FESTIVAL DES CINQ CONTINENTS
This event will recur Every Day until Apr. 6, 2019 The festival takes place at a number of NYC locations. Events at La Maison Française of NYU are listed below. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2:15 P.M. Parler avec le corps et la musique: qu'est-ce que c'est la voix humaine? Roland Auzet (compositeur et metteur en scène), Koffi Kwahulé (dramaturge), François Noudelmann (philosophe). Modératrice: Prof. […]
Round table discussion | FROM PLAZA MAYOR TO WASHINGTON SQUARE: SPANISH REPUBLICAN EXILES AT NYU
Round table discussion | FROM PLAZA MAYOR TO WASHINGTON SQUARE: SPANISH REPUBLICAN EXILES AT NYU Eighty year ago, on April 1, 1939, the Spanish Civil War was officially declared over. One of its many tragic outcomes was the exile of as many as 500,000 people. Some of those fleeing, like the poet Antonio Machado, would […]
NYU Center for French Language presents “La Sonothèque Nomade” at Africa House
NYU Africa House 44 Washington Mews, New York, NYNYU Center for French Language presents “La Sonothèque Nomade” at Africa House – April 4-5, 2019 The Center for French Language and Cultures is happy to invite you to La Sonothèque Nomade – an artistic residency and musical event on Thursday and Friday, April 4-5, 2019. La Sonothèque Nomade is a lively, nomadic, and poetic space of listening and recording […]
REVOLUTIONIZING THE PUBLIC MUSEUM WITH VISITING NYU BUENOS AIRES PROFESSOR FLORENCIA MALBRÁN
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 404 53 Washington Square South, New York, NYoin us for lunch with Dr. Malbrán, critic and curator of contemporary art, as well as co-instructor for the upcoming course Art and Politics in the City: NYC and Buenos Aires. The talk will center on Dr.Malbrán’s current research, an examination of micromuseums in Argentina, particularly the small Ingeniero White Harbor Museum. In discussing how museums […]
Tatiana Linkhoeva- Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Buriat-Mongols, the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan
Please join us on Friday, April 5th for “Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Buriat-Mongols, the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan”, a presentation by Tatiana Linkhoeva, New York University. This event is part of the Colloquium Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. The Soviet Union and Imperial Japan have been […]
Institute of African American Affairs and Center for Black Visual Culture Presents: Billie Holiday: An Evening with Lady Day in Photos and Song
NYU Silver Center 31 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003, New York, NYBorn April 7, 1915, Billie Holiday is considered one of the greatest American jazz singers of all time. Author Grayson Dantzic shares behind-the scenes anecdotes and images from his 18-year journey making his book Jerry Dantzic:Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill. Through the rediscovering of his late father Jerry Dantzic's unseen photographs of Billie Holiday taken in 1957, the […]
Faculty Brown Bag: Christine Dang
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesEncountering the Other: Religious Voices in the City One key thread in the contemporary history of Africa – a thread running parallel to and entwining with those of decolonization, independence, and nation-building – is urbanization. Throughout the past century, the continent has witnessed the mass migration of people from the countryside to the city, and […]
African Diaspora Forum-Maya Trotz (U. of South Florida) and Kevin Rhiney (Rutgers U.)
Caribbean in the Flux of Change – People, Land, Air & Sea Battered States and 'Resilient' Futures? A Critical Reflection on the Caribbean post Irma-Maria Kevon Rhiney, Rutgers University Roughly one month after hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the Caribbean nation of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, the Dominican Prime Minister asserted, “we have a unique […]
Black Internationalism and New York City
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesThe Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) and The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) and The Department of History, New York University and The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies host the CSAAD-ASWAD Medial Meeting May 2-3, 2019: BLACK INTERNATIONALISM AND NEW YORK CITY […]
Book talk with Dr. Benjamin Talton and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Please join The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at a special event to celebrate the publication of my new book, In About this Event Please join The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at a special event to celebrate the publication of my new book, In […]