Echoes from the Border: Africa Town in Korea
20 Cooper SquareCSAAD Afro-Asia Project CHE Onejoon & Sun A Moon Thursday, March 20, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cooper SQ Room 101 NEW YORK, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94185666385 This film screening and discussion explores the formation of Africa Town near Camp Casey, a U.S. military base located close to the Korean […]
The Power of Art: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas
20 Cooper SquareTuesday, April 01, 2025 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 COOPER SQNEW YORK, NY 10003 3rd Fl Suite Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91920117864 West Africans and West Central Africans championed ironworking centuries before they were forcibly transported to the Americas on board European and American slave ships. In the territories that became the United States and […]
Booker T. Washington’s Global Impact: Transimperial Entanglements Between Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism
ZoomBooker T. Washington’s Global Impact: Transimperial Entanglements Between Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism CSAAD Africa~Asia Project Sakiko NAKAO Thursday, May 01, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm VIRTUAL EVENT Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98235632087 This lecture discussion explores the influence of Pan-Africanism in Japan. At the turn of the 20th century, Booker T. Washington emerged as one of the most well-known […]
Aksum and Medina: African Diaspora and Early Islam
20 Cooper SquareCSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Dr. Hamza Zafer Princeton University Tuesday, September 24, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 20 Cooper SQ, 5 FL, Room 503 New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93654463712 Join the Center for the Study of Africa and African Diaspora (CSAAD) this September to discuss Dr. Hamza Zafer’s exploration of Islamic origins […]
Art, History, and Cultural Politics in Africa Today
Hemmerdinger Hall Washington Square East, New York, NY, United StatesSeptember 23rd, 2025 5 pm to 8 pm Hemmerdinger Hall NYU Silver Center 31 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003 Organized 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, […]
Builder of the Next World: The Rise and Fall of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe
20 Cooper SquareCSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Dr. Marlene Daut Yale University Thursday, October 16, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 20 Cooper SQ, 5th FL, Room 503 New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91031695364 Slave. Revolutionary. King. Taken together, these words describe only one man: Henry Christophe I of Haiti. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother […]
Ajami Manuscripts: New Sources of Knowledge for African and African Diaspora Studies
Hemmerdinger Hall Washington Square East, New York, NY, United StatesCSAAD 2025-2026 Distinguished Scholar Event Dr. Fallou Ngom Boston University Tuesday, November 11, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm NYU Silver Center, Hemmerdinger Hall 31 Washington Pl New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92593107329 Please join CSAAD for our annual Distinguished Scholar Event, featuring Dr. Fallou Ngom's lecture presentation on Ajami Manuscript. Sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed […]
Between Exceptionality and Obscurity: Excavating the Political Worlds of Afro-Panamanian Women
20 Cooper SquareCSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi Rutgers University - New Brunswick Wednesday, December 03, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 20 Cooper SQ, 5th FL, Room 503 New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94244279229 Please join CSAAD for our Africa~Diaspora Forum Series event for Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi. This presentation by Dr. Corinealdi examines the […]
Social Suffering and Armed Violence of the Black Geographies in the Pacific Coast of Colombia
20 Cooper SquareCSAAD 2025-2026 PostDoctoral Fellowship Presentation Dr. Bladimir Carabali Hinestroza CSAAD PostDoctoral Fellow, Fall 2025 Wednesday, December 10, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 20 Cooper SQ, 5th FL, Room 503 New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95862798209 Please join CSAAD for our final Africa~Diaspora Forum Series event this semester, led by our Fall 2025 PostDoctoral Fellow Dr. Bladimir […]
Black Palestinian Transnational Solidarity in an Age of Genocide
20 Cooper SquareCSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Dr. Noura Erakat Rutgers University - New Brunswick Wednesday, January 21, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 20 Cooper SQ, 3rd FL New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99032257961 Please 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 […]
