March 13, 2023 @ 9:00 am - March 17, 2023 @ 10:00 pm Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith Join us in a week-long event with author, activist, and independent scholar, Barbara Smith! She has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about
March 13, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm BC President Welcomes 2022-23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson and the BC community welcome 2022-23 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Barbara Smith to campus. Speakers: Gaston Alonso, Interim Director, Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and Professor of
November 30, 2023 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Defending the Humanities: A Conversation With Hess Scholars Paul Ortiz and Barbara Smith Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium We bring together two Hess Scholars to discuss current attacks on the humanities.
April 1 - April 30 Event Series Hess Week Paul Ortiz – Hess Scholar-in-Residence Exhibit Library, Exhibit Area An exhibit located in the main entrance of the Brooklyn College Library that will highlight the works and legacy of Paul Ortiz.
April 1 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – President’s Welcome Ceremony Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson and the Brooklyn College community welcome 2023-24 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Paul Ortiz to campus.
April 1 @ 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Defending the Freedom to Learn Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel explores how book bans and curriculum gag orders deny K-12 and college students’ freedom to learn and access to education.
April 2 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Our History, Our Voices: Oral History to Change the World Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel takes inspiration from Paul Ortiz’s work as President of the Oral History Association and Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida.
April 2 @ 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Defending the Freedom to Teach Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium This panel will explore current political attacks on K-12 and college teachers’ freedom to teach and imagine ways forward.
April 3 @ 9:30 am - 10:45 am Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Bearing Witness and Taking Action in an Age of Rising Fascism: Oral History in the Field and in the Classroom Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Professor Ortiz will deliver a talk drawing on his personal experiences as an oral historian.
April 3 @ 12:50 pm - 2:05 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Union Power! Academic Freedom and the Future of Higher Education Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The panel will explore the role of academic labor unions in defending academic freedom in the current political moment.
April 4 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – Blueprint for Solidarity: Black, Latinx, and Asian American Freedom Struggles Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium The panel will explore lessons to be learned from Black, Latinx, and Asian American freedom struggles.
April 4 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Hess Week Hess Week – A Social Movement History of the United States TBD Professor Ortiz delivers the 2024 Hess Memorial Lecture based on his forthcoming book, A Social Movement History of the United States.
