Women and the Laws: Reading Le Code Noir Le Code Noir, the body of law advanced by the government of Louis XIV in the world of 17th-century France, is one of the first codified legal documents regarding judicial conduct toward enslaved persons in the French colonies of the New World. As slavery increasingly established an […]
Populist nationalism and racist xenophobia are on the rise worldwide, and immigration policies reflect these trends. Borders are sites of frequent and extreme violations of human rights. Where are the pressure points when working to protect, defend and promote the human rights of migrants today? What role is there for international human rights law and institutions […]
The New York Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW) hosts the talk, "The History of Women’s Suffrage: The Mexican Public Debate", presented by scholar Gabriela Cano (Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia / Colegio de México). Gabriela Cano is a historian of twentieth century Mexico. She is based in Mexico City where she is Professor at El Colegio de […]
The Hagop Kevorkian Center and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU kindly invite you to attend our Spring 2019 Arabic Lecture Series. The Series is a student-led initiative to encourage academic and intellectual discussion in Arabic of history, politics and the arts. All events are open to the public, and will […]
ABSTRACT: In his forthcoming book Robert Vitalis takes apart an ideological construction that he calls “Oilcraft,” a set of deeply-held, pervasive beliefs about the world, together with the actions these vivid truths license—op eds and classified memoranda, documentaries, classroom lectures, naval patrols and calls at port, journal articles, podcasts, press conferences, and protests, to name […]
The Symposium Global Africa, Migration, Literature, and the Arts is intended to explore how Africans and people of African descent globally have been and continue to be at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange, traversing geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries over the centuries. It will highlight the lived experiences of migration of, and its […]
Marking the sixteenth-anniversary of the the 2003 invasion of Iraq, this event will reflect on the environmental, political, cultural, and social consequences of the 2003 war, as well as visions for Iraq’s future, and will center discussions around the implications, possibilities, and new directions in the study of modern Iraq. Through the panels and keynote […]
Featuring Keynote Speaker Jagangir Aziz Global Head of Market Economics J.P. Morgan and Panelists from Goldman Sachs, Eurasia Group, Brookfield, CrossBoudnary, IFC, Ankura, Chatham House, and More!
Conference organized by Jessica Pearson (Macalester College) and Herrick Chapman(NYU). This conference will explore the process of French decolonization in the twentieth century in the context of broad global developments, movements, ideas, and policies. It aims to evaluate recent trends in the fields of French history and the history of decolonization and to suggest possible avenues for future […]
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. […]
