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Anne Anlin Cheng, Women on Walls

BFA Visual and Critical Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies BFA Fine Arts Honors 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 Studies Honors Program Diversity, 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies SVA Library Honors 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 Studies SVA Library Honors 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 Studies Honors Program

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

Theatrical poster for event

Alex Kitnick on ‘Normal Art’

BFA Visual and Critical Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors Program

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

Event poster with climactic swirl in blue

Stickers and Society

BFA Visual and Critical Studies Honors Program

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

Event poster with stickers

Identity, Art and Migration

BFA Visual and Critical Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors Program

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

Poster with missiles

Samir Gandesha: The Traumatic History of Political Theory

BFA Visual and Critical Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors Program MPS 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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 Studies Honors 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

René Rojas: The Divergent Politics of Latin America's Second Neoliberal Crisis

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Apr 26, 2019; 7:00 - 9:00pm

An event poster designed to look like the front page of a tabloid

Stars, Superstars, Deathstars: The Art of Fame in Ray Johnson and Andy Warhol

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Apr 8, 2019; 6:30 - 7:30pm

Mochila: Small Journals and Independent Publishing

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Mar 18, 2019; 6:30 - 8:00pm

An image of a shelf stacked with books and a book bag.

Anti-Capitalist Feminist Speaker Series Presents: Art & Direct Action

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Feb 25, 2019; 6:30 - 8:00pm

An image of a group of people protesting around a smoking pot.

Benjamin Y. Fong: Aggressivity, Technology and the Crisis of Thinking

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Jan 18, 2019; 7:00 - 9:00pm

Democracy and the Poor: Prolegomena to a Radical Theory of Democracy

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Dec 3, 2018; 7:00 - 9:00pm

event poster with details

Frances Fox Piven: What Just Happened? The Resistance After the Midterms

BFA Visual and Critical Studies

Nov 12, 2018; 7:00 - 9:00pm

event poster with details on a red, white and blue background

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