October 15th marks NYU Shanghai's third anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, a plaque (above) telling the story of the founding of NYU Shanghai will be placed this weekend in the main entrance of the Academic Building at the Pudong campus.

October 12-13, 2015 - NYU Shanghai successfully organized the 262th Eastern Forum of Science and Technology, jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The influential  forum agreed that understanding human intelligence and emulating it with machines are a great challenge for the 21st century. (more)

October 13, 2015 - The NYU Shanghai Art Gallery’s film program, Making Waves with Moving Images, held its first screening. Its curator, Qian Lin, introduced the program - a collaboration between NYU's Asian Film & Media Initiative and NYU Shanghai Art Gallery - and its first screening of DV China by acclaimed filmmaker Zheng Dasheng 郑大圣. The documentary tells the story of the making of a TV drama by a group of villagers in the rural area of Jiangxi province, led by Mr. Chou, the director of the local cultural center. With his crew, and eventually the whole village, they write, cast, shoot and edit their own homemade movie.  After the screening, Zheng Dasheng, along with Profs. Zhen Zhang and Angela Zito discussed the documentary. Zheng confided that the most difficult part of creating a documentary, is capturing the rawness of the moment because, once the camera is rolling, real people put up façades. 

Shanghai Colloquium in Neuroeconomics: “If I Can See So Much, Why Do I Miss So Much?”

October 15, 2015-- To kick off this academic year's Shanghai Colloquium in Neuroeconomics, Jeremy M. Wolfe, Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School presented “If I Can See So Much, Why Do I Miss So Much?”

大学教授的双重生活
The Double Life of a University Professor

China's Xiaomi's Is Changing the U.S. Too 

October 15, 2015 - In a CNN.org opinion piece, Clay Shirky discusses how Xiaomi, the subject of his new book, Little Rice, has emerged as the most important global phone manufacturer and the impact it is having on the future of smartphones worldwide. (more)

Xinhua Viewpoint:
Republic of Peers - Motherland and I Grow

CNC TV interviewed Chancellor Yu Lizhong as part of a series, Republic of Peers, Motherland and I Grow, capturing the recollections of "peers" born 66 years ago at the same time the People's Republic of China was established. Yu's interview starts at 11'31. "(more)

Barbara Edelstein's “Leaf in The Air” Exhibition Earns Praise 

In a review in the upcoming November 2015 issue of Sculpture Magazine, art critic Jonathan Goodman asserts that "perhaps [Barbara] Edelstein's work presents the natural world as it has been and as we would like it to be again.”

Beauty of Math in a Messy World

Clay Shirky on Xiaomi

China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
Kenneth Jarrett, President, Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce
Introduction by Prof. Pierre Landry 
 

17:30 - 19:30 ~ AB Room 101      (more)

Chinese Idyll of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Heiferman
Introduction by Prof. Pierre Landry 

17:30 - 18:30 ~ AB Room 102

Managing 'China's Rise': Lessons from Past Southeast Asia-China Relations
Anthony Reid
Introduction by Prof. Tansen Sen

17:30 - 18:30 ~ AB Room 101

Fall Entrepreneurship Speaker Series #3
Doug Han, Meet Boutique Hotels, Founder & CEO
Paul Howe, Oxbridge Capital, Partner

17:00 - 19:00 ~ AB Room 101

Looking for an internship?  If you haven't yet, plan on attending next week's company sessions on October 23rd, between 14:00 and 15:00, at the 2F Cafe ... It's a great opportunity to talk to industry experts ... Want to help jumpstart the Halloween weekend? The NYU Shanghai Events Committee is looking for Volunteers to make the carnival happen. So, sign up here before October 19 Monday" ... 

Invitation in the Mail! Qin Feng Solo Opening October 25th