CIT.I.ZEN.SHIP: REFLECTIONS ON RIGHTS
Department of Photography 721 Broadway, 8th Floor, New YorkOctober 4, 2018 - January 18, 2019 Department of Photography & Imaging Galleries NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway Lobby & 8th floor Lorie Novak and Deborah Willis, Ph.D., curators Riana Gideon, assistant curator To accept one’s past — one’s history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is […]
Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors
Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street, New YotkCésar Rodríguez-Garavito, co-editor of Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights, will speak on the new ideas and innovations that are emerging in response to populist regimes’ crackdown on civil society. Written by scholars and advocates in challenging political settings from around the world, this book offers ideas and inspiration to their peers […]
BOOK TALK: SOUNDING ISLAM: VOICE, MEDIA AND SONIC ATMOSPHERE IN AN INDIAN OCEAN W/ PATRICK EISENLOHR
Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South), New YorkBook Talk with Patrick Eisenlohr, University of Göttingen and Faye Ginsberg David B. Kriser Professor, NYU Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, […]