In 2022, Brooklyn Institute for Social Researchs 10th anniversary year, BISR held 163 courses, and enrolled 2,972 students. We held our first in-person course since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. And we made several new faculty hires, expanding BISRs curricular array. Importantly, BISR hired a new programming officer, Lauren K. Wolfe, who, as Comparative Literature PhD, will also teach courses in translation theory and German-language literature. BISR continued to produce a large number of podcasts, many having to do with recent important events, including discussion of the U.S. Supreme Courts Dobbs abortion decision, and the context and ramifications of Russias ongoing invasion of Ukraine. BISR held 14 events and livestreams, ranging from live music performances to film screenings and public discussions on geopolitics, microbiology, poetry, economics, and more. BISR also remained an active partner to peer organizations, including Carnegie Hall, with whom BISR held three Afrofuturism events a screening of Space is the Place at Film Forum, a What is Afrofuturism
