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

2025

As for Protocols (pre-order available)

2024

Studies into Darkness: Manifestos, in Genre and in Practice Revisiting Studies into Darkness: Conversations on Freedom of Speech Seminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)

2023

In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy In Common: New Approaches with Romare Bearden New School Free Press: How the Vera List Center brings art from all over the world to The New School’s galleries In Solidarity with Victims of Violence: A Resource Guide and Archive VLC Forum 2023: Igniting Resistance: A Conversation with Colectivo Cherani Another Roadmap Africa Cluster: Another Roadmap School Colectivo Cherani: Cherán Cultural Center Khalil Rabah: The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind KUNCI Study Forum & Collective: School of Improper Education On Country proppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIR Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighbourhood!Libraries in Practice: Tending Toward Liberation Seminar 6: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and Preservation Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: the world like a jewel in the hand Conflicting Relations New School News: Matti Aikio, Sámi Fellow at the Vera List Center, Explores Legacies of Settler Colonialism Seminar 4: Becoming One: The University Between Labor Struggles and Communities of Care Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter Bosque

2022

Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective. Emendations: 30 Years of Art and Politics Vera List Center Forum 2022: Correction*Studies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in Conversation Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book Launch Etcétera: NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen Vivir La Siembra Maria Hupfield: Super Massive Thunder Boom Ultimate Collection Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols Black Quantum Futurism: Time Zone Protocols On Conditions and Conditionality: Ecological Injustices and the Biopolitics of Resistance Teach-In on Ukraine for Artists, Activists, and Arts Workers

2021

RESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on Ecocide VLC Forum 2021 Day Four: Conflictorium VLC Forum 2021 Day Two: Nepal Picture Library Underground Resistance: Submerge Project Owed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium NO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of Action

2020

Towards a Temporal Rezoning: Unmapping the Time Zones. A Talk by VLC Fellow Rasheedah Phillips Borderlands: VLC Fellow Carolina Caycedo in Conversation with Natalie Diaz On Race, Representation, and White Lies: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part II The Berger Object: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part I World Records Volume 4 Launch: In the Presence of Others ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session II Art•Work•Place: Creating an Equitable Art World ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session I Art and the Specter of Ideology

2019

Global Voices: Conversations with the Jane Lombard Fellows FESTAC ’77, a concert by Craig Harris Tiffany Chung: The Vietnam Exodus Project Tiffany Chung Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research Liz Johnson Artur: Black Balloon Archive Naine Terena De Jesus: Oráculo Vera List Center Forum 2019: If Art is Politics Pan African Space Station Art Papers: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich ART PAPERS: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich

2018

Hyperallergic: How the Arts Can Help Immigrant Communities Through Sanctuary

2017

Gulf Labor Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016–2018 Conference Companion Mondoweiss: On boycotts, Palestine, and resistance – a review of ‘Assuming Boycott’Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production

2016

2015

Abounaddara. The Right to the Image Abounaddara: The Right to the Image Abounaddara. The Right to the Image New York Times: Syrian Film Collective Offers View of Life Behind a Conflict Entry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice, No. 1

2013

Theaster Gates: A Way of Working

2010

School of Echoes. Vogue’ology: Protocol Compendium Vogue’ology The Cardew Object: Exhibition in the Skybridge Art & Sound Space

2009

By Any Name: A Tiny Archive of Critical Viewpoints on The New School