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Mirjam Kunkler – Religious Actors in Democratization Processes

International Affairs Building Room 1501, 420 W. 118th St., New York

What is the role of religious actors in the democratization processes of Muslim-majority countries? The only five countries categorized as democratic and free/partly free by Freedom House, the BTI and Polity IV as part of the Third and Fourth Waves of Democratization are Albania, Indonesia, Mali, Senegal and Turkey. The...

CANCELLED – Gish Amit – Ex-Libris – Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library: The Case of the Palestinian and Yemenite Looted Books

Knox Hall, Room 403 606 West 122nd Street

This event has unfortunately been cancelled. Gish Amit has been involved in non-formal education for some twenty years. He taught cinema and literature at the Arab Democratic School in Jaffa, and lectured in philosophy and critical theory at Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Amit is a co-author (with...

Tomorrow is the Question: Afrofuturism, Sound, and Spirit

Union Theological Seminary Social Hall, 3041 Broadway

PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION.  This event will now take place at: Union Theological Seminary, Social Hall 3041 Broadway at 121st Street New York, NY 10027 Enter through UTS main doorway on West side of Broadway. Following the idea of a black radical tradition, African and African diasporic futurism refers to practices...