Culture, Rights, and Representation
in and for the 21st Century
An NYUAD Research Kitchen
Archives (Present)
ARCHIVE 1
Indigenous Archives
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ARCHIVE 2
Feminist Archives
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ARCHIVE 3
Campus Archives
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ARCHIVE 4
Archives for Future Technologies
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Clusters (2021-2025)
CLUSTER 1
Language(s) of Rights
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CLUSTER 2
Visualities of Rights
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CLUSTER 3
Campus Rights
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CLUSTER 4
Migration and
Mobility Rights
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CLUSTER 5
Post-Human Rights
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Forum Convenors
Samuel Mark Anderson
Forum Convenor
Contact for forum inquiries
email: sma326@nyu.edu
Rashmi Devi Sawhney
Forum Convenor
Contact for forum inquiries
email: rs9112@nyu.edu
Forum Members
About Our Kitchen
The research kitchen “Culture, Rights, and Representation in and for the 21st Century” engages theoretical and practical questions about rights and representation in our time, with particular attention to the complexities and paradoxes of justice, reconciliation, and tolerance within and between societies and the distinctive contributions the arts and humanities make towards understanding the challenges of living together on equal and dignified terms.
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Upcoming Events
Archived Events
Oral History Workshop: On Motherhood and Its Shadows
Oral History Workshop: On Motherhood and Its Shadows
In this two-part, hands-on workshop series, participants will be invited to explore personal or familial oral histories and memory narratives around the complex landscape of motherhood: mothering, being mothered, mother work and the profound choices made around these re...
“Unsettled Accounts” Exhibition
“Unsettled Accounts” Exhibition
Unsettled Accounts Exhibition by Samuel Mark Anderson, Marzia Balzani and Usman Ahmad, Sohail Karmani, Daungyewa Utarasint
(Re-) Locating Rights
(Re-) Locating Rights
The annual workshop of the “Culture, Rights, and Representation in/for the 21st Century” Research Kitchen, “(Re-)Locating Rights” addresses issues of accessibility, displacement, governance, and dissidence to ask where and how we find rights to begin with
Workshop | Writing and Archiving Feminist Histories of Cinema
Workshop | Writing and Archiving Feminist Histories of Cinema
This workshop brings together feminist scholars, artists, archivists and curators to engage with questions around writing and archiving feminist histories of cinema.
NYUAD Institute Talk | The (Impossible) Decolonization of the Western Museum
NYUAD Institute Talk | The (Impossible) Decolonization of the Western Museum
In this conversation, Vergès retraces the connection between collecting and colonialism, explores the capacity of neoliberalism to commodify critiques, and presents the project of a “museum without objects” and different decolonial practices of the arts.
Book Talk | A Feminist Theory of Violence with Françoise Vergès
Book Talk | A Feminist Theory of Violence with Françoise Vergès
Professor Françoise Vergès shares insight on the recent translation of A Feminist Theory of Violence (Pluto Press, 2022). Vergès’ work interrogates the language of “violence” and “gender” in contemporary legal discourse and seeks new models of justice that ...
Virtual Book Launch | “Reinventing Human Rights” by Mark Goodale
Virtual Book Launch | “Reinventing Human Rights” by Mark Goodale
Mark Goodale's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the "practice of human rights." Click to register.
FILM SCREENING + Q&A | In My Mother’s House
FILM SCREENING + Q&A | In My Mother’s House
In My Mother's House presents the longue durée of Euro-Atlantic, and African societies and histories, from unique points of view, indirectly, in the light of particular events and encounters of a large diasporic American-Eritrean-Italian family.
Human Rights in Times of Crisis | The Institute x CRR21
Human Rights in Times of Crisis | The Institute x CRR21
The Human Rights in Times of Crisis workshop retraces human rights discourse to examine how ideals have shaped enactments in practice and how practicalities have reshaped ideals.