BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora - ECPv6.17.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T183000 DTSTAMP:20250819T144810Z CREATED:20250819T144810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T144810Z UID:3339-1708534800-1708540200@csaad.nyu.edu 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/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Flyer.Widener.Feb2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T190000 DTSTAMP:20240119T195312Z CREATED:20240117T224804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240119T195312Z UID:2475-1706722200-1706727600@csaad.nyu.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-19-at-2.52.52-PM.png GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T190000 DTSTAMP:20231113T180305Z CREATED:20231027T164132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T180305Z UID:2454-1701711000-1701716400@csaad.nyu.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/b2fc11f0-b35b-e7da-0d83-70df16530b89.png ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora":MAILTO:csaad@nyu.edu GEO:40.730336;-73.9955839 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=NYU Silver Center 31 Washington Pl New York NY 10003 New York NY;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003:geo:-73.9955839,40.730336 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T060000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T191500 DTSTAMP:20220126T161034Z CREATED:20220126T161034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T161034Z UID:1890-1646028000-1646075700@csaad.nyu.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Green-Lawn-Care-Flyer-Template-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T141500 DTSTAMP:20220126T160458Z CREATED:20220126T160458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T160458Z UID:1885-1644282000-1644329700@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Africans in Ancient Worlds: Scholarly Trajectories DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 8\, 2022 \n1:00 pm-2:15 pm EST \nZoom \n  \nRegistration below: \nhttps://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rycvhWsGRa2FS1y__cWsEA URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africans-in-ancient-worlds-scholarly-trajectories/ LOCATION:https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rycvhWsGRa2FS1y__cWsEA CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Green-Lawn-Care-Flyer-Template-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T103000 DTSTAMP:20211109T165847Z CREATED:20211109T165847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T165847Z UID:1849-1638264600-1638268200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Aligning African Worlds: Climate Change and the Global South DESCRIPTION:Panelist \nDr. Nnimmo Bassey: Benin City\, Nigeria \nDr. Paulette Bynoe: Georgetown\, Guyana \nUNEP Deputy Executive Director Joyce Msuya: Nairobi\, Kenya \nDr. Ulric Trotz: Belize \n  \nModerator \nDr. Michael A. Gomez URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/aligning-african-worlds-climate-change-and-the-global-south/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T200000 DTSTAMP:20210913T160922Z CREATED:20210913T155949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T160922Z UID:1792-1632335400-1632340800@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-first Century DESCRIPTION:Virtual webinar \nDr. William A. Darity Jr.  & Dr. A. Kirsten Mullen \n  \nRegister below: \nhttps://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TVRnWA4DRZCrHPSGxWVuEQ?mc_cid=c2f1334895&mc_eid=dc1b18d119 URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/from-here-to-equality-reparations-for-black-americans-in-the-twenty-first-century/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/sept-22-book-talk-virtual-webinar-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T140000 DTSTAMP:20210915T182928Z CREATED:20210915T182928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T182928Z UID:1795-1631880000-1631887200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:The African is a Country-CSAAD Dialogues: "AfroMexico" DESCRIPTION:Panelists \nDr. Doris Careaga Coleman \nDr. Etienne Mulumeoderhawa \nMufungizi Josiane Moukam \nHosted By \nEbony Bailey \nOnline:YouTube.com/africaisacountrytv URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-african-is-a-country-csaad-dialogues-afromexico/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/afmex.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora":MAILTO:csaad@nyu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T180000 DTSTAMP:20210204T191812Z CREATED:20210204T191812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210204T191812Z UID:1503-1614097800-1614103200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:End the War on Black People the Urgency of Reparations DESCRIPTION:Panelist: \nDr. Michael Ralph \nDr. Vasuki Nesiah \nDr. Michael Funk \n  \nModerators \nKayla Merriwether \nDylan Brown URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/end-the-war-on-black-people-the-urgency-of-reparations/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_8174.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210201T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210201T153000 DTSTAMP:20210118T193317Z CREATED:20210118T193317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210118T193317Z UID:1488-1612188000-1612193400@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Black Lives Matter: In Dialogue with a Pioneer DESCRIPTION:https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6Q7n9f1rS5CY-Ox4ptrjgg URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/black-lives-matter-in-dialogue-with-a-pioneer/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8fa3a59d-2f03-4cd1-b7cc-4c3bd78b24f7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T130000 DTSTAMP:20210113T182529Z CREATED:20210113T181158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T182529Z UID:1482-1611316800-1611320400@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:African Artifacts and the Politics of Repatriation DESCRIPTION:Hi there\, \nYou are invited to a Zoom webinar.\nWhen: Jan 22\, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nTopic: African Artifacts and the Politics of Repatriation \nRegister in advance for this webinar:\nhttps://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7XCeafsaSc6HoaLMhTP3pQ \nOr an H.323/SIP room system:\nH.323:\n162.255.37.11 (US West)\n162.255.36.11 (US East)\n221.122.88.195 (China)\n115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai)\n115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad)\n213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands)\n213.244.140.110 (Germany)\n103.122.166.55 (Australia)\n209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR)\n149.137.40.110 (Singapore)\n64.211.144.160 (Brazil)\n69.174.57.160 (Canada)\n207.226.132.110 (Japan)\nMeeting ID: 921 4654 2798\nSIP: 92146542798@zoomcrc.com \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/african-artifacts-and-the-politics-of-repatriation/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3eda0a26-efda-4550-8e65-0f60685640a5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T190000 DTSTAMP:20191101T202801Z CREATED:20191101T202801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191101T202801Z UID:1082-1573664400-1573671600@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:African Diaspora Forum: Barrymore A Bogues DESCRIPTION:Anthony 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 an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science\, Modern Culture and Media . History of Art and Architecture and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.Bogues’s major research and writing interests are intellectual\, literary and cultural history\, radical political thought\, political theory\, critical theory\, Caribbean and African politics as well as Haitian\, Caribbean\, and African Art. He is the author of Caliban’s Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James (1997); Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (2003); and Empire of Liberty: Power\, Freedom and Desire (2010). He is the editor of From Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié. ( 2014 ) ; Metamorphosis : The Art of Edoaurd Duval -Carrie (2017) as well as two volumes on Caribbean intellectual and literary history: After Man\, Towards the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter (2005) and The George Lamming Reader: The Aesthetics of Decolonisation (2011) He is the co-editor of a special issue of the Italian journal Filosofia Politica ( 2017 ) on Black political thought and the co-convener of the interntional project \, ” Towards a Global History of Poltiical Thought . ” Additionally he has curated and co-curated shows in the United States \, South Africa and France and published numerous essays and articles on the history of criticism\, critical theory\, political thought\, political philosophy\, intellectual and cultural history as well as Haitian Art. Bogues is a member of the editorial collective for the journal boundary 2 and was an honorary professor at the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town\, South Africa.( 2006-2017 ) He is a member of the scientific committe of Le Centre d’Art in Haiti . He teaches courses on Africana political philosophy\, cultural politics\, intellectual history and contemporary critical theory and comparative literature of Africa and the African Diaspora as well as courses on the history of Haitian society and art. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/african-diaspora-forum-barrymore-a-bogues/ LOCATION:Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/bbogues_photo_.jpeg GEO:40.7313028;-73.9954933 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews New York NY 10003 14A Washington Mews New York NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=14A Washington Mews:geo:-73.9954933,40.7313028 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T190000 DTSTAMP:20191022T183820Z CREATED:20191010T160010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191022T183820Z UID:910-1571850000-1571857200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme DESCRIPTION:Drums over Harlem: Signifying Africa\, 1919-1932 \nIn 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.\nPeter Hulme is Emeritus Professor at the University of Essex\, where he taught for 40 years.  His books include Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean\, 1492 1797 (1986)\, Cuba’s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente (2011)\, and The Dinner at Gonfarone’s: Salomón de la Selva’s Pan-American Project in Nueva York\, 1915-1919 (2019). URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africadiaspora-forum-peter-hulme/ LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Do-you-need-a-tutor_-2.pdf ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora":MAILTO:csaad@nyu.edu GEO:40.7303742;-73.9986799 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S New York NY 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=53 Washington Square S:geo:-73.9986799,40.7303742 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T140000 DTSTAMP:20190827T135259Z CREATED:20190827T135259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190827T135259Z UID:855-1568808000-1568815200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Africa Diaspora Forum Kenda Mutongi DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora Presents the Africa`~Diaspora Forum lecturer Kenda Mutongi\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nKenda Mutongi teaches a wide range of courses in African history\, world history\, and gender history. She is the author of two award-winning books: Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago UP\, 2017) and Worries of the Heart: Widows\, Family\, and Community in Kenya (Chicago UP\, 2007). She has also published several articles in the major African studies journals\, and is currently writing a book tentatively titled\, Reading Under the Covers\, which focuses on the history of secondary schooling in post-colonial Kenya. \nMutongi has been an MLK Visiting Professor of History at MIT\, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. She has also received grants from the NEH\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Social Science Research Council\, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. \nMutongi serves on the editorial boards of several journals and book series in African Studies. Before moving to MIT in 2019\, Mutongi taught at Williams College for over 22 years\, where she served as chair of the Africana Studies and the Africa/Middle Eastern Studies Programs. \nMutongi was born and raised in rural western Kenya\, and received her BA from Coe College and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She enjoys cooking\, sewing\, and painting. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africa-diaspora-forum-kenda-mutongi/ LOCATION:Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora":MAILTO:csaad@nyu.edu GEO:40.7313028;-73.9954933 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews New York NY 10003 14A Washington Mews New York NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=14A Washington Mews:geo:-73.9954933,40.7313028 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T140000 DTSTAMP:20190826T161551Z CREATED:20190826T161551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190826T161551Z UID:840-1568808000-1568815200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Africa~Diaspora Forum- Kenda Mutongi DESCRIPTION:Kenda Mutongi teaches a wide range of courses in African history\, world history\, and gender history. She is the author of two award-winning books: Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago UP\, 2017) and Worries of the Heart: Widows\, Family\, and Community in Kenya(Chicago UP\, 2007). She has also published several articles in the major African studies journals\, and is currently writing a book tentatively titled\, Reading Under the Covers\, which focuses on the history of secondary schooling in post-colonial Kenya. \nMutongi has been an MLK Visiting Professor of History at MIT\, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. She has also received grants from the NEH\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Social Science Research Council\, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. \nMutongi serves on the editorial boards of several journals and book series in African Studies. Before moving to MIT in 2019\, Mutongi taught at Williams College for over 22 years\, where she served as chair of the Africana Studies and the Africa/Middle Eastern Studies Programs. \nMutongi was born and raised in rural western Kenya\, and received her BA from Coe College and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She enjoys cooking\, sewing\, and painting. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africadiaspora-forum-kenda-mutongi/ LOCATION:Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum GEO:40.7313028;-73.9954933 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews New York NY 10003 14A Washington Mews New York NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=14A Washington Mews:geo:-73.9954933,40.7313028 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190412 DTSTAMP:20190402T202414Z CREATED:20180920T115504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T202414Z UID:208-1554940800-1555027199@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:African Diaspora Forum-Maya Trotz (U. of South Florida) and Kevin Rhiney (Rutgers U.) DESCRIPTION:Caribbean in the Flux of Change – People\, Land\, Air & Sea \n  \nBattered States and ‘Resilient’ Futures? A Critical Reflection on the Caribbean post Irma-Maria \nKevon Rhiney\, Rutgers University \n  \nRoughly one month after hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the Caribbean nation of Dominica\, Roosevelt Skerrit\, the Dominican Prime Minister asserted\, “we have a unique opportunity to be an example to the world\, an example of how an entire nation rebounds from disaster and how an entire nation can be climate resilient for the future.” Skerrit’s message relays a common theme emerging throughout the Caribbean after the devastating 2017 hurricane season\, that saw two of the most powerful hurricanes in recorded history wreaking havoc across the region. Though Irma and Maria serve as a stark reminder of how vulnerable the Caribbean is to extreme climate events\, there seem to be a growing emphasis on the opportunities presented by the post-hurricane situation. Ideas around resilience and ‘building back better’ are increasingly being used to justify recovery efforts aimed at rethinking existing development paradigms. At the same time\, events that have unfolded since Irma and Maria have revealed just how much these ‘natural’ disasters intertwine with underlying issues of non/sovereignty and uneven development. In this talk\, I demonstrate how the current post-hurricane situation has become a highly contested and politicized post/colonial terrain\, and offer some initial thoughts on how we might best understand these recent developments. This includes a foregrounding of the historical legacies driving modern-day vulnerabilities across the region\, and a rethinking of ‘resilience’ as a precondition for securing sustainable Caribbean futures under a changing climate. \n  \n  \nCaribbean People Centered Resilient Futures  \nMaya Trotz\, University of South Florida \n  \nResilience\, Build Back Better\, Climate Adaptation – commonly used terms in the Caribbean region today for new climate financing mechanisms like the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Having a job that puts food on the table gets packaged as investments in workforce development with a particular emphasis on gender\, improved irrigation for agriculture\, value add nutritional crops\, and improved livelihoods. Restoring a coral reef devastated by an earthquake and/or hurricane becomes a coastal resilience project to increase biodiversity\, flood protection\, science literacy on climate change\, the number of women licensed as tour guides\, and improve livelihoods. As the region plans to raise the funds and spend billions of dollars on infrastructure for the provision of food\, water\, electricity\, transportation etc.\, designing the projects for that investment provides opportunities for meaningful community engagement\, including inter island and diaspora relations. Using projects that I have worked on in the Caribbean\, this talk discusses opportunities and challenges to build more community focused solutions and management practices for critical resources. These projects range from 1) Water Sector Resilience for Sustainability in Barbados\, a GCF funded project to the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center for the Barbados Water Authority\, 2) Reefs of Hope\, a $100 million dollar 100&Change proposal\, and 3) a sustainability challenge for high school students in 12 Caribbean countries\, the Sagicor Visionaries Challenge. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africadiaspora-forum-3/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Do-you-need-a-tutor_-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190131T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190131T140000 DTSTAMP:20190128T023140Z CREATED:20180920T115422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190128T023140Z UID:207-1548937800-1548943200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Africa~Diaspora Forum - JAN DESCRIPTION:With guest speaker: Alissa Trotz (Toronto U.) URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africadiaspora-forum-2/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181115 DTSTAMP:20181025T135115Z CREATED:20180920T115325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T135115Z UID:206-1542153600-1542239999@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Africa Diaspora Forum: Keisha-Khan Perry from Brown University DESCRIPTION:Keisha-Khan Perry from Brown University will be joining the Center of the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) to present her research.\n  \nDr. Perry’s talk will focus on the political work of poor black women in struggles for land and housing rights in cities throughout the Americas\, this presentation examines the gendered racial logic of spatial dispossession. I illustrate how these women confront the violence of urban redevelopment that includes mass evictions\, housing demolitions\, and militarized policing. I emphasize that black women are key political protagonists\, mobilizing at the grassroots and exploding the conversation on racial and gender violence from North America to the Southern Cone. Moreover\, they understand black dispossession (loss of land/territorial rights\, access to adequate housing\, gentrification) to be a form of anti-black violence that shapes their gendered experiences and political formation in unique ways. This presentation represents my ongoing call for black feminist scholars to return our analyses to the material issues that are at the heart of women-led grassroots struggles and that informed black feminist thought in the first place. \n  \nKeisha-Khan Y. Perry is currently an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University where she specializes in race\, gender and politics in the Americas\, urban geography and questions of citizenship\, intellectual history and disciplinary formation\, and the interrelationship between scholarship\, pedagogy and political engagement. Her first book\, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil (fall 2013\, Minnesota Press)\, is an ethnographic study of black women’s activism in Brazilian cities. She currently has three book projects under way: 1) Evictions and Convictions: The Gendered Racial Logic of Black Dispossession in New York City; 2) The Historical Paradox of Citizenship: Black Land Ownership and Loss in the Americas; and 3) Anthropology for Liberation: Research\, Writing and Teaching for Social Justice.   URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africadiaspora-forum/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181010 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181011 DTSTAMP:20181017T190746Z CREATED:20180920T114936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T190746Z UID:204-1539129600-1539215999@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Tejumola Olaniyan "Cartooning the Rwandan Genocide: Propaganda\, Pleasure\, Evil\, Interest."  DESCRIPTION:  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nDr. Tejumola Olaniyan will present his paper\, “Cartooning the Rwandan Genocide: Propaganda\, Pleasure\, Evil\, Interest.” At this forum\, This paper asks: what is the role of mass propaganda in the commission of mass-scale evil such as genocide? If the latter is impossible without the former\, and pleasure and the pleasurable are at the heart of every successful propaganda\, does it mean that pleasure and evil have a relationship? What is the name of that relationship? And\, yes\, what if political cartoons\, the typically radical form with its caustic humor\, are at the heart of the propaganda? What can resistant cartoonists do?\n \nDr. Tejumola Olaniyan is the Louise Durham Mead Professor of English\, African\, and African Diaspora cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African\, African American and Caribbean Drama (Oxford UP\, 1995)\, and Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics (Indiana UP\, 2004). He is also editor or co-editor of Taking African Cartoons Seriously (MSU Press\, 2018); State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings (Indiana UP\, 2017); Audible Empire: Music\, Global Politics\, Critique (Duke UP\, 2016); African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory (Blackwell\, 2010); and African Drama and Performance (Indiana UP\, 2004). He runs the web encyclopedia\, africacartoons.com.\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) and the Department of History. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/tejumola-olaniyan-u-of-wisconsin/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/teju.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180926 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180927 DTSTAMP:20181017T173005Z CREATED:20180920T114731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T173005Z UID:203-1537920000-1538006399@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Africa Diaspora Forum-Dr. Aurora Vergara Figuerora DESCRIPTION:Dr. Aurora Vergara Figueroa\, Universidad Icesi (Colombia) \nAurora Vergara Figueroa is the director of the Afrodiasporic Studies Center ( Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos) at Icesi University. She is an Afrocolombian who holds a PhD from the Sociology Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, where she concentrated on the sociological study of Afrocolombians deracinated from the Colombian Pacific coast and the long durée of land dispossession in the world-system. Also she develops research on the Afrodiasporic feminist movement in Colombia. She is the recipient of the LASA/OXFAM America 2014 Martin Diskin Dissertation Award and is currently working with Doctor Carmen Cosme Puntiel on a co-edited volume tentatively titled: Challenging Enslavement: Black Women’s Strategies of Resistance in Nueva Granada (Colombia)\, Venezuela\, Brazil\, and Cuba 1550-1900. \nHer main research interests are: Feminist Critique\, African Diaspora Studies\, Sociological Theory\, Critical Race Theory\, Political Economy\, Political Sociology\, and Comparative Historical Sociology. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/aurora-vergara-figueroa-universidad-icesi-colombia/ CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/flyer_vergara.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR