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July 7, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
NYUAD at NPR
NPR’s All Things Considered ran a brief piece yesterday about the failure of Michigan State’s experiment in the UAE: “Michigan State To Close Dubai Campus.” Reporter Larry Abramson noted that … many observers say growth in overseas campuses will continue. The Middle East and Asia have lots of young people clamoring for higher education. Western [...]Archive
June 28, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
ADH Online
My appointment as Associate Dean of Humanities for NYU Abu Dhabi is finally official and online: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/academics/faculty.html The bio is currently the brief one that will appear in the initial NYUAD Course Bulletin. I’ll provide one that’s longer — and maybe even a picture — before too long.Archive
June 3, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
November Candidate Weekend by Erin
The first NYUAD Candidate Weekend that I attended was last November. Erin Meekhof, one of the candidates who flew in that weekend and is now a member of NYU Abu Dhabi’s inaugural class, made an eight-minute video about her experience. She does a marvelous job of capturing the sense of wonder that many of the [...]Archive
April 26, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
NYUAD ADH
I’m pleased to announce here that I have accepted the position of Associate Dean for Humanities for NYU Abu Dhabi. An official announcement from NYUAD is forthcoming later this week. My mission is to help NYUAD Dean of Arts and Humanities Reindert Falkenburg and the newly appointed Associate Dean for the Arts, Mo Ogrodnik, ensure [...]Archive
March 19, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Cosmopolitanism Now, Take Three
This morning I gave my sample class on “Cosmopolitanism Now” to a group of prospective candidates for NYU Abu Dhabi. Once again I began with the anecdote that I used to open the lecture on cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism that I gave at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute last fall. I told the students that, as [...]Archive
March 18, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
In the Gulf
I’m in Abu Dhabi once again, where it’s nice to see NYUAD’s Downtown Campus building become a workplace. My first visit to Abu Dhabi took place just on the eve of NYU’s taking possession of the building, so for me it’s been a little like watching a toddler learn to walk. The building is now [...]Archive
February 11, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
NYUAD Exemplum
I often ask my students to look for what I call exemplary moments in the texts that they are reading, by which I mean a moment — it can be a word, a phrase, sentence, a passage, a stanza, a scene — that captures something crucial, whether it be formal or thematic, about the larger [...]Archive
February 9, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
NYU Abu Dhabi and Labor
Andrew Ross, my colleague from the Department of Social Cultural Analysis, has been one of the more vocal skeptics where NYU Abu Dhabi is concerned. But even he had to applaud the steps that NYUAD has taken toward the improvement of conditions for workers in Abu Dhabi. In a recent e-mail sent to the NYU [...]Archive
February 3, 2010 by cptwitter
