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SUMMARY:Malik Ambar: Africans in the Making of the Indian Ocean World
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\n20 Cooper SQ\, 3rd FL\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98819563241 \n\n\nOver the course of some twenty centuries\, it is estimated that four million Africans–including sailors\, traders\, soldiers\, and artists–migrated or were forcibly taken across the western Indian Ocean. In India\, one Ethiopian rose to significant levels of power: Malik Ambar. For more than two decades during the early seventeenth century\, Ambar ruled the Sultanate of Ahmednagar in the western Deccan. Through an examination of his life\, the lecture will look at the making of the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean world. \nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nPresentation\n\nBio: \n \nDr. Omar H. Ali\nThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro\n\nOmar H. Ali is the Rosenthal Excellence Professor of African and Global African Diaspora History and Dean Emeritus of Lloyd International Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, Senior Fellow at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum\, and the author of eight books\, including Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean (Oxford University Press). A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science\, he received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/malik-ambar-africans-in-the-making-of-the-indian-ocean-world/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:When Stories Turn Into Survival: CELEBRATION OF ROOTS\, DIASPORA\, AND CULTURE
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\n~50th Anniversary of the Movie: Roots~\nBill Haley Jr.\nMalick L. Manga\nCo-Founders of The Inherited Roots Project\nWednesday\, March 25\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\nVIRTUAL EVENT\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95002089030 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for this exciting event in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Book\, Roots. This event has been organized by our CSAAD 2025-2026 PostDoctoral Fellow\, Dr. Michael Conteh. The 50th anniversary of Roots provides an important opportunity to reflect on the long-lasting power of storytelling\, memory\, and spoken language in shaping African and global diasporic identities. Roots has been translated into 37 languages since its publication\, demonstrating its universal appeal and confirming language’s role as a powerful vessel for history\, culture\, and collective memory. Roots is more than just a literary work; it’s a living archive that connects ancestry\, migration\, survival\, and resistance across generations and geography. The event honours Roots’ legacy while also activating its relevance for contemporary diasporic experiences by bringing together grandson of Alex Haley\, Bill Haley\, and son of Ebou Manga\, Malick Leo Manga\, in conversation with Dr. Michael Linso Conteh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nAlex Haley\, Roots\, and the Rosetta Stone — lyrics by Joel Freeman\n\n\nBill Haley Jr.\n \n \n\n\n\nMalick Leo Manga\n \n \n  \n\nModerated by: \n \nDr. Michael Conteh is an interdisciplinary and publicly engaged scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University’s Graduate School. His extensive research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa\, where he has been a driving force in advancing gender equity initiatives. Before and during his graduate studies\, Dr. Conteh oversaw key programs to institutionalize gender studies at the University of Namibia and a national research project on gender-based violence and understanding the nature and scope of human trafficking in Namibia\, demonstrating his multifaceted and interdisciplinary expertise. His doctoral dissertation investigated the role of universities as anchor institutions in their host cities\, analyzing global financial capital flows and their impact on universities’ community engagement strategies through a comparative lens of the United States and the Global South.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/when-stories-turn-into-survival-celebration-of-roots-diaspora-and-culture/
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SUMMARY:Ajami Manuscripts: New Sources of Knowledge for African and African Diaspora Studies
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2025-2026 Distinguished Scholar Event\nDr. Fallou Ngom\nBoston University \nTuesday\, November 11\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nNYU Silver Center\, Hemmerdinger Hall\n31 Washington Pl\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92593107329 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our annual Distinguished Scholar Event\, featuring Dr. Fallou Ngom’s lecture presentation on Ajami Manuscript. Sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed as being illiterate due to the Eurocentric tradition that equates literacy with the ability to read and write only in European languages and the Roman alphabet. However\, millions of Africans have been reading and writing various types of religious and non-religious texts in local languages\, using enriched forms of the Arabic script known as Ajami. In this lecture\, Dr. Ngom will explore what scholars and students in African and African diaspora studies can gain by studying African Ajami manuscripts. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nWatch Recording Here\nMore Information on African ‘Ajami
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/ajami-manuscripts-new-sources-of-knowledge-for-african-and-african-diaspora-studies/
LOCATION:Hemmerdinger Hall\, Washington Square East\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Power of Art: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 01\, 2025\n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\n20 COOPER SQNEW YORK\, NY 10003\n3rd Fl Suite\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91920117864 \nWest 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 Brazil\, enslaved and freed blacksmiths were highly regarded\, as their skills were central for the development of the urban and plantation economies in the Americas. Therefore\, in these two slave societies\, being a blacksmith and being Black were often synonyms. Enslaved African blacksmiths and their descendants created and manufactured with their own hands a variety of agricultural tools and many other engines. Dreadfully\, they were often also in charge of creating iron restraints such as chains\, shackles\, and neck collars\, imprison\, punish\, and torture bondspeople. But enslaved and freed blacksmiths also had an important role in the struggle for self-emancipation. These ironworkers participated in the organization of slave rebellions across the Americas\, especially in Brazil\, the United States\, and the West Indies. They also rescued bondspeople who escaped slavery wearing slave collars and chains\, by sawing these monstrous devices and liberating them from iron chains\, shackles\, and collars.  \nDrawing on a chapter of the book\, The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas\, this presentation explores the rich history of blacksmiths from Africa to the Americas. Focusing on selected cases from the United States and Brazil\, Dr. Araujo show’s how Africans and their descendants used iron to resist slavery and build a world of their own. Revered by their communities\, enslaved blacksmiths and their descendants continued the long-lasting tradition of their African ancestors who mastered the art of fire. They became accomplished artists in the Americas\, where their creativity and resilience kept disrupting the iron chains of slavery. \nRecording of Presentation\nRecording of Q&A\n\n \nAna Lucia Araujo is Professor of History at the historically Black Howard University in Washington DC. She specializes in the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and is interested in the visual and material culture of slavery. Her recent books are Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2023\, second edition)\, The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press\, 2024). In the United States\, her work has been recently supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, the Getty Research Institute\, and the American Philosophical Society. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-power-of-art-the-world-enslaved-blacksmiths-made-in-the-americas/
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SUMMARY:Echoes from the Border: Africa Town in Korea
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Afro-Asia Project\nCHE Onejoon & Sun A Moon \nThursday\, March 20\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\n20 Cooper SQ Room 101\nNEW YORK\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94185666385 \n\nThis film screening and discussion explores the formation of Africa Town near Camp Casey\, a U.S. military base located close to the Korean Demilitarized Zone. As one of the first African communities of its kind in Korea\, this town emerged not just as a result of voluntary migration but also as a consequence of U.S. military policy shifts. The relocation of American troops led to a natural movement of African migrants\, reshaping the socio-economic landscape of the region. This session examines the lives\, identities\, and cultural dynamics of this unique community\, situated at the intersection of migration and militarization. Through a documentary film and a music video produced in collaboration with African migrants\, the program offers a critical lens on how marginalized communities navigate space\, belonging\, and representation in a militarized border region. By contextualizing this phenomenon within broader discussions on migration and multiculturalism in East Asia\, it also invites a reconsideration of the impact of U.S. military presence on local communities. \n\nAfroAsia Collective is an artist collective engaging with African and Asian migrant communities. Established in 2021 by curator Sun A MOON and artist CHE Onejoon\, it operates Space AfroAsia in Dongducheon\, invoking the Bandung spirit to forge new cultural solidarities between Africa and Asia through contemporary art. Expanding upon this foundation\, AfroAsia has initiated a range of projects\, including a music collaboration with Osinachi (2021–2023) and the documentary Dongducheon New Town (2023)\, which examines Korea’s African Towns. Since 2024\, they have been developing a K-pop girl group composed of young Korean and African immigrant students\, further advancing their commitment to transnational artistic exchange and youth empowerment. \n\nSpeakers:\n  \n \nSun A MOON is co-founder and director of Space AfroAsia and AfroAsia – Eco Museum in Dongducheon\, South Korea. Moon has worked internationally as an independent curator\, researcher\, and writer specializing in media art\, generation theory\, and cultural diversity. She has curated many exhibitions\, including DMZ OPEN Exhibition: Passage (Imjingak Pyeonghwa Nuri\, Peace Gondola\, and Gallery Greaves\, Paju\, 2024)\, Railway 0 (Culture Center Seoul 284\, Seoul\, 2024)\, grandmothers (Post Territory Ujeongguk\, Seoul\, 2022)\, Brace for Impact (de Appel\, Stedelijk Museum\, De School\, Amsterdam\, 2018). She participated in the Tate Intensive Program in London (2017) and de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam (2017–2018)\, and received the Amado Exhibition Award (2016) and the Critic Festival Award (2016). \n  \n \nCHE Onejoon is a visual artist and filmmaker. He explores how changes in social structures\, such as politics and ideology\, shape places and identities. His early work examined Cold War ideology across the Korean Peninsula through photography\, film\, and archives. Since 2013\, he has researched the relationship between Africa and East Asia. His works include International Friendship\, which examines North Korean-built monuments in Africa\, and Capital Black\, which explores African diaspora culture near U.S. military bases in South Korea. Che has exhibited internationally at the Taipei Biennial\, Busan Biennale\, Jakarta Biennale\, Venice Architecture Biennale\, New Museum Triennial\, Palais de Tokyo\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art\, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art\, and more. He was a fellow at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. \n \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/echoes-from-the-border-africa-town-in-korea/
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SUMMARY:Pan-Africanism in Africa and the U.S.: Marcus Garvey and I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series  \n\nThursday\, February 20th\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\nAbu Dhabi New York University\n19 Washington SQ North\nNew York City\, NY 10012 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95296862039 \n\nThis 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. McDuffie’s research unveils new research and offers insight into imagining a liberated future Black world. In tandem\, Dr. Rashid investigates the ideas\, activities\, and influences of Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson\, a journalist\, trade unionist\, Pan-Africanist\, and politician\, who played a pivotal role in energizing the anti-colonial and national movement in West Africa between the 1930s and 1960s. Untangling this paradox offers interesting insights on different ways in which Pan-Africanism consciousness and politics were shaped and expressed during the colonial period. \nWatch Event Recording Here\nDr. Ismail Rashid’s Presentation\n\n  \n \nErik S. McDuffie is an Associate Professor in the Department of African AmericanStudies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research andteaching interests include the African diaspora\, the Midwest\, black feminism\,black queer theory\, black radicalism\, urban history\, and black masculinity.  He is the author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women\, American Communism\, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Durham\, NC: Duke University Press\, 2011). The book won the 2012 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History\, as well as the 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. His research interests include the African diaspora\, the Midwest\, black feminism\, black queer theory\, black radicalism\, urban history\, and black masculinity. \n  \n \nIsmail Rashid is Professor and Chair of History on the Marion Musser Lloyd ’32. He grew up in Freetown\, Sierra Leone and has been teaching at Vassar College since 1998. He received his BA Hons in Classics and History from the University of Ghana\, MA in Race Relations from Wilfrid Laurier University\, Waterloo\, Canada and PhD in African History from McGill University. His primary teaching interests are pre-colonial and modern African history\, African Diaspora and Pan-Africanism\, and International Relations. His research interests include subaltern resistance against colonialism\, public health\, and conflicts and security in contemporary Africa. Among his recent books are West Africa’s Security Challenges (2004 with Adekeye Adebajo)\, The Paradox of History and Memory in Postcolonial Sierra Leone (2013) (with Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley) and Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy(2017) (with Ibrahim Abdullah).
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/pan-africanism-in-africa-and-the-u-s-marcus-garvey-and-i-t-a-wallace-johnson-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Diasporic Back Chat: The Inter-War Activist Strategies of Black Nationalist Women
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Book Launch Lecture Event \nDr. Natanya Duncan \n\nMonday\, February 3rd\, 2025 \n\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite \nNEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92704020760 \n\n\n\nDuring the 1920s and 1930s\, women members of the largest social justice movement of the 20th Century\, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)\, publicly challenged the myriad forms of oppression that affected them globally.This talk will explore strategies used by women of the UNIA in fashioning a trans-Atlantic dialogue as evidenced in the Negro World newspaper\, personal correspondences\, and government records to highlight their role in shaping the contours of Black Nationalism and pan-Africanism in the early 20th Century. \n\nThis event will be highlighting the new book: An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The book will be available for Purchase & Signature at event for $29.95. \n\n\nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nNatanya Duncan an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora\, her research and teaching focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan’s research interest includes constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/diasporic-back-chat-the-inter-war-activist-strategies-of-black-nationalist-women/
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SUMMARY:Too Dark for the World: Oceania\, Anti-Colonialism\, and the Black Pacific
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Afro-Asia Project \nDr. Quito J. Swan \nWednesday\, January 29\, 2025 \n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite \nNEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98598651350 \n\nQuito 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\, it will discuss how Melanesian liberation struggles engaged Black Power\, Negritude\, and Pan-Africanism in their insurgent battles for self-determination. It is based on Swan’s Pasifika Black: Oceania\, Anticolonialism\, and the Africana World (NYU Press\, 2022)\, which was awarded ASALH’s 2023 Best Book in African American History prize. \nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nQuito J. Swan is Professor of Africana Studies and History at The George Washington University. A public facing scholar of Black internationalism and the African Diaspora\, he has single authored three books-Pasifika Black: Oceania\, Anti-Colonialism and the African World (2022)\, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (2020) and Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization (2010). Pasifika Black received the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2023 Best Book in African American History Award. Pauulu’s Diaspora won the African American Intellectual History Society’s 2022 Pauli Murray Book Prize. Swan’s research has garnered fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and more.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/too-dark-for-the-world-oceania-anti-colonialism-and-the-black-pacific/
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SUMMARY:Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nSudan’s Counterrevolutionary War\nDr. Nisrin Elamin \nWednesday\, October 09\, 2024 \n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n3rd Fl Suite \nZoom Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94404401950 \n  \nDr. Nisrin Elamin’s lecture-based discussion will provide context for Sudan’s current counterrevolutionary war and famine from a political economy perspective. In particular\, it will center struggles over land and the role civilian volunteers are playing at the frontline of mutual aid and relief efforts. \n  \nWatch Presentation Recording\nWatch Q&A Recording\n\n  \n \nNisrin Elamin is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2020. She is currently writing a book tentatively titled: Stratified Enclosures: Land\, Capital and Empire-making in Central Sudan which focuses on Saudi and Emirati land grabs and community resistance to land dispossession in the Gezira region of Sudan. In addition to scholarly articles\, Nisrin has also written and co-authored several op-eds for Al Jazeera\, the Washington Post\, Hammer and Hope and Okay Africa and has provided commentary on NPR\, BBC\, CNN\, The Agenda\, CBC\, Democracy Now and other media outlets. Before pursuing her Ph.D.\, Nisrin spent over a decade working as an educator\, community organizer and researcher in the US and Tanzania. She is also a member of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which has been supporting local emergency response rooms in the face of a largely absent international aid community and civilian state.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-africa-diaspora-forum-series-sudans-counterrevolutionary-war/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Africans in Byzantium: Kings\, Merchants\, and Monks
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nAfricans in Byzantium: Kings\, Merchants\, and Monks\nDr. Andrea Myers Achi \nWednesday\, September 25\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \nNYU 20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n3rd FL SUITE \n  \nIn Fall 2023\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented the critically acclaimed exhibition\, Africa & Byzantium\, which explored the complex connections between North and East African communities and Byzantium. This landmark exhibition included significant loans from thirty-six lenders\, including prominent institutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Reviews highlighted not only the visual splendor of the artworks\, but also the growing interest in the African individuals who commissioned\, traded\, or depicted in Byzantine art. \nThis talk builds on the research conducted for the Africa & Byzantium exhibition\, offering new case studies that examine the visual and literary portrayals of Africans within the Byzantine context. Additionally\, Dr. Achi will address the challenges of revealing these often-overlooked narratives from an art historical perspective and provide insights into the broader implications for our understanding of cultural interactions in the medieval world. \n  \nWatch Recording Here\n\n \nDr. Andrea Myers Achi holds a BA from Barnard College and a PhD from New York University. Trained as a Byzantinist\, Dr. Achi’s scholarship and curatorial practice focus on late antique and Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She has a particular interest in manuscripts and archaeological objects from Christian Egypt and Nubia\, and she has brought this expertise to bear on exhibitions like Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis (2017)\, Crossroads: Power and Piety (2020)\, and The Good Life (2021) at The Met and in presentations and publications. Currently\, she is working on exhibition projects related to Egyptian monasteries\, the material culture of Late Antiquity\, and Byzantine Art in Africa.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africans-in-byzantium-kings-merchants-and-monks/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:CSAAD Fall 2024 Student Receptions
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Graduate Student and Faculty Reception\nTuesday\, September 17\, 2024\n\n\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square\n3rd Floor Suite\nNew York\, NY 10003\n\n  \nRegister Here\n\n\nCSAAD Undergraduate Student Reception\n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 18\, 2024\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square\n3rd Floor Suite\nNew York\, NY 10003\n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-fall-2024-student-receptions/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T173000
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SUMMARY:Critics of the Oyo Empire and Atlantic Modernity in the Age of Revolution: Rethinking Black Atlantic Historiography with Archaeology and Òrìṣà Archives
DESCRIPTION:December 4th\, 2023 \n5:30 pm -7:00 pm \nSilver Center\,  Hemmerdinger Hall \nRegister here for in-person  \nAttend via Zoom here \nIn this talk\, Ogundiran will discuss the debates and dialogues that happened in the Oyo Empire (West Africa) in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries about rights and privileges\, marginalization and power\, and politics of difference between the metropolis and the provinces\, women and men\, and the state and society. These dialogues\, he argues\, were part of the discontentment with Early Modernity that gave birth to the Age of Revolution. However\, Africa has been mostly elided from the historiography of this revolutionary period because the modalities of Africa-centered dialogues about the early modern experience have been outside the reach of traditional historical methods. Ogundiran demonstrates the need to pay attention to the Yorùbá Òrìṣà archives and the archaeology of place in order to broaden the historiography of the Black Atlantic and the Age of Revolution. \n \nAkin Ogundiran is Cardiss Collins Professor of History and Arts & Sciences at Northwestern University and a Senior Fellow of Gardens and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks\, Washington DC. He is broadly interested in the archaeology and history of Africa over the past 2\,500 years\, with an emphasis on the Yorùbá world. His research has been supported by the National Geographic Society\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Humanities Center\, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author/editor/co-editor of several books\, including The Yorùbá: A New History (2020)\, winner of the Vinson Sutlive Prize and Isaac Delano Prize. \nRegister here for in-person \nAttend via Zoom here\n  \nFor accommodations\, please contact the Administrative Aide for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at Muna.Diaf@nyu.edu by November 20th\, 2023. 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/critics-of-the-oyo-empire-and-atlantic-modernity-in-the-age-of-revolution-rethinking-black-atlantic-historiography-with-archaeology-and-ori%e1%b9%a3a-archives/
LOCATION:NYU Silver Center\, 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 10003\, New York\, NY
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T170000
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SUMMARY:338 BCE and the Transformation of Ancient Afro-Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:The second half of the 4th c. BCE witnesses a series of dramatic transformations throughout Afro-Eurasia\, foremost among them a rapid escalation in state formation processes and the emergence of new (or newly aggressive) territorial empires. Concentrating on the 330s BCE\, this lecture will pair a thick description of these transformations with an attempt at their analysis.  \n \nDan-el Padilla Peralta is Associate Professor of Classics\, and associated faculty in African American Studies\, at Princeton University. He is the author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic (Princeton 2020); and he has co-edited Rome\, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (Cambridge 2017) and Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy\, c. 400 – 200 BCE (Cambridge 2023). He is currently working on Classicism and Other Phobias\, the subject of his 2022 W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard. He is a volume co-editor for The Cambridge History of the African Diaspora and sits on the board of the RaceB4Race collective. \nView lecture recording here\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/338-bce-and-the-transformation-of-ancient-afro-eurasia/
LOCATION:Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T120000
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SUMMARY:The African is a Country-CSAAD Dialogues: "AfroMexico"
DESCRIPTION:Panelists \nDr. Doris Careaga Coleman \nDr. Etienne Mulumeoderhawa \nMufungizi Josiane Moukam \nHosted By \nEbony Bailey \nOnline:YouTube.com/africaisacountrytv
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-african-is-a-country-csaad-dialogues-afromexico/
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:Artist-in-Residence: Taiye Selasi
DESCRIPTION:A writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent\, born in London and raised in Boston\, now living in Rome and Berlin\, who has studied Latin and music\, Taiye Selasi is herself a study in the modern meaning of identity. In 2005 she published the much-discussed (and controversial) essay “Bye-Bye\, Babar (Or: What Is an Afropolitan?)\,” offering an alternative vision of African identity for a transnational generation. Prompted by writer Toni Morrison\, the following year she published the short story “The Sex Lives of African Girls” in the literary magazine Granta. \nHer first novel Ghana Must Go\, published in 2013\, is a tale of family drama and reconciliation\, following six characters and spanning generations\, continents\, genders and classes.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/artist-in-residence-taiye-selasi-2/
LOCATION:19 Washington Sq. North\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artists/ Scholars-in-Residence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T190000
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SUMMARY:Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme
DESCRIPTION:Drums over Harlem: Signifying Africa\, 1919-1932 \nIn 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.\nPeter Hulme is Emeritus Professor at the University of Essex\, where he taught for 40 years.  His books include Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean\, 1492 1797 (1986)\, Cuba’s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente (2011)\, and The Dinner at Gonfarone’s: Salomón de la Selva’s Pan-American Project in Nueva York\, 1915-1919 (2019).
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africadiaspora-forum-peter-hulme/
LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190918T120000
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SUMMARY:Africa Diaspora Forum Kenda Mutongi
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora Presents the Africa`~Diaspora Forum lecturer Kenda Mutongi\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nKenda 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 studies journals\, and is currently writing a book tentatively titled\, Reading Under the Covers\, which focuses on the history of secondary schooling in post-colonial Kenya. \nMutongi has been an MLK Visiting Professor of History at MIT\, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. She has also received grants from the NEH\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Social Science Research Council\, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. \nMutongi serves on the editorial boards of several journals and book series in African Studies. Before moving to MIT in 2019\, Mutongi taught at Williams College for over 22 years\, where she served as chair of the Africana Studies and the Africa/Middle Eastern Studies Programs. \nMutongi was born and raised in rural western Kenya\, and received her BA from Coe College and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She enjoys cooking\, sewing\, and painting.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africa-diaspora-forum-kenda-mutongi/
LOCATION:Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: "The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem" Jane Hathaway
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nEunuchs 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 Africa and his political\, economic\, and religious role from the inception of his office in the late sixteenth century through the dismantling of the palace harem in the early twentieth century. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHathaway highlights the origins of the institution and how the role of eunuchs developed in East Africa as well as exploring the Chief Eunuchs connections to Egypt and Medina. By tracing the evolution of the office\, we see how the Chief Eunuch’s functions changed in response to transformations in Ottoman society\, from the generalized crisis of the seventeenth century to the westernizing reforms of the nineteenth century.\n\nJane Hathaway (Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of History\, Ohio State University) is a specialist of the Ottoman empire. Her research has focused on the empire’s Arab provinces\, particularly Egypt and Yemen. She has recently been working on the Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton’s’ Near Eastern Studies Department in 1992. She is the author of The Politics of Household in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis (Cambridge\, 1997)\, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth\, Memory\, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen(SUNY Press\, 2003)\, Beshir Agha\, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem (Oneworld\, 2006)\, The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule\, 1516-1800 (Pearson/Longman\, 2008)\, and The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker (Cambridge\, 2018). \n\nThis book talk will also feature discussant Leslie Peirce (Emeritus\, NYU)\, whose writing and teaching focus on the Ottoman empire\, with an emphasis on the early modern period. Her first book explored the shifting nature of imperial politics by placing the palace harem at the center of inquiry. Other topics Peirce has written about include honor and sexuality\, provincial politics\, abduction and captivity\, and slavery and household formation. She recently published a biographical account of Hurrem\, the concubine and then wife to Suleyman I the Magnificent. \nCheck out the Facebook event here. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Ottoman & Turkish Studies (OTS) at NYU.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/book-talk-the-chief-eunuch-of-the-ottoman-harem-jane-hathaway/
LOCATION:Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\, 255 Sullivan St.\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T150000
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SUMMARY:"Alufa Rufino\, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam."
DESCRIPTION:João Reis\, Universidade Federal da Bahia\, Brazil\n\n\nBrazil\, and particularly Bahia\, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were mainly Hausas\, Nupes\, and Yorubas who\, once in Brazil\, were involved in several slave revolts. This is a well-known story. What is less well-known is that parallel to this militant Islam\, there were other\, more accommodationist forms of Islam that also flourished among African slaves and freed people in Brazil. This lecture is about a man who represented  this form of Islam. A devout Muslim\, Abuncare (a.k.a\, Rufino José Maria) nonetheless dedicated himself to divination and other unorthodox practices that he learned in Africa and either reproduced in Brazil or adapted to Brazilian belief systems.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/alufa-rufino-a-man-of-faith-and-sorcery-on-the-periphery-of-islam/
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