The Asylum H-Lab focuses on information/evidence/data regarding asylum seekers and the asylum process in the United States. The Lab investigates which organizations and government entities have information/evidence/data on asylum seekers, and (how) are they keeping it. The Lab is also exploring how such data can be ethically and legally archived and shared in ways that (a) meet the needs of asylum seekers and the organizations that support them, (b) generate awareness about the asylum crisis, and (c) will also be useful for current and future researchers.
The NYU Center for the Humanities makes available a limited number of grants in support of the publication of books with a humanistic focus. These are to cover costs incurred in the publication of monographs, edited collections, or translations.
In an effort to build community and foster interdisciplinary exchange on topics with a humanistic focus at New York University, the NYU Center for the Humanities sponsors Working Groups grants.
Featuring Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University and author of his most recent book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. This talk will address the current…
The music of Broadway is one of America ‘s most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslon tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American…
To be or not to be—who asks this question today, and how? What does it mean to issue, or respond to, an appeal for the right to die? In A Death of One’s Own: Literature, Law, and the Right to…
This event is at capacity. Registration does not guarantee seating. Seating is first-come, first-serve. The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas?…
