Conferences and Events
The Office of Global Programs organizes or co-sponsors academic conferences and high-profile events in New York and abroad throughout the year. Events are mounted under the aegis of the international institutes or sponsored locally by an NYU Global Site. Programs are often university-wide collaborations that draw upon faculty, academic departments and programs across the Square. The Global Sites are also available to NYU faculty as locations for their own academic programs, conferences and colloquia.
States of War: Human Conflict and the Written Word
The Second Annual Writer's Festival at Villa La Pietra gathered a formidable group of authors, editors and public intellectuals to contemplate and confront the wellsprings, raptures and channeling of human conflict in poetry, journalism and prose. Participants considered the tradition of war as muse, writers as documentarians of human struggle, and the legacy of conflict, from ancient Troy to modern day Iraq, on the art of the written word. Participants included E.L. Doctorow, Lawrence Weschler, Tom Bissell, Dave King, Louise Arbour and Helena Luczywo. The program included public lectures, panels, and readings by the authors of selected works.
Highlights of 2006-2007 included:
Immigration, Citizenship and Multiculturalism, a conference organized by the Prague Institute for Democracy, Economy and Culture (PIDEC) at NYU in Prague and co-sponsored by the Polish Institute.
Conservation Legacies of l'Alluvione, a joint Italian-American venture co-sponsored by The Conservation Center of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, Villa La Pietra, Opificio delle Pietre Due e Laboratori di Restauro Opere d'Arte and the Office of the Mayor of Florence. The event marked the 40th anniversary of the Florence Flood of 1966. Senator Edward Kennedy offered the keynote address.
Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century: Generations in Creative Dialogue - The 32nd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association. Held in Accra, and co-sponsored by NYU in Ghana, the event gather six hundred scholars from Europe, Africa and North America to discuss the current state of African literature and art.
Wired to Get Wound Up! Why Emotions are so Hard to Control and More than a Feeling: How Emotions Work in the Brain. A two part lecture, debate and seminar on emotion, co-sponsored by NYU in London and Gresham College, U.K.
For a complete list of events in 2007-2008, see the program guide.
Faculty interested in mounting a conference in connection with a division of the Office of Global Programs, or utilizing an international institute or Global Site, should email: global.programs@nyu.edu.