Workshop: Visualizing African-Asian Worlds

Workshop: Visualizing African-Asian Worlds

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Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.

March 2nd 2024
Location: NYUAD Arts Center, Screening Room
Start Time: 10:00

March 3rd 2024
Location: NYUAD Arts Center, Screening Room
Start Time: 10:00

Convened by Shobana Shankar (SBU), Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (NYU), and David Ludden (NYU). 

We bring together filmmakers, artists, and an interdisciplinary group of researchers for a two-day workshop to develop a methodological language and critically engage overlapping public cultures. Given NYU’s long-term investments in thinking through visual cultures and creative research across geographies, the global NYU network is ideal for this exploration of Africa-Asia visual and material cultural production.

In this workshop, we propose to delve into the methodologies of Africa-Asia studies and public cultures that have blossomed beyond academic scholarship to shape and influence them. Specifically, we turn to ways cinema and other visual arts have been utilized as a way to engage economic, social, political, and cultural connections between and across the African and Asian continents.

This workshop is organized by the NYU Global Asia Program in New York and sponsored by NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World as part of our collaborative effort to establish the study of Afro-Asia Interactions as a field of study integrating Arts and Humanities disciplines.

Workshop: Urban Transformations in Asia

Workshop: Urban Transformations in Asia

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Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.
28-29 April 2023.
Convened by George Jose.

Cities, especially in the broader west and south Asia region, are characterized by a construction boom, innovations in mobility and transportation infrastructures, a consolidation of surveillance networks, and dynamic media, hospitality, care, and culture industries. These transformations have, in its turn, produced new forms of leisure, increased informality, and multiplied housing and work precarity. This two-day workshop will explore current trends and future trajectories of cities in Asia including an assessment of the dynamics of social infrastructure, including migration, gender and consumption, land markets, digital technologies, climate change and popular resistance in the cities of the global south.

Register here.

For the programme and list of participants, visit our project page.

Sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Global Asia Initiative and CITIES, NYUAD.
Photo courtesy of Yasmin Hamad.

Tableau for Data Analysis, Visualisation and Mapping

Tableau for Data Analysis, Visualisation and Mapping



Today we had our second Digital Humanities workshop, with Nancy Um (Binghamton University), introducing us to Tableau and how it can enhance our ability to visualize and interpret research material.

To learn more about Professor Um’s DH workshops and research, look here.  To see her “Top Terms in Art History Dissertation Titles” in context, look here.

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