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

Mental Wellness Film Workshop with Fox MaxyHarlem Earth Day: Vision 2050New School News: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Presents New School New Books Event SeriesNew School New Books 2024NO NIIN: These Conditions (Are Only Worsening): An Interview with Adelita Husni-BeySeminar 10: Reducing Harm (As Prompt, As Practice)

2023

VLC Forum 2023: farid rakun: On space, or putting the ruang in ruangrupaVLC Forum 2023: On Learning TogetherVLC Forum 2023: Community Dinner and PartyVLC Forum 2023: Unchrono/logical Timeline Activation Chapter 2.2 New YorkAnother Roadmap Africa Cluster: Another Roadmap SchoolColectivo Cherani: Cherán Cultural CenterKhalil Rabah: The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and HumankindVera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*Libraries in Practice: Tending Toward LiberationMaria Thereza Alves: Seeds of ChangeSeminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with Walter BosqueNew book by Maria Thereza Alves reveals the entangled histories of plants and displaced people

2022

VLC Forum 2022: FORCE! an opera in three acts with Sistazz of the Nitty GrittyVLC Forum 2022: Make Room!Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book LaunchMARCH: On Necessary WorkNEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM–Protocols for Buen VivirSeminar 11: Forces of Art: Protocols of EvaluationOn Conditions and Conditionality: Ecological Injustices and the Biopolitics of ResistanceThe Architect’s Newspaper: Adelita Husni Bey examines pandemics past, present, and future at the Brooklyn Army TerminalHyperallergic: Art as an Exercise in Moving Through GriefSeminar 10: School of Tomorrow: From the Open Plan to the Tele-classroom

2021

ArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future FellowsVLC Forum 2021 Day Four: ConflictoriumJorge González: Escuela de OficiosUnderground Resistance: Submerge ProjectOwed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium¡LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS! THOSE WHO DIE FOR LIFE, ARE NOT DEAD!

2020

Artforum: Avni Sethi Wins Vera List Center’s Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social JusticeWhat Protocols Are Needed Now? & Announcement of 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social JusticeThe Computable and the Uncomputable Keynote Lecture by Alexander R. GallowayOn Protocol: VLC Fellow Maria Hupfield in Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonGathering: VLC Fellow Adelita Husni Bey in Dialogue with Robert SemberThe Berger Object: A Tribute to Maurice Berger, Part ISeminar 1: Protocols as Language and CommunicationART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session IIIART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session IIART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session IArt for the Now: Help Support Our CommunitiesJesus Benavente, I’m Not Dancing, I’m Struggling to Survive: Shelter in PlaceArt and the Specter of Ideology

2019

Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and ResearchArt Papers: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura RaicovichART PAPERS: Art Isn’t Neutral, A Conversation With Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich

2018

Brittle Paper: Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice

2017

Gulf LaborMADEYOULOOKThe House of Natural Fiber

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