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2024
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February
- ElectroFest - 4th Edition
- Mehek - Aakash Odedra & Aditi Mangaldas
- Pablo Ferrández
- Pretty Yende - Francesco Demuro
- Yamen Saadi
- Lucas & Arthur Jussen
- Lawrence Brownlee
- Kirill Gerstein
- Dance Workshop with Aakash Odedra
- Music Matters
- Under the Sky of Damascus by Hebah Khalid, Talal Derki, and Ali Wajeeh
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March
- The City and the Writer: A Global Gathering
- Passages - Noé Soulier
- BOMBYX MORI - Ola Maciejewska
- Approach to Composing and Creating Music with Samora Pinderhughes
- Emel Mathlouthi
- Dina El Wedidi | Samora Pinderhughes
- Ramadaniyyat: The Boom Diwaniya
- The Creative Blocks of Music
- Dance Workshop with Ola Maciejewska
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
- January
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February
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2023
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February
- Rachmaninoff et.al
- Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre: The Last Ward
- Arooj Aftab | Lemma
- Betsayda Machado & La Parranda El Clavo | Sahra Halgan
- Black Box Cinema
- Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre: Last Ward
- ADG7 - Ak Dan Gwang Chil | Sahra Halgan
- CGS - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino | Lemma
- Contemporary Dance with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
- Dabke with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
- Musicians Workshop
- Learn Pizzica Tarantata Dance with Silvia Perrone from Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
- Michael Skillern: Two Hands, a Shell, and a Keyboard
- Finding a Voice Between Tradition & Contemporary
- April
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October
- Koyaanisqatsi Live - Film by Godfrey Reggio, Music by Philip Glass
- The Idea of 10,000 hours
- FRONTERA - Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction
- Dance Workshop: Soft Chaos with Amara Barner
- Overwhelming Discoveries
- Cultures of Resistance and Resilience
- The Ecological Conscious Rising
- Listening to Loss: Water and Climate Change
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November
- Hekayah | The Story
- Art, Activism and Food; performance practice and food politics | Ikwe na odu
- The City and the Writer: A Global Gathering
- This World Made Itself | Infinitely Yours - Miwa Matreyek
- Our Island - Small Island Big Song
- Storytelling in a Digital Playground
- Balancing Life as an Artist and an Academic
- Rhythm & Dance Workshop
- Foragers by Jumana Manna
- December
- Mehek - Aakash Odedra & Aditi Mangaldas
- March
- January
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September
- Asian Dub Foundation
- N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) - Andrew Schneider
- Betsayda Machado and La Parranda el Clavo
- Asian Dub Foundation: La Haine
- Bebel Gilberto - Songs My Father Loved
- Artist Support: Tools & Structures
- Afro-Venezuelan Dances: Parranda, Culo e' puya & Tambor de San Millán
- Emirati Folk Art
- Audio Holograms - Using Wave Field Synthesis in Live Performance
- CultureMove: 30 Years of Asian Dub Foundation - An Education Through Sound
- Uniting Communities For Racial Justice with Asian Dub Foundation and Fatiah Touray
- Exploring the Roots and Rhythms of Brazilian Music
- May
- August
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February
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2022
- March
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April
- Before We Forget by Nawaf Al Janahi
- Boom.Diwan x Nduduzo Makhathini x Jean-Michel Pilc
- Simon Shaheen
- Contemporary Dance Workshop with Alaa Krimed - founder of SIMA Dance Company
- Building a Life As An Artist in the UAE (Part 3)
- Innovative Filmmaking
- Exploring the sounds of Arab Cinema with Simon Shaheen
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February
- Samsara - Aakash Odedra & Hu Shenyuan
- Lemma | Sahra Halgan
- Finding a voice between tradition and contemporary
- Musicians Intensive
- Echoes, CUT, & Constellations | Aakash Odedra Company
- From Amateur to Action with Queena Bergen
- Rooftop Rhythms - The Throwback Edition
- Introduction to Kathak Techniques with Aakash Odedra
- Exploring the sounds of Arab Cinema with Simon Shaheen
- June
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October
- What The Day Owes To The Night (Ce Que Le Jour Doit A La Nuit) - Cie Hervé Koubi
- Urban & Contemporary Dance Workshop
- Daughters of Abdul-Rahman by Zaid Abu Hamdan
- Cosmic Music: A Contemporary Exploration of the Music of John and Alice Coltrane - Ravi Coltrane
- Masterclass with Ravi Coltrane
- An Exploration of a Director's Approach with Joanna Settle
- Including Poetry in Theater - Approaches to Writing Scenes with Reem Almenhali
- Poetry Based Performance Workshop with Farah Chamma
- Music as a Global Language: A Conversation with Ravi Coltrane
- May
- December
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September
- Rooftop Rhythms
- MOVEMENT Live | Meklit
- Set and Reset/Reset and Last Shelter - Candoco Dance Company
- Al Raheel | Departure co-created by Reem Almenhali & Joanna Settle
- Crafting Stories of Music & Migration with Meklit Hadero & Ian Coss
- Teaching and learning inclusively with Candoco Dance Company
- Embodied Insights into Last Shelter, Candoco’s latest work by Jeanine Durning
- Creating Theater as an Ensemble with Preston Martin & Matthew Marsh
- Arts Chat: How to create an evolving community
- Al Raheel | Departure From Reem Almenhali & Joanna Settle
- Arts for All - Creating a Model for Inclusivity
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November
- Raul Midón and Alex Cuba
- Huda’s Salon by Hany Abu-Assad
- Hekayah | The Story
- Poetry Based Performance Workshop with Farah Chamma
- Discovering your songwriting voice with Alex Cuba and Raul Midón
- Arts Chat: Exploring Identities in the Arts
- Arts Chat: Building a life as an artist in the UAE (Part 4)
- Temporary People
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2021
- May
- January
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February
- Between Two Seas - Screening
- Martha Redbone Roots Project
- Las Cantoras - Betsayda Machado meets Oswaldo Lares
- Boom.Diwan x Nduduzo Makhathini
- Āhuti by Nrityagram Dance Ensemble in collaboration with Chitrasena Dance Company
- American Music - Minimal and Beyond: Emanuele Arciuli
- Technique Workshop: Rhythms of the Arabian Sea - English Workshop
- Technique Workshop: Rhythms of the Arabian Sea - Arabic Workshop
- Technique Workshop: Introduction to Odissi Dance
- Arts Chat: Producing Creative Work During Times of Crisis
- Creation workshop: Cultural Preservation through Music: Creativity in Music with Culturally Responsive Intention
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March
- Three short films by Emirati filmmaker Abdulrahman Al Madani - Screening
- Arts Chat: Sustaining Creativity During the Pandemic
- The Gauntlet: Faraway Together - Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol
- Creator's Workshop: Object Oriented Composition
- Creation and Technique Workshop with Theatre for One: Creating intimate equitable connections in digital and physical spaces.
- April
- June
- December
- September
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October
- Theatre For One: We Are Here (Nairobi Edition)
- CinemaNA: Films by Mohamad Malas and Nezar Andary
- Matthew Quayle: Complete Piano Sonatas
- Collaborative Life - Writing: Technique Workshop
- Arts Chat: Collaborating Across Cultures
- Devising Our Way - An East African Perspective: Technique Workshop
- Arts Chat: Developing Networks in the Arts
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November
- CinemaNA: Three Films by Jocelyne Saab
- sEODo BAND / 서도 밴드
- Hekayah | The Story
- Chamber Music Evening
- Social Practice in Art: Creators Workshop
- Artist Talk: Multiculturalism - Going Deeper and Beyond
- Arts Chat: Building a Life as an Artist in the UAE (Part 2)
- Creators Workshop - Satwa Stories: Poetic exploration through documentary techniques
- Rooftop Rhythms - The Wellness Edition
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2020
- May
- January
- February
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March
- The Storyville Mosquito - Kid Koala
- Sofia - Screening
- John Beasley’s MONK’estra Quartet
- Technique Workshop: Beginners Puppetry Session
- Technique Workshop: Advanced Puppetry Session
- Technique Workshop: DJ Scratching Technique
- Family Creator's Event: Build Your Own Board Game
- Creator's Workshop: Interactive Live Cinema and Live Scoring Techniques
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April
- Sxip’s Hour of Charm - Sxip Shirey
- Emirates Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Scales - Screening
- The Gauntlet - Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol
- Musical Composition with Objects Workshop (Group 1)
- Creator's Workshop: Musical Composition with Objects (Group 2)
- Technique Workshop: Dance with Coco Karol
- TEDx NYUAD 2020
- Maysoon Zayid
- 47SOUL
- Cuban-Khaleeji Project
- John Beasley and Ihab Darwish
- Reconnect. Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower - The Concert Version
- Al Burda Festival
- June
- August
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October
- Robot Dance Party - Kid Koala
- As Far As Isolation Goes - Tania El Khoury & Basel Zaraa
- Petite and Grande - Piano Recital with Ioannis Potamousis
- A Thousand Ways: A Phone Call by 600 HIGHWAYMEN
- Scales - Screening
- Short Films by Sam Green
- Creators Workshop With Tania El Khoury
- Arts Chat: How To Sustain A Successful Theater Company
- Creators Workshop With 600 Highwaymen
- Technique Workshop With Aakash Odedra
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November
- Sofia - Screening
- Ak Dan Gwang Chil (ADG7)
- Murmur 2.0 - Aakash Odedra Company
- #JeSuis - Aakash Odedra Company
- Hekayah | The Story
- Technique Workshop With Aakash Odedra
- Arts Chat: Social Impact And Dance
- Part 3: Technique Workshop With Sam Green
- Part 2: Technique Workshop with Sam Green
- Technique Workshop with Sam Green - 2 part series
- Toshi Reagon - Sacred Transmission - Post-Election Show
- December
- September
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2019
- April
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March
- Manifold - A Festival of Musical Diversity
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 / Alsarah & The Nubatones - Barzakh Festival Day 1
- Justin Kauflin
- The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
- Lekhfa / Altin Gün - Barzakh Festival Day 2
- An Evening with Alana Barraj
- The Omer Quartet in Concert
- A soprano, a cellist and a pianist...
- Reconstructing Traditional Music & The Making of Lekhfa
- Arts Chat
- January
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February
- Autobiography - Company Wayne McGregor
- Mambo - Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
- Cuban-Khaleeji Project - Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra + guests
- Evolving Eyes and Revised Societies
- Conversations with Nature
- The Experimental City
- Musk
- An Evening of Piano with Ioannis Potamousis and Guest Pianist Matthew Quayle
- ElectroFest 2019
- November
- May
- June
- August
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September
- Ethiopian Dreams - Circus Abyssinia
- Flight - Vox Motus
- Sufism vs Modernism - Fathy Salama with Sheikh Mahmoud Tohamy / Zanzibari Taarab & Kidumbak - Dhow Countries Music Academy
- Song Recital
- The Theater-maker's Journey - Workshop
- Creator's workshop: Docufiction Writing
- Creator's Workshop: Arabic Music Composition
- Creator's Workshop: Taarab Music - Singing and Composition
- Film Screening: Dhow Countries Music Academy Documentary
- October
- December
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2018
- February
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March
- Imagine Science - Film Festival
- Ragamala Dance Company - Written in Water - Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy, Co-Artistic Directors
- The Ex + Fendika | RAM | Al Nuban Folklore Troupe - Barzakh Festival
- The Bach Project
- CinemaNA – The Wanted 18
- Jane
- Fragile Lives
- Unrest
- Hybrid Creatures
- Marjorie Prime
- Hybrid Futures Exhibition + Gallery Talks
- Hybrid Futures Panel
- Beethoven and Beyond: Attacca Quartet in Concert
- Arts and Humanities Capstone Performances
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April
- Gardens Speak
- Rooftop Rhythms - Season 7
- Carlos Guedes & Laetitia Morais: Music for Visuals. Visuals for Music
- Sherine Tohamy & Al Sharq Ensemble
- Clare Lesser, David Lesser, & Laura Chapple: An Epigram and a Madrigal…
- Emil Sein & Kiori Kawai: The Gathering
- CinemaNA - Wajib Screening
- CinemaNA - Hedi Screening
- An Evening with Alana Barraj
- TEDxNYUAD 2018
- May
- December
- January
- September
- October
- November
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2017
- February
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March
- AN ILIAD - Middle East Premiere
- RADHE RADHE: RITES OF HOLI | VIJAY IYER AND TIRTHA
- JUAN PÉREZ FLORISTÁN
- TAREK YAMANI: PORTRAITS IN KHALEEJI RHYTHMS AND JAZZ
- TOMATITO - SOY FLAMENCO
- HONEY RAIN & DUST - IMAGINE SCIENCE
- THE EAGLE HUNTRESS - IMAGINE SCIENCE
- ESCAPE FROM EARTH - IMAGINE SCIENCE
- INTERIOR / EXTERIOR - IMAGINCE SCIENCE
- IN LIMBO - IMAGINE SCIENCE
- Let Them Come
- ROOFTOP RHYTHMS
- April
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- January
- September
- October
- November
- December
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- Kodo
- Yunchan Lim
- Kuniko Kato
- KATIA & MARIELLE LABEQUE
- Korean National University of Arts Symphony Orchestra
- Jessica Pratt & Javier Camarena
- Augustin Hadelich
- All-Star Ballet Gala
- Unique Encounters
- Riley Mulherkar
- Synchrony: From New York to Nigeria
- CinemaNa Seeking Haven for Mr Rambo
- Building a Life as an Artist
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2024
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2024
- January
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April
- The Highly Effective Irrationality of Science
- Romance and War/Music and Technology: From David Lean's Brief Encounter to His Lawrence of Arabia
- Visible Certainty: The quest for dark and quiet skies
- (De)Constructing the Virtual Character in Motion Pictures
- One Ocean|One Heritage
- Measuring Ideology in the Middle East: New Directions
- Third International Meeting for Research on Dokha Tobacco
- Voices of Sustainability: Pioneering Solutions for Earth’s Future
- On the Role of Art in Community and Creative Practice
- ALAA: A Family Trilogy
- ALAA: A Family Trilogy, Part One: The Guru Child
- Sports and Diplomacy in the UAE
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May
- Microbial Ecology Society in the Middle East
- Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production
- Road to Decarbonization: From COP28 Forward - Navigating Climate Promise
- Drug Discovery, Delivery and Therapeutics II
- Media Dynamics: Identity, Challenges, and Future Vision صناعة الإعلام: الهوية، التحديات، ورؤية المستقبل
- The Ocean Hope Project: Protecting the Deep Sea
- June
- July
- August
- September
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October
- Material and Visual Worlds of Oil Infrastructure in Histories of the Global South
- Preserving the Past, Embracing Change, Honoring Traditions
- Wisdom From the Ages: Ibn Khaldun and Lessons for a Poly-Crisis World
- Rain, Clouds, and Climate
- Ibrahim Al Koni and the World of the Tuareg
- Structured Luck: Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program
- Inclusive Futures: Exploring Research Innovations and AI Tools for Children with Disabilities
- Cybersecurity & Ethics: Navigating Digital Dangers
- Experiencing Maqam: An Introduction to Arabic Music
- Global Shifts: U.S. Elections and the Future of Power
- Shaping Childhood: Parenting Perspectives and Practices in Changing Societies
- The Global Destruction of Human Capital in Gen Z
- AI and the Future of Humans and Machines
- Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast
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november
- EAI ArtsIT 2024 - 13th EAI International Conference
- Music From Space: Where Science Meets Art
- The Spaces In-Between: Conversations on Feminism, Sexuality, and Identity
- Globalization and Multinational Investment in an Institutionally Risky World
- The Role of Science in the Islamic World
- Structured Luck: How U.S. Immigration Policy Affects Immigrants
- Inside the Body’s Future: How Bio-NanoThings Will Change Disease Detection
- Two Egyptian Romantic Poets and their Curious American Sojourns
- Multimodal Machine Learning and Climate Change Adaptation
- De/Colonial Botany
- The Crystal and the Rose:
- Legacy of Dedication: The Inaugural <em>Dhikhr</em> ذخر Award Honoring David Heard and Frauke Heard-Bey
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2023
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January
- Global Sustainable Cities: Cities and Our Environmental Future
- How Does the Bilingual Brain Process Language?
- Abu Dhabi Meeting on Theoretical Physics
- Black Hole Survival Guide
- NYU AI in Healthcare Research and Ideation
- Towards a Globally Unified Education System
- Uncovering the Underlying Structure of the Universe
- Normativity and Reasoning IX
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February
- Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
- The Voyage of the Crooked: A Connected History of the Gulf and Indian Ocean
- Economic Development and Policy Research
- MXenes: 2D Materials for the Future
- What Should 6G Be?
- The Arrival of Late Modernism in Dubai
- Stepping Forward: Performance Research and Practice, Here
- Drug Discovery and Therapeutics
- The Cairo Genizah as a Treasury of Arabic Literature
- Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream
- Narratives of the Moriscos’ Expulsion in Spanish and Arab Thought
- Can We Cure Aging?
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March
- Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities
- Decoding Mars with the "Hope" Probe: Uncovering the Red Planet's Secrets of Life
- Loss, Longing, Belonging: Shahzia Sikander’s Khorfakkan Series
- The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanīsh and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus
- Inequalities: Research from the 3 NYUs
- The Intellectual Crossroads of Al-Andalus
- Crystals in Health and Disease
- The Science Fiction of Santiago Ramón y Cajal & Early Film Experiments
- April
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May
- Custom 3D-Printed Triply Periodic Minimal Surface-Based Bone Implants
- COP28 and Beyond: NYUAD Research to Achieve Net Zero
- The Power of Sport: Building and Empowering Communities
- Negotiating Self and Modernity: The Many Journeys of Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi
- The Way We Move: Can Information and Technology Change It?
- Surviving the Heat: The Struggle of Marine Turtles Against Climate Change
- Northeastern Arabia Reef Monitoring Network Workshop
- An Overview of High Performance Computing and Future Requirements
- Frontiers of Network Science Discover
- Colorism Across Global Lines
- The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Ottoman Period
- June
- August
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September
- Documenting a Performing Arts History
- What Goes into a Doomsday Vault? An Anthropology of/for Strange Times
- Haptic Feedback for Local Anesthesia Training
- Shattered Glass of Beirut: Conserving Lebanese History Together
- Sustainable Finance Towards Climate Action
- Why Experiment with Ancient Technologies?
- Library of Arabic Literature: Tenth Anniversary Celebration
- The Age of Dissent
- The Power of Authenticity: A Conversation with Dr. Raja Al Gurg
- Researching the Leadership of the Prophet Muhammad
- The Necessity of Young Adult Literature: A Conversation
- An Alchemist of the Self
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October
- 'An Ugly Word': Race in Global Perspective
- Connecting Worlds
- Documenting a Performing Arts History
- NYUAD Alumni: On Training and Becoming Professional Artists
- Community Archives as a Model for Documenting the UAE's Recent Past
- MARSS International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales
- Pharaonica, Flora, and Human Flesh
- Global Curriculum Conference
- War, Exile, and the Art of Dance: The Life and Work of George Balanchine
- China in 20th- and 21st-Century African Literature
- On the Path to Net Zero:
- November
- December
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January
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2022
- February
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November
- Photography as a Visual Record: Past, Present, Future
- BAM... and Then It Hit Me: A Conversation with Karen Hopkins
- A Talk by Yann LeCun: From Machine Learning to Autonomous Intelligence
- Language Matters: Teaching Content Across Languages
- Making Decisions in a World of Uncertainty
- Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis
- IEEE 6G Training School
- The Third Middle-Eastern Materials Science Conference (MEMS 2022)
- The (Impossible) Decolonization of the Western Museum
- The 6th NYUAD Transportation Symposium
- Speaking English: Staging the Dialectics of Identity, Culture and Survival
- April
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October
- Music as a Global Language: A Conversation with Ravi Coltrane
- Knowledge Development and Industrialization: A Catalyst to Circular Economy
- How the Muslims of Canton Saved China in 1582
- An Ugly Word: Rethinking “Race” In Italy—and Worldwide
- Principles of Visual Communication for Science
- Mahira Khan: Redefining Stardom and Trailblazing South Asian Storytelling
- Design Works: A Decade of In-House Design at NYU Abu Dhabi
- Tenth Anniversary of the Higgs Boson Discovery
- Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives
- Legacies of Violence
- Prophet Muhammad's Timeless Gifts to Humanity
- The Legacy of Al-Andalus: Material and Textual Sources
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September
- The Future of Humans and AI
- Everyday Life in the "Glitzy" City: Making Home in Dubai
- ‘50U’: An Intimate Portrait of the UAE
- Design Works: A Decade of In-House Design at NYU Abu Dhabi
- The Evolution of Architecture in the UAE
- The Anti-Refugee Machine
- Understanding Our Universe From 2 KM Underground
- No Choice but to Keep Creating Futures: The Frontier of Climate Change
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May
- Asmarina: Voices and Images of a Postcolonial Heritage
- Human Rights in Times of Crisis
- Global Water Security: Challenges, Threats, and Solutions for a Thirsty Planet
- American Power in the Region: Limits and Possibilities
- SASI 2022
- Race, Class, Skill, and Migration in the Unequal Construction of Urban Futures
- Between Skylines and Deserts:
- A Brief History of the Universe
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March
- Sites of Suffering and Trauma: What to Remember and What to Forget
- User Interfaces for the Complexity of Nature
- DJ Spooky Concert
- How Physics Answers Gauguin’s Questions About the Universe
- The Role of Innovation in Scientific Research in the UAE
- Economic Policy and Research in the UAE and Beyond
- Sense and Intuition: A Conversation with Adonis
- June
- December
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2021
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March
- Liminal Spaces: Art and Migration Narratives of Women of the Guyanese Diaspora
- Coastal Environments in Global Asia — Mapping Coastal Environments
- (Re)imagining Borders: The Performing Arts in Global Dialogue
- Science Diplomacy in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities
- Art and Power of Arabic Oration (Khutba): Past and Present
- Coastal Environments in Global Asia — Coastal Development and Coastal Livelihoods
- Blackness Without Borders: Honoring International Women’s Day #ChooseToChallenge
- Race in Global Perspective
- Exchanges Across Religious Lines: Material Interests and Representations
- The UAE’s Global Impact: Insights Beyond the Energy Narrative
- The Origins of the Gulf Militaries: Britain and the Local Rulers
- Coastal Environments in Global Asia, Coastal Precarity and Managed Retreat
- Coastal Environments in Global Asia — Himalayan Water Security
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October
- “Migrants Through Time”: An Insight Into the Female Diasporic Voice
- Pride & Future: Cultural Heritage in Afghanistan
- Dhakira Dialogues
- How Gen Z Can Get Stronger, Smarter, and Happier
- Climate Conversations
- A Map of Many Cities: The Making of "Building Sharjah"
- A Paper Trail Across the Lands of Islam
- Five Days That Shaped the UAE
- January
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November
- Overlooked No More: Race, Ethnicity, and Psychological Attributes
- Caste, Class and Race: Writing, Rights and Violence
- Space Exploration and Extraterrestrial Mining
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- Son of Monarchs:
- Natq: A Live Audiovisual Essay About Impossible Speech
- Covid-19 - What’s Next?
- Édouard Glissant and the Poetics of Planetary Relation
- Heritage Futures: Oceans of Connectivity
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February
- Sport in the Middle East: Promoting Gender Equality
- Blackness Without Borders Series: Presenting Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Apostates and Impostors in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
- How to Make a City: Dubai Circa 1960
- Blackness Without Borders: The Intersection of the Black Experience in the MENA and Muslim World
- Stories We Continue to Tell: The Many Returns of the Thousand and One Nights
- What to Do When the Sun Turns Violent in 2025?
- Scientific Research and Development in the UAE: Challenges and Prospects
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April
- False gods, Human weaknesses: Christian and Muslim analyses
- Coastal Environments in Global Asia — Long Rivers, Deep Histories
- Coastal Environments in Global Asia — Belts and Roads in Environmental Perspective
- Khorfakkan
- Culture Made in Arabia
- Constitutional Trilemma of Large Scale Migration Flows
- Second International Meeting for Research on Dokha Tobacco
- Accidents of History
- December
- June
- September
- May
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March
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2020
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February
- International and Interdisciplinary
- International Conference on Microbial Ecology in Arid Regions
- Normativity and Reasoning VIII
- Generous Thinking: Argumentation and Collaboration
- What's the Matter with Our Universe? A Historical Journey into the Unknown
- Green New Deal: Twentieth-Century Shadows on Climate Crisis
- mTOR Signaling in Growth and Metabolism: How an Unhealthy Diet Causes Diabetes
- The Ambiguous Politics of Humor in Egypt
- Tightness-Looseness: A Fractal Pattern of Human Difference
- Flicker: Your Brain on Movies
- A Conversation with Wole Soyinka
- Making Memories in the Brain
- December
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October
- Food and Nutrition Security in the Age of COVID-19
- #BlackLivesMatter:
- Reading Bryan Stevenson at NYUAD: Understanding Just Mercy In a Global Context
- Art's Future, Art's Force: Women Artists Envision the Future
- The US Election and the Future of Global Populism
- What on Earth Are They Saying
- Recognizing Religion(s)
- The World's Freshwater Resources: Challenges and Opportunities
- Unframed Voices
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January
- Seeing the Invisible: Optical Coherence Tomography in Medicine
- Winter Institute in Digital Humanities
- 3rd NYU Biomedical and Biosystems Conference
- The Emergence of the Lemon Twist in Dutch Still Life
- M-theory and Mathematics: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
- Finding Oil and Understanding Earth and Mars
- The Rhythms of Life: From Fruit Fly Brains to Human Obesity
- Winter Experimental Social Science Institute (WESSI) Workshop
- Print, Orality, and Readerships in Postcolonial Contexts
- Foundations of Cosmology and Quantum Gravity
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November
- COVID-19: The Future of Globalization and Development
- Tolerance: A Philosophical Investigation
- Privacy in a Globally Interconnected World
- A Monument to All Species
- Nature's Shapes and Patterns and the Instabilities That Create Them
- The Right to the Ruins: Fictional Media Production and the Syrian Conflict
- March
- September
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February
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2019
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February
- AALIMS-NYUAD Workshop on the Political Economy of lslam and Muslim Societies
- The Taming of Plants: Domestication of the Food Species We Eat
- Ancient Egypt and Social Inclusion
- 4th Joint UAE Symposium on Social Robotics
- Implications of Trump’s Global Strategy in the Middle East and South Asia
- Center For The Advanced Study Of India Security Studies Workshop
- Year Zero
- CASI Security Studies Workshop
- AALIMS-NYUAD Conference on the Political Economy of lslam and Muslim Societies
- Abu Dhabi and the City of the Future
- Glorious Failure: How to Bring a New Drug to the Market
- Who Are we? What Can Genetics Tell Us About Identity?
- Feeling Smart: Why our Emotions are More Rational than We Think
- SocioEconomic Challenges: Public Policy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Soqotra
- Translucent Borders
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november
- The Director’s Craft: Michael Mayer on Theater, Film, TV, and Opera
- Staging Public Memory: A Conversation with Artist Marysia Lewandowska
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