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2025
VLC Prize Announcement
VLC Forum 2025: Jane Lombard Prize Announcement and Reception
Oct 18, 2025
Conversation
VLC Forum 2025: Conversations with the 2025–2027 VLC Fellows and Special Guests
Oct 18, 2025
Performance
VLC Forum 2025: (question–repeat–failure–record)
Oct 18, 2025
Dinner
VLC Forum 2025: Community Dinner: Guts and Brains
Oct 17, 2025
Keynote, Lecture
VLC Forum 2025: Matteo Pasquinelli. AI and Madness: On the Disalienation of the General Intellect
Oct 17, 2025
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence
Oct 17–Oct 18, 2025
Book Launch
As for Protocols x Convivialities Book Launch
Oct 3, 2025
Seminar
Seminar 1: Paying Mind: On the Uses and Abuses of the Intellectual
Sep 29, 2025
Panel, Screening
Earth and Cosmos: Panel Conversation and Video Screening with Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza
May 6, 2025
Conversation, Reading
Post/doc Spring 2025 Celebration and Launch with Momus
May 5, 2025
Lorraine O’Grady (1934 – 2024): A Celebration of Life
Mar 30, 2025
Book Launch
As for Protocols Book Launch
Mar 21, 2025
Reading
New School New Books 2025
Mar 20, 2025
Screening
A Frown Gone Mad
Mar 17, 2025
Book Launch
Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time
Feb 24, 2025
Book Launch
Carmen Amengual: A Non-Coincidental Mirror. Book Launch and Exhibition Closing with Yasmina Price
Feb 8, 2025
Screening
Carmen Amengual’s A Non-Coincidental Mirror: Screening and Discussion
Jan 14, 2025
2024
AICA-USA Lecture
Hilton Als. One Writer’s Beginnings: Thinking in Words and Pictures
Dec 4, 2024
Performance
Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts
Nov 22–Nov 23, 2024
Lecture, Performance
VLC Forum 2024: Tactics of Transmission
Oct 26, 2024
Conversation
VLC Forum 2024: Relative Histories
Oct 26, 2024
Conversation
VLC Forum 2024: Queer(ing) History
Oct 26, 2024
Dinner, Performance
VLC Forum 2024: Community Dinner
Oct 25, 2024
Keynote
VLC Forum 2024: Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash
Oct 25, 2024
Conversation
VLC Forum 2024: Re-visioning Native Histories
Oct 24, 2024
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2024: Correct History*
Oct 24–Oct 26, 2024
Lecture
Anna Martine Whitehead: Still in the Waiting Room
Oct 23, 2024
Screening
Release: Screenings from Fox Maxy’s Mental Wellness Film Workshop
Jun 9, 2024
Seminar
Seminar 12: Strike That
Jun 3, 2024
Workshop
Fox Maxy’s Mental Wellness Film Workshop
May 23–Jun 9, 2024
Convening, Panel
Harlem Earth Day: Vision 2050
Apr 27, 2024
Reading
New School New Books 2024
Mar 22, 2024
Conversation, Workshop
Studies into Darkness: Manifestos, in Genre and in Practice
Mar 9, 2024
Seminar
Seminar 11: Many Returns
Mar 4, 2024
Book Launch, Performance
Off Script
Mar 2, 2024
Conversation
Revisiting Studies into Darkness: Conversations on Freedom of Speech
Feb 22–May 29, 2024
Seminar
Seminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)
Feb 12, 2024
2023
Seminar
Seminar 9: Of Bodies and Sound
Dec 18, 2023
AICA-USA Lecture
Valerie Cassel Oliver. Black Ontology: The Subversive Beauty of Soul
Dec 11, 2023
Symposium
In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy
Nov 30–Dec 2, 2023
Seminar
Seminar 8: “Hader Halal” (With Regard to Presence)
Nov 13, 2023
Performance
Beatriz Cortez: Ilopango, the Volcano that Left
Oct 27–Oct 29, 2023
Conversation
VLC Forum 2023: Igniting Resistance: A Conversation with Colectivo Cherani
Oct 14, 2023
Keynote
VLC Forum 2023: farid rakun: On space, or putting the ruang in ruangrupa
Oct 14, 2023
Conversation
VLC Forum 2023: On Learning Together
Oct 14, 2023
Party
VLC Forum 2023: Community Dinner and Party
Oct 13, 2023
Panel
VLC Forum 2023: Blackness Is…: Global Black and Indigenous Solidarities
Oct 13, 2023
Conversation, Prize Ceremony
VLC Forum 2023: Prize Ceremony and Conversation proppaNOW with Wanda Nanibush
Oct 13, 2023
Conversation
VLC Forum 2023: Impossible Structures with Khalil Rabah
Oct 12, 2023
Workshop
VLC Forum 2023: Unchrono/logical Timeline Activation Chapter 2.2 New York
Oct 12, 2023
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*
Oct 12–Oct 14, 2023
Book Launch
Breaking Protocol Book Launch
Oct 8, 2023
Lecture
Beatriz Cortez: Voids, Portals, and Moving Land
Sep 20, 2023
Seminar
Seminar 7: Bring into Order: School(ing) as a War of Correction
Sep 18, 2023
Conversation
Libraries in Practice: Tending Toward Liberation
May 18, 2023
Seminar
Seminar 6: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and Preservation
May 1, 2023
Panel
Libraries as Correctives: C& Center of Unfinished Business, Keleketla! Library, and Sister Library with Asia Art Archive
Apr 24, 2023
Reading
New School New Books: A Reading Series
Apr 21, 2023
Seminar
Seminar 5: Lupus as an Operating System
Apr 10, 2023
Screening
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: the world like a jewel in the hand
Mar 29, 2023
Convening
Conflicting Relations
Mar 11, 2023
Seminar
Seminar 4: Becoming One: The University Between Labor Struggles and Communities of Care
Feb 27, 2023
Seminar
Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter Bosque
Feb 13, 2023
Conversation
Cybercultures and Cyberfeminisms
Jan 30, 2023
2022
AICA-USA Lecture
Siddhartha Mitter: Moving the Center
Dec 14, 2022
Seminar
Seminar 2: Virus Becoming
Nov 7, 2022
Presentation
VLC Forum 2022: A Time for Correction*, Introducing the 2022–2024 VLC Fellows
Oct 22, 2022
Performance
VLC Forum 2022: FORCE! an opera in three acts with Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty
Oct 22, 2022
Keynote, Lecture
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective. Emendations: 30 Years of Art and Politics
Oct 21, 2022
Conversation
VLC Forum 2022: Make Room!
Oct 20, 2022
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2022: Correction*
Oct 20–Oct 22, 2022
Conversation
Breaking Protocol: A Conversation with Maria Hupfield
Oct 15, 2022
Conversation
Studies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in Conversation
Oct 13, 2022
Seminar
Seminar 1: Ashes to Artifact: Cultural Death, Repair, and Restitution of the Benin Bronzes
Sep 26, 2022
Seminar Overview
Correction* Seminar Series
Sep 26, 2022–May 6, 2024
Book Launch, Performance
Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book Launch
Jun 7, 2022
Performance, Seminar
Seminar 12: Breaking Protocols: Desire Lines
May 16, 2022
Performance, Roundtable
La Siembra
May 7, 2022
Performance
Maria Hupfield: Super Massive Thunder Boom Ultimate Collection
May 6, 2022
Symposium
Prime Meridian Unconference
Apr 15–Apr 17, 2022
Lecture
Visiting Artist Lecture: Rasheedah Phillips/Black Quantum Futurism
Apr 13, 2022
Seminar
Seminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of Evaluation
Apr 4, 2022
Conversation
On Conditions and Conditionality: Ecological Injustices and the Biopolitics of Resistance
Apr 2, 2022
Workshop
These Conditions: Family Saturdays at Brooklyn Army Terminal
Apr 2, 2022
Study Group
On Necessary Work
Mar 17, 2022
Seminar
Seminar 10: School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroom
Mar 14, 2022
Conversation
Teach-In on Ukraine for Artists, Activists, and Arts Workers
Mar 12, 2022
Performance
These Conditions: Duvet
Mar 6, 2022
Reading
A Reading Inside These Conditions
Feb 24, 2022
Symposium
Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today
Feb 9–Feb 11, 2022
2021
Symposium
Rethinking Residencies Symposium
Dec 8–Dec 10, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 9: Bridge: Protocols of Jazz and Modernism
Dec 6, 2021
Performance
Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road): A Performance
Dec 4, 2021
AICA-USA Lecture
Legacy Russell: On Footnotes
Nov 29, 2021
Lecture, Performance
RESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on Ecocide
Nov 19, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 8: Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives
Nov 8, 2021
Assembly
ArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future Fellows
Nov 1–Nov 19, 2021
Assembly, Screening
VLC Forum 2021 Day Five: Escuela de Oficios
Oct 16, 2021
Conversation
VLC Forum 2021 Day Four: Conflictorium
Oct 15, 2021
Conversation, Party, Performance
VLC Forum 2021 Day Three: Underground Resistance
Oct 14, 2021
Presentation, Workshop
VLC Forum 2021 Day Two: Nepal Picture Library
Oct 13, 2021
Conversation, Screening, Workshop
VLC Forum 2021 Day One: Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organization
Oct 12, 2021
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2021: As for Protocols
Oct 12–Oct 16, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View
Sep 20, 2021
Ceremony, Vigil
¡LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS! THOSE WHO DIE FOR LIFE, ARE NOT DEAD!
Sep 18, 2021
Symposium
As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together
May 20–May 21, 2021
Conversation
Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road) – A Dialogue About Making Art in a Good Way
May 20, 2021
News
New School News: The Vera List Center “As for Protocols” Seminar Series Explores Questions of Algorithms, Equitable Networks, Scientific Research, and More
Apr 29, 2021
Laboratory
NO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of Action
Apr 22–Apr 23, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 6: Lab Work – Art of the Experiment
Apr 5, 2021
Conversation, Reading
Strategies for Survival: Black Feminist Manifestos
Mar 13, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World
Mar 8, 2021
News
New School News: The Vera List Center Expands Support for Indigenous Artists with the Inaugural Borderlands Fellowship
Mar 4, 2021
Book Launch, Conversation
Communication After Refusal: The Turn to Love and Polyvocality
Feb 22, 2021
Panel
Climate Relations: Indigeneity in Activism, Art and Digital Media
Feb 11, 2021
Seminar
Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance
Feb 8, 2021
News
Philadelphia Inquirer: Are you thinking about time right now? For ‘Black Futures’ contributor Rasheedah Phillips, it’s a lifelong pursuit
Jan 1, 2021
2020
News
Vice: Inside India’s ‘Museum of Conflict’ That Just Won a Major International Award
Dec 4, 2020
Book Launch, Conference
Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World
Nov 26, 2020
Panel, Screening
Seminar 3: Bring Forth the Body: Biopower, Protocol, and Plagues
Nov 16, 2020
AICA-USA Lecture
Carolina A. Miranda: Going Local
Nov 10, 2020
Book Launch, Conversation
The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet
Nov 1, 2020
News
L.A. Times: Column – Are art museums still racist? The COVID reset
Oct 22, 2020
Seminar
Seminar 2: Protocols for Community and Equitable Networks [as applied to education]
Oct 19, 2020
VLC Prize Announcement
2020-2022 Prize Recipient: Avni Sethi
Oct 10, 2020
Convening
What Protocols Are Needed Now? & Announcement of 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice
Oct 10, 2020
Keynote
The Computable and the Uncomputable Keynote Lecture by Alexander R. Galloway
Oct 9, 2020
Talk
Towards a Temporal Rezoning: Unmapping the Time Zones. A Talk by VLC Fellow Rasheedah Phillips
Oct 8, 2020
Conversation
On Protocol: VLC Fellow Maria Hupfield in Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Oct 8, 2020
Conversation, Performance
From Errorism to NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM: VLC Fellow Etcétera and Jennifer Ponce de León
Oct 8, 2020
Dialogue, Screening
Gathering: VLC Fellow Adelita Husni Bey in Dialogue with Robert Sember
Oct 7, 2020
Conversation
Borderlands: VLC Fellow Carolina Caycedo in Conversation with Natalie Diaz
Oct 7, 2020
On Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger
Oct 6, 2020
Performance
Palais de Mari: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part III
Oct 6, 2020
Panel
On Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part II
Oct 6, 2020
Performance, Reading
The Berger Object: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part I
Oct 6, 2020
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2020: As for Protocols
Oct 6–Oct 10, 2020
Conversation, Screening
World Records Volume 4 Launch: In the Presence of Others
Sep 30, 2020
Seminar
Seminar 1: Protocols as Language and Communication
Sep 14, 2020
Seminar Overview
As for Protocols Seminar Series
Sep 14, 2020–May 16, 2022
Forum
ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session III
Jun 16, 2020
Charrette, Convening
Training for the Not-Yet: Protocols in the Making
May 19, 2020
Forum
ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session II
May 6, 2020
Summit
Art•Work•Place: Creating an Equitable Art World
Apr 18, 2020
Forum
ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session I
Apr 7, 2020
Party
Jesus Benavente, I’m Not Dancing, I’m Struggling to Survive: Shelter in Place
Mar 28, 2020
Screening, Symposium
Art and the Specter of Ideology
Feb 22, 2020
News
BOMB: Digesting Place: Dean Erdmann Interviewed by Amanda Parmer
Jan 30, 2020
Conversation
Queer Archives: Between the Individual and the Institutional
Jan 27, 2020
2019
Book Launch, Conversation, Screening
Being Together Precedes Being
Dec 9, 2019
AICA-USA Lecture
Courtney J. Martin: In the Context of Criticism
Nov 12, 2019
Conference
Global Voices: Conversations with the Jane Lombard Fellows
Oct 26, 2019
Performance
FESTAC ’77, a concert by Craig Harris
Oct 25, 2019
Lecture
Tiffany Chung
Oct 23, 2019
Forum
Vera List Center Forum 2019: If Art Is Politics
Oct 23–Oct 25, 2019
Panel
Moving Movements: Women in Philanthropy
Oct 6, 2019
Conversation
Dialogues on a Future Communication. Entanglement #2: Resilience
Sep 26, 2019
Panel, Performance
Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies Into Darkness
Sep 20–Sep 21, 2019
Lecture
Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Dean Erdmann
Sep 11, 2019
News
New School News: Feminist Manifestos Continue to Challenge the Status Quo
Jan 9, 2019
