Abu Dhabi, UAE: New York University Abu Dhabi Institute has announced a series of events open to the public throughout the month of April. Driven towards fostering students creativity and critical reflection, this is one of the university’s initiatives to equip students with the necessary ingredients to expand their frontiers of knowledge.
The series of public events for the month of April includes “Creating FREEJ: The Evolution of Lammtara Studio” the company which produces FREEJ, the Middle East’s first 3D animated series. The creator and director of FREEJ will discusses the story of the characters and how he became the first cartoon animator in the Emirates, on April 6th from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m..
Other events scheduled for April include “Betraying Empathy: Moral Trauma and Our Capacity to Care” on April 9th, 2015, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.. Carol Gilligan, University Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, NYU looks at how the capacity for mutual understanding was, and may well be, key to our survival as a species.
On April 9th, 8:00 – 9:30 p.m., Music Memory Metamorphoses presents Rainer Maria Rilke?s 1899 work about the love and death of a young soldier during the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars of the 17th century against a filmic backdrop. The production re-imagines the theater and concert hall as a cinematic space where the film presents a kaleidoscope of slowly shifting montage images that serve as a visual counterpoint to the dramatic performance and music.
April also sees a Health Professions Weekend Panel Discussion on April 10th, from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m., where 10 health professional schools from around the world will be discussing topics such as programme admissions, letters of recommendations, connecting with faculty and personal statement. Panelists will include deans of the schools, director of admissions as well as faculty.
The next day sees the Health Professional Schools Fair from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.. During the fair, attendees will have the unique chance to have one-on-one conversation with university representatives and ask more specific questions tailored to their interests/application.
Building Apps for Social Good in the Arab World on April 12th brings together renowned international computer science professors, entrepreneurs, technology professionals, and venture capitalists to lead teams of talented computer science students from the US and the Arab world. The teams develop innovative mobile and web applications relevant to diverse fields such as health, education, film, music, business, and science. The three-day programming marathon culminates in this special presentation, where each student team showcases their applications.
On April 15th, from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., “View From Inside : Contemporary Arab Artists in Conversation” is organized in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Festival and FotoFest International within the framework of the exhibition “View from the Inside: Contemporary Arab Photography, Video and Mixed Media Art” at The Gallery, Emirates Palace, March 21st-April 20th. The colloquium brings together Arab artists and photographers included in the show to present their work. Panel discussions are followed by the opportunity for the audience to engage in conversation directly with the artists: Hazem Harb, Tammam Azzam, Camille Zakharia, Manal AlDowayan, Khalil Abdul Wahid, Ahmed Jadallah, and Samer Mohdad.
TEDxNYUAD Video Streaming Event takes place on April 19th from 6:00-9:00 p.m. TEDxNYUAD 2015 is about opening new horizons and broadening perspectives. This year’s theme is Question. Speakers will be sharing untold stories that redefine the concepts of home and memory, provide a fresh look on traditions and videogaming, change the way we see (or don’t see) chess, and show the true power of youth. The 11 talks will cause us to question how we view the world, as we take the audience on a journey of the unconventional.
Speakers include Amer Nasr, Attilio Rigotti, Charlotte de Bekker, Hayat Seid, Jovan Jovancevic, Maitha al Memari, Meera al Agroobi, Mohit Mandal, Sam Ridgeway, Sara al Shamlan, and Vasily Rudchenko.
On April 23rd, 06:30pm – 08:00pm NYU looks to the staras and asks, do habitable planets exist around other stars, and are any of them actually inhabited Observations from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirm that at least 10-20 percent of stars have rocky planets within their (liquid water) habitable zones. Future space telescopes should be able to find such planets around nearby stars, and study their atmospheres spectroscopically. This talk examines what conditions make a planet habitable, and how scientists search for life on other worlds.
Finally, on April 28th, “New Kinds of War Demand New Kinds of Peacemaking” looks at the struggle to find appropriate responses to violent extremism, networked criminality and other new sources of conflict. The limits of military intervention have become increasingly obvious. Private diplomacy, sponsored by NGOs like Humanitarian Dialogue, is one of the few tools for the management of armed conflict to attract growing support. But what can it deliver? David Harland Executive Director, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue will be in conversation with James Traub, Columnist, ForeignPolicy.com as part of the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Programme, NYUAD.
© Emirates News Agency (WAM) 2015.
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