News and notes from across NYU's Campuses and Sites
On October 8, 2015, NYU Washington, DC hosted an event with Slavoj Žižek, one of 
Europe’s most influential intellectuals. The event, MORE ALIENATION, PLEASE! A Critique of Cultural Violence, was an inspiring opportunity for students to engage with this dynamic thinker. Two students, Bella Chia and Arielle Hersh, reflect on the experience.
NYU Tel Aviv Site Director Benjamin Hary provides an update.
Michael Beckerman, a world-renowned musicologist specializing in Czech and Eastern European music, came to Prague as the keynote speaker at Sounding Czech, a conference on aural history organized by NYU Prague and The Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Jack B. Du (Jiadong Du), a junior at NYU Shanghai pursuing a double major in Computer Science and Interactive Media Arts, describes how he developed the idea of JOY Mouse – a device that helps kids with cerebral palsy use the computer.
On August 31, 2015, classes began for the Silver School of Social Work’s first full-semester, graduate-level study abroad program – fusing education, research, and practice – in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
NYU Abu Dhabi student Sue-Ann Lau, Class of 2018, writes about how NYU Abu Dhabi has examined the refugee crisis.
NYU Prague director Jiri Pehe has signed an open letter calling upon Central European intellectuals to show solidarity with the refugees and the rest of Europe, adding his name to a list of over 100 signatories that include Poland’s former presidents and former Czech, Lithuanian and Hungarian prime ministers. To promote further dialogue NYU Prague is organizing a conference in November with leading political and academic figures. In the meanwhile, students and faculty have been doing what they can, including designating September 23 as a Day for Refugees at NYU Prague.
On Tuesday, 13 October, NYU Berlin is hosting a reading and discussion with Tal Nitzán, award winning poet, writer, editor and a major translator of Hispanic literature.
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On October 8, NYU Professor Jonathan Zimmerman gave talk at NYU Tel Aviv entitled “Hot and Bothered: How Globalization Stymied Sex Education”.