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SUMMARY:Ajami Manuscripts: New Sources of Knowledge for African and African Diaspora Studies
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2025-2026 Distinguished Scholar Event\nDr. Fallou Ngom\nBoston University \nTuesday\, November 11\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nNYU Silver Center\, Hemmerdinger Hall\n31 Washington Pl\nNew York City\, NY 10003\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92593107329 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our annual Distinguished Scholar Event\, featuring Dr. Fallou Ngom’s lecture presentation on Ajami Manuscript. Sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed as being illiterate due to the Eurocentric tradition that equates literacy with the ability to read and write only in European languages and the Roman alphabet. However\, millions of Africans have been reading and writing various types of religious and non-religious texts in local languages\, using enriched forms of the Arabic script known as Ajami. In this lecture\, Dr. Ngom will explore what scholars and students in African and African diaspora studies can gain by studying African Ajami manuscripts. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Program Manager for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \n\nWatch Recording Here\nMore Information on African ‘Ajami
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SUMMARY:Art\, History\, and Cultural Politics in Africa Today
DESCRIPTION:September 23rd\, 2025\n5 pm to 8 pm\nHemmerdinger Hall\nNYU Silver Center\n31 Washington Pl\,\nNew York\, NY 10003 \n\nOrganized by the French department of Literature\, Thought and culture and the Center for the study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) at New York University (NYU)\, in collaboration with Skinfama\, the conference “Art\, History\, and Cultural Politics in Africa Today” will bring together artists\, curators\, cultural entrepreneurs\, and researchers to explore the challenges and opportunities of promoting contemporary African Art – its circulation\, audiences\, and cultural policies on both continental and international levels.  \nThis special event will spotlight the dynamic creative scene of the Democratic Republic of Congo\, tracing cultural policies from independence in 1960 to the present day\, and imagining pathways for the future.  \nThese discussions will be held in the presence of the Honorable Minister of Culture\, Arts and Heritage of the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Madame Yolande Elebe Ma Ndembo.  \nDon’t miss this opportunity to engage in conversation about the future of African creativity\, policy and global exchange. \n\nSpeakers: \n The Honorable Minister of Culture\, arts and heritage of DRC\, Madame Yolande Elebe Ma Ndembo\nSarah Van Beurden (Ohio University)\nSandrine Colard (Rutgers University)\nClaude Grunitzky (CEO of Equity Alliance)\nNadia Yala Kisukidi (NYU)\nAimé Mpané (Artist\, curator)\nUgochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (curator\, MOMA) \n\nRegister Here
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SUMMARY:Regional Origins and Intra-African Patterns of Gene Flow during the Millennia of Enslavement
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD 2024-2025 Distinguished Scholar Event\nRegional Origins and Intra-African Patterns of Gene Flow During the Millennia of Enslavement\n  \nDr. Fatimah Jackson \nWednesday\, November 20\, 2024 \n5:00 pm- 6:30 pm \nHemmerdinger Hall \nSilver Center of Arts & Science \n\n100 Washington SQ East \nNew York City\, NY 10013 \n\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98085219090 \n  \nThis lecture event will highlight developing models that reflect the diverse origins of African-descended peoples of the African Diasporas is an important task which provides insights of potential evolutionary relevance and possible biomedical significance (via geospatially mediated precision medicine). Computational approaches can be trained to accurately identify the African empires and kingdoms (AEKs) involved in the procurement\, kidnapping\, transport\, and delivery of captive Africans for enslavement within and outside of Africa. Supervised and unsupervised machine learning GIS models can also identify the regional and ethnic sources of enslaved Africans and predict the routes used to take them from their homelands to export sites on the various coasts. By grounding our analysis in the paradigm of the 8th-20th c Millennia of Enslavement we consider each of the major intra-African slave trades and the resulting demic diffusion and its impact on gene flow patterns. \n  \nWatch Event Recording\n\n  \n \nDr. Fatimah Jackson \nProfessor Emerita\, Biology\, Howard University\nProfessor Emerita\, Anthropology\, University of Maryland\, College Park\nSenior Scientist\, QuadGrid Data Laboratory\n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/regional-origins-and-intra-african-patterns-of-gene-flow-during-the-millennia-of-enslavement/
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