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  • Economics and Culture 2018 Annual Conference by NYU Development Research Institute, NYU Africa House, and the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at NYU

    Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

      New York University Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor) 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 Overview: There has been increasing interest over the last decade in understanding the role of culture in shaping development outcomes. The push has come from many directions: from studying economic history, from the institutions and growth literature, […]

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  • A CONVERSATION WITH AFRO COLOMBIAN ACTIVIST MIYELA RIASCOS

    Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

    CLACS is proud to present a conversation with Miyela Riascos moderated by Roosbelinda Cardenas, CLACS Visiting Scholar 2018-19. This event is hosted in collaboration with Witness for Peace. About Miyela Riascos: This amazing woman is a Colombian ethno-educator and anthropologist who works with various social organizations and victims' groups in the area of territorial and human […]

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  • Roundtable Discussion with Members of Musical Groups Brownout and Third Root

    CLACS and the Latinx Studies Program at NYU, present a conversation with members of Brownout and Third Root. Brownout and Third Root will speak about the experiences as artists and activists in the present before their performance as Brownout Presents: Fear of a Brown Planet (a tribute Public Enemy's 1990 album Fear of a Black […]

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  • Ida B. Wells Photo Screening

    Roundtable conversation moderated by Pamela Newkirk, with Paula Giddings, Shola Lynch, Louise Greaves, sculptor Richard Hunt, and Michelle Duster, great granddaughter of Ida B. Wells

    Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

    Though virtually forgotten today, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a household name in Black America during much of her lifetime (1863-1931) and was considered the equal of her well-known African American contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989, 55 min) by filmmaker William Greaves retells the dramatic life and […]

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  • “Alufa Rufino, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam.”

    Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

    João Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Brazil, and particularly Bahia, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were mainly Hausas, Nupes, and Yorubas who, once in Brazil, were involved in several slave revolts. […]

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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 […]

  • Artist-in-Residence: Rokia Traoré

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    The Artist-in-Residence Program, first initiated by IAAA in 1996, has become one of the most respected and well attended programs at New York University with audiences particularly attracted to the interdisciplinary nature of the programs. This semester we welcome Malian musician superstar Rokia Traoré. Through three programs curated by her, she shares her work, ideas and philosophy […]

  • Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen, “Economics with a Moral Compass? Welfare Economics: Past, Present and Future”

    Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

    Event Program: 1:30pm – 2:00pm  Doors Open, Guest Arrival 2:00pm – 2:05pm  Welcome Remarks on Behalf of New York University                                              By: Katherine E. Fleming, NYU Provost 2:05pm – 4:00pm  Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen […]

  • Latin America’s 1968 – Marta Minuj´ín

    Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

    As part of the Latin America’s 1968 Colloquium series, New York University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Hemisphiric Institute of Performance and Politics, and The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), are proud to present a conversation with internationally acclaimed Argentine performance and conceptual artist Marta Minujín […]

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    Enforced Disappearances in an Age of Emboldened Repression

    Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY, United States

    Governments 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 […]

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