Events

'The End of the Western Model’

Pankaj Mishra

Presented by NYUAD Institute, LitCW, History, Global Asia and Arab Crossroads

Recent earthquakes, ranging from Brexit and the election of Donald Trump to the pandemic, have terminated the role the United States and its Western allies assumed after 1945 as political teachers and role models to the rest of the world. PM discusses the likely consequences of this epochal transformation.

Maria Dahvana Headley
Reading and Discussion

Wail Hassan

Discussion of the translation of Thou Shalt not Speak My Language

Ananya Kabir and Ari Gautier, 'Retrieving creole Indias: from the novel ‘Le thinnai’ to the platform, ‘le thinnai kreyol’

Le thinnai kreyol is a participatory dialogue between Ananya Kabir and Ari Gautier that considers encounters in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and resulting kreyolites: oceans, ships, slavery, foods, furniture, languages.

Hay Festival Events at NYUAD

Kapka Kassabova | February 26
 

The Bulgarian writer discusses her universally acclaimed and multi-award-winning Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe and her new book To The Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace. The vast lakes Ohrid and Prespa are joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region's past, and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kassabova's maternal family.

Hallie Rubenhold | February 27
 

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper is a stunning history that has swept up awards this year. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now, in her devastating narrative of five lives, historian Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.

Bernardine Evaristo | February 27
 

British author Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her eighth book, Girl, Woman, Other, a fusion fiction novel. Her writing centers on her interest in the African diaspora. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She’s won several awards and honors and was appointed an MBE in 2009.

Frank Fehrenbach (University of Hamburg): "Leonardo da Vinci’s Natural Theory of Images"

(co-sponsored with Art and Art History, History)

Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYUAD

NYUAD Institute Lecture: “A Conversation with Wole Soyinka"

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Michigan State University): Generous Thinking: Argumentation and Collaboration 
(NYUAD Institute)

Ongoing | Writers Reading Series

During the spring 2019 semester, we continue with the Writers Reading Series, where writers from the NYUAD Creative Writing Program read from their work, with Q&A sessions to follow each reading.

Ongoing | Writers Reading Series

with Ella Shohat

Alumni Panel hosted in collaboration with the CDC

Ongoing | Writers Reading Series

with Abishek Majumdar

Open Studios

Han BO

HAN Bo (韩博) is the author of several poetry collections including [‘BorrowDeepHeart’] and[‘A Banquet of Knots’]. In 1998 he won the Li-An Liu poetry prize for the volume [‘Transmission for Ten Years’]. His short stories have been published in a number of literary journals, including Jin Tian. A playwright as well as stage director, in 1999 he founded the Ewood Drama Studio; he directed the 2008 Mecooon Film Festival in Shanghai. Currently, Han is the editor-in-chief of MG Magazine, a travel culture magazine.

Book reading/Conversation “Connecting Asia” (Carlo Pizzati)

In cooperation with the Global Asia Research Initiative 

The Art of Translation, the Business of Translation

The Art of Translation, the Business of Translation - Conversation with Dr. Jack Yeager

Faculty Publications Reading

Jill Magi (Speech), Tishani Doshi (Small Days and Nights) and Maurice Pomerantz (The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One / Two) present readings from their new publications with introductions from NYUAD students.

Hekayah Festival

Joey Bui performs for Hekayah and read from her book Lucky Ticket.

Reading/Joey Bui - Lucky Ticket

Joey Bui is a Vietnamese Australian writer. She graduated from NYU Abu Dhabi, where she completed her first collection of short stories, Lucky Ticket, based on interviews with Vietnamese refugees around the world. Joey has been published in journals and magazines in the US and Australia, and competed in poetry slams in New York.

Ongoing | Writers Reading Series

with Bob Stam