Events
Conferences, Roundtables, & Workshops
Workshop: Visualizing African-Asian Worlds
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation. March 2nd 2024Location: NYUAD Arts Center, Screening RoomStart Time: 10:00 March 3rd...
Confronting Environmental Change in Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation. Organized by the NYU Abu Dhabi Insititute. 19-20 February 2024 Convened by Mark Swislocki,...
Workshop: Urban Transformations in Asia
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...
“Central Asia across the Curriculum”: A Roundtable Discussion
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.10 April 2023. 17.00.C-329.
Global Crossroads presents “Ocean as Method: A Roundtable on Theory, Archives, and Crossings”
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation. 16th February 2023.12.30pm.A6-006. Panelists:Ghazi Al Mulaifi (NYU Abu Dhabi)George Jose (NYU...
Port City Environments in Global Asia
Thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation, the second annual "Port City Environments in Global Asia" Conference was successfully held at NYU Abu Dhabi...
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...
Eurasian Borderlines in Historical Perspective: A Roundtable Discussion
Three outstanding scholars join three NYUAD faculty for a manuscript workshop on Eurasian Borderlands and discuss problems and projects in the field...
Paul Vierthaler brings his “Introduction to Text Mining and Digital Humanities” to Abu Dhabi
On 2 February 2019 we spent the day with Paul Vierthaler taking a crash course on text mining. You can try some of Paul's tutorials yourself,...
Transnational Feminisms: Building Solidarities Across Regions And Disciplinary Perspectives
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation. December 6th, 2018 A group of feminist scholar-activist-artists, will share their...
Book & Research Presentations
A New Approach to World Literature, Trans-temporal and Trans-cultural Translation
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.21 February 202412.00 - 13.30A6-006With Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Editor-in-Chief of Cha: An Asian...
For all the tea in China: Economic and environmental ramifications of tea history with George van Driem
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.21 November 202315.30 - 16.30A4-008, The Reading RoomWith George van Driem (University of...
Aging humans in the Anthropocene: Rethinking a much talked about global challenge
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.11 September 202316.30 - 18.00A4-008, The Reading RoomWith Alexandra Tragaki (Harokopio...
Groundless Existence: Ethics and Agency in Contemporary Migrant literature
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation. 5th October 2023. 17.00. A4-008, The Reading Room With Pavan Malreddy (Goethe University...
“Ways of Being”: Book Talk with Sabyn Javeri
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.4th May 2022. 18.00 - 19.30.The Reading Room, NYUAD Art Gallery (A4-008). With Sabyn Javeri,...
Musical Crossings: Re/semblance in Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.27th April 2023. 17.00.The Reading Room, NYUAD Art Gallery (A4-008). With Tejaswini Niranjana....
The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.24th April 2023. 16.00 - 17.30.The Reading Room, NYUAD Art Gallery (A4-008). A book discussion...
A View from Asia: Changing Global Demography
With Tragaki Alexandra. Postponed. Home to 6 out of 10 living persons, Asia is the region the most demographically heterogeneous. The Asian...
Global Crossroads presents “Ocean as Method: Two Talks on the Maritime”
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation. 15th February 2023.17.00.A6-004. With Nishat Zaidi (Jamia Millia Islamia, India) and Dilip...
Sovereignty and Mobility in Asia Today
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation. 14th February 2023.18.30 - 19.30.The Reading Room, NYUAD Art Gallery (adjacent to the Welcome...
Outreach & Other Events
Musical Crossings: Re/semblance in Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai
Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.27th April 2023. 17.00.The Reading Room, NYUAD Art Gallery (A4-008). With Tejaswini Niranjana....
The NYUAD Global Asia Initiative visits the Ishara Arts Foundation
Curator Nada Raza gives us a tour of the exhibition, Body Building. Learn more about Ishara, an important new foundation in Dubai for exhibiting...
Lawrence in Lahore
Arts Collaboration Shahid Nadeem, playwright; collaboration with Fawzia Afzal-Khan, NYUAD Internationally renowned Pakistani playwright...