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SUMMARY:Malik Ambar: Africans in the Making of the Indian Ocean World
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 3rd FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98819563241 \n\n\nOver the course of some twenty centuries\, it is estimated that four million Africans–including sailors\, traders\, soldiers\, and artists–migrated or were forcibly taken across the western Indian Ocean. In India\, one Ethiopian rose to significant levels of power: Malik Ambar. For more than two decades during the early seventeenth century\, Ambar ruled the Sultanate of Ahmednagar in the western Deccan. Through an examination of his life\, the lecture will look at the making of the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean world. \nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nPresentation\n\nBio: \n \nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\n\nOmar H. Ali is the Rosenthal Excellence Professor of African and Global African Diaspora History and Dean Emeritus of Lloyd International Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, Senior Fellow at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum\, and the author of eight books\, including Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean (Oxford University Press). A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, he received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/malik-ambar-africans-in-the-making-of-the-indian-ocean-world/
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SUMMARY:America\, América in the Crosshairs
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Greg Grandin\nYale University\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 5th FL Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92032892806 \n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with Dr. Greg Grandin. This talk will examine the Trump administration’s recent adventures in Latin America and his revival of the Monroe Doctrine in light of his broader foreign policy\, arguing that the administration has stripped the Doctrine of its remaining pretensions to legal or moral legitimacy and redeployed it as a blunt instrument of hemispheric dominance — from extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to regime change in Venezuela to the siege of Cuba. It situates this Western Hemisphere policy within Trump’s broader escalatory logic\, in which the spectacle of coercion must be constantly repeated and amplified\, a dynamic that helps explain the rapid pivot from Venezuela to open war with Iran. It concludes by asking whether we are witnessing not merely a revival of an old American tradition but its transformation into something new and more dangerous: a Monroe Doctrine for the entire world\, unbound by law\, and increasingly clothed in the language of divine mandate. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nWatch Recording Here\n\n\n\nBio: \n \nGreg Grandin is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.  He is the author of a number of prize-winning books\, including The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. The End of the Myth won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the prize in History. Other books include Empire’s Workshop: Latin America\, the United States\, and the Making of an Imperial Republic\, first published in 2005 and significantly revised and expanded in 2021\, and Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman. He is also the author of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery\, Freedom\, and Deception in the New World\, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Toni Morrison called this book “scholarship at its best\,” a “deft penetration into the marrow of the slave industry… brilliant.”  His book Fordlandia\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.   His most recent book\, America\, América: A New History of the New World is a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Cundill Prize (longlisted)\, and the Kirkus Prize.  It won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.  Grandin is also the author of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America During the Cold War and The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation\, which won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for the best book published on Latin America in any discipline. With Gil Joseph\, Grandin co-edited A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence During Latin America’s Long Cold War.  A former consultant to the United Nations truth commission on Guatemala\, Grandin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written for various journals\, including The Nation\, The Guardian\, The New York Times\, the Financial Times\, The London Review of Books\, Jacobin\, and The Intercept. For The Nation\, he has written obituaries for Gabriel García Márquez\, Fidel Castro\, Hugo Chávez\, Cormac McCarthy\, Henry Kissinger\, and George H.W. Bush.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/america-america-in-the-crosshairs/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:Commemorating Jacques Viau-Renaud:  Dominican Sovereignty\, and Antonio Lockward-Artiles and Pedro Caros' Island-wide Afro-Caribbean Geopoetics
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nCSAAD PreDoctoral Fellow Presentation\nFranchesca Araujo\nCSAAD 2025-2026 PreDoctoral Fellow\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nMonday\, April 27\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n*VIRTUAL EVENT*\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95259797641 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with CSAAD’s 2025-2026 PreDoctoral Fellow\, Franchesca Araújo. After Haitian-Dominican poet and revolutionary Jacques-Viau Renaud was killed by U.S. marines in their 1965 occupation of the Dominican Republic\, his literary and political community commemorated his life and his writing. They did this through in-person events\, a posthumously published book of his poetry\, and their own commemorative poetics. This talk will trace the Afro-Caribbean and anti-colonial islandwide geopoetics rehearsed in Antonio-Lockward Artiles and Pedro Caros commemorative writings. These enacted visions of sovereignty\, and spatial imaginaries that differed not only from reactionary and oppressive ideologies\, but from other anti-imperial articulations of the moment. Even more profoundly\, they disrupted the anti-Haitian\, and anti-Black terms that undergirded hemispheric wide terms of sovereignty in the Americas. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\nBio: \n \nFranchesca Araújo is a doctoral candidate in African Diaspora studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is an interdisciplinary Black Studies\, Caribbeanist scholar. Her work interrogates the linkages and fissures between colonial modernity\, nation-making\, culture\, and national subjecthood across a variety of media and histories. Her dissertation looks at how 20th and 21st century Dominican subjects\, media\, and events encounter the Dominican Republic’s classed\, racialized\, and spatialized value systems across different political and cultural moments. Using archival research\, close reading\, and visual\, discursive\, and reflexive analysis\, she theorizes the analytics of deficiency\, and excess at the intersection of black geographies and black disability studies. She argues this opens up more capacious ways to think about encounters between blackness\, the nation\, and the national subject. Franchesca’s research interests broadly include theorizing black geographies\, Hispanophone Caribbean popular culture\, music\, performance\, and aesthetics\, 20th century anti-colonial Caribbean thought\, and coloniality and anti-blackness within Latin American nation-making and Latinidad as an imagined community. Her poetry can be found in When Language Broke Open (University of Arizona Press)\, and her scholarship in The Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies as well as The Afro-Latin@* Reader: Vol 2 (Duke University Press).
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/commemorating-jacques-viau-renaud-dominican-sovereignty-and-antonio-lockward-artiles-and-pedro-caros-island-wide-afro-caribbean-geopoetics/
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SUMMARY:Reframing Gender Equality in Namibia: "Reverse Gender Inequalities"\, Boys’ Underachievement\, and the Politics of Inclusive Gender Justice
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nCSAAD PostDoctoral Fellow Presentation\nDr. Michael Linso Conteh\nCSAAD Spring 2026 PostDoctoral Fellow \nWednesday\, April 29\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n*VIRTUAL EVENT*\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97084042638 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with CSAAD’s Spring 2026 PostDoctoral Fellow\, Dr. Michael Linso Conteh. The discourse on gender equality in Namibia has historically focused on the empowerment of the girl child and women\, a necessary response to systemic patriarchal structures and post-colonial disparities. However\, emerging evidence suggests a shifting landscape characterized by “reverse gender inequalities”\, where the Namibian boy child increasingly faces marginalization within the educational and socio-economic spheres. This presentation examines the status of the boy child in Namibia\, analyzing the manifestations and drivers of male underachievement and under-participation. It posits that gender equality policy must move from a primarily corrective focus on girls and women toward a relational and inclusive model that also addresses boys’ marginalization. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\nBio: \n \nDr. Michael Conteh is an interdisciplinary and publicly engaged scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University’s Graduate School. His extensive research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa\, where he has been a driving force in advancing gender equity initiatives. Before and during his graduate studies\, Dr. Conteh oversaw key programs to institutionalize gender studies at the University of Namibia and a national research project on gender-based violence and understanding the nature and scope of human trafficking in Namibia\, demonstrating his multifaceted and interdisciplinary expertise. His doctoral dissertation investigated the role of universities as anchor institutions in their host cities\, analyzing global financial capital flows and their impact on universities’ community engagement strategies through a comparative lens of the United States and the Global South. \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/reframing-gender-equality-in-namibia-reverse-gender-inequalities-boys-underachievement-and-the-politics-of-inclusive-gender-justice/
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SUMMARY:Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Sarah Derbew\nStanford University \n\nThursday\, September 10\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, Room 503\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97904117116 \n\nSarah F. Derbew\, Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University\, writes\, teaches\, and speaks widely about ancient Greece’s representations of black people that nimbly provoke – and cut through – hierarchies. In conversation with Dr. Michael Gomez\, Derbew will highlight the key interventions of her recent book\, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (2022)\, an anti-racist study of blackness in the ancient Greek world. More broadly\, she will discuss the benefits of studying Classics alongside Black Studies and African Studies. \n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by:\nNYU Center for Ancient Studies \nNYU Department of Art History\nNYU Department of Classics \nWatch Recording Here\n\nBio: \n \nAbout Dr. Sarah Derbew: \nI am a writer\, teacher\, and advocate for ancient African Studies. \nIn my work\, I explore literary representations of black people in ancient Greece across genres such as ancient Greek tragedy\, historiography\, satire\, and the novel. I also examine artistic renderings of black people in Greek antiquity—considering the objects themselves and the museums in which they live. My interests extend all the way to the twenty-first century; I’ve written about the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in Africa and the African diaspora. \nI earned my PhD in Classics from Yale University and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Now\, I am an Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University\, affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Center for African Studies. \nIn 2022\, I published my first book\, titled Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge University Press). In this book\, I traced the role of black people in ancient Greek literature and art while critiquing contemporary prejudicial thinking about Greek antiquity. I recently co-edited a volume entitled Classics and Race: A Historical Reader with Dr. Daniel Orrells and Dr. Phiroze Vasunia (UCL Press\, 2025). I am currently exploring the intersections between Greek and African antiquity\, focusing on the ancient empire of Aksum. My expertise also includes teaching courses about Black Classics and decolonial African archives in the United States and Kenya.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/untangling-blackness-in-greek-antiquity/
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SUMMARY:CSAAD Faculty and Student Reception
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 22nd\, 2026\n5:30pm – 7:30pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square | 3rd Fl | New York\, NY 10003 \n\nJoin the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) for an evening reception bringing together faculty\, undergraduate and graduate students. An opportunity to unwind\, meet colleagues from various departments\, and begin exploring new avenues of engagement. Refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there! \nRegister Here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-faculty-and-student-reception/
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