This interdisciplinary project of NYUAD and the Tharawat Family Business Forum will bring together scholars from the Humanities and Social Sciences at NYUAD to compile, document and analyze the history of selected regional family businesses to better understand past challenges and decision-making, as well as commercial legacies.
This research project explores the connection between the US military presence abroad and the advancement of civil rights in the US.
Cold War Cultures and the Politics of Peace and Security, 1975-1990
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, this panel reassessed the global causes, themes, forms, and legacies of that tumultuous period and introduced the product of a successful research collaboration between faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai, and NYU New York, which led to the publication of The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building (Routledge, 2018).
Martin Klimke was the historical consultant for the four-part documentary 1968 — The Global Revolt looks at 10 years of upheaval between 1965 and 1975 — an era whose legacy divides opinion to this day.
