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Booker T. Washington’s Global Impact: Transimperial Entanglements Between Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism
ZoomBooker T. Washington’s Global Impact: Transimperial Entanglements Between Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism CSAAD Africa~Asia Project Sakiko NAKAO Thursday, May 01, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm VIRTUAL EVENT Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98235632087 This lecture discussion explores the influence of Pan-Africanism in Japan. At the turn of the 20th century, Booker T. Washington emerged as one of the most well-known […]
The Power of Art: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas
20 Cooper SquareTuesday, 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 […]
Echoes from the Border: Africa Town in Korea
20 Cooper SquareCSAAD 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 […]