Category: lectures & talks

The New York University Postcolonial Colloquium presents a lecture with Prof. Aisha Khan.

“Vodou, Islam, and the Making of the Afro-Atlantic”
Date: Wednesday, March 9th, 6:30 p.m.
Place: 13-19 University Place, Room 222, New York University, NY, NY 10003

Aisha Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.  She is the author of Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad (Duke UP, 2004), and has published articles in numerous journals including the Journal of Historical Sociology, Small Axe, and Cultural Anthropology.  She is the co-editor of Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz (UNC Press, 2009) and editor of the forthcoming Islam and the Atlantic World.

For more information or to be added to our list, please visit www.nyupoco.com.

Paul R. Jones Annual Lecture presents:
Mel Edwards and Jayne Cortez

Visual/Verbal Dialogue
March 7, 2011 at 6:00 pm

Longtime partners, Melvin Edwards and Jayne Cortez are internationally renowned artists.  Their professional work comes together on occasion, as in the illustrations Edwards provides for Cortez’s writings and her poems inspired by his sculptures. This rare collaborative presentation provides an exceptional opportunity for their personal, political and artistic voices to come together publicly in celebration of the arts and their liberatory capacity.

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A program celebrating the publication
Romare Bearden, American Modernist

Monday, March 14, 2011
4:30 p.m.
East Building Auditorium

Romare Bearden, American Modernist: An Introduction
Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art

Romare Bearden and the Art of the Grotesque
Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Please see announcement for complete program (PDF 470KB).

The publication Romare Bearden, American Modernist will be available in spring 2011 from Gallery Shops.

No RSVP required.