#PopLife40 Join us for the #PopLife40 virtual symposium, celebrating 40 years of Prince’s Around The World In A Day, The Family, and Sheila E.’s Romance 1600 on April 11-13, 2025 (Fri-Sun)! Over 3 days, there will be 35+ speakers over 10 total sessions, featuring 13 presentations over 5 presentation panels, 3 roundtable discussions, and an integrated segment of the weekly What Did Prince Do This Week? on the conference platform, Zoom Events. Keynote speakers to be announced. Schedule at a Glance Speaker profiles and more info on the symposium website at: https://poplife.polishedsolid.com  Sponsored by NYU Office of the Provost, NYU Tandon, NYU Integrated Design & Media (IDM), NYU Institute of African American Affairs and the Center for Black Visual Culture (IAAA & CBVC), NYU Photography & Imaging (DPI), NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), NYU Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music (CDI), NYU Office of Global Inclusion (OGI), and...

Harmonia Rosales: Reclaiming the Narrative In Person Registration for Event - Click Here Virtual Registration for Event - Click Here NYU Office of Global Programs, Office of Global Inclusion, The Center for Global Spiritual Life, The Center for Black Visual Culture, The Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, and The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora welcome artist Harmonia Rosales. Artist Harmonia Rosales interrogates the ways believers and dreamers re-imagine myth-making offering a unique lens on West African mythology. By weaving ancient tales of the Orisha pantheon with her ancestral knowledge, Rosales’ paintings insert the African deities she grew up with into narratives that span the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. Through her painted works, Rosales brings an overlooked world and tradition into the grander creative canon. Dr. Akissi Britton, anthropologist specializing in African diasporic religions; Black feminisms; and diaspora/Black Atlantic theory...

Afromayores Audiovisual project created by Lucía-Asue Mbomío, Laurent Leger Adame, and José Oyono to preserve memory and acknowledge the existence of Black people over sixty-five years old, learn about their history, and celebrate their legacy. The Afromayores project is one of the many artistic initiatives linked to Espacio Afro, a cultural and Afro-centered thought center. In a time when, fortunately, there is increasing discussion about what it means to grow old, it is essential to consider those who, in addition to the usual challenges of aging, also face the nostalgia and pain of being thousands of kilometers away from their birthplace, cultural gaps, racism, xenophobia, and, in some cases, language and administrative difficulties. It is important to understand their desires and needs, especially considering that geriatrics lacks a multicultural and multiethnic perspective. In a stage of vulnerability such as old age, it must not be easy to be a Black person and/or...