EVENT archive
BCAT’s 2024-2025 events
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BCaT Eats: Technoskepticism Launch
February 26, 2025
5 PM - 7 PM
Join us for the launch of the book Technoskepticism! From Munchausen by Tiktok, to wellness apps, to online communities, to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. Technoskepticism explores possibility and refusal in new technologies, highlighting how people of color and disabled individuals have long navigated between acceptance and rejection. Technoskepticism shares their stories, revealing the opportunities skepticism can create.
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Information Session - Automating Black Joy
February 26, 2025
12 PM - 1 PM
Join us for an information session to learn about our new inter-institutional research project which examines automation and AI through the lens of Black feminist inquiry.
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BCaT Workshop: Archives and the Black Tradition
February 26, 2025
10 AM - 12 PM
Archives and the Black Tradition explores the significance of personal and digital archives in re/defining historical legacies, promoting narrative control and agency, and expanding conventional notions of memory, place, and truth.
keondra bills freemyn is a writer and archivist in the Black tradition whose work and research centers contemporary cultural production. She is Co-Executive Director of Black Lunch Table, a radical digital archiving project focused on Black visual artists and is founder of Black Women Writers Project, a digital archival initiative highlighting the contributions of Black women and gender-expansive writers to the literary canon. She is an alumna of Columbia University (MPA), Fordham University (BS), and University of Maryland (MLIS).
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BCaT Applies: AoIR Application Clinic
February 19, 2025
3 PM - 5 PM
The BCaT Lab is hosting an Associate of Internet Researchers (AoIR) clinic! We are here to offer guidance on your submission materials. The theme for 2025 explores “ruptures,” encompassing alternative internet histories and theoretical perspectives often overshadowed by dominant Western ideation and big tech. Take advantage of this clinic ahead of the AoIR’s March 1st deadline!
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BCaT Workshop: Oral Histories
February 19, 2025
10 AM - 12 PM
In this workshop our speakers reflect on their own practices of collecting and narrativising Oral Histories, how method informs their research, and give practical guidance towards the recovery and ethical engagement of Black counter-narratives.
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BCAT Field Trip
November 20, 2024
12 PM - 3 PM
This month, we’re hosting a field trip on November 20th to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. There, we will have lunch in the Sweet Home Cafe and receive a guided tour of the Power of Place exhibition. This tour will help provide insights into the ways we can explore developing our Black Homeplaces Co(Lab)!
See the flier on Deep Blue
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BCAT Book Club Lunch and Learn
November 13, 2024
12 PM - 1 PM
Join us at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for BCaT Bookclub. To access the materials for this week, visit our Black Homeplaces page.
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BCaT Book Club Lunch and Learn
October 30, 2024
12 PM - 1 PM
Join us at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for BCaT Bookclub. To access the readings for this week, visit our Black Homeplaces page.
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BCAT Book Club Lunch and Learn
October 23, 2024
12 PM - 1 PM
Join us at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for BCaT Bookclub. This week we’ll be covering "The Black Living Room" by Shoniqua Roach. To access the materials for this week, visit our Black Homeplaces page.
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BCAT Eats
October 16, 2024
5 PM - 7 PM
Join us for BCaT Eats at Skinner 3115. There will be food, community, and fun. Hope to see you there!
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BCaT Applies
October 16, 2024
3 PM - 5 PM
Come join us for BCaT Applies at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for a discussion on Alt-Academia! If you are a near/recent grad student considering a career in academia, join us in talking with a panel of academia experts.
Panelists include representatives from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and independent scholars.
See the flier on Deep Blues.
Watch the recording on Youtube or Deep Blues.
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BCAT Book Club Lunch and Learn
October 9, 2024
12 PM - 1 PM
Join us at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for BCaT Bookclub. This week we’ll be starting Tales from the Front Room (TV Movie 2007). To access the materials for this week, visit our Black Homeplaces page.
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BCAT Book Club Lunch and Learn
October 2, 2024
12 PM - 1PM
Join us at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for BCaT Bookclub. This week’s readings are "Homeplace: A site of resistance" by bell hooks and “Maxine Walker: Imaging the Homeplace” by Elizabeth Robles. Join us at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for BCaT Bookclub. To access the materials for this week, visit our Black Homeplaces page.
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BCaT Eats
September 25, 2024
5 PM - 7 PM
Tonight is game night! Join us for BCaT Eats at Skinner 3115. There will be food, community, and fun. Hope to see you there!
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BCaT Applies: Academic Job Market Clinic
September 25, 2024
3 PM - 5 PM
Come join us for BCaT Applies at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for a panel on Alt- Academia.
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BCAT Book Club Lunch and Learn
September 18, 2024
12 PM - 1 PM
Join us at Skinner 3115 or on Zoom for BCaT Bookclub. To access the materials for this week, visit our Black Homeplaces page.
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BCaT Co(Labs) Project Info Session
September 18, 2024
10 AM - 12 PM
Join us in Skinner 3115 or on Zoom to learn about the new, inter-institutional collaborative research project we will be running this year. This project will be focusing on the Black Homeplace, and centring Black placemaking practices across the diaspora as modes of resistance, celebration, play, and containers of Black archives.