NYU Steinhardt News and Announcements http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/ Nominate Someone for the NYU Steinhardt Staff Award http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/2/14/Nominate_Someone_for_the_NYU_Steinhardt_Staff_Award Please take a moment to nominate a deserving code 104 or 106 employee for the NYU Steinhardt Staff Award for Excellence in Job Performance. This is an opportunity to recognize staff members that make outstanding contributions to your unit, the Scho[...] Please take a moment to nominate a deserving code 104 or 106 employee for the NYU Steinhardt Staff Award for Excellence in Job Performance. This is an opportunity to recognize staff members that make outstanding contributions to your unit, the School, and/or the University.

Click to Submit a Nomination

The nomination form lists criteria you should consider when making your nomination. All nominations should be submitted online or sent to Roger Ho, Director - Human Resources, 627 Broadway, 7th Floor or via e-mail to Roger.Ho@nyu.edu. The deadline for all nominations is Friday, March 9, 2012.

If you have any questions regarding this award, please call Roger Ho at 8-5082 or Rosa Lin at 8-5816.

Thank you for your support in this award process.

]]> 2012-02-14T10:03:54Z NYU Steinhardt Professor Benjamin Jacobs spotlighted by Teachers College http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/2/13/NYU_Steinhardt_Professor_Benjamin_Jacobs_spotlighted_by_Teachers_College Dr. Benjamin Jacobs, a professor of Education and Jewish Studies as well as Social Studies Education at NYU Steinhardt, was featured on the website of his alma mater, Teachers College at Columbia University.  The article outlines Jacobs' backgro[...] Dr. Benjamin Jacobs, a professor of Education and Jewish Studies as well as Social Studies Education at NYU Steinhardt, was featured on the website of his alma mater, Teachers College at Columbia University.  The article outlines Jacobs' background in education and academia and discusses the evolution of his research.  He is currently researching the idea of cosmopolitan Jewish education and the historical trends in the methodoliges of teaching Social Studies teachers.

]]> 2012-02-13T16:31:03Z Open Programs for 2012 http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/2/9/Open_Programs_for_2012 Although the deadline has passed for many of our master's and advanced certificate programs the following master's programs remain open on a space available basis. There is no new deadline so it's important that interested candidates submit an a[...] Although the deadline has passed for many of our master's and advanced certificate programs the following master's programs remain open on a space available basis.

There is no new deadline so it's important that interested candidates submit an application as soon as possible.

  • Art Education (AREI, AREP)
  • Art Therapy (ARTT)
  • Bilingual Education (BILM, BILC)
  • Business Education (BEHE)
  • Childhood Education (CHED)
  • Costume Studies (ARCS)
  • Counseling & Guidance (CNGU)
  • Counseling for Mental Health & Wellness (CHMW)
  • Dance Education (DATC, DAPR, DAPR-ABT)
  • Digital Media Design for Learning (DMDL)
  • Early Childhood Education (ECED)
  • Educational Leadership, Politics, and Advocacy (ELPA)
  • Educational Leadership: School Building Leader (ELSB)
  • Educational Leadership: School District Leader (ELSD)
  • Educational Theatre (EDTA, EDTC, ETSS, ETED)
  • Education & Jewish Studies (EDJS)
  • English Education (ENGL, ENGC)
  • Foreign Language Education including joint degrees and GSAS
  • History of Education (HSED)
  • Human Development & Soc Intervention (HDSI)
  • International Education - INTS
  • Literacy Education (LITB, LITC)
  • Mathematics Education (MTHE, MTHP)
  • Media, Culture, & Communication (MDCC)
  • Music: Instrumental Performance (MUIP)
  • Music Education (MUSA, MUSE)
  • Music Technology (MUMT)
  • Music Theory & Composition (MTAC)
  • Nutrition (HOND)
  • Performing Arts Administration (AADP)
  • Physical Therapy (MA - PTHP)
  • Physical Therapy (DPT for practicing PTs - PTPP)
  • Piano Performance (MUPP)
  • Science Education (CRISP - summer start)
  • Social Studies Education (SSST, SSSP)
  • Sociology of Education (SOED)
  • Special Education: Childhood (SECH and dual certification CSEC)
  • Special Education: Early Childhood (SEEC and dual certification ESEE)
  • Studio Art - Summer program (ARST)
  • Studio Art - Advanced Certificate (ARTC)
  • Visual Culture: Costume Studies (ARCS)
  • Vocal Performance (MUVP)
  • Vocal Pedagogy (MVPD)
  • Vocal Performance & Vocal Pedagogy - dual degree (MVPR)

 

NOTE:  We reserve the right to close off applications at anytime and without notice.

]]> 2012-02-09T17:40:40Z Role for Literature in the Social Network http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/2/8/Role_for_Literature_in_the_Social_Network Beginning February 13th, Social Media Week returns to NYC, and with it a whirlwind of activity that includes hundreds of lectures, forums, and networking events. NYU will host its own #smynyc panel on February 14th. The event, Literature Unbound: Rad[...] Beginning February 13th, Social Media Week returns to NYC, and with it a whirlwind of activity that includes hundreds of lectures, forums, and networking events. NYU will host its own #smynyc panel on February 14th. The event, Literature Unbound: Radical Strategies for Social Literature, will consider methods of creating and sharing text in the digital revolution. Stephen Duncombe, MCC Professor and the visionary behind Open Utopia, a web-based edition of Thomas More’s Utopia, will participate. Duncombe provides a preview of the conversation in this Q & A.

]]> 2012-02-08T21:25:57Z Three at MCC Named Humanities Fellows http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/2/6/Three_at_MCC_Named_Humanities_Fellows The Department is pleased to announce that three at MCC have won fellowships from the Humanities Initiative for the next academic year. The fellows were selected from university-wide pools of highly competitive faculty and doctoral applications, and [...] The Department is pleased to announce that three at MCC have won fellowships from the Humanities Initiative for the next academic year. The fellows were selected from university-wide pools of highly competitive faculty and doctoral applications, and "represent the cutting edge of humanistic inquiry."

Associate Professor Martin Scherzinger will be a Faculty Fellow, working on his book project, African Genealogies of European and American Experimental Music (1950-1980).  

Jamie Berthe will be a Graduate Student Fellow, working on her dissertation: An Art of Ambivalence: On Jean Rouch, African Cinema, and the Complexities of the (Post) Colonial Encounter.

Nadja Millner-Larsen will be a Graduate Student Fellow as well, working on her dissertation, All or Nothing: Anti-Representational Militancy and the 1960s Neo Avant-garde.

]]> 2012-02-06T21:20:40Z MCC Researcher Cites Benefits of Online Social Platforms http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/1/23/MCC_Research_Assistant_Professor_Cites_Benefits_of_Online_Social_Platforms Concerned parents might view online chat rooms and social media platforms as dangerous territory, but social media scholar and youth advocate danah boyd insists the data simply does not support this grim view. In a two-page profile published by the N[...] Concerned parents might view online chat rooms and social media platforms as dangerous territory, but social media scholar and youth advocate danah boyd insists the data simply does not support this grim view. In a two-page profile published by the New York Times, boyd tells the reporter that online sites can function as therapeutic channels for teenagers confronting dire problems off-line.

"Dr. Boyd's standard mode of research combines traditional quantitative work with deep ethnographic research --embedding herself in youth communities, whether it's middle-class Muslim gangs in Nashville or Ivy League aspirants who navigate social media with startling sophistication."

Continue reading the full profile here.

 

]]> 2012-01-23T11:59:22Z A Tone Deaf GOP? Why the Party Fails to Appeal to the Majority of Black Voters http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/1/17/A_Tone_Deaf_GOP_Why_the_Party_Fails_to_Appeal_to_the_Majority_of_Black_Voters Coinciding with Martin Luther King Day, National Public Radio's On Point hosted a conversation about African Americans and the GOP that featured MCC Associate Professor Charlton Mcllwain. On Point's Tom Ashbrook starts the segment by referring to a l[...] Coinciding with Martin Luther King Day, National Public Radio's On Point hosted a conversation about African Americans and the GOP that featured MCC Associate Professor Charlton Mcllwain. On Point's Tom Ashbrook starts the segment by referring to a long list of GOP remarks—from the racist newsletters published under Ron Paul's moniker (for eyebrow-raising quotes just follow @RP_Newsletter on Twitter) to Newt Gingrich's repeated claim that Obama is the "food stamp President" and Gingrich's recent offer to visit the NAACP for some straight-talk—that are often viewed as blatant slights to African American constituents.

Charlton suggests that the GOP's failure to woo black voters stems from the party's inability to articulate how it might give African Americans greater access to and influence with the federal government. Often weaving implicit appeals to racial stereotypes in stump speeches, especially when campaigning in southern states, the GOP is repeatedly seen as condescending to black voters, says Mcllwain. But even more damaging, Mcllwain claims, is that the central GOP platform—a small government,  free-market economy—holds few safeguards for the poor and working class African Americans. At best it ignores the needs of historically marginalized people and at worst it preys upon them, as witnessed with the lending practices that led to our recent financial meltdown.

Later, an African American woman caller from Mississippi argues that Republicans and Black voters are more aligned on matters than first meets the eye, especially when it comes to social issues. She says that in the "Bible Belt", the GOP's Christian message holds a lot of appeal for black voters like herself.

Listen to the conversation in its entirety here.

]]> 2012-01-17T13:44:19Z Education and Jewish Studies PhD Student Owen Gottlieb receives Covenant Foundation Signature Grant http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/1/17/Education_and_Jewish_Studies_PhD_Student_Owen_Gottlieb_receives_Covenant_Foundation_Signature_Grant Rabbi Owen Gottlieb's non-profit ConverJent has received a Covenant Foundation Signature Grant for the design and building of a digital mobile game/simulation to teach Jewish History.  ConverJent is dedicated to Games and Game Design f[...] Rabbi Owen Gottlieb's non-profit ConverJent has received a Covenant Foundation Signature Grant for the design and building of a digital mobile game/simulation to teach Jewish History.  ConverJent is dedicated to Games and Game Design for Jewish Learning.  ConverJent is a resident organization at Clal in Manhattan.

Gottlieb is in his second year of the PhD program in Education andJewish Studies and specializes in Digital Media and Games for Learning in Educational Communication and Technology.  His CCAR Journal article on Digital Media and Jewish Community  was recently ranked in the Top 10 Downloads for 2011 from the Berman Jewish Policy Archive.

]]> 2012-01-17T13:35:46Z Hope, Deferred http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/1/11/Wrong_about_Obama Recent NYU graduate and MCC honors program alumna Sara Haile-Mariam asks whether her generation miscalculated candidate Obama's ability to transform the presidency in the New York Times' Room for Debate. She writes: "President Obama must become the [...] Recent NYU graduate and MCC honors program alumna Sara Haile-Mariam asks whether her generation miscalculated candidate Obama's ability to transform the presidency in the New York Times' Room for Debate.

She writes: "President Obama must become the leader we’re nostalgic for, one who was candid in his convictions and enlisted us to disrupt the status quo even when faced with likely defeat. His consistent aversion to conflict—to vocal and passionate persistence—suggests that he’s abandoned what once made him different."

]]> 2012-01-11T11:39:38Z Announcing "Fortune's Hand: Short Stories & Other Works" by Steinhardt Alumna, G. Rice Washburn http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2012/1/9/Announcing_Fortunes_Hand_Short_Stories__Other_Works_by_Steinhardt_Alumna_G_Rice_Washburn From writer and Steinhardt 1981 alumna G. Rice Washburn has come Fortune's Hand, a collection of short stories published by Xlibris.  For years a multi-media artist and award-winning filmmaker, Gladys Rice Washburn began writing fiction while wo[...] From writer and Steinhardt 1981 alumna G. Rice Washburn has come Fortune's Hand, a collection of short stories published by Xlibris.  For years a multi-media artist and award-winning filmmaker, Gladys Rice Washburn began writing fiction while working toward a masters degree in English Education at New York University.  She later taught English at the City University of New York.  She is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Women.

Washburn has been a contributing writer to Hudson River Magazine and a reviewer for Film News Magazine.  The tales she weaves in Fortune's Hand speak of the joys and trials of life and a love of the natural world, and are often touched with whimsy and mystery. 

]]> 2012-01-09T16:29:01Z We've Moved to Lafayette Street! http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/22/Weve_Moved_to_Lafayette_Street The Department of Nutrition,Food Studies, and Public Health has moved to: 411 Lafayette Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10003 Tel: 212 998 5580   View Larger Map Come pay us a visit! The Department of Nutrition,Food Studies, and Public Health has moved to:

411 Lafayette Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212 998 5580

 


View Larger Map

Come pay us a visit!

]]> 2011-12-22T15:10:23Z Minimalism and African Music http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/19/Minimalism_and_African_Music MCC Associate Professor Martin Scherzinger specializes in the field of sound studies and music theory, with a particular interest in non-western music. Scherzinger recently presented a talk on the subject of minimalism and the musical and sonic pract[...] MCC Associate Professor Martin Scherzinger specializes in the field of sound studies and music theory, with a particular interest in non-western music.

Scherzinger recently presented a talk on the subject of minimalism and the musical and sonic practice of African music at the 2011 annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. His paper reflects on the distribution of African practices in minimalist music in a statistical sense; describes the local functions and contexts of the borrowed music (even if they are not demonstrably known by the composers); and diagnoses the ideological limits of the minimalist composers' formal re-arrangement of the music’s abstract elements set adrift from their African coordinates. His talk can be viewed in full here beginning at minute 90.

Elsewhere, Scherzinger contends that the perceptions Westerners have of rhythm and meter in general is more African than some of the West’s general theories on such perceptions would permit.

In a paper that describes and defines the geometric perspectives of temporal patterning in various musical genres found in southern Africa, such as in mbira music "Temporal Geometries of an African Music: A Preliminary Sketch" for the journal Music Theory Online, Scherzinger argues that construing certain Western theories of rhythm and meter as Eurocentric impositions risks dichotomizing African and European musical perceptions on false grounds. This construal simultaneously naturalizes these theories, as if they had already accurately captured the experience of Western music, and then opposes them to the experience of African music.

In contrast, Scherzinger suggests that a close formal analysis may contribute to an understanding of perceptions of meter and rhythm in general, that the analysis may inform the way Africans hear African music (or indeed the way Africans hear Western music or vice versa), and, above all, that it may contribute to an understanding of the way Westerners hear Western music. The aim is not so much to localize the reach of these ostensibly cognitive or universal theories (demonstrating their limited historical and geographical scope, for example), as it is to Africanize those theories that are cognitive or universal.

]]> 2011-12-19T17:11:54Z MCC Student Recognized for Commitment to Religious Unity http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/16/MCC_Sudent_Recognized_for_Her_Commitment_to_Unity The Washington Square News has released its annual list of “Most Influential Students” and MCC Junior Chelsea Garbell is one of fifteen exceptional students selected this year. As president of Bridges, a Muslim-Jewish Interfaith Dialogue[...] The Washington Square News has released its annual list of “Most Influential Students” and MCC Junior Chelsea Garbell is one of fifteen exceptional students selected this year.

As president of Bridges, a Muslim-Jewish Interfaith Dialogue club, Garbell's dedication to fostering a respectful understanding between the two religions has caught the attention of classmates and professors alike. Congrats Chelsea!

]]> 2011-12-16T16:38:08Z Use the 2011 Holiday Season Wisely http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/16/Use_the_Holiday_Season_Wisely The Office of Graduate Admissions has prepared some tips for using the Holiday Season wisely. Check out our tips page. The Office of Graduate Admissions has prepared some tips for using the Holiday Season wisely.

Check out our tips page.

]]> 2011-12-16T15:30:14Z 2011 Winter Break - NYU Closed http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/16/2011_Winter_Break__NYU_Closed New York University will be closed for the winter break beginning at 4:00 p.m. Friday, December 23.  The University will re-open on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. The Office of Graduate Admissions wishes everyone a safe and joyous holiday season. New York University will be closed for the winter break beginning at 4:00 p.m. Friday, December 23.  The University will re-open on Wednesday, January 4, 2012.

The Office of Graduate Admissions wishes everyone a safe and joyous holiday season.

]]> 2011-12-16T09:16:13Z Disability and Cybernetics http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/15/Disability_and_Cybernetics Science historian and MCC Assistant Professor Mara Mills has a paper published in the latest issue of Differences, a journal put out by Duke University Press. Mills' piece, "On Disability and Cybernetics: Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener, and the Hearing[...] Science historian and MCC Assistant Professor Mara Mills has a paper published in the latest issue of Differences, a journal put out by Duke University Press. Mills' piece, "On Disability and Cybernetics: Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener, and the Hearing Glove," surveys the long history of the hearing glove concept, arguing the significance of this and related speech technologies to the definitions of information, compression, and feedback in twentieth-century communication engineering.

]]> 2011-12-15T12:00:33Z MCC Professor Discusses "Hactivism" at Brookings Institute http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/12/MCC_Professor_Discusses_Hactivism_at_Brookings_Institute Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist and media scholar, took part in last week's "Hacktivism, Vigilantism and Collective Action in a Digital Age" panel in D.C. hosted by the Brookings Institute. Coleman sketches a compelling portrait of Anonymous, the m[...] Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist and media scholar, took part in last week's "Hacktivism, Vigilantism and Collective Action in a Digital Age" panel in D.C. hosted by the Brookings Institute. Coleman sketches a compelling portrait of Anonymous, the multi-faceted collective ("a cluster of ideas and ideals" as Coleman describes it) of internet hackers, pranksters, and human-rights activists who in recent years have made headlines for their particularly irreverent, often insidious, internet activism.

Listen to the complete Brookings Institute podcast here.

Watch the Washington Post's coverage of the panel and in-depth interview with Coleman here.

]]> 2011-12-12T12:29:09Z Reminder: DAA Submissions due 12/16! http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/8/Reminder_DAA_Submissions_due_12_16 Please submit your nominations for this year’s NYU Distinguished Administrator Award by Friday, December 16, 2011. Click here to review award criteria and submit a nomination. This award recognizes administrators (Code 100s) whose administra[...] Please submit your nominations for this year’s NYU Distinguished Administrator Award by Friday, December 16, 2011.

Click here to review award criteria and submit a nomination.

This award recognizes administrators (Code 100s) whose administrative and professional performance contributes to our excellence and sets an example for our entire community. A formal nomination must be completed in order for one of our administrators to be considered, so please take a moment to nominate a deserving Steinhardt administrator for this award.

You may also submit a nomination confidentially to Roger Ho, Director of Human Resources, 627 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10012. The deadline for both online and hard copy nomnations is Friday, December 16, 2011.

]]> 2011-12-08T12:55:09Z History of the Present http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/6/History_of_the_Present MCC Assistant Professor Ben Kafka announces a new issue of History of the Present, a journal of critical history published in print by University of Illinois Press and online by the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program. The theme of this issue is "Brain[...] MCC Assistant Professor Ben Kafka announces a new issue of History of the Present, a journal of critical history published in print by University of Illinois Press and online by the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program. The theme of this issue is "Brains."

Kafka, along with a handful of professors based at other universities, launched the scholarly journal this past summer. The aim of the publication is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in establishing categories of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural or culturally necessary; and to publish work that calls into question certainties about the relationship between past and present that are taken for granted by the majority of practicing historians.

]]> 2011-12-06T17:40:01Z Publication Release Party http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/6/Publication_Release_Party Last Sunday, in an unfurnished apartment on a nondescript block of the Bowery, friends and colleagues congregated for the release of a singular publication: a set of pamphlets containing lectures on contemporary French theory presented recently[...] Last Sunday, in an unfurnished apartment on a nondescript block of the Bowery, friends and colleagues congregated for the release of a singular publication: a set of pamphlets containing lectures on contemporary French theory presented recently by MCC Associate Professor Alexander Galloway at the Public School New York.

The hand-bound pieces include the text of the five lectures, transcriptions of the Q&A, as well as special responses and contributions from Nicola Masciandaro, Eugene Thacker, Dominic Pettman, Jackson Moore, Stephen Squibb, Prudence Whittlesey, Taeyoon Choi, and David Horvitz.

Sarah Resnick, Kamomi Solidum, Anne Callahan and others at the Public School New York designed and printed 150 copies of the pamphlets, using a Risograph GR 3750 color printer.

 

]]> 2011-12-06T14:35:59Z GOP Credibility and Black Voters http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/5/GOP_Credibility_with_Black_Voters While some in the Republican party have courted black voters in earnest for several decades, the GOP has never captured more than 12 percent of the African American vote. In today's Christian Science Monitor, MCC Associate Professor Charlton Mcllwain[...] While some in the Republican party have courted black voters in earnest for several decades, the GOP has never captured more than 12 percent of the African American vote. In today's Christian Science Monitor, MCC Associate Professor Charlton Mcllwain articulates reasons for why this number hasn't grown and why advancing candidates like Herman Cain isn't enough.

Read Mcllwain's full opinion piece.

]]> 2011-12-05T17:38:43Z PhD and EdD Deadline Extended to December 15 http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/12/1/PhD_and_EdD_Deadline_Extended_to_December_15 NYU Steinhardt Graduate Admissions is fully aware of the current technical difficulties with uploading certain documents in the online application system.  We are in constant contact with our application vendor Embark to get these issues reso[...] NYU Steinhardt Graduate Admissions is fully aware of the current technical difficulties with uploading certain documents in the online application system.  We are in constant contact with our application vendor Embark to get these issues resolved as soon as possible.

Due to these difficulties and to conflicting information about the PhD/EdD deadline, we are extending the deadline to December 15, 2011 for fall 2012 applications.  Please note this deadline extension is only granted to PhD and EdD applicants.  DPT applicants must still submit by December 1, 2011.

Updates from Embark can be found on their help page at http://embarksupport.zendesk.com/home  Please check this site for the latest regarding the application system.

We understand that certain PDF files still cannot be uploaded, and that upload times can range from 4 to 10 minutes.  If you receive error messages, you may want to try to upload alternative file types such as .doc, .jpg or .tif.

If you continue to experience these technical difficulties as another alternative you can feel free to send in your materials by mail to us.  In the online application system you are required to submit something for the “Statement of Purpose” and “Resume” sections.  If mailing items to the office, you should type “Documents mailed to Graduate Admissions” in the text entry field before submitting your application.  Then you should mail your items with a Document Cover Sheet to Graduate Admissions.

]]> 2011-12-01T12:52:20Z MCC Sophomore Advocates Sane Policies, Dialogue http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/11/29/MCC_Sophomore_Advocates_Sane_Policies_Dialogue NYU Local features an in-depth profile on MCC student and peer advisor, Alec Foster, who is revitalizing the NYU chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Read about Foster's motivations here. NYU Local features an in-depth profile on MCC student and peer advisor, Alec Foster, who is revitalizing the NYU chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Read about Foster's motivations here.

]]> 2011-11-29T12:57:32Z Communization and its Discontents http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/11/24/Communization_and_its_Discontents This new publication includes the essay "Black Box, Black Bloc" by MCC Associate Professor Alexander Galloway. ‘Communization’ is the spectre of the immediate struggle to abolish capitalism and the state, which haunts Europe, Northern Ca[...] This new publication includes the essay "Black Box, Black Bloc" by MCC Associate Professor Alexander Galloway.

‘Communization’ is the spectre of the immediate struggle to abolish capitalism and the state, which haunts Europe, Northern California and wherever the real abstractions of value that shape our lives are contested. Evolving on the terrain of capitalism new practices of the ‘human strike’, autonomous communes, occupation and insurrection have attacked the alienations of our times. These signs of resistance are scattered and have yet to coalesce, and their future is deliberately precarious and insecure.

Bringing together voices from inside and outside of these currents Communization and Its Discontents treats communization as a problem to be explored rather than a solution.

]]> 2011-11-24T13:23:42Z 2011 Thanksgiving Holiday - NYU Closed http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/11/23/2011_Thanksgiving_Holiday__NYU_Closed NYU offices including the Graduate Admissions Office will be closed at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 23 and will reopen on Monday, November 28. Check out some of the familiar and not-so-familiar ways students like to spend the holiday... NYU offices including the Graduate Admissions Office will be closed at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 23 and will reopen on Monday, November 28.

Check out some of the familiar and not-so-familiar ways students like to spend the holiday...

]]> 2011-11-23T12:33:23Z Global Education Transforms NYU http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/11/19/Global_Education_Rapidly_on_the_Rise_at_NYU New York University is one of the top American universities in both attracting international students and in sending students abroad, according to a new study by the Institute of International Education. Recognizing the critical advantage global exp[...] New York University is one of the top American universities in both attracting international students and in sending students abroad, according to a new study by the Institute of International Education.

Recognizing the critical advantage global experience provides, MCC has made such programs a centerpiece of its offerings. With its new Global Media Scholars Program, the Department has constructed a new paradigm for university-run study abroad programs.

“NYU is very proud of these findings,” said NYU President John Sexton. “In my three decades at NYU, I have seen our efforts at global educational grow from something quite modest to something far-reaching, pace-setting, and extraordinary....we have leapt forward to create a global network that includes comprehensive liberal arts and science research university campuses around the world, a wide – and growing – range of study abroad programs in which some 50 percent of our students now participate, the greatest number of any U.S. university.

“But this achievement is more than just the successful outcome of our efforts and planning to create an academic environment appropriate for the 21st century; it is also a representation of what is happening in higher education globally.  Talent is found around the world, and to ever greater degrees it flows around the world’" 

NYU has 11 Global Academic Centers and, since 2006, has opened new study-away sites or established partnerships with institutions in Singapore and Tel Aviv. It is developing global academic sites in Washington, DC and Sydney. In August 2010, NYU opened a campus in Abu Dhabi and, in 2013, will open a campus in Shanghai.

]]> 2011-11-19T11:30:12Z Gitelman Featured in Latest Issue of American Literary History http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/11/16/Gitelman_featured_in_latest_issue_of_ALH_ The winter 2011 issue of the journal American Literary History includes an article by MCC professor Lisa Gitelman. With the piece "Something New," Gitelman offers reasons for why the digital humanities is an all but absent topic in the scholarship of[...] The winter 2011 issue of the journal American Literary History includes an article by MCC professor Lisa Gitelman. With the piece "Something New," Gitelman offers reasons for why the digital humanities is an all but absent topic in the scholarship of American Literary History, i.e., "what might account for the missing digital in the ALH tag cloud."

]]> 2011-11-16T10:55:52Z New Book by Nicholas Mirzoeff http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/11/15/New_Book_by_Nicholas_Mirzoeff MCC Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff's new book, The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality, has just been released by Duke University Press. In the work, Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the field tha[...] MCC Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff's new book, The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality, has just been released by Duke University Press. In the work, Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the field that he helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and countervisuality, or “the right to look,” he explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the association natural.

An early-nineteenth-century concept, meaning the visualization of history, visuality has been central to the legitimization of Western hegemony. Mirzoeff identifies three “complexes of visuality”—plantation slavery, imperialism, and the present-day military-industrial complex—and explains how, within each, power is made to seem self-evident through techniques of classification, separation, and aestheticization. At the same time, he shows how each complex of visuality has been countered—by the enslaved, the colonized, and opponents of war, all of whom assert autonomy from authority by claiming the right to look.

]]> 2011-11-15T18:16:29Z Announcing Steinhardt IT Services http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/11/10/Announcing_Steinhardt_IT_Services We are pleased to announce an exciting new resource for Steinhardt employees. Beginning today, you may email steinhardt.it@nyu.edu for any IT related question, concern, or issue. These email requests will be routed through a ticketing syste[...] We are pleased to announce an exciting new resource for Steinhardt employees. Beginning today, you may email steinhardt.it@nyu.edu for any IT related question, concern, or issue. These email requests will be routed through a ticketing system and assigned to an appropriate Steinhardt IT Support member.

Requests from departments for whom we contract with NYU ITS will be routed directly to ITS and Steinhardt IT will follow up on your behalf.

Using this new resource will benefit everyone in the following ways:

  • Faculty, staff, and administrators now have clear, open communication and status updates via email throughout the life of the request
  • IT Personnel can now collaborate and share knowledge in a community of their peers to more rapidly resolve issues
  • IT Administrators and managers can use the historical data to make more informed training and purchase decisions for the future.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Ben Vien, ben.vien@nyu.edu or Jeffrey Lane, jeffrey.lane@nyu.edu

November 9, 2011

]]> 2011-11-10T12:25:29Z Imagining Emergency http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2011/11/9/Imagining_Emergency How do major US newsmagazines imagine emergencies? A new publication by MCC PhD student Jen Telesca explores widely circulated visual narratives that, in sum, are patterned in ways that express a vision of what constitutes a humanitarian emergency. [...] How do major US newsmagazines imagine emergencies? A new publication by MCC PhD student Jen Telesca explores widely circulated visual narratives that, in sum, are patterned in ways that express a vision of what constitutes a humanitarian emergency.

Published by NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge, a digital version of the piece is also available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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