GLS AT 10 YEARS
Global Liberal Studies is 10 years old! All of 2019, we will be celebrating this important milestone. Alumni, students, faculty, staff, family, and friends—this anniversary is an opportunity to look back at all of our achievements with enormous pride and to look forward to new initiatives, a growing student body, and an innovative curriculum with passionate commitment to global, interdisciplinary, and engaged learning, scholarship, and creative production.
Please join us as we honor our alumni, students, faculty, and staff and as we embrace the future. We are looking to you all to join in celebrating GLS at 10 Years.
Tuesday, October 22
Global Populisms, Refugees, and Immigration
Time: 5:30pm–7:30pm
Location: Gallatin, Jerry Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 715 Broadway
This Panel takes up the challenge of right-wing populisms in Europe, the Near East, Asia, and North America and the tragic impact of rising xenophobia and nationalisms on immigrants and refugees. In particular, speakers will address the relationship between collective memories of fascism and forms of European populism, the plight of Syrian and Rohingya refugees and the present crisis in Kashmir, the economic origins of global populisms, and the authoritarian ideology of Trump’s “Wall.” Remarks by the panelists will be followed by the opportunity for Q & A and audience discussion. Panel members include Liberal Studies professors: Regina Gramer, Johann Jaeckel, Dina Siddiqi, and James McBride, chair & moderator. Refreshments to follow. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, October 23
Repurposing Sustainable Fashion: Clothing & Textile Waste & Reuse
Time: 5:15pm–7:30pm
Location: Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper Square
This panel, curated by GLS Professor Leo Douglas, and co-moderated by GLS Professor Jessamyn Hatcher and GLS Junior and The Future Fashion Group at NYU Co-Founder Genevieve Carlson, celebrates the tenth anniversary of GLS and inaugurates the new GLS concentration, Sustainability, Health, and the Environment. Panelists Hanna Rose Shell (Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, U-C Boulder, and author of the forthcoming Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags), Adam Baruchowitz (Wearable Collections, Founder and CEO) and Idania del Río & Leire Fernandez (Clandestina Co-Founders) will discuss the complex relationship between fashion, globalization, sustainability, and the environment. Refreshments to follow. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, October 24
Pedagogies of the Global: Liberal Studies and Counter-Hegemonic Knowledge Production
Time: 5:00pm–7:00pm
Location: Steinhardt, Pless Hall 1st floor, 82 Washington Square East
This panel will showcase ten years of innovative and highly generative approaches to pedagogy that takes ‘the global’ seriously by the Liberal Studies faculty. It will elaborate on critical questions around teaching the global - which many in academia talk about, but LS actually does. Panelists will explore topics including 1) what does it mean to think globally? 2) what does decentering and reframing mean in terms of ways of knowing ⎼ and so of teaching? and 3) what are the barriers to producing counter-hegemonic ways of knowing and teaching (such as normative “universal” categories like race), and to what extent do even the most progressive analytical frames translate across contexts? Panel members include Liberal Studies professors: Adedamola Osinulu, Mitra Rastegar, Tilottama Tharoor, Mahnaz Yousefzadeh and Dina Siddiqi, moderator. Refreshments to follow. Free and open to the public.
Friday, October 25
Let There Be Light: Phosphorus and the Chemical Humanities
Time: 12:00pm–1:30pm
Location: Hemmerdinger Hall, NYU Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place, Accessible Entrance: 31 Washington Place
Does science need the humanities? In Let There Be Light: Phosphorus and the Chemical Humanities, we'll use the story of a single chemical element - phosphorus - to show why we need global humanistic inquiry to solve some of the world's most difficult problems. Through a series of arresting chemical demonstrations presented by faculty and students, we'll trace the paradoxical story of phosphorus, including its role in developing weapons of war; sustaining the life of every living cell of life on Earth; and the alarming prospect that this crucial element may soon run out. Looking at chemistry through the lenses of history, literature, religion, and aesthetics, we'll set out to show what chemistry and the humanities can do for each other. This program is organized and led by Liberal Studies faculty members Farzad Mahootian and Alex Wragge-Morley. Free and open to the public.
Friday, October 25
GLS Voices
Time: 3:00pm–4:30pm
Location: Jurow Lecture Hall, NYU Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place, Accessible Entrance: 31 Washington Place
Join us for a celebratory reading of Global Liberal Studies faculty work. Our authors will read short pieces across genres, disciplines, and publications, showcasing work that is global and interdisciplinary. The event is hosted by Liberal Studies professor and novelist Carley Moore. Book signings and 360° "city as the classroom" experience to follow. Coffee and cake reception. Free and open to the public.
Friday, October 25
GLS at 10 Years Festive Celebration
Time: 5:30pm–8:00pm
Location: Hemmerdinger Hall, NYU Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place, Accessible Entrance: 31 Washington Place
Global Liberal Studies is 10 years old! We are celebrating this important milestone all semester, and the week of October 22-26, in particular. Please join us for a festive party on October 25th, when we honor our alumni, students, faculty, staff, family and friends. GLS's 10th anniversary is a wonderful opportunity to recognize our many achievements with enormous pride and enthusiasm and to highlight our exciting new initiatives and ever greater commitment to global, interdisciplinary, and engaged learning, scholarship, and creative production. Please join our alumni, students, faculty, staff, families, and friends on October 25, 2019, to celebrate!!! Refreshments, live music from Bulla en el Barrio, and multi-media presentations. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, October 26
The Global Coffee Industry & The Environment: From Farm to Cup
Official NYU Alumni Weekend event
Time: 10:00am–11:00am
Agriculture is a leading cause of global pollution and environmental degradation. LS faculty member Leo Douglas will use Coffee as an entry point to discuss biodiversity, environmental economics, public health, the effects of the global trade in coffee, including why western coffee consumers should care. See a first-hand window into a Caribbean coffee farm to hear what it means to be a coffee producer in the global south (where all coffee is produced). Through an interactive video, visit the Blue & John Crown Mountain National Park of Jamaica, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where Blue Mountain Coffee is produced. See how this connects to Starbucks through a coffee tasting, live online polling, and a brief think-peer-share session. Identify how conscious coffee consumers can support a better tasting and a more sustainable cup of coffee.
Saturday, October 26
Global Liberal Studies (GLS) Alumni Panel Discussion/Mixer
Time: 3:00pm–6:00pm
Location: Torch Club
Global Liberal Studies is 10 years old! Join an alumni-led panel discussion and mixer featuring Global Liberal Studies alumni from a range of years and concentrations presenting their professional experiences since GLS. This is a fun, intergenerational chance for alumni, students, faculty and staff to learn about each others' journeys, socialize, and celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our GLS bachelor's degree! Hosted by Global Liberal Studies alumni.
March 25–29, 2019
GLS Week
GLS Week 2019 is organized by LS Student Council. Events are open to all LS students.
Monday, March 25
GLS Specific Resume Workshop Hours
3:00pm–5:00pm in the LS Lobby
Come out to hear about how you can best market your GLS resume from experienced Wasserman and GLS advisers!
GLS Graduate Panel
6:00pm–7:30pm in the LS Conference Room B
CNN? Court Liasion? Marketing Coordinator? Law school? Come hear about what GLS Grads did with their degrees! Anything is possible! What will you do?
Tuesday, March 26
Film Screening and Q&A of Hello Life or 生活万岁
7:00 pm–9:00 pm, 12 Waverly Place, Room G08
Hello Life (2018) is a documentary that follows the lives of 15 people getting by in modern day China. Each story, ranging from that of a peddler to a single working class mother, is a unique slice of life that illuminates the struggle and beauty of everyday existence.
Wednesday, March 27
A Conversation with Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop
6:00 pm–8:00 pm, 12 Waverly Place, Room G08
Anthony Fantano is an American music critic, video producer, and journalist best known for his YouTube channel The Needle Drop. Join us for a discussion on how he thinks about and reviews music, and the following Q&A session!
Thursday, March 28
Study Abroad Site Cooking Class
6:00pm to 8:00pm in LS Lobby
Learn how to prepare a dish from different GLS Study Abroad sites, have a chat with students who studied tfor, and learn more about the local culture at each site.
Friday, March 29
KGB Museum Trip and Veselka dinner
Meeting at 4:00 pm in LS Lobby
LSSC will be leading a tour of the New York KGB Spy Museum, followed by dinner at Veselka, the landmark restaurant of East Village.
May 5, 2019
LS Professor and GLS Alumnus Co-Author Article
Professor Patricio Navia and his former student Vaclav Masek have published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Public Integrity, The Determinants of Perception of Corruption in Guatemala, 2006–2016. Masek graduated from the GLS program in 2017 with a concentration in Politics, Rights and Development, and has gone on to earn an M.A. at the NYU Center for Latin American Studies.