• The Power of Art: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas

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    Tuesday, 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

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    CSAAD 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 […]

  • Diasporic Back Chat: The Inter-War Activist Strategies of Black Nationalist Women

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    CSAAD Book Launch Lecture Event Dr. Natanya Duncan Monday, February 3rd, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite NEW YORK, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92704020760 During the 1920s and 1930s, women members of the largest social justice movement of the 20th Century, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), […]

  • Too Dark for the World: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the Black Pacific

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    CSAAD Afro-Asia Project Dr. Quito J. Swan Wednesday, January 29, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite NEW YORK, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98598651350 Quito J. Swan's talk, Too Dark for the World, explores Black internationalism and decolonization in Oceania. Drawing from archival research conducted across Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, […]

  • Sudan’s Counterrevolutionary War

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    CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series: Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War Dr. Nisrin Elamin Wednesday, October 09, 2024 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK, NY 10003 3rd Fl Suite Zoom Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94404401950   Dr. Nisrin Elamin’s lecture-based discussion will provide context for Sudan's current counterrevolutionary war and famine from a political economy perspective. In particular, it […]

  • Africans in Byzantium: Kings, Merchants, and Monks

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    CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series: Africans in Byzantium: Kings, Merchants, and Monks Dr. Andrea Myers Achi Wednesday, September 25, 2024 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm NYU 20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK, NY 10003 3rd FL SUITE   In Fall 2023, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented the critically acclaimed exhibition, Africa & Byzantium, which explored the complex connections […]

  • CSAAD Fall 2024 Student Receptions

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    CSAAD Graduate Student and Faculty Reception Tuesday, September 17, 2024 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm New York University 20 Cooper Square 3rd Floor Suite New York, NY 10003   Register Here CSAAD Undergraduate Student Reception Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm New York University 20 Cooper Square 3rd Floor Suite New York, […]

  • The Shadow Crisis and the Matter of Defense Funds in Scottsboro

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    Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 5:30pm - 7:00pm 20 Cooper Square, Room 101 Register here for in-person  Attend via Zoom here The central crisis in the Scottsboro case of the 1930s was to keep these boys alive by freeing them from prison. Yet, the well-being of the boys and their families proved to be the crisis […]