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SUMMARY:Reframing Gender Equality in Namibia: "Reverse Gender Inequalities"\, Boys’ Underachievement\, and the Politics of Inclusive Gender Justice
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nCSAAD PostDoctoral Fellow Presentation\nDr. Michael Linso Conteh\nCSAAD Spring 2026 PostDoctoral Fellow \nWednesday\, April 29\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n*VIRTUAL EVENT*\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97084042638 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with CSAAD’s Spring 2026 PostDoctoral Fellow\, Dr. Michael Linso Conteh. The discourse on gender equality in Namibia has historically focused on the empowerment of the girl child and women\, a necessary response to systemic patriarchal structures and post-colonial disparities. However\, emerging evidence suggests a shifting landscape characterized by “reverse gender inequalities”\, where the Namibian boy child increasingly faces marginalization within the educational and socio-economic spheres. This presentation examines the status of the boy child in Namibia\, analyzing the manifestations and drivers of male underachievement and under-participation. It posits that gender equality policy must move from a primarily corrective focus on girls and women toward a relational and inclusive model that also addresses boys’ marginalization. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\nBio: \n \nDr. Michael Conteh is an interdisciplinary and publicly engaged scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University’s Graduate School. His extensive research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa\, where he has been a driving force in advancing gender equity initiatives. Before and during his graduate studies\, Dr. Conteh oversaw key programs to institutionalize gender studies at the University of Namibia and a national research project on gender-based violence and understanding the nature and scope of human trafficking in Namibia\, demonstrating his multifaceted and interdisciplinary expertise. His doctoral dissertation investigated the role of universities as anchor institutions in their host cities\, analyzing global financial capital flows and their impact on universities’ community engagement strategies through a comparative lens of the United States and the Global South. \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/reframing-gender-equality-in-namibia-reverse-gender-inequalities-boys-underachievement-and-the-politics-of-inclusive-gender-justice/
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SUMMARY:Commemorating Jacques Viau-Renaud:  Dominican Sovereignty\, and Antonio Lockward-Artiles and Pedro Caros' Island-wide Afro-Caribbean Geopoetics
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\nCSAAD PreDoctoral Fellow Presentation\nFranchesca Araujo\nCSAAD 2025-2026 PreDoctoral Fellow\nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nMonday\, April 27\, 2026\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\n*VIRTUAL EVENT*\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95259797641 \n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for our lecture discussion with CSAAD’s 2025-2026 PreDoctoral Fellow\, Franchesca Araújo. After Haitian-Dominican poet and revolutionary Jacques-Viau Renaud was killed by U.S. marines in their 1965 occupation of the Dominican Republic\, his literary and political community commemorated his life and his writing. They did this through in-person events\, a posthumously published book of his poetry\, and their own commemorative poetics. This talk will trace the Afro-Caribbean and anti-colonial islandwide geopoetics rehearsed in Antonio-Lockward Artiles and Pedro Caros commemorative writings. These enacted visions of sovereignty\, and spatial imaginaries that differed not only from reactionary and oppressive ideologies\, but from other anti-imperial articulations of the moment. Even more profoundly\, they disrupted the anti-Haitian\, and anti-Black terms that undergirded hemispheric wide terms of sovereignty in the Americas. \n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\n\nBio: \n \nFranchesca Araújo is a doctoral candidate in African Diaspora studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is an interdisciplinary Black Studies\, Caribbeanist scholar. Her work interrogates the linkages and fissures between colonial modernity\, nation-making\, culture\, and national subjecthood across a variety of media and histories. Her dissertation looks at how 20th and 21st century Dominican subjects\, media\, and events encounter the Dominican Republic’s classed\, racialized\, and spatialized value systems across different political and cultural moments. Using archival research\, close reading\, and visual\, discursive\, and reflexive analysis\, she theorizes the analytics of deficiency\, and excess at the intersection of black geographies and black disability studies. She argues this opens up more capacious ways to think about encounters between blackness\, the nation\, and the national subject. Franchesca’s research interests broadly include theorizing black geographies\, Hispanophone Caribbean popular culture\, music\, performance\, and aesthetics\, 20th century anti-colonial Caribbean thought\, and coloniality and anti-blackness within Latin American nation-making and Latinidad as an imagined community. Her poetry can be found in When Language Broke Open (University of Arizona Press)\, and her scholarship in The Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies as well as The Afro-Latin@* Reader: Vol 2 (Duke University Press).
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/commemorating-jacques-viau-renaud-dominican-sovereignty-and-antonio-lockward-artiles-and-pedro-caros-island-wide-afro-caribbean-geopoetics/
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CATEGORIES:Africa Diaspora Forum
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SUMMARY:When Stories Turn Into Survival: CELEBRATION OF ROOTS\, DIASPORA\, AND CULTURE
DESCRIPTION:CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series\n~50th Anniversary of the Movie: Roots~\nBill Haley Jr.\nMalick L. Manga\nCo-Founders of The Inherited Roots Project\nWednesday\, March 25\, 2026\n5:30 pm – 7:00 pm\nVIRTUAL EVENT\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95002089030 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join CSAAD for this exciting event in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Book\, Roots. This event has been organized by our CSAAD 2025-2026 PostDoctoral Fellow\, Dr. Michael Conteh. The 50th anniversary of Roots provides an important opportunity to reflect on the long-lasting power of storytelling\, memory\, and spoken language in shaping African and global diasporic identities. Roots has been translated into 37 languages since its publication\, demonstrating its universal appeal and confirming language’s role as a powerful vessel for history\, culture\, and collective memory. Roots is more than just a literary work; it’s a living archive that connects ancestry\, migration\, survival\, and resistance across generations and geography. The event honours Roots’ legacy while also activating its relevance for contemporary diasporic experiences by bringing together grandson of Alex Haley\, Bill Haley\, and son of Ebou Manga\, Malick Leo Manga\, in conversation with Dr. Michael Linso Conteh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor accommodations\, please contact the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at ac8829@nyu.edu. \nWatch Recording Here\nAlex Haley\, Roots\, and the Rosetta Stone — lyrics by Joel Freeman\n\n\nBill Haley Jr.\n \n \n\n\n\nMalick Leo Manga\n \n \n  \n\nModerated by: \n \nDr. Michael Conteh is an interdisciplinary and publicly engaged scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University’s Graduate School. His extensive research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa\, where he has been a driving force in advancing gender equity initiatives. Before and during his graduate studies\, Dr. Conteh oversaw key programs to institutionalize gender studies at the University of Namibia and a national research project on gender-based violence and understanding the nature and scope of human trafficking in Namibia\, demonstrating his multifaceted and interdisciplinary expertise. His doctoral dissertation investigated the role of universities as anchor institutions in their host cities\, analyzing global financial capital flows and their impact on universities’ community engagement strategies through a comparative lens of the United States and the Global South.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/when-stories-turn-into-survival-celebration-of-roots-diaspora-and-culture/
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SUMMARY:Booker T. Washington’s Global Impact: Transimperial Entanglements Between Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism
DESCRIPTION:Booker T. Washington’s Global Impact: Transimperial Entanglements Between Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism\n\n\nCSAAD Africa~Asia Project \nSakiko NAKAO\nThursday\, May 01\, 2025\n5:00 pm – 6:30 pm\nVIRTUAL EVENT\nZoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98235632087 \n\nThis lecture discussion explores the influence of Pan-Africanism in Japan. At the turn of the 20th century\, Booker T. Washington emerged as one of the most well-known Pan-African figures in Japan. While he embodied the ideal of a self-uplifting man of color\, the practical education model he promoted at the Tuskegee Institute also influenced Japanese intellectuals in their policies toward the indigenous Ainu people and colonized Koreans. This study examines the reception of the “Tuskegee model” both in Africa and imperial Japan. The model’s expansion into colonial Africa highlights the inherent paradox of Pan-Africanism as both anti-imperialist and\, at times\, complicit in imperialism. This ambiguity is further mirrored in its complex interactions with Japanese Pan-Asianism. \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. \nWatch Event Recording\n\n \nSakiko NAKAO is an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo\, where she teaches courses in African history and French area studies. She earned her Ph.D. in History from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, France. Her research interest is centered on the making of African identity and the processes of decolonization in West Africa. She analyzes Pan-African movement and its connection to anti-imperialism from a transimperial perspective. Her recent project focuses on the function of the concept of “race” as a form of belonging and its impact on the Pan-African movement\, as well as its eventual linkage with Pan-Asianism\, which developed in the same period.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/booker-t-washingtons-global-impact-transimperial-entanglements-between-pan-africanism-and-pan-asianism/
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SUMMARY:African Worlds in Conversation: COVID-19\, Africa\, and the African Diaspora
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URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/african-worlds-in-conversation-covid-19-africa-and-the-african-diaspora/
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SUMMARY:African Worlds in Conversation: Black Lives Matter\, Globally
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URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/african-worlds-in-conversation-black-lives-matter-globally/
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