Africa~Diaspora Forum – JAN
With guest speaker: Alissa Trotz (Toronto U.)
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INDOCUMENTALES – THE UNAFRAIDSector to Secure Support
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesDescription 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?, present the Spring edition of INDOCUMENTALES - a film and conversation series committed to exploring the multiplicity of Latin American migrant experiences in our country through compassionate […]
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Distinguished Speakers Series-Toyin Falola
New York University Silver Center for Arts and Science, Jurrow Hall 31 Washington Pl,, New York, NYToyin Falola, Ph.D., is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. A recipient of ten honorary doctorates, an annual conference has been named after him: TOFAC (Toyin Falola Annual Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora). The Association of Third […]
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PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesThe exhibition will explore how artists are responding to displacement through their work and practice and will provide a platform for examining visual strategies among contemporary Latinx artists. Participating Artists: Groana Melendez, Francisca Benitez, Melissa Calderon, Tony Peralta, Mi Casa No es Su Casa, Alicia Grullon, Jehdy Vargas, Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Roy Baizan, Shellyne Rodriguez. The […]
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Artists / Scholars-in-Residence
CSAAD’s inaugural Artist/Scholar-in-Residence will be author Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions and This Mournable Body. She will be on campus February 18 to 28, 2019. Tsitsi Dangarembga is a writer, filmmaker, teacher and cultural activist, began writing plays at the University of Zimbabwe, where THE LOST OF THE SOIL (1983) and SHE NO LONGER […]
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Migration as Survival in the Era of Climate Crisis
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Department of Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Rising sea levels, drought, food insecurity, intensified hurricanes, and wildfires are some of the many markers of the exacerbating climate crisis. Despite the […]
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Brujos Screening & Discussion with the Creators!
Brujos, Beyond Representation: Decolonizing & Queering TV We are cosponsoring a screening of the web-tv series Brujos followed by a discussion with Ricardo Gamboa, Isaac Gomez, and Justin Ignatius Mitchell on re-imagining political television in the digital age. Students will get to discuss how one makes political media content outside of the world of cable and network TV. February 26, […]
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A Legal Empowerment Approach to Addressing Justice Barriers in the U.S. Immigration System
The Puck Building 29f Laveyette St., New York, United StatesThis talk will explore an ongoing participatory evaluation project being carried out by the New Sanctuary Coalition (NSC) in collaboration with NYU Law’s Global Justice Clinic and Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights. The collaboration assesses NSC initiatives aimed at building the power and agency of families as they move through the immigration process. NSC stands […]
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Film Screening: “Celda 211” by Daniel Monzón
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesNYUSPS CALA Spring 2019 Film Series: Crime and Punishment around the World: Incarceration on Film Screening of “Celda 211” Dir. Daniel Monzón (Spain, 2009). Introduced by Felipe Vara del Rey (NYU Tisch, Film) About the Film: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot – the inmate leading the rebellion and the […]
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Gold Mining in Colombia: A Conversation with Photographer Stephen Ferry, Author of La Batea
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesThe Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) presents a conversation with human rights and visual imaging photographer Stephen Ferry author of La Batea. La Batea is the fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, the anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry, La Batea book looks closely at small-scale gold mining in Colombia. The title […]