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SUMMARY:SCREENING OF EMBODIED LETTERS (CUERPO DE LETRA)
DESCRIPTION:In the streets of Buenos Aires\, walls are battlefields. Find out how in a special screening of Julian D’Angillillo’s 2015 documentary Embodied Letters (Cuerpo de Letra). Food and drinks provided! This is the third in a series of films presented as part of the co-located 2019 course “Art & Politics in the City” Stop by for the movie to learn more and to complete a questionnaire about the course.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/screening-of-embodied-letters-cuerpo-de-letra/
LOCATION:NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study\, 1 Washington Place\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181211T160000
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SUMMARY:Russia Without Putin Money\, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War- A Book Talk with Tony Wood
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, December 11th please join us for “Russia Without Putin Money\, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War- A Book Talk with Tony Wood”. \nIt is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader\, he personifies his country in the eyes of the world\, and dominates Western media coverage. In Russia itself\, he is likewise the centre of attention both for his supporters and his detractors. But\, as Tony Wood argues\, this focus on Russia’s president gets in the way of any real understanding of the country. The West needs to shake off its obsession with Putin and look beyond the Kremlin walls. \nIn this timely and provocative analysis\, Wood explores the profound changes Russia has undergone since 1991. In the process\, he challenges several common assumptions made about contemporary Russia. Against the idea that Putin represents a return to Soviet authoritarianism\, Wood argues that his rule should be seen as a continuation of Yeltsin’s in the 1990s. The core features of Putinism — a predatory elite presiding over a vastly unequal society — are in fact integral to the system set in place after the fall of Communism. \nWood also overturns the standard view of Russia’s foreign policy\, identifying the fundamental loss of power and influence that has underpinned recent clashes with the West. Russia without Putin concludes by assessing the current regime’s prospects\, and looks ahead to what the future may hold for the country as a whole. \nTony Wood is in the PhD program in Latin American History at NYU. He is previously the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (2007)\, and his writing has appeared in theLondon Review of Books\, The Guardian\, n+1 and The Nation\, among other places.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/russia-without-putin-money-power-and-the-myths-of-the-new-cold-war-a-book-talk-with-tony-wood/
LOCATION:NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia\, 19 University Place\, New York\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181211T173000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities\, By Alain Bertaud
DESCRIPTION:Overview:\nJoin us on Tuesday\, December 10 at 5:30pm for the launch of Alain Bertaud’s new book from MIT Press\, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it\, Bertaud argues that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Drawing on five decades of urban planning experience in forty cities around the world\, Bertaud links cities’ productivity to the size of their labor markets; argues that the design of infrastructure and markets can complement each other; examines the spatial distribution of land prices and densities; stresses the importance of mobility and affordability; and critiques the land use regulations in a number of cities that aim at redesigning existing cities instead of just trying to alleviate clear negative externalities. Bertaud concludes by describing the new role that joint teams of urban planners and economists could play to improve the way cities are managed. \nEvent Program:\nProfessor William Easterly\, Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute\, will provide an opening commentary on the book. Bertaud will then sit down for a discussion of the book with Weiping Wu\, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the M.S. in Urban Planning program at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning\, and Preservation\, before fielding questions from the audience. Books will be available for sale and signature. \n\nAlain Bertaud is Senior Research Scholar at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. He has worked as Principal Urban Planner for the World Bank and as an independent consultant and resident urban planner in cities ranging from Bangkok to New York. \nWilliam Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute. His most recent book is entitled The Tyranny of Experts: Economists\, Dictators\, and the\nForgotten Rights of the Poor. He is a Research Associate of NBER and has served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. \n \nWeiping Wu is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program. Trained in architecture and urban planning\, Prof. Wu has focused her research and teaching on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. \n  \nThis event is co-hosted by NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management\, NYU’s Development Research Institute\, and NYU’s Urban Planning Student Association.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/book-launch-order-without-design-how-markets-shape-cities-by-alain-bertaud/
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SUMMARY:Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
DESCRIPTION:Overview:\nJoin us on Tuesday\, December 11 at 5:30pm for the launch of Alain Bertaud’s new book from MIT Press\, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it\, Bertaud argues that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Drawing on five decades of urban planning experience in forty cities around the world\, Bertaud links cities’ productivity to the size of their labor markets; argues that the design of infrastructure and markets can complement each other; examines the spatial distribution of land prices and densities; stresses the importance of mobility and affordability; and critiques the land use regulations in a number of cities that aim at redesigning existing cities instead of just trying to alleviate clear negative externalities. Bertaud concludes by describing the new role that joint teams of urban planners and economists could play to improve the way cities are managed. \nEvent Program:\nProfessor William Easterly\, Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute\, will provide an opening commentary on the book. Bertaud will then sit down for a discussion of the book with Weiping Wu\, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the M.S. in Urban Planning program at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning\, and Preservation\, before fielding questions from the audience. Books will be available for sale and signature.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/order-without-design-how-markets-shape-cities/
LOCATION:Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bakosó
DESCRIPTION:What does “Está Rico” by Marc Anthony\, Will Smith & Bad Bunny have in common with “Made For Now” by Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee? They both high-jacked AfroBeats and did not give the genre’s origin props. Bakosó is a film that does the opposite\, following DJ Jigüe on a journey to his hometown of Santiago de Cuba as he explores Cuba’s manifestation of the global AfroBeats hype\, “bakosó”\, to discover where the roots of the genre come from. We know there is deep-rooted African influence in Cuba\, but bakosó itself is beautiful proof that the exchange did not end with the Transatlantic slave trade.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/bakoso/
LOCATION:NYU Global Center\, 238 Thompson St.\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181220T080000
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: MR. SOUL! ELLIS HAIZLIP AND THE BIRTH OF BLACK POWER TV
DESCRIPTION:Roght on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement\, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era\, ushering giants and rising stars of black AMerican culture onto the national television stage. \nHe was hip. \nHe was smart. \nHe was innovative\, political and gay. \nIn his personal fight for social equality\, this man ensured the Revolution would be televised. \nThe man was Ellis Haizlip. The Revolution was SOUL! \nHaizlip was the host and executive producer of SOUL!\, the first “black Tonight Show.” In 1968\, SOUL! was launched as a local\, New York broadcast. In 1969 the series rolled out nationwide on PBS\, on WNET Channel 13. By 91973\, Haizlip had produced over 130 hour-long shows featuring a dazzling array of A-list guests: Sidney Poitier\, Harry Belafonte\, James Baldiwn\, Stevie Wonder\, Maya Angelou\, Ashford and Simpson\, Nikki Giovanni\, Al Green and Muhammad Ali — even a sixteen-year-old Arsenio Hall doing magic tricks. Mr. SOUL! (2018\, 1:30 min) invites us behind-the-scenes of this groundbreaking phenomenon\, from its initial conception to its final broadcast\, including the very public battle to keep it on air despite a shifting political landscape.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/film-screening-and-discussion-mr-soul-ellis-haizlip-and-the-birth-of-black-power-tv/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190128T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Looking Like a Language\, Sounding Like a Race by Jonathan Rosa
DESCRIPTION:How are Latinxs racialized through Language? Stanford professor Jonathan Rosa will be discussing his new book Looking Like a Language\, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a predominantly Latinx Chicago public high school and its surrounding communities\, this presentation approaches Latinidad as a crucial site from which to understand the creation of racial\, linguistic\, and national borders\, as well as to reimagine worlds beyond these borders. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Anthropology Department. \nJonathan Rosa\, PhD\, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford. As a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist\, Jonathan Rosa’s research theorizes the co-naturalization of language and race as a key feature of modern governance. Specifically\, he analyzes the interplay between youth socialization\, raciolinguistic formations\, and structural inequity in urban contexts.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/book-discussion-looking-like-a-language-sounding-like-a-race-by-jonathan-rosa/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190131T123000
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SUMMARY:Africa~Diaspora Forum - JAN
DESCRIPTION:With guest speaker: Alissa Trotz (Toronto U.)
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africadiaspora-forum-2/
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190204T210000
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SUMMARY:INDOCUMENTALES - THE UNAFRAIDSector to Secure Support
DESCRIPTION:Description\n\n\n\nThe 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?\, present the Spring edition of INDOCUMENTALES – a film and conversation series committed to exploring the multiplicity of Latin American migrant experiences in our country through compassionate representation and critical dialogue. \nINDOCUMENTALES began in May of 2010 as Indocumentales: the US/Mexico Interdependent Film Series with screenings and panel discussions at New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and other venues throughout the five boroughs including the Americas Society and Cervantes Institute in Midtown Manhattan\, the Dwyer Cultural Center in Harlem\, the Casita Maria Center for the Arts in the Bronx\, the Beacon Center for the Arts in Bushwick\, Brooklyn\, and the Queens Museum in Corona\, New York. It since traveled across the U.S.\, as well as to Mexico and Canada\, engaging diverse communities in reflecting on their relationship to the questions posed in the films. \nThe series is free and open to the public. All screenings are followed by panel discussions meant to bring together filmmakers\, scholars\, activists\, policy makers\, and community representatives concerned with the fortification of immigrant rights. \n____________________________________________________________________________ \nTHE UNAFRAID (Anayansi Prado and Heather Courtney\, USA\, 2018\, 87 mins. In English and Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles) \nThe Unafraid is a feature length documentary that follows the personal lives of three DACA students in Georgia\, a state that has banned them from attending their top state universities and disqualifies them from receiving in-state tuition at any other public college. Shot in an observational style over a period of four years\, this film takes an intimate look at the lives of Alejandro\, Silvia and Aldo as they navigate activism\, pursuing their right to education\, and fighting for the rights of their families and communities.​ The Unafraid shows us what it means to grow up both American and undocumented in the United States. \nTrailer: https://vimeo.com/263308493 \nAbout the Directors: \nAnayansi Prado An award-winning documentary filmmaker and instructor\, Anayansi Prado was born in Panama and moved to the United States as a teenager. She attended Boston University where she received a B.A. in Film. She directed and produced the award-winning documentaries Maid in America (2004)\, Children in No Man’s Land (2008) and Paraiso for Sale (2011) which were broadcast nationally on PBS. Anayansi is a Rockefeller Media Fellow and is a Creative Capital Artist and has received support for her work from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, The Ford Foundation\, Tribeca Film Institute. Prado is a Film Expert for the American Film Showcase (2009-present) and works on a regular basis with the State Department’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs to bring documentary filmmaking training to aspiring filmmakers in developing countries. Anayansi lives in Los Angeles\, California. \nHeather Courtney – Co-Director/Producer/Cinematographer\nHeather Courtney is a Guggenheim fellow and an Emmy-winning filmmaker. Her film WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM\, she won an Emmy\, an Independent Spirit Award\, and a SXSW Jury Award. The film received positive reviews from the New York Times and the Washington Post\, and was broadcast nationally on the PBS program POV. It made several Top 10 films of 2011 lists\, including Salon’s Best Non-fiction\, and was supported by many grants and fellowships including from ITVS\, the Sundance Documentary Fund\, the United States Artists Fellowship\, and POV/American Documentary. Heather was also a fellow at the Sundance Edit and Story Lab. She has directed and produced several other documentary films including award-winners LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE and LOS TRABAJADORES/THE WORKERS\, which both focused on immigration issues\, and were broadcast nationally on PBS. She has been funded by ITVS\, the Sundance Documentary Fund\, the Ford Foundation\, the MacArthur Foundation\, Latino Public Broadcasting\, and the Austin Film Society\, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship and an International Documentary Association award. Her most recent film\, The Unafraid\, about DACA students fighting for their education and their families in Georgia\, was co-directed and produced with Anayansi Prado. It premiered in April 2018 at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and won the Human Rights Award.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/727/
LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190211T183000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Speakers Series-Toyin Falola
DESCRIPTION:Toyin Falola\, Ph.D.\, is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.  A recipient of ten honorary doctorates\, an annual conference has been named after him: TOFAC (Toyin Falola Annual Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora). The Association of Third World Studies has named its annual best book after him as the Toyin Falola Prize for the best book on Africa. He has contributed to various academic associations\, once serving as the President of the African Studies Association. He has a forthcoming book\, In Praise of Greatness: The Poetics of African Adulation. \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/distinguished-speakers-series/
LOCATION:New York University Silver Center for Arts and Science\, Jurrow Hall\, 31 Washington Pl\,\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T200000
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SUMMARY:PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition will explore how artists are responding to displacement through their work and practice and will provide a platform for examining visual strategies among contemporary Latinx artists. Participating Artists: Groana Melendez\, Francisca Benitez\, Melissa Calderon\, Tony Peralta\, Mi Casa No es Su Casa\, Alicia Grullon\, Jehdy Vargas\, Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez\, Roy Baizan\, Shellyne Rodriguez. The exhibition is cosponsored by NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/pelea-visual-responses-to-spatial-precarity/
LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190301
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SUMMARY:Artists / Scholars-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD’s inaugural Artist/Scholar-in-Residence will be author Tsitsi Dangarembga\, author of Nervous Conditions and This Mournable Body. She will be on campus February 18 to 28\, 2019. \nTsitsi Dangarembga is a writer\, filmmaker\, teacher and cultural activist\, began writing plays at the University of Zimbabwe\, where THE LOST OF THE SOIL (1983) and SHE NO LONGER WEEPS (1984) were first staged.  The first volume in the Tambudzai trilogy\, NERVOUS CONDITIONS\, appeared to critical acclaim in 1988.  Its sequel\, THE BOOOK OF NOT was published in 2006.  Her third novel THIS MOURNABLE BODY was published in 2018 by Graywolf Press. \nTsitsi Dangarembga lives in Harare Zimbabwe where she directs the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust\, an institution focusing on the role of all arts disciplines in development\, which she founded in 2009. She is currently working on her 4th novel\, dystopian young adult speculative fiction\, SAI-SAI AND THE ANCESTOR OF FIRE. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/artists-scholars-in-residence/
CATEGORIES:Artists/ Scholars-in-Residence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190226T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190226T170000
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SUMMARY:Migration as Survival in the Era of Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Department of Art & Public Policy\, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.\n \nRising sea levels\, drought\, food insecurity\, intensified hurricanes\, and wildfires are some of the many markers of the exacerbating climate crisis. Despite the clear and present danger of climate change\, governments are failing to take the action needed to stave off its worst effects. Meanwhile\, tens of millions of people\, primarily from poor communities and the Global South\, are displaced by climate impacts every year only to be met by rising xenophobia\, anti-migrant sentiment\, and militarized borders. This panel brings together journalists\, activists\, frontline organizers\, academics\, and artists to discuss the inextricable links between migration and climate catastrophe. We consider what an intersectional movement for migrant rights and climate justice could look like\, the threat posed by right-wing populist governments to the rights of migrants\, and the role of arts and culture in creating bold visions for a just future. \nFeaturing Oscar A. Chacón (Executive Director\, Alianza Americas)\, Oliver Milman (Reporter\, The Guardian)\, Tiara R. Na’puti (Assistant Professor\, University of Colorado Boulder)\, and Ninaj Raoul (Executive Director\, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees). Curated and moderated by Thanushka (Thanu) Yakupitiyage\, the A/P/A Institute at NYU 2018-19 Artist-in-Residence. \nThis venue is on the first floor and is accessible for wheelchair users. Restrooms (which are gender-segregated) are accessible via elevator. If you have any questions or need any accommodations\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \nOscar A. Chacón is a co‐founder and executive director of Alianza Americas\, a Chicago-based national network of Latin American immigrant‐led and immigrant serving organizations in the US. Chacón is an immigrant from El Salvador. He has been an organizer and a leader on community justice issues at the local\, national\, and international levels for over thirty years. He has occupied leadership positions in multiple organizations including Oxfam America\, Centro Presente\, the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights\, and Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. Chacón is a frequent spokesperson\, domestically and internationally\, on economic\, social\, political\, and cultural issues affecting Latin American immigrant communities\, including the nexus between human mobility\, economic inequality\, white supremacy\, and racial justice. Alianza Americas mission is to improve the quality of life of Latin American immigrant communities in the US\, as well as of peoples throughout the Americas. \nOliver Milman is the environment correspondent for Guardian US\, based in New York. He regularly reports on how climate change is altering the natural world\, with a particular focus on the communities most vulnerable to these consequences. Before coming to the US\, he covered the environment for the Guardian in Australia. His role has taken him to the melting Alaskan Arctic\, the wildfire-scorched northern California\, the magnificent yet ailing Great Barrier Reef\, and people living in the shadow of the petrochemical industry in Texas. Originally from the UK\, Millman has previously covered business and politics for a range of print and online publications. \nTiara R. Na’puti (Chamoru) is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at University of Colorado Boulder with faculty affiliations in the Center for Communication and Democratic Engagement (CDE) and the Center for Native American Indigenous Studies (CNAIS). Her scholarship and activism addresses colonization\, militarization\, Indigenous social movements\, and Indigenous cultural discourses—particularly throughout Oceania. She is currently working on a book project that examines the US military buildup plans for the Mariana Islands archipelago and how military aggression fuels the dangerous impacts of climate change. This work examines the communicative dimensions of resistance and connections among Indigenous-led struggles to protect sacred water and land from militarization and extractive industries. \nNinaj Raoul is a co-founder and community organizer at Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) in New York\, an organization founded in 1992 to respond to the human needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants in the US fleeing persecution. Through education\, community organizing\, leadership development\, and collective action\, HWHR members empower themselves as they struggle for social and economic justice. Raoul is a Petra Foundation Fellow\, and a recipient of the Union Square Awards\, National Organization of Woman – Susan B. Anthony Award\, and Dr. Antonia Pantoja Bilingual Advocacy Award. She continues to mobilize her community to deliver services\, organize disaster relief efforts\, and fight for workers’ rights. She travels to and from Haiti\, where HWHR has provided solidarity support to women-run organizations that respond to manmade and natural disasters. Raoul seeks to raise awareness of the detrimental effects of the US agricultural subsidy programs that dump excess crop in Haiti\, as well as other root causes of migration. \nThanushka (Thanu) Yakupitiyage is a long-time immigrant rights activist\, media professional\, cultural organizer\, and multidisciplinary artist/DJ based in New York City. For close to seven years\, she worked for the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)\, where she headed the organization’s communications and media relations strategy. Through her work at NYIC\, she became an immigration policy expert\, using her skills in media and communications to shift narratives on immigration and immigrants themselves. She was a lead organizer in recent efforts to push back against Trump’s first executive orders that mandated a Muslim Ban\, and increased enforcement and raids against immigrant communities. Most recently\, she has taken on the role of leading US communications for 350.org and bringing a migration perspective to the critical work of climate justice. As a cultural organizer and DJ under the name Ushka\, she has performed across North America and she uses her artistry to create intentional community spaces for queer and immigrant people of color. Yakupitiyage holds an MA in communications from the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, and a BA in critical media studies and international development from Hampshire College. She is the 2018-19 Artist-in-Residence at the A/P/A Institute at NYU.\nPhoto by Brooke Anderson\, Survival Media Agency (provided by 350.org).
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/migration-as-survival-in-the-era-of-climate-crisis/
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SUMMARY:Brujos Screening & Discussion with the Creators!
DESCRIPTION:Brujos\, Beyond Representation: Decolonizing & Queering TV  \nWe are cosponsoring a screening of the web-tv series Brujos followed by a discussion with Ricardo Gamboa\, Isaac Gomez\, and Justin Ignatius Mitchell on re-imagining political television in the digital age. Students will get to discuss how one makes political media content outside of the world of cable and network TV. \nFebruary 26\, Tuesday\, 6 to 8 pm \n\nCSGS\, 285 Mercer Street\, 4th Floor\n\nBrujos is a radically-politicized\, queer-of-color web series following for gay Latino doctoral students that are also witches as they try and survive the semester and a witch hunt led by the straight\, wealthy\, white male descendants of the first New World colonizers. Brujos’ experimental approach to production and radical ethos has garnered the show significant recognition and a cult following. Come binge watch the 12 episode series and talk with creator Ricardo Gamboa and cast members Isaac Gomez and Justin Ignatius Mitchell.\nCo-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Latinx Project\n\nFor more information\, please contact CSGS at csgs@nyu.edu or 212-992-9540.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/brujos-screening-discussion-with-the-creators/
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SUMMARY:A Legal Empowerment Approach to Addressing Justice Barriers in the U.S. Immigration System
DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore an ongoing participatory evaluation project being carried out by the New Sanctuary Coalition (NSC) in collaboration with NYU Law’s Global Justice Clinic and Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights. \nThe collaboration assesses NSC initiatives aimed at building the power and agency of families as they move through the immigration process. NSC stands in solidarity with those facing detention and deportation\, who they call “friends” rather than immigrants\, and coordinates a network of volunteers who accompany friends to court\, provide legal and non-legal advice at a weekly pro-se clinic\, and build relationships with NSC friends\, seeing up close the violence and injustice of the immigration system. \nThe Global Justice Clinic and Bernstein Institute collaborate with NSC to evaluate the efficacy of the NSC’s approach\, with a goal of producing literature highlighting the impact of legal empowerment methods to addressing justice barriers in the U.S. Immigration system. \nAbout the Conflict\, Security\, and Development Series \nEach Tuesday\, the Conflict\, Security\, and Development Series examines new research\, discusses creative policy approaches\, and highlights recent innovations in responding to the challenges of security and development in conflict and post-conflict situations. \nThe series is co-presented by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School\, the Center for Global Affairs at NYU’s School for Professional Studies\, The Program in International Relations at NYU’s GSAS\, the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights\, and the Office of International Programs at NYU Wagner. \n  \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/a-legal-empowerment-approach-to-addressing-justice-barriers-in-the-u-s-immigration-system/
LOCATION:The Puck Building\, 29f Laveyette St.\, New York\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Celda 211” by Daniel Monzón
DESCRIPTION:NYUSPS CALA Spring 2019 Film Series: Crime and Punishment around the World: Incarceration on Film \nScreening of “Celda 211” Dir. Daniel Monzón (Spain\, 2009). Introduced by Felipe Vara del Rey (NYU Tisch\, Film) \nAbout the Film: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot – the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt\, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal. \nWinner of eight Goya Awards including Best Film. \nAbout the Film Series \nThe notion of crime as an illegal act that is punishable by a government authority implies a clear differentiation between right and wrong. Mass incarceration further symbolizes the concept that a physical space drawn in bars and walls can impose a simple order onto a world that defies borders and neat categories. The purpose of punishment is to avenge\, to incapacitate\, and to deter\, but does it work? Is justice served more than it is not? And might the abuses of mass incarceration be inherent to its practice? This series of international films takes a closer look at different interpretations of crime and punishment and what they say about a country’s values\, collective identities\, and understanding of history. \nSponsored by NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Studies.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/film-screening-celda-211-by-daniel-monzon/
LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gold Mining in Colombia: A Conversation with Photographer Stephen Ferry\, Author of La Batea
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) presents a conversation with human rights and visual imaging photographer Stephen Ferry author of La Batea. \nLa Batea is the fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister\, the anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry\, La Batea book looks closely at small-scale gold mining in Colombia. The title refers to the wooden pan used in traditional mining since Pre- Columbian times. La Batea documents the struggles of gold mining communities in Colombia to defend their way of life against armed criminal organizations and multinational corporations seeking their gold. Colombia reflects the situation of local communities worldwide who face violent repression for opposing large-scale mining projects in their territories. \nCo-sponsored by NYU Tisch’s Institute of Emerging Media Department of Photography & Imaging\, and NYU PorColombia. \nThis event is free and open to the public. ID required for entry. \nAbout Stephen Ferry \nSince the late 1980s\, Stephen Ferry has traveled to dozens of countries\, covering social and political change\, human rights\, and the environment\, on assignment for publications such as National Geographic\, GEO\, TIME and the New York Times. A fluent Spanish speaker\, Stephen has developed an understanding of Latin America from over twenty years of covering the region. Stephen’s first book\, I Am Rich Potosí: The Mountain that Eats Men (Monacelli Press\,1999)\, documents the lives of the Quechua miners of Potosí\, Bolivia. His second book Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict (Umbrage\, 2012) has become a referential work for the study of Colombian history\, armed conflict and human rights.\nStephen has won honors from the World Press Photo\, Picture of the Year\, and Best of Photojournalism contests. He has also received grants from the National Geographic Expeditions Council\, the Fund for Investigative Journalism\, the Alicia Patterson Foundation\, the Howard Chapnick Fund\, the Knight International Press Fellowship\, the Getty Images Grant for Good\, Open Society Foundations and the Magnum Foundation. www.stephenferry.com \nAbout Elizabeth Emma Ferry\nProfessor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She has a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in the anthropology of mining\, global commodities\, and value. She is the author of Not Ours Alone: Patrimony\, Value\, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico (Columbia\, 2005) and Minerals\, Collecting\, and Value across the U.S.-Mexican Border (Indiana\, 2013) and numerous articles in academic journals and edited volumes. In 2010\, she was honored to receive the Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer ’69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring from Brandeis University. www.elizabeth-ferry.com 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/gold-mining-in-colombia-a-conversation-with-photographer-stephen-ferry-author-of-la-batea/
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SUMMARY:SCREENING – SPEAK UP (OUVRIR LA VOIX)
DESCRIPTION:With director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent. In this installation of the 21st Century/New African and African Diaspora Writings and Arts Series\, women of African descent in France and Belgium converse about what it means to be a woman today and belong to the Afro community in the documentary film Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix) (2017\, 122 min.). By sharing their experiences and aspirations for the future\, they speak up and take control again of their own representation. \n  \n \nAmandine Gay is a political author. Following her graduation from the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon\, France in 2007 with a masters in communication\, Amandine joined the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris 16 and began performing in theatre and television. Since 2012\, she has also been working as a screenwriter and contributing as a freelance journalist for Slate.fr. \nIn 2014 she took on directing with a reportage on the #BoycottExhibitB demonstrations\, and that same year\, she started working on her documentary\, SPEAK UP\, a feature-length about francophone Black women. Most recently\, Amandine authored the preface of the first French translation of bell hooks’ seminal\, Ain’t I A Woman. She is currently living in Montreal\, completing her second master’s degree in sociology\, focusing on transracial adoption. \nShe is a director\, writer\, freelance journalist and speaker. She is regularly asked to speak about Afro-feminism\, intersectionality and adoption at events such as the Toronto and Winnipeg Spur Festival. Students were able to hear her at the University of Edinburgh\, Université du Québec à Montréal\, University of Ottawa\, University of Lausanne\, Université Lumière Lyon 2\, École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels\, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and others. \nDIRECTOR’S NOTE \nSPEAK UP is born out of my desire to occupy public space and to explain why the intersection of discriminations faced by Black women in France and Belgium is as problematic as it is political. \nSPEAK UP is my response to the need for Black francophone women to reclaim the narrative since we are too often silenced or presented as passive victims. This is also a celebration of our diversity as Afro-descendants: Black women born in France and Belgium\, or elsewhere\, from French\, Belgian or immigrant parents\, from all kinds of paths\, faiths\, sexual orientation\, etc. \nSPEAK UP is a political portrait of Black women in francophone Europe\, revealing the complexity and diversity of our lives and identities. Beyond personal anecdotes lie the political issues that Black women have to face. That’s the reason why I chose the form of a conversation through intertwined narratives so that my experience could be nuanced and enriched by that of other Black women. \nSPEAK UP is my way of celebrating the history of Black women resistance\, who\, since marooning\, through creolity\, pan-Africanism\, negritude and Afro-feminism have always invented tools enabling them not to be silenced. This is for those who fought before us and a testimony to those who will come after us. \n ―Amandine GAY \n\n Sandrine Colard is Assistant Professor of African Art History at Rutgers University-Newark. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University\, and a M.A. in Africana Studies from New York University. Prior to joining Rutgers-Newark\, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art  (INHA\, Paris\, France) and a Provost Post-doctoral Fellow at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Dr. Colard is a historian of modern and contemporary African arts and photography\, with a focus on Central Africa. Her scholarly interests include post-colonialism in the arts\,  portraiture\, vernacular photograph\, the representation of gender and domesticity\, and the globalization of the contemporary art scene. Dr. Colard is an international lecturer (Concordia University\, EHESS\, Wiels\, Bozar\, European Parliament) and the author of multiple publications (African Arts\, Critical Interventions\, L’Art Même\, Cahiers du CAP\, Cultures et Musées). Her writings include contributions to exhibition catalogs such as Sammy Baloji: Hunting and Collecting. A Research Project (Mu.ZEE\, Ostend\, 2016)\, and The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (Hirmer\, 2016)\, for which she was co-curator at the Wallach Art Gallery (New York\, 2016).  Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships\, among which that of the quai Branly Museum. Based on research conducted in Belgium\, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi (DRC)\, her current book project examines the history of photography in the colonial Congo (1885-1960). \n\n\nSylvie Kandé teaches at SUNY Old Westbury. Born in Paris to a French mother and a Senegalese father\, Kandé is the author of three collections of poetry published by Gallimard including Gestuaire and Lagon\, lagunes. Tableau de mémoire. Gestuaire examines gestures—gestures of life\, gestures of death\, of infinite love or absolute violence—as a language.  Lagon\, lagunes. Tableau de mémoireevokes the journey of a woman who takes stock of the manners in which history and the dominant gaze have shaped her “métisse” identity. Trained as both a literary critic and a historian\, she is also known for her work on the complex conversations that have taken place between Africa and Europe and Africa and its Diasporas. Her areas of specialization include métissage/hybridity and post-racial utopias. \n\nCo-sponsored by Institute of French Studies and La Maison Française of NYU
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/screening-speak-up-ouvrir-la-voix/
LOCATION:La Maison Française\, 16 Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Is Liberation Academic?
DESCRIPTION:A roundtable of University faculty reflect on Gay Liberation – a movement whose story cannot be told without Stonewall – and consider to what extent liberation is an “academic” question\, in both senses of the term. Among the issues to be explored: the contested legacies of Stonewall; NYU’s role\, then and now; shifts and changes wrought by the last 50 years; and the promises and challenges of queer futures\, in and beyond the academy. \nThe panel brings together leading NYU scholars from across campus. \nKwame Anthony Appiah\, Professor of Philosophy and Law\, NYU Arts & Science and School of Law\nCaroline Dorsen (NUR ’97\, NUR ’14)\, Assistant Professor\, NYU Rory Meyers School of Nursing\nA.B. Huber\, Assistant Professor\, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study\nAnn Pellegrini\, Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis\, NYU Tisch School of the Arts\nKenji Yoshino\, Chief Justice Warren Professor of Constitutional Law\, NYU School of Law \nIntroduction by Katherine Fleming\, NYU Provost \nModerated by Carolyn Dinshaw\, Dean for Humanities\, NYU Arts & Science \nTickets are required for this free event. Limit 1 per person.\nPresented as part of the Skirball Talks series. \nGET YOUR TICKET NOW\nImportant Ticket Information \n• Reserve your ticket online prior to this event. There is a limit of one RSVP per person.\n• RSVP does not guarantee a ticket.\n• Pick up your ticket between 4:30 p.m.—6:10 p.m. on the day of the event. (Earlier the better to avoid lines.)\n• Tickets not claimed by 6:10 p.m. may be released to those on standby.\n• Standby seating\, if available\, will begin at 6:20 p.m.\n• Enjoy the event!
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/is-liberation-academic/
LOCATION:Location: NYU Skirball\, 60 Washington Square South\, New York\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:STEPHEN W. SAWYER'S DEMOS ASSEMBLED: DEMOCRACY & THE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE
DESCRIPTION:Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century\, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press\, 2018) provides us with a fresh\, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis\, and sheds new light on the subsequent reciprocal influence that American thinkers and politicians had on the establishment of post-revolutionary regimes in France. Sawyer argues that the emergence of the stable Third Republic (1870–1940)\, which is typically said to have been driven by idiosyncratic internal factors\, was in fact a deeply transnational\, dynamic phenomenon. \nWith Stephen W. Sawyer\, professor and chair of history\, and director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris\, editor of the Tocqueville Review and associate editor of the Annales. History and Social Sciences. Chaired by Stéphane Gerson (French and French Studies\, NYU). Comments by Edward Berenson (History and French Studies\, NYU)\, Arthur Goldhammer (Center for European Studies\, Harvard University)\, Jennifer Pitts (Political Science\, University of Chicago)\, and Sophia Rosenfeld (History\, University of Pennsylvania). \nIn English \nCo-sponsored by Institute of French Studies\, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies\, Department of History\, and Remarque Institute.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/stephen-w-sawyers-demos-assembled-democracy-the-international-origins-of-the-modern-state/
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SUMMARY:URBAN INTERSECTIONS: BLACK\, QUEER LIVES IN NEW YORK CITY
DESCRIPTION:Few calls to action have been as powerful in movement building as that of the Combahee River Collective in 1977. The collective\, composed of Black feminists who identified as and with the working-class and lesbians\, demanded an active commitment “to struggling against racial\, sexual\, heterosexual\, and class oppression\,” seeing as their “particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.” Decades later\, this intersectional politics helped buoy the Movement for Black lives\, Black Lives Matter\, Black Youth Project 100\, and other 21st century campaigns for racial\, gender\, class\, and sexual justice. In celebration of Black History Month\, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising\, and the boundless\, ongoing relevance of the Combahee River Collective’s message\, this event brings together key activists working at the intersections of Black and queer politics in New York City. \nPanelists:\nKiara St. James\, Co-Founder and ED of New York Trans Advocacy Group\nKleaver Cruz\, Founder\, The Black Joy Project\nJewel Cadet\, Community Organizer with Black Youth Project 100 \nModerated By: Ayasha Guerin\, New York University\, Doctoral Candidate\, SCA and Urban Democracy Lab Doctoral Fellow in Urban Practice \nNote: Our featured image is of Pauli Murray\, lawyer\, Civil Rights Activist\, Episcopal Priest\, and (briefly) New Yorker. Murray identified as a lesbian and a recent biographer described her retroactively as “transgender.” \nPresented as a part of Gallatin’s Black History Month programming. \n  \nNew York University and Gallatin provide reasonable accommodations to people living with disabilities who wish to attend events at the School. For every event\, Gallatin staff will be on hand to assist guests. Please note that the entrance at 715 Broadway is wheelchair accessible. To request accommodations\, such as a sign language interpreter\, assistive listening devices\, or large print programs\, or should you have questions regarding accessibility for an event\, please contact Gallatin’s Office of Special Events by emailing events.gallatin@nyu.edu or by calling 212-992-6328. Should you need an accommodation\, we ask that you send your request as early as possible so that we have time to fulfill your request.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/urban-intersections-black-queer-lives-in-new-york-city/
LOCATION:The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts\, 1 Washington Pl\,\, New York\,\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:LECTURE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s\, the Shah of Iran\, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi\, and the Iranian student opposition abroad\, developed contending narratives of human rights in Iran. While Iranian students worked with Western human rights organizations to highlight the use of torture against political prisoners in Iran\, the Pahlavi state responded by embracing a Third World narrative of human rights that emphasized state sovereignty at the 1968 UN International Conference on Human Rights in Tehran. In this lecture\, Dr. Roham Alvandi examines how both the Shah and his opponents sought to instrumentalize human rights in the international struggle that sparked the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Roham Alvandi is an Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Nixon\, Kissinger\, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, which was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best history books of 2014. He has written extensively on the history of Iran’s foreign relations and his current research focuses on global human rights activism and the origins of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. His work has appeared in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\, Cold War History\, Diplomatic History\, and Iranian Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored:
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/lecture-human-rights-and-the-global-history-of-the-iranian-revolution/
LOCATION:Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\, 255 Sullivan St.\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T180000
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SUMMARY:SPORTS AND THE BLACK MALE BODY
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 28\, 2019\nIn sports the over representation of the black male body as object occupies a space for continuous and expected physical performance. The heightened spectator gaze can vacillate from doting fan to menacing crowd especially now when more professional athletes are actively choosing to exercise their voices on social justice issues. The discussion will examine the history\, legacy and tools for social engagement with Doug Glanville (author\, former American Major League Baseball player\, and former ESPN baseball analyst);  Melvina Lathan (former Chairperson New York State Athletic Commission and Professional Boxing Judge\, Director of Youth Services Yonkers Police Athletic League); Pellom McDaniels III\, Ph.D. (curator of African American collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript\, Archives\, and Rare Book Library at Emory University) and Kevin Merida (Senior Vice President at ESPN and editor in chief of The Undefeated\, a digital platform that mines the intersections of race\, sports and culture). Moderated by Millery Polyné (Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs & Associate Professor\, NYU Gallatin). \nTime:  6:00 – 8:00 pm\nLocation: Silver Center-NYU\, Jurow Lecture Hall\n100 Washington Square East\, Room 101a\, 1st Floor\n(between Waverly Place and Washington Place) \n  \nPlease RSVP: nyuiaaa-cbvc-events@nyu.edu  or (212) 998-IAAA (4222)\nPlease make sure to state the event name and date in your email
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/sports-and-the-black-male-body/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T200000
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SUMMARY:DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE WITH HORTENSE SPILLERS
DESCRIPTION:Women and the Laws: Reading Le Code Noir\nLe Code Noir\, the body of law advanced by the government of Louis XIV in the world of 17th-century France\, is one of the first codified legal documents regarding judicial conduct toward enslaved persons in the French colonies of the New World. As slavery increasingly established an iron-clad relationship between skin color and the absence of human and civil rights\, what implications did it have for other colonial powers operating in the Atlantic context? The terrors of Le Code Noir for the bonded female and her children were determined by the dictum “partus sequitur ventrem”\, Latin for “that which is brought forth follows the womb”. The codification of hereditary racial slavery highlights the contradictions that throw into crisis our entire understanding today of the repertoire of intimacy and sentimentality. \nHortense Spillers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt chair in English at Vanderbilt University; on leave this year from her home institution\, she is serving this semester as the M.H. Abrams distinguished visiting professor in English at Cornell University where she taught from 1987 to 2006. Her essay collection\, Black\, White\, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture appeared in 2003 and has been the subject of various symposiums and critiques; currently at work on two large projects\, the Idea of Black Cultureand the status of women in the revolutionary context of the 18th century\, she has recently published work in the African-American Review\, Callaloo\, and The Bloomsbury Companion to Feminist Theory; in 2017\, she launched the A-Line\, a quarterly of progressive thought and has been a recent recipient of lifetime achievement awards from Callaloo (2016)\, the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2017)\, and the Hubbell Prize for work in American Literature from the American Literature Association of MLA (2019). She lectures widely\, most recently as an international visiting fellow at the Institute for Race\, Gender\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. \nThis Distinguished Faculty Lecture is co-sponsored by NYU Gallatin and the Center for the Study of Africa & the African Diaspora\, the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis\, the Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture\, the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, the Department of English\, and the NYU Center for the Humanities. Presented as a part of Gallatin’s Black History Month programming. \nThis event is currently at capacity\, but please sign up for the wait list by clicking the button above. \n_______________________ \nNew York University and Gallatin provide reasonable accommodations to people living with disabilities who wish to attend events at the School. For every event\, Gallatin staff will be on hand to assist guests. Please note that the entrance at 715 Broadway is wheelchair accessible. To request accommodations\, such as a sign language interpreter\, assistive listening devices\, or large print programs\, or should you have questions regarding accessibility for an event\, please contact Gallatin’s Office of Special Events by emailing events.gallatin@nyu.edu or by calling 212-992-7766. Should you need an accommodation\, we ask that you send your request as early as possible so that we have time to fulfill your request. \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/distinguished-faculty-lecture-with-hortense-spillers/
LOCATION:The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts\, 1 Washington Pl\,\, New York\,\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Rights as Human Rights: A Conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants
DESCRIPTION:Populist nationalism and racist xenophobia are on the rise worldwide\, and immigration policies reflect these trends. Borders are sites of frequent and extreme violations of human rights. Where are the pressure points when working to protect\, defend and promote the human rights of migrants today? What role is there for international human rights law and institutions in addressing abusive immigration practices in the United States? Join us for a conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur\, Felipe González Morales\, about contemporary topics in migration\, with an emphasis on examining U.S. immigration policy through a human rights lens. \nAbout Felipe González Morales\nFelipe González Morales is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants. He is Professor of International Law at the Diego Portales University\, in Santiago\, Chile\, where he is also the Director of a Master in International Human Rights Law. He was a Commissioner and the Rapporteur on Migrants between 2008 and 2015 at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights\, where he was President between 2010-2011. Professor González teaches International Human Rights Law since 2003 at several postgraduate programs at the University Carlos III in Madrid\, as well as in several other universities in Spain. Since 2001\, he teaches at the American University Human Rights Academy in Washington\, D.C. He is the founder and was the first Director of the Center for Human Rights at the Diego Portales University. He is also the founder and was the first Director of a Latin American Network of Human Rights Legal Clinics. Professor González holds a Doctorate and a Master in Advanced Human Rights from University Carlos III and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from American University. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/immigrant-rights-as-human-rights-a-conversation-with-the-un-special-rapporteur-on-the-human-rights-of-migrants/
LOCATION:Location: Vanderbilt Hall\, 40 Washington Square South\, New York City\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:NYCLAHW "THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: THE MEXICAN PUBLIC DEBATE"
DESCRIPTION:The New York Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW) hosts the talk\, “The History of Women’s Suffrage: The Mexican Public Debate”\, presented by scholar Gabriela Cano (Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia / Colegio de México). \nGabriela Cano is a historian of twentieth century Mexico. She is based in Mexico City where she is Professor at El Colegio de México. Her publications focus on the history of gender and sexualities in Mexico. She has authored Se llamaba Elena Arizmendi (Tusquets\, 2010) and coauthored Amalia de Castillo Ledón. Entre las letras\, el poder y la diplomacia (Ciudad Victoria\, 2016). She coedited Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina (Madrid\, Cátedra\, 2006) Gender\, power and politics in Modern Mexico (Duke University Press\, 2006).  Her research has appeared in journals and edited volumes published in Mexico\, the United States\, Spain and Brazil. Her current interests include the history of feminism and  the history of   in Mexico and Latin America. She has served as director of the Gender Studies Program at El Colegio de México and has held visiting academic positions at Stanford University and Columbia University. \nDiscussions are based on pre-circulated papers prepared by each presenter. Please contact Brendan Jordan at baj303@nyu.edu to be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers\, which are circulated one week prior to each meeting. \nSponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University\, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University\, the SUNY-Stony Brook University History Department\, the CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Program in History\, and the Committee on Historical Studies of the New School University \nThe event is free and open to the public. Photo ID required to enter building.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/nyclahw-the-history-of-womens-suffrage-the-mexican-public-debate/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190301T180000
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SUMMARY:SPRING 2019 ARABIC LECTURE SERIES: BELAL FADL
DESCRIPTION:The 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 take place in the Hagop Kevorkian Center Library\, 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South)\, from 6:00-7:30pm unless otherwise noted. Light refreshments and a reception to follow. All speakers and students of Arabic are welcome to attend.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/spring-2019-arabic-lecture-series-belal-fadl/
LOCATION:Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\, 255 Sullivan St.\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190327T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190327T190000
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SUMMARY:LECTURE: ROBERT VITALIS: ENDING OILCRAFT'S SPELL OVER US
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:\nIn 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 a few. Oilcraft is the close kin not of statecraft or the art of diplomacy\, but witchcraft\, a kind of magical thinking on the part of many\, diplomats included\, about a commodity bought and sold on the New York Mercantile Exchange and elsewhere. The same as copper\, coal\, rubber\, palm oil\, tin\, and so on\, all of which were once imagined as vital too. Oilcraft is about the reasoning that makes notions of oil-as-power unquestionably true\, taken for granted\, and Vitalis’ own claim suspect\, jarring\, or risable. If you are unhappy with the witchcraft analogy\, then think instead in terms of “doctrinal verities\,” to borrow a phrase from the linguist Noam Chomsky\, who insists that it is the United States need to “control” Iraqi oil resources drove the war in 2003. \nIn his keynote for the Conference on Energy and the Left\, Vitalis proposes to recover the 1920s progressive era left’s critiques of today’s commonsense beliefs about scarcity and conflict. The roots of oilcraft are found in nineteenth century social Darwinism\, neo-mercantilism\, and geographical determinism\, which\, together with scientific racism\, are all impossible to disentangle from the imperialism of that era. The beliefs have a long half-life. Oilcraft’s debunkers today\, who are likely unaware of the earlier refutations of the imagined laws of resource imperialism\, are found primarily on the right\, not the left\, and promoted by the CATO Institute rather than the Open Society Foundation\, Institute for Policy Studies and the Nation Institute. Today’s Anglo-American left appears wholly under its spell. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Vitalis has taught political science at the University of Pennsylvania since 1999. The London Guardian named his America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier\, a book of the year in 2006. His last book\, White World Order\, Black Power Politics (Cornell University Press\, 2015) moved away from the Middle East to explore the unwritten history of racism and imperialism in American disciplinary international relations and the recovery of its critical “Howard School” tradition. He new book\, Oilcraft: Folkways of Imperialism and Antiimperialism in the Twenty First Century\, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \nSponsored by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies \nCo-sponsored by: \nGraduate School of Arts and Sciences \nMiddle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) \nHistory Graduate Students Association
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/lecture-robert-vitalis-ending-oilcrafts-spell-over-us/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T170000
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SUMMARY:Global Africa\, Migration\, Literature and the Arts
DESCRIPTION: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 impact on\, the people of Africa and its Diaspora through the prism of the arts – literature visual cultures and performances including film\, comics\, graphic arts\, painting\, photography\, music\, and dance. Departing from a critical examination of the discourses of migration\, location\, home and identity in the context of social and cultural transit\, the symposium will position Africans and the African Diaspora as participants and players in the movement of both tangible and intangible matter – multi-generic ideas\, texts\, stories\, memories\, artifacts and performances— as they move through time and space in the World. In the final analysis\, the symposium will highlight the multidimensional nature of the interchange between Africa and other regions of the world as experienced in the realm of the arts\, demonstrating once again the global/international reach and scope of the arts and art movements from Africa and the African Diaspora. \nSchool of Arts and Sciences\, School of Business\, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences\, Center for African Studies\, French department\, Italian department\, and the Zimmerli Art Museum \nConveners: Ousseina Alidou (AMESALL) and Renée Larrier (Dept. of French) \nEmail: globalafrica@sas.rutgers.edu
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/global-africa-migration-literature-and-the-arts/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T200000
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SUMMARY:CONFERENCE: BEYOND TURMOIL AND CONFLICT: IRAQ SINCE 2003
DESCRIPTION:Marking the sixteenth-anniversary of the the 2003 invasion of Iraq\, this event will reflect on the environmental\, political\, cultural\, and social consequences of the 2003 war\, as well as visions for Iraq’s future\, and will center discussions around the implications\, possibilities\, and new directions in the study of modern Iraq. Through the panels and keynote address\, this event will highlight the legacies of consecutive years of war\, violence\, and trauma. However\, this event intends to move past fatalistic narratives of trauma and violence by highlighting how Iraqis continue to narrate their own histories and represent their identities through artistic\, literary\, and cultural production\, protest against violence\, and continue to shape their own future. \nMoreover\, as Iraq continues to receive scholarly interest by historians\, political scientists\, artists\, and anthropologists alike\, and while recent controversies surrounding archives highlight the various ethical questions surrounding research on Iraq\, this event invites scholars and students to reflect on both the hardships and the possibilities in conducting research on/in Iraq. In particular\, and especially in the graduate workshop\, we would like to ask questions about what is at stake with projects on Iraq; what constitutes an archive and what are the ethical implications of using particular archives; what types of histories do Iraqis want told; and finally\, how do we address the recurrent problems and cliches within studies on Iraq. \n  \nSponsor Hagop Kevorkian Center Near Eastern Studies NYU \nCo-Sponsors: \nDepartment of Middle East and Islamic Studies\, Department of History NYU\, Department of Anthropology NYU
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/conference-beyond-turmoil-and-conflict-iraq-since-2003/
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