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BOOK TALK: AFGHANISTAN RISING WITH FAIZ AHMED

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United States

August 19, 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Britain. Commemorating the roots and legacies of that watershed event, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to form a fully sovereign government, ratify a constitution, and promulgate an original body of national laws after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. […]

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 […]

Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme

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

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.

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Dropping BLKC (Black Latinas Know Collective) Knowledge

NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl New York, NY 10003

In 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. . . . . […]

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