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NYUAD Institute

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The NYUAD Institute is a center of advanced research, scholarly and creative activity, and public workshops. Institute programs facilitate discussion between academics, students, professionals, and leaders from the UAE and from around the world.

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How To Walk On Water And Climb Up Walls

December 09, 2018 04:59 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB

2018.11.11 Insects walk on water, snakes slither and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed and versatility, but how do they do it and what can we learn from them? From the incredible efficiency of the wet dog shake to colonies of ants building rafts out of their own bodies, author Dr. David Hu examines how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious. Speaker David L. Hu, Asso...

Reformed To Death- The Strange End Of The Soviet Union

December 09, 2018 04:58 - 1 hour - 55 MB

2018.11.07 This lecture examines economic, political, ideological, and international causes of the Soviet collapse, as well as the role of political actors. The principal focus of the lecture is on 1991 as the year when all historical causes had created a “perfect crisis” and yet produced a surprisingly peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union. The lecture aims to problematize the dominant analysis that assumes that political liberalization and radical market reforms were the only exits from...

Story Behind The UAEs First Multi - Organ Transplant Program

December 09, 2018 04:57 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MB

2018.10.24 Today, families in the UAE wait in hope that a life-saving organ may be donated to a critically ill loved on. In 2018, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi created history in the UAE by developing a comprehensive multi-organ transplant program which is already transforming patients’ lives. This talk explores how the transplants for four major organs – kidney, heart, liver and lung – are giving hope to families in the UAE and around the region by delivering a world-class level of care here i...

Many Stories To Tell - Science And Archaeology At Saruq Al - Hadid In Dubai

December 09, 2018 04:56 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MB

2018.10.22 Saruq al-Hadid, located deep in the desert in southern Dubai, is one of Arabia’s richest and most enigmatic archaeological sites. During the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2200-800 BCE), the site witnessed social gatherings for hunting, feasting, craft production and ritual activity. The site’s abundant material remains of precious metals, ceramic, stone, bone, shell and wood have much to tell us about the human groups who travelled to Saruq al-Hadid. But hearing these stories requires ...

Life In Stone Age In Abu Dhabi

October 24, 2018 12:57 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB

2018.09.19 Archaeological discoveries from an ancient village on Marawah Island located in Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra region reveal the presence of a sophisticated and skilled population that traded and thrived during the Neolithic period. Artefacts excavated provide a comprehensive picture of life in the UAE around 8,000 years ago. The people living there constructed stone-built houses, the earliest examples of such architecture discovered in the Arabian Gulf. These people herded sheep and goats...

The Rahma Run

October 24, 2018 12:56 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

2018.09.17 This documentary covers the story of the young Emirati, Dr. Khaled Al-Suwaidi, who, on February 3, 2018, ran a 327-kilometer, 80-hour ultramarathon from Fujairah Port in Fujairah to Zayed Port in Abu Dhabi. It was the first time someone had ever run such a distance in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Khaled dedicated this initiative to raise funds for the Cancer Patient Care Society (Rahma), which was established by his father, Prof. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi. Dr. Khaled believes that i...

Artistic Mathematics Truth And Beauty

October 24, 2018 12:55 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB

2018.09.24 This talk focuses on work in mathematical visualization: making accurate, effective, and beautiful pictures, models, and experiences of mathematical concepts. This talk also discusses what it is that makes a visualization compelling, and show many examples in the medium of 3D printing, as well as some explorations in virtual reality and spherical video. Speaker: Henry Segerman, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Oklahoma State University

Rowing The Atlantic Achieving The Extraordinary

October 24, 2018 12:54 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MB

2018.09.26 One very big ocean. One very small boat. Four very determined women. This is the story of four very different personalities who decided to put their lives on hold and rough it, pitting themselves against the might of the ocean and the sometimes terrifying moods of the weather. The crew remained entirely self-sufficient for the duration of the 2,550 nautical mile long journey, and with their satellite phone failing after just 2 weeks, they were very much alone. This talk examines th...

Battling Cancer - Texaphyrins As Drug Candidates

October 24, 2018 12:52 - 1 hour - 68.3 MB

2018.09.30 This talk presents a personal story of a three-time cancer survivor and how people have tried to fight back against cancer by studying the chemistry and anti-cancer biology of expanded porphyrins. Expanded porphyrin is a term we introduced into the literature in 1988 to describe larger homologues of natural blood pigments, such as the dyes (called heme) that make blood red. Many expanded porphyrins are now known. This talk also focuses on a set of expanded porphyrins called texaph...

Nobody To Leader - Achieving Global Leadership With Software

October 24, 2018 12:50 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

2018.10.02 Most of the software we use today comes from one part of the world. Is that a necessary reality or something we can challenge? In this talk, Sanjiva Weerawarana discusses the story of WSO2 and how a global technology leader was built out of Sri Lanka, a country famous for tea, garments, tourism and sending people to work all over the world. The presentation also discusses how Abu Dhabi can build a culture of creativity and the ecosystem necessary to take advantage of its unique as...

Cultural Spaces- A Conversation With H.E. Noura Al - Kaabi

October 24, 2018 12:48 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB

2018.10.09 The UAE has embarked on a number of ambitious initiatives to create a vibrant cultural scene. Through commissioned art projects, educational programs, infrastructural development, and cultural diplomacy, a variety of local and international organizations have created spaces for engagement, creativity, and social change. What role do policies focusing on women, youth and national development play in the cultural field in the UAE? How do top-down initiatives interact with marginal s...

The Art Science Of Philantrophic Endeavors

October 24, 2018 12:45 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MB

2018.10.14 The talk explores the concept of philanthropy in the region, identifies recent trends that have changed the philanthropic landscape, and proposes methods to create and run successful philanthropic organizations. Speaker: Mohamed T. Al Qadhi, Director-General, Sandooq Al Watan

A Roadmap To The Future- A Conversation With H.E Omar Al Olama

October 24, 2018 12:36 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MB

2018.10.15 In October 2017, the UAE has released the first national Artificial intelligence (AI) strategy recognized as the first strategy of this caliber in the region and the world. The strategy is meant to highlight the framework of the first project in the UAE centennial 2071 and an initial step in 2021 roadmaps. The AI initiative in the UAE is aimed at focusing on revolutionizing technology, education, space, health, energy, water, environment, transport and traffic sectors, amongst oth...

Celebrating The 10th Year Anniversary Of The Institute

October 23, 2018 12:47 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB

2018.10.07 Distinguished and award-winning novelist, Elias Khoury, discusses his work and the Arab novel in general as it has developed over the last ten years. Ten years ago he discussed his celebrated Bab al-Shams. This evening he considers his own work and how the Arab literary scene has developed since the inaugural Institute event he took part in October 2008. Speakers Elias Khoury, Lebanese Novelist; Playwright; Critic. In conversation with Bilal Orfali, Chairperson and Associate P...

Genetics Anthropology: An Exploration of Diverse and New World African Populations

June 14, 2018 14:10 - 1 hour - 74.3 MB

March 12, 2018 Part of "Evolution Across Disciplines" African human genomic diversity is highly understudied and this also true for African-descended individuals in the Americas (New World Africans). Yet these data form the foundation for subsequent sophisticated applied work in genetics and genomics of relevance to all peoples of African descent (e.g., in pharmacogenomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, proteomics, gene-environment interactions, and other applied fields.). This talk explores h...

Beyond Open Access: Activating the Potential of Public Knowledge

June 12, 2018 12:36 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

April 16, 2018 What is a citizen scholar? What kind of scholarly research captures the attention of the general public and how can we optimize public engagement in it? What is the role of the digital humanities that have become so relevant in western and non-western academic contexts in recent decades? This talk introduces the notion of open social scholarship that involves creating and disseminating research and research technologies to a broad audience of specialists and active non-special...

Science and Knowledge Economy: Ireland as a Model for UAE

June 12, 2018 12:34 - 40 minutes - 37 MB

April 9, 2018 In the 1970’s Ireland was a poor agricultural society with one of the lowest standards of living in Northern Europe. By 1985 per capita GDP stood at 70% of the European Union’s core 15 states. By 2007, it had doubled to 140%. GDP Growth will be 3.5% (2018) and Ireland will remain the EU’s fastest growing economy until 2024. The Global Innovation index 2017 ranked Ireland 10th between Germany (9th) and South Korea (11th). What made these changes possible in a tiny economy on Eur...

Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

June 12, 2018 12:34 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB

March 27, 2018 The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 percent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This talk places the current displacement within the context of the widespread migrations that have indelibly marked the region throughout the last 150 years. Syria itself has harbored millions from its neighboring lands, and Syrian society has been shaped by these diasporas. Dawn Chatty explores how modern Syria came to be a refuge sta...

Gender and STEM: Insights from the Arab World

June 12, 2018 12:32 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

April 30, 2018 Gender diversity in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is a global challenge in this rapidly growing industry. Experts studying the gender ratio in STEM have found that it is far more balanced in the Arab world than in the West. The many examples of highly successful women entrepreneurs in the technology sector emerging from Arab countries is contrasted with some remaining challenges faced by Arab women in their education and employment trajectory in STEM. This p...

Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire

June 12, 2018 12:29 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB

March 7, 2018 Enslaved Africans and their descendants contributed in vital ways to the economy and culture of eastern Arabia. Global economic forces, especially international demand for Gulf pearls and dates, drove demand in the Gulf for slave labor from Africa. The reversal of those trends in the 1930s spelled economic collapse for the Gulf and an eventual end to the slave trade. This talk traces the origins of the African diaspora in eastern Arabia, explores the lives and labors of enslave...

Lifescapes Beyond Bigness: The UAE’s exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

June 12, 2018 12:28 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB

April 11, 2018 The National Pavilion UAE’s architecture exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale explores human-scale architectural landscapes and aims to highlight the role of architecture and urban design in forming the choreography of people’s daily routines. The interplay between the physicality of architecture and places, and the dynamic choreography of everyday life will be investigated through a curatorial selection of different typologies and places from the UAE’s diverse landscapes...

Planets, Stars, Gravitational Waves, and the Formation of Galaxies

June 12, 2018 12:06 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB

March 25, 2018 Over the past few years, the science from the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope has ranged from discovering complex organic molecules in space, searching for elusive gravitational waves, scanning the skies for signals from alien civilizations, mapping swarms of hydrogen clouds which are streaming away from our galaxy, and unearthing new facts to help us understand how planets form. This talk reviews these topics, and other, recent discoveries and discusses the impact they have o...

Deploying Race to Silent Dissent: : How Arab Americans were Racialized as Terror Threats

June 12, 2018 12:04 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MB

April 1, 2018 This talk addresses how the racialization of Arab Americans differed in timing from that of other racialized groups in the US, even though many of its ideological aspects (essentializing) and outcomes (discrimination, surveillance, and hate crimes) are shared. The racialization of Arabs foreshadowed the racialization of US Muslims and South Asians as terror threats. This history should lay to rest the commonly held, but inaccurate, idea that the “special treatment” of US Arabs,...

Elementary My Dear Watson! Disruptive Innovation and the Future of Legal Work

June 12, 2018 12:01 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB

April 23, 2018 This talk examines why the large-scale forces that have already transformed the global economy – globalization and the shift in economic activity toward the emerging economies in the Global South, the exponential rise in the speed and sophistication of information technology, and the blurring of traditional categories of organization and thought – are producing “disruptive innovation” in the market for legal services, and the implications of these changes for law, lawyers, and...

Empowerment on Trial: Encountering Emirati Women’s Voices

June 12, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB

March 29, 2018 For a long time, Emirati women were mainly associated with the concealed space of the domestic household and considered as the guardians and transmitters of Emirati tradition and religious values. During the last years, however, Emirati women figure more prominently on the public stage – not least due to a variety of state-sponsored programs aiming at the empowerment of women, particularly in the domain of education, political representation and economic performance. In this c...

Extreme Poverty in the Modern World: Measurement and Global Trends

June 12, 2018 11:59 - 1 hour - 64.6 MB

March 5, 2018 The elimination of extreme poverty has been recognized as a global goal. Extreme Poverty was defined in the 1990s by the World Bank in terms of its famous ‘$-a-day’ poverty line. The line has been controversial, in part because it is not clear how anyone could live on one dollar per day. This talk examines a more transparent approach. This new approach is based on people’s needs for food, shelter, and clothing, and it indicates there is more extreme poverty in the world tha...

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler "1929-1941"

June 12, 2018 11:56 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB

2018.03.22 In 1941, the largest, bloodiest war ever broke out between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Worldwide, some 55 million people were killed in WWII, half in the Soviet Union. Who was Joseph Stalin? Who was Adolf Hitler? Why did they clash? This talk, based upon a book of the same name, uses a vast array of once secret documents to trace the parallel rise of Soviet Communism and Nazism and analyzes why Great Powers go to war against each other, delivering lessons relevant for today...

How Did Our Solar System Form

February 20, 2018 07:43 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MB

Sunday, January 28, 2018 In the last 15 years, people’s understanding of how the Solar System evolved into what we observe today has greatly expanded. This became possible as advances in scientific computing enabled us to fully explore a wealth of observational data and -- more importantly -- the powerful theory of Celestial Mechanics, going far beyond its traditional boundaries. As a result, a new theory of Cosmogony has emerged, contradicting the traditional view of a 'perfect clock'-like ...

A World Without Parasitic Worms - Why, When And How

February 20, 2018 07:42 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MB

January 4, 2018 Billions of people, and billions of their animals, still harbor infections with various types of parasitic worms (helminths). These infections are not usually acutely lethal, but they reduce growth and productivity and contribute to the cycle of poverty. Impressive achievements in the development of new strategies for parasite control have led to the near eradication of human infections with the Guinea Worm (Dracunculus medinensis) from the world. What factors prevent people ...

From Differential Equations To Data Science And Back

February 20, 2018 07:41 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MB

January 15, 2018 The arrival of massive amounts of data from imaging, sensors, computation and the internet brought with it significant challenges for data science. New methods for analysis and manipulation of big data have come from many scientific disciplines. The first focus of this talk is the application of ideas from differential equations, such as variational principles and numerical diffusion, to image and data analysis. Examples include denoising, segmentation, inpainting and textur...

Are Five Husbands Better Than One

February 20, 2018 07:37 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MB

January 9, 2018 Until very recently, fraternal polyandry was the traditional marriage form observed by ethnic Tibetan people of many high Himalayan valleys. In this type of marriage, women marry a set of brothers, co-reside with them, and can bear children to all of them. Polyandry is rare among mammals, and is almost unknown among humans. Indeed, it challenges many common assumptions about marriage and family formation processes, no matter what the cultural or ecological context. This talk ...

On the First Arabic Novella from the 11th Century:: The Doctors' Dinner Party by Ibn Butlan

December 31, 2017 08:48 - 1 hour - 101 MB

12/12/2017 his talk showcases a little-known gem of medieval Arabic creative literature, the Da`wat al-Aṭibbā’ or Doctors' Dinner Party by Ibn Butlan (d.1066 CE). This text is an important, but little-known, milestone in the history of pre-modern Arabic narrative. This talk also focuses on the significance of the work along with the challenges of translating such a work into English in the 21st century as well as why it still appeals to a contemporary audience. Speaker Philip Kennedy, Gener...

Crypto Wars: From Ceasar to Quantum Powers and Smart Cities

December 31, 2017 08:47 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MB

11/26/2017 People live in an era of smart cities empowered by Autonomous systems, FinTech technologies, Quantum computations and Artificial Intelligence. The new-age information revolution is pushing the limits of all electronic representations in terms of computational complexity, power, and area. The security of any hardware devices, embedded systems and generic system used within these environments will be dependent on the robustness and strength of Cryptographic primitives used as atomic...

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

December 31, 2017 08:46 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MB

12/07/2017 A machine plays the strategy game ‘Go’ better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than corporate research labs. In this talk, MIT’s Andrew McAfee discusses what it takes to master this digital-powered shift and delves into topics surrounding how individuals must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd. In all three ...

Sleep Less Smile More: Interplay Between Sleep and Mood Disorders

December 28, 2017 10:05 - 1 hour - 90.3 MB

11/15/2017 Most people have experienced the close links between their body rhythms and mood. For example, changes in sleep-wake cycle during jet lag can temporarily affect mood. In light of the fact that most people feel good, and function better, after a good night’s sleep, it is surprising that sleep deprivation therapy can rapidly treat depression in psychiatric patients. One of the leading hypotheses for the therapeutic effect of sleep deprivation is that it resets abnormal rhythms in dep...

The Evolution Of Date Palms

December 28, 2017 10:03 - 51 minutes - 70.9 MB

11/19/2017 Date palms are the most significant food crop in the Middle East and North Africa and are one of the few crop species that thrive in hot and dry environments. How did this important food crop evolve? Where did they come from? What are the genes that make different date palm varieties unique? This talk explores the evolution and genetics of date palms as uncovered by research at the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. Speaker Michael Purugganan, Dorothy Schiff P...

The Everyday Lives Of Muslim American Teenage Boys

December 07, 2017 05:45 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MB

10/30/2017 Based on his new book, Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys (Princeton University Press, 2017), sociologist John O’Brien provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. This talk offers a portrait of Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues—girlfriends, school, parents, being cool— and describes their efforts to devise...

Maysson Zayed Laughing At Life

December 07, 2017 05:43 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MB

09/12/2017 Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid tells a humorous tale of beating the odds and laughing in the face of failure. As a Palestinian, Muslim, disabled woman growing up in America, she was taught to dream big and to have no fear. In her talk, she gives advice on how to be the best you that you can be and how we can fix our broken world. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and has toured the globe making sold out audiences worldwide la...

SESAME: A Source of Light in the Middle East

November 23, 2017 09:17 - 1 hour - 92.4 MB

10/23/2017 In everyday life individuals learn by ‘seeing’ things using light; the same is true in science. The extraordinary power of synchrotron light has made it an essential tool for studying matter on scales ranging from biological cells to atoms. This lecture discusses the idea of SESAME, an international institute in the Middle East built on the successful model of CERN, in fields like archaeology, biology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, medicine, and physics. Speaker Rol...

A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons

November 23, 2017 09:16 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MB

10/3/2017 This lecture underlines the special character of nuclear weapons and discusses the desirability and the feasibility of a nuclear-weapon-free world. In addition to addressing some past activities that worked to promote nuclear disarmament and the transition to a nuclear-weapon-free world, the lecture also covers the significant developments initiated by the January 2007 Wall Street Journal op-ed coauthored by Shultz, Perry, Kissinger, and Nunn, which culminated in the April 2009 Pra...

“Behind the Lynchings:” Uncovering Racial Violence in the U.S. South, 1930-1954

November 23, 2017 09:10 - 39 minutes - 54 MB

11/6/2017 Racial violence, perpetrated by law enforcement or private citizens, has re-emerged as a potent social and political issue in the United States. Yet, racially motivated violence is deeply rooted in American history. Although images of Southern racial violence capture the public imagination, much is still unknown. There is no scholarly consensus on the total number of deaths. Nor do people understand the full scope and nature of such violence or its consequences for political, econo...

The Human Journey

November 23, 2017 09:08 - 1 hour - 90.1 MB

10/16/2017 Anthropologist, geneticist, author, and entrepreneur Spencer Wells discusses his work using genetics to track human movement patterns around the world. A new and rapidly-growing industry, consumer genomics gives people the opportunity to learn not only about the origin of their ancestors, but also about the traits they have inherited from them, using DNA data. Through a whirlwind tour of the past 60,000 years of human history, Wells speculates about where current demographic trend...

Do You Trust Your Chip

November 23, 2017 09:06 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MB

10/18/2017 Ubiquity of electronic devices—mostly smart ones with electronic chips embedded in them—is attributed to the desire to improve the quality of our lives, but can we really trust these chips? Driven by cost-conscious consumer electronics, outsourcing of various crucial steps in chip design and fabrication is forcing chip designers and users to re-assess their trust in hardware. Chips are increasingly prone to hardware-level threats such as reverse engineering, counterfeiting, Intell...

Dokha as An Emerging Epidemic: What Can We Learn from Global Tobacco Control?

November 23, 2017 09:05 - 1 hour - 85.7 MB

11/5/2017 Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, on trajectory to cause 1 billion deaths this century. A particularly alarming trend is the rise of alternative tobacco products, which are often perceived as safe as or less harmful than cigarettes. Dokha tobacco use is very common throughout the Gulf region, and use appears to be emerging in other parts of the world. While the risks of use of other forms of tobacco are documented, very little is known about dokha. In this publ...

Maysson Zayed Laughing At Life

November 08, 2017 11:35 - 42 minutes - 58 MB

2017.09.12 Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid tells a humorous tale of beating the odds and laughing in the face of failure. As a Palestinian, Muslim, disabled woman growing up in America, she was taught to dream big and to have no fear. In her talk, she gives advice on how to be the best you that you can be and how we can fix our broken world. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and has toured the globe making sold out audiences worldwide l...

Robert Swan: Leadership on the Edge

October 16, 2017 06:06 - 1 hour - 95.6 MB

October 1, 2017 Presented by Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program, Robert Swan, OBE, one of the world’s greatest explorers, is the first person in history to walk to both the North and South Poles. With his presence and integrity, and his accomplishments and reflections, Swan has an extraordinary ability to inspire and motivate audiences worldwide. Having experienced leadership and team cooperation in some of the world’s most hostile environments, Swan, who was recently appointed ambassador...

The Nature of the Law in the UAE: Is the UAE a Civil Law Jurisdiction?

October 16, 2017 06:03 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MB

September 26, 2017 Legal practitioners often describe the United Arab Emirates as a "civil law" jurisdiction. But is that description accurate? The United Arab Emirates is called a melting pot because of the many nationalities and cultures that coexist within its borders. Fittingly, the legal system of the United Arab Emirates mirrors the cultural complexity of the country's population. The United Arab Emirates is an evolving legal system that currently reflects a unique mixture of several o...

Peaceland : Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

October 16, 2017 05:58 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MB

September 13, 2017 This lecture suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions so often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of research in conflict zones around the world, everyday elements – such as the expatriates’ social habits and common approaches to understanding their areas of operation – strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. Through an in-depth analysis of the interveners’ everyday life and work, the speaker proposes innovative w...

A Conversation in Memory of Hilary Ballon: The founding of NYU Abu Dhabi

October 16, 2017 05:53 - 1 hour - 104 MB

October 8, 2017 In 2007 an agreement was reached between the leadership of New York University and the government of Abu Dhabi to create a cutting edge university that would combine the strengths of Abu Dhabi and NYU. This challenge provided the opportunity to revisit and reevaluate the meaning of a liberal arts institution of higher education in the 21st century, with a truly global character and research and excellent undergraduate education at its heart. Deputy Vice Chancellor Hilary Ball...

Islam and Evolution: Was Darwin Right and Why Should Muslims Care?

October 16, 2017 05:52 - 1 hour - 89.4 MB

September 17, 2017 In this public lecture, Abouheif will address a number of controversial questions and explore if an understanding or appreciation of evolution is necessary for the advancement of science in the Islamic world. Part of "Evolution Across Disciplines" Speakers Ehab Abouheif James McGill Professor, McGill University; Guggenheim Fellow; Member of the Royal Society of Canada

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