Like Borom Sarret, Black Girl, The Money Order, and Xala, Ousmane Sembene’s film Faat Kiné is another chapter in the writer-director’s laser-sharp commentary of post-independence in Senegal. Faat Kiné brings the viewer face to face with politically, economically, and morally corrupt social fabric.
This event will recur Every Day until Apr. 21, 2021 Space Talks | Militant Astroculture and the Cold War: A Roundtable Alexander Geppert (NYU), Daniel Brandau (FU Berlin) and Tilmann Siebeneichner (HU Berlin) in conversation with Martin Collins (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum); Amanda Rees (York) and Guillaume de Syon (Albright College). This roundtable takes the recent publication of Militarizing Outer…
Participants: George Pagoulatos (Athens University of Economics and Business); Christian Martin (CEMS, NYU). Moderated by: Stephen Gross (CEMS, NYU) This event will take place on Zoom. To register please follow this link.
On April 10, join us for a book talk with Laura Linstedt and translator David Hackston on My Friend Natalia, the author’s U.S. debut, available from Liveright Publishing on March 23, 2021. My Friend Natalia is a linguistic sexual thriller centered on one woman’s potent affliction: Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. The unnamed, ungendered therapist who narrates the novel has leapt at the chance to…
On April 17, American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual talk with photographer Anne Helene Gjelstad on her documentary book Big Heart, Strong Hands, out now from Dewi Lewis Publishing. She will be joined by moderator & photographer Erika Larsen (Sàmi: Walking with Reindeer). Big Heart, Strong Hands is the story of the women on the Estonian islands Kihnu and Manija in the…
The Benin Bronzes were looted in 1897 from the Royal Palace of Benin City during a punitive expedition amid the British colonial expansion into West Africa. Their status is now central to the worldwide discussion about restitution claims and the return of cultural objects to their place of origin. At stake is what will become of these thousands of pieces…
Part of Carnegie Hall’s “Voices of Hope: Artists in Times of Oppression” festival Connor Chee: Navajo Vocable no. 9 (2014) Louis Ballard: Four American Indian Piano Preludes (1968) Margaret Bonds: Troubled Waters (1967) Dawn Avery: Onekha’shòn:a (The Waters; 2009) * Barbara Croall: Mazhenaabikiniganing Aagawong (Inscription Rock; 2008) * Talib Rasul Hakim: A Piano Piece in Six Sections (1965) Hakim: Sound-Gone (1967) Michael Begay: Adéihozhdìlzin (Know who you are; 2021) World Premiere * Brent Michael Davids: Testament of Atom (2008) World Premiere * Arthur Cunningham: selections from Harlem…
A workshop on populism and foreign policy. Apr. 9 Onlinehttps://bit.ly/3r9VXTk Join us for “Are Populists Changing World Politics? A Workshop on Populism and Foreign Policy”, co-hosted by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), and organized by Jordan Center Visiting Scholar Dr. Emily Holland and CEMS Faculty…