Gallatin Teachers Reading
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study 1 Washington Place, New York, NY, United StatesGallatin Teachers Reading, a Writing Program event series at which professors read from recently published books, offers a glimpse into the Gallatin faculty's latest scholarship. Amanda Petrusich will moderate. Cyd Cipolla will read from Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (University of Washington Press, 2017), a collection of essays at the intersection of science and technology studies and women's, gender, […]
Migrant Justice in the Age of Illegality
20 Copper Sq. 20 Cooper Square, New York, United StatesA lecture with Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale University. Organized by the Working Group in Latinx History Co-sponsored by the History Department, NYU Steinhardt and the Latinx Project
UNSUSTAINABLE EMPIRE: ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES OF HAWAI‘I STATEHOOD
NYU Steinhardt Pless Hall Lounge 82 Washington Square East, New York, United StatesCo-presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU Native Studies Forum. In his new book Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2018), Dean Itsuji Saranillio (NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) offers a bold challenge to the narrative that the 1959 admission of Hawai‘i, a largely non-white territory, as a US state was […]
African Food for Thought
Abu Dhabi Campus
SCREENING OF EMBODIED LETTERS (CUERPO DE LETRA)
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study 1 Washington Place, New York, NY, United StatesIn the streets of Buenos Aires, walls are battlefields. Find out how in a special screening of Julian D'Angillillo's 2015 documentary Embodied Letters (Cuerpo de Letra). Food and drinks provided! This is the third in a series of films presented as part of the co-located 2019 course "Art & Politics in the City" Stop by for the movie to […]
Russia Without Putin Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War- A Book Talk with Tony Wood
NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, New York, United StatesOn Tuesday, December 11th please join us for “Russia Without Putin Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War- A Book Talk with Tony Wood”. It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of […]
Book Launch: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, By Alain Bertaud
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesOverview: Join us on Tuesday, December 10 at 5:30pm for the launch of Alain Bertaud’s new book from MIT Press, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it, Bertaud argues that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Drawing on five decades […]
Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesOverview: Join us on Tuesday, December 11 at 5:30pm for the launch of Alain Bertaud’s new book from MIT Press, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it, Bertaud argues that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Drawing on five decades […]
Bakosó
NYU Global Center 238 Thompson St., New York, NY, United StatesWhat does “Está Rico” by Marc Anthony, Will Smith & Bad Bunny have in common with “Made For Now” by Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee? They both high-jacked AfroBeats and did not give the genre’s origin props. Bakosó is a film that does the opposite, following DJ Jigüe on a journey to his hometown of […]
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: MR. SOUL! ELLIS HAIZLIP AND THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER TV
Roght on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black AMerican culture onto the national television stage. He was hip. He was smart. He was innovative, political and gay. In his personal fight for social equality, this […]