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 […]
Jean-Paul Sartre, The French Revolution and the Present-Sophie Wahnich
La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesSOPHIE WAHNICH, HISTORIENNE, PARIS, LE 30 AVRIL 2015. L'appréciation politique et intellectuelle de la Révolution française doit moins, depuis 1945, aux historiens qu'aux philosophes, moins à l'évolution de l'historiographie comme telle qu'à la manière dont des penseurs de première importance se sont mêlés de penser la Révolution française. Les querelles philosophiques des années 1960, sur […]
ARE WE POST-FRANCOPHONE YET? – KAOUTAR HARCHI & LIA BROZGAL
La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesKaoutar Harchi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Musée du Quai Branly and visiting professor at NYU (French Literature, Culture and Thought and Institute of French Studies). A sociologist of culture, her work revolves around francophonie as an intellectual and social field and the trajectories of Algerian novelists who have obtained recognition in France. She is the author of Je […]
Contested Relations Slavery, Sex, and Medicine
History Department 53 Washignton Sq. South, New York, NY, United StatesA discussion with Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College) Sponsored by the History of Women and Gender & Institute of African American Affairs
