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  • KJCC Poetry Series | Susana Villalba, Pedro López Adorno y Paula Jiménez España

    Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

    Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, NYC In Spanish Reception to Follow KJCC POETRY SERIES CURATED BY LILA ZEMBORAIN: Susana Villalba, Pedro López Adorno and Paula Jiménez España. Introduced by Lila Zemborain. Susana Villalba (1956). Poet, playwright and cultural manager. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship 2011 (in Poetry) and the 2nd Municipal Prize […]

  • Institute of African American Affairs New York University Celebrating 50 Years of Visionary Excellence

    Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

    with past IAAA Directors Earl S. Davis, MSW and Manthia Diawara, PhD Dance Performance Ron K. Brown/Evidence “One Shot” and Jazz Vocalist Candice Hoyes Evening Hosted by Anna Maria Horsford The Institute of African American Affairs at NYU was established in 1969, during a period of change and awakenings of cultural, civil and artistic significance […]

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  • Black Portraiture[s] V: Memory and the Archive Past Present and Future

    Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

    This conference will explore the making of visual archives, the narratives they tell, and the parameters that define them as objects of study. As visual collections, photographic archives present specific concerns — especially as digital technologies change the way knowledge is classified, stored, retrieved and disseminated. Various questions about the construction, acquisition and maintenance of […]

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  • BOOK TALK: MESSIANISM AND SOCIOPOLITICAL REVOLUTION IN THE ISLAMICATE CIVILIZATION Said Amir Arjomand Distinguished Service Professor, Sociology State University of New York, Stony Brook

    Iranian Studies Initiative at NYU 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United States

    The talk will highlight the forthcoming companion volume to Revolution: Structure and Meaning in History (University of Chicago Press, 2019) with regard to the motivation to revolutionary action. This approach shifts the focus of analysis from the punitively general causes of revolution to the specific motivation and consequences of revolutionary social action in historical and […]

  • King Juan Carlos Chair CRISTINA PATO | A CONVERSATION WITH CRISTINA PATO AND KENNETH S. KOSIK: An Invisible Ancestry and the Unquiet Genes of the Brain

    Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

    Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South, NYC Reception to Follow Cristina Pato is the 2019 / 2020 King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. In this conversation, artist and educator Cristina Pato and neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik will talk about music, memory loss, […]

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  • BOOK TALK: THE BAGHDAD CLOCK A Reading and Conversation with Award-Winning Iraqi Novelist Shahad Al Rawi and Translator Luke Leafgren

    Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United States

    Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbors in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and […]

  • DAY 1: FIFTH ANNUAL INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL (IAAC) LITERARY FESTIVAL

    Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United States

    The fifth annual IAAC Literary Festival will take place in New York City on October 19th and 20th and will feature the work of authors from around the world, whose heritage lies in the Indian subcontinent as well as literary pieces that are inspired by India. Along with the addition of Poetry, IAAC will be expanding the Literary Festival to provide a platform for Children's Literature emanating from India […]

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