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Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture
Location: SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square 4th floor, New York, New YorkAuthor Ed Morales and Professor Ana Maria Dopico from NYU Spanish and Portuguese department will discuss Morales’ new book Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture. Ed Morales is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral […]
Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen, “Economics with a Moral Compass? Welfare Economics: Past, Present and Future”
Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesEvent Program: 1:30pm – 2:00pm Doors Open, Guest Arrival 2:00pm – 2:05pm Welcome Remarks on Behalf of New York University By: Katherine E. Fleming, NYU Provost 2:05pm – 4:00pm Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen […]
Voices From the Battlefront 25 Years Later
Location: SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square 4th floor, New York, New YorkA conversation with independent curator Yasmin Ramirez, and artists Alicia Cristina Grullon and Yasmin Hernandez who will reflect on Marta Moreno Vega’s work and the impact and legacy of her publication exposing and exploring cultural equity, and the task of decolonizing institutions, art history, and more. Yasmin Ramirez, Ph.D., is an independent curator who specializes […]
Book Launch: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, By Alain Bertaud
Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 14A Washington Mews, New York, NY, United StatesOverview: Join us on Tuesday, December 10 at 5:30pm for the launch of Alain Bertaud’s new book from MIT Press, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it, Bertaud argues that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Drawing on five decades […]
Book Discussion: Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race by Jonathan Rosa
How are Latinxs racialized through Language? Stanford professor Jonathan Rosa will be discussing his new book Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a predominantly Latinx Chicago public high school and its surrounding communities, this presentation approaches Latinidad as a crucial site from […]
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 […]
PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesThe exhibition will explore how artists are responding to displacement through their work and practice and will provide a platform for examining visual strategies among contemporary Latinx artists. Participating Artists: Groana Melendez, Francisca Benitez, Melissa Calderon, Tony Peralta, Mi Casa No es Su Casa, Alicia Grullon, Jehdy Vargas, Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Roy Baizan, Shellyne Rodriguez. The […]
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. […]
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 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.