Two years ago ČEZ, the largest energy company in the Czech Republic, launched an internship program for recent female high school graduates. To select the young women, they ran a competition in which bikini-clad applicants posed in a nuclear power…
Rumburk with ROMEA: a Weekend with Romani Students
Nandini Kochar is a film student at NYU Prague, and at the beginning of the semester she approached NYU Prague staff asking how she could meet or work with Roma, as she wanted to focus her film on this community.…
Bursting the NYU Bubble
Students often tell us they want get to know locals… but, living and studying with NYU students doesn’t provide many natural opportunities for integrating in the community. This semester has seen a number of new projects that have done just…
Commemorating the Stonewall Riots with Freddie Mercury
“I was Freddie’s chief cook and bottle washer, waiter, butler, secretary, cleaner and agony aunt. I was with him during the highs and came through the lows. I acted as his bodyguard and in the end, of course, I was…
Visual Thinking in Dangerous Times
Recently Nicholas Mirzoeff, a professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, spoke at NYU Prague to celebrate the launch of the Czech translation of his most recent book, How To See The World. The…