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SUMMARY:CSAAD Fall 2024 Student Receptions
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Graduate Student and Faculty Reception\nTuesday\, September 17\, 2024\n\n\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square\n3rd Floor Suite\nNew York\, NY 10003\n\n  \nRegister Here\n\n\nCSAAD Undergraduate Student Reception\n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 18\, 2024\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square\n3rd Floor Suite\nNew York\, NY 10003\n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-fall-2024-student-receptions/
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SUMMARY:Africans in Byzantium: Kings\, Merchants\, and Monks
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nAfricans in Byzantium: Kings\, Merchants\, and Monks\nDr. Andrea Myers Achi \nWednesday\, September 25\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \nNYU 20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n3rd FL SUITE \n  \nIn Fall 2023\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented the critically acclaimed exhibition\, Africa & Byzantium\, which explored the complex connections between North and East African communities and Byzantium. This landmark exhibition included significant loans from thirty-six lenders\, including prominent institutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Reviews highlighted not only the visual splendor of the artworks\, but also the growing interest in the African individuals who commissioned\, traded\, or depicted in Byzantine art. \nThis talk builds on the research conducted for the Africa & Byzantium exhibition\, offering new case studies that examine the visual and literary portrayals of Africans within the Byzantine context. Additionally\, Dr. Achi will address the challenges of revealing these often-overlooked narratives from an art historical perspective and provide insights into the broader implications for our understanding of cultural interactions in the medieval world. \n  \nWatch Recording Here\n\n \nDr. Andrea Myers Achi holds a BA from Barnard College and a PhD from New York University. Trained as a Byzantinist\, Dr. Achi’s scholarship and curatorial practice focus on late antique and Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She has a particular interest in manuscripts and archaeological objects from Christian Egypt and Nubia\, and she has brought this expertise to bear on exhibitions like Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis (2017)\, Crossroads: Power and Piety (2020)\, and The Good Life (2021) at The Met and in presentations and publications. Currently\, she is working on exhibition projects related to Egyptian monasteries\, the material culture of Late Antiquity\, and Byzantine Art in Africa.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africans-in-byzantium-kings-merchants-and-monks/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nSudan’s Counterrevolutionary War\nDr. Nisrin Elamin \nWednesday\, October 09\, 2024 \n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n3rd Fl Suite \nZoom Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94404401950 \n  \nDr. Nisrin Elamin’s lecture-based discussion will provide context for Sudan’s current counterrevolutionary war and famine from a political economy perspective. In particular\, it will center struggles over land and the role civilian volunteers are playing at the frontline of mutual aid and relief efforts. \n  \nWatch Presentation Recording\nWatch Q&A Recording\n\n  \n \nNisrin Elamin is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2020. She is currently writing a book tentatively titled: Stratified Enclosures: Land\, Capital and Empire-making in Central Sudan which focuses on Saudi and Emirati land grabs and community resistance to land dispossession in the Gezira region of Sudan. In addition to scholarly articles\, Nisrin has also written and co-authored several op-eds for Al Jazeera\, the Washington Post\, Hammer and Hope and Okay Africa and has provided commentary on NPR\, BBC\, CNN\, The Agenda\, CBC\, Democracy Now and other media outlets. Before pursuing her Ph.D.\, Nisrin spent over a decade working as an educator\, community organizer and researcher in the US and Tanzania. She is also a member of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which has been supporting local emergency response rooms in the face of a largely absent international aid community and civilian state.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-africa-diaspora-forum-series-sudans-counterrevolutionary-war/
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SUMMARY:An Age of Black Revolution: New Directions
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nAn Age of Black Revolution: New Directions\n  \nDr. Vincent Brown and Dr. Crystal Eddins \nThursday\, October 24\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \n\nAbu Dhabi \nNew York University \n\n\n19 Washington SQ North \nNew York City\, NY 10012 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91746481831 \n  \n“An Age of Black Revolution: New Directions” brings together two notable scholars\, Vincent Brown and Crystal Eddins\, whose works forge new paths in studies of 18th and 19th century Caribbean slavery\, resistance\, and revolt. This conversation will probe issues around archival research\, enslaved people’s sacred rites\, women and gender\, and the formation of maroon communities as part of the salient issues concerning the Age of Black Revolution. \n  \nWatch Recording Here\n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/an-age-of-black-revolution-new-directions/
LOCATION:19 Washington Sq. North\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Regional Origins and Intra-African Patterns of Gene Flow during the Millennia of Enslavement
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2024-2025 Distinguished Scholar Event\nRegional Origins and Intra-African Patterns of Gene Flow During the Millennia of Enslavement\n  \nDr. Fatimah Jackson \nWednesday\, November 20\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \nHemmerdinger Hall \nSilver Center of Arts & Science \n\n100 Washington SQ East \nNew York City\, NY 10013 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98085219090 \n  \nThis lecture event will highlight developing models that reflect the diverse origins of African-descended peoples of the African Diasporas is an important task which provides insights of potential evolutionary relevance and possible biomedical significance (via geospatially mediated precision medicine). Computational approaches can be trained to accurately identify the African empires and kingdoms (AEKs) involved in the procurement\, kidnapping\, transport\, and delivery of captive Africans for enslavement within and outside of Africa. Supervised and unsupervised machine learning GIS models can also identify the regional and ethnic sources of enslaved Africans and predict the routes used to take them from their homelands to export sites on the various coasts. By grounding our analysis in the paradigm of the 8th-20th c Millennia of Enslavement we consider each of the major intra-African slave trades and the resulting demic diffusion and its impact on gene flow patterns. \n  \nWatch Event Recording\n\n  \n \nDr. Fatimah Jackson \nProfessor Emerita\, Biology\, Howard University\nProfessor Emerita\, Anthropology\, University of Maryland\, College Park\nSenior Scientist\, QuadGrid Data Laboratory\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/regional-origins-and-intra-african-patterns-of-gene-flow-during-the-millennia-of-enslavement/
LOCATION:Hemmerdinger Hall\, Washington Square East\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Too Dark for the World: Oceania\, Anti-Colonialism\, and the Black Pacific
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Afro-Asia Project \nDr. Quito J. Swan \nWednesday\, January 29\, 2025 \n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite \nNEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98598651350 \n\nQuito J. Swan’s talk\, Too Dark for the World\, explores Black internationalism and decolonization in Oceania. Drawing from archival research conducted across Oceania\, the Americas\, Africa\, and Europe\, it will discuss how Melanesian liberation struggles engaged Black Power\, Negritude\, and Pan-Africanism in their insurgent battles for self-determination. It is based on Swan’s Pasifika Black: Oceania\, Anticolonialism\, and the Africana World (NYU Press\, 2022)\, which was awarded ASALH’s 2023 Best Book in African American History prize. \nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nQuito J. Swan is Professor of Africana Studies and History at The George Washington University. A public facing scholar of Black internationalism and the African Diaspora\, he has single authored three books-Pasifika Black: Oceania\, Anti-Colonialism and the African World (2022)\, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (2020) and Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization (2010). Pasifika Black received the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2023 Best Book in African American History Award. Pauulu’s Diaspora won the African American Intellectual History Society’s 2022 Pauli Murray Book Prize. Swan’s research has garnered fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and more.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/too-dark-for-the-world-oceania-anti-colonialism-and-the-black-pacific/
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SUMMARY:Diasporic Back Chat: The Inter-War Activist Strategies of Black Nationalist Women
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Book Launch Lecture Event \nDr. Natanya Duncan \n\nMonday\, February 3rd\, 2025 \n\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite \nNEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92704020760 \n\n\n\nDuring the 1920s and 1930s\, women members of the largest social justice movement of the 20th Century\, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)\, publicly challenged the myriad forms of oppression that affected them globally.This talk will explore strategies used by women of the UNIA in fashioning a trans-Atlantic dialogue as evidenced in the Negro World newspaper\, personal correspondences\, and government records to highlight their role in shaping the contours of Black Nationalism and pan-Africanism in the early 20th Century. \n\nThis event will be highlighting the new book: An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The book will be available for Purchase & Signature at event for $29.95. \n\n\nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nNatanya Duncan an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora\, her research and teaching focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan’s research interest includes constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/diasporic-back-chat-the-inter-war-activist-strategies-of-black-nationalist-women/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Pan-Africanism in Africa and the U.S.: Marcus Garvey and I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series  \n\nThursday\, February 20th\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\nAbu Dhabi New York University\n19 Washington SQ North\nNew York City\, NY 10012 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95296862039 \n\nThis panel event will explore themes of Pan-Africanism. Dr. McDuffie considers the significance of the U.S.Midwest to shaping twentieth-century Pan-Africanism through Garveyism. Dr. McDuffie’s research unveils new research and offers insight into imagining a liberated future Black world. In tandem\, Dr. Rashid investigates the ideas\, activities\, and influences of Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson\, a journalist\, trade unionist\, Pan-Africanist\, and politician\, who played a pivotal role in energizing the anti-colonial and national movement in West Africa between the 1930s and 1960s. Untangling this paradox offers interesting insights on different ways in which Pan-Africanism consciousness and politics were shaped and expressed during the colonial period. \nWatch Event Recording Here\nDr. Ismail Rashid’s Presentation\n\n  \n \nErik S. McDuffie is an Associate Professor in the Department of African AmericanStudies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research andteaching interests include the African diaspora\, the Midwest\, black feminism\,black queer theory\, black radicalism\, urban history\, and black masculinity.  He is the author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women\, American Communism\, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Durham\, NC: Duke University Press\, 2011). The book won the 2012 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History\, as well as the 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. His research interests include the African diaspora\, the Midwest\, black feminism\, black queer theory\, black radicalism\, urban history\, and black masculinity. \n  \n \nIsmail Rashid is Professor and Chair of History on the Marion Musser Lloyd ’32. He grew up in Freetown\, Sierra Leone and has been teaching at Vassar College since 1998. He received his BA Hons in Classics and History from the University of Ghana\, MA in Race Relations from Wilfrid Laurier University\, Waterloo\, Canada and PhD in African History from McGill University. His primary teaching interests are pre-colonial and modern African history\, African Diaspora and Pan-Africanism\, and International Relations. His research interests include subaltern resistance against colonialism\, public health\, and conflicts and security in contemporary Africa. Among his recent books are West Africa’s Security Challenges (2004 with Adekeye Adebajo)\, The Paradox of History and Memory in Postcolonial Sierra Leone (2013) (with Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley) and Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy(2017) (with Ibrahim Abdullah).
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/pan-africanism-in-africa-and-the-u-s-marcus-garvey-and-i-t-a-wallace-johnson-in-conversation/
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