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. […]
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 […]
CWS Series | Conversation about the work of María Dueñas Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South In Spanish Reception to Follow A conversation with the author María Dueñas accompanied by Mariela Dreyfus (NYU) and James D. Fernandez (NYU) María Dueñas is PhD in English Philology and was a full professor at the Universidad […]
