Category: Events

  • Raising Two Fists with author Roosbelinda Cárdenas

    MARCH 12 | 6:00-8:00 PM SKYLIGHT ROOM CUNY, GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVENUE Raising Two Fists is a historically grounded ethnography of Afro-Colombian political mobilization after the multicultural turn that swept Latin America in the 1990s, when states began to recognize and legally enshrine rights for Afro-descendants. Roosbelinda Cárdenas explores three major strategies that Afro-Colombians’ developed…

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  • Ñai’ũpo Rape: a dialogue of ancestral ethnoknowledge, with author Celeste Escobar

    MAR 11 2024 – 6:30 PM SOCIOLOGY LOUNGE (ROOM 6112) CUNY GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK

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  • Paco de Lucía and the Americas an International Symposium

    Tuesday, Mar 7, 2023. 10:00am-6:00pm The Segal Theater Join musicians and scholars from around the world to honor and celebrate the remarkable artistry of Paco de Lucía. Marking the 10th anniversary of de Lucía’s death, this conference explores the influence of the flamenco guitar virtuoso, composer, and producer on the Americas, as well as the…

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  • 60 Years After the Coup: A History of the Brazilian Communist Party – Jean Rodrigues Sales

    FEBRUARY 15 6:00 PM – SKYLIGHT ROOM IN-PERSON AND LIVESTREAM EVENT. Jean Rodrigues (Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) analyzes the history of the Brazilian Communist Party from its beginnings in 1962 to its arrival in power in 2002. Through a bibliographic approach on the history of communist parties and Brazilian left wing movements…

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  • DISABILITY AND PUBLIC SPACE. A way to understand the social production of space

    Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023. 6:00pmRoom 9207 Pedro Javier Jaramillo Cruz is a professor at the University of Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in the Architecture and Habitat School. Since 1997, following a strong car accident that he suffered, his practice has been oriented towards the problematization of the relationship between physical space and people with disabilities.…

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