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REVOLUTIONIZING THE PUBLIC MUSEUM WITH VISITING NYU BUENOS AIRES PROFESSOR FLORENCIA MALBRÁN
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 404 53 Washington Square South, New York, NYoin 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 […]
Institute of African American Affairs and Center for Black Visual Culture Presents: Billie Holiday: An Evening with Lady Day in Photos and Song
NYU Silver Center 31 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003, New York, NYBorn 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 […]
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 […]
Black Internationalism and New York City
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesThe Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) and The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) and The Department of History, New York University and The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies host the CSAAD-ASWAD Medial Meeting May 2-3, 2019: BLACK INTERNATIONALISM AND NEW YORK CITY […]
Book talk with Dr. Benjamin Talton and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Please join The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at a special event to celebrate the publication of my new book, In About this Event Please join The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at a special event to celebrate the publication of my new book, In […]
Africa~Diaspora Forum- Kenda Mutongi
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesKenda Mutongi teaches a wide range of courses in African history, world history, and gender history. She is the author of two award-winning books: Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago UP, 2017) and Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya(Chicago UP, 2007). She has also published several articles in the major African […]
Our Curated Scene: DIY Publishing, Zines & Archive
Location: SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square 4th floor, New York, New YorkOur Curated Scene: DIY Publishing, Zines & Archive October 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 SCA Flex Space
Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesIn 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.
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Conference
College of William and MaryASWAD’s 10th Biennial Conference will be held at William & Mary from 5-9 November, 2019
Dropping BLKC (Black Latinas Know Collective) Knowledge
NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl New York, NY 10003In 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. . . . . […]