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ALUFA RUFINO, A MAN OF FAITH AND SORCERY ON THE PERIPHERY OF ISLAM
CLACS and the History Department at NYU will be hosting a presentation by Brazilian historian João José Reis titled “Alufa Rufino, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam.” Brazil, and particularly Bahia, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships […]
Skirball Talks: Angela Davis “Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of Black Lives Matter” Lecture Series
Location: NYU Skirball 60 Washington Square South, New York, United StatesWhat 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 […]
INSULAR POSSESSIONS: IMPERIAL LEGACIES OF 1898 WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING OF CALL HER GANDA
TBDCo-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 […]
LATIN AMERICA’S 1968 COLLOQUIM: MARTA MINUJÍN
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesPresentation and dialogue moderated by Edward Sullivan
Enforced Disappearances in an Age of Emboldened Repression
Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY, United StatesGovernments 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 […]
Book Launch: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, By Alain Bertaud
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesOverview: Join 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 […]
African Diaspora Forum-Maya Trotz (U. of South Florida) and Kevin Rhiney (Rutgers U.)
Caribbean in the Flux of Change – People, Land, Air & Sea Battered States and 'Resilient' Futures? A Critical Reflection on the Caribbean post Irma-Maria Kevon Rhiney, Rutgers University Roughly one month after hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the Caribbean nation of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, the Dominican Prime Minister asserted, “we have a unique […]
Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesIn 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.
Black Lives Matter: In Dialogue with a Pioneer
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6Q7n9f1rS5CY-Ox4ptrjgg
End the War on Black People the Urgency of Reparations
Panelist: Dr. Michael Ralph Dr. Vasuki Nesiah Dr. Michael Funk Moderators Kayla Merriwether Dylan Brown