Our Archive collects nearly 500 public events with artists, scholars, historians, and other thinkers and makers who consider wide-ranging topics of social relevance.

2024

VLC Forum 2024: Tactics of TransmissionVLC Forum 2024: Relative HistoriesVLC Forum 2024: Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik ItihashVLC Forum 2024: Correct History*Vera List Center Forum 2024: Correct History*

2023

In Solidarity with Victims of Violence: A Resource Guide and ArchiveKUNCI Study Forum & Collective: School of Improper EducationOn CountryMaria Thereza Alves: Seeds of ChangeLibraries as Correctives: C& Center of Unfinished Business, Keleketla! Library, and Sister Library with Asia Art ArchiveNew School New Books: A Reading SeriesC& Center of Unfinished BusinessC& Center of Unfinished BusinessAriella Aïsha Azoulay: the world like a jewel in the handConflicting RelationsPublic Seminar: A Botany of Decolonization—An excerpt from Maria Thereza Alves: Seeds of ChangeNew book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants and displaced people

2022

Seminar 1: Ashes to Artifact: Cultural Death, Repair, and Restitution of the Benin BronzesSeminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of EvaluationBlack Quantum Futurism: Time Zone ProtocolsBlack Quantum Futurism: Time Zone ProtocolsTeach-In on Ukraine for Artists, Activists, and Arts Workers

2021

Emeka Okereke: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers OrganizationPhiladelphia Inquirer: Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit

2020

World Records Volume 4 Launch: In the Presence of OthersArt•Work•Place: Creating an Equitable Art World

2019

Global Voices: Conversations with the Jane Lombard FellowsTiffany ChungLiz Johnson Artur: Black Balloon ArchivePan African Space Station: Wake Up Your MindART, An Index to (see also POLITICS): 25 Years of Vera List Center Fellowships

2017

A Botany of ColonizationSites as Citations of New York’s Colonial Past in BallastThe Importance of Words and ActionMaria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change: New York—A Botany of ColonizationNew York Times: A Seed Artist Germinates HistoryMondoweiss: On boycotts, Palestine, and resistance – a review of ‘Assuming Boycott’

In solidarity with Palestine