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SUMMARY:CWS Series | Conversation about the work of María Dueñas
DESCRIPTION:CWS Series | Conversation about the work of María Dueñas\n\nVenue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South\nIn Spanish\nReception to Follow\n\nA conversation with the author María Dueñas \naccompanied by Mariela Dreyfus (NYU) and James D. Fernandez (NYU) \nMaría Dueñas is PhD in English Philology and was a full professor at the Universidad de Murcia. She has also taught at American universities\, and has written academic papers and participated in numerous educational\, cultural and editorial projects. \nAfter two decades in academia (English Philology\, Universidad de Murcia) María Dueñas burst on to the literary scene in 2009 with the publication of her first novel El tiempo entre costuras (The Time In Between)\, one of the most remarkable publishing sensations in recent history. The novel would eventually be translated into thirty-five languages\, and adapted into a wildly successful television series. \nHer second novel Misión Olvido (The Heart Has Its Reasons\, 2012) was another bestseller; it is set largely at a fictional university in California. \nLa Templanza (The Vineyard)\, her third novel\, which takes place in Mexico City\, Havana and Jerez de la Frontera\, is currently being made into a series by Atresmedia and Amazon. \nMaría published her latest novel in 2018. Las Hijas del Capitán\, and includes a carefully documented portrait of the colonia of real-life Spanish immigrants who were living in New York City in the early months of 1936. Las hijas del capitán. was the best selling work of Spanish-language fiction of 2018. \n\n\n\n\nSponsors
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/cws-series-conversation-about-the-work-of-maria-duenas/
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SUMMARY:NYU Center for French Language presents “La Sonothèque Nomade” at Africa House
DESCRIPTION:NYU Center for French Language presents “La Sonothèque Nomade” at Africa House – April 4-5\, 2019\nThe 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 with a global outlook\, collecting songs and lullabies from somewhere or other\, accompanied by accounts and recordings. The sum of these portraits build up to create a gallery of portraits\, intended to enrich the Sonothèque. \nThis program is part of the Le Festival des cinq continents\, an annual literary event\, organized in partnership with the international organization of La Francophonie. \nA Nomadic Experience\nCreated in 2018 by performer and musician Carine Henry\, in collaboration with actor and theatre director Jérôme Bouvet\, the goal of the sound library is to record songs and lullabies in as many languages as possible. They meet people in their home or in a public space and record contributions\, following up with an interview afterwards to better understand the link that ties the singer to the song. The Sonothèque Nomade recorded songs in France and in Switzerland\, and their 2-day residency at NYU Africa House will be their first residency within the Americas. The full extent of their work will be later presented at the Paléo Festival\, the biggest open-air music festival of Switzerland\, in July 2020. \nAt NYU\, the Sonothèque Nomade will record songs and lullabies from students and professors. \nThe NYU Center for French language and Cultures is a creative partner of the Sonothèque Nomade. \nWhen & Where\nNYU Africa House\, 44 Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003 \nApril 4\, 2019 1:00pm – 5:00pm \nApril 5\, 2019 9:00am – 12:00pm \nArt Direction\nJérôme Bouvet and Carine Henry \nFor more info about the Sonothèque Nomade project\, please visit https://www.lafaussecompagnie.fr \nFor more info about the Sonothèque Nomade’s residency at NYU\, please contact Guillaume Parodi at gp70@nyu.edu or (212) 998 8758. \nVisit the NYU Arts and Science page for more information: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/frenchcenter/festival5continents/schedule0/sononomade.html \n\nCo-Host\nThe NYU Center for French Language and Cultures exists to promote academic and cultural activity relating to the French-speaking world at New York University\, and to foster exchange between the University and French and Francophone communities. It serves the French Department\, the Institute of French Studies and La Maison Française\, and maintains close ties with NYU-Paris\, coordinating with all four. Recognized as a Center of Excellence by the French Embassy\, it also collaborates with their Cultural Services on French and Francophone-related academic and cultural projects. The NYU Center for French Language and Cultures organizes at least one annual conference\, hosts the regular series “Machines à écrire”\, and has invited a regular stream of distinguished visitors to lecture at NYU. It also sponsors events relating to French and Francophone academic and cultural life organized by other members of the NYU community. The Center is eager to expand its ties with other departments and programs at NYU. It was first founded in 1978 by Professor Tom Bishop who was its director from then until 2016.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/nyu-center-for-french-language-presents-la-sonotheque-nomade-at-africa-house-2/
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SUMMARY:RACISMS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: “INNOCENCE LOST”
DESCRIPTION:CLACS is proud to present “Innocence Lost”\,  by Marie Cruz Soto (NYU Gallatin) as part of the Racisms in Comparative Perspective Working Group. \nAbstract: \n“Innocent Lost” is the fifth chapter of The Life of Isla Nena: Disposability\, Unruliness and the Colonial Order of Things in Vieques\, Puerto Rico.  The book manuscript broadly traces the makings of disposability and the efforts to unmake it.  It delves into how islanders have been branded disposable and into how that disposability has hinged on the value assigned by empires to the island over the past five centuries.  The colonial order of things in Vieques has made not only racialized others but disposable ones.  Chapter 5 discusses the entrance of the U.S. Navy into Vieques and the changes it forced upon the island-community.  The 1940s expropriations of three-fourths of the island to make way for the Navy destroyed agricultural activities and broke people’s attachments to land and barrios.  It precipitated a re-articulation of communal bonds and overall politics of belonging.  Furthermore\, the arrival of the Navy made the Viequense identity inseparable from the experience of displacement and dispossession.  To be a Viequense after the 1940s has been in many ways to be an expropiada.  But an unruly one. \nAbout Marie Cruz Soto: \nMarie Cruz Soto received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and teaches at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study\, New York University.  She is interested in processes of becoming that denote the workings of empires\, and in decolonizing struggles to un-become.  Her works focuses on Vieques\, Puerto Rico\, and explores how colonialism\, particularly in its militarized iteration\, has impacted the island-community.  She is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Life of Isla Nena: Disposability\, Unruliness and the Colonial Order of Things in Vieques\, Puerto Rico.  It traces how Viequenses have been branded disposable through a long history of violent imperial interventions.  She argues that the marking of disposability ensures a vulnerable and unruly population. \nCruz Soto is also a peace activist who has participated in Viequense community initiatives\, in the organization New York Solidarity with Vieques and in transnational networks of solidarity against U.S. military bases. \nAbout Racisms in Comparative Perspective Working Group: \nIn this new/old political context\, discussions about race and racisms have exploded. Postraciality and the multicultural rights frame are being challenged at the core and more intensely than ever before\, glimpses of proto-fascist policies and actions are on the rise.  As a working group which is part of the larger Red de Investigacion Accion Antiracista en las Americas (RAIAR)\, we want to continue contributing to the debate on how best to fight against this emergent racist/classist backlash. The analysis of race and racism in the Americas being done by our presenters since 2010 when Carmen Medeiros and Pamela Started the started the group. \nThis event is free and open to the public. ID is required to access the building. The conversation will be held in English. \n 
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: AFGHANISTAN RISING WITH FAIZ AHMED
DESCRIPTION: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. Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and remote frontier\, his recently published book Afghanistan Rising rediscovers a time when Kabul stood proudly as a center of constitutional politics and contested visions of reform in the greater Islamicate world. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCosponsors: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFaiz Ahmed is Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He specializes in legal and constitutional history in the Ottoman Empire\, Middle East\, and South-Central Asia\, as well as the social history of diasporic communities connected to these regions. His first book\, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires\, was published with Harvard University Press in November 2017. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOur discussant\, Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer\, is currently an Assistant Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU.  Ayşe is a specialist in Middle Eastern history with a focus on early modern Ottoman and Safavid Empires. Her research interests are centered around questions surrounding the Sunni-Shi‘ite conflict during the early modern period and its enmeshment with issues of political\, religious\, and fiscal legitimacy in inter-confessional and inter-imperial contact zones. \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/book-talk-afghanistan-rising-with-faiz-ahmed/
LOCATION:Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\, 255 Sullivan St.\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:REVOLUTIONIZING THE PUBLIC MUSEUM WITH VISITING NYU BUENOS AIRES PROFESSOR FLORENCIA MALBRÁN
DESCRIPTION:oin us for lunch with Dr. Malbrán\, critic and curator of contemporary art\, as well as co-instructor for the upcoming course Art and Politics in the City: NYC and Buenos Aires. The talk will center on Dr.Malbrán’s current research\, an examination of micromuseums in Argentina\, particularly the small Ingeniero White Harbor Museum. In discussing how museums operate\, Dr. Malbrán will focus on groundbreaking curatorial programs that encourage spectators to deconstruct objects while inviting them to confront eurocentrism and embrace a politics of difference\, crucial to citizenship today. Dr. Malbrán specializes in Latin American art history\, contemporary art\, curatorial studies\, and critical theory. Also a curator\, she has organized exhibitions in Argentina\, the United States\, Canada\, Brazil\, Colombia\, and Paraguay. She has been in residence in France\, Switzerland and Spain\, and was the Hilla Rebay International Fellow at the Guggenheim Museums in New York\, Bilbao\, and Venice. \nThis will also be a great opportunity for students to meet both instructors of the new Art & Politics in the City course\, a year-long\, transnational\, multi-modal experience bringing arts\, humanities\, social science\, and digital technology to bear in exploration of street art and what it says about life in NYC and Buenos Aires. For those unable to make it but still interested in learning more about Dr. Malbrán’s work or the Art & Politics course\, fill out an interest form here. \n  \nAbout Dr. Florencia Malbrán \nFlorencia Malbrán is a faculty member at New York University in Buenos Aires\, and was Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University in Spring 2017. She holds a Ph.D. from Rosario National University\, Argentina\, and a M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies\, Bard College\, New York\, where she was a Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation Fellow. Specializing in Latin American art history\, contemporary art\, curatorial studies\, and critical theory\, Malbrán has served on the faculties of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in New York City and Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. \nAlso a curator\, she has organized exhibitions in Argentina\, the United States\, Canada\, Brazil\, Colombia\, and Paraguay. She has been in residence in France\, Switzerland\, and Spain\, and was the Hilla Rebay International Fellow at the Guggenheim Museums in New York\, Bilbao\, and Venice. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo. \nHer shows have been reviewed in Clarín and La Nación in Argentina\, O Globo in Brazil\, El Tiempo in Colombia\, and Artforum in the United States. Selected catalog writing includes essays on Guillermo Kuitca and on Pablo Siquier for Argentina’s La Nación book series on seminal national artists\, on Ernesto Neto for the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art\, and on Ragnar Kjartansson for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/revolutionizing-the-public-museum-with-visiting-nyu-buenos-aires-professor-florencia-malbran/
LOCATION:King Juan Carlos Center\, Room 404\, 53 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY
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SUMMARY:Institute of African American Affairs and Center for Black Visual Culture Presents: Billie Holiday: An Evening with Lady Day in Photos and Song
DESCRIPTION:Born April 7\, 1915\, Billie Holiday is considered one of the greatest American jazz singers of all time. Author Grayson Dantzic shares behind-the scenes anecdotes and images from his 18-year journey making his book Jerry Dantzic:Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill. Through the rediscovering of his late father Jerry Dantzic’s unseen photographs of Billie Holiday taken in 1957\, the previously known narrative changes resulting in a rediscovering of her humanity. Grayson Dantzic will be in conversation with jazz recording artist\, composer and activist Candice Hoyes as they discuss the life and legacy of the amazing and iconic Lady Day. Candice Hoyes will perform and be accompanied by pianist Jonathan Thomas. Moderated by Daniel Dawson\, NYU Gallatin professor and member of Kamoinge\, a pioneering collective of African American photographers founded in 1963. Talk to be followed by a book signing. \nTime: 6 – 8 pm\nLocation: Heights Alumni Lounge\nNYU Silver Center • 32 Waverly Place\, 1st Floor\n(between Washington Square East and Greene Street) \nPlease RSVP: nyuiaaa-cbvc-events@nyu.edu or (212) 998-IAAA (4222)\nPlease make sure to state the event name and date in your email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on social media @IAAACBVC \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrayson Dantzic is an archivist\, curator\, documentary videographer\,  musician and photographer. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Palmer School of Library & Information Science of Long Island University. He is the special projects archivist for the Warner Music Group Archives and the Paul Seligman Collection at the Metropolitan Opera Archives and has worked with many photographers and their collections. In 1999\, he and his mother established the Jerry Dantzic Archives. He edited and wrote text for the books Jerry Dantzic’s New York: The Fifties in Focus (Edition Stemmle\, 2002) and Jerry Dantzic: Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill (Thames & Hudson\, 2017). He has curated many photographic exhibitions\, and is co-founder and Executive Vice President of the American Photography Archives Group (APAG) since it began in 2000. Currently he is working with Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) on a 4-year traveling exhibition based on his father’s unseen Lady Day photographs from 1957 in Jerry Dantzic: Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill. \n  \n  \n\nCandice Hoyes is a vocalist/composer NPR distinguished as “intentional about making music that reflects the world she lives in\, as well as sounding great and grooving.” Soulful and classically trained\, her love of music began at age six as she began studying piano and eavesdropping as her grandfather spun iconic jazz vinyls that filled their home. Hoyes began formal vocal study as an undergraduate at Harvard University\, soon gracing the international stages of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center as an award-winning classical soloist.  In 2015\, she toured and recorded with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under artistic director Wynton Marsalis\, before releasing her own critically-acclaimed album debut\, On A Turquoise Cloud.  Hoyes has performed with Marsalis\, Ray Angry of The Roots\, Philip Glass\, Deepak Chopra\, and Wycliffe Gordon. In 2017\, Hoyes delivered a TED Talk performance and created and led a new performance lecture series for Jazz at Lincoln Center and City University of New York. She is recording her second album\, due in 2019. \n  \n  \n\nWith his musical roots firmly planted in his gospel upbringing\, jazz pianist Jonathan Thomas brings a soulful and meaningful intent to every note he plays. Thomas earned a BFA on a full scholarship at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in 2015 and began his study at The Juilliard School in 2017 for a Masters in Music. He has been student to pianists Aaron Goldberg\, Dan Nimmer\, Aaron Parks\, and Taylor Eigsti. In 2012 he was awarded The ASCAP foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award.  Deemed stunningly good by the New York Times\, Thomas has played in jazz festivals around the world\, opened for Benny Golson\, and has performed with Charles Toliver\, Bruce Williams\, Richie Goods\, Jazzmeia Horn\, and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra\, among many others. He can be found at his bi-weekly residency at Smalls Jazz Club which he has hosted since 2015. \n  \n  \n  \n\nA multi-talented artist\, Daniel Dawson has worked as a photographer\, filmmaker\, curator\, arts administrator\, consultant and scholar. He has served as Curator of Photography\, Film and Video at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC)\, Director of Special Projects at the Caribbean Cultural Center (NYC)\,  Program Manager at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC)  and Curatorial Consultant and Director of Education at the Museum for African Art (NYC).  As a photographer\, he has shown in over 35 exhibitions. In addition he has curated more than 70 exhibitions including Harlem Heyday: The Photographs of James Van Der Zee and The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava. Professor Dawson has also been associated with many prize-winning films including Head and Heart by James Mannas and Capoeiras of Brazil by Warrington Hudlin.  He has also taught seminars on African Spirituality in the Americas at the University of Iowa\, Columbia University\, New York University and Yale University.  Professor Dawson is currently a member of Kamoinge\, a pioneering collective of African American photographers founded in 1963. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on social media @IAAACBVC
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/institute-of-african-american-affairs-and-center-for-black-visual-culture-presents-billie-holiday-an-evening-with-lady-day-in-photos-and-song/
LOCATION:NYU Silver Center\, 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, New York\, NY
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SUMMARY:African Diaspora Forum-Maya Trotz (U. of South Florida) and Kevin Rhiney (Rutgers U.)
DESCRIPTION:Caribbean in the Flux of Change – People\, Land\, Air & Sea \n  \nBattered States and ‘Resilient’ Futures? A Critical Reflection on the Caribbean post Irma-Maria \nKevon Rhiney\, Rutgers University \n  \nRoughly one month after hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the Caribbean nation of Dominica\, Roosevelt Skerrit\, the Dominican Prime Minister asserted\, “we have a unique opportunity to be an example to the world\, an example of how an entire nation rebounds from disaster and how an entire nation can be climate resilient for the future.” Skerrit’s message relays a common theme emerging throughout the Caribbean after the devastating 2017 hurricane season\, that saw two of the most powerful hurricanes in recorded history wreaking havoc across the region. Though Irma and Maria serve as a stark reminder of how vulnerable the Caribbean is to extreme climate events\, there seem to be a growing emphasis on the opportunities presented by the post-hurricane situation. Ideas around resilience and ‘building back better’ are increasingly being used to justify recovery efforts aimed at rethinking existing development paradigms. At the same time\, events that have unfolded since Irma and Maria have revealed just how much these ‘natural’ disasters intertwine with underlying issues of non/sovereignty and uneven development. In this talk\, I demonstrate how the current post-hurricane situation has become a highly contested and politicized post/colonial terrain\, and offer some initial thoughts on how we might best understand these recent developments. This includes a foregrounding of the historical legacies driving modern-day vulnerabilities across the region\, and a rethinking of ‘resilience’ as a precondition for securing sustainable Caribbean futures under a changing climate. \n  \n  \nCaribbean People Centered Resilient Futures   \nMaya Trotz\, University of South Florida \n  \nResilience\, Build Back Better\, Climate Adaptation – commonly used terms in the Caribbean region today for new climate financing mechanisms like the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Having a job that puts food on the table gets packaged as investments in workforce development with a particular emphasis on gender\, improved irrigation for agriculture\, value add nutritional crops\, and improved livelihoods. Restoring a coral reef devastated by an earthquake and/or hurricane becomes a coastal resilience project to increase biodiversity\, flood protection\, science literacy on climate change\, the number of women licensed as tour guides\, and improve livelihoods. As the region plans to raise the funds and spend billions of dollars on infrastructure for the provision of food\, water\, electricity\, transportation etc.\, designing the projects for that investment provides opportunities for meaningful community engagement\, including inter island and diaspora relations. Using projects that I have worked on in the Caribbean\, this talk discusses opportunities and challenges to build more community focused solutions and management practices for critical resources. These projects range from 1) Water Sector Resilience for Sustainability in Barbados\, a GCF funded project to the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center for the Barbados Water Authority\, 2) Reefs of Hope\, a $100 million dollar 100&Change proposal\, and 3) a sustainability challenge for high school students in 12 Caribbean countries\, the Sagicor Visionaries Challenge.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africadiaspora-forum-3/
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