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 […]
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 […]
Lecture 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 […]
Overview: Join us on Tuesday, December 10 at 5:30pm for the launch of Alain Bertaud’s new book from MIT Press, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it, Bertaud argues that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Drawing on five decades […]
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 […]
NYU Center for French Language presents “La Sonothèque Nomade” at Africa House – April 4-5, 2019 The Center for French Language and Cultures is happy to invite you to La Sonothèque Nomade – an artistic residency and musical event on Thursday and Friday, April 4-5, 2019. La Sonothèque Nomade is a lively, nomadic, and poetic space of listening and recording […]
Our Curated Scene: DIY Publishing, Zines & Archive October 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 SCA Flex Space
In 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.
Panelist: Dr. Michael Ralph Dr. Vasuki Nesiah Dr. Michael Funk Moderators Kayla Merriwether Dylan Brown
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
