End the War on Black People the Urgency of Reparations
Panelist: Dr. Michael Ralph Dr. Vasuki Nesiah Dr. Michael Funk Moderators Kayla Merriwether Dylan Brown
center for the study of africa and the african diaspora
Black Lives Matter: In Dialogue with a Pioneer
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6Q7n9f1rS5CY-Ox4ptrjgg
African Diaspora Forum: Barrymore A Bogues
Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is a writer , scholar, curator, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice; Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence (2004-2007); and currently the Asa Messer Professsor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He is also …
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Conference
ASWAD’s 10th Biennial Conference will be held at William & Mary from 5-9 November, 2019
Africa~Diaspora Forum: Peter Hulme
In 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.
Book Talk with Ben Talton and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Please join The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at a special event to celebrate the publication of my new book, In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics. Thursday, September 12 at 6:30 pm 53 Washington Square South King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Auditorium …
Africa~Diaspora Forum- Kenda Mutongi
Kenda 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 …
STEPHEN W. SAWYER’S DEMOS ASSEMBLED: DEMOCRACY & THE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press, 2018) provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political …
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 …
Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway Read More »
ARE WE POST-FRANCOPHONE YET? – KAOUTAR HARCHI & LIA BROZGAL
Kaoutar Harchi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Musée du Quai Branly and visiting professor at NYU (French Literature, Culture and Thought and Institute of French Studies). A sociologist of culture, her work revolves around francophonie as an intellectual and social field and the trajectories of Algerian novelists who have obtained recognition in France. She is the author of Je …
ARE WE POST-FRANCOPHONE YET? – KAOUTAR HARCHI & LIA BROZGAL Read More »
