center for the study of africa and the african diaspora
Africa Diaspora Forum-Dr. Aurora Vergara Figuerora
Dr. Aurora Vergara Figueroa, Universidad Icesi (Colombia) Aurora Vergara Figueroa is the director of the Afrodiasporic Studies Center ( Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos) at Icesi University. She is an Afrocolombian who holds a PhD from the Sociology Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she concentrated on the sociological study of Afrocolombians deracinated from […]
Dr. Tejumola Olaniyan “Cartooning the Rwandan Genocide: Propaganda, Pleasure, Evil, Interest.”
Dr. Tejumola Olaniyan will present his paper, "Cartooning the Rwandan Genocide: Propaganda, Pleasure, Evil, Interest." At this forum, This paper asks: what is the role of mass propaganda in the commission of mass-scale evil such as genocide? If the latter is impossible without the former, and pleasure and the pleasurable are at the heart of every successful propaganda, does […]
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 […]
“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 StatesJoão 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. […]
Artist-in-Residence: Rokia Traoré
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 […]
Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United StatesAbstract: Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East […]
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 StatesAs 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 […]
Lecture: Afro-Arab Relations: From the Common Struggle to the “New Scramble”
Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South), New York, United StatesLecture with Rawia Tawfik Abstract: In the mid-twentieth century, Arab and African countries waged a common struggle against colonialism and racial segregation. Arabs supported the liberation of African colonies and the isolation of apartheid South Africa. In their turn, newly independent African countries showed solidarity with Arabs in their conflict against Israel. With international […]
Indocumentales-En el Séptimo día/On The Seventh Day
The 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?, are proud to announce the official re-launch of INDOCUMENTALES - a film and conversation series committed to exploring the multiplicity of Latin American migrant experiences in our country […]
ARE WE POST-FRANCOPHONE YET? – KAOUTAR HARCHI & LIA BROZGAL
La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesKaoutar Harchi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Musée du Quai Branly and visiting professor at NYU (French Literature, Culture and Thought and Institute of French Studies). A sociologist of culture, her work revolves around francophonie as an intellectual and social field and the trajectories of Algerian novelists who have obtained recognition in France. She is the author of Je […]