NYUAD Institute
Episodes
Not Without Qualms - Shakespeare, Digitization, And Critical Making
10 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.10.07 The digitization of early modern England’s print culture has reignited the quest to locate Shakespeare's missing presence. Scholars once...
People Of Ras Al Khaimah- Migration And Belonging
10 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.10.09 Ras Al Khaimah is an emirate of superheroes: captains who survived shipwrecks, shipbuilders who survived lightning strikes, honey collecto...
From Child Soldier To NY Times Best - Selling Author
10 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.10.23 Ishmael Beah was recruited as a child soldier to fight in the Sierra Leone Civil War when he was thirteen years old. This talk explores ho...
A Career In Public Service From President Carter To President Obama
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
11.04.2019 A Career In Public Service From President Carter To President Obama During a decade and a half of public service in four U.S. administrat...
Building Oil Pasts And Futures- The Norwegian Petroleum Museum
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
15.04.2019 Building Oil Pasts And Futures- The Norwegian Petroleum Museum Norway struck oil in 1969 with the discovery of the giant Ekofisk oil fiel...
Seeing The World How US Universities Make Knowledge In A Global Era
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
01.05.2019 Seeing The World How US Universities Make Knowledge In A Global Era U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan p...
Optical Tweezers Shedding Light On Life’s Molecules, One At A Time
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
08.04.2019 Optical Tweezers Shedding Light On Life’s Molecules, One At A Time Recent advances have led to the new field of single molecule biophys...
Gender And Globalization In Contemporary Visual Art
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
10.04.2019 Gender And Globalization In Contemporary Visual Art This program features the work of renowned feminist visual artist Shahzia Sikander. A...
Building Oil Pasts And Futures- The Norwegian Petroleum Museum
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
15.04.2019 Building Oil Pasts And Futures- The Norwegian Petroleum Museum Norway struck oil in 1969 with the discovery of the giant Ekofisk oil fiel...
Making Sense Of A Changing World: Poetry And Music In Contexts Of Political Instability
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
24.04.2019 Making Sense Of A Changing World: Poetry And Music In Contexts Of Political Instability Professor Kelly Askew, a renown anthropologist an...
Eating Animals
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
29.04.03 Eating Animals How much do people know about the food that's on their plates? Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and nar...
Are We The Same Or Different: Ethnicity And Personality In The Human Face
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.04.01 Are We The Same Or Different: Ethnicity And Personality In The Human Face? As a social species, humans are drawn naturally to differentia...
Making & Remaking Our Home(land) - Loss, Resilience, And An Alternative Future For Syria
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.03.25 Will Syrians ever find home again or are we destined to forever settle in the plight of resettlement? Must we finally let go of home in or...
Virtues Of Self Knowledge
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
March 12, 2019 Inspired by the celebrated aphorism, “Know Thyself!”, which was inscribed on the forecourt at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, Socr...
New Voices From The Street: Historians Of The 18th - Century Levant
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
03.04.2019 The presentation exposes and explains a literary and social phenomenon when regular people from all walks of life took up the pen and wrot...
The Self Discovered, Or Made
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
03.06.2019 Who are you?—Even a cursory take on this potent question reveals an important truth: your metaphysical commitments matter. What you take...
Ancient Egypt And Social Inclusion - How To Create A Sustainable Cultural Landscape
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.02.21 The primary duty of a museum is to preserve heritage features of outstanding universal value for future generations. Preserving implies st...
Glorious Failure- How To Bring A New Drug To The Market
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.02.24 Drugs that address an unmet medical need have an enormous positive impact on society: introducing antibiotics and vaccines to common use i...
Who Are we? What Can Genetics Tell Us About Identity?
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.02.19 What can the mapping of the human genome tell us about who we are? The twentieth century ended with the consensus in the social sciences a...
The Taming Of The Plants
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Taming Of The Plants 2019.02.04 Domestication is a co-evolutionary process that occurs when wild plants are brought into cultivation by humans st...
Feeling Smart - Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think 2019.02.06 Feeling Smart (Perseus Books Group, 2015) deals with the relationship between our emotio...
Abu Dhabi And The City Of The Future
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Abu Dhabi And The City Of The Future 2019.02.11 Photographer Andrew Moore presents his images of Abu Dhabi in the context of other cities around the...
Islands Of Heritage Conservation And Transformation In Soqotra
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Islands Of Heritage Conservation And Transformation In Soqotra 2019.02.13 Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen’s Soqotra Archipelago, is one of t...
SocioEconomic Challenges Public Policy In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
SocioEconomic Challenges Public Policy In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence 2019.02.17 The artificial intelligence/data revolution will affect our l...
Quantum Mechanics And The Nature Of Spacetime
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.01.30 The understanding of the universe has taken great leaps in the early 20th century due to the discovery of general relativity and quantum m...
The Submerged World Of The Arabian Gulf
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.01.29 The seabed around the world has proven to be an archaeological treasure trove, consistently yielding items that are rewriting history book...
Gender Differences In ‘Volunteering’ For Non - Promotable Tasks
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.01.24 Women more than men spend time on tasks that are unlikely to affect their evaluation and career advancement (writing a report, serving on ...
Genomics Based Healthcare A New Reality
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.01.23 As the era of precision medicine is upon us and more patients are having genetic sequencing performed, we need to be able to utilize this ...
Now Africa! Contemporary African Women Playwrights
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2018.12.09 African women playwrights are creating some of the most vivid theatricalities, dialogues, poignant characterizations and situations, and p...
Walking In The Steps Of Poets Courtly Themes In Early Sufism
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2018.12.11 It is common practice in modern times to read mystical poetry and apply it to our mundane lives and loves. Sufis in the early period did t...
Cosmology Today Methods, Achievements, And Limits
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.01.15 Scientific cosmology is based on an intricate interplay between theory and observation. There has been an extraordinary flood of data enab...
Education Equity - Leading The Inclusion Revolution
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.01.15 Building an inclusive society where all children learn together and participate equitably hinges on providing inclusion for all. Join us t...
How To Tame A Fox And Build A Dog
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019.01.21 For the last six decades, a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia has been domesticating silver foxes to replay the evolution of the do...
US Tariff And Trade Policies - Then And Now
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2018.12.05 What forces and interests have determined the US government's trade and tariff policies since 1776? What outcomes did those forces and int...
What Are The Limits Of Musical Expression And Who Says So
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.11.27 Most concerts feature program notes, giving an audience some kind of “back story” about the works to be performed. The assumption is t...
A Personal Odyssey- In Pursuit Of Arab Higher Education
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.11.20 David Wheeler, the editor of Al-Fanar Media, a five-year-old digital publication that began with a focus on Arab universities, reflects on...
Sheikh Zayed & UAE Natural And Cultural Heritage
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.11.19 The late Sheikh Zayed is well-known for his interest in, and support for, the natural and cultural heritage of the UAE. This talk examines...
How To Walk On Water And Climb Up Walls
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.11.11 Insects walk on water, snakes slither and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed and versatility, but how do they do it and ...
Reformed To Death- The Strange End Of The Soviet Union
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.11.07 This lecture examines economic, political, ideological, and international causes of the Soviet collapse, as well as the role of political ...
Story Behind The UAEs First Multi - Organ Transplant Program
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.10.24 Today, families in the UAE wait in hope that a life-saving organ may be donated to a critically ill loved on. In 2018, Cleveland Clinic Ab...
Many Stories To Tell - Science And Archaeology At Saruq Al - Hadid In Dubai
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.10.22 Saruq al-Hadid, located deep in the desert in southern Dubai, is one of Arabia’s richest and most enigmatic archaeological sites. During...
Life In Stone Age In Abu Dhabi
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.09.19 Archaeological discoveries from an ancient village on Marawah Island located in Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra region reveal the presence of a soph...
The Rahma Run
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.09.17 This documentary covers the story of the young Emirati, Dr. Khaled Al-Suwaidi, who, on February 3, 2018, ran a 327-kilometer, 80-hour ultr...
Artistic Mathematics Truth And Beauty
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.09.24 This talk focuses on work in mathematical visualization: making accurate, effective, and beautiful pictures, models, and experiences of ma...
Rowing The Atlantic Achieving The Extraordinary
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.09.26 One very big ocean. One very small boat. Four very determined women. This is the story of four very different personalities who decided to ...
Battling Cancer - Texaphyrins As Drug Candidates
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.09.30 This talk presents a personal story of a three-time cancer survivor and how people have tried to fight back against cancer by studying the...
Nobody To Leader - Achieving Global Leadership With Software
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.10.02 Most of the software we use today comes from one part of the world. Is that a necessary reality or something we can challenge? In this tal...
Cultural Spaces- A Conversation With H.E. Noura Al - Kaabi
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.10.09 The UAE has embarked on a number of ambitious initiatives to create a vibrant cultural scene. Through commissioned art projects, education...
The Art Science Of Philantrophic Endeavors
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.10.14 The talk explores the concept of philanthropy in the region, identifies recent trends that have changed the philanthropic landscape, and p...
A Roadmap To The Future- A Conversation With H.E Omar Al Olama
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.10.15 In October 2017, the UAE has released the first national Artificial intelligence (AI) strategy recognized as the first strategy of this ca...
Celebrating The 10th Year Anniversary Of The Institute
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.10.07 Distinguished and award-winning novelist, Elias Khoury, discusses his work and the Arab novel in general as it has developed over the last...
Genetics Anthropology: An Exploration of Diverse and New World African Populations
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
March 12, 2018 Part of "Evolution Across Disciplines" African human genomic diversity is highly understudied and this also true for African-descende...
Beyond Open Access: Activating the Potential of Public Knowledge
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
April 16, 2018 What is a citizen scholar? What kind of scholarly research captures the attention of the general public and how can we optimize public...
Science and Knowledge Economy: Ireland as a Model for UAE
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
April 9, 2018 In the 1970’s Ireland was a poor agricultural society with one of the lowest standards of living in Northern Europe. By 1985 per capi...
Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
March 27, 2018 The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 percent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World...
Gender and STEM: Insights from the Arab World
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
April 30, 2018 Gender diversity in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is a global challenge in this rapidly growing industry. Experts s...
Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
March 7, 2018 Enslaved Africans and their descendants contributed in vital ways to the economy and culture of eastern Arabia. Global economic forces,...
Lifescapes Beyond Bigness: The UAE’s exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
April 11, 2018 The National Pavilion UAE’s architecture exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale explores human-scale architectural landscapes a...
Planets, Stars, Gravitational Waves, and the Formation of Galaxies
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
March 25, 2018 Over the past few years, the science from the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope has ranged from discovering complex organic molecules in ...
Deploying Race to Silent Dissent: : How Arab Americans were Racialized as Terror Threats
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
April 1, 2018 This talk addresses how the racialization of Arab Americans differed in timing from that of other racialized groups in the US, even tho...
Elementary My Dear Watson! Disruptive Innovation and the Future of Legal Work
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
April 23, 2018 This talk examines why the large-scale forces that have already transformed the global economy – globalization and the shift in econ...
Empowerment on Trial: Encountering Emirati Women’s Voices
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
March 29, 2018 For a long time, Emirati women were mainly associated with the concealed space of the domestic household and considered as the guardia...
Extreme Poverty in the Modern World: Measurement and Global Trends
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
March 5, 2018 The elimination of extreme poverty has been recognized as a global goal. Extreme Poverty was defined in the 1990s by the World Bank i...
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler "1929-1941"
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018.03.22 In 1941, the largest, bloodiest war ever broke out between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Worldwide, some 55 million people were kille...
How Did Our Solar System Form
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sunday, January 28, 2018 In the last 15 years, people’s understanding of how the Solar System evolved into what we observe today has greatly expand...
A World Without Parasitic Worms - Why, When And How
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
January 4, 2018 Billions of people, and billions of their animals, still harbor infections with various types of parasitic worms (helminths). These i...
From Differential Equations To Data Science And Back
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
January 15, 2018 The arrival of massive amounts of data from imaging, sensors, computation and the internet brought with it significant challenges fo...
Are Five Husbands Better Than One
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
January 9, 2018 Until very recently, fraternal polyandry was the traditional marriage form observed by ethnic Tibetan people of many high Himalayan v...
On the First Arabic Novella from the 11th Century:: The Doctors' Dinner Party by Ibn Butlan
31 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
12/12/2017 his talk showcases a little-known gem of medieval Arabic creative literature, the Da`wat al-Aṭibbā’ or Doctors' Dinner Party by Ibn B...
Crypto Wars: From Ceasar to Quantum Powers and Smart Cities
31 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
11/26/2017 People live in an era of smart cities empowered by Autonomous systems, FinTech technologies, Quantum computations and Artificial Intellige...
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
31 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
12/07/2017 A machine plays the strategy game ‘Go’ better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ...
Sleep Less Smile More: Interplay Between Sleep and Mood Disorders
28 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
11/15/2017 Most people have experienced the close links between their body rhythms and mood. For example, changes in sleep-wake cycle during jet lag c...
The Evolution Of Date Palms
28 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
11/19/2017 Date palms are the most significant food crop in the Middle East and North Africa and are one of the few crop species that thrive in hot a...
The Everyday Lives Of Muslim American Teenage Boys
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/30/2017 Based on his new book, Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys (Princeton University Press, 2017), sociologis...
Maysson Zayed Laughing At Life
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
09/12/2017 Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid tells a humorous tale of beating the odds and laughing in the ...
SESAME: A Source of Light in the Middle East
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/23/2017 In everyday life individuals learn by ‘seeing’ things using light; the same is true in science. The extraordinary power of synchrotron...
A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/3/2017 This lecture underlines the special character of nuclear weapons and discusses the desirability and the feasibility of a nuclear-weapon-fre...
“Behind the Lynchings:” Uncovering Racial Violence in the U.S. South, 1930-1954
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
11/6/2017 Racial violence, perpetrated by law enforcement or private citizens, has re-emerged as a potent social and political issue in the United St...
The Human Journey
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/16/2017 Anthropologist, geneticist, author, and entrepreneur Spencer Wells discusses his work using genetics to track human movement patterns arou...
Do You Trust Your Chip
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/18/2017 Ubiquity of electronic devices—mostly smart ones with electronic chips embedded in them—is attributed to the desire to improve the qua...
Dokha as An Emerging Epidemic: What Can We Learn from Global Tobacco Control?
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
11/5/2017 Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, on trajectory to cause 1 billion deaths this century. A particularly alarming trend ...
Maysson Zayed Laughing At Life
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.09.12 Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid tells a humorous tale of beating the odds and laughing in the...
Robert Swan: Leadership on the Edge
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
October 1, 2017 Presented by Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program, Robert Swan, OBE, one of the world’s greatest explorers, is the first person in...
The Nature of the Law in the UAE: Is the UAE a Civil Law Jurisdiction?
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 26, 2017 Legal practitioners often describe the United Arab Emirates as a "civil law" jurisdiction. But is that description accurate? The U...
Peaceland : Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 13, 2017 This lecture suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions so often fail to reach their full potential. Bas...
A Conversation in Memory of Hilary Ballon: The founding of NYU Abu Dhabi
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
October 8, 2017 In 2007 an agreement was reached between the leadership of New York University and the government of Abu Dhabi to create a cutting ed...
Islam and Evolution: Was Darwin Right and Why Should Muslims Care?
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 17, 2017 In this public lecture, Abouheif will address a number of controversial questions and explore if an understanding or appreciation ...
What On Earth Are Animals Saying?
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 19, 2017 Award winning author and journalist, Charles Siebert, talks of his many experiences visiting with, and writing about, non-human an...
Trump, Twitter, Circulation American Politics As Global Entertainment
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.09.11 The global circulation of Donald Trump’s political rhetoric during the presidential campaign of 2015-16 produced international dismay, ...
Exit West: A Conversation with Novelist Mohsin Hamid
17 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 5, 2017 Internationally acclaimed novelist Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt, 2007) and How to Get Filthy Rich...
Expressive Communication Technologies for People with ALS
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
April 20, 2017 ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a degenerative neuromuscular disease; people with late-stage ALS typically retain cognitive fun...
Histories of Imagining Urban Futures in Central Africa
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
April 25, 2017 Starting from ‘The Tower. A Concrete Utopia’ (2015), a video-installation made by Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji and Belgian ...
Religion or Science How Early Muslim Thinkers Understood the Hidden Worlds
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
May 1, 2017 The premodern Muslim thinkers who undertook the task of surveying the entirety of the human experience attempted to account for not only ...
Research Using a Little Fish for Solving Big Health Problems
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
May 3, 2017 Diabetes. Obesity. Cancer. Chronic diseases are taking their toll on the world’s population, and their threat is rising. The instinct t...
Narrating Palestine: A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi and Ismail Khalidi
25 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
April 27, 2017 How can Palestinians most effectively represent their past and present to Western and Arab audiences? This event brings the scholar Ra...
The Xtransients Extreme Phenomena In The High Energy Universe
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.12 What are the most luminous explosions in space? What objects possess the strongest magnetic fields in nature?How can we hear the sirens of...
Are Animal Rights Islamic
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.09 In recent years, worldwide attention to the protection of animals has risen dramatically. Unlike the global movement for human rights, the...
What Might It Mean For Security To Be Sustainable
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.03 This lecture is the keynote address for ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2017 People talk about wha...
Letters To A Young Muslim
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.03.09 In a series of personal letters to his son, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global...
What On Earth Is A Citizen Of The World
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.11 In the 4th century BCE, Diogenes of Sinope claimed that the whole world was his hometown. Since then, that idea has influenced hundreds ...