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SUMMARY:Malik Ambar: Africans in the Making of the Indian Ocean World
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 3rd FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98819563241 \n\n\nOver the course of some twenty centuries\, it is estimated that four million Africans–including sailors\, traders\, soldiers\, and artists–migrated or were forcibly taken across the western Indian Ocean. In India\, one Ethiopian rose to significant levels of power: Malik Ambar. For more than two decades during the early seventeenth century\, Ambar ruled the Sultanate of Ahmednagar in the western Deccan. Through an examination of his life\, the lecture will look at the making of the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean world. \nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nPresentation\n\nBio: \n \nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\n\nOmar H. Ali is the Rosenthal Excellence Professor of African and Global African Diaspora History and Dean Emeritus of Lloyd International Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, Senior Fellow at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum\, and the author of eight books\, including Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean (Oxford University Press). A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, he received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/malik-ambar-africans-in-the-making-of-the-indian-ocean-world/
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SUMMARY:When Stories Turn Into Survival: CELEBRATION OF ROOTS\, DIASPORA\, AND CULTURE
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\n~50th Anniversary of the Movie: Roots~\nBill Haley Jr.\nMalick L. Manga\nCo-Founders of The Inherited Roots Project\nWednesday\, March 25\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\nVIRTUAL EVENT\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95002089030 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for this exciting event in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Book\, Roots. This event has been organized by our CSAAD 2025-2026 PostDoctoral Fellow\, Dr. Michael Conteh. The 50th anniversary of Roots provides an important opportunity to reflect on the long-lasting power of storytelling\, memory\, and spoken language in shaping African and global diasporic identities. Roots has been translated into 37 languages since its publication\, demonstrating its universal appeal and confirming language’s role as a powerful vessel for history\, culture\, and collective memory. Roots is more than just a literary work; it’s a living archive that connects ancestry\, migration\, survival\, and resistance across generations and geography. The event honours Roots’ legacy while also activating its relevance for contemporary diasporic experiences by bringing together grandson of Alex Haley\, Bill Haley\, and son of Ebou Manga\, Malick Leo Manga\, in conversation with Dr. Michael Linso Conteh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nAlex Haley\, Roots\, and the Rosetta Stone — lyrics by Joel Freeman\n\n\nBill Haley Jr.\n \n \n\n\n\nMalick Leo Manga\n \n \n  \n\nModerated by: \n \nDr. Michael Conteh is an interdisciplinary and publicly engaged scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University’s Graduate School. His extensive research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa\, where he has been a driving force in advancing gender equity initiatives. Before and during his graduate studies\, Dr. Conteh oversaw key programs to institutionalize gender studies at the University of Namibia and a national research project on gender-based violence and understanding the nature and scope of human trafficking in Namibia\, demonstrating his multifaceted and interdisciplinary expertise. His doctoral dissertation investigated the role of universities as anchor institutions in their host cities\, analyzing global financial capital flows and their impact on universities’ community engagement strategies through a comparative lens of the United States and the Global South.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/when-stories-turn-into-survival-celebration-of-roots-diaspora-and-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Role/Responsibility of the Black Scholar in a Moment of Global Exigency: A Panel Event
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series: A Discussion Panel Event \nPanel Event Speakers:  \nDr. Mbaye Lo\nDuke University \nDr. Christen Smith\nYale University \nDr. Michael West\nThe Pennsylvania State University \nEvent Moderated By:  \nDr. Fred Moten\nNew York University \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93390872025 \n\n\n\n\n\nAfricans are well acquainted with challenges\, with those they currently face part of a longue durée spanning hundreds of years. The resurgence of a bellicose North American power\, promoting an unapologetic\, hyper-masculinist agenda to expand its imperial posture (in contravention of international law) further contributes to the difficulties\, from the repeal of domestic policies to help the poor and dismantle systemic injustice\, to terrorizing its own citizenry via paramilitary and military occupational forces\, to slashing assistance for basic needs in a continent roiled in doctrinal factionalism and resource conflict (many financed by wealthy interests outside of Africa). Our distinguished panel convenes to consider the role and responsibility of the Black scholar in an existential moment. \n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nWatch Recording Here\n\nSpeakers: \n \nMbaye Lo is a professor of the practice of Asian and Middle Eastern studies and international comparative studies at Duke University. Originally from Senegal\, Lo completed his undergraduate and graduate training in classical Arabic language and literature at the International University of Africa\, Khartoum\, and the Khartoum International Institute for Arabic Language\, Sudan. He also received an MA in American history from Cleveland State University\, where he also earned his PhD from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs with a dissertation on Re-inventing Civil Society-Based Governance in Africa: Theories and Practices. \n\n \nChristen A. Smith is Professor of anthropology and Black studies at Yale University. She is the author of\, Afro-Paradise: Blackness\, Violence and Performance in Brazil  (University of Illinois Press\, 2016)\, co-editor and co-translator of The Dialectic is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento (Princeton University Press\, 2023) and co-editor of Black Feminist Constellations: Black Women in Dialogue and Translation (University of Texas Press\, 2023)\, among other volumes. Her research and writing explore the multi-sided dimensions of race\, gender\, violence\, performance and the Black body in the Americas\, with a particular emphasis on the transnational\, gendered politics of anti-Black state violence (particularly policing) and Black women’s intellectual contributions to the Americas from the global South. \n\n \nMichael O. West is professor of African American Studies\, History\, and African Studies at Penn State University. He has published broadly in the fields of southern African history\, pan-Africanism\, African studies\, African diaspora studies\, and African American studies. His current research centers on the Black Power movement in global perspectives\, including a forthcoming book on Kwame Nkrumah and Black Power. \n\nPanel moderated by: \n \nFred Moten‘s primary intellectual and aesthetic concerns are social movement and aesthetic experiment in black study. His latest projects are a poetry collection\, Perennial Fashion Presence Falling (Wave Books\, 2023)\, a record album\, Fred Moten/Brandon López/Gerald Cleaver (Reading Group Records\, 2022) and an essay collection\, All Incomplete (Minor Compositions\, 2021)\, co-authored with Stefano Harney\, Xun Lee and Denise Ferreira da Silva. In addition to his long-term collaborations with Harney\, with López and Cleaver\, with Wu Tsang and\, especially\, with Laura Harris\, Julian Moten and Lorenzo Moten\, Fred has worked with many other artists\, artist collectives\, and study groups\, including the Anti-Colonial Machine\, the Black Arts Movement School Modality\, the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy\, Renee Gladman\, Renée Green\, the Institute for Physical Sociality\, the Jazz Study Group\, Jennie C. Jones\, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective\, George Lewis\, the Otolith Group\, and William Parker. Fred lives in New York and teaches in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-role-responsibility-of-the-black-scholar-in-a-moment-of-global-exigency-a-panel-event/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Black Palestinian Transnational Solidarity in an Age of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Noura Erakat\nRutgers University – New Brunswick\nWednesday\, January 21\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 3rd FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99032257961 \n\nPlease join CSAAD for our first Africa~Diaspora Forum Series for the Spring semester\, led by Dr. Noura Erakat. The simultaneous bombardment of Gaza and occupation of Ferguson\, Missouri in 2014 catalyzed renewals of Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity. The Gaza-Ferguson moment\, as it came to be known\, illuminated the co-constitutive nature of racism and helped congeal the joint struggle for liberation among Black and Palestinian radicals\, indicating that the phenomenon continued to exceed identity politics. During its peak\, this analytical framework and activist praxis helped reveal the colonial nature of US state violence targeting Black communities as well as pull back the national security cloak enveloping the Palestinian struggle for liberation. This lecture will explore Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity – in its contemporary and historical iterations – with an eye on how it shaped US-based alliances as well as its limitations and potential to respond to the current political moment. \n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\n\n \nNoura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs.  She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives\, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights\, and as National Organizer and Legal Advocate of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. In 2023\, Noura co-chaired an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel\, a report documenting how U.S. arms to Israel have been used in violation of U.S. and international law and which was submitted to the White House. Noura has also produced video documentaries\, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Noura completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School as well as a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professorship at Brown University.  In 2022\, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2025\, the University of Ghent awarded the Amnesty International Chair in recognition of her contribution to human rights and scholarship. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/black-palestinian-transnational-solidarity-in-an-age-of-genocide/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Social Suffering and Armed Violence of the Black Geographies in the Pacific Coast of Colombia
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2025-2026 PostDoctoral Fellowship Presentation\nDr. Bladimir Carabali Hinestroza\nCSAAD PostDoctoral Fellow\, Fall 2025\nWednesday\, December 10\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95862798209 \n\nPlease join CSAAD for our final Africa~Diaspora Forum Series event this semester\, led by our Fall 2025 PostDoctoral Fellow Dr. Bladimir Carabali Hinestroza. Since the late 1990s\, the predominantly Black Pacific coast has undergone significant transformations in dynamics of displacement and homicidal violence. This presentation examines the relationship between racialized geographic spaces and violence\, both in terms of human rights violation and socioeconomic exclusion\, in areas deemed “empty” or not of primary economic interest by the Colombian state.\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\n\n \n\nBladimir Carabalí holds a BA in Economics from Universidad del Valle (Colombia)\, an MA in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana\, and a PhD in Demography from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil. His academic trajectory has focused on understanding the ethnic-racial structures of inequality vis-à-vis mortality\, fertility\, migration\, access to health care\, educational achievements and labor market. This work has allowed him to rigorously engage with the complex demographic and social dynamics of regions with high concentrations of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian populations. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/social-suffering-and-armed-violence-of-the-black-geographies-in-the-pacific-coast-of-colombia/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Between Exceptionality and Obscurity: Excavating the Political Worlds of Afro-Panamanian Women
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Kaysha Corinealdi\nRutgers University – New Brunswick \nWednesday\, December 03\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94244279229 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our Africa~Diaspora Forum Series event for Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi. This presentation by Dr. Corinealdi examines the methods\, challenges\, and key questions involved in documenting how and when Black women enter electoral politics in Panama\, beginning in the 1940s and into the 1960s\, through a focused attention on the life and political career of one such elected official. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nMore Information about Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi\n\n \nKaysha Corinealdi (@kcorinealdi) is an interdisciplinary historian\, author\, and educator who specializes in twentieth century histories of empire\, migration\, feminism\, and Afro-diasporic activism in the Americas. She is an Associate Professor of Comparative Caribbean and Hemispheric Transnationalisms in the Dept. of Latino & Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. Her bookPanama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press\, 2022)\, centers the activism of Afro-Caribbean migrants and their descendants as they navigated practices and policies of anti-Blackness\, xenophobia\, denationalization\, and white supremacy in Panama and the United States. She is currently working on a digital project on Black women leaders in the Americas\, a series of critical essays on denationalization in the Americas\, and a speculative biography on Black women internationalists in Panama. Her writing can also be found in NACLA Report on the Americas\, Perspectivas Afro\, Radical History Review\, Public Books\, the American Historical Review\, Social Text\, the Washington Post\, the Global South\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society\, among other publications.Dr. Corinealdi is also actively engaged in public scholarship as a researcher\, editor\, and contributor through her work with museums\, research foundations\, magazines\, blogs\, and podcasts. She has served as keynote speaker nationally and internationally and presented her work before the Organization of American States\, the Electoral Tribunal of Panama and a host of universities\, professional associations\, and community organizations. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/between-exceptionality-and-obscurity-excavating-the-political-worlds-of-afro-panamanian-women/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Ajami Manuscripts: New Sources of Knowledge for African and African Diaspora Studies
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2025-2026 Distinguished Scholar Event\nDr. Fallou Ngom\nBoston University \nTuesday\, November 11\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nNYU Silver Center\, Hemmerdinger Hall\n31 Washington Pl\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92593107329 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our annual Distinguished Scholar Event\, featuring Dr. Fallou Ngom’s lecture presentation on Ajami Manuscript. Sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed as being illiterate due to the Eurocentric tradition that equates literacy with the ability to read and write only in European languages and the Roman alphabet. However\, millions of Africans have been reading and writing various types of religious and non-religious texts in local languages\, using enriched forms of the Arabic script known as Ajami. In this lecture\, Dr. Ngom will explore what scholars and students in African and African diaspora studies can gain by studying African Ajami manuscripts. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nWatch Recording Here\nMore Information on African ‘Ajami
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/ajami-manuscripts-new-sources-of-knowledge-for-african-and-african-diaspora-studies/
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SUMMARY:Builder of the Next World: The Rise and Fall of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Marlene Daut\nYale University \nThursday\, October 16\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91031695364 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSlave. Revolutionary. King. Taken together\, these words describe only one man: Henry Christophe I of Haiti. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother on the island of Grenada\, he first fought to overthrow the British in North America\, before helping enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue\, as Haiti was then called\, to gain freedom from slavery. After the Revolution\, he offered to lead independent Haiti and became the country’s first and only king. But it all came to a sudden and tragic end when after only thirteen years of ruling\, Haiti’s King Henry I shot himself in the heart\, some say with a silver bullet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu.  \n\nWatch Recording Here\nBook Publication Site\n\nBio:\n \nMarlene L. Daut is Professor of French\, Black Studies\, and History at Yale University. Her most recent book\, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf\, 2025)\, a finalist for the Cundill History Prize\, explores the fascinating life of Haiti’s only king while delving into the complex history of a 19th-century Caribbean monarchy. Her other books include Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Liverpool UP\, 2015); Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave\, 2017); and Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (UNC Press\, 2023)\, co-winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/builder-of-the-next-world-the-rise-and-fall-of-haitis-king-henry-christophe/
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SUMMARY:Art\, History\, and Cultural Politics in Africa Today
DESCRIPTION:September 23rd\, 2025\n5 pm to 8 pm\nHemmerdinger Hall\nNYU Silver Center\n31 Washington Pl\,\nNew York\, NY 10003 \n\nOrganized by the French department of Literature\, Thought and culture and the Center for the study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) at New York University (NYU)\, in collaboration with Skinfama\, the conference “Art\, History\, and Cultural Politics in Africa Today” will bring together artists\, curators\, cultural entrepreneurs\, and researchers to explore the challenges and opportunities of promoting contemporary African Art – its circulation\, audiences\, and cultural policies on both continental and international levels.  \nThis special event will spotlight the dynamic creative scene of the Democratic Republic of Congo\, tracing cultural policies from independence in 1960 to the present day\, and imagining pathways for the future.  \nThese discussions will be held in the presence of the Honorable Minister of Culture\, Arts and Heritage of the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Madame Yolande Elebe Ma Ndembo.  \nDon’t miss this opportunity to engage in conversation about the future of African creativity\, policy and global exchange. \n\nSpeakers: \n The Honorable Minister of Culture\, arts and heritage of DRC\, Madame Yolande Elebe Ma Ndembo\nSarah Van Beurden (Ohio University)\nSandrine Colard (Rutgers University)\nClaude Grunitzky (CEO of Equity Alliance)\nNadia Yala Kisukidi (NYU)\nAimé Mpané (Artist\, curator)\nUgochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (curator\, MOMA) \n\nRegister Here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/art-history-and-cultural-politics-in-africa-today/
LOCATION:Hemmerdinger Hall\, Washington Square East\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aksum and Medina: African Diaspora and Early Islam
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Hamza Zafer\nPrinceton University\nTuesday\, September 24\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5 FL\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003 \nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93654463712 \n\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for the Study of Africa and African Diaspora (CSAAD) this September to discuss Dr. Hamza Zafer’s exploration of Islamic origins in the Red Sea domain of Aksum. Drawing from linguistic evidence\, material culture\, and narrative accounts\, Dr. Zafer explores the African empire’s influence on the Medinan polity of the early seventh century. Dr. Zafer investigates\, as a legacy of Aksumite imperialism in Arabia\, early Muslim accounts of Abyssinian leaders within the Quranic community. \n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Event Recording Here\n\n\n \nHamza M. Zafer (PhD\, Cornell 2014) is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies at Princeton University and a former Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Languages at the University of Washington. Dr. Zafer’s research connects premodern Ethiopic\, Arabic\, and Indic writings to recover genealogies of thought marginalized in Western scholarship. He is currently writing Aksum and Medina: The African Quran\, which tells the story of the early Muslims from the vantage point of an African empire and diaspora. He trains students in Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez) and ancient Red Sea inscriptions. \nComing of age between Karachi\, Islamabad\, and New York\, Dr. Zafer’s writing and teaching are informed by his experiences as an asylum seeker in post-9/11 America. His migrant pedagogy weaves together classical literatures of the Global South and the diasporic polyglossia of his home cities. He is the author of Ecumenical Community: Language and Politics of the Ummah (Brill\, 2020) and several essays on the Quran\, including “The Quran as Red Sea Literature” (Edinburgh\, 2026) and “The Abyssinian Matriarchs of Medina” (Cambridge\, 2026). \n\nDr. Hamza Zafer\, Reading List\nIn reference to CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Event:\nAksum and Medina: African Diaspora and Early Islam\n_____\nGlen Bowersock. The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam. Oxford University\,\n2013.\nNadia El Cheikh. Women\, Islam\, and Abbasid Identity. Harvard University\, 2o15.\nNiall Finneran. The Archaeology of Ethiopia. Routledge\, 2007.\nStuart Munro-Hay. Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University\,\n1991.\nNgũgĩwa Thiongʾo. Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.\nJames Currey\, 2005.\nAlexis Wick. The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space. University of California\, 2016. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/aksum-and-medina-african-diaspora-and-early-islam/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:Booker T. Washington’s Global Impact: Transimperial Entanglements Between Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism
DESCRIPTION:Booker T. Washington’s Global Impact: Transimperial Entanglements Between Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism\n\n\nCSAAD Africa~Asia Project \nSakiko NAKAO\nThursday\, May 01\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nVIRTUAL EVENT\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98235632087 \n\nThis lecture discussion explores the influence of Pan-Africanism in Japan. At the turn of the 20th century\, Booker T. Washington emerged as one of the most well-known Pan-African figures in Japan. While he embodied the ideal of a self-uplifting man of color\, the practical education model he promoted at the Tuskegee Institute also influenced Japanese intellectuals in their policies toward the indigenous Ainu people and colonized Koreans. This study examines the reception of the “Tuskegee model” both in Africa and imperial Japan. The model’s expansion into colonial Africa highlights the inherent paradox of Pan-Africanism as both anti-imperialist and\, at times\, complicit in imperialism. This ambiguity is further mirrored in its complex interactions with Japanese Pan-Asianism. \n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nSakiko NAKAO is an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo\, where she teaches courses in African history and French area studies. She earned her Ph.D. in History from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, France. Her research interest is centered on the making of African identity and the processes of decolonization in West Africa. She analyzes Pan-African movement and its connection to anti-imperialism from a transimperial perspective. Her recent project focuses on the function of the concept of “race” as a form of belonging and its impact on the Pan-African movement\, as well as its eventual linkage with Pan-Asianism\, which developed in the same period.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/booker-t-washingtons-global-impact-transimperial-entanglements-between-pan-africanism-and-pan-asianism/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Power of Art: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 01\, 2025\n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\n20 COOPER SQNEW YORK\, NY 10003\n3rd Fl Suite\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91920117864 \nWest Africans and West Central Africans championed ironworking centuries before they were forcibly transported to the Americas on board European and American slave ships. In the territories that became the United States and Brazil\, enslaved and freed blacksmiths were highly regarded\, as their skills were central for the development of the urban and plantation economies in the Americas. Therefore\, in these two slave societies\, being a blacksmith and being Black were often synonyms. Enslaved African blacksmiths and their descendants created and manufactured with their own hands a variety of agricultural tools and many other engines. Dreadfully\, they were often also in charge of creating iron restraints such as chains\, shackles\, and neck collars\, imprison\, punish\, and torture bondspeople. But enslaved and freed blacksmiths also had an important role in the struggle for self-emancipation. These ironworkers participated in the organization of slave rebellions across the Americas\, especially in Brazil\, the United States\, and the West Indies. They also rescued bondspeople who escaped slavery wearing slave collars and chains\, by sawing these monstrous devices and liberating them from iron chains\, shackles\, and collars.  \nDrawing on a chapter of the book\, The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas\, this presentation explores the rich history of blacksmiths from Africa to the Americas. Focusing on selected cases from the United States and Brazil\, Dr. Araujo show’s how Africans and their descendants used iron to resist slavery and build a world of their own. Revered by their communities\, enslaved blacksmiths and their descendants continued the long-lasting tradition of their African ancestors who mastered the art of fire. They became accomplished artists in the Americas\, where their creativity and resilience kept disrupting the iron chains of slavery. \nRecording of Presentation\nRecording of Q&A\n\n \nAna Lucia Araujo is Professor of History at the historically Black Howard University in Washington DC. She specializes in the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and is interested in the visual and material culture of slavery. Her recent books are Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2023\, second edition)\, The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press\, 2024). In the United States\, her work has been recently supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, the Getty Research Institute\, and the American Philosophical Society. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-power-of-art-the-world-enslaved-blacksmiths-made-in-the-americas/
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SUMMARY:Echoes from the Border: Africa Town in Korea
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Afro-Asia Project\nCHE Onejoon & Sun A Moon \nThursday\, March 20\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\n20 Cooper SQ Room 101\nNEW YORK\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94185666385 \n\nThis film screening and discussion explores the formation of Africa Town near Camp Casey\, a U.S. military base located close to the Korean Demilitarized Zone. As one of the first African communities of its kind in Korea\, this town emerged not just as a result of voluntary migration but also as a consequence of U.S. military policy shifts. The relocation of American troops led to a natural movement of African migrants\, reshaping the socio-economic landscape of the region. This session examines the lives\, identities\, and cultural dynamics of this unique community\, situated at the intersection of migration and militarization. Through a documentary film and a music video produced in collaboration with African migrants\, the program offers a critical lens on how marginalized communities navigate space\, belonging\, and representation in a militarized border region. By contextualizing this phenomenon within broader discussions on migration and multiculturalism in East Asia\, it also invites a reconsideration of the impact of U.S. military presence on local communities. \n\nAfroAsia Collective is an artist collective engaging with African and Asian migrant communities. Established in 2021 by curator Sun A MOON and artist CHE Onejoon\, it operates Space AfroAsia in Dongducheon\, invoking the Bandung spirit to forge new cultural solidarities between Africa and Asia through contemporary art. Expanding upon this foundation\, AfroAsia has initiated a range of projects\, including a music collaboration with Osinachi (2021–2023) and the documentary Dongducheon New Town (2023)\, which examines Korea’s African Towns. Since 2024\, they have been developing a K-pop girl group composed of young Korean and African immigrant students\, further advancing their commitment to transnational artistic exchange and youth empowerment. \n\nSpeakers:\n  \n \nSun A MOON is co-founder and director of Space AfroAsia and AfroAsia – Eco Museum in Dongducheon\, South Korea. Moon has worked internationally as an independent curator\, researcher\, and writer specializing in media art\, generation theory\, and cultural diversity. She has curated many exhibitions\, including DMZ OPEN Exhibition: Passage (Imjingak Pyeonghwa Nuri\, Peace Gondola\, and Gallery Greaves\, Paju\, 2024)\, Railway 0 (Culture Center Seoul 284\, Seoul\, 2024)\, grandmothers (Post Territory Ujeongguk\, Seoul\, 2022)\, Brace for Impact (de Appel\, Stedelijk Museum\, De School\, Amsterdam\, 2018). She participated in the Tate Intensive Program in London (2017) and de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam (2017–2018)\, and received the Amado Exhibition Award (2016) and the Critic Festival Award (2016). \n  \n \nCHE Onejoon is a visual artist and filmmaker. He explores how changes in social structures\, such as politics and ideology\, shape places and identities. His early work examined Cold War ideology across the Korean Peninsula through photography\, film\, and archives. Since 2013\, he has researched the relationship between Africa and East Asia. His works include International Friendship\, which examines North Korean-built monuments in Africa\, and Capital Black\, which explores African diaspora culture near U.S. military bases in South Korea. Che has exhibited internationally at the Taipei Biennial\, Busan Biennale\, Jakarta Biennale\, Venice Architecture Biennale\, New Museum Triennial\, Palais de Tokyo\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art\, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art\, and more. He was a fellow at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. \n \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/echoes-from-the-border-africa-town-in-korea/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Pan-Africanism in Africa and the U.S.: Marcus Garvey and I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series  \n\nThursday\, February 20th\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\nAbu Dhabi New York University\n19 Washington SQ North\nNew York City\, NY 10012 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95296862039 \n\nThis panel event will explore themes of Pan-Africanism. Dr. McDuffie considers the significance of the U.S.Midwest to shaping twentieth-century Pan-Africanism through Garveyism. Dr. McDuffie’s research unveils new research and offers insight into imagining a liberated future Black world. In tandem\, Dr. Rashid investigates the ideas\, activities\, and influences of Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson\, a journalist\, trade unionist\, Pan-Africanist\, and politician\, who played a pivotal role in energizing the anti-colonial and national movement in West Africa between the 1930s and 1960s. Untangling this paradox offers interesting insights on different ways in which Pan-Africanism consciousness and politics were shaped and expressed during the colonial period. \nWatch Event Recording Here\nDr. Ismail Rashid’s Presentation\n\n  \n \nErik S. McDuffie is an Associate Professor in the Department of African AmericanStudies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research andteaching interests include the African diaspora\, the Midwest\, black feminism\,black queer theory\, black radicalism\, urban history\, and black masculinity.  He is the author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women\, American Communism\, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Durham\, NC: Duke University Press\, 2011). The book won the 2012 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History\, as well as the 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. His research interests include the African diaspora\, the Midwest\, black feminism\, black queer theory\, black radicalism\, urban history\, and black masculinity. \n  \n \nIsmail Rashid is Professor and Chair of History on the Marion Musser Lloyd ’32. He grew up in Freetown\, Sierra Leone and has been teaching at Vassar College since 1998. He received his BA Hons in Classics and History from the University of Ghana\, MA in Race Relations from Wilfrid Laurier University\, Waterloo\, Canada and PhD in African History from McGill University. His primary teaching interests are pre-colonial and modern African history\, African Diaspora and Pan-Africanism\, and International Relations. His research interests include subaltern resistance against colonialism\, public health\, and conflicts and security in contemporary Africa. Among his recent books are West Africa’s Security Challenges (2004 with Adekeye Adebajo)\, The Paradox of History and Memory in Postcolonial Sierra Leone (2013) (with Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley) and Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy(2017) (with Ibrahim Abdullah).
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/pan-africanism-in-africa-and-the-u-s-marcus-garvey-and-i-t-a-wallace-johnson-in-conversation/
LOCATION:19 Washington Sq. North\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Diasporic Back Chat: The Inter-War Activist Strategies of Black Nationalist Women
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Book Launch Lecture Event \nDr. Natanya Duncan \n\nMonday\, February 3rd\, 2025 \n\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite \nNEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92704020760 \n\n\n\nDuring the 1920s and 1930s\, women members of the largest social justice movement of the 20th Century\, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)\, publicly challenged the myriad forms of oppression that affected them globally.This talk will explore strategies used by women of the UNIA in fashioning a trans-Atlantic dialogue as evidenced in the Negro World newspaper\, personal correspondences\, and government records to highlight their role in shaping the contours of Black Nationalism and pan-Africanism in the early 20th Century. \n\nThis event will be highlighting the new book: An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The book will be available for Purchase & Signature at event for $29.95. \n\n\nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nNatanya Duncan an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora\, her research and teaching focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan’s research interest includes constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/diasporic-back-chat-the-inter-war-activist-strategies-of-black-nationalist-women/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Too Dark for the World: Oceania\, Anti-Colonialism\, and the Black Pacific
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Afro-Asia Project \nDr. Quito J. Swan \nWednesday\, January 29\, 2025 \n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite \nNEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98598651350 \n\nQuito J. Swan’s talk\, Too Dark for the World\, explores Black internationalism and decolonization in Oceania. Drawing from archival research conducted across Oceania\, the Americas\, Africa\, and Europe\, it will discuss how Melanesian liberation struggles engaged Black Power\, Negritude\, and Pan-Africanism in their insurgent battles for self-determination. It is based on Swan’s Pasifika Black: Oceania\, Anticolonialism\, and the Africana World (NYU Press\, 2022)\, which was awarded ASALH’s 2023 Best Book in African American History prize. \nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nQuito J. Swan is Professor of Africana Studies and History at The George Washington University. A public facing scholar of Black internationalism and the African Diaspora\, he has single authored three books-Pasifika Black: Oceania\, Anti-Colonialism and the African World (2022)\, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (2020) and Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization (2010). Pasifika Black received the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2023 Best Book in African American History Award. Pauulu’s Diaspora won the African American Intellectual History Society’s 2022 Pauli Murray Book Prize. Swan’s research has garnered fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and more.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/too-dark-for-the-world-oceania-anti-colonialism-and-the-black-pacific/
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SUMMARY:Regional Origins and Intra-African Patterns of Gene Flow during the Millennia of Enslavement
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2024-2025 Distinguished Scholar Event\nRegional Origins and Intra-African Patterns of Gene Flow During the Millennia of Enslavement\n  \nDr. Fatimah Jackson \nWednesday\, November 20\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \nHemmerdinger Hall \nSilver Center of Arts & Science \n\n100 Washington SQ East \nNew York City\, NY 10013 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98085219090 \n  \nThis lecture event will highlight developing models that reflect the diverse origins of African-descended peoples of the African Diasporas is an important task which provides insights of potential evolutionary relevance and possible biomedical significance (via geospatially mediated precision medicine). Computational approaches can be trained to accurately identify the African empires and kingdoms (AEKs) involved in the procurement\, kidnapping\, transport\, and delivery of captive Africans for enslavement within and outside of Africa. Supervised and unsupervised machine learning GIS models can also identify the regional and ethnic sources of enslaved Africans and predict the routes used to take them from their homelands to export sites on the various coasts. By grounding our analysis in the paradigm of the 8th-20th c Millennia of Enslavement we consider each of the major intra-African slave trades and the resulting demic diffusion and its impact on gene flow patterns. \n  \nWatch Event Recording\n\n  \n \nDr. Fatimah Jackson \nProfessor Emerita\, Biology\, Howard University\nProfessor Emerita\, Anthropology\, University of Maryland\, College Park\nSenior Scientist\, QuadGrid Data Laboratory\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/regional-origins-and-intra-african-patterns-of-gene-flow-during-the-millennia-of-enslavement/
LOCATION:Hemmerdinger Hall\, Washington Square East\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Age of Black Revolution: New Directions
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nAn Age of Black Revolution: New Directions\n  \nDr. Vincent Brown and Dr. Crystal Eddins \nThursday\, October 24\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \n\nAbu Dhabi \nNew York University \n\n\n19 Washington SQ North \nNew York City\, NY 10012 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91746481831 \n  \n“An Age of Black Revolution: New Directions” brings together two notable scholars\, Vincent Brown and Crystal Eddins\, whose works forge new paths in studies of 18th and 19th century Caribbean slavery\, resistance\, and revolt. This conversation will probe issues around archival research\, enslaved people’s sacred rites\, women and gender\, and the formation of maroon communities as part of the salient issues concerning the Age of Black Revolution. \n  \nWatch Recording Here\n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/an-age-of-black-revolution-new-directions/
LOCATION:19 Washington Sq. North\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T170000
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SUMMARY:Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nSudan’s Counterrevolutionary War\nDr. Nisrin Elamin \nWednesday\, October 09\, 2024 \n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n3rd Fl Suite \nZoom Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94404401950 \n  \nDr. Nisrin Elamin’s lecture-based discussion will provide context for Sudan’s current counterrevolutionary war and famine from a political economy perspective. In particular\, it will center struggles over land and the role civilian volunteers are playing at the frontline of mutual aid and relief efforts. \n  \nWatch Presentation Recording\nWatch Q&A Recording\n\n  \n \nNisrin Elamin is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2020. She is currently writing a book tentatively titled: Stratified Enclosures: Land\, Capital and Empire-making in Central Sudan which focuses on Saudi and Emirati land grabs and community resistance to land dispossession in the Gezira region of Sudan. In addition to scholarly articles\, Nisrin has also written and co-authored several op-eds for Al Jazeera\, the Washington Post\, Hammer and Hope and Okay Africa and has provided commentary on NPR\, BBC\, CNN\, The Agenda\, CBC\, Democracy Now and other media outlets. Before pursuing her Ph.D.\, Nisrin spent over a decade working as an educator\, community organizer and researcher in the US and Tanzania. She is also a member of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which has been supporting local emergency response rooms in the face of a largely absent international aid community and civilian state.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-africa-diaspora-forum-series-sudans-counterrevolutionary-war/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Africans in Byzantium: Kings\, Merchants\, and Monks
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nAfricans in Byzantium: Kings\, Merchants\, and Monks\nDr. Andrea Myers Achi \nWednesday\, September 25\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \nNYU 20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n3rd FL SUITE \n  \nIn Fall 2023\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented the critically acclaimed exhibition\, Africa & Byzantium\, which explored the complex connections between North and East African communities and Byzantium. This landmark exhibition included significant loans from thirty-six lenders\, including prominent institutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Reviews highlighted not only the visual splendor of the artworks\, but also the growing interest in the African individuals who commissioned\, traded\, or depicted in Byzantine art. \nThis talk builds on the research conducted for the Africa & Byzantium exhibition\, offering new case studies that examine the visual and literary portrayals of Africans within the Byzantine context. Additionally\, Dr. Achi will address the challenges of revealing these often-overlooked narratives from an art historical perspective and provide insights into the broader implications for our understanding of cultural interactions in the medieval world. \n  \nWatch Recording Here\n\n \nDr. Andrea Myers Achi holds a BA from Barnard College and a PhD from New York University. Trained as a Byzantinist\, Dr. Achi’s scholarship and curatorial practice focus on late antique and Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She has a particular interest in manuscripts and archaeological objects from Christian Egypt and Nubia\, and she has brought this expertise to bear on exhibitions like Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis (2017)\, Crossroads: Power and Piety (2020)\, and The Good Life (2021) at The Met and in presentations and publications. Currently\, she is working on exhibition projects related to Egyptian monasteries\, the material culture of Late Antiquity\, and Byzantine Art in Africa.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africans-in-byzantium-kings-merchants-and-monks/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240919
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SUMMARY:CSAAD Fall 2024 Student Receptions
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Graduate Student and Faculty Reception\nTuesday\, September 17\, 2024\n\n\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square\n3rd Floor Suite\nNew York\, NY 10003\n\n  \nRegister Here\n\n\nCSAAD Undergraduate Student Reception\n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 18\, 2024\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square\n3rd Floor Suite\nNew York\, NY 10003\n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-fall-2024-student-receptions/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T162718
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SUMMARY:Third Worlds Within: Possible Histories of Solidarity and Struggle
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY February 21\, 2024\n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Sq New York\, NY 10003\n3rd FI Suite \n\nIn 1880\, Karl Marx wrote his friend Friedrich Sorge to ask for an update on economic conditions in California. “California is very important for me\,” Marx told the founder of America’s oldest socialist party\, “because nowhere else has the upheaval most shamelessly caused by capitalist centralization taken place with such speed. This “shameless upheaval” forms the backdrop for this talk\, which takes interconnected processes of African enslavement\, Native genocide and mass Asian migration to 19th Century California as a point of departure for examining historic interactions among communities of color\, the effect of U.S. racial capitalism upon these communities\, and the subsequent rise of multiracial\, interethnic mobilizations against U.S. racism and empire. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/third-worlds-within-possible-histories-of-solidarity-and-struggle/
LOCATION:24 West 12th St.\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T190000
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SUMMARY:The Shadow Crisis and the Matter of Defense Funds in Scottsboro
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 31st\, 2024 \n5:30pm – 7:00pm \n20 Cooper Square\, Room 101 \nRegister here for in-person  \nAttend via Zoom here \nThe central crisis in the Scottsboro case of the 1930s was to keep these boys alive by freeing them from prison. Yet\, the well-being of the boys and their families proved to be the crisis in the shadows. This first mass fundraising campaign for racial justice privileged legal defense funds. However\, their mothers’ work as fundraisers and the commitment of the International Labor Defense to distribute money directly to the boys in prison and to their families reveals the complications of movement money. In this talk\, Dr. Mills offers a defense of an expanded view of defense funds which were required to ensure these boys and their mothers would not be ravaged by Alabama\, white supremacy\, or capitalism. \n \nQuincy Mills  is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland\, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. His research interests attend to the ways African Americans’ wages\, wealth\, and overall financial well-being helped shape black public spaces\, political engagement\, and activism.  Dr. Mills is the author of Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America (2013). With Benjamin Talton he edited the anthology Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing (2011). He also edited William Still’s Reconstruction-era book The Underground Railroad Record: Narrating the Hardships\, Hairbreadth Escapes\, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom (2019). He is currently working on his second monograph tentatively titled “Movement Money: Crises\, Relief\, and the Economy of Activism during the Civil Rights Movement.” \nRegister here for in-person \nAttend via Zoom here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-shadow-crisis-and-the-matter-of-defense-funds-in-scottsboro/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T190000
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SUMMARY:Critics of the Oyo Empire and Atlantic Modernity in the Age of Revolution: Rethinking Black Atlantic Historiography with Archaeology and Òrìṣà Archives
DESCRIPTION:December 4th\, 2023 \n5:30 pm -7:00 pm \nSilver Center\,  Hemmerdinger Hall \nRegister here for in-person  \nAttend via Zoom here \nIn this talk\, Ogundiran will discuss the debates and dialogues that happened in the Oyo Empire (West Africa) in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries about rights and privileges\, marginalization and power\, and politics of difference between the metropolis and the provinces\, women and men\, and the state and society. These dialogues\, he argues\, were part of the discontentment with Early Modernity that gave birth to the Age of Revolution. However\, Africa has been mostly elided from the historiography of this revolutionary period because the modalities of Africa-centered dialogues about the early modern experience have been outside the reach of traditional historical methods. Ogundiran demonstrates the need to pay attention to the Yorùbá Òrìṣà archives and the archaeology of place in order to broaden the historiography of the Black Atlantic and the Age of Revolution. \n \nAkin Ogundiran is Cardiss Collins Professor of History and Arts & Sciences at Northwestern University and a Senior Fellow of Gardens and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks\, Washington DC. He is broadly interested in the archaeology and history of Africa over the past 2\,500 years\, with an emphasis on the Yorùbá world. His research has been supported by the National Geographic Society\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Humanities Center\, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author/editor/co-editor of several books\, including The Yorùbá: A New History (2020)\, winner of the Vinson Sutlive Prize and Isaac Delano Prize. \nRegister here for in-person \nAttend via Zoom here\n  \nFor accommodations\, please contact the Administrative Aide for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at Muna.Diaf@nyu.edu by November 20th\, 2023. 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/critics-of-the-oyo-empire-and-atlantic-modernity-in-the-age-of-revolution-rethinking-black-atlantic-historiography-with-archaeology-and-ori%e1%b9%a3a-archives/
LOCATION:NYU Silver Center\, 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, New York\, NY
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T120000
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SUMMARY:Kenya’s Intervention in Haiti: An interrogation of Impetus\, Objectives\, and Consequences
DESCRIPTION:Entèvansyon Kenya ann Ayiti:\nYon entèwogasyon sou Motivasyon\, Objektif\, ak Konsekans\nTuesday\, November 21st\, 2023 \n12:00PM (NYC/Port-au-Prince) \n9:00AM (LA/Vancouver) \n8:00PM (Nairobi) \nRegister here \nIn September 2023\, the United Nations Security Council voted for the deployment of multinational military forces to combat gang violence in Haiti. The United States pledged U$200 million and Kenya more than 1\,000 troops from its police force. \nProgressive organizations and activists in Haiti and its diasporas denounce the mission\, naming it as an occupation. They argue that\, since 2004\, Haiti has already been under the direct political\, economic\, and social control of the United Nations\, and more precisely the United States. Moreover they recall that  it is under U.S. tutelage that many of Haiti’s most murderous gangs formed and multiplied. \nSimilarly\, progressives in Kenya and its diaspora mobilize to halt the impending occupation of Haiti. They advance that Kenyan state leaders serve as sub-imperialists of the West\, especially  the U.S.\, as Kenyan armed forces are used to repress populations within the country’s borders  and in neighboring African countries. \nThis panel is a dialogue between Haitian and Kenyan internationalists about the implications of a Kenya-led military intervention in  Haiti. It features Jemima Pierre\, Professor of Global Race at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and Haiti/Americas Team-Coordinator for Black Alliance for Peace (U.S.); Georges Eddy Lucien\, Professor of History and Geography at the Université d’Etat d’Haiti (Haiti); Willy Mutunga\, retired Professor of Law at the University of Nairobi\, former Chief Justice of Kenya\, and former President of the Supreme Court (Kenya); and Boniface Mwangi\, renowned photo-journalist activist (Kenya). \nRegister here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/kenyas-intervention-in-haiti-an-interrogation-of-impetus-objectives-and-consequences/
LOCATION:24 West 12th St.\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T183000
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SUMMARY:When Haiti Was Our Cradle of Hope
DESCRIPTION:Event Recording here\nWednesday\, October 25th\, 2023\n\n\nTime: 5:00pm-6:30pm\n\n\nLocation: Silver Center of Arts & Science\, Hemmerdinger Hall\n\n\nFear of a Black Republic chronicles how Haiti’s triumphant ascendance created a beacon of hope for free and enslaved Black people throughout the African diaspora\, especially those fighting for freedom in the United States. Cognizant of Haiti’s centrality to the global struggle for Black liberation\, free and enslaved Black people in the U.S. waged an unyielding battle throughout the early nineteenth century to defend Haiti and its sovereignty. In so doing\, they gave birth to a new Black internationalist consciousness—one that not only demanded an end to slavery\, but also insisted on full freedom\, equality\, and sovereignty for Black people throughout the African diaspora. \n \nDr. Leslie Alexander is the Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University and is a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. A specialist in early African American and African Diaspora history\, she is the author of African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City\, 1784-1861\, and Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States. She is also the co-editor of three additional volumes\, including Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History. Her current research\, which appears in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story\, examines how surveillance of free and enslaved Black communities in the colonial and antebellum eras laid the foundation for modern-day policing. A three-time Ford Foundation fellowship recipient\, Alexander is the immediate Past President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) and serves on the Advisory Councils for the National Council for Black Studies\, the Journal of African American History\, Black Perspectives\, The Black Scholar\, and the Montpelier Foundation Board. \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. \nEvent Recording here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/when-haiti-was-our-cradle-of-hope/
LOCATION:NYU Silver Center\, 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, New York\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T133000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Writing Workshop Series
DESCRIPTION:The workshop is a grad-student-led space for junior scholars whose work spans various geographies related to Africa and its diaspora. This forum primarily comprises doctoral students in the History Department at NYU but is also open to students outside the department and the History field. Generally\, students present projects related to their Ph.D. research\, including dissertation chapters and journal article submissions. Still\, the space will be available to include more than just dissertation chapters to accommodate better the needs of first to third-years and MA students. \nIdeally\, there will be four sessions in the Fall semester (see schedule below)\, and each date would have one person present a piece of writing to the group\, with the rest providing critique like a standard writing group. We ask that all papers for the presentations be sent to the group at least one week before the meeting date to give everyone adequate time to prepare and that you cap submissions at 40 pages. \nThe workshop forum is structured with the presenter’s needs in mind\, so don’t hesitate to contact me if you are interested in presenting or have any questions about your potential fit. Please indicate if you are interested in presenting by completing this form. \n\nFor the Fall 2023 semester\, the CSAAD Graduate Student Writing Workshop will meet on the following dates and times:\n\n\n\n1. Thursday\, September 28\, 12-1:30 pm EST │ Register here\n\n2. Thursday\, October 19\, 12–1:30 pm EST │Register here\n\n\n3. Thursday\, November 30\, 12–1:30 pm EST │Register here\n\n\n4. Thursday\, December 13\,12-1:30 pm EST │Register here\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information or questions\, please email nyuafricadiasporaworkshop@gmail.com
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/graduate-writing-workshop-series/2023-09-28/
LOCATION:24 West 12th St.\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T183000
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SUMMARY:338 BCE and the Transformation of Ancient Afro-Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:The second half of the 4th c. BCE witnesses a series of dramatic transformations throughout Afro-Eurasia\, foremost among them a rapid escalation in state formation processes and the emergence of new (or newly aggressive) territorial empires. Concentrating on the 330s BCE\, this lecture will pair a thick description of these transformations with an attempt at their analysis.  \n \nDan-el Padilla Peralta is Associate Professor of Classics\, and associated faculty in African American Studies\, at Princeton University. He is the author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic (Princeton 2020); and he has co-edited Rome\, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (Cambridge 2017) and Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy\, c. 400 – 200 BCE (Cambridge 2023). He is currently working on Classicism and Other Phobias\, the subject of his 2022 W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard. He is a volume co-editor for The Cambridge History of the African Diaspora and sits on the board of the RaceB4Race collective. \nView lecture recording here\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/338-bce-and-the-transformation-of-ancient-afro-eurasia/
LOCATION:Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T110000
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SUMMARY:Assessing the Complexities of the Sahelian Security Space
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URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/assessing-the-complexities-of-the-sahelian-security-space/
LOCATION:24 West 12th St.\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T191500
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SUMMARY:Africans in Slavery and Post-emancipation: Evolution of a Field
DESCRIPTION:Registration \nhttps://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_445YC_Q8Q_SC9b2rlrjUGQ
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africans-in-slavery-and-post-emancipation-evolution-of-a-field/
LOCATION:https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_445YC_Q8Q_SC9b2rlrjUGQ
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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