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May 9, 2023 In Search of Bengali Harlem
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| Join Professor Vivek Bald (PhD, NYU American Studies) for a screening of his acclaimed documentary with actor and playwright Alaudin Ullah, In Search of Bengali Harlem (85 min), which follows Ullah as he investigates the lives of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents, unearthing a lost history in which South Asian Muslims, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans forged an extraordinary multiracial community in the tenements of mid-twentieth century Harlem.
The screening will be followed by a discussion, moderated by Professor Dina M. Siddiqi (NYU Liberal Studies), featuring Bald, co-Director Ullah, and community members Yolanda Musawwir and Shahazan Khalique. Thursday, March 9, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST Venue: NYU Cantor Film Center, Theater 200 Address: 36 E. 8th Street New York, NY 10003 US Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYC Center for Global Asia, Center for Black Visual Culture at the Institute of African American Affairs, and Asian Film and Media Initiative at the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Accessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. If you have any access needs, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. |
| Vivek Bald is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, digital media producer, and scholar. His work over the past twenty-five years has explored the stories and experiences of South Asians in the US and Britain. Bald’s first documentary, Taxi-vala/Auto-biography (1994) examined the lives, struggles, and activism of New York City taxi drivers from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. Bald’s second film, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music (2003) focused on South Asian youth, music, and anti-racist politics in 1970s-90s Britain. He is the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press, 2013) and is the faculty Director of MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. He is also developing “The Lost Histories Project,” an interactive documentary and participatory oral history that will build upon and extend the Bengali Harlem film and book. Bald received his PhD in American Studies from NYU in 2009.
Alaudin Ullah is a playwright and actor and the son of one of the first Bengali Muslim men to settle in Harlem. Ullah is the author of the acclaimed one-man show, Dishwasher Dreams, based on his father’s life in New York City in the 1930s-60s. Ullah premiered Dishwasher Dreams at the New Works Now! Festival at New York’s Joseph Papp Public Theater, and was subsequently awarded one of the Public Theater’s prestigious Emerging Writers Group Fellowships. Ullah’s three-act play Halal Brothers centers on the interactions between African American and Bengali Muslims in a Harlem halal butcher’s shop on the day of Malcolm X’s murder in 1965. This emotionally charged ensemble drama is in development for stage production. Dina M. Siddiqi is a cultural anthropologist by training and teaches in the School of Liberal Studies at NYU. Her research, grounded in the study of Bangladesh, joins development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of labor and Islam. She has published extensively on the global garment industry, non-state gender justice systems, and the cultural politics of Islam and nationalism in Bangladesh. Siddiqi is on the advisory board of the journals Dialectical Anthropology, Contemporary South Asia, and the Journal of Bangladesh Studies. She is on the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) and a member of the Executive Board of Sakhi for South Asian Women. Her publications can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dina-Siddiqi. |
Mar 31, 2023 Global Vietnam
Global Asia Colloquium
MARCH 31, 2023
4:00-7:00 Room 701 KJCC
(53 Washington Square South) Elevator Floor 7E
Studying Global Vietnam: Tensions, Limitations, and Possibilities
Asian and Asian American Studies have long been split along institutional, epistemological, and political lines. But scholars working at the intersection of the two fields have challenged the entrenched boundaries that have siloed the two fields. Vietnam studies has mirrored these dynamics.
War and its aftermath––the mass exodus and scattering of refugees across the western world––stretched the Vietnamese body politic into something we may call global Vietnam. But Vietnamese area studies and Vietnamese American studies have largely developed as separate fields of knowledge. One emphasizes training in the Vietnamese language and concentrates on the people, places, and events inside Vietnam. The other probes Vietnamese immigrant experiences as an American story and analyzes them within the framework of race and ethnicity studies. Yet, the dense and enduring connections between the diaspora and Vietnam militate against the study of one in isolation from the other.
This event brings together scholars who bridge the divide. The interdisciplinary panel features Ivan Small (Anthropology), Marguerite Nguyen (English), Quan Tran (American Studies), and Y Thien Nguyen (Sociology) whose research illuminate the diverse linkages that constitute global Vietnam and represent some of the most innovative efforts in Vietnam studies. Following the research presentations, Nu-Anh Tran (History) will moderate a discussion with the panelists about the tensions, limitations, and possibilities of straddling Vietnamese and Vietnamese American studies.
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Chinese in the Netherlands
RESOURCES COLLECTED BY
links and datasets about Chinese in the Netherlands. The excel sheets are downloadable on the website.
This is the main page of the Central Bureau of Statistics: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb
Chinese in the Netherlands (by province, 2022): https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/maatwerk/2023/07/chinezen-in-nederland-1-januari-2022
Socioeconomic characteristics of Chinese in the Netherlands (2022): https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/maatwerk/2023/08/sociaaleconomische-kenmerken-van-chinezen-in-nederland-1-januari-2022
CBS’s report on China writ large (2020). It includes a section on Chinese students and labour, including gender, wage, age etc.: https://longreads.cbs.nl/im2020-2/chinese-werknemers-en-studenten-in-nederland/
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These might also be relevant:
On labour migration in NL (Chinese population mentioned but not the main subject of study, 2019): https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/longread/statistische-trends/2019/arbeidsmigranten-in-nederland
Migration Motives of Indians (2019): https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/longread/statistische-trends/2019/migratiemotieven-van-indiase-immigranten-2012-2017
I look forward to your suggestions!
April 28 The Ice Cream Sellers by Director Sohel Rahman
Join The New York Center for Global Asia for a screening of the award-winning film, The Ice Cream Sellers (2021), followed by a discussion with the director Sohel Rahman, moderated by Dina M. Siddiqi (Liberal Studies, NYU).
Time and Date: 4-7PM, April 28th, 2023
Location: New York University, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, Room 701
Sohel Rahman is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and producer based in Lisbon, Portugal. His films have been screened internationally in various film festivals and universities around the world. Sohel teaches film in different universities and institutes around the world as an invited filmmaker. He is the director and chief organizer of Mostra DE Cinema Saul Asiatico, Lisbon, Portugal,
Dina M. Siddiqi is Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at New York University. Her research, grounded in the study of Bangladesh, joins development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of Islam and human rights. She has published extensively on the global garment industry, non-state gender justice systems, and the cultural politics of Islam and nationalism in Bangladesh. She is currently engaged in a project on economic development, discourses of empowerment and the travels of civilizational feminisms. Professor Siddiqi is a member of the New York University Society of Fellows, on the advisory board of Dialectical Anthropology, and on the editorial board of Routledge’s Women in Asia Publication Series.
Global Bangladesh
May 12 Naveeda Khan’s River Life and the Upspring of Nature
Join Global Bangladesh 10AM EST, May 12th 2023 on Zoom for Naveeda Khan’s new book, River Life and the Upspring of Nature (2023, Duke University Press).
In River Life and the Upspring of Nature, Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Nature is a primary force at play within this existence as chauras live itinerantly and in flux with the ever-changing river flows. By showing how the alluvial flood plains configure chaura life, Khan shows how nature can both give rise to and inhabit social, political, and spiritual forms of life.
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Naveeda Khan is associate professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, where she also sits on the board of the Center for Islamic Studies and serves as affiliate faculty for the Undergraduate Program in Environmental Science and Studies. Her research spans riverine lives and national climate policy in Bangladesh, UN led global climate governance processes, German romanticism, Bengali and Urdu literature and writings on the environment. She is the author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan (Duke University Press, 2012) River Life and the Upspring of Nature (Duke University Press, 2023) and In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South (Fordham University Press, 2023) and editor of Beyond Crisis: Reevaluating Pakistan (Routledge, 2010). Besides these, Naveeda has published articles and book chapters in various disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals and edited volumes and has edited several special issues of journals such as Anthropology and Humanism, Anthropological Theory, Contributions to Indian Sociology. She is working on two manuscripts “Householding in the Time of Climate Change” and “Schelling and the Romantic Method.” She is unclear what she will be working on next.
Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi is Clinical Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University. Her research is grounded in the study of Bangladesh and joins development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of Islam and human rights. She has published extensively on the global garment industry, non-state gender justice systems, and the cultural politics of Islam and nationalism in Bangladesh. She is currently engaged in a project on economic development, discourses of empowerment and the travels of civilizational feminisms. Her publications are available here. She is a member of the NYU Society of Fellows, on the advisory board of Dialectical Anthropology, and on the editorial board of Routledge’s Women in Asia Publication Series. She is on the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS), and an Advisory Council member of the South Asian feminist network, Sangat.
Naeem Mohaiemen is a visual artist and academic who combines photography, films, and essays to research the many forms of utopia-dystopia (families, borders, architecture, and uprisings) in the Muslim World after 1945. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Head of Photography Concentration at Columbia University, New York. His is the author of Midnight’s Third Child (Dhaka: Nokta / University of Liberal Arts, 2023) and Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 2014); editor of Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism (Dhaka: Drishtipat, 2010); and co-editor with Eszter Szakacs of Solidarity Must be Defended (Budapest: Tranzit / University of Budapest, 2023).
David Ludden is Professor of Political Economy and Globalization in the Department of History at New York University. His research has focused on southern India, Bangladesh, and northeast India. His publications include four edited volumes, three monographs, and dozens of articles and chapters exploring various dimensions of capitalist economic development and long-term globalization. He served as President of the Association for Asian Studies and is founding director of the NYU Global Asia program, based in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai.
Global Africa Meets Global Asia Workshop
Workshop: “Global Africa Meets Global Asia”
WITH FOLLOW-UP MEETINGS PLANNED FOR NEW YORK, ABU DHABI, AND ACCRA
Time:
Jan 21 | 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Jan 22 | 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Abu Dhabi time zone
Location:
In-Person (NYUAD Campus, Room A6-001) and on Zoom
The NYU Center for Global Asia, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation – and in collaboration with the NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, is hosting a workshop at NYU Abu Dhabi on Africa-Asia interactions on January 21 and 22, 2023.
Panels will explore African and African diaspora connectivities and mobilities linked to Asia, focusing on the themes of slavery and its legacies in Black Atlantic-Indian Ocean-Gulf crosscurrents; modern cross-migrations and informal economies; diasporic identity-formation and politics; and Blackness in the Global South.
NYUAD is an ideal location to critically examine the geography of Africa-Asia in the Global South and to bring together scholars from around the world who work in different languages and disciplines from history to film and visual arts. This two-day workshop is thus open to the NYUAD community and by invitation. Please register here.
Convened by
David Ludden, Professor of History, New York University
Shobana Shankar, Professor of History, Stony Brook University
Convened by:
– David Ludden, Professor of History, New York University
– Shobana Shankar, Professor of History, Stony Brook University
Hosted by
NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World
In Collaboration with
NYU Center for Global Asia, NYUAD Division of Arts & Humanities, Henry Luce Foundation, and NYUAD African Studies
