CSAAD Afro-Asia Project Dr. Quito J. Swan Wednesday, January 29, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite NEW YORK, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98598651350 Quito J. Swan's talk, Too Dark for the World, explores Black internationalism and decolonization in Oceania. Drawing from archival research conducted across Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, […]
CSAAD Book Launch Lecture Event Dr. Natanya Duncan Monday, February 3rd, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite NEW YORK, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92704020760 During the 1920s and 1930s, women members of the largest social justice movement of the 20th Century, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), […]
CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Thursday, February 20th, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Abu Dhabi New York University 19 Washington SQ North New York City, NY 10012 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95296862039 This panel event will explore themes of Pan-Africanism. Dr. McDuffie considers the significance of the U.S.Midwest to shaping twentieth-century Pan-Africanism through Garveyism. Dr. […]
CSAAD Afro-Asia Project CHE Onejoon & Sun A Moon Thursday, March 20, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cooper SQ Room 101 NEW YORK, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94185666385 This film screening and discussion explores the formation of Africa Town near Camp Casey, a U.S. military base located close to the Korean […]
Tuesday, April 01, 2025 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 COOPER SQNEW YORK, NY 10003 3rd Fl Suite Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91920117864 West Africans and West Central Africans championed ironworking centuries before they were forcibly transported to the Americas on board European and American slave ships. In the territories that became the United States and […]
CSAAD 2025-2026 Distinguished Scholar Event Dr. Fallou Ngom Boston University Tuesday, November 11, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm NYU Silver Center, Hemmerdinger Hall 31 Washington Pl New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92593107329 Please join CSAAD for our annual Distinguished Scholar Event, featuring Dr. Fallou Ngom's lecture presentation on Ajami Manuscript. Sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed […]
CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series ~50th Anniversary of the Movie: Roots~ Bill Haley Jr. Malick L. Manga Co-Founders of The Inherited Roots Project Wednesday, March 25, 2026 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm VIRTUAL EVENT Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95002089030 Please join CSAAD for this exciting event in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Book, Roots. This event has been organized […]
CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Dr. Omar H. Ali The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Thursday, March 26, 2026 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm 20 Cooper SQ, 3rd FL New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98819563241 Over the course of some twenty centuries, it is estimated that four million Africans--including sailors, traders, soldiers, and artists--migrated […]
CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series Dr. Sarah Derbew Stanford University Thursday, September 10, 2026 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm 20 Cooper SQ, Room 503 New York City, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97904117116 Sarah F. Derbew, Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University, writes, teaches, and speaks widely about ancient Greece’s representations of black people that nimbly provoke - and […]
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 5:30pm – 7:30pm New York University 20 Cooper Square | 3rd Fl | New York, NY 10003 Join the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) for an evening reception bringing together faculty, undergraduate and graduate students. An opportunity to unwind, meet colleagues from various departments, and […]
