africa
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 […]
Our Curated Scene: DIY Publishing, Zines & Archive
Location: SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square 4th floor, New York, New YorkOur Curated Scene: DIY Publishing, Zines & Archive October 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 SCA Flex Space
Indocumentales – Sanctuary (2019) Screening
Mon, October 21, 2019 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT King Juan Carlos I Center 53 Washington Sq S Auditorium New York, NY 10012
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.
Artist-in-Residence: Taiye Selasi
19 Washington Sq. North New York, NY, United StatesA writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent, born in London and raised in Boston, now living in Rome and Berlin, who has studied Latin and music, Taiye Selasi is herself a study in the modern meaning of identity. In 2005 she published the much-discussed (and controversial) essay "Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What Is an […]
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
The African is a Country-CSAAD Dialogues: “AfroMexico”
Panelists Dr. Doris Careaga Coleman Dr. Etienne Mulumeoderhawa Mufungizi Josiane Moukam Hosted By Ebony Bailey Online:YouTube.com/africaisacountrytv
Aligning African Worlds: Climate Change and the Global South
Panelist Dr. Nnimmo Bassey: Benin City, Nigeria Dr. Paulette Bynoe: Georgetown, Guyana UNEP Deputy Executive Director Joyce Msuya: Nairobi, Kenya Dr. Ulric Trotz: Belize Moderator Dr. Michael A. Gomez