ActiveCultures · @ActiveCultures
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As Emirati artist, filmmaker and poet Nujoom AlGhanem speaks about the beginnings of performance art in the UAE, she talks about how Hassan Sharif was inspired by the book Performance: Live Art Since 1960 by (NYU faculty and) Performa curator RoseLee Goldberg.

At : Performance Practice and Research, Here.

#421.online x x

#culture #uae #arts #performancehistory #nyuabudhabi #alserkalartsfoundation #steppingforward

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DMM Journal · @DMM_Journal
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Celebrate tomorrow with this brand new Editorial from Editorial Board member Prof Kirsten Sadler
from discussing the shifting scientific culture & remaining barriers in science

👩🏼‍🔬journals.biologists.com/dmm/ar

#internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience #nyuabudhabi #womeninscience #idwgis #womaninstem

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ActiveCultures · @ActiveCultures
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“You can only write the world as you understand it…you can only see the world as you see the world. That’s ‘voice’.”
- Yaa Samar Dance Theatre’s Amir Nizar Zuabi at Funadementals of Playwriting class with Wole Soyinka and Abhishek Majumdar. (!)

Last Ward makes its Arab world premiere on Friday at @TheArtsCenterNYUAbuDhabi .
Tix and info:
nyuad-artscenter.org/en_US/eve

#uae #arts #playwright #theatre #theater #nyuabudhabi

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ActiveCultures · @ActiveCultures
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“You can only write the world as you understand it…you can only see the world as you see the world. That’s ‘voice’.”
- Yaa Samar Dance Theatre’s Amir Nizar Zuabi at Funadementals of Playwriting class with Wole Soyinka and Abhishek Majumdar. (!)

Last Ward makes its Arab world premiere on Friday.
Tix and info:
nyuad-artscenter.org/en_US/eve

#uae #arts #playwright #theatre #theater #nyuabudhabi

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Excerpt from an interview on with Amir Nizar Zuabi of Yaa Sama from . Performing at this week. twitter.com/afikra/status/1622

#afikra #dance #theatre #Palestine #nyuabudhabi

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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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Very lucky students at . ’s brought four bands and today alone we had 4 class visits, a panel discussion about tradition and contemporary practice and a dinner with all the artists for students, faculty, staff, and community members. Thanks to and plus all the faculty and students

#nyuabudhabi #nyuadartscenter #barzakhfestival #cgs #adg7 #sahrahalgan #lemma #worldmmusic #festivals #algeria #korea #somaliland #italy #pizzica #trance #music #bordercrossing #abudhabi #uae #highered

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Ranjith Jaganathan · @JRanjith
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Hi folks! 👋

I am Ranjith (he/him), a 🧠

Currently designing based on at the and Lab, Department of , New York University AbuDhabi (remote contract).

Previously worked as a Associate at the Department of , National Institute of and Neurosciences, , where I investigated the role of and in delaying the onset of .

Prior to that, I was in the and Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, , where I worked in the areas of (Visual Word Recognition).

I hold a Master's degree in Cognitive Science from the Centre of and Cognitive Sciences , University of , and a Bachelor's degree in and from Anna , Chennai, India.

Before receiving my master's degree, I was in the third cohort of International in at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, .

I love , , and bringing both together. I am interested in raising awareness of dementia. I also like to engage in and to better understand .

I am passionate about , , , and .

I am 🇮🇳 by nationality, my family is from , and I grew up speaking at home. I am comfortable speaking in 🗣️ and .

Excited to be here! ❤️
Nice to e-meet you everyone 👋

#cognitivescience #researcher #experiments #behavioral #gametheory #datascience #ai #computerscience #nyuabudhabi #nyuad #uae #research #neurology #mentalhealth #neuroscience #nimhans #bengaluru #bilingualism #education #dementia #language #cognition #iitkanpur #iitk #uttarpradesh #visualperception #psycholinguistics #behavioural #cbcs #allahabad #prayagraj #electronics #communication #engineering #university #fellowship #health #technology #assessment #hta #iitmadras #iitm #chennai #data #theory #systemsthinking #designthinking #wickedproblems #equity #diversity #inclusion #socialjustice #indian #tamilnadu #india #tamil #malayalam #hindi #introduction

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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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From “I Was The President’s Mistress” by 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize winner and faculty Miguel Syjuco.

@bookstodon

#nyuabudhabi #cw #contentwarnings #introduction

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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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This is really extraordinary recognition for the groundbreaking work that is happening in the - both ’s and Art Foundation included with some of the world’s most well known . New stories are being told for the first time to global audiences.

@TheArtsCenterNYUAbuDhabi

#uae #nyuabudhabi #nyuadartgallery #sharjah #museums

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Wow! ARTnews has declared "Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula" at the Art Gallery at as number 1 on a list of the Most Defining Exhibitions in 2022:

artnews.com/list/art-news/news

Congratulations to our colleagues at the !

#nyuabudhabi #nyuadartgallery #artnews #arab #art #museums #modernism #uae #khaleeji #gulf #gcc

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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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Here’s a 360degree / piece we commissioned and produced during that time, by @sxipshirey and Coco Karol, The Gauntlet: Far Away Together, which freezes that moment but also captures how the desert winds blow away the dunes.
Listen with headphones. 🎧

thegauntletfarawaytogether.com

#3d #spatialaudio #choral #nyuabudhabi #abudhabi #uae

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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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Robert Volcic · @volcicr
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Please boost:

We are looking for visiting professors in Psychology at for AY23/24, especially those with teaching experience in research methods, statistics and biological psychology. Explore the details:

apply.interfolio.com/116060

Deadline: 15 December

#nyuad #nyuabudhabi

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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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Another thread for .

Danabelle Gutierrez, who grew up in Cairo, Vienna, and Muscat, and has been in for 18 years, focuses a lot in her work on the thorny question of where is , especially for . She spoke to a class called Real and Imagined: Women’s Writing Across Worlds.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/159

#hekayah #uae #nationalday #filipino #poet #dubai #home #thirdculturekids #nyuabudhabi #3ck #nyuad #poetry #literature #performance

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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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As part of tonight’s event | The Story at , based Egyptian chanter ZigZag Ghanim visited a@ class on Modern . Here’s a thread from the other space, including a few videos of his fusion approach of using in a modern setting, including a poem by HH .

threadreaderapp.com/thread/159

#uae #nationalday #hekayah #nyuadartscenter #dubai #nyuabudhabi #arabic #literature #classicalarabic #mbr

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ActiveCultures · @activecultures
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Gorgeous new track by Rizwan-Muazzam produced by and in in 2019.

youtu.be/EaBvCFv_OZg

They collaborated at in Oct 2017. You can find videos from that show, which helped lead to this one, online.

#qawwali #sammills #susheelaraman #Qatar #nyuadartscenter #nyuabudhabi #music #India #pakistan #uk #worldmusic #sacredmusic #fusion

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