Artists / Scholars-in-Residence
CSAAD’s inaugural Artist/Scholar-in-Residence will be author Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions and This Mournable Body. She will be on campus February 18 to 28, 2019. Tsitsi Dangarembga is a writer, filmmaker, teacher and cultural activist, began writing plays at the University of Zimbabwe, where THE LOST OF THE SOIL (1983) and SHE NO LONGER […]
LECTURE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New YorkThroughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the Iranian student opposition abroad, developed contending narratives of human rights in Iran. While Iranian students worked with Western human rights organizations to highlight the use of torture against political prisoners in Iran, the Pahlavi state responded by embracing a Third World narrative of […]
SPORTS AND THE BLACK MALE BODY
Thursday, February 28, 2019 In sports the over representation of the black male body as object occupies a space for continuous and expected physical performance. The heightened spectator gaze can vacillate from doting fan to menacing crowd especially now when more professional athletes are actively choosing to exercise their voices on social justice issues. The […]
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE WITH HORTENSE SPILLERS
The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Pl,, New York,Women and the Laws: Reading Le Code Noir Le Code Noir, the body of law advanced by the government of Louis XIV in the world of 17th-century France, is one of the first codified legal documents regarding judicial conduct toward enslaved persons in the French colonies of the New World. As slavery increasingly established an […]