Author: Martha J Bekink

NYU Sydney Anthropology Lecturer Petronella Vaarzon-Morel on Students Experiencing the Warmth of Walpiri Culture

Martha J Bekink

The Warmth of a Walpiri Welcome By Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, NYU Sydney Anthropology Lecturer This September, students in the Anthropology of Indigenous Art and Anthropology classes were privileged to meet with Warlpiri cultural experts Selina Williams Napanangka and Julie Kitson Napaljarri from Willowra, an Indigenous community which is located 350 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs in Central Australia. NYU […]

NYU London Student Life Coordinator Julia Thanh Interviewed by BBC

Martha J Bekink

NYU London Student Life Coordinator Julia Thanh, who runs NYU London’s volunteering program, was interviewed by the BBC about her life. Her interview was posted to the BBC’s Vietnamese web service this July. Fortunately for those of us who do not speak Vietnamese, the interview is in English. Julia talks about her “very meaningful” work […]

Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches in Israel via NYU Tel Aviv

Martha J Bekink

Lisa Sasson is the dietetic internship director and a clinical professor in the Steinhardt School of in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Department.  After directing the Nutrition and Food Study program at NYU Florence for many years, in May 2018 Professor Sasson directed the Nutrition and Food Study program at NYU Tel Aviv […]

NYU Abu Dhabi Hosts the Story Behind the UAE’s First Multi-Organ Transplant Program

Martha J Bekink

Today, families in the UAE wait in hope that a life-saving organ may be donated to a critically ill loved on. In 2018, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi created history in the UAE by developing a comprehensive multi-organ transplant program which is already transforming patients’ lives. This talk explores how the transplants for four major organs […]

Madeline Albright Visits NYU Washington, DC for Event on Women in Politics

Martha J Bekink

The Risk Element: Safeguarding Women in Politics   NYU Washington, DC and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) launched NDI’s Women’s Political Participation Risk Index, and a safety planning tool to help women who are or intend to become politically-active, to mitigate the threat of violence that they face. As more women step forward and engage in political activity, […]

NYU Shanghai Hosts Workshop on Holocaust Studies

Martha J Bekink

This week, scholars from around the world gathered on campus to discuss and present new research at NYU Shanghai’s first-ever workshop on Holocaust studies. Co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum(USHMM), the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum (SJRM), and NYU Shanghai, the workshop focused on the role the city and people of Shanghai played in […]

NYU Florence Hosts From Tuscany to Harlem: James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac´s Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

Martha J Bekink

On 18 October, NYU Florence’s La Pietra Dialogues will host Nicholas Boggs from the NYU Department of English. Dr. Boggs will discuss the collaboration between James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac, a French painter and illustrator living in Tuscany. Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood was recently republished to great acclaim by Duke University Press.

NYU Prague Alumni – Where are They Now?

Martha J Bekink

Around 5,000 students have spent a semester at NYU Prague over the past 20 years.  We contacted a few to find out how their time in Prague affected the trajectory of their lives. Here are their stories: Nicole Farnsworth (Fall, 2001) Seventeen years ago, I was enjoying similar brightly-colored fall leaves while hiking amid castles, […]

NYU Florence Hosts Event on Feminism & Intersectionality in the Arts

Martha J Bekink

On Thursday October 11, NYU Florence will host an event on Feminism & Intersectionality in the Arts. Feminist theory has been criticized for failing to consider the intersections among patriarchy and other forms of inequality in social and political relations. The term intersectionality arose out of critical race theory to propose an analysis of “relationships among […]

NYU Sydney’s Mark Eels on Balancing the BRI

Martha J Bekink

This article comes to us from Mark Eels, NYU Sydney’s Operations & Communications Coordinator, and was originally published in Australia as a  China Matters Young Professionals Stance . Balancing the BRI The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), formerly referred to as One Belt One Road or 一带一路, was a concept borne, on the one hand, to […]