The Gallatin Global Faculty Symposium is a yearly event that brings together faculty from Gallatin and NYU’s global academic centers to exchange ideas and to foster research and curricular collaborations. Each year, the Gallatin faculty convenor(s) selects the symposium’s annual theme. The faculty participants then exchange interdisciplinary readings exploring the theme and convene at an NYU Global Academic Center or campus for two-three days of discussion. The goal of the symposium is two-fold: first, to create a conversation about these issues that are high level, small scale, comparative, and interdisciplinary; and second, to build intellectual networks among NYU-affiliated faculty in many different locations. It is not a large or formal event of panels and paper-givers, but intends to foster instead more informal, direct and open-ended intellectual exchange on a comparative and interdisciplinary basis. Each participant suggests a reading from their fields relevant to the symposium theme to be included in a brief reader that forms the basis of discussions.
The Gallatin Global Faculty Symposium was launched in 2013, and since then it has convened in NYU’s Global Academic Centers in Accra, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Florence, London, Paris, and Prague. The 2025 symposium Oceans, Connectivity, and Circulation was organized by Ngina Chiteji, and took place at NYU Abu Dhabi between March 24 and 27, 2025. Past symposia covered a wide range of topics, including migration, ethnicity, citizenship, human rights, climate change, politics of preservation, and historical consciousness, and the art and politics of the city.