SERIES: African City: Art and Architecture of Decolonization

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NYU Cities Collaborative and the Department of Art History are excited to announce the following guest speakers for the African Cities: Art and Architecture of Decolonization series, as part of Professor Prita Meier‘s Fall 2021 course.
 
All talks will take place via Zoom. Click here to launch the Zoom. Please note that this link should only be accessed at the time of the talk. No registration is required.
 
October 25, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM: Moses Subiri, Independent curator, Hunter College and CCS Bard. “On the Aesthetics of Protest: Student Strikes at Makerere University, Revolution 3.0 Iconographies of Radical Change.” Click here for event page.
 
November 15, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM: Zandi Sherman, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University. “Infrastructures and the Ontological Question of Race.” Click here for event page.
 
November 29, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM: Menna Agha, School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. “Project Unsettled: Nubia Still Exists.” Click here for event page.
 
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
 
Prita Meier (PhD, Harvard University) is associate professor of African art and architectural history at New York University. Her research focuses African port cities and histories of transcontinental exchange and conflict. She is the author of Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere (Indiana University Press, 2016) and has publications in Art History, African Arts, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Artforum, and Arab Studies Journal, as well as contributions in several exhibition catalogs and edited books. Currently she is working on a new book about the social and aesthetic history of photography in Zanzibar and Mombasa and is co-organizing an exhibition and edited volume titled World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean (which received a 2016-17 NEH Humanities Projects grant). She has also held fellowships at the Clark Art Institute (2014-2015), Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities (2009-2010), Johns Hopkins University (2007-2009), and The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (2017-18).
 

Zandi Sherman is an African feminist activist who devotes most of her energy to collectively imagining new ways of building queer African community. She has been involved in struggles for racial, gender and economic justice in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. She has also worked as a researcher for organizations working in popular education and queer media making and documentation. 

Dr. Menna Agha is an architect and researcher who has recently been coordinating the spatial justice agenda at the Flanders Architecture Institute in Belgium. She joins the Azrieli School to promote pedagogy and research in the newly established area of Design and Spatial Justice. Menna holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Antwerp, and a Master of Arts in Gender and Design from Köln International School of Design. In 2019/2020, she was the Spatial Justice Fellow and a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. She is a third-generation displaced Fadicha Nubian, a legacy that infuses her research interests in race, gender, space, and territory. Among her publications are: Nubia still exists: The Utility of the Nostalgic Space; The Non-work of the Unimportant: The shadow economy of Nubian women in displacement villages; and Liminal Publics, Marginal Resistance. 

EVENT: Race, Capital and the City Series: Work and the Built Environment in Latinx Gotham with Pedro Regalado

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The NYU Cities Collaborative and Institute for Public Knowledge’s Race, Capital and the City series kicks off Friday, October 15 at 11 AM with Professor Pedro Regalado’s discussion on Work and the Built Environment in Latinx Gotham. His talk will examine the history of 20th century New York City through the lens of Latinx workers in the city’s rapidly-evolving industries, recuperating Latinx residents as active agents in the remaking of the city’s economy and landscape.

About the Speakers

Pedro A. Regalado is a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Beginning July 2022, he will be Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. Regalado researches the history of race, immigration, planning, and capitalism in urban America. His book project, Latinx Gotham: Work and the Modern City, examines the history of New York City’s Latinx residents and their efforts to transform city space, politics, and economy.

Regalado has been awarded the Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation from the Urban History Association. He was also a finalist for the Ralph Gabriel Henry Prize for Best Dissertation from the American Studies Association. Regalado’s work has been featured in the The Journal of Urban History, Boston Review, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Born in the Dominican Republic, he was raised in New York City’s Washington Heights.