DC Dialogues

DC Dialogues is a student-engaged initiative created to introduce the NYU DC community to key discussions on politics, culture, business, environment, education – and more. Through active participation from the student body, DC Dialogues convenes prominent experts of various perspectives to discuss matters most captivating to students for public events and workshops. DC Dialogues also includes events presented in collaboration with the John Brademas Center of NYU and the NYU School of Law's Brennan Center.

Public Events

Solas Nua's CIFF@Home with NYU DC Dialogues: "100 Years of Ulysses"
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | 6:00 pm ET
Virtual Webinar (Zoom)

Solas Nua's CIFF@Home with NYU DC Dialogues: "When Women Won"
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | 6:00 pm ET
Virtual Webinar (Zoom)

A Poetry Reading with Jessica Traynor and Victoria Kennefick
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | 6:00 pm ET
Hybrid Event

Series

Student Roundtable Discussions

The Student Roundtable Discussions are a partnership between NYU DC Dialogues and the Former Members of Congress Association to provide and promote ongoing conversations about the most pressing issues of today in the United States, and to highlight the multiple perspectives of the next generation’s experiences and understandings alongside those who have represented our country.

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Welcome to Chocolate City

The District of Columbia became the first majority Black major city in the United States in 1957. Over time, as the Black population grew, it subsequently became known as the nation’s “Chocolate City,” a name conferred by a popular funk song shortly after the passage of the District of Columbia’s Home Rule Act in 1973 and proudly embraced by Washingtonians. While the city’s Black population today is now less than 45% partly as a result of economic policies and gentrification, the history and legacy of DC’s central Black culture, power, and identity remain significant forces. These sessions provide a contextual historical illustration of Washington, DC and the roots of Chocolate City today that continue to bolster the Black power movement today.

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Salon Series: Conversations with Writers & Artists

The NYU Washington, DC Salon Series: Conversations with Writers & Artists presents an opportunity for the NYU and Washington, DC community to meet and engage in dialogue with acclaimed writers and artists as they reflect on their craft. This program provides facilitated conversations that aim to illuminate the guests’ creative processes, discuss their current works, and explain the impact of their work on the world around us. The Salon Series is made possible by NYU Washington, DC through the collaboration of NYU schools, departments and centers, as well as through special relationships with selected external organizations.

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Global Dialogues Series

The Global Dialogues Series convenes some of the world’s foremost scholars, policy makers, practitioners, business leaders, public intellectuals and artists whose ideas and work have made a significant cultural or intellectual contribution to global society as well as to their local community, city and countries. They will gather virtually and at our global sites to confront some of the most intractable issues of contemporary society through the creative interplay of ideas and perspectives.

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Stonewall 50

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, only blocks from NYU’s Washington Square campus, the Stonewall riots began, helping to launch the modern LGBTQ+ movement. Fifty years later, join us as we celebrate and commemorate the remarkable social, cultural, medical, and legal transformations that followedStonewall and continue to shape our community and our University.

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Weissberg Forum for Discourse in the Public Square

Through the generosity of Trustee Nina Weissberg, New York University has established the Weissberg Forum for Discourse in the Public Square at its Constance Milstein and Family Global Academic Center in Washington, D.C. The Center provides study away and internship experiences for NYU students, as well as rich academic and co-curricular programming. The Weissberg Forum is an annual signature event that brings together distinguished figures from government, industry, the professions, and the academy to discuss complex and timely issues from a variety of perspectives. The Forum, frames and conducts dialogues around issues that provoke differing views and even controversy. The aim is to provide a forum for such issues to be debated in an informed, rigorous, and civil manner -- , the kind of dialogue that academic institutions are intended to promote.

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Iconoclash

The latest waves of terrorism, from attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris to the damaging of antiquities in the Middle East, have highlighted both an ideological conflict and the central role of imagery. Terrorists have orchestrated their acts of destruction to stage their beliefs of justice, truth and will for political order. Their propaganda attracts followers from all over the world and subjugates and abuses human beings over wide territories. Their image war contests what we hold to be universal values such as the freedom of artistic expression and the integrity of cultural heritage.

These ongoing forms of destruction and terror demand a review of truth and falsity of values in both a reflective and self-reflective mode. The Washington branch of EUNIC and NYU's John Brademas Center approached this disturbing confrontation through this series.

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