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On Wednesday, November 29th at 5:30pm,  NYU SPS is hosting an  information session at 15 Barclay Street for prospective students who are interested in finding out more about the school’s diploma offerings. Each session will include information about existing and new diploma programs being offered through the Center for Applied Liberal Arts (CALA)  this Spring. Come meet faculty and staff, and bring all your questions!

For more information and to RSVP, click here

Learn about the following diploma programs: 

Art and Design

Global Art Business

Visual and Performing Arts Administration

Media and Communication

Copyediting, Proofreading, and Fact-Checking

Digital Filmmaking: Script to Screen

Language and Translation
Professional Legal Interpreting (Mandarin Chinese/English)
Professional Legal Interpreting (Spanish/English)
Professional Medical Interpreting (Mandarin Chinese/English)
Professional Medical Interpreting (Spanish/English)
Professional Translation (Arabic to English)
Professional Translation (English to Spanish)
Professional Translation (French to English)
Professional Translation (Language Neutral)
Professional Translation (Spanish to English)
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

The Frankfurt Book Fair New York and Goethe-Institut invite all editors, translators, and other interested participants for a special panel discussion and networking event on the topic of publishing nonfiction in translation. 

The event will be taking place on Thursday, November 30th at 630 PM at the Goethe-Institut New York. RSVP to rikystock@book-fair.com by November 28.

Panelists include: 

Friederike Barakat, Director of Foreign Rights, Hanser Verlag
Chris Chappell, Senior Editor, Berghahn Books
Hilary Redmon, Executive Editor, Random House
Anne Savarese, Executive Editor, Princeton University Press

Award-winning translator Shelley Frisch will moderate the discussion.

The conversation will be followed by a networking reception, wine will be served!

Link to the event’s Facebook Page

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Don’t forget to check out CALA’s Spring 2018 courses in: 

Translation and Interpreting

Writing and Communication

Publishing

Foreign Languages

Finally, Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at CALA! 

Early September of this year, the New York Times published an article that discussed the up and coming streaming service “Kanopy,” which is free to use for any person who holds a New York Public Library card, as well as anyone affiliated with a college or university. In the United States alone, Kanopy is readily available to over 450 public libraries and more than 1,400 learning institutions. 

In the article, Olivia Humphrey — the founder and chief executive of the streaming service — claims she was inspired to create Kanopy when realizing just how limited film resources were at universities:

‘I became aware that universities that wanted to add film to their core curriculum had very little available in terms of resources. I saw college libraries with dusty DVDs and 16-millimeter cans on their shelves, so I wanted to create a way to address that.’

What marks Kanopy as a different type of streaming service is not only its available access to learning institutions, but its “search and find” feature. Professors can request specific titles, and Kanopy then looks for said titles and tries to acquire specific licensing rights. Their search system has about a 40% success rate, which, given the vast number of universities Kanopy provides to, is rather high. Humphrey hopes to continue expanding Kanopy’s services not just in terms of course requirements, but as a service that helps students find identity and a love for cinematography in the films Kanopy provides.

Read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/movies/kanopy-streaming-service.html?emc=edit_th_20170903&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=66817450 

Interested in furthering your education in Film Studies? Sign up for the SPS Spring 2018 Let’s Go To The Movies course now!

Interested in furthering your education in New York and French Film? Sign up for the SPS Spring 2018 Cities on Film course now! 

Interested in furthering your education in Italian Film? Sign up for the SPS Spring 2018 Italian Cinema course now!

Interested in learning more about Elia Kazan, legendary Hollywood figure and director? Sign up for the SPS Spring 2018 Elia Kazan course now!

Interested in learning more about underground and lesser known films? Sign up for the SPS Spring 2018 The Best Films You’ve Probably Never Seen course now!

Interested in furthering your education on The Hollywood Blacklist era? Sign up for the SPS Spring 2018 Hollywood Blacklist course now!

Interested in furthering your education on War Films? Sign up for the SPS Spring 2018 War Films From The Other Side course now! 

New Yorkers may remember the industrial complex called 5Points in Long Island City that was covered in over 50 colorful spray-painted murals. The graffiti attracted tourists and local residents alike, helping to transform the neighborhood into a cultural destination. The murals were suddenly whitewashed before being torn down in 2014 to make way for new luxury apartments. Last week, a Brooklyn jury decided that real estate developer Jerry Wolkoff broke the law  by violating the Visual Artists Rights Act, which protects public art of “recognized stature” on someone’s property. The suit was filed by the 21 artists who painted at 5pointz and who claimed the developer failed to give them a 90-day notice and thus took away any opportunity to salvage the artwork. They made the case that street artists are descendants of the old masters of Europe and the work they create has the right to be appreciated and treated like any other art.  Art adviser and SPS instructor Renee Vara, who was an expert witness in the case, said “This is a win for artists’ rights all across the country. This is a win for the visual artists and their protection under VARA… This is a clear message by the people that the whitewash was a cruel willful act and Jerry Wolkoff was held accountable.” The jury’s decision addresses an important debate about whether graffiti should be protected by federal law and has important  implications for other murals,  street art, and development projects. 

Read more about the case here: 

In a Surprise Verdict, Jury Says Developer Broke the Law by Whitewashing 5Pointz Graffiti Mecca Artnet

Should Graffiti be protected by U.S. Law? France 24

Brooklyn Jury Finds 5Pointz Developer Illegally Destroyed Graffiti  New York Times

Registration is still open for the following Fall Courses at CALA:

Inside Art Litigation: The Untold Stories and Issues

Exhibition Design

Registration is now open for Spring 2018 courses and diplomas, including:

Diploma programs in Global Art Business, Visual and Performing Arts Administration, and Historic Preservation

Noncredit Courses in Art Business, Arts Administration, Art and Architecture History , History and Culture, and  Appraisal and Connoisseurship

On Tuesday, November 7th at 630pm the Museum of the City of New York will host a special lecture on the challenge that New York City faces in maintaining and updating Penn Station’s fragile 110-year old tunnels, along with other examples of existing “grey infrastructure.” At the same time, NYC’s future livability depends on creating sustainable “green” infrastructure. Historian Jill Jonnes will connect the past, present, and future growth of New York City’s infrastructure. She will be joined by architect and Columbia University professor Vishaan Chakrabarti, author of a new plan for Penn Station. More information here.  CALA students can register at the special MCNY member rate of $20. Please email sps.cala@nyu.edu to request your discount code. 

Registration is still open for the following CALA courses this Fall

Art and Writing of the Harlem Renaissance

Robert Moses and Jane Jacob: Two Versions of Modernity

New York City in the ’30s

Earlier this month, the New York Times published an article on pod-casts directed towards children, starring their target audience. NYT Arts section writer Amanda Hess interviewed several child podcast listeners to gain better insight on how they feel actively listening to pod-casts rather than gluing their eyes to a tablet or television. Hess also consulted experts in the field of children entertainment such as Emily Shapiro.

‘What I love about this space is that it feels much more similar to reading to a child than it does sticking them in front of a screen,’ said Emily Shapiro, Panoply’s director of children’s programming (and a co-founder of the New York International Children’s Film Festival). ‘With visual media, you can get these brain-dead kids who are just plugged in and being fed all of their entertainment.’ But with podcasts, ‘they’re creating the world.’

With this shift in media direction, pod-casters are no longer merely selling their creative content; they’re influencing a different lifestyle among a young, technology-driven generation. Children decades before them had the radio — but with pod-casts, a new era of child entertainment has begun.

Read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/arts/kids-podcast-panoply-pinna.html?_r=0 

Interested in furthering your education in podcasting? Sign up for the NYUSPS Podcast/Radio Reporting course now!

Interested in furthering your education in Journalism? Sign up for the NYUSPS FreeLance Journalism course or the NYUSPS Interviews and Profiles course now!

Interested in furthering your education in online video posting? Sign up for the NYUSPS Commercial Producing in the Digital Space course now!