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From Internationalism to Cosmopolitanism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and Third World (with Rossen Djagalov, New York University)

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. Although most histories of these geopolitical blocs and their constituent societies and cultures are written in reference to the West, the interdependence of the Second and Third Worlds is evident not only from a common nomenclature but also from their near-simultaneous disappearance…

Guadeloupe, Martinique & Puerto Rico. Comparing Post-Colonial, Non-Sovereign Trajectories

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

Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY. Her work focuses on questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites: anti-colonial labor activism in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, and…

Sciences of Empire/Post-Colonial States

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

With Robyn d’Avignon and Justin Izzo “If we could today—without the burden or benefit of precedent, tradition, or institutional inertia—invent a field called ‘French and Francophone Studies,’ what would it look like?” - Laurent Dubois & Achille Mbembe Robyn d’Avignon is Assistant Professor of History at NYU. She is a historian and anthropologist of West Africa, with interests in natural resource extraction, scientific research,…