| Campus News A Journey Through History, Art, and Cultural Heritage in DunhuangFor months, Sarah Brooker ’21 had immersed herself in the details of the 1,400 year old buddhas, apsaras, and frescoes of one of the nearly 500 buddha-filled Mogao Caves in the northwestern Chinese city of Dunhuang, a former oasis town on the ancient Silk Road. Then, in April, on a spring break trip to the caves with professors and classmates, Brooker was able not only to see “her” cave, Cave 57, but to present her research standing before the actual sculptures and paintings she had studied for so long. Read moreNYU Shanghai Senior Named 2019 Princeton in Asia FellowSafia Kariapper ’19 has been named a 2019 Princeton in Asia (PiA) Fellow and will serve as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructor at a university in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan starting September. Read moreNYU Shanghai Brings Home Trophies from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Sports TournamentOn April 20, three NYU Shanghai sports teams traveled to Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou to compete in the third annual XJTLU Cup, a multi-sport tournament bringing together teams from several Sino-foreign universities. NYU Shanghai teams in badminton, men’s basketball, and tennis participated in the two-day event, bringing home a win in the tennis final, second place in the men’s basketball final, and a sportsmanship award in badminton. Photo gallery
| Senior SpotlightHoney Lera ’19: Far from Home, with Home in MindSince the age of three, Lera has traveled far from home in pursuit of a better education. This fall, after four years at NYU Shanghai, she’ll be journeying even further, as she pursues graduate studies in cancer and tumor biology in the United States. Read more
| Quick Takes The NYU Shanghai Library won third place in the inaugural National Library Innovative Case Competition, which showcased innovative case studies from over 200 universities, research institutions, and public libraries around China.
The NYU Shanghai Library won for the five courses its staff designed for freshmen orientation in August 2018. The orientation courses introduced library resources and services to the students by incorporating creative and interactive learning activities, such as role-play, escape room, and flipped classroom. Read more >>
| Scene and Heard “Today I think we see Asia being defined in multiple arenas by institutions – international institutions….We see it defined by institutions of strategic studies, and in the media now not only by journalists, but by bloggers and social media. And I think that each of these ways of finding Asia reinforces a multiplicity rather than a unitary sort of vision of what Asia is.”
-- Harvard University Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies Sunil Amrith On May 6, Sunil Amrith joined NYU Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and of History Zachary Lockman, Harvard University Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Karen L. Thornber, and NYU Shanghai Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen in “Asia in a Global Age: A Conversation” to reframe what the study of Asia truly means. The four professors, whose areas of expertise span the breadth of the Asian continent, discussed how new transnational, transdisciplinary programs such as NYU Shanghai’s Center for Global Asia can generate scholarship that better reflects the global nature of Asia’s past and present identities, especially as seen from an Asian perspective. The group also agreed that such centers present unique solutions to problems faced by the humanities during an era that is simultaneously optimistic about global understanding and marked by increasing nationalism.
| | In the Media | | Photo of The Week “Splash” by Zong Jingtian ’19 Splash (2019) is a collage painting discussing language, cultural collision, and multi-lingual writing experience. Chinese ink splashes and yellow gouache patterns criss-cross the first 32 pages of a screenplay written by Zong.
Gallery 1250 will be displaying end-of-semester artworks by fourteen students from Professor Barbara Edelstein and Professor Zhang Jian-Jun’s Chinese Gardens in Art: Nature and Culture - Tradition to Contemporary class until May 15. | Featured EventsFriday, May 10 Piano Recital | Beyond Music - Relearn, Unlearn Nine students of pianist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Arts Chen Meiling will perform a piano repertoire from acclaimed composers Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, George Gershwin, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Auditorium / 16:00-17:00 Salon Chinois, Music Featuring Traditional Chinese Instruments “My Heart Will Go On” performed on the bamboo flute? Rodgers and Hammerstein on the erhu? Don’t miss out on these adaptations of western music to eastern instruments, as well as dozens of classics from the Sinosphere. Room 1505 / 18:00-20:00 Monday, May 6 to Wednesday, May 15 Art in Translation | Exhibition of the classes Chinese Gardens in Art: Nature and Culture-Tradition to Contemporary and the Introduction to Studio Art: Dunhuang-Then to Now All students, faculty, and staff are invited to Art in Translation — an exhibition of artworks from Professor Barbara Edelstein and Professor Zhang Jian-Jun’s Chinese Gardens in Art: Nature and Culture - Tradition to Contemporary and the Introduction to Studio Art: Dunhuang – Then to Now classes. Students will present contemporary experimental artworks in calligraphy, ink, and multimedia using traditional Chinese and other art methodologies. Room 1250 and 12F Hallways / 12:30 - 14:00 Sunday, May 12 Spring Dance Concert | Heroes The Ballet, Contemporary, Chinese Minority & Folk, and Choreography & Performance dance classes will show their final works. Guest musical performances by the NYUSH Chorale and piano students will also be featured. Room 1502-1504 / 17:00 - 18:30 Monday, May 13 End-of-Year-Concert, Featuring Music Faculty, NYU Orchestra, NYU Choirs performance Featuring all faculty of the music program, students from group voice, NYU Shanghai Orchestra and NYU Shanghai Choral, and three songs from the Yangjing Middle School Choir. This musical extravaganza will cover Baroque, Classical, Romantic to Contemporary pieces, feature composers from the East and West, and encompass classical music, musical theater, and pop. Auditorium / 19:30 - 21:30 Tuesday, May 14 Literary Reading Series | Forrest Gander with Sun Dong 2019 Pulitzer Prize for poetry winner Forrest Gander will read from his prize-winning collection of poems. Nanjing-based poet, translator, and editor Sun Dong will also read her work. The two poets will then engage in a conversation with each other and the audience. Room 1505 / 18:00 - 19:30 Friday, May 17 IMA & Visual Arts End-of-Semester Show It’s that time of year again! Come see this bi-annual show and exhibition showcasing a wide range of interactive projects and art by IMA and Visual Arts students. 8F / 18:00 - 20:00 For a complete listing of events on campus, please check the Events Calendar and look out for the weekly Events Newsletter in your inbox every Monday.
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