CIT.I.ZEN.SHIP: REFLECTIONS ON RIGHTS
Department of Photography 721 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York
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Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors
Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street, New YotkBOOK TALK: SOUNDING ISLAM: VOICE, MEDIA AND SONIC ATMOSPHERE IN AN INDIAN OCEAN W/ PATRICK EISENLOHR
Location: Hegop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan St. (at Washington Square South), New YorkWeek of Events
CIT.I.ZEN.SHIP: REFLECTIONS ON RIGHTS
October 4, 2018 - January 18, 2019 Department of Photography & Imaging Galleries NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway Lobby & 8th floor Lorie Novak and Deborah Willis, Ph.D., curators Riana Gideon, assistant curator To accept one’s past — one’s history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is […]
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Africa Diaspora Forum: Keisha-Khan Perry from Brown University
Keisha-Khan Perry from Brown University will be joining the Center of the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) to present her research. Dr. Perry's talk will focus on the political work of poor black women in struggles for land and housing rights in cities throughout the Americas, this presentation examines the gendered […]
Monday, November 12, 2018
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November 12, 2018 -Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors
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November 12, 2018 -BOOK TALK: SOUNDING ISLAM: VOICE, MEDIA AND SONIC ATMOSPHERE IN AN INDIAN OCEAN W/ PATRICK EISENLOHR
Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights Actors
César Rodríguez-Garavito, co-editor of Rising to the Populist Challenge: A New Playbook for Human Rights, will speak on the new ideas and innovations that are emerging in response to populist regimes’ crackdown on civil society. Written by scholars and advocates in challenging political settings from around the world, this book offers ideas and inspiration to their peers […]
BOOK TALK: SOUNDING ISLAM: VOICE, MEDIA AND SONIC ATMOSPHERE IN AN INDIAN OCEAN W/ PATRICK EISENLOHR
Book Talk with Patrick Eisenlohr, University of Göttingen and Faye Ginsberg David B. Kriser Professor, NYU Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
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November 13, 2018 -Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture
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November 13, 2018 -THE THREE PATRIARCHS OF EMBATTLED LOVE: CASTE, RELIGION AND STATE
Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture
Author 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 […]
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THE THREE PATRIARCHS OF EMBATTLED LOVE: CASTE, RELIGION AND STATE
A talk by Meena Kandasamy In this talk, Meena Kandasamy, Gallatin’s Global Faculty-in-Residence and author of The Gypsy Goddess (Harper, 2014), discusses her site-responsive chronicle of the Dharmapuri atrocity which occurred in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. On one day in October 2012, in response to the love affair between a caste-Hindu Vanniyar woman and a […]
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
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November 15, 2018 -UNRULY VISIONS: THE AESTHETIC PRACTICES OF QUEER DIASPORA
UNRULY VISIONS: THE AESTHETIC PRACTICES OF QUEER DIASPORA
a book launch & roundtable with Licia Fiol-Matta, Gayatri Gopinath, Lisa Lowe, Ritty Lukose, Manijeh Moradian, & Tavia Nyong’o November 15, Thursday, 6 to 8 pm Licia Fiol-Matta, Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Literatures, New York University Gayatri Gopinath, Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University Lisa Lowe, English, Tufts University Ritty Lukose, Gallatin, New York University Manijeh Moradian,Women’s, Gender & […]
Friday, November 16, 2018
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November 16, 2018 -INSULAR POSSESSIONS: IMPERIAL LEGACIES OF 1898 WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING OF CALL HER GANDA
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November 16, 2018 -Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway
INSULAR POSSESSIONS: IMPERIAL LEGACIES OF 1898 WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING OF CALL HER GANDA
Co-sponsored by the NYU Native Studies Forum, the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program in the NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis. The year 1898 has conventionally been regarded as the American “imperial moment,” when the United States acquired and occupied a number of island nations, both in the […]
Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway
Abstract: Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East […]
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Saturday, November 17, 2018
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November 17, 2018 -Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen, “Economics with a Moral Compass? Welfare Economics: Past, Present and Future”
Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen, “Economics with a Moral Compass? Welfare Economics: Past, Present and Future”
Event 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 […]
Sunday, November 18, 2018
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