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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
WOMEN AND MIGRATION: RESPONSES IN ART AND HISTORY Tuesday, Oct. 22 6:30pm-8:30pm Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Flex Space 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
In the 1920s in New York the jazz cabaret was seen as offering what the writer Eric Walrond called “Africa undraped”, and its sound was the tom-tom. This talk will explore the period’s fascination with that instrument and with what it might signify, focusing on two texts entitled Tom-Tom, both of which offer to associate contemporary Harlem with “Africa”, in one or another of its manifestations.
Florence Bernault, Sciences-Po Paris Title: Beyond the Racial Divide: Congruent Imaginaries in Colonial Africa October 24, 2019 Location: A6-117 Time: 12pm Part of the History Program Seminar Series