Category Archives: Other Events around NYU
SPECIAL EVENT
Oct 13, 2022. America’s Asian Wars and Aftermaths
OCTOBER 13
America’s Forever Wars in Asia
2022-23 Writer-in-Residence Virtual Launch Event
Thursday, October 13, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
A virtual talk on US empire in Asia with 2022-23 A/P/A Institute at NYU Writer-in-Residence E. Tammy Kim in South Korea, writer Akemi Johnson in California, and journalist Jonathan de Santos in the Philippines.
Accessibility note: This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. A Zoom account, internet access, and a smartphone or computer is required. Closed captioning will be provided for all audio. If you have any access needs, please include them on the registration form, or email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu as soon as possible.
NOVEMBER 9
“Imperial Aftermaths: Refugees, Reckonings, and Resurgences.”
Wednesday, November 9, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
YOUTUBE RECORDING
The panel will consider the lasting impact of 20th U.S. warfare in Asia on transpacific cultural memory and political life. It will bring together authors of recently published monographs about U.S. military and economic imperialism in Asia and the Pacific during the Cold War and its afterlives:
- Jodi Kim (UC Riverside), Settler Garrison
- Daniel Kim (Brown University), The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War
- Amanda C. Demmer (Virginia Tech), After Saigon’s Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975-2000
NYU professor Jini Kim Watson will moderate and we’ll host the conversation on Zoom. 
Limits of Seljuk Art. Nov 5 @ IFA Antony Eastmond
The Limits of Seljuk Art
Monday, November 5, 2018
6:30 PM in the Lecture Hall
The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1 East 78th Street
The arts of the Caucasus were transformed in the course of the thirteenth century, with the incorporation of many structural and decorative elements that are indebted to Seljuk art. However, it is possible to trace an invisible frontier beyond which those elements are not seen. This lecture will explore the nature of that frontier, and its role in the construction of regional identities.
Antony Eastmond is AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art History and Dean & Deputy Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. His most recent book, Tamta’s World (Cambridge, 2017), examined questions of gender, biography and art in eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus on the eve of the Mongol invasions. He also works on Byzantine ivories and the definition of art in the Byzantine periphery.
Followed by a reception.
Supported by the Gulnar Bosch Fund
China-US Military Relations: From Partners to Competitors? Nov 6
China-America Military Relations: From Partners to Competitors?
an evening with Dr. Yao Yunzhu
(retired Major General of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Director Emeritus of the Center on China-American Defense Relations, and a senior advisor to the China Association of Military Science)
Tuesday, November 6th 3:00-4:30 pm
Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center
(60 Washington Sq. S. 10th Floor)
The US-Asia Law Institute, in collaboration with the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation and NYU’s Office of the Provost, invite you to join us for the 2018 China-U.S. Forum at NYU, an evening with Dr. Yao Yunzhu, a retired Major General of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Director Emeritus of the Center on China-American Defense Relations, and a senior advisor to the China Association of Military Science.
Among the highest ranking women in the Chinese military, Dr Yao joined the PLA in 1970. She holds an M.A. from the PLA’s Foreign Languages Institute and a Ph.D. in Military Science from the Academy of Military Science. She is a prominent military analyst, and has published and translated numerous books and articles on military and security issues.
Dr. Yao will speak on the subject “China-America Military Relations: From Partners to Competitors?”, then engage in a wide-ranging conversation with Jeffrey Lehman, Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, and Daniel Russel, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2013 to 2017, and the Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Ambedkar Lectures at Columbia
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20BARNARD AND COLUMBIA CAMPUSESINAUGURAL AMBEDKAR LECTURES @COLUMBIA 2018
B. R. Ambedkar is one of Columbia University’s most illustrious alumni, and a political thinker and constitutional lawyer whose thought and activism has shaped the world’s largest democracy.
In 2018, the Inaugural Ambedkar Lectures have been planned as a series of threepublic events to recognize Ambedkar’s continuing relevance for social justice activism and democratic thought in global frame.
Global Ambedkar
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Time: 6:30PM- 8PM
Venue: James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Etienne Balibar (Anniversary Chair Professor, CRMEP and Columbia University)
Nahum Chandler (UC-Irvine)
Gopal Guru (JNU, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly)
Gayatri Spivak (University Professor, Columbia)
Moderated by: Debjani Ganguly (UVa) and Anupama Rao (Barnard, Columbia)
Ambedkar Now
Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Time: 6:30-8:30PM, followed by public reception
Venue: Davis Auditorium, Directions
A Lecture by Sudipto Mondal (Investigative journalist, Hindustan Times)Followed by a conversation with Gaiutra Bahadur, author of Coolie Woman.
Wikipediathon: Rewriting Dalit History
Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Time: 11AM- 3PM
Venue: Studio(at)Butler, Butler Library, Columbia University
RSVP: hello@equalitylabs.org
Hosted by Thenmozhi Soundarajan (Equality Labs) with the support of Josue David Chavez (ICLS), and co-sponsored by XP Methods.This edit-athon will explore a Wikipedia called “Bahujan Pedia” that will allow users to enter content about Dalit contribution to history around the world including about the experience of caste in the diaspora gathered from a recently concluded caste survey.
The Ambedkar Lectures are hosted by ICLS and supported by: Office of the EVP (Columbia); Dean of Humanities (Columbia); Office of the Provost (Barnard); CCCT; ICLS; IRAAS; MESAAS; SoF/Heyman Center; SAI.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ID WILL BE REQUIRED.
Spain-Iran Photos in KJCC Atrium
The Photo Exhibit, “Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the mirror.” will commence with an opening reception on tomorrow, Tuesday, September 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the King Juan Carlos Center Atrium (53 Wash Sq South) and a discussion on Wednesday, September 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m. with photographers, curator and authorities.
Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror, provides the platform for the first encounter of twelve female photographers from Iran and Spain who, from such distant origins, unmistakably surprise us with their affinities.
RALPH NADER LECTURE MAY 3, 2018
Co-presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Co-sponsored by the NYU Division of Libraries, NYU Abu Dhabi, Provost’s Global Research Initiatives Program, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU Iranian Studies Initiative, Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity & Strategic Innovation, NYU Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Ottoman Studies at NYU, Jadaliyya, NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, and NYU Program in International Relations.
In celebration of the life and work of the late Dr. Jack G. Shaheen (September 21, 1935 – July 9, 2017), the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies co-host the Inaugural Dr. Jack G. Shaheen Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Ralph Nader on Thursday, May 3, 2018. The prominent Arab American political activist and presidential candidate called Dr. Shaheen a friend and colleague, and his lecture “Ethnicity: Values, Virtues, and Vexations—with Special Attention to Arab Americans” will address the impact of Dr. Shaheen’s work in combating anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination in the United States.
Michele Tasoff and Michael Shaheen, Dr. Shaheen’s children, will also offer remarks, alongside Sut Jhally (Executive Director, Media Education Foundation), Greta Scharnweber (Former Associate Director, NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies), and Jack Tchen (Founding Director, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU).
Reporters wishing to attend must contact James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.
The NYU Kimmel Center is an ADA-compliant facility. If you have any questions about access, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.
Symposium: Moving Borders — Tibet in Interaction With its Neighbors
International scholars, art historians, and curators focus on the topic of the moving borders of the Tibetan cultural zone across the centuries, from the Imperial period to the present, including the Western exploration of Tibet.
Peripheral Visions: An Indian Buddha in the Tibetan Imaginary
Keynote Address by Andrew Quintman at Asia Society
Friday, May 4 at 6:30 p.m.