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Mary Frank on Art and Our Earth

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Apr 6, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Mary Frank drawing of deer on a black background

M. E. O’Brien, Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 16, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Event Poster, Madonna and Child with Pink and Blue on either end, and Yellow Triangle at Center

Jamaal Bowman: Anti-Establishment Politics, Hip Hop, and Fighting Fascism

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors ProgramDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Feb 18, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Event poster, Jamaal Bowman with microphone

CANCELLED

Frances Fox Piven, One Year On

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Jan 20, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Online

Photo of Frances Fox Piven, contemplative

Luigi Ballerini, Leonardo’s Eels

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Nov 17, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster featuring image of Jesus from The Last Supper, surrounded by eels

Natasha Chuk, ‘Photo Obscura’

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Oct 20, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster for event, with abstracted roll of camera film

Ellen Schrecker, Political Repression and the Universities from McCarthyism to Trump

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Sep 29, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Statue of Minerva (symbol of Columbia University) being crushed

Anne Anlin Cheng, Women on Walls

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Apr 22, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Eileen Gray collage, images of women, skein, and Bauhaus

David France—Surviving A Plague: Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 31, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster with megaphone, pink triangle, two events listed

Jason Rosenberg, Lessons from the AIDS Movement

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 24, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Event poster, megaphone and pink triangle, two talks

Malynne Sternstein on Love without Hope: Walter Benjamin’s Trials with Surrealism

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Feb 10, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster with image of skeleton with setting sun

Wafa Ghnaim—Tatreez Resistance: The Traditional Art of Palestinian Embroidery in the Diaspora

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Jan 29, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster with textile design

Cinema and Politics: Machuca at 20 with Roberto Brodsky

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Dec 2, 2024; 6:00 - 8:30pm

Event poster, film strips with Chilean flag and a splatter of blood

American Agitator

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Nov 18, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster image of angel wings and microphone

Is Art History? A Panel Discussion on the Selected Writings of Svetlana Alpers

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Oct 28, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster image with image of mirrors extending into infinity

Frances Fox Piven—Election 2024: Is Everything Going To Be OK?

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Sep 30, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Online

Frances Fox Piven poster, with Piven looking pensive

Suzanne Anker: Arctic Gardens and the Sixth Extinction

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesBFA Fine ArtsHonors Program

Sep 16, 2024; 7:00 - 8:00pm

Bio-art work Pyrexia, with intermixed natural and artificial colors and shapes, by Suzanne Anker

Remembering Bayard Rustin

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors ProgramDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Mar 26, 2024; 6:00 - 8:00pm

Event poster, with image of Bayard Rustin speaking in New York

Keren Moscovitch: Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 19, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm

SVA Library West

Book cover of a blue toned set of portraits with the text "Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art" over it in white

Aura Rosenberg: What is Psychedelic?

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Jan 23, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm

SVA Library West

Poster for event, What is Psychedelic, with Aura Rosenberg art photo of man's face in ecstasy

Frances Fox Piven: Way Beyond Normal

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Nov 14, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Online

Poster for event, twisted clay American flag

Renzo Aroni: Protest Songs and Political Mobilization in Peru

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesSVA LibraryHonors Program

Oct 24, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm

SVA Library West

Poster for event, with clay face

Kay Gabriel: A Queen in Bucks County

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesSVA LibraryHonors Program

Sep 19, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm

SVA Library West

Poster for event, with title, details, and image of clay arrow and eye

Art in a Democracy

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Apr 10, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Theatrical poster for event

Alex Kitnick on ‘Normal Art’

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 20, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm

An artwork depicting three men tucked into a bed in the sky

Radical: A Political Graphic Novel

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Feb 9, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Graphic novel cover by artist Sofia Warren of a person (Senator Julia Salazar) standing at a podium with the title "Radical: My Year With a Socialist Senator" overhead

Ben Davis: Art in the After-Culture

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Jan 23, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Event poster with machine image

The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Dec 5, 2022; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Poster of world and event title

Frances Fox Piven On the Midterms and American Fascism

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Nov 10, 2022; 6:00 - 7:30pm

Online

Frances Fox Piven, among piles of papers, looking steadily ahead

The Art of Time in “End Times”

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Oct 17, 2022; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Event poster with climactic swirl in blue

Stickers and Society

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Sep 19, 2022; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Event poster with stickers

Identity, Art and Migration

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Apr 14, 2022; 6:00 - 7:30pm

Lines of flight, list of speakers

Insurgent Practices Against Neoliberalism: Artists in a Changing NYC

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 24, 2022; 6:00 - 7:30pm

Online

info graphic with hands setting out cards, listing the speakers

CANCELLED

Book Discussion: Nivedita Majumdar, The World in a Grain of Sand

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Feb 10, 2022; 6:00 - 7:30pm

Online

Event poster, distorted globe

America through a Chinese Lens

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Jan 18, 2022; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Online

Sepia-tone B&W landscape shot image of Asian men playing basketball outside.

Wrong Man at the Right Time

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Dec 2, 2021; 6:00 - 7:30pm

Online

Cover of Judith Stein book, Eye of the Sixties

Democracy and its Discontents

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Nov 18, 2021; 6:00 - 7:30pm

Online

Red, white and blue poster featuring event information

Afghanistan: 20 Years of War

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Oct 7, 2021; 6:00 - 7:30pm

Poster with missiles

Samir Gandesha: The Traumatic History of Political Theory

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Apr 16, 2021; 7:00 - 8:00pm

Online

David painting of the Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat on left; Samir Gandesha on right

Conversations with Claywoman

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Apr 2, 2021; 7:00 - 8:00pm

Online

Photograph of the alien Claywoman, hunched over and standing next to taco truck

Christopher Bedford: Structural Change in American Art Museums

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Feb 5, 2021; 7:00 - 8:30pm

Online

Installation view of Tavares Strachan’s work In Broad Daylight, installed at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2018. A neoclassical style building at dusk features neon lights that read "In Broad Daylight" in reddish orange.

Kris Graves: Race and Place in Contemporary American Photography

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors ProgramMPS Digital Photography

Dec 11, 2020; 7:00 - 8:00pm

Online

Photo by Kris Graves. A peaceful group gathers at the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia. Erected in 1890, this is a statue memorializing Virginian Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Frances Fox Piven on the 2020 Election: What Just Happened, and What Now?

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Nov 13, 2020; 7:00 - 8:00pm

Online

Frances Fox Piven on the 2020 election.

Unsanitized: The Politics of Coronavirus

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Oct 16, 2020; 7:00 - 9:00pm

Online

A black and white close up photo of hands scrubbing together. Overlaid is the event title Unsanitized: The Politics of Coronavirus

CANCELLED

Dangerous Dreams: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman and Jane Dickson

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Mar 23, 2020; 6:30 - 8:00pm

CANCELLED

Which Way Forward? The Inaugural SVA Politics Debate – Canceled

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Mar 12, 2020; 6:30 - 8:00pm

The Inaugural SVA Politics Debate event poster

Younger Polish Artists Beyond the Neoliberal Normal

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Jan 27, 2020; 7:00 - 9:00pm

Poster with event title and details as text laid on a photo of 4 young people standing next to each other

Who Owns the City? Real Estate v. Art, Architecture and the People

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Dec 9, 2019; 7:00 - 9:00pm

An image of a poster design by Benjamin Koditschek

Frances Fox Piven: Why Americans Don’t Vote and What We Can Do About It

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Nov 11, 2019; 7:00 - 8:30pm

Poster for event, with VOTE in large letters in the center

Bill Arning, “Texas Eccentrics and Queer Renegades: A Curatorial Love Story”

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Oct 21, 2019; 7:00 - 8:30pm