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Lecture: Afro-Arab Relations: From the Common Struggle to the “New Scramble”

Lecture with Rawia Tawfik Abstract: In the mid-twentieth century, Arab and African countries waged a common struggle against colonialism and racial segregation. Arabs supported the liberation of African colonies and the isolation of apartheid South Africa. In their turn, newly independent African countries showed solidarity with Arabs in their conflict against Israel. With international …

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Artist-in-Residence: Rokia Traoré

The Artist-in-Residence Program, first initiated by IAAA in 1996, has become one of the most respected and well attended programs at New York University with audiences particularly attracted to the interdisciplinary nature of the programs. This semester we welcome Malian musician superstar Rokia Traoré. Through three programs curated by her, she shares her work, ideas and philosophy …

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Roundtable conversation moderated by Pamela Newkirk, with Paula Giddings, Shola Lynch, Louise Greaves, sculptor Richard Hunt, and Michelle Duster, great granddaughter of Ida B. Wells

Though virtually forgotten today, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a household name in Black America during much of her lifetime (1863-1931) and was considered the equal of her well-known African American contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989, 55 min) by filmmaker William Greaves retells the dramatic life and …

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Roundtable Discussion with Members of Musical Groups Brownout and Third Root

CLACS and the Latinx Studies Program at NYU, present a conversation with members of Brownout and Third Root. Brownout and Third Root will speak about the experiences as artists and activists in the present before their performance as Brownout Presents: Fear of a Brown Planet (a tribute Public Enemy’s 1990 album Fear of a Black …

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ALUFA RUFINO, A MAN OF FAITH AND SORCERY ON THE PERIPHERY OF ISLAM

CLACS and the History Department at NYU will be hosting a presentation by Brazilian historian João José Reis titled “Alufa Rufino, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam.” Brazil, and particularly Bahia, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships …

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A CONVERSATION WITH AFRO COLOMBIAN ACTIVIST MIYELA RIASCOS

CLACS is proud to present a conversation with Miyela Riascos moderated by Roosbelinda Cardenas, CLACS Visiting Scholar 2018-19. This event is hosted in collaboration with Witness for Peace. About Miyela Riascos: This amazing woman is a Colombian ethno-educator and anthropologist who works with various social organizations and victims’ groups in the area of territorial and human …

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Book Launch: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, By Alain Bertaud

Overview: Join us on Tuesday, December 10 at 5:30pm for the launch of Alain Bertaud’s new book from MIT Press, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it, Bertaud argues that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Drawing on five decades …

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Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen, “Economics with a Moral Compass? Welfare Economics: Past, Present and Future”

Event Program: 1:30pm – 2:00pm Doors Open, Guest Arrival 2:00pm – 2:05pm Welcome Remarks on Behalf of New York University By: Katherine E. Fleming, NYU Provost 2:05pm – 4:00pm Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen …

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Economics and Culture 2018 Annual Conference by NYU Development Research Institute, NYU Africa House, and the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at NYU

New York University Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor) 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 Overview: There has been increasing interest over the last decade in understanding the role of culture in shaping development outcomes. The push has come from many directions: from studying economic history, from the institutions and growth literature, …

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Artists / Scholars-in-Residence

CSAAD’s inaugural Artist/Scholar-in-Residence will be author Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions and This Mournable Body. She will be on campus February 18 to 28, 2019. Tsitsi Dangarembga is a writer, filmmaker, teacher and cultural activist, began writing plays at the University of Zimbabwe, where THE LOST OF THE SOIL (1983) and SHE NO LONGER …

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