In different academic sessions, Elvira Dyangani Ose will discuss aspects of the decolonization of knowledge from the perspective of artistic, material and intellectual production, based on the work of historians, filmmakers, painters, architects, photographers and urban planners from Africa, pan-Africa or the diaspora of these countries. The activities planned at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies of New York University are the following:
- Guest lecture on the subject Aesthetics of African Decolonization by professor Prita Meier, for graduate students.
- Guest lecture on the subject What is Europe? by professor Stephen Gross, for graduate students.
- Graduate Student “Meet & Greet” for students from CEMS, Museum Studies, IFA and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the KJC Center.
- Public lecture, on November 7th at 6.00pm at the Institute of Fine Arts titled Anti-colonial Barcelona and the Possibility of a Black Planet.
Elvira Dyangani Ose has a degree in Art History from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She completed doctoral studies at Cornell University in New York and has a Masters in Theory and History of Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Since 2021, she is has been the director of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and previously directed The Showroom in London. She is part of the Advisory Council of the Tate Modern and is a member of the Thought Council of the Fondazione Prada, where she has curated numerous projects. She was also curator of the eighth Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, (GIBCA 2015) and Curator of International Art at Tate Modern (2011–14). Her curatorial projects, of a multidisciplinary nature, reflect critically on the narration of history as a collective experience, representation and participation in public space and the recovery of non-Western narratives and epistemologies. As a specialist in contemporary African art, she has taught seminars and participated in lecture series linked to contemporary African artistic production and culture.
In July 2023, NYU and the Institut Ramon Llull signed an agreement for the annual appointment of a guest lecturer who will participate in courses and seminars at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, thus contributing to the international promotion of Catalan culture. The objective of this professorship is to contribute from a Catalan perspective to the global cultural issues that are currently being debated at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies: art, immigration, race and other social questions pertaining to European identities.
NYU is the largest private research university in the United States, with a student body of 39,408. Currently, is comprised of 14 schools and associated institutions and has 6 centers in Manhattan, as well as academic centers in London, Paris, Florence, Prague, Madrid, Berlin, Accra and Shanghai.
