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-WR-CALNAME:Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T183000 DTSTAMP:20260501T205217Z CREATED:20260422T210956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T205217Z UID:3717-1777309200-1777314600@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Commemorating Jacques Viau-Renaud: Dominican Sovereignty\, and Antonio Lockward-Artiles and Pedro Caros' Island-wide Afro-Caribbean Geopoetics DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nCSAAD PreDoctoral Fellow Presentation\nFranchesca Araujo\nCSAAD 2025-2026 PreDoctoral Fellow\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nMonday\, April 27\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n*VIRTUAL EVENT*\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95259797641 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with CSAAD’s 2025-2026 PreDoctoral Fellow\, Franchesca Araújo. After Haitian-Dominican poet and revolutionary Jacques-Viau Renaud was killed by U.S. marines in their 1965 occupation of the Dominican Republic\, his literary and political community commemorated his life and his writing. They did this through in-person events\, a posthumously published book of his poetry\, and their own commemorative poetics. This talk will trace the Afro-Caribbean and anti-colonial islandwide geopoetics rehearsed in Antonio-Lockward Artiles and Pedro Caros commemorative writings. These enacted visions of sovereignty\, and spatial imaginaries that differed not only from reactionary and oppressive ideologies\, but from other anti-imperial articulations of the moment. Even more profoundly\, they disrupted the anti-Haitian\, and anti-Black terms that undergirded hemispheric wide terms of sovereignty in the Americas. \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\n\nBio: \n \nFranchesca Araújo is a doctoral candidate in African Diaspora studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is an interdisciplinary Black Studies\, Caribbeanist scholar. Her work interrogates the linkages and fissures between colonial modernity\, nation-making\, culture\, and national subjecthood across a variety of media and histories. Her dissertation looks at how 20th and 21st century Dominican subjects\, media\, and events encounter the Dominican Republic’s classed\, racialized\, and spatialized value systems across different political and cultural moments. Using archival research\, close reading\, and visual\, discursive\, and reflexive analysis\, she theorizes the analytics of deficiency\, and excess at the intersection of black geographies and black disability studies. She argues this opens up more capacious ways to think about encounters between blackness\, the nation\, and the national subject. Franchesca’s research interests broadly include theorizing black geographies\, Hispanophone Caribbean popular culture\, music\, performance\, and aesthetics\, 20th century anti-colonial Caribbean thought\, and coloniality and anti-blackness within Latin American nation-making and Latinidad as an imagined community. Her poetry can be found in When Language Broke Open (University of Arizona Press)\, and her scholarship in The Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies as well as The Afro-Latin@* Reader: Vol 2 (Duke University Press). URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/commemorating-jacques-viau-renaud-dominican-sovereignty-and-antonio-lockward-artiles-and-pedro-caros-island-wide-afro-caribbean-geopoetics/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Flyer.Conteh.April2026.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T183000 DTSTAMP:20260424T171519Z CREATED:20260407T181814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260424T171519Z UID:3707-1776877200-1776882600@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:America\, América in the Crosshairs DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Greg Grandin\nYale University\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2026\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/92032892806 \n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with Dr. Greg Grandin. This talk will examine the Trump administration’s recent adventures in Latin America and his revival of the Monroe Doctrine in light of his broader foreign policy\, arguing that the administration has stripped the Doctrine of its remaining pretensions to legal or moral legitimacy and redeployed it as a blunt instrument of hemispheric dominance — from extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to regime change in Venezuela to the siege of Cuba. It situates this Western Hemisphere policy within Trump’s broader escalatory logic\, in which the spectacle of coercion must be constantly repeated and amplified\, a dynamic that helps explain the rapid pivot from Venezuela to open war with Iran. It concludes by asking whether we are witnessing not merely a revival of an old American tradition but its transformation into something new and more dangerous: a Monroe Doctrine for the entire world\, unbound by law\, and increasingly clothed in the language of divine mandate. \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\n\n\nBio: \n \nGreg Grandin is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.  He is the author of a number of prize-winning books\, including The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. The End of the Myth won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the prize in History. Other books include Empire’s Workshop: Latin America\, the United States\, and the Making of an Imperial Republic\, first published in 2005 and significantly revised and expanded in 2021\, and Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman. He is also the author of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery\, Freedom\, and Deception in the New World\, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Toni Morrison called this book “scholarship at its best\,” a “deft penetration into the marrow of the slave industry… brilliant.”  His book Fordlandia\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.   His most recent book\, America\, América: A New History of the New World is a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Cundill Prize (longlisted)\, and the Kirkus Prize.  It won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.  Grandin is also the author of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America During the Cold War and The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation\, which won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for the best book published on Latin America in any discipline. With Gil Joseph\, Grandin co-edited A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America’s Long Cold War.  A former consultant to the United Nations truth commission on Guatemala\, Grandin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written for various journals\, including The Nation\, The Guardian\, The New York Times\, the Financial Times\, The London Review of Books\, Jacobin\, and The Intercept. For The Nation\, he has written obituaries for Gabriel García Márquez\, Fidel Castro\, Hugo Chávez\, Cormac McCarthy\, Henry Kissinger\, and George H.W. Bush. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/america-america-in-the-crosshairs/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Square CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Grandin.Flyer_.April2026.png GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T190000 DTSTAMP:20260330T032659Z CREATED:20260306T193649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260330T032659Z UID:3664-1774546200-1774551600@csaad.nyu.edu 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/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Square CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Flyer.Ali_.March2026.png ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora":MAILTO:csaad@nyu.edu GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T190000 DTSTAMP:20260401T175315Z CREATED:20260311T184142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T175315Z UID:3668-1774459800-1774465200@csaad.nyu.edu 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 CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Flyer.CSAADRootsEvent.March2026-2.png 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:20260121T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T183000 DTSTAMP:20260123T192421Z CREATED:20260109T171819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T192421Z UID:3565-1769014800-1769020200@csaad.nyu.edu 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 CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Erakat.Flyer_.Jan2026.png GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T183000 DTSTAMP:20251211T191856Z CREATED:20251120T195923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251211T191856Z UID:3498-1765386000-1765391400@csaad.nyu.edu 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 CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum,Postdoctoral Fellowship ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Bladimir.PostDoc.Flyer_.Dec2025.png GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T183000 DTSTAMP:20251208T132448Z CREATED:20251117T200344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T132448Z UID:3493-1764781200-1764786600@csaad.nyu.edu 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 CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Corinealdi.Flyer_.Dec2025-2.png GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T183000 DTSTAMP:20251017T205317Z CREATED:20251001T185144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T205317Z UID:3466-1760634000-1760639400@csaad.nyu.edu 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/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Square CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CSAAD-2025-2026-Forum-Project-Series-1.png GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T183000 DTSTAMP:20251002T145205Z CREATED:20250904T195953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T145205Z UID:3417-1758042000-1758047400@csaad.nyu.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Flyer.Zafer_.September2025.png GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T183000 DTSTAMP:20240927T145617Z CREATED:20240913T204412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T145617Z UID:2581-1727283600-1727289000@csaad.nyu.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Achi.Flyer_.CSAAD2024-2025.png ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora":MAILTO:csaad@nyu.edu GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 END:VEVENT 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