Arts Professor of Theater, Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers premiered off-broadway this month at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. The New York Times celebrates the play's debut and explores Soyinka's past and what inspired his work.
Visiting Associate Professor in the Legal Studies Department, Aude-Solveig Epstein, was appointed to the editorial board of the French Review of Philosophy of Law, Archives de philosophie du droit.
Associate Professor of Film and New Media, Dale Hudson, co-curated the Arts in Movement exhibition for the annual online exhibitions of digital media for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) with Claudia Costa Pederson.
Hosted a two-day conference focused on ''Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Dialogue." The conference centered on intellectual discourse between scholars and practitioners with the aim of informing education and scholarship among our academic community.
This event was open to the NYUAD community only.
Arts Professor of Theater, Abhishek Majumdar's books Theatre across borders and Collected Plays published by Bloomsbury International in 2023 and 2024, along with his new Ambedkarite Opera Kavan, which was co-commissioned by NYUAD Arts Center and Supported by Global Asia Program and the Division, were featured in the peer reviewed academic journal Theater research International and the New York based digital magazine The Polis Project.
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; Professor of Movements and Places, Movement and Cultural Practices Susan Ossman's artworks are at the center of “Windswept”, a large collaborative exhibition at the Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles. It opened on March 21. Read more about it here. Additionally, Ossman's interactive and hybrid 2021 exhibition “Self-Portrait in Montmartre” was the subject of an article by NYU Professor Deborah Kapchan in the prestigious The Drama Review of Cambridge University.
