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SUMMARY:The Power of Art: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 01\, 2025\n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\n20 COOPER SQNEW YORK\, NY 10003\n3rd Fl Suite\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91920117864 \nWest 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 Brazil\, enslaved and freed blacksmiths were highly regarded\, as their skills were central for the development of the urban and plantation economies in the Americas. Therefore\, in these two slave societies\, being a blacksmith and being Black were often synonyms. Enslaved African blacksmiths and their descendants created and manufactured with their own hands a variety of agricultural tools and many other engines. Dreadfully\, they were often also in charge of creating iron restraints such as chains\, shackles\, and neck collars\, imprison\, punish\, and torture bondspeople. But enslaved and freed blacksmiths also had an important role in the struggle for self-emancipation. These ironworkers participated in the organization of slave rebellions across the Americas\, especially in Brazil\, the United States\, and the West Indies. They also rescued bondspeople who escaped slavery wearing slave collars and chains\, by sawing these monstrous devices and liberating them from iron chains\, shackles\, and collars.  \nDrawing on a chapter of the book\, The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas\, this presentation explores the rich history of blacksmiths from Africa to the Americas. Focusing on selected cases from the United States and Brazil\, Dr. Araujo show’s how Africans and their descendants used iron to resist slavery and build a world of their own. Revered by their communities\, enslaved blacksmiths and their descendants continued the long-lasting tradition of their African ancestors who mastered the art of fire. They became accomplished artists in the Americas\, where their creativity and resilience kept disrupting the iron chains of slavery. \nRecording of Presentation\nRecording of Q&A\n\n \nAna Lucia Araujo is Professor of History at the historically Black Howard University in Washington DC. She specializes in the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and is interested in the visual and material culture of slavery. Her recent books are Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2023\, second edition)\, The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press\, 2024). In the United States\, her work has been recently supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, the Getty Research Institute\, and the American Philosophical Society. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-power-of-art-the-world-enslaved-blacksmiths-made-in-the-americas/
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SUMMARY:Echoes from the Border: Africa Town in Korea
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Afro-Asia Project\nCHE Onejoon & Sun A Moon \nThursday\, March 20\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY\n20 Cooper SQ Room 101\nNEW YORK\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94185666385 \n\nThis film screening and discussion explores the formation of Africa Town near Camp Casey\, a U.S. military base located close to the Korean Demilitarized Zone. As one of the first African communities of its kind in Korea\, this town emerged not just as a result of voluntary migration but also as a consequence of U.S. military policy shifts. The relocation of American troops led to a natural movement of African migrants\, reshaping the socio-economic landscape of the region. This session examines the lives\, identities\, and cultural dynamics of this unique community\, situated at the intersection of migration and militarization. Through a documentary film and a music video produced in collaboration with African migrants\, the program offers a critical lens on how marginalized communities navigate space\, belonging\, and representation in a militarized border region. By contextualizing this phenomenon within broader discussions on migration and multiculturalism in East Asia\, it also invites a reconsideration of the impact of U.S. military presence on local communities. \n\nAfroAsia Collective is an artist collective engaging with African and Asian migrant communities. Established in 2021 by curator Sun A MOON and artist CHE Onejoon\, it operates Space AfroAsia in Dongducheon\, invoking the Bandung spirit to forge new cultural solidarities between Africa and Asia through contemporary art. Expanding upon this foundation\, AfroAsia has initiated a range of projects\, including a music collaboration with Osinachi (2021–2023) and the documentary Dongducheon New Town (2023)\, which examines Korea’s African Towns. Since 2024\, they have been developing a K-pop girl group composed of young Korean and African immigrant students\, further advancing their commitment to transnational artistic exchange and youth empowerment. \n\nSpeakers:\n  \n \nSun A MOON is co-founder and director of Space AfroAsia and AfroAsia – Eco Museum in Dongducheon\, South Korea. Moon has worked internationally as an independent curator\, researcher\, and writer specializing in media art\, generation theory\, and cultural diversity. She has curated many exhibitions\, including DMZ OPEN Exhibition: Passage (Imjingak Pyeonghwa Nuri\, Peace Gondola\, and Gallery Greaves\, Paju\, 2024)\, Railway 0 (Culture Center Seoul 284\, Seoul\, 2024)\, grandmothers (Post Territory Ujeongguk\, Seoul\, 2022)\, Brace for Impact (de Appel\, Stedelijk Museum\, De School\, Amsterdam\, 2018). She participated in the Tate Intensive Program in London (2017) and de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam (2017–2018)\, and received the Amado Exhibition Award (2016) and the Critic Festival Award (2016). \n  \n \nCHE Onejoon is a visual artist and filmmaker. He explores how changes in social structures\, such as politics and ideology\, shape places and identities. His early work examined Cold War ideology across the Korean Peninsula through photography\, film\, and archives. Since 2013\, he has researched the relationship between Africa and East Asia. His works include International Friendship\, which examines North Korean-built monuments in Africa\, and Capital Black\, which explores African diaspora culture near U.S. military bases in South Korea. Che has exhibited internationally at the Taipei Biennial\, Busan Biennale\, Jakarta Biennale\, Venice Architecture Biennale\, New Museum Triennial\, Palais de Tokyo\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art\, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art\, and more. He was a fellow at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. \n \n\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/echoes-from-the-border-africa-town-in-korea/
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SUMMARY:Diasporic Back Chat: The Inter-War Activist Strategies of Black Nationalist Women
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Book Launch Lecture Event \nDr. Natanya Duncan \n\nMonday\, February 3rd\, 2025 \n\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite \nNEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92704020760 \n\n\n\nDuring the 1920s and 1930s\, women members of the largest social justice movement of the 20th Century\, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)\, publicly challenged the myriad forms of oppression that affected them globally.This talk will explore strategies used by women of the UNIA in fashioning a trans-Atlantic dialogue as evidenced in the Negro World newspaper\, personal correspondences\, and government records to highlight their role in shaping the contours of Black Nationalism and pan-Africanism in the early 20th Century. \n\nThis event will be highlighting the new book: An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The book will be available for Purchase & Signature at event for $29.95. \n\n\nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nNatanya Duncan an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora\, her research and teaching focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan’s research interest includes constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/diasporic-back-chat-the-inter-war-activist-strategies-of-black-nationalist-women/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:Too Dark for the World: Oceania\, Anti-Colonialism\, and the Black Pacific
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Afro-Asia Project \nDr. Quito J. Swan \nWednesday\, January 29\, 2025 \n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite \nNEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98598651350 \n\nQuito 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\, it will discuss how Melanesian liberation struggles engaged Black Power\, Negritude\, and Pan-Africanism in their insurgent battles for self-determination. It is based on Swan’s Pasifika Black: Oceania\, Anticolonialism\, and the Africana World (NYU Press\, 2022)\, which was awarded ASALH’s 2023 Best Book in African American History prize. \nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nQuito J. Swan is Professor of Africana Studies and History at The George Washington University. A public facing scholar of Black internationalism and the African Diaspora\, he has single authored three books-Pasifika Black: Oceania\, Anti-Colonialism and the African World (2022)\, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (2020) and Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization (2010). Pasifika Black received the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2023 Best Book in African American History Award. Pauulu’s Diaspora won the African American Intellectual History Society’s 2022 Pauli Murray Book Prize. Swan’s research has garnered fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and more.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/too-dark-for-the-world-oceania-anti-colonialism-and-the-black-pacific/
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SUMMARY:Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nSudan’s Counterrevolutionary War\nDr. Nisrin Elamin \nWednesday\, October 09\, 2024 \n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n3rd Fl Suite \nZoom Link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94404401950 \n  \nDr. 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 will center struggles over land and the role civilian volunteers are playing at the frontline of mutual aid and relief efforts. \n  \nWatch Presentation Recording\nWatch Q&A Recording\n\n  \n \nNisrin Elamin is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2020. She is currently writing a book tentatively titled: Stratified Enclosures: Land\, Capital and Empire-making in Central Sudan which focuses on Saudi and Emirati land grabs and community resistance to land dispossession in the Gezira region of Sudan. In addition to scholarly articles\, Nisrin has also written and co-authored several op-eds for Al Jazeera\, the Washington Post\, Hammer and Hope and Okay Africa and has provided commentary on NPR\, BBC\, CNN\, The Agenda\, CBC\, Democracy Now and other media outlets. Before pursuing her Ph.D.\, Nisrin spent over a decade working as an educator\, community organizer and researcher in the US and Tanzania. She is also a member of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which has been supporting local emergency response rooms in the face of a largely absent international aid community and civilian state.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-africa-diaspora-forum-series-sudans-counterrevolutionary-war/
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SUMMARY:Africans in Byzantium: Kings\, Merchants\, and Monks
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~ Diaspora Forum Series:\nAfricans in Byzantium: Kings\, Merchants\, and Monks\nDr. Andrea Myers Achi \nWednesday\, September 25\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \nNYU 20 COOPER SQ NEW YORK\, NY 10003 \n3rd FL SUITE \n  \nIn Fall 2023\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented the critically acclaimed exhibition\, Africa & Byzantium\, which explored the complex connections between North and East African communities and Byzantium. This landmark exhibition included significant loans from thirty-six lenders\, including prominent institutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Reviews highlighted not only the visual splendor of the artworks\, but also the growing interest in the African individuals who commissioned\, traded\, or depicted in Byzantine art. \nThis talk builds on the research conducted for the Africa & Byzantium exhibition\, offering new case studies that examine the visual and literary portrayals of Africans within the Byzantine context. Additionally\, Dr. Achi will address the challenges of revealing these often-overlooked narratives from an art historical perspective and provide insights into the broader implications for our understanding of cultural interactions in the medieval world. \n  \nWatch Recording Here\n\n \nDr. Andrea Myers Achi holds a BA from Barnard College and a PhD from New York University. Trained as a Byzantinist\, Dr. Achi’s scholarship and curatorial practice focus on late antique and Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She has a particular interest in manuscripts and archaeological objects from Christian Egypt and Nubia\, and she has brought this expertise to bear on exhibitions like Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis (2017)\, Crossroads: Power and Piety (2020)\, and The Good Life (2021) at The Met and in presentations and publications. Currently\, she is working on exhibition projects related to Egyptian monasteries\, the material culture of Late Antiquity\, and Byzantine Art in Africa.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/africans-in-byzantium-kings-merchants-and-monks/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square
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SUMMARY:CSAAD Fall 2024 Student Receptions
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Graduate Student and Faculty Reception\nTuesday\, September 17\, 2024\n\n\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square\n3rd Floor Suite\nNew York\, NY 10003\n\n  \nRegister Here\n\n\nCSAAD Undergraduate Student Reception\n\n\n\nWednesday\, September 18\, 2024\n5:00 pm – 7:00 pm\nNew York University\n20 Cooper Square\n3rd Floor Suite\nNew York\, NY 10003\n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/csaad-fall-2024-student-receptions/
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SUMMARY:The Shadow Crisis and the Matter of Defense Funds in Scottsboro
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 31st\, 2024 \n5:30pm – 7:00pm \n20 Cooper Square\, Room 101 \nRegister here for in-person  \nAttend via Zoom here \nThe 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 in the shadows. This first mass fundraising campaign for racial justice privileged legal defense funds. However\, their mothers’ work as fundraisers and the commitment of the International Labor Defense to distribute money directly to the boys in prison and to their families reveals the complications of movement money. In this talk\, Dr. Mills offers a defense of an expanded view of defense funds which were required to ensure these boys and their mothers would not be ravaged by Alabama\, white supremacy\, or capitalism. \n \nQuincy Mills  is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland\, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. His research interests attend to the ways African Americans’ wages\, wealth\, and overall financial well-being helped shape black public spaces\, political engagement\, and activism.  Dr. Mills is the author of Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America (2013). With Benjamin Talton he edited the anthology Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing (2011). He also edited William Still’s Reconstruction-era book The Underground Railroad Record: Narrating the Hardships\, Hairbreadth Escapes\, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom (2019). He is currently working on his second monograph tentatively titled “Movement Money: Crises\, Relief\, and the Economy of Activism during the Civil Rights Movement.” \nRegister here for in-person \nAttend via Zoom here
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/the-shadow-crisis-and-the-matter-of-defense-funds-in-scottsboro/
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