Created in 2007, the Humanities Initiative at NYU draws on the talents and energies of our faculty and students across the university to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration in the humanities and arts. To foster and enhance the humanities community at NYU, the Initiative sponsors a number of endeavors aimed at promoting interdisciplinary dialogue, teaching, and research.
Congrats to Toral Gajarawala, Assistant Professor of English & 2010-11 HI Fellow, for winning the 48th annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the Modern Language Association's journal of literary scholarship. READ MORE...
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We are pleased to announce the next round of our award competitions and their deadlines. TO APPLY: If you are interested in applying to any of our programs, please follow the links below to the corresponding program descriptions and guidelines. Please contact Asya Berger at
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with any questions.
February 7, 6:00PM: Ranjana Khanna (Duke U) on The Lumpenproletariat, The Subaltern, The Mental Asylum. Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Download poster. Read more...
February 15, 5:00PM: Hannah Gurman (NYU) on The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond. With discussant Lloyd Gardner (Professor Emeritus of History, Rutgers U). Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Read more...
February 24, all day: Teaching with Technology Conference, featuring presentations by current NYU faculty on their experiences incorporating technology into their classrooms, as well as information on basic and advanced learning technologies. Speakers will include Kenneth Perlin, Jan Plass, David Schacter, Clay Shirky, Diana Taylor, among others. Co-sponsored by the GSAS, the CAS, NYU Libraries, and the NYU Teaching Technology Committee. Register here.
February 28, 5:00PM: Elliot Wolfson (NYU) on A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination. Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Download poster. Read more...
March 28, 6:00PM: Jini Kim Watson (NYU) on The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form. Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Read more...
March 30, 3-5PM: Janis Jenkins (UC-San Diego) on The Land of Enchantment: rage among youth in the American Southwest. Held at 726 Broadway, 5th Floor, Room 542. Part of the Psyences Project speaker series. Please RSVP at
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. Download the 2011-12 calendar here.
March 30-April 1: 2012 Bioethics Conference: The Moral Brain. RSVP here. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Bioethics, the Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, & the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies. Go to Conference Program.
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