now close to a decade ago. It extends the discussion to a broader examination of the field’s affinities with other newer interdisciplinary subfields, such as Critical Caste Studies, Gender and Caste, or more established ones, like Black Studies.
Register here: https://sofheyman.org/events/dalit-journeys-for-dignity
Organized by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; co-sponsored by the Ambedkar Initiative, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department.
Poet, musician, filmmaker, actor and intellectual Saul Williams discusses the relationships between aesthetic forms and political education in conversation with Dr. Shana Redmond, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference. Reflecting on practices of Black experimentation—in language, music, and film—this dialogue explores the various sites of enclosure and foreclosure, from the nation state to the university, that bear upon the present and what practices are necessary to enact more just futures. Register here.
This conversation is the second installment of the University in/and Crisis working group, a collaboration between the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at Teachers College, and is supported by The Radio in the Orchard. It is presented as part of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures’s Black On Screen: A Century of Radical Visual Culture, a centennial series capturing 100 years of local and transnational Black movement work and artistic evolution on film.
