Dear NYU Prague students, faculty and staff,
You are invited to join us for a sandwich lunch at NYU Prague with the NYU Graduate Research Institute fellows who are currently in Prague to pursue their research.
The lunch will take place Wednesday, September 26 from 12:15-1:30 p.m. in Richtruv dum, NYU Prague and is open to all students, faculty, staff and friends.
It will be an informal round table event where the fellows will speak briefly about their research; audience are encouraged to share ideas and thoughts. If you want to come, please RSVP by Monday, September 24: https://goo.gl/forms/Wz8o4wOmVWyEJjWD3
Below you can read about the GRI fellows who will be speaking:
Halley Crane – How do political ideologies shape the culinary traditions of a country? How has food and beverage procurement and consumption during Prague’s communist past influenced the cultural values placed on eating and drinking as a social practice.
Eleanor Wright – I’m working on a collection of poems loosely linked by their interest in temporal and spatial distances. One section of my manuscript reflects on several long walking trips I made last year across different regions of the US; in Prague, I’ll be writing complementary poems that explore my new environment.
Agata Tumilowicz – I am writing my dissertation on performance and archive. In my project I mostly focus on different archival collections produced by performance artists of the 1970s avant-garde.
Brittany Shutts
My project is a collection of absurd, satirical, and grotesque short stories. The protagonists (usually women) are hopelessly powerless in their relationships with their bodies, minds, environments, and other people.