Join Amanda Munroe, Director of Restorative Practices, and Professor Kimberly Williams Brown, Director of Engaged Pluralism, in one of our intergroup dialogue sessions following Khaled Beydoun and Ken Stern's moderated discussion.

Campus community only, please.

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.

Eliza Orlins discusses how policing disproportionately targets marginalized communities, fuels mass incarceration, and fails to deliver true public safety.

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.

Mae M. Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in the histories of immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and the Chinese diaspora. This event is open to the public.

Author Elyssa Maxx Goodman will speak about her book Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City and discuss drag’s effects on the culture of the city and the U.S. overall.

A book talk by Andrew Lipman ’01 in conversation with James H. Merrell, Professor Emeritus of History. This event is open to the public.

Andrea McDonnell is a media scholar and author whose work examines the production, content, and audience reception of popular media and American celebrity culture. Her research seeks to understand the ways in which audiences engage, take pleasure in, and make sense of celebrity gossip across media platforms, including print, television, and social media.

Campus community only, please.

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation) is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist whose work has long advocated for recognition of historic and ongoing forms of oppression of Indigenous peoples in the US and globally. 

This exhibition of contemporary art explores the psychological, physical, and emotional realities encountered by women and people assigned female at birth in the years leading up to, during, and after fertility. Artists Krista Franklin and Joanne Leonard will be in conversation with exhibition curators Karen Irvine and Kristin Taylor.

A lecture by Sharla Alegria, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, whose research examines inequalities that persist when individuals and organizations embrace principles of equity.

In this two-part lecture, Mindy Seu will present a performative reading of the Cyberfeminism Index followed by Celine Wong Katzman’s introduction to building intersectional feminist, archival, and curatorial frameworks in the contemporary art world.