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GLOBAL UPRISING: Racism, Racialization, Anti-Blackness

Zoom signup How might we think uprising in light of the resurgence and relegitimization of racial/racist thought? How do we think historically about the return of certain colonial grammar and rhetoric in right-wing reactionary thought—"reverse colonization,” “white genocide,” “replacement theory”?  In the now total collapse of the multicultural normative consensus and imagery of the global village, how does this period…

Lecture: Visions of the Modern: Abstraction in the Postcolonial Middle East

NYU Silver Center 32 Waverly Place, New York

After 1945, abstract art exploded in the Arab world, announcing a new cultural renaissance. In this talk, Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor of Art History, NYU, will link the different varieties of Arab abstraction to their counterparts in the broader Middle East and in Europe—and discuss how these varieties served as vehicles for competing visions of Arab modernity rooted in histories…