Latest Past Events

Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture

Location: SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square 4th floor, New York

Author Ed Morales  and Professor Ana Maria Dopico from NYU Spanish and Portuguese department will discuss Morales’ new book Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture. Ed Morales is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral […]

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BOOK TALK: SOUNDING ISLAM: VOICE, MEDIA AND SONIC ATMOSPHERE IN AN INDIAN OCEAN W/ PATRICK EISENLOHR

Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South), New York

Book Talk with Patrick Eisenlohr, University of Göttingen and Faye Ginsberg David B. Kriser Professor, NYU Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, […]

Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors

Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street, New Yotk

César Rodríguez-Garavito, co-editor of Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights, will speak on the new ideas and innovations that are emerging in response to populist regimes’ crackdown on civil society. Written by scholars and advocates in challenging political settings from around the world, this book offers ideas and inspiration to their peers […]