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SUMMARY:Art in Civil Disobedience: In Dialogue With Alan Pelaez Lopez—Artist Talk and Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Visual poet\, artist\, and cultural critic Alan Pelaez Lopez will share their experience as an undocumented Black queer organizer in the migrant justice movement. This talk will feature Lopez’s own contributions to social movements while also highlighting five other artists. \nThrough collage\, installation\, and intervention art\, Lopez’s work explores erased histories of African diasporic resistance\, Indigenous disappearances\, and reimagined futures of Black Latin American life. Lopez’s writing has appeared in The Architectural Review\, Teen Vogue\, Refinery29\, and The Nation. \nThis event is in collaboration with CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium and CUNY Undocumented and Immigrant Student programs. It follows the monthly LGBTQIA+ Book Club and will feature an artist talk and writing workshop with Lopez.
URL:https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/art-in-civil-disobedience-in-dialogue-with-alan-pelaez-lopez-artist-talk-and-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Library\, Room 150\, Woody Tanger Auditorium
CATEGORIES:LGBTA,LGBTQ Resource Center
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SUMMARY:Who Decides Who Belongs—And Who Gets Erased? A Discussion on Housing and Belonging With Filmmaker Derrick Benton and Sociologist Jerome Krase
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Derrick Benton explores the politics of belonging through the lens of his documentary The House That Love Built. Beginning with his family’s story in 1980s Brooklyn\, Benton traces how housing policy\, administrative systems\, and everyday bureaucracy shape not only where people live\, but whether they are recognized as fully human within civic life and how narratives are constructed\, who controls them\, and what it means to reclaim authorship over one’s own history. \nDerrick Benton is a Brooklyn-born filmmaker and writer whose work spans documentary and narrative film. He is the founder of F.R.E.E. Studios (Filming Real Emotional Experiences)\, a production studio dedicated to community-rooted storytelling and cultural critique. His films explore memory\, identity\, and the ways institutions shape lived experience. Alongside his film work\, Derrick publishes essays on power\, belonging\, and media through The Stooop. \nJerome Krase\, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and the Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College\, is an activist-scholar who works with public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. His self- and co-authored books include Self and Community in the City (1982)\, Ethnicity and Machine Politics (1992)\, Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society (1994)\, Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005) Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World (2006)\, Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class (2012)\, Race\, Class\, and Gentrification in Brooklyn (2016)\, COVID-19 in Brooklyn (2022)\, and forthcoming Local and Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine. He co-edits Urbanities and serves on the editorial boards of Visual Studies and the Journal of Video Ethnography. Krase has twice served a Fulbright Specialist\, is an officer of ProBonoDesign Inc\, and active in many American\, European\, and international sociological associations\, the Commission on Urban Anthropology\, American Italian Historical Association\, International Urban Symposium\, H-NET Humanities on Line\, International Visual Sociology Association\, Polish American Historical Association\, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America\, and the European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine\, where he currently serves as president. \nSponsored by the departments of Sociology\, Political Science\, and Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies; the Program in Urban Sustainability; and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College.
URL:https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/who-decides-who-belongs-and-who-gets-erased-a-discussion-on-housing-and-belonging-with-filmmaker-derrick-benton-and-sociologist-jerome-krase/
LOCATION:Library\, Room 150\, Woody Tanger Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities,Political Science,Puerto Rican and Latino Studies,Sociology,Urban Sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities":MAILTO:wolfe@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:Archives and Public History
DESCRIPTION:A discussion with archivists and scholars on the place of the archive in the preservation and dissemination of public history. \n\nPrithi Kanakamedala\, professor of history\, Bronx Community College (CUNY) and CUNY Graduate Center. Her first full-length book\, Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough\, was a finalist for the 2025 Gotham Book Prize\, long-listed for the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize (nonfiction)\, and won the 2024 Victorian Society of New York Book Award. An active public historian for just under two decades\, Kanakamedala continues to work collaboratively with artists\, curators\, and cultural organizations across New York City\, and is a board member of Weeksville Heritage Center\, and the Center for Brooklyn History part of Brooklyn Public Library.\nMarianne LaBatto\, associate archivist\, Brooklyn College Archives and Special Collections.  An alumna of Brooklyn College (B.A.\, M.A.) and Queens College (M.L.S.)\, LaBatto has worked in the Archives since 1995. Her work includes organizing collections and ensuring the preservation of historical documents\, photographs\, and records related to Brooklyn College and Brooklyn’s history. She supervises archival projects and interns and helps researchers and students access historical collections. She has also written blog posts and educational materials about Brooklyn College history.\nElizabeth R. Macaulay\, professor of liberal studies\, anthropology\, classics\, Middle Eastern studies\, and digital humanities; executive officer\, M.A. in liberal studies\, CUNY Graduate Center. Macaulay’s scholarship examines the intersection between antiquity and modernity\, especially how the art and architecture of ancient West Asia\, Egypt\, Greece\, and Rome have been reinterpreted globally. She is the author or editor of eight books\, including Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power (2026); Archaeological Ambassadors (2024)\, and Antiquity in Gotham (2021). She is a committed public scholar and is an acquiring editor and board chair for Smarthistory.org\, the Center for Public Art History. Her essays and videos for Smarthistory have been viewed by more than1.4 million people.\nKelly M. Britt\, associate professor of anthropology\, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Britt’s research focuses on community-based contemporary and historical archaeology of urban spaces. She completed her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 2009 and spent seven years at FEMA as its Regional II Archaeologist before joining Brooklyn College.
URL:https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/archives-and-public-history/
LOCATION:Library\, Room 150\, Woody Tanger Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities":MAILTO:wolfe@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:Lottocracy: Democracy Without Election
DESCRIPTION:Alex Guerrero\, Rutgers University\, presents the Department of Philosophy’s Annual Sprague & Taylor Guest Lecture. \nDemocracy is in trouble. What is going wrong? What should we do? In this talk\, Alex Guerrero argues that\, perhaps surprisingly\, the problem is with the heart of modern democracy: the election. Elections are failing as accountability mechanisms. Elections provide powerful short-term incentives\, leading elected politicians to downplay long-term catastrophic concerns. Elections create division where none need exist. The most powerful among us take advantage of this to control who is elected\, what policies are enacted\, and which problems are ignored. What should we do? Guerrero suggests that we should move past the fatalist\, Churchillian shrug (“the worst system\, except for all the others that have been tried”) and try a new form of democracy: lottocracy. Lottocratic systems include many new elements\, but the most striking is the shift from using elected representatives to using representatives selected through lottery. The talk presents and defends lottocracy as an alternative political system worth taking seriously.
URL:https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/lottocracy-democracy-without-election/
LOCATION:Library\, Room 150\, Woody Tanger Auditorium
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