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Global Africa Meets Global Asia Workshop


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.

January 21 | 10:00 am - 7 pm
January 22 | 9:30 am - 1 pm

In-Person (NYUAD Campus) and on Zoom

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

The two-day workshop is open to the NYUAD community and by invitation. Registration has closed.

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