Latest Past Events

A Brief History of the African Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey

Online

In collaboration with Albertinum (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) and the Goethe-Institut New York, Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar is happy to invite you to a lecture by Zavier Wingham, the first in a series of events devoted to exploring black identity in Central Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Held within the framework of the Goethe-Institut's extended program for the exhibition 1 Million Roses…

Free

Black and Brown in Berlin: Notes from the African Diaspora

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU present a panel discussion about "Black and Brown in Berlin: Notes from the African Diaspora" among Brittany Hazelwood, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, and Darryl Pinckney,which will be moderated by Christophe A. Koné. Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet Audre Lorde, who taught in Berlin from 1984 to 1992, recalled that, on the day the…

Film: Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix) – Screening & Discussion with Amandine Gay

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

With director Amandine Gay in conversation with art historian Sandrine Colard (African Art History, Rutgers), and poet/scholar Sylvie Kandé as respondent. African and African Diaspora writers and artists have met the 21st century with unprecedented new images and visions of Africa and the world. From Lagos, Johannesburg and Dakar to Paris, New York, London, or Berlin, writers and artists of African descent are mobilizing the resources…