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Academic Affairs Opportunities

Speaking & Listening Skills: End-of-Semester Review

Tuesday, December 5 | 6:30-7:30 PM | S221 | RSVP

Come to this ARC workshop to review content covered during previous speaking and listening skills sessions, including skills on preparing for and delivering academic presentations. Collect a sticker for your AA Passport!

To Honor Every Story: Reading by Authors

Thursday, December 7 | 12:30-2 PM | W629 | RSVP

In the CEL Slow Storytelling Program, students interviewed and created profile stories for people they met in Shenyang. Using a slow-journalism approach, Paul Salopek, the founder of the Out of Eden Walk project and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, coached the students' interview and story writing. Join us to hear about the extraordinary stories of the Shenyang-ers the authors met!

First-Year Fellowship Circle

The Office of Global Awards is launching the First-Year Fellowship Circle in Spring 2024. Through the partnership with a faculty mentor, the first-year students will gain research and writing skills to develop a proposal for a project or initiative that is uniquely yours, connect with alumni and seniors to gain advice for applications, and learn how to integrate coursework, self-directed research, and external opportunities. If interested, submit your application by February 5, 2024.

End-of-Semester Showcases

Realtime Audiovisual Performance Systems: Final Project Presentations

Wednesday, December 6 | 8 PM | Club Elevator: B1, No. 265 Nandan Dong Lu

Students in the INTM-SHU 280D Realtime Audiovisual Performance Systems course have been working tirelessly on combining image and sound to create incredible visual music performances. Come see their final project presentations at Club Elevator!

Global Perspectives on Society: A Celebration of GPS!

Friday, December 8 | 1-2:30 PM | E901-904 | Drop-in Event

Have you taken GPS? Come and celebrate the end of the fall semester with the GPS community by pondering questions, such as “Where do we come from?”, “Can we find inner peace?”, and “Will the world come to an end?”. All first-year students will share their group projects. Come vote for your favorite!

Interactive Media Arts: IMA End-of-Semester Show

Friday, December 8 | 6-8 PM | N306 & N406 | Drop-in Event

The IMA Show is a two-hour exhibition that features a variety of interactive and creative projects created by IMA students. Come celebrate their efforts and accomplishments! The exhibition will showcase creative projects from many IMA courses! For external guests, share this RSVP link!

Academic Events

Center for Global Asia

CGA Talk Series | Offshore Governance: The Qing Empire and Its Coastal Islands in the Long Eighteenth Century

Monday, December 4 | Join us tonight at 5:30 PM! | N107
Speaker: Professor Ronald C. Po (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Throughout the eighteenth century, China’s numerous offshore islands played a notable role between the mainland and the inner sea. Despite their relatively small size and seemingly peripheral positioning, these islands had more substantial interactions with the central regime than one might assume…Learn more! The talk will be introduced by Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen.

Social Science

Not So Toothless: How Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyer Encourage Judge-Prosecutor Disagreement

Thursday, December 7 | 3-4:30 PM | N401 | RSVP
Speaker: Professor Yue Hou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Yue Hou will present on “Not So Toothless: How Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers Encourage Judge-Prosecutor Disagreement (Joint work with Jieun Kim, Assistant Professor of Political Science, NYU Shanghai).” The presentation will be introduced by Xiaojun Li, Associate Professor of Political Science.

Committee on Critical Inquiry

Do You See Me? Conflicts within the Family through the Film Everything Everywhere All At Once

Thursday, December 7 | 4:30-6 PM | W516 | RSVP

Join us to discuss family relationships and generational conflicts. We will use a clip from the film Everything Everywhere All At Once to talk how family members struggle to communicate and understand one another. We will also explore the divergent perspectives of the central characters and invite personal reflections on our own reflections reflecting on our own relationships. Snacks will be provided.

Center for Global Health Equity

CGHE Perspectives on Health Seminar Series

Friday, December 8 | 11:15 AM | N856 or Online | RSVP
Speaker: Professor Yuhua Bao (Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City)

The CGHE Perspectives on Health seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for socially engaged research on health and medicine. Professor Yuhua Bao will provide an overview of past, current, and planned research on policies addressing unsafe opioid prescribing in the United States.

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Against Interpretation: A Reading Circle with the ICA

Saturday, December 23 | 2-4 PM | ICA Reading Room (1F)

What is interpretation? How should we move towards a dialectical interpretation? What comes after anti-interpretation? This reading circle will focus on Susan Sontag’s text Against Interpretation, after which an exhibition tour will be provided. The event will be conducted in Chinese. Free and open to the public. Learn more!

Research Internship Opportunities in New York

Research Internship Opportunity in Computational Chemistry with D E Shaw Research in New York

D E Shaw Research welcomes applications for the summer internship program from a range of scientific and technical disciplines. View more application details. Some computational research experience and/or programming experience in Python or C/C++ is preferred. Note: Although the application deadline has passed, you still can email your application to Liz Decolvenaere at decolven@deshawresearch.com.

For non-U.S. students, please confirm your eligibility with the program and learn more about the visa restrictions with the Mobility Team at shanghai.student-mobility@nyu.edu. For non-U.S. students who will complete your one-year Study Away in the U.S., you may apply for the SOCS-SHU 310 Summer Practicum Course to be eligible for participating in the summer internship in New York.

IT Announcements

Google Workspace Storage Change

Google has announced the discontinuation of free unlimited storage for Google Email, Drive, and photos for educational institutions. Further details and updates on how this change may impact us will be provided later this month.

Academic Affairs Passport Program

Grand Prize Lucky Draw & End-of-Semester Survey

If you have collected 20 stickers from 5 AA offices across the semester, you are able to participate in the lucky draw for the grand prize. Fill out this form to participate by tonight, 11:59 PM, December 4. Winners will be notified later this week.

Regardless of your participation in the AA Passport Program, we would appreciate it if you could share your feedback about your experience by Friday, December 8.

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