The Gallatin Global Newsletter
News, Profiles, and Reflections from Gallatin's Global Programs
By Mehmet Darakçıoğlu This year we have convened the ninth iteration of the Gallatin Global Faculty Symposium at NYU Prague on March 18-20, 2024. An annual event brings faculty from Gallatin and NYU’s global academic centers to exchange ideas and foster research and curricular collaborations. This year’s symposium theme was Memory, History, and Place. Ali … Continue reading Gallatin Global Faculty Symposium at NYU Prague
By Karen Holmberg Deadly wildfires broke out in Valparaíso, Chile on February 2, 2024. Like all disasters, they were a hybrid admix of natural and cultural factors. Drought, a heat wave, high wind, flammable housing construction, narrow streets that prevent fire truck access, and arson combined to char at least 290 square kilometers of land, … Continue reading On the Edge of the Disaster: Droughts, Dictators, Disappearances, and the Calming Influence of Volcanoes
By Daniela Aizencang Libby Bass is senior (class of 2024) at NYU Gallatin with a concentration: Fashion in One’s Identity: The Intersection Between Business, Theater, and Fashion. As part of her fall 2022 semester at NYU London she enrolled in the Gallatin Global Fashion Program which covers topics such as the historical evolution of standards … Continue reading My Gallatin Story: An Interview with Libby Bass, Gallatin Global Fashion Program Alumni
By Duncan Yoon This Albert Gallatin Scholars trip took one of the most salient aspects of any culture — cuisine — and used it as a point of departure to explore social and historical contexts. The emergence of Korean culture on the global scene in the past few years lent the trip a contemporary relevance … Continue reading Teaching Korean Culture Through Cuisine