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Artists / Scholars-in-Residence
CSAAD’s inaugural Artist/Scholar-in-Residence will be author Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions and This Mournable Body. She will be on campus February 18 to 28, 2019. Tsitsi Dangarembga is a writer, filmmaker, teacher and cultural activist, began writing plays at the University of Zimbabwe, where THE LOST OF THE SOIL (1983) and SHE NO LONGER […]
Monday, February 25, 2019
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
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February 26, 2019 -Migration as Survival in the Era of Climate Crisis
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February 26, 2019 -Brujos Screening & Discussion with the Creators!
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February 26, 2019 -Gold Mining in Colombia: A Conversation with Photographer Stephen Ferry, Author of La Batea
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February 26, 2019 -SCREENING – SPEAK UP (OUVRIR LA VOIX)
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February 26, 2019 -Is Liberation Academic?
Migration as Survival in the Era of Climate Crisis
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Department of Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Rising sea levels, drought, food insecurity, intensified hurricanes, and wildfires are some of the many markers of the exacerbating climate crisis. Despite the […]
Brujos Screening & Discussion with the Creators!
Brujos, Beyond Representation: Decolonizing & Queering TV We are cosponsoring a screening of the web-tv series Brujos followed by a discussion with Ricardo Gamboa, Isaac Gomez, and Justin Ignatius Mitchell on re-imagining political television in the digital age. Students will get to discuss how one makes political media content outside of the world of cable and network TV. February 26, […]
Gold Mining in Colombia: A Conversation with Photographer Stephen Ferry, Author of La Batea
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) presents a conversation with human rights and visual imaging photographer Stephen Ferry author of La Batea. La Batea is the fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, the anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry, La Batea book looks closely at small-scale gold mining in Colombia. The title […]
SCREENING – SPEAK UP (OUVRIR LA VOIX)
With director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent. In this installation of the 21st Century/New African and African Diaspora Writings and Arts Series, women of African descent in France and Belgium converse about what it means to be a woman today and belong to the Afro community in the documentary film Speak Up […]
Is Liberation Academic?
A roundtable of University faculty reflect on Gay Liberation – a movement whose story cannot be told without Stonewall – and consider to what extent liberation is an “academic” question, in both senses of the term. Among the issues to be explored: the contested legacies of Stonewall; NYU’s role, then and now; shifts and changes […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
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February 27, 2019 -STEPHEN W. SAWYER’S DEMOS ASSEMBLED: DEMOCRACY & THE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE
STEPHEN W. SAWYER’S DEMOS ASSEMBLED: DEMOCRACY & THE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press, 2018) provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political […]
Thursday, February 28, 2019
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February 28, 2019 -SPORTS AND THE BLACK MALE BODY
SPORTS AND THE BLACK MALE BODY
Thursday, February 28, 2019 In sports the over representation of the black male body as object occupies a space for continuous and expected physical performance. The heightened spectator gaze can vacillate from doting fan to menacing crowd especially now when more professional athletes are actively choosing to exercise their voices on social justice issues. The […]
Friday, March 1, 2019
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March 1, 2019 -NYCLAHW “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: THE MEXICAN PUBLIC DEBATE”
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March 1, 2019 -SPRING 2019 ARABIC LECTURE SERIES: BELAL FADL
NYCLAHW “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: THE MEXICAN PUBLIC DEBATE”
The New York Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW) hosts the talk, "The History of Women’s Suffrage: The Mexican Public Debate", presented by scholar Gabriela Cano (Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia / Colegio de México). Gabriela Cano is a historian of twentieth century Mexico. She is based in Mexico City where she is Professor at El Colegio de […]
SPRING 2019 ARABIC LECTURE SERIES: BELAL FADL
The Hagop Kevorkian Center and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU kindly invite you to attend our Spring 2019 Arabic Lecture Series. The Series is a student-led initiative to encourage academic and intellectual discussion in Arabic of history, politics and the arts. All events are open to the public, and will […]
Saturday, March 2, 2019
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Sunday, March 3, 2019
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