Summer Colloquium 2011

Summer Colloquium 2011

Scholarship and Teaching, Slider

Last year, the inaugural class of NYU Abu Dhabi was invited to read the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers as part of a virtual summer colloquium called “Cosmopolitan Ideas for Global Citizens.”...

Call Me Cyrus

Moby-Dick, NYUAD, Slider

Here’s how the opening Iftar dinner was described in the cover article of The Review, the Abu Dhabi National’s Friday magazine: Besides, if the students seemed slightly starry-eyed during the introductory portion of that Iftar welcome banquet, they got the...

Fallibilism

NYUAD, Scholarship and Teaching, Slider

One of the concepts that I deliberately left unaddressed in the lecture that I recorded for the NYAUD Summer Colloquium was fallibilism, which Appiah discusses in his chapter on counter-cosmopolitanism. Appiah describes falliblism as “the sense that our...

Marhaba

NYUAD, Slider

The final touches were being put on the Ramadan tent this morning: carpets, chairs, stage, audiovisual system, and air conditioning all in place. Meanwhile, back at the Sama tower, the Welcome Center was getting ready for the arrival of the students … And...
Globalize My Playlist

Globalize My Playlist

Favorite Posts, Music, Slider

One of the things that I have loved about attending the Candidate Weekends at NYU Abu Dhabi is hearing about all the different kinds of music that the candidates have on their iPods. So I’m asking for help from those of you who have attended one of the weekends:...
New Friends in the Desert

New Friends in the Desert

NYUAD, Slider

I’m back in Abu Dhabi for another Candidate Weekend. As I did during the November Candidate Weekend, I gave a 75-minute class on “Cosmopolitanism Now,” which resulted in a very lively discussion about the nature of cosmopolitanism and both...