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SUMMARY:Art\, History\, and Cultural Politics in Africa Today
DESCRIPTION:September 23rd\, 2025\n5 pm to 8 pm\nHemmerdinger Hall\nNYU Silver Center\n31 Washington Pl\,\nNew York\, NY 10003 \n\nOrganized by the French department of Literature\, Thought and culture and the Center for the study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) at New York University (NYU)\, in collaboration with Skinfama\, the conference “Art\, History\, and Cultural Politics in Africa Today” will bring together artists\, curators\, cultural entrepreneurs\, and researchers to explore the challenges and opportunities of promoting contemporary African Art – its circulation\, audiences\, and cultural policies on both continental and international levels.  \nThis special event will spotlight the dynamic creative scene of the Democratic Republic of Congo\, tracing cultural policies from independence in 1960 to the present day\, and imagining pathways for the future.  \nThese discussions will be held in the presence of the Honorable Minister of Culture\, Arts and Heritage of the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Madame Yolande Elebe Ma Ndembo.  \nDon’t miss this opportunity to engage in conversation about the future of African creativity\, policy and global exchange. \n\nSpeakers: \n The Honorable Minister of Culture\, arts and heritage of DRC\, Madame Yolande Elebe Ma Ndembo\nSarah Van Beurden (Ohio University)\nSandrine Colard (Rutgers University)\nClaude Grunitzky (CEO of Equity Alliance)\nNadia Yala Kisukidi (NYU)\nAimé Mpané (Artist\, curator)\nUgochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (curator\, MOMA) \n\nRegister Here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/art-history-and-cultural-politics-in-africa-today/
LOCATION:Hemmerdinger Hall\, Washington Square East\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Builder of the Next World: The Rise and Fall of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Marlene Daut\nYale University \nThursday\, October 16\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91031695364 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSlave. Revolutionary. King. Taken together\, these words describe only one man: Henry Christophe I of Haiti. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother on the island of Grenada\, he first fought to overthrow the British in North America\, before helping enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue\, as Haiti was then called\, to gain freedom from slavery. After the Revolution\, he offered to lead independent Haiti and became the country’s first and only king. But it all came to a sudden and tragic end when after only thirteen years of ruling\, Haiti’s King Henry I shot himself in the heart\, some say with a silver bullet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu.  \n\nWatch Recording Here\nBook Publication Site\n\nBio:\n \nMarlene L. Daut is Professor of French\, Black Studies\, and History at Yale University. Her most recent book\, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf\, 2025)\, a finalist for the Cundill History Prize\, explores the fascinating life of Haiti’s only king while delving into the complex history of a 19th-century Caribbean monarchy. Her other books include Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Liverpool UP\, 2015); Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave\, 2017); and Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (UNC Press\, 2023)\, co-winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/builder-of-the-next-world-the-rise-and-fall-of-haitis-king-henry-christophe/
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SUMMARY:Ajami Manuscripts: New Sources of Knowledge for African and African Diaspora Studies
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2025-2026 Distinguished Scholar Event\nDr. Fallou Ngom\nBoston University \nTuesday\, November 11\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nNYU Silver Center\, Hemmerdinger Hall\n31 Washington Pl\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92593107329 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our annual Distinguished Scholar Event\, featuring Dr. Fallou Ngom’s lecture presentation on Ajami Manuscript. Sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed as being illiterate due to the Eurocentric tradition that equates literacy with the ability to read and write only in European languages and the Roman alphabet. However\, millions of Africans have been reading and writing various types of religious and non-religious texts in local languages\, using enriched forms of the Arabic script known as Ajami. In this lecture\, Dr. Ngom will explore what scholars and students in African and African diaspora studies can gain by studying African Ajami manuscripts. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nWatch Recording Here\nMore Information on African ‘Ajami
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/ajami-manuscripts-new-sources-of-knowledge-for-african-and-african-diaspora-studies/
LOCATION:Hemmerdinger Hall\, Washington Square East\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Between Exceptionality and Obscurity: Excavating the Political Worlds of Afro-Panamanian Women
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Kaysha Corinealdi\nRutgers University – New Brunswick \nWednesday\, December 03\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94244279229 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our Africa~Diaspora Forum Series event for Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi. This presentation by Dr. Corinealdi examines the methods\, challenges\, and key questions involved in documenting how and when Black women enter electoral politics in Panama\, beginning in the 1940s and into the 1960s\, through a focused attention on the life and political career of one such elected official. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nMore Information about Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi\n\n \nKaysha Corinealdi (@kcorinealdi) is an interdisciplinary historian\, author\, and educator who specializes in twentieth century histories of empire\, migration\, feminism\, and Afro-diasporic activism in the Americas. She is an Associate Professor of Comparative Caribbean and Hemispheric Transnationalisms in the Dept. of Latino & Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. Her bookPanama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press\, 2022)\, centers the activism of Afro-Caribbean migrants and their descendants as they navigated practices and policies of anti-Blackness\, xenophobia\, denationalization\, and white supremacy in Panama and the United States. She is currently working on a digital project on Black women leaders in the Americas\, a series of critical essays on denationalization in the Americas\, and a speculative biography on Black women internationalists in Panama. Her writing can also be found in NACLA Report on the Americas\, Perspectivas Afro\, Radical History Review\, Public Books\, the American Historical Review\, Social Text\, the Washington Post\, the Global South\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society\, among other publications.Dr. Corinealdi is also actively engaged in public scholarship as a researcher\, editor\, and contributor through her work with museums\, research foundations\, magazines\, blogs\, and podcasts. She has served as keynote speaker nationally and internationally and presented her work before the Organization of American States\, the Electoral Tribunal of Panama and a host of universities\, professional associations\, and community organizations. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/between-exceptionality-and-obscurity-excavating-the-political-worlds-of-afro-panamanian-women/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Social Suffering and Armed Violence of the Black Geographies in the Pacific Coast of Colombia
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2025-2026 PostDoctoral Fellowship Presentation\nDr. Bladimir Carabali Hinestroza\nCSAAD PostDoctoral Fellow\, Fall 2025\nWednesday\, December 10\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95862798209 \n\nPlease join CSAAD for our final Africa~Diaspora Forum Series event this semester\, led by our Fall 2025 PostDoctoral Fellow Dr. Bladimir Carabali Hinestroza. Since the late 1990s\, the predominantly Black Pacific coast has undergone significant transformations in dynamics of displacement and homicidal violence. This presentation examines the relationship between racialized geographic spaces and violence\, both in terms of human rights violation and socioeconomic exclusion\, in areas deemed “empty” or not of primary economic interest by the Colombian state.\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\n\n \n\nBladimir Carabalí holds a BA in Economics from Universidad del Valle (Colombia)\, an MA in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana\, and a PhD in Demography from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil. His academic trajectory has focused on understanding the ethnic-racial structures of inequality vis-à-vis mortality\, fertility\, migration\, access to health care\, educational achievements and labor market. This work has allowed him to rigorously engage with the complex demographic and social dynamics of regions with high concentrations of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian populations. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/social-suffering-and-armed-violence-of-the-black-geographies-in-the-pacific-coast-of-colombia/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum,Postdoctoral Fellowship
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SUMMARY:Black Palestinian Transnational Solidarity in an Age of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Noura Erakat\nRutgers University – New Brunswick\nWednesday\, January 21\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 3rd FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99032257961 \n\nPlease join CSAAD for our first Africa~Diaspora Forum Series for the Spring semester\, led by Dr. Noura Erakat. The simultaneous bombardment of Gaza and occupation of Ferguson\, Missouri in 2014 catalyzed renewals of Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity. The Gaza-Ferguson moment\, as it came to be known\, illuminated the co-constitutive nature of racism and helped congeal the joint struggle for liberation among Black and Palestinian radicals\, indicating that the phenomenon continued to exceed identity politics. During its peak\, this analytical framework and activist praxis helped reveal the colonial nature of US state violence targeting Black communities as well as pull back the national security cloak enveloping the Palestinian struggle for liberation. This lecture will explore Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity – in its contemporary and historical iterations – with an eye on how it shaped US-based alliances as well as its limitations and potential to respond to the current political moment. \n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\n\n \nNoura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs.  She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives\, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights\, and as National Organizer and Legal Advocate of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. In 2023\, Noura co-chaired an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel\, a report documenting how U.S. arms to Israel have been used in violation of U.S. and international law and which was submitted to the White House. Noura has also produced video documentaries\, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Noura completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School as well as a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professorship at Brown University.  In 2022\, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2025\, the University of Ghent awarded the Amnesty International Chair in recognition of her contribution to human rights and scholarship. \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/black-palestinian-transnational-solidarity-in-an-age-of-genocide/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:The Role/Responsibility of the Black Scholar in a Moment of Global Exigency: A Panel Event
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series: A Discussion Panel Event \nPanel Event Speakers:  \nDr. Mbaye Lo\nDuke University \nDr. Christen Smith\nYale University \nDr. Michael West\nThe Pennsylvania State University \nEvent Moderated By:  \nDr. Fred Moten\nNew York University \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93390872025 \n\n\n\n\n\nAfricans are well acquainted with challenges\, with those they currently face part of a longue durée spanning hundreds of years. The resurgence of a bellicose North American power\, promoting an unapologetic\, hyper-masculinist agenda to expand its imperial posture (in contravention of international law) further contributes to the difficulties\, from the repeal of domestic policies to help the poor and dismantle systemic injustice\, to terrorizing its own citizenry via paramilitary and military occupational forces\, to slashing assistance for basic needs in a continent roiled in doctrinal factionalism and resource conflict (many financed by wealthy interests outside of Africa). Our distinguished panel convenes to consider the role and responsibility of the Black scholar in an existential moment. \n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nWatch Recording Here\n\nSpeakers: \n \nMbaye Lo is a professor of the practice of Asian and Middle Eastern studies and international comparative studies at Duke University. Originally from Senegal\, Lo completed his undergraduate and graduate training in classical Arabic language and literature at the International University of Africa\, Khartoum\, and the Khartoum International Institute for Arabic Language\, Sudan. He also received an MA in American history from Cleveland State University\, where he also earned his PhD from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs with a dissertation on Re-inventing Civil Society-Based Governance in Africa: Theories and Practices. \n\n \nChristen A. Smith is Professor of anthropology and Black studies at Yale University. She is the author of\, Afro-Paradise: Blackness\, Violence and Performance in Brazil  (University of Illinois Press\, 2016)\, co-editor and co-translator of The Dialectic is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento (Princeton University Press\, 2023) and co-editor of Black Feminist Constellations: Black Women in Dialogue and Translation (University of Texas Press\, 2023)\, among other volumes. Her research and writing explore the multi-sided dimensions of race\, gender\, violence\, performance and the Black body in the Americas\, with a particular emphasis on the transnational\, gendered politics of anti-Black state violence (particularly policing) and Black women’s intellectual contributions to the Americas from the global South. \n\n \nMichael O. West is professor of African American Studies\, History\, and African Studies at Penn State University. He has published broadly in the fields of southern African history\, pan-Africanism\, African studies\, African diaspora studies\, and African American studies. His current research centers on the Black Power movement in global perspectives\, including a forthcoming book on Kwame Nkrumah and Black Power. \n\nPanel moderated by: \n \nFred Moten‘s primary intellectual and aesthetic concerns are social movement and aesthetic experiment in black study. His latest projects are a poetry collection\, Perennial Fashion Presence Falling (Wave Books\, 2023)\, a record album\, Fred Moten/Brandon López/Gerald Cleaver (Reading Group Records\, 2022) and an essay collection\, All Incomplete (Minor Compositions\, 2021)\, co-authored with Stefano Harney\, Xun Lee and Denise Ferreira da Silva. In addition to his long-term collaborations with Harney\, with López and Cleaver\, with Wu Tsang and\, especially\, with Laura Harris\, Julian Moten and Lorenzo Moten\, Fred has worked with many other artists\, artist collectives\, and study groups\, including the Anti-Colonial Machine\, the Black Arts Movement School Modality\, the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy\, Renee Gladman\, Renée Green\, the Institute for Physical Sociality\, the Jazz Study Group\, Jennie C. Jones\, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective\, George Lewis\, the Otolith Group\, and William Parker. Fred lives in New York and teaches in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. \n\n 
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SUMMARY:When Stories Turn Into Survival: CELEBRATION OF ROOTS\, DIASPORA\, AND CULTURE
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\n~50th Anniversary of the Movie: Roots~\nBill Haley Jr.\nMalick L. Manga\nCo-Founders of The Inherited Roots Project\nWednesday\, March 25\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\nVIRTUAL EVENT\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95002089030 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for this exciting event in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Book\, Roots. This event has been organized by our CSAAD 2025-2026 PostDoctoral Fellow\, Dr. Michael Conteh. The 50th anniversary of Roots provides an important opportunity to reflect on the long-lasting power of storytelling\, memory\, and spoken language in shaping African and global diasporic identities. Roots has been translated into 37 languages since its publication\, demonstrating its universal appeal and confirming language’s role as a powerful vessel for history\, culture\, and collective memory. Roots is more than just a literary work; it’s a living archive that connects ancestry\, migration\, survival\, and resistance across generations and geography. The event honours Roots’ legacy while also activating its relevance for contemporary diasporic experiences by bringing together grandson of Alex Haley\, Bill Haley\, and son of Ebou Manga\, Malick Leo Manga\, in conversation with Dr. Michael Linso Conteh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nAlex Haley\, Roots\, and the Rosetta Stone — lyrics by Joel Freeman\n\n\nBill Haley Jr.\n \n \n\n\n\nMalick Leo Manga\n \n \n  \n\nModerated by: \n \nDr. Michael Conteh is an interdisciplinary and publicly engaged scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University’s Graduate School. His extensive research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa\, where he has been a driving force in advancing gender equity initiatives. Before and during his graduate studies\, Dr. Conteh oversaw key programs to institutionalize gender studies at the University of Namibia and a national research project on gender-based violence and understanding the nature and scope of human trafficking in Namibia\, demonstrating his multifaceted and interdisciplinary expertise. His doctoral dissertation investigated the role of universities as anchor institutions in their host cities\, analyzing global financial capital flows and their impact on universities’ community engagement strategies through a comparative lens of the United States and the Global South.
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SUMMARY:Malik Ambar: Africans in the Making of the Indian Ocean World
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 3rd FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98819563241 \n\n\nOver the course of some twenty centuries\, it is estimated that four million Africans–including sailors\, traders\, soldiers\, and artists–migrated or were forcibly taken across the western Indian Ocean. In India\, one Ethiopian rose to significant levels of power: Malik Ambar. For more than two decades during the early seventeenth century\, Ambar ruled the Sultanate of Ahmednagar in the western Deccan. Through an examination of his life\, the lecture will look at the making of the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean world. \nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nPresentation\n\nBio: \n \nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\n\nOmar H. Ali is the Rosenthal Excellence Professor of African and Global African Diaspora History and Dean Emeritus of Lloyd International Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, Senior Fellow at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum\, and the author of eight books\, including Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean (Oxford University Press). A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, he received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/malik-ambar-africans-in-the-making-of-the-indian-ocean-world/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:America\, América in the Crosshairs
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Greg Grandin\nYale University\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92032892806 \n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with Dr. Greg Grandin. This talk will examine the Trump administration’s recent adventures in Latin America and his revival of the Monroe Doctrine in light of his broader foreign policy\, arguing that the administration has stripped the Doctrine of its remaining pretensions to legal or moral legitimacy and redeployed it as a blunt instrument of hemispheric dominance — from extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to regime change in Venezuela to the siege of Cuba. It situates this Western Hemisphere policy within Trump’s broader escalatory logic\, in which the spectacle of coercion must be constantly repeated and amplified\, a dynamic that helps explain the rapid pivot from Venezuela to open war with Iran. It concludes by asking whether we are witnessing not merely a revival of an old American tradition but its transformation into something new and more dangerous: a Monroe Doctrine for the entire world\, unbound by law\, and increasingly clothed in the language of divine mandate. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nWatch Recording Here\n\n\n\nBio: \n \nGreg Grandin is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.  He is the author of a number of prize-winning books\, including The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. The End of the Myth won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the prize in History. Other books include Empire’s Workshop: Latin America\, the United States\, and the Making of an Imperial Republic\, first published in 2005 and significantly revised and expanded in 2021\, and Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman. He is also the author of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery\, Freedom\, and Deception in the New World\, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Toni Morrison called this book “scholarship at its best\,” a “deft penetration into the marrow of the slave industry… brilliant.”  His book Fordlandia\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.   His most recent book\, America\, América: A New History of the New World is a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Cundill Prize (longlisted)\, and the Kirkus Prize.  It won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.  Grandin is also the author of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America During the Cold War and The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation\, which won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for the best book published on Latin America in any discipline. With Gil Joseph\, Grandin co-edited A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America’s Long Cold War.  A former consultant to the United Nations truth commission on Guatemala\, Grandin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written for various journals\, including The Nation\, The Guardian\, The New York Times\, the Financial Times\, The London Review of Books\, Jacobin\, and The Intercept. For The Nation\, he has written obituaries for Gabriel García Márquez\, Fidel Castro\, Hugo Chávez\, Cormac McCarthy\, Henry Kissinger\, and George H.W. Bush.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/america-america-in-the-crosshairs/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:Commemorating Jacques Viau-Renaud:  Dominican Sovereignty\, and Antonio Lockward-Artiles and Pedro Caros' Island-wide Afro-Caribbean Geopoetics
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nCSAAD PreDoctoral Fellow Presentation\nFranchesca Araujo\nCSAAD 2025-2026 PreDoctoral Fellow\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nMonday\, April 27\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n*VIRTUAL EVENT*\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95259797641 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with CSAAD’s 2025-2026 PreDoctoral Fellow\, Franchesca Araújo. After Haitian-Dominican poet and revolutionary Jacques-Viau Renaud was killed by U.S. marines in their 1965 occupation of the Dominican Republic\, his literary and political community commemorated his life and his writing. They did this through in-person events\, a posthumously published book of his poetry\, and their own commemorative poetics. This talk will trace the Afro-Caribbean and anti-colonial islandwide geopoetics rehearsed in Antonio-Lockward Artiles and Pedro Caros commemorative writings. These enacted visions of sovereignty\, and spatial imaginaries that differed not only from reactionary and oppressive ideologies\, but from other anti-imperial articulations of the moment. Even more profoundly\, they disrupted the anti-Haitian\, and anti-Black terms that undergirded hemispheric wide terms of sovereignty in the Americas. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\nBio: \n \nFranchesca Araújo is a doctoral candidate in African Diaspora studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is an interdisciplinary Black Studies\, Caribbeanist scholar. Her work interrogates the linkages and fissures between colonial modernity\, nation-making\, culture\, and national subjecthood across a variety of media and histories. Her dissertation looks at how 20th and 21st century Dominican subjects\, media\, and events encounter the Dominican Republic’s classed\, racialized\, and spatialized value systems across different political and cultural moments. Using archival research\, close reading\, and visual\, discursive\, and reflexive analysis\, she theorizes the analytics of deficiency\, and excess at the intersection of black geographies and black disability studies. She argues this opens up more capacious ways to think about encounters between blackness\, the nation\, and the national subject. Franchesca’s research interests broadly include theorizing black geographies\, Hispanophone Caribbean popular culture\, music\, performance\, and aesthetics\, 20th century anti-colonial Caribbean thought\, and coloniality and anti-blackness within Latin American nation-making and Latinidad as an imagined community. Her poetry can be found in When Language Broke Open (University of Arizona Press)\, and her scholarship in The Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies as well as The Afro-Latin@* Reader: Vol 2 (Duke University Press).
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/commemorating-jacques-viau-renaud-dominican-sovereignty-and-antonio-lockward-artiles-and-pedro-caros-island-wide-afro-caribbean-geopoetics/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:Reframing Gender Equality in Namibia: "Reverse Gender Inequalities"\, Boys’ Underachievement\, and the Politics of Inclusive Gender Justice
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nCSAAD PostDoctoral Fellow Presentation\nDr. Michael Linso Conteh\nCSAAD Spring 2026 PostDoctoral Fellow \nWednesday\, April 29\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n*VIRTUAL EVENT*\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97084042638 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with CSAAD’s Spring 2026 PostDoctoral Fellow\, Dr. Michael Linso Conteh. The discourse on gender equality in Namibia has historically focused on the empowerment of the girl child and women\, a necessary response to systemic patriarchal structures and post-colonial disparities. However\, emerging evidence suggests a shifting landscape characterized by “reverse gender inequalities”\, where the Namibian boy child increasingly faces marginalization within the educational and socio-economic spheres. This presentation examines the status of the boy child in Namibia\, analyzing the manifestations and drivers of male underachievement and under-participation. It posits that gender equality policy must move from a primarily corrective focus on girls and women toward a relational and inclusive model that also addresses boys’ marginalization. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\nBio: \n \nDr. Michael Conteh is an interdisciplinary and publicly engaged scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University’s Graduate School. His extensive research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa\, where he has been a driving force in advancing gender equity initiatives. Before and during his graduate studies\, Dr. Conteh oversaw key programs to institutionalize gender studies at the University of Namibia and a national research project on gender-based violence and understanding the nature and scope of human trafficking in Namibia\, demonstrating his multifaceted and interdisciplinary expertise. His doctoral dissertation investigated the role of universities as anchor institutions in their host cities\, analyzing global financial capital flows and their impact on universities’ community engagement strategies through a comparative lens of the United States and the Global South. \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/reframing-gender-equality-in-namibia-reverse-gender-inequalities-boys-underachievement-and-the-politics-of-inclusive-gender-justice/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Sarah Derbew\nStanford University \n\nThursday\, September 10\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97904117116 \n\nSarah F. Derbew\, Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University\, writes\, teaches\, and speaks widely about ancient Greece’s representations of black people that nimbly provoke – and cut through – hierarchies. In conversation with Dr. Michael Gomez\, Derbew will highlight the key interventions of her recent book\, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (2022)\, an anti-racist study of blackness in the ancient Greek world. More broadly\, she will discuss the benefits of studying Classics alongside Black Studies and African Studies. \n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by:\nNYU Center for Ancient Studies \nNYU Department of Art History\nNYU Department of Classics \nWatch Recording Here\n\nBio: \n \nAbout Dr. Sarah Derbew: \nI am a writer\, teacher\, and advocate for ancient African Studies. \nIn my work\, I explore literary representations of black people in ancient Greece across genres such as ancient Greek tragedy\, historiography\, satire\, and the novel. I also examine artistic renderings of black people in Greek antiquity—considering the objects themselves and the museums in which they live. My interests extend all the way to the twenty-first century; I’ve written about the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in Africa and the African diaspora. \nI earned my PhD in Classics from Yale University and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Now\, I am an Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University\, affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Center for African Studies. \nIn 2022\, I published my first book\, titled Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge University Press). In this book\, I traced the role of black people in ancient Greek literature and art while critiquing contemporary prejudicial thinking about Greek antiquity. I recently co-edited a volume entitled Classics and Race: A Historical Reader with Dr. Daniel Orrells and Dr. Phiroze Vasunia (UCL Press\, 2025). I am currently exploring the intersections between Greek and African antiquity\, focusing on the ancient empire of Aksum. My expertise also includes teaching courses about Black Classics and decolonial African archives in the United States and Kenya.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/untangling-blackness-in-greek-antiquity/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:CSAAD Faculty and Student Reception
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 22nd\, 2026\n5:30pm – 7:30pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square | 3rd Fl | New York\, NY 10003 \n\nJoin the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) for an evening reception bringing together faculty\, undergraduate and graduate students. An opportunity to unwind\, meet colleagues from various departments\, and begin exploring new avenues of engagement. Refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there! \nRegister Here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-faculty-and-student-reception/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Chattel Like Cattle: Enslaved Women as Perfect Property
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2026-2027 Distinguished Scholar Event\nDr. Hilary Beckles\, Vice Chancellor\nThe University of the West Indies \nTuesday\, October 13\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\nNYU Silver Center\, Hemmerdinger Hall\n31 Washington Pl\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93841506438 \n\n\nThe Vice Chancellor of The University of the West Indies\, Sir Hilary Beckles is a distinguished academic\, international thought leader\, United Nations committee official\, and global public activist in the field of social justice and minority empowerment. \nEducated at the University of Hull\, Sir Hilary is a Director of SAGICOR Financial Corporation\, the  largest financial company in the Caribbean region\, Chairman of the Caribbean Examinations Council\, former Chairman of The University of the West Indies Press\, Chairman of the Caribbean  Community (CARICOM)\, Commission on Reparation and Social Justice\, former President of Universities Caribbean\, an editor of the UNESCO General History of Africa series and a Director  of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre. He has also served as an advisor  to the UN World Culture Report and Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations on  Sustainable Development. He is a past Vice President of the International Task Force for the UNESCO Slave Route Project and a past consultant for the UNESCO Cities for Peace Global Programme. He sits on the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and is also Chancellor of the United Nations University. \nDr. Beckles has Honorary Doctorate Awards from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and  Technology\, Hull University\, Brock University\, University of Glasgow\, the University of  Johannesburg\, North-West University\, and the University of London. Dr. Hilary Beckles is also the  recipient of the prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Award for global advocacy\, academic  scholarship and intellectual leadership in support of social justice\, institutional equity\, and  economic development for marginalized and oppressed ethnicities and nations. \n\n*This event is cosponsored by New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies*\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nRegister Here\n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/chattel-like-cattle-enslaved-women-as-perfect-property/
LOCATION:Hemmerdinger Hall\, Washington Square East\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches
DESCRIPTION:A book talk with editors Carole Boyce Davies\, Angelique Nixon\, and Christen Smith\nTuesday\, Nov 10\, 2026\, 6pm\n3rd floor lobby\, 20 cooper square\n\n\n\n\nJoin NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality for a book talk with editors Angelique Nixon\, Carole Boyce Davies\, and Christen Smith on Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches. \n\n\nAn innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies\, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across transnational contexts. \n\n\nFeaturing ground-breaking new work alongside canonical essays from key thinkers\, this book adopts a truly global approach to its subject. In doing so\, it looks beyond North America to showcase a diverse range of continents and perspectives. The collection includes not only standard academic essays\, but also vital statements\, interviews\, manifestoes\, and creative work\, which transmit and embody Black feminist thought. \n\n\nThe book is broken up into five carefully curated sections: \n\n\n\nBlack Feminist Foundations\nStatements and Manifestos\nCultures and Aesthetics\nBodies\, Genders\, and Sexualities\nBlack Feminist Futures\n\n\n\nTimely and important\, this is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Black Studies\, Women & Gender Studies\, and Black Feminist Studies\, as well as more generally to American Studies\, African Studies\, Caribbean Studies\, and African Diaspora Studies. \nRegister Here\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) and is co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD). \n\n\nNYU campus access guidelines: Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \n\n\nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email csgs@nyu.edu \n\n\nBios: \n \nCAROLE BOYCE-DAVIES is Professor of African Diaspora Literatures and chair of Department of Literature and Writing (English) at Howard University. As Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English (2007-2024) she is also the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters emerita at Cornell University\, New York. She is the author of Left of Karl Marx. The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008); Black Women\, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994);Caribbean Spaces. Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (2013) and Black Women’s Rights.  Leadership and the Circularities of Power(2022). She is the editor/co-editor of thirteen critical anthologies including Black Feminist Theories. Transnational Perspectives (2026). A member of the scientific committee for UNESCO’s updated General History of Africa\, she edited the epistemological forum on “Global Blackness” for the African Diaspora volume Her popular essays\, opeds and reviews have appeared in The Guardian (London)\, The Washington Post\, Newsweek\, The Boston Globe\, The Miami Herald\, Trinidad Express\, Trinidad Guardian\, Caribbean Today\, The Crisis\, Jacobin Magazine\, Ms Magazine\, The Black Scholar. \n\n \nDr. Angelique V. Nixon is a Black Queer writer\, artist\, scholar\, and activist. Born and raised in the Bahamas\, she has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago for over a decade. She is a social justice educator and community worker with over 20 years of experience and leadership in community-based organisations and academic institutions. Her research and creative works are available widely; she is author of the poetry and art chapbook titled Saltwater Healing and the scholarly award-winning book titled Resisting Paradise: Tourism\, Diaspora\, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture. Angelique is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at The University of the West Indies\, St. Augustine Campus. Her research and teaching areas include Caribbean and postcolonial studies\, African diaspora literatures\, gender and sexuality studies\, Caribbean and Black feminisms\, tourism and diaspora studies\, and transnational migrations. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida in 2008\, where she specialised in postcolonial and gender studies. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Africana Studies at New York University in 2009 and has held academic posts at University of Connecticut (2009-2011) and Susquehanna University (2011-2014). She joined The UWI IGDS in 2014 as a Fulbright scholar and in 2015 as a lecturer\, where she is now a tenured senior faculty member and coordinator of graduate studies. Her current research investigates race\, sexuality\, migration\, and climate crisis at the crossroads of Caribbean freedom\, social movements\, and decolonial poetics. \n\n \nDr. Christen A. Smith is a Black feminist and African diaspora anthropologist whose work explores the multi-sided dimensions of race\, gender\, violence\, performance and Blackness in the Americas. Her research and writing is two-pronged. She studies the transnational\, gendered\, politics of anti-Black state violence in Brazil and the Americas—particularly with regard to policing; and Black women’s intellectual contributions to the Americas\, especially related to transnational Black feminism. In 2017\, Professor Smith started Cite Black Women.—a transnational initiative that brings awareness to society’s gross tendency to ignore Black women’s intellectual contributions and not to cite Black women inside and outside of the academy. \n\n 
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