Events
Emma McNally. Image courtesy of the artist.
Upcoming Events
January 30
5:00 - 7:00 pm
NYU King Juan Carlos Center
NYU
Film Screening: Prisoner No. 626710 is Present
On September 13, 2020, Umar Khalid, a charismatic student leader who recently completed his PhD at India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, was arrested under the draconian UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act)—a law that designates individuals as terrorists and allows the Indian state to imprison people without due process. His crime? As an Indian Muslim, he had dared to protest against the new citizenship law that the Indian state was trying to impose on its people.
Using found footage of his past speeches along with a forensic analysis of how he was framed by the right-wing, Hindu nationalist media, Umar Khalid’s close friends, Banojyotsna Lahiri and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, reconstruct the chronology of events that led to his tragic imprisonment. It has been over 1,400 days since Umar Khalid was arrested. He and his friends still await a fair hearing in court.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with award-winning film-maker, Lalit Vachani and Middle East Eye journalist, Azad Essa.
January 31
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Asian/Pacific/American Institute
NYU
Know Your Rights: An Immigrant Rights Teach-in for the NYU Community
Please join us in this Know Your Rights workshop for the NYU community. It is more important than ever to be aware of your rights regardless of immigration status. Our panel of organizers and specialists will lead us in a practical and action-oriented conversation on strategies to resist current attacks on the civil liberties of immigrant communities, discussing how to best advocate for oneself and how to show up in support of those who are most vulnerable. This event initiates a series of campus engagements focused on providing resources and information to push back against the criminalization of immigrants and new arrivals, exploitative employment practices, housing insecurity, and police brutality. Whether you are an undocumented student, an international student or staff member, a member of a mixed status family, or a supporter, our goal is to bring people together so that we can learn how to protect ourselves and each other. Lunch will be provided.
February 6
5:00 - 7:00 pm
CRACS Co-Lab Study Group: Now, what?! Confronting Authoritarianism
Join NYU’s CRACS Co-Lab on February 6th, for the first event under our Mellon's More-than-Perfect project, in which we will gather to think through the current authoritarian moment. The discussion will be guided by a set of recently published short texts, in which thinkers and activists reflect on the rising tide of new fascism in the global South and beyond. Please email us to register and receive the exact location and reading materials.
Judith Butler, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Marta Segarra: New political imaginaries
The philosophers Judith Butler, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Marta Segarra explore the transformative potential of political imagination in times of crisis. How might we reimagine political horizons in a world marked by inequalities and global tensions? Political imagination, understood as the creative process of thinking about possible collective futures, is essential for expressing criticism, activating political desires, and bringing about joint actions that disrupt inherited frameworks of thought and open up more inclusive, transformative spaces.
February 10
6:30 - 8:00 pm CET
CCCB Barcelona (Spain)
Past Events
October 28
East Village Neighbors Who Care (EVNC)
NYU Sanctuary and Asylum initiative: Distribution Event
The NYU Sanctuary and Asylum Initiative will hold its first Fall distribution, which will be a community free store co-sponsored with EVNC on October 28th, there are several key ways that you can support: Purchase items from our registry, which will be shipped directly to IHDSC's office at NYU and distributed as part of our next event, or donate to the "gift card fund" option that can receive donations in any amount. In parallel to the registry drive above, we are also continuing to collect donations of gently used and new men's clothing, suitcases and backpacks. Please feel free to leave donations at IHDSC in our donation boxes, which can be found at 196 Mercer on the 8th Floor in the entryway near the elevator.
November 1
5:00 - 7:00 pm @NYU
CRACS Co-Lab community kick-off event
Let's gather, touch base about some of our upcoming activities and plans for this academic year, and celebrate new work from three of our brilliant colleagues that speak to the central themes of our collective interest in critical racial anti colonial study.
We will pre-circulate a chapter/episode each from new books by Vasuki Nesiah (International Conflict Feminism: Theory, Practice, Challenges), Sonali Thakkar (The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought), and Chenjerai Kumanyika’s blockbuster podcast (Empire City). Our hope is that you will have read/listened to these in advance of our event, so that short informal presentations by Vasuki, Sonali and Chenjerai will be followed by lively discussion along the lines of our reading group from last academic year.
The event is open to NYU and CRACs affiliated members, please RSVP to attend.
November 7
Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry & the Center for the Critical Study of the Health
UC Berkeley (CA)
After It’s All Said: Reading Art as Confrontation
Denise Ferreira da Silva will launch the Project A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times, of which More-than-Perfect: Explorations of Black T/Senses of the Future is part.
Throwing blacklight onto works and practices of the contemporary art stage, Denise Ferreira da Silva comments on radical interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean that reflect on past and current political events through the lens of refusal.
November 15
7:00 pm @The Tramway, Glasgow (UK)
More-Than-Perfect @ Arika Episode 11
Conversation with Arissana Pataxó, Denise Ferrreira da Silva, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Geni Núñez
As part of Denise’s project More-Than-Perfect, this evolving conversation brings together influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity to ask:
What if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?
CRACS Co-Lab community kick-off event
