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The Shadow Crisis and the Matter of Defense Funds in Scottsboro
20 Cooper Square 20 Cooper SquareWednesday, January 31st, 2024 5:30pm - 7:00pm 20 Cooper Square, Room 101 Register here for in-person Attend via Zoom here The central crisis in the Scottsboro case of the 1930s was to keep these boys alive by freeing them from prison. Yet, the well-being of the boys and their families proved to be the crisis […]
Graduate Writing Workshop Series
The workshop is a grad-student-led space for junior scholars whose work spans various geographies related to Africa and its diaspora. This forum primarily comprises doctoral students in the History Department at NYU but is also open to students outside the department and the History field. Generally, students present projects related to their Ph.D. research, including […]
Critics of the Oyo Empire and Atlantic Modernity in the Age of Revolution: Rethinking Black Atlantic Historiography with Archaeology and Òrìṣà Archives
NYU Silver Center 31 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003, New YorkDecember 4th, 2023 5:30 pm -7:00 pm Silver Center, Hemmerdinger Hall Register here for in-person Attend via Zoom here In this talk, Ogundiran will discuss the debates and dialogues that happened in the Oyo Empire (West Africa) in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries about rights and privileges, marginalization and power, and politics of difference […]