February | 2016 | Global Dimensions

NYU Florence was pleased to have presented the exhibition Hajera’s Family by Shahidul Alam in conjunction with the conference The West and Global Muslim Communities: Connecting Through Culture, which took place on campus from 11-13 November, 2015. This conference examined cultural connections in a specific contemporary context — the pressing need of Western societies and global Muslim communities to comprehend each other and communicate to each other. The conference identified ideas for increasing and improving the ways this work can be done. The discussion built on the findings of an earlier meeting of practitioners in this work, “U.S. Cultural Engagement with Global Muslim Communities” held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in the fall of 2013.

Watch a video of Shahidul Alam discussing the exhibition here.

You can also see the full exhibition on Shahidul Alam’s flicker page.

Professor Robert Engle, NYU Stern Professor and Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, recently led an informal conversation on November 21 with students ranging from the Chinese financial markets to how a bizarre quirk of fate led him, a physics major, to pursue a PhD in economics. Engle was at NYU Shanghai to deliver the keynote speech at a conference hosted by the Volatility Institute.

He spoke about the challenges the world economy will inevitably be facing in the years to come and the recent Chinese stock market collapse. He answered students’ questions on the potential of the renminbi replacing the US dollar as a global currency and the threat of China becoming “the next Japan.”

After the talk, students still hung around for over an hour’s worth of questions and answers, full of insight and discussion.

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Month: February 2016

NYU Florence presents exhibition Hajera’s Family by Shahidul Alam

Nobel Laureate Chats with NYU Shanghai Students