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Join Us for the Biennial Africa House Gala Celebration!

Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

Join us for the Biennial Africa House Gala Celebration on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at New York University’s Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

$50

Save the Date – Celebration of Manthia Diawara

Location: Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South, New York City, NY, United States

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.

Free

Africa Diaspora Forum-Dr. Aurora Vergara Figuerora

Dr. Aurora Vergara Figueroa, Universidad Icesi (Colombia) Aurora 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 […]

CIT.I.ZEN.SHIP: REFLECTIONS ON RIGHTS

Department of Photography 721 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

October 4, 2018 - January 18, 2019 Department of Photography & Imaging Galleries NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway Lobby & 8th floor Lorie Novak and Deborah Willis, Ph.D., curators Riana Gideon, assistant curator   To accept one’s past — one’s history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is […]

FREE

Dr. Tejumola Olaniyan “Cartooning the Rwandan Genocide: Propaganda, Pleasure, Evil, Interest.” 

  Dr. 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 […]

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: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

  New York University Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor) 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 Overview: There 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, […]

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Roundtable on Activism in Buenos Aires with Afro-Argentine Youth

Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

Join Agrupación Xangó as they share their experiences and challenges as young activists promoting social change in their nation.

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A CONVERSATION WITH AFRO COLOMBIAN ACTIVIST MIYELA RIASCOS

Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

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. About Miyela Riascos: This 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 […]

FREE

Roundtable Discussion with Members of Musical Groups Brownout and Third Root

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 […]

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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: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

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 […]

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