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Distinguished Speakers Series-Toyin Falola
New York University Silver Center for Arts and Science, Jurrow Hall 31 Washington Pl,, New York, NYToyin Falola, Ph.D., is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. A recipient of ten honorary doctorates, an annual conference has been named after him: TOFAC (Toyin Falola Annual Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora). The Association of Third […]
Artists / Scholars-in-Residence
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 […]
Brujos Screening & Discussion with the Creators!
Brujos, Beyond Representation: Decolonizing & Queering TV We are cosponsoring a screening of the web-tv series Brujos followed by a discussion with Ricardo Gamboa, Isaac Gomez, and Justin Ignatius Mitchell on re-imagining political television in the digital age. Students will get to discuss how one makes political media content outside of the world of cable and network TV. February 26, […]
Gold Mining in Colombia: A Conversation with Photographer Stephen Ferry, Author of La Batea
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesThe Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) presents a conversation with human rights and visual imaging photographer Stephen Ferry author of La Batea. La Batea is the fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, the anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry, La Batea book looks closely at small-scale gold mining in Colombia. The title […]
Is Liberation Academic?
Location: NYU Skirball 60 Washington Square South, New York, United StatesA roundtable of University faculty reflect on Gay Liberation – a movement whose story cannot be told without Stonewall – and consider to what extent liberation is an “academic” question, in both senses of the term. Among the issues to be explored: the contested legacies of Stonewall; NYU’s role, then and now; shifts and changes […]
French Decolonization in Global Perspective
5 Washington Place, Room 101Conference organized by Jessica Pearson (Macalester College) and Herrick Chapman(NYU). This conference will explore the process of French decolonization in the twentieth century in the context of broad global developments, movements, ideas, and policies. It aims to evaluate recent trends in the fields of French history and the history of decolonization and to suggest possible avenues for future […]
CWS Series | Conversation about the work of María Dueñas
CWS Series | Conversation about the work of María Dueñas Venue: KJCC Auditorium // 53 Washington Square South In Spanish Reception to Follow A conversation with the author María Dueñas accompanied by Mariela Dreyfus (NYU) and James D. Fernandez (NYU) María Dueñas is PhD in English Philology and was a full professor at the Universidad […]
NYU Center for French Language presents “La Sonothèque Nomade” at Africa House
NYU Africa House 44 Washington Mews, New York, NYNYU 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 […]
RACISMS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: “INNOCENCE LOST”
King Juan Carlos Center, Room 324CLACS is proud to present “Innocence Lost”, by Marie Cruz Soto (NYU Gallatin) as part of the Racisms in Comparative Perspective Working Group. Abstract: “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 […]
BOOK TALK: AFGHANISTAN RISING WITH FAIZ AHMED
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United StatesAugust 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. […]