Presented by the NYU Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.

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Edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press, 2025) is the first comprehensive volume to explore the impact of empire on Afghanistan’s past and present. It features cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan and paths to decolonial futures. With a particular focus on the US intervention that began in 2001, the collection marks a decolonial turn in Afghanistan and American studies.

This event will feature contributors speaking on topics from media, developmentalism, and funding practices to anthropological approaches to US military tactics and autoethnographic work on Indigeneity and migration:

Matthieu Aikins, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Wazhmah Osman, Temple University
Zohra Saed, Macaulay Honors College & CUNY Graduate Center
Morwari Zafar, Georgetown University
Paula Chakravartty, NYU Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab

with discussants:
Manan Ahmed, Columbia University
Ola Galal, NYU

NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required.

Accessibility note: This venue is accessible via elevator. If you have any access needs, please email mcc@nyu.edu.