In the streets of Buenos Aires, walls are battlefields. Find out how in a special screening of Julian D’Angillillo’s 2015 documentary Embodied Letters (Cuerpo de Letra). Food and drinks provided! This is the third in a series of films presented as part of the co-located 2019 course “Art & Politics in the City” Stop by for the movie to
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Gallatin Teachers Reading, a Writing Program event series at which professors read from recently published books, offers a glimpse into the Gallatin faculty’s latest scholarship. Amanda Petrusich will moderate. Cyd Cipolla will read from Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (University of Washington Press, 2017), a collection of essays at the intersection of science and technology studies and women’s, gender,
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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
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October 4, 2018 – January 18, 2019 Department of Photography & Imaging Galleries NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway Lobby & 8th floor Lorie Novak and Deborah Willis, Ph.D., curators Riana Gideon, assistant curator To accept one’s past — one’s history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is
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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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Book Talk with Patrick Eisenlohr, University of Göttingen and Faye Ginsberg David B. Kriser Professor, NYU Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius,
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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A conversation with independent curator Yasmin Ramirez, and artists Alicia Cristina Grullon and Yasmin Hernandez who will reflect on Marta Moreno Vega’s work and the impact and legacy of her publication exposing and exploring cultural equity, and the task of decolonizing institutions, art history, and more. Yasmin Ramirez, Ph.D., is an independent curator who specializes
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Author Ed Morales and Professor Ana Maria Dopico from NYU Spanish and Portuguese department will discuss Morales’ new book Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture. Ed Morales is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral
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A discussion of the latest insights on Latinx media, including research on audiences and the state of cultural criticism, the newest on digital platforms, and the larger policies affecting net neutrality and media access with a focus on key strategies for engagement and activism for making change. The panelists include: Jillian Baez is an associate professor at
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