Latin America’s 1968 – Marta Minuj´ín
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesAs part of the Latin America’s 1968 Colloquium series, New York University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Hemisphiric Institute of Performance and Politics, and The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), are proud to present a conversation with internationally acclaimed Argentine performance and conceptual artist Marta Minujín […]
LATIN AMERICA’S 1968 COLLOQUIM: MARTA MINUJÍN
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesPresentation and dialogue moderated by Edward Sullivan
Enforced Disappearances in an Age of Emboldened Repression
Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY, United StatesGovernments are disappearing people at an alarming rate, often in conjunction with policies carried out in the name of repressing terrorism, organized crime, or plain political dissent. Reports of undercover extraterritorial abductions of people in foreign countries are on the rise. The widely-reported case of disappeared Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is only one example of […]
Making All Black Lives Matter with Barbara Ransby
The People's Forum 320 W 37th, New York, United StatesJoin author, historian and activist Barbara Ransby as she discusses her new book “Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.” Ransby will be in conversation with Movement for black lives activist and Blackbird co-founder, Thenjiwe McHarris. About the book In Making All Black Lives Matter, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the […]
Popular Painting as History: Trajectory of an Artist from Kinshasa
Sapin Makengele is a self-taught Congolese popular painter from Kinshasa, DRC. His work depicts and comments upon social and political lifeworlds in the Congo and beyond. His paintings have been excited in group and individual exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chad, Congo, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States. Organized in collaboration with the […]
Lecture: Afro-Arab Relations: From the Common Struggle to the “New Scramble”
Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South), New York, United StatesLecture with Rawia Tawfik Abstract: In the mid-twentieth century, Arab and African countries waged a common struggle against colonialism and racial segregation. Arabs supported the liberation of African colonies and the isolation of apartheid South Africa. In their turn, newly independent African countries showed solidarity with Arabs in their conflict against Israel. With international […]
Latin America’s 1968 Colloquim: Dialogo Con El Ché (1968)
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesScreening of the newly restored film by Latino NYC underground filmmaker, José Rodriguez Soltero. Introduced by Dylon Robbins
Gallatin Coffeehouse on the #METOO Movement
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study 1 Washington Place, New York, NY, United StatesJoin Gallatin faculty, students, and alumni for a discussion of #MeToo, its consequences, and the complexities of organizing for social change in which sexuality, gender, race, class, and access to political and economic power matter. Josy Jablons(BA ’17), Annie Felix (BA '19), and Gallatin faculty members Sharon Friedman,Rosanne Kennedy, Ritty Lukose, and Sara Murphy will speak; George Shulmanwill moderate. The #MeToo Movement was […]
Voices From the Battlefront 25 Years Later
Location: SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square 4th floor, New York, New YorkA conversation with independent curator Yasmin Ramirez, and artists Alicia Cristina Grullon and Yasmin Hernandez who will reflect on Marta Moreno Vega’s work and the impact and legacy of her publication exposing and exploring cultural equity, and the task of decolonizing institutions, art history, and more. Yasmin Ramirez, Ph.D., is an independent curator who specializes […]
Indocumentales-En el Séptimo día/On The Seventh Day
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University (CLACS), Cinema Tropical, and the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations / What Moves You?, are proud to announce the official re-launch of INDOCUMENTALES - a film and conversation series committed to exploring the multiplicity of Latin American migrant experiences in our country […]