The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Institute continues its in-person public program with a series of inspiring talks throughout the month of November.
The lineup kicks off with The Institute’s Philanthropy Series featuring a talk titled BAM… and Then It Hit Me: A Conversation with Karen Hopkin with President Emerita, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Author of BAM… and Then It Hit Me, Karen Brooks Hopkins, in conversation with NYUAD Vice Chancellor Mariët Westermann.
Other talks highlight various areas such as the future of artificial intelligence, photography as a visual record, the “universal museum” and different decolonial practices of the arts, among others.
Please see the full list of talks throughout the month of November below. For more information. please visit The Institute’s page.
November talks:
BAM… and Then It Hit Me: A Conversation with Karen Hopkins
November 2, 2022 at 6:30pm
Speaker: Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Emerita, Brooklyn Academy of Music; Author of “BAM… and Then It Hit Me” (powerHouse Books, 2022)In conversation with Mariët Westermann, Vice Chancellor, NYUAD
Making Decisions in a World of Uncertainty
November 7, 2022 at 6:30pm
Speaker: AzzaAbouzied, Associate Professor of Computer Science, NYUAD
Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis
November 9, 2022 at 6:30pm
Speaker: QuassimCassam, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick
Speaking English: Staging the Dialectics of Identity, Culture and Survival
November 14, 2022 at 6:30pm
Speakers: Knud Adams, Director, English (2022); andSanazToossi, Iranian-American Playwright, English (2022)
Moderated by Robert H Vorlicky, Visiting Professor of Theater, NYUAD; and Marsha Ginsberg, Scenic Designer, English (2022); Associate Arts Professor of Theater, NYUAD
Photography as a Visual Record: Past, Present, Future
November 21, 2022 at 6:30pm
Speakers:Ramesh Shukla, Photographer;and Charlie Koolhaas, Visual Artist
Moderated by GoffredoPuccetti, Assistant Professor of Practice of Visual Arts, NYUAD
The (Impossible) Decolonization of the Western Museum
November 23, 2022 at 6:30pm
Speaker: Françoise Vergès, Political Scientist, Historian and Curator; Author of “A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective” (Pluto Press, 2022)
In conversation with Katia Arfara, Curator; Assistant Professor of Theater, Performance Studies, NYUAD
