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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T171500 DTSTAMP:20181017T190913Z CREATED:20180813T043359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T190913Z UID:73-1537345800-1537377300@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Save the Date – Celebration of Manthia Diawara DESCRIPTION:Join us the evening of September 19th as we honor and say thank you to Manthia Diawara for his years of dedicated service and vision for the Institute of African American Affairs. The evening will begin with a screening of his latest film An Opera Of the World\, the centerpiece of which is a staging of Wasis Diop’s Bintu Were\, A Sahel Opera filmed on location in Bamako\, Mali in 2007. The opera is a pioneering work telling the story of migration from West Africa to Europe by combining traditional Malian music with the structure of the Western operatic art form. Diawara’s film serves as a mirror to build an aesthetic and reflexive story\, through song and dance\, about the current and yet timeless drama of migration between North and South\, and the ongoing refugee crises.\nDetails to follow in the Fall URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/save-the-date-celebration-of-manthia-diawara/ LOCATION:Location: Vanderbilt Hall\, 40 Washington Square South\, New York City\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/manthia_diawara_0.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Nicole Arzt":MAILTO:nicole.arzt@nyu.edu GEO:40.7305569;-73.9995794 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South New York City NY 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Washington Square South:geo:-73.9995794,40.7305569 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/ LOCATION:New York CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/flyer_vergara.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190118T160000 DTSTAMP:20181116T215517Z CREATED:20181116T215517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T215517Z UID:539-1538640000-1547827200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:CIT.I.ZEN.SHIP: REFLECTIONS ON RIGHTS DESCRIPTION:October 4\, 2018 – January 18\, 2019\nDepartment of Photography & Imaging Galleries\nNYU Tisch School of the Arts\n721 Broadway Lobby & 8th floor\n\nLorie Novak and Deborah Willis\, Ph.D.\, curators\nRiana Gideon\, assistant curator\n  \nTo accept one’s past — one’s history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.  –James Baldwin\, The Fire Next Time \n  \nThe Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in collaboration with For Freedoms’ 50 State Initiative presents cit.i.zen.ship: reflections on rights\, an exhibition featuring photographs\, works on paper\, writings\, and video that reflect on human rights and notions of citizenship. The theme of the exhibition reminds us that our actions today will affect the future\, just as the actions of courageous individuals during the Civil Rights Movement changed the world. Conceptually and characteristically\, each of the artists uses different symbolic references to visually represent definable issues surrounding civil rights\, resistance\, immigration\, race\, class\, gentrification\, gender equality\, LGBTQ+ rights\, prison reform\, freedom of speech\, environmental issues\, and more. They use documentation\, process\, history\, and personal experience to engage the politics of this nation and pave the way for future narratives. \nThis exhibition is part of For Freedoms’ 50 State Initiative\, a non-partisan\, nationwide campaign to use art as a means of inspiring civic participation in advance of the 2018 midterm elections. For Freedoms was founded by artists in 2016 as a platform for civic engagement\, discourse\, and direct action in the United States. Inspired by Norman Rockwell’s 1943 paintings of the four universal freedoms articulated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941—freedom of speech\, freedom of worship\, freedom from want\, and freedom from fear—For Freedoms uses art to deepen public discussions of civic issues and core values\, and to clarify that citizenship in American society is dependent on participation\, not ideology. \nThe artwork included in this exhibition shares For Freedoms’ conviction that people shape the cultural systems that shape their lives—from politics to art\, from advertising to civic life. We believe that citizenship is defined by the creative use of one’s voice\, one’s body\, one’s mind\, and\, ultimately\, one’s vote. The 50 State Initiative is the largest creative collaboration in the history of this country\, and we want everyone to get involved. For Freedoms’ 200+ institutional partners are bringing together artists and community leaders across the country through exhibitions\, town hall meetings\, and public billboard projects. These collective activities inject creativity\, critical thinking\, and an uplifted multiplicity of voices into our public conversation. Together\, we can blur the line between artistic and political discourse to create an open and nuanced national dialogue in a partisan climate. \nArtists\nJack Adam • Aaron Adams • Gregory Michael Alders • Bridgette Auger/Itab Azzam • Perry Bard/Richard Sullivan • Laylah Amatullah Barrayn • Alexandra Bell • Cydney Blitzer • Terry E. Boddie • Masha Bordovskikh • Sheila Pree Bright • Zoe Buckman • Katherine Spencer Carey • Community Heroes\, NYC: (Jasmin Chang\, Zac Martin\, and Ivan Valladares) • Emily Contreras • Jennifer Ling Datchuk • Damien Davis • Rose DeSiano • Claire Dorfman • Adama Delphine Fawundu • Lola Flash • Marcela A. Fuentes/Flavia Sparacino • Bill Gaskins • Michael George • Riana Gideon • Eric Gottesman • Mohammed Amir Hamza • Eric Hart Jr. • Chester Higgins • Grace Hinchen • Stephen Hunt • Jessica Ingram • Tailyr Irvine • Deborah Jack • Veronica Jackson • Monique Jaques • Mark Jenkinson • Philomene Joseph • Ed Kashi • Nick Kline • Lili Kobielski • LigoranoReese • William Martin III • Tess Mayer • Isa Mejía • Editha Mesina • Diane Meyer • Marilyn Montufar • Nancy Newberry • Mary Notari • Ademola Olugebefola • Jayson Overby • Gordon Parks • Shina Peng • Stephen Perloff • Alice Proujansky • Zayira Ray • Jamie Schofield Riva • Joseph Rodriguez • Maria-Juliana Rojas • Bayeté Ross Smith • Griselda San Martin • Vicky Sanchez • Dakota Santiago • Ken Schles • Joey Solomon • David J. Spear • Grace Swierenga • Momo Takahashi • Diana Taylor • Hank Willis Thomas • Olga Ush • Katerina Voegtle • Julia Wang • Adrian White • Wendel White • Daniella Zalcman \nand High School Students from NYU Tisch Future Imagemakers; Bronx Documentary Center Junior Photo League; Benito Juarez Academy High School\, Chicago; ICP Teen Academy; Lower East Side Girls Club; Our Community Record\, Two Eagle River School\, Flathead Nation\, Montana; Red Hook Reporters\, Brooklyn; Reel Works and others from across the United States. \nOur thanks to For Freedoms and The NYU Institute of African American Affairs and Center for Black Visual Culture. \n\n#forfreedoms #citizenship #tischphoto #nyutisch\n\n\nGallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays\, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. Photo identification is required for access to the building. For more information\, visit https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo or call 212.998.1930. \n\n\nThe Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts is a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Situated within New York University\, the program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts. \n\n\nFor Freedoms is a platform for greater participation in the arts and in civil society\, producing exhibitions\, installations\, public programs\, and billboard campaigns to advocate for inclusive civic participation. Inspired by American artist Norman Rockwell’s paintings of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (1941)—freedom of speech\, freedom of worship\, freedom from want\, and freedom from fear— For Freedoms Federation uses art to encourage and deepen public explorations of freedom in the 21st century. Founded by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman\, For Freedoms Federation encourages new forms of critical discourse. The mission is to use art as a vehicle to build greater participation in American Democracy. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/cit-i-zen-ship-reflections-on-rights/ LOCATION:Department of Photography\, 721 Broadway\, 8th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tish School of the Arts":MAILTO:tischphoto@nyu.edu GEO:40.7295255;-73.9938442 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Department of Photography 721 Broadway 8th Floor New York NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=721 Broadway\, 8th Floor:geo:-73.9938442,40.7295255 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/ LOCATION:New York CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/teju.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T150000 DTSTAMP:20181008T143618Z CREATED:20181008T143618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T143618Z UID:264-1539248400-1539270000@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Economics and Culture 2018 Annual Conference by NYU Development Research Institute\, NYU Africa House\, and the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at NYU DESCRIPTION:  \nNew York University\nKimmel Center\, Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor)\n60 Washington Square South\nNew York\, NY 10012 \nOverview:\nThere has been increasing interest over the last decade in understanding the role of culture in shaping development outcomes. The push has come from many directions: from studying economic history\, from the institutions and growth literature\, from political economy\, and more recently from a literature that has explicitly tried to measure dimensions of culture and their evolution and their impact on economic interactions and on the process of development. Culture\, defined loosely as shared ideas\, customs\, and social behavior\, is from the perspective of economics a deeply endogenous variable\, in other words\, something that is determined through a history of economic\, social\, and political interaction. At the same time\, once a culture forms\, it acquires its own valence\, shaping the way individuals interact\, transact\, and aggregate into a process of growth. \nConference Program: \nMCs: Rajeev Dehejia\, (New York University)\, and Yaw Nyarko\, (New York University) \n8:00am–9:00am Registration\, coffee\, and pastries \n9:00am–9:05am DRI welcome remarks by Rajeev Dehejia\, (New York University) \n9:05am-9:10am Introductory remarks by Yanoula Athanassakis\, Associate Vice Provost\, Academic Affairs and Special Projects; Director\, Environmental Humanities Initiative\, (New York University) \n9:10am–9:50am Nathan Nunn\, (Harvard University). “The Importance of Culture and Context for Development Policy“ \n9:50am–10:30am Enrico Spolaore\, (Tufts University). “Modern Fertility” \n10:30am–10:45am Break with coffee and pastries \n10:45am–11:25am William Easterly\, (New York University). “Does Ethnicity Predict Culture?“ \n11:25am–12:05pm Raquel Fernandez\, (New York University). “Cultural Change” \n12:05pm–12:45pm Alberto Bisin\, (New York University). “The Joint Dynamics of Culture and Institutions“ \n12:45pm–1:45pm Lunch for audience and speakers \n1:45pm–2:25pm Gerard Roland\, (University of California\, Berkeley). “The Deep Historical Roots of Modern Culture” URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/economics-and-culture-2018-annual-conference-by-nyu-development-research-institute-nyu-africa-house-and-the-c-v-starr-center-for-applied-economics-at-nyu/ LOCATION:Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life\, 60 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States GEO:40.7299366;-73.9978275 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South New York NY 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=60 Washington Square South:geo:-73.9978275,40.7299366 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181016T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181016T140000 DTSTAMP:20181016T155035Z CREATED:20181016T155035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181016T155035Z UID:313-1539693000-1539698400@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Roundtable on Activism in Buenos Aires with Afro-Argentine Youth DESCRIPTION:Join Agrupación Xangó as they share their experiences and challenges as young activists promoting social change in their nation. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/roundtable-on-activism-in-buenos-aires-with-afro-argentine-youth/ LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/NRuizPoster.pdf ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diasproa":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:20181016T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181016T140000 DTSTAMP:20181008T180817Z CREATED:20181008T180817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T180817Z UID:274-1539693900-1539698400@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:A CONVERSATION WITH AFRO COLOMBIAN ACTIVIST MIYELA RIASCOS DESCRIPTION:CLACS is proud to present a conversation with Miyela Riascos moderated by Roosbelinda Cardenas\, CLACS Visiting Scholar 2018-19. This event is hosted in collaboration with Witness for Peace. \nAbout Miyela Riascos:\nThis amazing woman is a Colombian ethno-educator and anthropologist who works with various social organizations and victims’ groups in the area of territorial and human rights\, peace and environmental education\, and community organizing. She had to flee her territory 17 years ago due to the threat of armed paramilitary groups in the rural areas near Buenaventura (Anchicayá River) and knows the situation of internally displaced persons in Buenaventura from personal experience. \nMiyela is an organizer of the Buenaventura Committee for the Civil Strike to Live in Peace and Dignity. She is also a spokeswoman representative in the negotiations that were achieved with the Colombian government regarding equitable distribution of the state’s health care resources. \nMiyela is also the co-founder of the ARIBI Socio-Environmental Foundation which supports the organizing processes of local Afro-Colombian communities dedicated to the implementation of sustainable development. \n  \nAbout Roosbelinda Cardenas: \nRoosbelinda Cárdenas is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Her current book project looks at Black political mobilization following the institutionalization of multicultural reforms in Colombia and the onset of armed violence on the Pacific region. More broadly\, she interested in identity and rights for Afro-descendants in Latin America and social theories of race and racism\, social movements\, place and displacement\, and human rights. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public\, seating is limited. ID is required to access the building. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/a-conversation-with-afro-colombian-activist-miyela-riascos/ LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States 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:20181020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181020T200000 DTSTAMP:20181016T160210Z CREATED:20181016T160210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181016T160210Z UID:317-1540058400-1540065600@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion with Members of Musical Groups Brownout and Third Root DESCRIPTION:CLACS and the Latinx Studies Program at NYU\, present a conversation with members of Brownout and Third Root. Brownout and Third Root will speak about the experiences as artists and activists in the present before their performance as Brownout Presents: Fear of a Brown Planet (a tribute Public Enemy’s 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet) ft. Third Root at the BRIC JazzFest later in the evening. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/roundtable-discussion-with-members-of-musical-groups-brownout-and-third-root/ LOCATION:New York ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ROUNDTABLE-DISCUSSION-WITH-BROWNOUT-AND-THIRD-ROOT.pdf ORGANIZER;CN="The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)":MAILTO:clacs@nyu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181023T210000 DTSTAMP:20181016T210115Z CREATED:20181016T210115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181016T210115Z UID:331-1540317600-1540328400@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Roundtable conversation moderated by Pamela Newkirk\, with Paula Giddings\, Shola Lynch\, Louise Greaves\, sculptor Richard Hunt\, and Michelle Duster\, great granddaughter of Ida B. Wells DESCRIPTION:Though virtually forgotten today\, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a household name in Black America during much of her lifetime (1863-1931) and was considered the equal of her well-known African American contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989\, 55 min) by filmmaker William Greaves retells the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist\, activist\, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Wells’ great-granddaughter Michelle Duster is working with the Ida B. Wells Commemorative Art Committee to memorialize Wells in bronze. The monumental artwork will be located at 37th and Langley in Bronzeville\, the Chicago neighborhood where she once lived\, worked\, and raised her family. The central sculpture will be created by sculptor Richard Hunt. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/roundtable-conversation-moderated-by-pamela-newkirk-with-paula-giddings-shola-lynch-louise-greaves-sculptor-richard-hunt-and-michelle-duster-great-granddaughter-of-ida-b-wells/ LOCATION:Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life\, 60 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ida-Wells_slider-v1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Institute of African American Affairs":MAILTO:lom1@nyu.edu GEO:40.7299366;-73.9978275 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South New York NY 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=60 Washington Square South:geo:-73.9978275,40.7299366 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T163000 DTSTAMP:20181005T174720Z CREATED:20181005T174720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181005T174720Z UID:251-1540393200-1540398600@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:"Alufa Rufino\, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam." DESCRIPTION:João Reis\, Universidade Federal da Bahia\, Brazil\n\n\nBrazil\, and particularly Bahia\, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were mainly Hausas\, Nupes\, and Yorubas who\, once in Brazil\, were involved in several slave revolts. This is a well-known story. What is less well-known is that parallel to this militant Islam\, there were other\, more accommodationist forms of Islam that also flourished among African slaves and freed people in Brazil. This lecture is about a man who represented  this form of Islam. A devout Muslim\, Abuncare (a.k.a\, Rufino José Maria) nonetheless dedicated himself to divination and other unorthodox practices that he learned in Africa and either reproduced in Brazil or adapted to Brazilian belief systems. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/alufa-rufino-a-man-of-faith-and-sorcery-on-the-periphery-of-islam/ LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States GEO:40.7303742;-73.9986799 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 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:20181024T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T163000 DTSTAMP:20181008T181020Z CREATED:20181008T181020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T181020Z UID:277-1540393200-1540398600@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:ALUFA RUFINO\, A MAN OF FAITH AND SORCERY ON THE PERIPHERY OF ISLAM DESCRIPTION:CLACS and the History Department at NYU will be hosting a presentation by Brazilian historian João José Reis titled “Alufa Rufino\, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam.” \nBrazil\, and particularly Bahia\, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were mainly Hausas\, Nupes\, and Yorubas who\, once in Brazil\, were involved in several slave revolts. This is a well-known story. What is less well-known is that parallel to this militant Islam\, there were other\, more accommodationist forms of Islam that also flourished among African slaves and freed people in Brazil. This lecture is about a man who represented  this form of Islam. A devout Muslim\, Abuncare (a.k.a\, Rufino José Maria) nonetheless dedicated himself to divination and other unorthodox practices that he learned in Africa and either reproduced in Brazil or adapted to Brazilian belief systems. \n  \nAbout the speaker: \n  \nJoão José Reis received his PhD in History from the University of Minnesota and is currently a Professor of History at the Universidade Federal de Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. He is the author of Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia and Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Popular Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil\, which earned the 1996 Clarence H. Haring Prize from the American Historical Association and the 1992 Jabuti Prize for nonfiction from the Brazilian Book Council. From 1996 to 2004\, he served as editor for the Afro-Ásia journal published by UFBA’s Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of London and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University\, as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of London\, Princeton University\, University of Michigan and Brandeis University. In 2004\, he was awarded the Comenda da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico by the Brazilian Government. While at Harvard during the spring semester\, he taught in the Department of History and presented several public lectures including Divining Slavery and Other Diseases: An African Priest in Nineteenth Century Brazil and Social Mobility among Slaves in Bahia\, Brazil: The Case of Manoel Ricardo. \n  URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/alufa-rufino-a-man-of-faith-and-sorcery-on-the-periphery-of-islam-2/ LOCATION:New York END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T171500 DTSTAMP:20180815T173227Z CREATED:20180813T020528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180815T173227Z UID:12-1540542600-1540574100@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Antitrust and Developing and Emerging Economies DESCRIPTION:This year’s Conference puts a particular spotlight on Brazil\, Russia\, India\, China\, and South Africa – the BRICS countries. At a time of increasing nationalism in the developed world\, how do these most dynamic developing ecnomies balance the need for competition policy and open economies while also accommodating industrial policy and the pressure of globalized markets? The Conference will kick-off with a speech from Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. The program will also feature not only Western experts but also enforcers\, practitioners\, jurists and academics from all of the BRICS countries and more. \nRegistration is required. \nConference information. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/antitrust-and-developing-and-emerging-economies-coping-with-nationalism-building-inclusive-growth/ LOCATION:Location: Vanderbilt Hall\, 40 Washington Square South\, New York City\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/63392_law.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Nicole Arzt":MAILTO:nicole.arzt@nyu.edu GEO:40.7305569;-73.9995794 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South New York City NY 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Washington Square South:geo:-73.9995794,40.7305569 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T213000 DTSTAMP:20181017T170718Z CREATED:20181017T170718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T170718Z UID:338-1540580400-1540589400@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Artist-in-Residence: Rokia Traoré DESCRIPTION:The Artist-in-Residence Program\, first initiated by IAAA in 1996\, has become one of the most respected and well attended programs at New York University with audiences particularly attracted to the interdisciplinary nature of the programs. This semester we welcome Malian musician superstar Rokia Traoré. Through three programs curated by her\, she shares her work\, ideas and philosophy as an international arts and culture advocate who promotes making a positive difference through the creation of venues dedicated to the community\, and through critical thinking through the arts and culture. Programs moderated by Michael E. Veal Professor of Ethnomusicology at Yale University. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/artist-in-residence-rokia-traore/2018-10-26/ LOCATION:New York END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181029T200000 DTSTAMP:20181026T162306Z CREATED:20181026T162242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T162306Z UID:437-1540836000-1540843200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:The State of Latinx Media DESCRIPTION:A discussion of the latest insights on Latinx media\, including research on audiences and the state of cultural criticism\, the newest on digital platforms\, and the larger policies affecting net neutrality and media access with a focus on key strategies for engagement and activism for making change. The panelists include: \nJillian Baez is an associate professor at CSI at CUNY and specializes in Latina/o media\, audience studies\, transnational feminisms\, and media literacy. Dr. Báez is General Editor of Women’s Studies Quarterly.  She is also author of In Search of Belonging: Latinas\, Media and Citizenship. \nElizabeth Méndez Berry is a cultural critic and director of Voice\, Creativity\, and Culture\, The Nathan Cummings Foundation. \nJoseph Torres is an author\, media activist and Senior Director of Strategy and Engagement at FREE Press. \nRaquel Reichard is an award-winning\, Orlando-based journalist and editor covering Latinx social justice\, political and cultural issues. \nThe panel will be moderated by Professor Urayoan Noel\, professor of Spanish & Portuguese\, at NYU on October 29\, 2018. \nCo-sponsored by Program in Culture and Media\, and the Media\, Culture and Communications Department (MCC) \nRSVP here. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-state-of-latinx-media/ LOCATION:Location: SCA Flex Space\, 20 Cooper Square 4th floor\, New York\, New York\, 10018 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/10-29-18-State-of-Latinx-Media.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Latinx Project":MAILTO:LatinxProject@nyu.edu GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square 4th floor New York New York 10018;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=20 Cooper Square 4th floor:geo:-73.9915334,40.7279494 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181105T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181105T203000 DTSTAMP:20181017T194711Z CREATED:20181017T192248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T194711Z UID:357-1541442600-1541449800@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Skirball Talks: Angela Davis “Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of Black Lives Matter” Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:What are the different tools for combating racism today\, after Obama’s presidency and the backlash of the Trump regime? What do the tools of struggle and emancipation look like\, and do aesthetics play a role? Please join us as activist\, scholar and writer Angela Davis discusses in the “Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of Black Lives Matter” lecture series.\n\nThrough her activism and scholarship over many decades\, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic\, racial\, and gender justice. Professor Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University\, Mills College\, and UC Berkeley. She also has taught at UCLA\, Vassar\, Syracuse University the Claremont Colleges\, and Stanford University. Most recently she spent fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness – an interdisciplinary PhD program – and of Feminist Studies. Angela Davis is the author of ten books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe\, Africa\, Asia\, Australia\, and South America. In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial\, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She also has conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race\, gender and imprisonment. Her recent books include Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete? about the abolition of the prison industrial complex\, a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass\, and a collection of essays entitled The Meaning of Freedom. Her most recent book of essays\, called Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson\, Palestine\, and the Foundations of a Movement\, was published in February 2016. Angela Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance\, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally\, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside\, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland\, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison. Like many educators\, Professor Davis is especially concerned with the general tendency to devote more resources and attention to the prison system than to educational institutions. Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex\,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/skirball-talks-angela-davis-politics-aesthetics-in-the-era-of-black-lives-matter-lecture-series/ LOCATION:Location: NYU Skirball\, 60 Washington Square South\, New York\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Angela-Davis-1-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Institute of African American Affairs":MAILTO:lom1@nyu.edu GEO:40.7299366;-73.9978275 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: NYU Skirball 60 Washington Square South New York 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=60 Washington Square South:geo:-73.9978275,40.7299366 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181112T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181112T140000 DTSTAMP:20181108T175129Z CREATED:20181108T175105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T175129Z UID:520-1542026700-1542031200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors DESCRIPTION:César Rodríguez-Garavito\, co-editor of Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights\, will speak on the new ideas and innovations that are emerging in response to populist regimes’ crackdown on civil society. \nWritten by scholars and advocates in challenging political settings from around the world\, this book offers ideas and inspiration to their peers in the human rights community who are grappling with and resisting the erosion of democracy and rights. \nThis collection takes two steps towards clearing the path for this civil society transformation. First\, it clarifies the specific challenges to human rights raised by contemporary populist regimes and movements. What is the populist playbook against human rights? Second\, it contributes to documenting and learning from a wealth of initiatives by human rights actors. What innovations are human rights actors introducing into their strategies and narratives to counter those of populist regimes? In short\, what is the human rights playbook against populism? \nFrom meticulous documentation of abuses in Turkey to more grassroots forms of social networking in Hungary\, from peace caravans in India to finding new ways of being useful under 21st century dictatorships in Venezuela\, like war correspondents reporting from the trenches\, our authors step forward to share their own continuing struggles to help their communities. \nBased on evidence from populist governments in India\, Venezuela\, Hungary\, Turkey\, Russia\, the United States\, and Ecuador-as well as crackdowns against civil society in South Africa\, Egypt and other countries-this volume provides hope\, solidarity\, and reinvigoration for the human rights movement. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/rising-to-the-populist-challenge-a-new-playbook-for-human-rights-actors/ LOCATION:Furman Hall\, 245 Sullivan Street\, New Yotk\, 10012\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights":MAILTO:law.bernstein-institute@nyu.edu GEO:40.730124;-73.998924 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street New Yotk 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=245 Sullivan Street:geo:-73.998924,40.730124 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181112T180000 DTSTAMP:20181108T173104Z CREATED:20181108T173104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T173104Z UID:517-1542042000-1542045600@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: SOUNDING ISLAM: VOICE\, MEDIA AND SONIC ATMOSPHERE IN AN INDIAN OCEAN W/ PATRICK EISENLOHR DESCRIPTION:Book Talk with Patrick Eisenlohr\, University of Göttingen and Faye Ginsberg David B. Kriser Professor\, NYU \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion\, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies\, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUsing long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius\, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice\, as a site of divine manifestation\, becomes refracted in media practices that have become integral parts of religious traditions. At the core of Eisenlohr’s concern is the interplay of voice\, media\, affect\, and listeners’ religious experiences. Sounding Islam sheds new light on a key dimension of religion\, the sonic incitement of sensations that are often difficult to translate into language. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick Eisenlohr is Professor of Anthropology\, Chair of Society and Culture in Modern India at the University of Göttingen. He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago and previously held positions at Washington University in St. Louis\, New York University\, and Utrecht University. He is the author of Little India:  Diaspora\, Time and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius. (University of California Press\, 2006)\, and Sounding Islam: Voice\, Media\, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World (University of California Press\, 2018). He has conducted research on transnational Hindu and Muslim networks in the Indian Ocean region\, particularly between Mauritius and India\, the relationships between religion\, language\, and media\, the sonic dimensions of religion\, the links between media practices and citizenship\, as well as language and diaspora. \n  \nDiscussant: \nFaye Ginsberg David B. Kriser Professor\, NYU\,  Social anthropology; ethnographic film; ethnography of media; indigenous media; social movements in the United States; Disability. \n  \nWe have discounted copies ($20) of  Sounding Islam: Voice\, Media and Sonic Atmosphere in an Indian Ocean that can be purchased directly from James Ryan\, please email him at James.Ryan@nyu.edu or make sure to purchase it after the event! URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/book-talk-sounding-islam-voice-media-and-sonic-atmosphere-in-an-indian-ocean-w-patrick-eisenlohr/ LOCATION:Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center\, 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South)\, New York\, 10012\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="NYU Center for Media%2C Culture and History":MAILTO:cmch.info@nyu.edu GEO:40.7304499;-73.9989065 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South) New York 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South):geo:-73.9989065,40.7304499 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T200000 DTSTAMP:20181026T162619Z CREATED:20181026T162619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T162619Z UID:441-1542132000-1542139200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture DESCRIPTION:Author Ed Morales  and Professor Ana Maria Dopico from NYU Spanish and Portuguese department will discuss Morales’ new book Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture.\nEd Morales is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race\, and is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics\, police brutality\, street gangs\, grassroots activists\, and the Latino arts and music scene.\nAna Maria Dopico is the first Latina Director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/latinx-the-new-force-in-american-politics-and-culture/ LOCATION:Location: SCA Flex Space\, 20 Cooper Square 4th floor\, New York\, New York\, 10018 ORGANIZER;CN="The Latinx Project":MAILTO:LatinxProject@nyu.edu GEO:40.7279494;-73.9915334 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square 4th floor New York New York 10018;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=20 Cooper Square 4th floor:geo:-73.9915334,40.7279494 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T200000 DTSTAMP:20181108T171912Z CREATED:20181108T171912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T171912Z UID:513-1542133800-1542139200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:THE THREE PATRIARCHS OF EMBATTLED LOVE: CASTE\, RELIGION AND STATE DESCRIPTION:A talk by Meena Kandasamy\nIn this talk\, Meena Kandasamy\, Gallatin’s Global Faculty-in-Residence and author of The Gypsy Goddess (Harper\, 2014)\, discusses her site-responsive chronicle of the Dharmapuri atrocity which occurred in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. On one day in October 2012\, in response to the love affair between a caste-Hindu Vanniyar woman and a Dalit man\, the homes of 300 Dalit people were burned. Kandasamy reflects on the event\, explores how one bears witness to violence and the social realities of India’s caste-embattled terrain\, and considers what it means to be a politically engaged writer who seeks to unravel the specifics of caste violence in contemporary Tamil history. \nThis event is co-sponsored by SouthAsiaNYU. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-three-patriarchs-of-embattled-love-caste-religion-and-state/ LOCATION:The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts\, 1 Washington Pl\,\, New York\,\, NY\, 10003 ORGANIZER;CN="SouthAsiaNYU.":MAILTO:southasia@nyu.edu GEO:40.7292847;-73.9939135 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Pl New York NY 10003;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Washington Pl\,:geo:-73.9939135,40.7292847 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/ LOCATION:New York CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T200000 DTSTAMP:20181108T170106Z CREATED:20181108T165534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T170106Z UID:504-1542304800-1542312000@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:UNRULY VISIONS: THE AESTHETIC PRACTICES OF QUEER DIASPORA DESCRIPTION:a book launch & roundtable with Licia Fiol-Matta\, Gayatri Gopinath\, Lisa Lowe\, Ritty Lukose\, Manijeh Moradian\, & Tavia Nyong’o \nNovember 15\, Thursday\, 6 to 8 pm \n  \nLicia Fiol-Matta\, Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Literatures\, New York University\nGayatri Gopinath\, Social & Cultural Analysis\, New York University\nLisa Lowe\, English\, Tufts University\nRitty Lukose\, Gallatin\, New York University\nManijeh Moradian\,Women’s\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, Barnard College\nTavia Nyong’o\, Theater Studies\, Yale University \nPanelists will discuss Gopinath’s Unruly Visions (Duke UP\, 2018)\, which brings queer studies to bear on studies of diaspora and visuality\, tracing the interrelation of affect\, archive\, region\, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film\, fine art\, poetry\, and photography\, the book stages unexpected encounters between work by South Asian\, Middle Eastern\, African\, Australian\, and Latinx artists such as Tracey Moffatt\, Chitra Ganesh\, Akram Zaatari\, and Allan deSouza. Unruly Visions shows how their art functions as regional queer archives that express alternative understandings of time\, space\, and relationality. \nThe roundtable will be followed by brief comments by Gayatri Gopinath (NYU)\, and reception. \nCo-sponsored by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute; Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Contemporary Art Research Collective; Department of Social & Cultural Analysis; and South Asia @NYU. \nLicia Fiol-Matta is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. She received an AB from Princeton University and a PhD from Yale University\, both in Comparative Literature. Prior to joining NYU she taught at Barnard College and the City University of New York. She is the author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral (Minnesota) and The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music (Duke). Fiol-Matta is co-editor of the series New Directions in Latino American Cultures (Palgrave) and The Puerto Rico Reader: History\, Culture\, Politics (under contract\, Duke). She is the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation\, the American Association of University Women\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Fiol-Matta writes on Latin American cultural studies\, women’s and gender studies\, and music. \nGayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis\, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU. She works at the intersection of transnational feminist and queer studies\, postcolonial studies\, and diaspora studies\, and is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke UP\, 2005)\, and Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (Duke UP\, 2018). She has published numerous essays on gender\, sexuality\, and queer diasporic cultural production in journals such as Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies\, GLQ\, Social Text\, positions\, and Diaspora. \nLisa Lowe is a scholar of race\, colonialism\, migration\, and globalization\, whose most recent book\, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press\, 2015)\, examines the nexus of settler colonialism\, transatlantic African slavery\, and the East Indies and China trades in goods and people as the conditions for modern European liberalism and empire. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Humanities at Tufts University\, and a member of the Consortium of Studies in Race\, Colonialism\, and Diaspora there. Since 2001\, Lowe has co-edited with Jack Halberstam\, Perverse Modernities\, the book series for Duke University Press\, which includes Gayatri Gopinath’s first book\, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (2005)\, as well as the new Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (2018). \nRitty Lukose is Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Gender/Sexuality/Feminist Studies\, and South Asian Studies at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She is the author of Liberalization’s Children: Gender\, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India (Duke\, 2009/Orient Longman\, 2010) and co-editor of South Asian Feminisms (Duke\, 2012/Zubaan 2012). \nManijeh Moradian is assistant professor of Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. She received her PhD in American Studies at NYU. From 2008 to 2011\, she co-directed the Association of Iranian American Writers. Her book\, Neither Washington\, Nor Tehran: Iranian Internationalism in the United States\, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her essays and articles have appeared in the Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties\, Scholar & Feminist online\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Comparative Studies of South Asian\, Africa\, and the Middle East\, Social Text online\, jadaliyya.com\, and Callaloo. \nTavia Nyong’o is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of American Studies at Yale. His new book\, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life is forthcoming in November 2018 from NYU Press. He co-edits Social Text\, the Sexual Cultures book series\, and is an original Bully Blogger. \nThis event is free & open to the public. Venue is wheelchair-accessible. For more information about this event\, please contact the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at csgsnyu@nyu.edu or 212-992-9540. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/unruly-visions-the-aesthetic-practices-of-queer-diaspora/ LOCATION:Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality\, 285 Mercer Street\, 4th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality":MAILTO:csgsnyu@nyu.edu  GEO:40.72982;-73.994325 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 285 Mercer Street 4th Floor New York NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=285 Mercer Street\, 4th Floor:geo:-73.994325,40.72982 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T210000 DTSTAMP:20181108T170706Z CREATED:20181108T170502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T170706Z UID:510-1542376800-1542402000@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:INSULAR POSSESSIONS: IMPERIAL LEGACIES OF 1898 WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING OF CALL HER GANDA DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the NYU Native Studies Forum\, the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program in the NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis. \nThe year 1898 has conventionally been regarded as the American “imperial moment\,” when the United States acquired and occupied a number of island nations\, both in the Pacific and the Caribbean. One hundred twenty years after the Treaty of Paris\, which ended the Spanish-American War\, as well as the alleged annexation of Hawai‘i\, what have been the legacies and ongoing effects of this “imperial archipelago”? How did the distinct but overlapping colonial practices of Spain and the United States shape social and cultural life? What has been the formal legal and political status of the Philippines\, Guåhan (Guam)\, Cuba\, Puerto Rico\, Samoa\, and Hawai‘i? \nThis half-day symposium ends with a screening of the award-winning documentary Call Her Ganda and Q&A with filmmaker PJ Raval (University of Texas\, Austin). The film follows the fight for justice for Jennifer Laude\, a Filipina trans woman who was murdered by a US serviceman in 2014. The screening is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/insular-possessions-imperial-legacies-of-1898-with-a-special-screening-of-call-her-ganda/ LOCATION:TBD END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T190000 DTSTAMP:20181117T001743Z CREATED:20181117T001743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181117T001743Z UID:573-1542387600-1542394800@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk: "The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem" Jane Hathaway DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nEunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here\, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East Africa and his political\, economic\, and religious role from the inception of his office in the late sixteenth century through the dismantling of the palace harem in the early twentieth century. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHathaway highlights the origins of the institution and how the role of eunuchs developed in East Africa as well as exploring the Chief Eunuchs connections to Egypt and Medina. By tracing the evolution of the office\, we see how the Chief Eunuch’s functions changed in response to transformations in Ottoman society\, from the generalized crisis of the seventeenth century to the westernizing reforms of the nineteenth century.\n\nJane Hathaway (Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of History\, Ohio State University) is a specialist of the Ottoman empire. Her research has focused on the empire’s Arab provinces\, particularly Egypt and Yemen. She has recently been working on the Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton’s’ Near Eastern Studies Department in 1992. She is the author of The Politics of Household in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis (Cambridge\, 1997)\, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth\, Memory\, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen(SUNY Press\, 2003)\, Beshir Agha\, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem (Oneworld\, 2006)\, The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule\, 1516-1800 (Pearson/Longman\, 2008)\, and The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker (Cambridge\, 2018). \n\nThis book talk will also feature discussant Leslie Peirce (Emeritus\, NYU)\, whose writing and teaching focus on the Ottoman empire\, with an emphasis on the early modern period. Her first book explored the shifting nature of imperial politics by placing the palace harem at the center of inquiry. Other topics Peirce has written about include honor and sexuality\, provincial politics\, abduction and captivity\, and slavery and household formation. She recently published a biographical account of Hurrem\, the concubine and then wife to Suleyman I the Magnificent. \nCheck out the Facebook event here. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Ottoman & Turkish Studies (OTS) at NYU. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/book-talk-the-chief-eunuch-of-the-ottoman-harem-jane-hathaway/ LOCATION:Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\, 255 Sullivan St.\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/44699221_1865930360110525_8627185822610751488_o.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora":MAILTO:csaad@nyu.edu GEO:40.7304499;-73.9989065 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St. New York NY 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=255 Sullivan St.:geo:-73.9989065,40.7304499 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181117T170000 DTSTAMP:20181008T144025Z CREATED:20181008T144025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T144025Z UID:266-1542463200-1542474000@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen\, “Economics with a Moral Compass? Welfare Economics: Past\, Present and Future” DESCRIPTION:Event Program: \n1:30pm – 2:00pm  Doors Open\, Guest Arrival \n2:00pm – 2:05pm  Welcome Remarks on Behalf of New York University\n                                             By: Katherine E. Fleming\, NYU Provost \n2:05pm – 4:00pm  Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen \n4:00pm – 5:00pm  Networking Reception \nSpeakers: \n \n Sir Angus Deaton is Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School where he taught for thirty years. He is also Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is the author of five books including\, most recently\, The Great Escape: health\, wealth\, and the origins of inequality. His interests include health\, development\, poverty\, inequality\, and wellbeing. He has written extensively on happiness\, on foreign aid\, and on how we should collect evidence for good policy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society\, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was President of the American Economic Association in 2009\, and in 2015 he received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for his analysis of consumption\, poverty\, and welfare.” He was born in Edinburgh in Scotland and is a British and an American citizen; his BA\, MA\, and PhD are from Cambridge University. He was made a Knight Bachelor for his services to economics and international affairs in the Queen’s Birthday Honors List in 2016. \n \nAmartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor\, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy\, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College\, Cambridge. He is also Senior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Earlier on he was Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University Calcutta\, the Delhi School of Economics\, and the London School of Economics\, and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University. \nAmartya Sen has served as President of the Econometric Society\, the American Economic Association\, the Indian Economic Association\, and the International Economic Association. His research has ranged over social choice theory\, economic theory\, ethics and political philosophy\, welfare economics\, theory of measurement\, decision theory\, development economics\, public health\, and gender studies. Amartya Sen’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages\, and include Choice of Techniques (1960)\, Growth Economics (1970)\, Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970)\, Choice\, Welfare and Measurement (1982)\, Commodities and Capabilities (1987)\, The Standard of Living (1987)\, Development as Freedom (1999)\, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006)\, The Idea of Justice (2009)\, and (jointly with Jean Dreze) An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (2013)\, and The Country of First Boys (2015). \nAmartya Sen’s awards include Bharat Ratna (India); Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur (France); the National Humanities Medal (USA); Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Brazil); Honorary Companion of Honour (UK); Aztec Eagle (Mexico); Edinburgh Medal (UK); the George Marshall Award (USA); the Eisenhower Medal (USA); and the Nobel Prize in Economics. \nEvent Co-Hosts: \nThe Annual Review of Economics covers significant developments in the field of economics\, including macroeconomics and money; microeconomics\, including economic psychology; international economics; public finance; health economics; education; economic growth and technological change; economic development; social economics\, including culture\, institutions\, social interaction\, and networks; game theory\, political economy\, and social choice; and more. \nwww.annualreviews.org/journal/economics \nFounded in 2006\, the NYU Development Research Institute (DRI) is home to a growing team of researchers and students. Through our work\, we seek to expand the number and diversity of serious commentators on the state of foreign aid and development. Our ultimate goal is to have a positive impact on the lives of the poor\, who deserve the benefit of high-quality\, clear-eyed\, hard-headed economic research applied to the problems of world poverty. \nwww.nyudri.org \nThe C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics has as its major objective the fostering and development of rigorous applied work in the economic sciences\, accomplished through a commitment to providing research support and creating forums for intellectual exchange. The C.V. Starr Center\, housed within the Department of Economics at New York University\, provides direct financial support for research faculty as well as for doctoral students involved in applied research activities. The Center regularly sponsors academic conferences\, hosts renowned visiting scholars\, and schedules plenary lectures given to a broad academic audience on topics of special significance to contemporary economic policy and application. URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/angus-deaton-in-conversation-with-amartya-sen-economics-with-a-moral-compass-welfare-economics-past-present-and-future/ LOCATION:Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life\, 60 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States GEO:40.7299366;-73.9978275 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South New York NY 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=60 Washington Square South:geo:-73.9978275,40.7299366 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181119T210000 DTSTAMP:20181116T221406Z CREATED:20181116T221406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T221406Z UID:544-1542650400-1542661200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Latin America's 1968 - Marta Minuj´ín DESCRIPTION:As part of the Latin America’s 1968 Colloquium series\, New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, The Hemisphiric Institute of Performance and Politics\, and The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA)\, are proud to present a conversation with internationally acclaimed Argentine performance and conceptual artist Marta Minujín and IFA’s Deputy Director Edward Sullivan. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Ticket holders receive priority seating. \nAbout the speakers: \nMarta Minujín is an internationally acclaimed Argentine performance and conceptual artist whose career has helped define the role of participation\, performance\, and media in contemporary visual art. Minujín created her first “ephemeral” works in the 1960s in Paris and New York\, where she and became an innovator of pop art\, happenings\, soft sculpture\, and early video. Her celebrated La Menesunda (1965) created a sequence of 16 multi-sensory “situations” or environments for spectators to traverse; these included a beauty parlor\, a couple in bed\, and a shower of a confetti in an octagonal mirror chamber. Her 1967 Minuphone created an interactive “psychedelic” telephone booth in which voice triggered sensory changes in light\, image\, and sound. In May 1968—at the height of the cultural and political ferment of global 1968—Minujín hosted a series of soirèes/happenings with luminaries of fashion\, art\, finance\, and politics at Manhattan’s Center for Inter-American Relations (now Americas Society); the documentation became the basis of an immersive film installation\, known as Minucode\, which advanced a subtle critique of the role of “cultural” diplomacy needed to carry out the US cold war in Latin America. While in New York she participated in activities at Andy Warhol’s Factory\, and in the 1980s\, created a performance in which she offered Warhol a corn on the cob as a way of paying off Argentina’s foreign debt. She is perhaps best known for the 1983 piece The Parthenon of Books\, a large-scale replica of a Greek parthenon built on Buenos Aires’s main avenue\, comprised of 30\,000 books banned by the military regime during Argentina’s “Dirty War\,” including works by Marx\, Freud\, and Foucault. Spectators were then invited to dismantle work. She has continued to create works that combine ephemeral materials with monumental scale\, including Tower of Babel (2011)\, Agora of Peace (2013)\, and Hopscotch Art (2014). She lives and works in Buenos Aires. \nEdward J. Sullivan is the Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Fine Arts New York University. He has developed extensive research and curated several shows on the arts and visual cultures of the Americas from a transnational perspective\, with a particular concentration in Mexico\, Cuba\, Brazil\, Argentina\, Puerto Rico\, and Uruguay. Edward is the author of From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism\, published by Yale University Press in 2014\, and The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas\, published also by Yale in 2007\, among many other books and catalogs. \nSullivan’s latest book is entitled “Making the Americas Modern. Hemispheric Art 1910-1960” published this past March. He is currently curating a major exhibition of the Brazilian garden architect and painter Roberto Burle-Marx that opens in June next year at the New York Botanical Garden. His next book project concerns the relationships between artists and choreographers in the US and Latin America in the mid twentieth century. \nAbout the series: \nLatin America’s 1968; Curated by Jill Lane & Dylon Robbins. \nIn Latin America\, the year 1968 marked a turning point in the social\, political\, and cultural transformations that had been unfolding in the wide wake of the Cuban Revolution of 1959. For Latin America\, as for the rest of the world\, the sixties were shaped by geopolitics of the Cold War\, and of anti-colonial struggles across the globe. Yet they are most remembered by those who lived them as a time when ordinary people felt\, like never before and perhaps never after\, that they could change the course of history: millions of youth in student movements\, advocates for indigenous rights\, workers\, campesinos\, educators\, intellectuals\, and artists\, long with guerillas and other armed insurgents\, were self-aware in world-historical projects of radical social\, political\, economic\, and cultural change. In these years\, the personal became the political\, politics became theatrical\, theatre became a weapon\, and the lines between self\, art\, and politics were forever redrawn. To mark the 50th anniversary of this momentous year\, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) offers a film and lecture series that will explore and celebrate its significance in the region. \nImage: Marta Minujin | by Martin Lucesole | Flickr URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/latin-americas-1968-marta-minujin/ LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)":MAILTO:clacs@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:20181119T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181119T210000 DTSTAMP:20181108T171346Z CREATED:20181108T171346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T171346Z UID:512-1542652200-1542661200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:LATIN AMERICA'S 1968 COLLOQUIM: MARTA MINUJÍN DESCRIPTION:Presentation and dialogue moderated by Edward Sullivan URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/latin-americas-1968-colloquim-marta-minujin/ LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States 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:20181120T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T153000 DTSTAMP:20181116T222759Z CREATED:20181116T222730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T222759Z UID:546-1542722400-1542727800@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Enforced Disappearances in an Age of Emboldened Repression DESCRIPTION:Governments are disappearing people at an alarming rate\, often in conjunction with policies carried out in the name of repressing terrorism\, organized crime\, or plain political dissent. Reports of undercover extraterritorial abductions of people in foreign countries are on the rise. The widely-reported case of disappeared Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is only one example of many occurring from Mexico to the Philippines and beyond. Join us for a timely discussion on recent developments in international law and accountability with one of the independent experts charged with monitoring human rights violations and reporting to the UN Human Rights Council. \nAbout the Speaker \nBernard Duhaime serves as member and president of the UN Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances. He is Professor of International Law at the University of Quebec in Montreal’s Faculty of Law and Political Science and is currently a CHRGJ Visiting Scholar at NYU Law\, as a Fellow of the Pierre Trudeau Foundation (2017-2021). URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/enforced-disappearances-in-an-age-of-emboldened-repression/ LOCATION:Furman Hall\, 245 Sullivan Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/11-20-Enforced-Disappearances-event-poster-683x1024.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Center Human Rights and Global Justice":MAILTO:lauren.stackpoole@nyu.edu GEO:40.730124;-73.998924 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street New York NY 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=245 Sullivan Street:geo:-73.998924,40.730124 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T193000 DTSTAMP:20181116T224136Z CREATED:20181116T224136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T224136Z UID:550-1542738600-1542742200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Making All Black Lives Matter with Barbara Ransby DESCRIPTION:Join author\, historian and activist Barbara Ransby as she discusses her new book “Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.” Ransby will be in conversation with Movement for black lives activist and Blackbird co-founder\, Thenjiwe McHarris. \nAbout the book \nIn Making All Black Lives Matter\, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of this movement\, documenting its roots in Black feminist politics and situating it squarely in a Black radical tradition\, one that is anticapitalist\, internationalist\, and focused on some of the most marginalized members of the Black community. From the perspective of a participant-observer\, Ransby maps the movement\, profiles many of its lesser-known leaders\, measures its impact\, outlines its challenges\, and looks toward its future. \n“A powerful — and personal — account of the movement and its players.”—The Washington Post \n“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.”—Publishers Weekly URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/making-all-black-lives-matter-with-barbara-ransby/ LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 W 37th\, New York\, 10018\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Peoples-Forum-Flyer-FINAL-1.jpg GEO:40.7544504;-73.9932643 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The People’s Forum 320 W 37th New York 10018 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=320 W 37th:geo:-73.9932643,40.7544504 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181125T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181125T170000 DTSTAMP:20181116T224550Z CREATED:20181116T224550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T224550Z UID:553-1543132800-1543165200@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Popular Painting as History: Trajectory of an Artist from Kinshasa DESCRIPTION:Sapin Makengele is a self-taught Congolese popular painter from Kinshasa\, DRC. His work depicts and comments upon social and political lifeworlds in the Congo and beyond. His paintings have been excited in group and individual exhibitions in Austria\, Belgium\, Canada\, Chad\, Congo\, France\, the Netherlands\, South Africa\, and the United States. \n\nOrganized in collaboration with the African Studies Symposium URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/popular-painting-as-history-trajectory-of-an-artist-from-kinshasa/ LOCATION:New York END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181126T140000 DTSTAMP:20181017T190632Z CREATED:20181017T190632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T190632Z UID:351-1543233600-1543240800@csaad.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Lecture: Afro-Arab Relations: From the Common Struggle to the "New Scramble" DESCRIPTION:Lecture with Rawia Tawfik\n  \nAbstract:\nIn the mid-twentieth century\, Arab and African countries waged a common struggle against colonialism and racial segregation. Arabs supported the liberation of African colonies and the isolation of apartheid South Africa. In their turn\, newly independent African countries showed solidarity with Arabs in their conflict against Israel. With international and regional transformations at the end of the century this collective mobilization for united action had faded away.  In the last decade\, Arab regional powers\, especially Gulf monarchies\, are making a strong comeback to the continent. From investing in various economic sectors to brokering peace between rival countries in the Horn of Africa\, Gulf countries are heavily investing in seizing the economic opportunities in the rising continent and bringing stability to their turbulent Eastern neighbors. This lecture traces the continuities and changes in Afro-Arab relations in the last six decades. It maps the actors\, interests and policies that shape the unfolding alliances and rivalries between and within the two regions. It questions whether the renewed interest of Arab regional powers in Africa is an asset for Africa’s peace and development or part and parcel of the ‘new scramble’ for Africa’s political and economic resources.\n  \nRawia Tawfik is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Politics from the University of Oxford and a Master of Science in Politics from Cairo University. Her research interests include issues surrounding African development and regional integration\, Nile hydro-politics\, and the foreign policy of regional powers in Africa. She was a visiting research fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)\, and the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) and a researcher at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). She received a number of prestigious awards and research grants\, including the individual research grant of the African Peacebuilding Network in 2017\, and the Presidential Fellowship of the African Studies Association.\n  URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/lecture-afro-arab-relations-from-the-common-struggle-to-the-new-scramble/ LOCATION:Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center\, 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South)\, New York\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csaad.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Rawia-Tawfik-photo-Rawia-Tawfik.jpg GEO:40.7304499;-73.9989065 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South) New York 10012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South):geo:-73.9989065,40.7304499 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR