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SUMMARY:Creative Convergence: the role of artists in expanding scientific inquiry and UAE’s vision for innovation
DESCRIPTION:The lengthy title covers an interesting-looking panel discussion on interdisciplinary collaboration – how integrating art\, science and engineering can foster innovation\, broaden perspectives\, and drive societal contributions. \nThe panel: \nIyad Rahwan Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development\, Berlin\nStephanie Rosenthal Director of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project\nHenry Tan Artist in Residence at the NYUAD Center for Genomics and Systems Biology \nThe moderator is Maya Allison\, NYU Abu Dhabi Chief Curator and Galleries Executive Director.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/creative-convergence-the-role-of-artists-in-expanding-scientific-inquiry-and-uaes-vision-for-innovation/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250409T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250409T193000
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SUMMARY:Will the UAE be the capital of Arab pop culture over the next decade?
DESCRIPTION:Another good-looking offer from the NYUAD Institute\, considering whether the UAE can become the epicentre of Arab pop culture over the next decade or if its influence will remain tied to amplifying trends from elsewhere. The panellists will examine the forces driving the UAE’s creative industries\, the role of institutional and private support\, and the challenges and opportunities that will determine its long-term cultural influence. \nThe panel: \nGianluca Chakra CEO\, Front Row Entertainment\nRawan Al-Dabbas Regional Director\, IFPI MENA \nThe moderator is Mikey Muhanna\, CEO and Founder of afikr.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/will-the-uae-be-the-capital-of-arab-pop-culture-over-the-next-decade/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250217T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250217T193000
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SUMMARY:Cosmopolitan Imagination: Cultural Reflections from the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? How do literature\, culture\, and identity shape our understanding of belonging and difference? These are the kinds of profound questions that Werner Sollors\, one of our time’s most celebrated cultural critics\, has spent a lifetime exploring. As Emeritus Professor of English and of African American Studies at Harvard and a Global Professor of Literature at NYU Abu Dhabi\, Sollors has charted new ways of thinking about cosmopolitanism\, ethnicity\, and race. \nWith the release of The Werner Sollors Reader from Edinburgh University Press\, Sollers will be talking with Shamoon Zamir\, Professor of Literature and Art History at NYUAD\, about his work.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/cosmopolitan-imagination-cultural-reflections-from-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250206T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250206T193000
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SUMMARY:Crafting Tomorrow: Riken Yamamoto’s Architectural Journey
DESCRIPTION:Riken Yamamoto\, winner of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize\, will talk about the transformative power of architecture in shaping communities via key themes such as sustainability\, intergenerational living\, human-centred design\, and the integration of public and private spaces. Drawing from his diverse portfolio\, Yamamoto will examine how architecture can address societal challenges like ageing populations and disaster recovery while fostering cultural identity and community engagement. Essential stuff.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/crafting-tomorrow-riken-yamamotos-architectural-journey/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20241002T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20241002T193000
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SUMMARY:Preserving the Past\, Embracing Change\, Honoring Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Managing the tensions between traditions and progress (whatever that means) is a particularly acute issue for the Gulf states\, awash with money and keen to welcome the world but concerned to maintain a culture rooted in the last. Zaki Aslan\, Professor of Practice at the American University of Sharjah\, Advisor (Cultural Heritage)\, and former Founding Director of ICCROM-Sharjah (the local arm of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)\, will discuss the need for adaptation and continuity within cultural practices and identities in the region; he’ll suggest how societies in this part of the world can devise policies and projects to safeguard traditions — from innovative and integrated preservation approaches to the revitalization of inter-generational knowledge.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/preserving-the-past-embracing-change-honoring-traditions/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240429T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240429T200000
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SUMMARY:On the Meaning of Place: A Walk Through the Old City
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Teller’s Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City (2022) gives voice to the layered tapestry of communities\, each with its own story\, that make up the city. His talk for the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute interweaves stories from Palestinian Arab and Jewish Israeli communities\, as well as African\, Indian\, Greek\, Armenian\, and Syriac societies\, and Gypsy families and Sufi mystics\, too.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/on-the-meaning-of-place-a-walk-through-the-old-city/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240424T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240424T200000
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SUMMARY:(De)Constructing the Virtual Character in Motion Pictures 
DESCRIPTION:In the last 30 years\, virtual characters in motion pictures have grown from a novelty to a staple of movie-making. This talk for the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute examines is by Luca Fascione\, a senior ray tracing engineer for NVIDIA; she outlines what goes into designing a movie character that captures audiences in a contemporary feature\, explores the historical development of the corresponding technologies\, and discusses the aesthetic and structural choices that led to the current understanding of what a virtual character is (or should be). Fascinating stuff.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/deconstructing-the-virtual-character-in-motion-pictures/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240417T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240417T200000
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SUMMARY:Romance and War/Music and Technology: from David Lean's Brief Encounter to his Lawrence of Arabia
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the connected themes of romance and war in two of David Lean’s classics. Both films were about “transports of love and the transportation of warring parties”\, both comment on the post-Second World War context. What did it mean to make a British film for a newly emerging British film industry? How did this industry differ from that in America? How did the films play to an emerging sense of tourism and travel through British colonies? \nMost particularly\, Lydia Goehr\,  Professor of Humanities at Columbia University\, wants to explore the role of the new post-war technology that brought music into film as an indispensable part. How did the radio\, for example\, play to the transmission of music and news\, or to a broadcast of information that brought the formal movement of film into a parallelism of tracks with the high speed and lines of a train\, a plane\, and an automobile? \nThe talk\, in NYUAD’s ‘Distinguished Lecture in Music Studies’ series\, is moderated by Gwyneth Bravo\, Assistant Professor of Music at NYUAD.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/romance-and-war-music-and-technology-from-david-leans-brief-encounter-to-his-lawrence-of-arabia/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240205T183000
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SUMMARY:Shehan Karunatilaka: Writing Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Shehan Karunatilaka\, the 2022 Booker Prize Winner\, talks with NYUAD Visiting Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Harshana Rambukwella. Karunatilaka’s fiction combines the surreal and the drakly humorous\, notably in his Booker winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – an “afterlife noir” that reflects Sri Lanka’s tumultuous history through a unique lens. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/shehan-karunatilaka-writing-across-borders/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240109T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20240109T200000
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SUMMARY:The Jazz of the Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:Now this looks like a fine way to start the new year: Stephon Alexander\, Professor of Physics at Brown University\, talks about the intriguing connections between the realms of physics\, cosmology\, and quantum physics with the music that defines an era. He examines the narrative of cosmic structure\, interpreting it through the elements of jazz music\, and unveiles the harmonious relationship between what are diverse yet unified fields.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-jazz-of-the-cosmos/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20231121T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20231121T170000
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SUMMARY:A Musical Journey: Jordi Savall in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The -award-winning Catalan-Spanish musicologist\, music maker and conductor Jordi Savall is in town for a concert with a special focus on the Hispanic and Mediterranean musical heritage. Here he joins Maurice Pomerantz\, Senior Director of NYUAD Institute and Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies at NYUAD\, for an in-depth conversation about his upcoming programme spanning more than 500 years of Arab cultural and historical roots in al-Andalus. Presented with ADMAF. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/a-musical-journey-jordi-savall-in-conversation/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20231108T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20231108T200000
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SUMMARY:The Abbasid Caliph and His People: A View From the Centre
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the conventional representations of the Abbasid dynasty\, highlighting its perceived trajectory from its rise in the mid-eighth century to its decline in the tenth century. Letizia Osti\, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature a the University of Milan\, is an expert on the period; she’ll examine historical and literary sources from the mid-tenth century\, elucidating the role and influence of the Abbasid Caliph and Baghdad during a pivotal era of political and cultural transformation.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-abbasid-caliph-and-his-people-a-view-from-the-centre/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20231004T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20231004T200000
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SUMMARY:Connecting Worlds: Acoustic Ocean & Forest Mind Film Screenings with Ursula Biemann
DESCRIPTION:Two short films by the Norwegian director Ursula Biemann that explore the profound connections of indigenous communities to their natural environments. Screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Biemann. \nAcoustic Ocean (2018\, 18 mins) is a poetic invitation to contemplate the ocean’s hidden symphony off the Arctic islands of Lofoten. Through a science-fictional lens\, Ursula Biemann unveils the intricate tapestry that binds life beneath the waves replete with nascent life forms\, imaginative interconnections\, and the evolution of the planetary ecosystem. \nForest Mind (2021\, 31 mins) unveils an intricate narrative woven in collaboration with the Inga community of the Amazonian forests of southern Colombia. Biemann’s longstanding relationship with these people gives rise to an indigenous university\, a testament to indigenous wisdom. Rooted in both scientific and shamanic perspectives\, Forest Mind champions an eco-centric world view\, bridging the realms of empirical knowledge and ancient wisdom.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/connecting-worlds-acoustic-ocean-forest-mind-film-screenings-with-ursula-biemann/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20230914T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20230914T193000
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SUMMARY:Documenting a Performing Arts History
DESCRIPTION:The Arts Center at NYUAD has produced a commemorative five-volume bilingual book The Arts Center – Building a performing arts community on Saadiyat Island to mark its development from before its official beginning in 2015 to its current position as a cornerstone for the arts in Abu Dhabi and the UAE generally. This panel discussion has NYUAD Vice Chancellor Vice Chancellor Mariët Westermann moderating a conversation with key figures involved in the book’s creation to explore the significance and meaning of arts documentation while reflecting on their collaborative journey – Bill Bragin\, Executive Artistic Director\, The Arts Center\, NYUAD; Nadine Khalil\, editor\, curator\, and critic; and Waleed Shah\, photographer and entrepreneur.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/documenting-a-performing-arts-history/
LOCATION:NYUAD Campus\, Conference Centre\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Panel discussion
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