Panelist Dr. Nnimmo Bassey: Benin City, Nigeria Dr. Paulette Bynoe: Georgetown, Guyana UNEP Deputy Executive Director Joyce Msuya: Nairobi, Kenya Dr. Ulric Trotz: Belize Moderator Dr. Michael A. Gomez
Panelist: Dr. Michael Ralph Dr. Vasuki Nesiah Dr. Michael Funk Moderators Kayla Merriwether Dylan Brown
Our Curated Scene: DIY Publishing, Zines & Archive October 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 SCA Flex Space
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.
NYU Center for French Language presents “La Sonothèque Nomade” at Africa House – April 4-5, 2019 The Center for French Language and Cultures is happy to invite you to La Sonothèque Nomade – an artistic residency and musical event on Thursday and Friday, April 4-5, 2019. La Sonothèque Nomade is a lively, nomadic, and poetic space of listening and recording …
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As part of the Latin America’s 1968 Colloquium series, New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Hemisphiric Institute of Performance and Politics, and The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), are proud to present a conversation with internationally acclaimed Argentine performance and conceptual artist Marta Minujín …
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 …
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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 …
THE THREE PATRIARCHS OF EMBATTLED LOVE: CASTE, RELIGION AND STATE Read More »
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 …
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 & …
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