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Global Africa, Migration, Literature and the Arts
The Symposium Global Africa, Migration, Literature, and the Arts is intended to explore how Africans and people of African descent globally have been and continue to be at the center of complex histories of encounter and exchange, traversing geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries over the centuries. It will highlight the lived experiences of migration of, and its […]
LECTURE: ROBERT VITALIS: ENDING OILCRAFT’S SPELL OVER US
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New YorkABSTRACT: In his forthcoming book Robert Vitalis takes apart an ideological construction that he calls “Oilcraft,” a set of deeply-held, pervasive beliefs about the world, together with the actions these vivid truths license—op eds and classified memoranda, documentaries, classroom lectures, naval patrols and calls at port, journal articles, podcasts, press conferences, and protests, to name […]
SPRING 2019 ARABIC LECTURE SERIES: BELAL FADL
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New YorkThe Hagop Kevorkian Center and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU kindly invite you to attend our Spring 2019 Arabic Lecture Series. The Series is a student-led initiative to encourage academic and intellectual discussion in Arabic of history, politics and the arts. All events are open to the public, and will […]