Conferences

Upcoming Conferences

Literacy for All
The Literacy for All Conference in Providence, RI is the Northeast region's leading PreK-8 Literacy Conference and Reading Recovery professional development event. Attend the Conference this November and learn from the leading literacy experts and notable children's authors, including Irene Fountas, Andrew Green, Linda Gambrell, Lester Laminack, Donalyn Miller, Karen Ruzzo, and more! This year’s new and dynamic program promises to be one of the best ever.
Hosted by Lesley University in collaboration with New York University, the University of Maine, and the University of Connecticut.

November 15 - 17, 2009

NYU Forum on Citizenship and Applied Theatre
The goal of this forum is to facilitate a dialogue on citizenship and applied theatre contexts through exploring the field of arts-based community engagement. The forum will also investigate the perceived boundaries and barriers for artist/educators committed to understanding the roles and responsibilities of citizens in both local and global communities.
April 23-25, 2010

Past Conferences

Neil Postman Graduate Conference
Annual graduate program conference sponsored by the NYU Steinhardt Department of media, Culture, and Communication.
October 30, 2009

For more information, please contact the Office of Academic Initiatives and Global Programs, 212-992-9380. 

French Horn Day
A daylong event for talented high school and college-age French Horn players. Activities include master classes, group ensemble playing and more.
Sunday, September 28, 2009

Double Reed Day
A daylong event for talented high school and college-age oboists and bassoonists.
Sunday, October 19, 2009

Integrated Marketing Communication for Behavioral Impact in Health and Social Development
The private sector experience over 100 years in successfully using IMC with consumer behavior (for products both awful and superb) points to an approach applicable to health and social development. The World Health Organization has successfully applied the IMC approach (referred to in WHO as COMBI - "Communication for Behavioural Impact") in dealing with a broad range of communicable diseases over the past 8 years.
July 5-25, 2009

KIPP School Leadership Program
The KIPP School Leadership Program looks for exceptional teachers and school leaders who have achieved dramatic results with their students and who want to build a school of excellence from the ground up. We seek individuals from all backgrounds who believe in KIPP's mission and who have the potential to excel as school leaders within our network.
June 23 - July 25, 2009

Music and the Moving Image (MaMI)
The fourth annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, creates a dialogue of scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, iPod, computer, video games, and interactive performances) through paper presentations and plenary sessions. This year two keynote addresses, Philip Tagg, Univ. of Montreal (Kojak: 50 Seconds of Television Music; Ten Little Title Tunes) and Caryl Flinn, Univ. of Arizona (Strains of Utopia; New German Cinema) will be presented. In addition, a screening of Peggy Stern's Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood with a discussion about animated films will be a featured part of the Saturday evening program. Streaming video versions of presentations will be available only at NYU.
May 29 - 31, 2009

The Future of Men
As male students decline in proportion in almost every field across US undergraduate and graduate/professional schools, little attention has been devoted to systematically exploring the causes of this trend—or, in an age in which education is vitally important, its implications for men’s roles in American society, culture, economics, and politics more generally. This breakfast discussion, involving a range of academics from NYU and elsewhere and practitioners, will help launch such a sustained investigation of these vital themes.
May 27, 2009

Theatre Pedagogy: Teaching the Art Form
NYU's Program in Educational Theatre has been a leader in investigating and engaging in the teaching of theatre for the past four decades. Currently, through our extensive curricular offerings (which range from undergraduate to doctoral programs of study), we, as practitioners, are constantly exploring new ways to reinvigorate our pedagogical approaches in order to keep them both vital and innovative.
April 23 - 26, 2009

AERA 2009 Annual Convention
Many NYU Steinhardt faculty will be presenting at this annual gathering of the American Educational Research Association. View a schedule of all AERA presenters from NYU Steinhart and learn about our special reception hosted by Dean Mary Brabeck.
April 13 - 17, 2009

Power and Authority in Groups and Organizations: Going Global
A three-day temporary experiential learning conference designed to help us understand the complexity of dynamics motivating our behavior in groups and organizations so that we may transform our organizations and ourselves by becoming "responsible reflective citizens of the world" (Tania Nahum, 2003).
April 3 - 5, 2009

WNET: 2009 Celebration of Teaching & Learning
What is the Celebration of Teaching & Learning? One prominent educator has dubbed it the “World’s Fair of Education.” It's the place where the best thinkers and practitioners come together to play a role in shaping the future of schools. From that perspective, then, the Celebration is where knowledge meets inspiration.
March 6-7, 2009

Doctoral Student Conference of the International Education Program
This student conference seeks to foster discussion and an open exchange of ideas on topics related to the ways in which educators, education systems, politicians, philanthropists, and students alike have responded to contemporary educational and societal demands.
March 5 and 6, 2009

Conference on Education, Media and Human Development
A Collaboration of NYU Steinhardt and The NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
65 presenters and over 150 attendees participated in the event which was the first major academic conference hosted by NYU Abu Dhabi.  The conference explored themes in four major areas: Teacher Education and Development, Education Assessment and Evaluation, Economics of Education, and Media and Civil Society.  The conference program included: paper presentations, panel discussions, site visits, planning sessions, a public roundtable discussion and performances of the NYU Jazz Orchestra.  
January 20 - 22, 2009

Preemptive Education: Language, Identity, and Power
Preemptive Education aims to examine the issues that affect today's youth, while providing creative and practical resources to address them. Using the power of spoken word poetry and hip-hop as the lens to explore language and privilege, participants will learn best practices in student-centered pedagogy from professionals in the fields of education, youth development, and spoken word & hip-hop. Combining performance, panel discussion, and professional development workshops, Preemptive Education will provide comprehensive opportunities for educators of all levels.

September 25 - 28, 2008

Acting Workshop: Character Study
The Acting Workshop: Character Study is geared towards the fundamental understanding of creating a character, and offers concrete tools and techniques for in depth character development.
July 28 - August 1, 2008

Speaking Out! : 6th National Aphasia Association Conference
Co-sponsored with the National Aphasia Association.
June 19-21, 2008

Frank Zappa Orchestral Laboratory
The premier, six-day intensive performance seminar for college-age performers (undergraduate and grauate/advnced degree students) will provide an in-depth examination of the music of Frank Zappa and Edgar Varese. Intesive peformance seminar for college-age perfomers.
June 8-14, 2008

Shakespeare Forum: Page, Stage, Engage
The 2008 Forum will bring artists, educators, and scholars together to discuss the implications of producing and teaching Shakespeare in the 21st century.
April 24 - 27, 2008

Families as Partners II: Challenges and Strategies
Town Hall Meeting and Conference
March 4 and 5, 2008

Arts Education - to what end?
In an era of standardized testing, shrinking budgets, and educational reforms that purport to keep teachers accountable and to leave no students behind, what is the role and place of arts education?
March 7 and 8, 2008

Doctoral Student Conference of the International Education Program
This student conference seeks to foster discussion and an open exchange of ideas on topics related to the ways in which educators, education systems, politicians, philanthropists, and students alike have responded to contemporary educational and societal demands.
March 13 and 14, 2008

Power & Authority in Groups and Organizations: Going Global
A three-day temporary experiential learning conference designed to help us understand the complexity of dynamics motivating our behavior in groups and organizations so that we may transform ourselves and our organizations by becoming "responsible reflective citizens of the world."
April 4 - 6, 2008

Association for Moral Education 2007 Conference
Civic Education, Moral Education, and Democracy in a Global Society

World events lead many of us to ask how we can be virtuous in a pluralistic global society. In our increasingly fractious and confrontational world, howare we to be loyal to our countries, our homelands, as citizens must, and moral as all humans across all countries should be? How do we remain loyal to our own democratic values and respectful of different ways of governing and living? Are there any moral principles that ought to guide deliberations of all people?
November 15 -17, 2007

Double Reed Day at NYU
A daylong event for talented high school and college-age oboists and bassoonists.
October 28, 2007

Italy and the Mediterranean Diet: Food Culture, Nutrition, and the Question of Quality
A Joint Conference of the Steinhardt Schoo at New York University and the James Beard Foundation. The Conference will explore the role quality, both real and imagined, plays in the nutritional and cultureal aspects of the Mediterranean Diet and how the message of quality is exported to and manipulated in America.
October 19-20, 2007

Culture, Investments, and Human Development
This conference will formally launch the new interdisciplinary research institute, the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at NYU Steinhardt. How do patterns of human development unfold in the context of rapidly changing social forces? Featured at the conference will be three world-renowned scholars (one economist, one sociologist, one psychologist), each paired with two in-house discussants from NYU departments.
October 5, 2007

Facilitative Leadership for Educators
3-day workshop for mentors, content coaches, regional supervisors, district coordinators, staff developers.
August 20 - August 22, 2007

The Poblano-New York City Connection:
Cultural Understanding for Professionals
NYU Steinhardt's Puebla initiative is aimed at providing educators in New York City public schools, as well as social workers, public health and nutrition professionals, and others serving the Poblano population in New York an opportunity to understand the Puebla-New York connection at its source. The program, designed by the Steinhardt Office of Special Programs and Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, will begin this summer with a visit to Puebla.
June 30 - July 6, 2007

Families as Partners: Viewed from Different Directions
Town Hall Meeting and Conference
With the implementation of the "Families as Partners" model by the NYC Early Intervention Program in 2006, professionals, practitioners, and parents have embarked on a new model of service implementation.
May 22 and 23 , 2007

Drama Across the Curriculum and Beyond
This forum will aim to investigate the infusion of drama in education and in community settings.
April 27 - 29, 2007

Response to Intervention: Conference and Town Hall Meeting
The Conference and Town Hall meeting will focus on an analysis of Response to Intervention as an alternative approach to identifying children with learning disabilities.
November 16, 2006

Facilitative Leadership for Educators - 2006
3-day workshop for mentors, content coaches, regional supervisors, district coordinators, staff developers.
August 23 - 25, 2006

Teaching Beyond the Test
Learner-centered Teaching of Literacy, Mathematics, and the Arts in an Age of Accountability
The workshop will explore ways to improve children’s academic competencies without “teaching to the test” and teaching in an Age of Accountability that relegates arts education and integrated learning to the margins.
June 26-June 30, 2006

The Mediterranean Diet: Fact & Fiction
Join us for a week in Florence at the spectacular La Pietra. Experts from various fields will explore and examine the myth of the Mediterranean Diet and its impact on Italian history, politics, economics, culture, health, and cuisine.
May 21 – 26, 2006

Town Hall Meeting: No Child Left Behind
Learn about NCLB and the law ’s implications for schools, teachers, parents, and children. We will discuss the law’s impact on: How children are educated, Children’s ability to succeed, High-stakes testing, Highly qualified teachers, School funding and accountability, Parental involvement.
April 4, 2006

Educating the Global City
Conference on Globalization, Education, Immigration, and the Changing Demographics of Global Cities In celebration of the opening of the Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings, IGEMS.
November 1, 2005

New Visions for Public Schools
A Conversation Among Small School Designers NSRF/New York Annual Meeting
October 29, 2005