Africa Diaspora Forum
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African Artifacts and the Politics of Repatriation
Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Jan 22, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: African Artifacts and the Politics of Repatriation Register in advance for this webinar: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7XCeafsaSc6HoaLMhTP3pQ Or an H.323/SIP room system: H.323: 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 221.122.88.195 (China) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) […]
African Diaspora Forum: Barrymore A Bogues
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New YorkAnthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is a writer , scholar, curator, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice; Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence (2004-2007); and currently the Asa Messer Professsor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He is also […]
Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New YorkIn the 1920s in New York the jazz cabaret was seen as offering what the writer Eric Walrond called “Africa undraped”, and its sound was the tom-tom. This talk will explore the period’s fascination with that instrument and with what it might signify, focusing on two texts entitled Tom-Tom, both of which offer to associate contemporary Harlem with “Africa”, in one or another of its manifestations.