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CIT.I.ZEN.SHIP: REFLECTIONS ON RIGHTS
October 4, 2018 - January 18, 2019 Department of Photography & Imaging Galleries NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway Lobby & 8th floor Lorie Novak and Deborah Willis, Ph.D., curators Riana Gideon, assistant curator To accept one’s past — one’s history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is […]
The State of Latinx Media
The State of Latinx Media
A discussion of the latest insights on Latinx media, including research on audiences and the state of cultural criticism, the newest on digital platforms, and the larger policies affecting net neutrality and media access with a focus on key strategies for engagement and activism for making change. The panelists include: Jillian Baez is an associate professor at […]
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Skirball Talks: Angela Davis “Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of Black Lives Matter” Lecture Series
Skirball Talks: Angela Davis “Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of Black Lives Matter” Lecture Series
What are the different tools for combating racism today, after Obama’s presidency and the backlash of the Trump regime? What do the tools of struggle and emancipation look like, and do aesthetics play a role? Please join us as activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis discusses in the “Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of […]
3 events,
INSULAR POSSESSIONS: IMPERIAL LEGACIES OF 1898 WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING OF CALL HER GANDA
INSULAR POSSESSIONS: IMPERIAL LEGACIES OF 1898 WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING OF CALL HER GANDA
Co-sponsored by the NYU Native Studies Forum, the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program in the NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis. The year 1898 has conventionally been regarded as the American “imperial moment,” when the United States acquired and occupied a number of island nations, both in the […]
Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway
Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway
Abstract: Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East […]
3 events,
Enforced Disappearances in an Age of Emboldened Repression
Enforced Disappearances in an Age of Emboldened Repression
Governments are disappearing people at an alarming rate, often in conjunction with policies carried out in the name of repressing terrorism, organized crime, or plain political dissent. Reports of undercover extraterritorial abductions of people in foreign countries are on the rise. The widely-reported case of disappeared Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is only one example of […]
Making All Black Lives Matter with Barbara Ransby
Making All Black Lives Matter with Barbara Ransby
Join author, historian and activist Barbara Ransby as she discusses her new book “Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.” Ransby will be in conversation with Movement for black lives activist and Blackbird co-founder, Thenjiwe McHarris. About the book In Making All Black Lives Matter, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the […]
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Lecture: Afro-Arab Relations: From the Common Struggle to the “New Scramble”
Lecture: Afro-Arab Relations: From the Common Struggle to the “New Scramble”
Lecture with Rawia Tawfik Abstract: In the mid-twentieth century, Arab and African countries waged a common struggle against colonialism and racial segregation. Arabs supported the liberation of African colonies and the isolation of apartheid South Africa. In their turn, newly independent African countries showed solidarity with Arabs in their conflict against Israel. With international […]
Latin America’s 1968 Colloquim: Dialogo Con El Ché (1968)
Latin America’s 1968 Colloquim: Dialogo Con El Ché (1968)
Screening of the newly restored film by Latino NYC underground filmmaker, José Rodriguez Soltero. Introduced by Dylon Robbins
Gallatin Coffeehouse on the #METOO Movement
Gallatin Coffeehouse on the #METOO Movement
Join Gallatin faculty, students, and alumni for a discussion of #MeToo, its consequences, and the complexities of organizing for social change in which sexuality, gender, race, class, and access to political and economic power matter. Josy Jablons(BA ’17), Annie Felix (BA '19), and Gallatin faculty members Sharon Friedman,Rosanne Kennedy, Ritty Lukose, and Sara Murphy will speak; George Shulmanwill moderate. The #MeToo Movement was […]
4 events,
Voices From the Battlefront 25 Years Later
Voices From the Battlefront 25 Years Later
A conversation with independent curator Yasmin Ramirez, and artists Alicia Cristina Grullon and Yasmin Hernandez who will reflect on Marta Moreno Vega’s work and the impact and legacy of her publication exposing and exploring cultural equity, and the task of decolonizing institutions, art history, and more. Yasmin Ramirez, Ph.D., is an independent curator who specializes […]
Indocumentales-En el Séptimo día/On The Seventh Day
Indocumentales-En el Séptimo día/On The Seventh Day
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?, are proud to announce the official re-launch of INDOCUMENTALES - a film and conversation series committed to exploring the multiplicity of Latin American migrant experiences in our country […]
Jean-Paul Sartre, The French Revolution and the Present-Sophie Wahnich
Jean-Paul Sartre, The French Revolution and the Present-Sophie Wahnich
SOPHIE WAHNICH, HISTORIENNE, PARIS, LE 30 AVRIL 2015. L'appréciation politique et intellectuelle de la Révolution française doit moins, depuis 1945, aux historiens qu'aux philosophes, moins à l'évolution de l'historiographie comme telle qu'à la manière dont des penseurs de première importance se sont mêlés de penser la Révolution française. Les querelles philosophiques des années 1960, sur […]