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Happening This Week! Thursday September 29 – CALA Instructor, Nancy Kelton’s writing workshop at NYU bookstore.

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On September 29th at 6 PM, Nancy Kelton, NYU SPS Instructor & author of the menancykeltonmoir  Finding Mr. Rightstein, will conduct a writing workshop at the NYU bookstore. For more information, please visit the bookstore’s website: “Whether your impulse to  to write comes from a longtime yearning, recent itch, or a desire to get down your experiences, this workshop will help you capture your memories, childhood incidents, and truths in your own voice while offering pointers on how to: open up, express yourself authentically, get rid of internal critics, establish disciplined work habits, and avoid procrastination. In-store writing exercises and marketing advice are given.” Kelton’s other books include Writing From Personal Experience and her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Parents, and Redbook among other publications.

Writing courses at the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts this Fall include:

Witness to History: Personal Essays and Memoirs

Up Close and Personal: Your Story in Two Pages

Creative Writing for Beginnners

Creative Nonfiction Writing

Personal Essay Writing

Query Letters: How to Sell Your Writing

Art & Cultural Heritage Crime Symposium Nov. 1-3

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emptyframesRegistration is now open for the Art and Cultural Heritage Crime Symposium taking place at NYU November 1-3. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) currently ranks art crime as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. The increase in international art transactions has incubated a booming market for stolen and fraudulent art, and major US arts institutions still grapple with repatriation of stolen or looted objects in their collections. Co-organized by Jane C.H. Jacob, art historian and provenance research expert, Jacob Fine Art, Inc., Chris Marinello, director and founder, Art Recovery Group, and Alice Farren-Bradley, Museum Security Network, the symposium brings together experts from major museums and auction houses, NYU’s School of Law and School of Professional Studies, the US Department of Homeland Security, and the President’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee, as well as independent scholars and authors, art crime victims, art crime attorneys, forensic scientists, and other major players working to address art crime worldwide.

noselesssculptureJoin us and learn about the legal, forensic, governmental, and political strategies being employed to address the enormity of this global phenomenon. Topics include the history of fakes and forgeries, insurance fraud, art theft and art scams, scientific and forensic approaches, provenance research, cultural repatriation, issues facing auction houses and purchasers, and current case studies.

Additional information and registration links: http://www.sps.nyu.edu/academics/departments/humanities-arts-and-writing/events/special-events.html

Fall 2016 courses in art business:

Law and Ethics in the Art Market

Today’s American and International Art Market

The Art Dealer in the 21st Century 

Fine Art as a Financial Asset

Post-War and Contemporary Art Movements and Markets

Starting a Successful Art Business

The Art Auction

Fall 2016 Translation and Interpreting Courses at CALA

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CALA will be offering a wide variety of Career Advancement courses in Translation and Interpreting this fall! Taught by industry experts, our courses will help you develop your expertise and prepare you for a successful career in this growing industry.

For more information and a full list of offerings, visit our website: https://www.sps.nyu.edu/professional-pathways/topics.html#PS0295

Fall 2016 translation course flyer (1)

The final day to take our translation admissions exam is September 9th, so don’t delay!

NYU SPS Students Win Places in Meryl Streep’s Writers Lab

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Christine Toy Johnson
Christine Toy Johnson

Congratulations to Christine Toy Johnson and Barbara Nunberg for their winning screenplays, Jumping the Third Rail and Willful Blindness, in the second annual Writers Lab competition which is funded by Meryl Streep. Twelve screenwriters were chosen from just under 1000 submissions, according to Katie Chambers at New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT). The Lab is a weekend-long screenwriting retreat open to women over 40, co-sponsored by NYWIFT and IRIS, a collective of women filmmakers. The program puts emerging screenwriters and women established in the movie industry together to work on refining and further developing the winning scripts.

Barbara Nunberg
Barbara Nunberg

Both writers studied screenwriting at NYU SPS. “When I decided I wanted to start learning how to write screenplays about 14 years ago, I was so happy to find NYU’s School of Professional Studies’ Certificate of Screenwriting Program,” said Christine Toy Johnson. “I was finding this particular part of my voice later in life than many others in the industry (in which I was already making a living as an actor), and graduate school was not an option as I was busy working. I actually started writing Jumping the Third Rail in one of my classes in the program, and got wonderful guidance from Michael Zam, in particular, as part of the final one-on-one advanced class.”

Barbara Nunberg completed the Masterclass in Screenwriting in spring 2015, and she too studied with CALA instructor, Michael Zam, in Rewriting a Screenplay in 10 Weeks: “Michael Zam’s excellent re-writing course really helped me get my script in shape to apply for the lab. Michael’s an amazing teacher and mentor.  As an active writer, he’s current in the industry, so his guidance is practical.  But he also offers an encyclopedic knowledge of film, TV and theater.  Mainly, he’s a very insightful critic/reader who guides you towards smart solutions to writing problems. Working with him has been a great experience for me.”

IRIS founders
IRIS founders: Kyle Ann Stokes, Nitza Wilon, and Elizabeth Kaiden

The mentors attached to the Lab, slated for September 22-25, 2016, include: Alexis Alexanian (Maggie’s Plan), Jessica Bendinger  (Bring It On, Aquamarine), Susan Cartsonis (What Women Want, The Duff), Lisa Cortes (Precious, Shadowboxer), Caroline Kaplan  (Time Out of Mind, Me and You and Everyone We Know ), Mary Jane Skalski (Win Win, The Station Agent ), and Kirsten Smith  (Legally Blond, Ten Things I Hate About You ).

The Writers Lab will take place in the Connecticut River Valley. The 12 writers and eight mentors will meet for intensive one-on-one discussions to develop and refine their scripts. In addition, they will participate in group panel discussions to explore universal themes and concepts.

“After the overwhelming support we received from last year’s inaugural launch, it is clear The Writers Lab is a vital step in shaping a new landscape for women,” said Terry Lawler, Executive Director of NYWIFT.

Writers Lab founders, mentors and participants at Wiawaka (Photo by Kim Turner)
Writers Lab founders, mentors and participants at Wiawaka, 2015 (Photo by Kim Turner)

At CALA we are thrilled for both women and send our congratulations. The last words are reserved for them.

Barbara Nunberg: “I’m thrilled to participate in the writers lab in September!”

Christine Toy Johnson, “I am grateful to NYU’s SPS Certificate of Screenwriting Program for giving me the foundation I needed to learn to write from my heart, but also with sound structure.” Click on Toy Johnson for full text.

Fall Courses in Screenwriting at CALA

The Screenwriter’s Craft

Writing a Screenplay in 10 Weeks

Rewriting a Screenplay in 10 Weeks

and at SPS Professional Studies

Writing for Television Diploma

‘Unflattening’ Our Ways of Seeing, Reading, and Writing: A Review

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New technologies and digital media have altered the way we read, write, make connections and communicate in our everyday lives. According to Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, Academic Director of CALA’s M.S. in Professional Writing program, that makes this a very exciting time for writers, communication specialists, and anyone interested in understanding the multimodal ways modern narratives are consumed and produced.

In their recently published review “Unflattening” Our Ways of Seeing, Reading, and Writing, Kristine and co-writer Lalitha Vasudevan review Nick Sousanis’  graphic novel Unflattening—a theoretically ground text that takes seriously the blending of visual images and written words. Written and drawn entirely as a graphic novel, Sousanis’ text embodies and validates the stance it advocates for. The unconventional format seeks to literally unflatten conceptions of meaning, reading, and writing through an active embrace of multimodality in its integration of images, design, and various genres of written text.

Going forward, Kristine and Lalitha will continue to co-edit the Professional Resources column for the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, inviting the journal’s readers to consider the impact of new and emerging communication practices on their pedagogical practices. To that end, they have lined up a mix of resources for review over the next year, including written texts, graphic novels, documentaries, and mixed-media pieces.

Read an excerpt from the review and check out some of our favorite pages from Unflattening below.

Inviting his readers to challenge “what Marcuse called ‘a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior’” (Sousanis, [6], p. 6), Sousanis encourages us to “step out and look anew” (pp. 25–26). In selecting this book as the inaugural text under our editorship of this column, we would like to encourage practitioners to engage Unflattening with the goal that Sousanis describes within the first chapter: “to discover new ways of seeing, to open spaces for possibilities, and to find ‘fresh methods’ for animating and awakening” (p. 27).
[… ] In reviewing Unflattening for this column, we echo Sousanis’s ([6]) statement that “to prepare good thinkers we need to cultivate good seers” (p. 81). Without being prescriptive, this text does the work of both advocating for and being an example of taking seriously image in concert with other modes of expression to open spaces of understanding and seeing differently.

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CALA’s M.S. in Professional Writing program encourages our students to develop multidimentional ways of thinking, seeing, and writing. Our program prepares students for critical, active, and engaging professional writing careers across industries.

For more information on the program, please visit our website:http://www.scps.nyu.edu/academics/departments/humanities-arts-and-writing/academics/ms-in-professional-writing.html

Applications for the Fall semester are currently under review, so don’t delay!

The Long Road to Trump

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trump_pieceDonald Trump’s rise is, to almost every political commentator, pretty flummoxing. One of the most popular questions this year seems to be “How did we get to here?” Some people may say this entire election is a fluke, but unfortunately Trump’s campaign does not exist in a vacuum. To explore the phenomenon, two groups have made an attempt at explaining exactly how we got to here.

The first is the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Trump 101, a syllabus designed to teach people about the historical shifts in politics, both liberal and conservative, that made his candidacy possible. It may also be the only syllabus in existence that starts with The Federalist Papers and ends with Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue.

A few people, however, noted that Trump 101 ignores the racist and sexist overtone’s in the Republican candidate’s campaign. Considering certain statements Trump has made, these are pretty blaring omissions. Luckily, N.B.D. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain, an NYU professor and a Princeton professor respectively, have posted their own reading list on Public Books: Trump Syllabus 2.0. With readings suggested by dozens of scholars, it takes a far more critical view of Trump and the attitudes of the United States that have led to his success.

With Trump 101 lasting 12 weeks, Trump Syllabus 2.0 lasting 15 weeks, and the election only 14 weeks away, it looks like it’s time to start reading.

Prefer a real classroom to a virtual one? Look at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts’ “Gain A Political Perspective this Fall”

During this heated elected season, it may seem nearly impossible to have a nuanced conversation about politics and political issues. These courses at CALA offer a respite from never-ending talking heads and political spin. Examine important issues from historical and global perspectives and gain insight into the topics you care about.

Recommended Courses:

Faculty Blog Feature: Françoise Herrmann

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Blogs are a versatile digital tool used by millions of people across the world to share aspects of their personal lives and work, disseminate news, and even sell products. They’ve also become an increasingly popular way for our faculty to communicate with students and outside audiences alike.  In an effort to continue promoting their endeavors and strengthen our community, we’ve decided to create a network of CALA faculty blogs on our homepage and coordinate an ongoing series of guest posts to further showcase their writing. 

To start off the series, we are featuring the work of Françoise Herrmann, a CALA faculty member who teaches French to English Patents Translation and English to French Medical Translation in our Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting department. In addition to her dedication to these courses, she also has two blogs which she updates regularly. The first, called Patents on the Soles of Your Shoes, is where she explores the history of patents on everything from Louboutin heels to 19th century fountain pens. Tradmed, written entirely in French, is based on her Medical Translation course materials and class discussions.

Here’s an excerpt of her most recent Patents post on robotic agricultural machinery from Naïo Technologies:

Aloha!* It’s time for farmers to Rumba! The French startup Naïo Technologies is designing agricultural robots!

Do you have any idea how hard it is to till soil…? High tide for automating the year-in, year-out, back-breaking tasks of weeding, plowing, hoeing, sowing, mowing, spraying and clipping.

naio-technologies-robot-agricoleThe prior art of agricultural machinery is significant. All sorts of tractor or rototiller machines assist farmers in toiling the land; machines equipped to sow, to hoe, to weed, to harvest and to apply pesticides. But all of this machinery requires a user/driver, and the machines are often too big to navigate narrow rows of fruit and vegetable crops. Besides, this heavy machinery is also well-known and criticized for its large fossil fuel footprint, with designs supporting extensive use of pesticides and herbicides, in turn also contributing to greenhouse gas effects.  Naio tech 4

In comes the Naïo Technologies automated autonomous agricultural device… an agricultural robot (and farming companion) which no longer requires a driver, and is small enough to navigate narrow rows of crops, in particular fruits and vegetables. The Naïo agricultural robot is also optimized to perform non-randomly in a field of obstacle geometry with a delimited perimeter.

Read More →

Be sure to follow both of Françoise’s blogs, and check out her CALA translation courses!

English to French Medical Translation (Fall 2016)
French to English Patents Translation (Spring 2017-link coming soon)
More Fall 2016 Translation courses

Note: If you’ve never taken one of our translation course before, you’ll need to pass a written admissions test before registering. Please email sps.translation@nyu.edu for more details.

CALL FOR FACULTY BLOGS

We are currently in the process of compiling the list of recommended faculty blogs to feature on our homepage. If you would like to have your blog(s) included, send us a link to sps.cala.blog@gmail.com along with a brief description of the content.

Before Marvel and DC: Superheroes of the Ancient World (BBC Article)

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heroesblogpostWhat do Odysseus and Green Arrow have in common? A lot more than you think, according to writer Natalie Haynes. In a feature for the BBC,  she explores the relationship between today’s comic book superheroes and the mythological heroes of old–and our cultural fascination with both.

“Superheroes have existed for as long as stories, before writing and across every culture from which we can find evidence. Fionn mac Cumhaill built the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, and Gilgamesh defeated Humbaba in Mesopotamia. Rama was exiled from Ayodhya in India, while Beowulf slew Grendel and Grendel’s mother in Scandinavia. And that’s before you think about the ancient Greeks, who boasted a plethora of heroes to match any collection from Marvel or DC.”

Check out the full article here: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150819-before-marvel-and-dc-superheroes-of-the-ancient-world

This fall, CALA will be offering Superheroes: A Mythic Battle of History, Media, and Culture, where students can watch and discuss some of Hollywood’s best superhero films from Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) to The Avengers (2012). Superhero fans, unite and sign up today!

The Twin Conference 9/30-10/1: A Special Weekend Dedicated to Translation Studies

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Twinconference2_imageThe Nida School of Translation Studies, the San Pellegrino University Foundation, and the Center for Applied Liberal Arts (CALA) at NYU SPS present the 6th Annual Translation Studies Research Symposium on September 30th and the 1st NYU Translation Day Symposium on October 1st.

The Translation Studies Research Symposium (theme: Time and Transformation) will bring together scholars and practitioners to share and discuss their different perspectives on research in translation and the context and practice of translation in a globalized world.

Speakers:

Wai Chee Dimock ,  William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University.

Brian James Baer,  Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University.

Interviewers/Responders:

Edwin Gentzler,  Professor of Translation Studies and Director of the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Michelle Woods,  Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz.

Twinconference1_imageThe NYU Translation Day Symposium (theme: Art, Access, and Advocacy) will celebrate International Translation Day by featuring the work of NYU faculty, alumni, and industry experts in a discourse about the theory and practice of translation and interpreting.  The schedule for the day is available here.

All events will take place at NYU, Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay Street.

Registration fee: $50 for whole conference,  $30 for one day

For more information, please visit the conference website

Register for the conference here

Registration is also open for CALA’s course offerings in translation, interpreting, and foreign languages.

Entrepreneur Article: How Humanities Degrees Cultivate Marketable Skills

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student-849825_1920In a recent article on Entrepreneur.com, writer Bennant Berger sets out to dispel the myth that a liberal arts degree is detrimental to a graduate’s job prospects. He demonstrates in just a few paragraphs how valuable the core skills of humanities—including writing, critical thinking, and creativity—are when applied in the business world.

Here are a few of our favorite quotes from the article:

“English majors and others in the liberal arts arena read, write, communicate, and critique — and then read and write some more. Their relationship with the written and spoken language is nuanced and informed. […] Whether writing decks, copy, white papers, business proposals or simple emails, professionals with the skills to communicate their ideas effectively go a long way in any workplace.”

“Humanity degrees, also called social sciences, are called that for a reason — they are the studies of human nature, thought, and creation. Knowing how people think, what the smartest minds have written and how groups behave provides valuable insight into teamwork and client interactions. What some call soft skills are actually key to professional success.”

Read the full article here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/277828

We offer a variety of humanities courses to help you improve your professional skills. Registration for the fall semester is open, so don’t delay!

A College Refresher: A Sampling of the Humanities at CALA
Communicating Leadership and Power in Public Speaking
Improving Writing Skills
Extreme Professional Makeover: Communications Bootcamp
Writing on the Job
Feature Writing for Print and Digital Media
Brilliant Minds
Sharpening your Presentation and Speech Skills
Interviews and Profiles