CSAAD
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 […]
Black Internationalism and New York City
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesThe Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) and The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) and The Department of History, New York University and The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies host the CSAAD-ASWAD Medial Meeting May 2-3, 2019: BLACK INTERNATIONALISM AND NEW YORK CITY […]
Book talk with Dr. Benjamin Talton and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Please join The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at a special event to celebrate the publication of my new book, In About this Event Please join The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at a special event to celebrate the publication of my new book, In […]
Africa~Diaspora Forum- Kenda Mutongi
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesKenda Mutongi teaches a wide range of courses in African history, world history, and gender history. She is the author of two award-winning books: Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago UP, 2017) and Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya(Chicago UP, 2007). She has also published several articles in the major African […]
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.
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Conference
College of William and MaryASWAD’s 10th Biennial Conference will be held at William & Mary from 5-9 November, 2019
Dropping BLKC (Black Latinas Know Collective) Knowledge
NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl New York, NY 10003In this interactive roundtable, members of the newly formed Black Latinas Know Collective (BLKC) will discuss the BLCK Statement (https://www.blacklatinasknow.org/) and the ways in which Black Latina scholars and their knowledge productions challenge and re-think Latinx Studies, Black Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and traditional social science and humanities disciplines. . . . . […]
Artist-In-Residence: Taiye Selasi
A 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 […]