Lectures

Christopher Ondaatje Endowed Lecture
Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto, October 2025

 

Keynote Lecture: Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash,
Vera List Center (VLC) Forum 2024: Correct History, The New School, New York, 2024

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Comparative Approaches to the Literatures of Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South (CALAMEGS) Keynote Lecture
New York University, New York, 2024

 

Penumbra Foundation Spring Artist Series
Penumbra Foundation, New York, 2024

 

Screening of Afsan’s Long Day (2014),
Department of International History and London School of Economics Modern World Research Cluster, 2024

 

Core Program Lecture Series, Naeem Mohaiemen
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, 2022

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Solidarity Must Be Defended
Cooper Union, New York, 2021

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The Color Curtain
Vectors of Bandung: The Third World Liberation Front at the University of California, Berkeley, California, 2021

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The Shortest Speech
“Narrating Cold Wars”, Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2021

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What Do We Need Art For?
Bildmuseet, Umeå Arts, Sweden, 2021

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Our Families Bleed History, 2019
Experimenter, Kolkata, India

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Concert for Bangladesh, 2017
Documenta 14 (aneducation), Athens, Greece

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Century's Container, 2016
E-Flux Conversations

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A Little Pile of Mud, 2014
”Museum as Hub”, New Museum, New York, NY

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history, progress, and regression, 2017
J20, Whitney Museum, New York

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Muhammad Ali's Passport, 2017
”The Ties that Bind: Waves of Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Art and Society”, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago

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Red Star, Crescent Moon, 2016
34 Exercises of Freedom: #17 “Red Star, Crescent Moon / after Sohail Daulatzai”, Documenta 14
Athens Municipality Arts Center at Parko Eleftherias

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An Idea of Global History, 2015
Creative Time Summit: A Curriculum’s Contents, Venice Biennial


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Sweetness and Power, 2015
Creative Time Summit: A Curriculum’s Contents, NYC, Boys and Girls High school, Brooklyn

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