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2017 Telling Untold Histories Unconference

Action 3:13 PM
Thursday, May 11 from 9:00 Am- to 4:30 Pm Rutgers University-Newark, 350 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, NJ Telling Untold Histories is New Jersey’s annual unconference that looks for human stories yet to be told. We explore these histories and ask why some stories remain untold. How can the community members who lived these histories shape how museums, historic sites, libraries, and schools tell...
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Martha Wilson: Activist History Teach-In

Discussion 3:09 PM
Wednesday, April 26 From 6:00 - 9:00 The 8th floor, 17 West 17th Street, NY Performance artist Martha Wilson, founder of Franklin Furnace, will lead a “teach-in” with a selection of activist artists from the 1960s to the present, looking at the history of performance art as protest to consider which methods and strategies remain effective in today’s political climate. Click here to RSVP...
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A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine & Dionne Brand

Announcement 3:06 PM
Tuesday, April 25 6:00 - 7:00 PM Brand Hall Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, NY This event is central to the political climate in the United States as of now. The two women speaking are advocates for the Caribbean feminist front. These earlier conversations featured authors thinking through their engagements with the Caribbean and its diaspora and their experiences as women writing in and about the region. Click...
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Submit your Poetry!

Announcement 3:16 PM
Academy of American Poets: Student Poetry Prize Deadline: April 20 DEADLINE EXTENDED - submit up to 3 original unpublished poems to the Acamemy of American Poets' annual campus poetry contest at Pratt. Place your cover info (name, permanent address, age, major, year and poem title/s) and 3 copies of your poem/s in the mailbox of Prof. Liza Williams in the North Hall 1st floor...
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"No Bans On Stolen Lands" Teach-In

2:50 PM
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Thesis Presentations

Announcement 2:40 PM
Critical And Visual Studies Thesis Reading Wednesday April 19 5:30 - 8:00 Pm Main Hall Room 210 The seniors will be presenting their year long thesis projects. Come to be enlightened on the topics of Cuban identity and  politics, historical preservation, and concepts of nature within city environments.  Critical & Visual Studies All Events Are Free And Open To Public   Pratt Institute   200 Willloughby Avenue...
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Discussion: The 217 Whitney Biennial and Controversy

Activism 7:39 PM
What’s Wrong with this Picture? Lets discuss. Wednesday, April 19th 5:30-7:30pm  Higgins Auditorium 018 The 2017 Whitney Biennial has sparked recent debate and controversy by exhibiting Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket” painting of Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 - August 28, 1955), an African American teenager lynched at age 14 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. Who has the right...
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Preservation Conversations: Breathing Lights

Announcement 1:00 PM
Breathing Lights is an art instillation that will illuminate the windows of hundreds of vacant buildings in  Albany, Schenectady, and Troy. Come Join in a conversation about the instillation! This event will take place on  Monday, April 3, from 11:00am to 1:00pm At the Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Library, Brooklyn Campus Read more about the instillation here.  Critical & Visual Studies .All Events...
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The Trump Agenda vs. Pluralism: Analysis and Resistance

Action 3:00 PM
This is a series taking place at Pratt's Manhattan campus. It will address the anxiety associated with the new administration, as well as analyze the first 100 days of its implementation.  Come join to further your personal understanding of the cards at hand, and what we can assume is the future of our country.  Mar 31 / Apr 07 Room 213, Pratt Manhattan Campus 144 West...
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Sam Feder: A Face For Queer and Trans Media

Action 12:13 PM
Image from DCTV Language and Film: Currents in Queer and Trans Media presents Sam Feder. Sam is the director of Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger, 2014. A talk will take place and we will be able to see the research for Feder's upcoming feature Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen.  Come join, refreshments will be provided!  Current in Queer & Trans...
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Unbanned: A day of Philosophy, Poetry, Politics & the Arts

Action 12:02 PM
New York based artists, philosophers, and writers from Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria are being invited to give presentations to showcase their stance and what occupies their minds. Monday, March 27 from 10:00am to 9:00pm The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 365 5th Ave, NY This event will be live streamed at www.thesegalcenter.org  click here for more information. Critical & Visual Studies All Events...
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Wallabout Film Festival: Support Student Work!

Critical & Visual Studies 11:53 AM
The 9th Annual Wallabout Film Festival: For Students, By Students Save the Date: Thursday, April 20 Kickstarter Campaign Deadline: Friday, March 31 Since 2009, students from Brooklyn, NY’s Pratt Institute have organized the annual Wallabout Film Festival, an event that showcases student short films from the Pratt community, other New York City area schools, and institutions from around the world. This year’s event, the 9th Annual...
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Higher Education Panel at Pratt

Action 12:49 AM
This Thursday, NYPIRG at Pratt Institute will be hosting a Higher Education Accessibility Panel.  Come join in to form and understanding of why affordable and accessible higher education is the base of social justice issues, whether it be from a racial, economic, gender, LGBTQ+ or any other perspective that should matter to any person.   The event starts at 7 PM and is taking place...
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Film Series at Pratt: Come Join!

Announcement 12:42 AM
Ann Holder will screen Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings. There will be refreshments and a discussion of the film to follow. The screening is at 5 pm in the Alumni Reading Room at Pratt Institute.  Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings Synopsis:       Between the 1870s and 1920s a number of U.S. towns purged a portion of their residents and seized their lands. Those driven out were African-Americans, and...
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Pratt Presents: Women of Influence in the Business of Film

Activism 2:00 PM
Join us on March 28 in Higgins Hall at Pratt Institute  at 7 Pmfor a discussion about the under representation of women in the film industry. We will come together in order to celebrate the achievements of those who are pushing the envelope of the industry. Speakers Will Include: Eliza Hittman: Pratt Film/Video faculty member and screenwriter, producer, and director of the Sundance award-winning film...
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Challening Perceptions: The Future Is Trans

Alumni/ae 11:00 AM
Graduate student Mx. JP Anne Giera (M.F.A. Performance and Performance Studies ’18) challenges perceptions in this short, powerful video performance about the trans body and identity.  "An emerging trans-femme, non-binary performance practitioner and academic, Giera seeks to use performance as a tool to dismantle the hegemonic powers that hold us to certain standards of belief regarding self, gender, and sexuality." Check it out...
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Another March For Women: Washington Square Park

Activism 4:49 PM
There will also be a Women's March at Washington Square Park: March 8 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Washington Square Park, Washington Square ParkNew York City, 10012 United States On March 8th, the International Women's Strike NYC - a coalition representing dozens of grassroots groups and labor organizations - is organizing a number of actions in support of labor campaigns, migrants' rights, Sanctuary Campus campaigns, and others. At 4 PM there will be a rally...
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International Women's Day of Action Event at Pratt

Activism 4:25 PM
Women's rights are labor rights, and they both have a long history. As with with any strikes these days, we know that not all are able to afford to refuse work or walk off their jobs, and yet we are aware of all of the ways in which women's wage labor of all kinds are undervalued, exploited, under paid or unpaid.   Please wear red and join us on March 8th outside...
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Prof. Bradley's Talk at Harvard

Activism 10:49 PM
Associate Professor of Social Science And Cultural Studies at Pratt Francis (Cisco) Bradley gave a talk at Harvard titled: "Black Representation in the Emerging Generation of Jazz Experimentalists in New York” The conference took place Feb 3-4 and people from across the country attended and colaborated. For more information about the talk click Here Critical & Visual Studies  All Events Are Free And Open...
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Watch Professor Ric Browns MLK Day Speech

Announcement 6:29 PM
Pratt Professor Ric Brown gave a speech at St. Mary's church in Brooklyn for MLK day. Click the link below to view it: http://node801.blogspot.com/2017/02/remarks-for-community-celebration-of.html Critical & Visual Studies All Events Are Free And Open To Public  Pratt Institute  200 Willloughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY ...
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Student Action Meeting- Art and Activism

Activism 7:26 PM
Please Joing NYPRIG , the student advocacy group on Pratt campus, at their next Student Action Meeting.  The theme is "Art and Activism" and they are inviting speakers that are both artists and organizers to discuss the artist's role in political activism. The event will be on Thursday February 16, Main 409.  SAM will feature lots of information about grassroots organizing and some of...
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Hoarding, or Adventures in Form: A Talk With Greg Horowitz

Critical & Visual Studies 3:11 PM
BFA Visual & Critical Studies at SVA presents an evening with Gregg Horowitz, professor of philosophy at Pratt Institute. Horowitz will discuss the formal adventures of hoarding: the compulsive inability to discard possessions. To what extent can the hoarder’s melding of overvaluation and indifference cast light on artistic practices that strive to save things from the esteem and disesteem characteristic of standard hierarchies of value? Artists...
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Pratt Photography Lectures: Spring 2017 Program

Critical & Visual Studies 2:34 PM
Pratt Photography Lectures is a series presented by Pratt’sPhotography Department to feature a diverse range of photographers,critics, and curators speaking about their work. The Photography Department is pleased to announce the Pratt Photography Lectures Spring 2017 program.   The lectures will be given by the following: Adjunct Professor AURA ROSENBERG | FEBRUARY 22   PAUL GRAHAM | MARCH 8 LYLE ASHTON HARRIS | APRIL 19 WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30...
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