NYU Liberal Studies

The Liberal Studies community congratulates you all on your upcoming graduation! #LScore21

The Liberal Studies community congratulates you all on your upcoming graduation! #GLSgrad21

Senior Spotlights: Looking Back with the Class of 2021 With only one day left until graduation, we’re wrapping up our senior reflections with this year’s All-University Graduation Speaker and one of GLS' valedictorians, Diya Radhakrishna from Bangalore, India. Diya’s concentration is Politics, Rights, and Development and her thesis is ‘A PLACE MARKED BY DIFFERENCE’: Divisions, Reunifications, and Identities in the Punjabi and Vietnamese Diasporas. #GLSgrad21 Something you l...earned during your time at NYU Liberal Studies and in Global Liberal Studies: To search for diverse narratives of anything and everything, whether a famous historical event or Twitter post. I’ve learned this both from my GLS classes that opened up my mind to different perspectives on global topics such as migration and multiculturalism, as well as my friends who come from so many different backgrounds and always introduce me to a new way of thinking about things! Something you’re excited for: I’m excited to see my family again, as a graduate of GLS and NYU. I wish I could have celebrated graduating with my family in New York, but the next best thing is being able to celebrate with your grandma’s best cooking of all your favorite foods! Favorite memory at NYU, Liberal Studies, or in Global Liberal Studies: I’m lucky enough that there’s too many to choose from! It’s probably hanging out with my friends in Berlin during my GLS Junior Year AwayI felt so lucky to be exploring incredible historical sites like the Berlin Wall, or the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses, while also chatting away about everything from colonialism to children’s TV and our own GLS theses! A shout out to GLS people who’ve made an impact on your journey: Once again, there’s too many to do justice to! In my first year, Professor Davies in her Cultural Foundations class really made me feel safe to explore and grow within GLS while helping me improve my writing. Professor Valenti’s Middle Eastern Cultures course really shaped my understanding of the world as well. On the thesis side of things, Dr. Bauman and of course, my thesis advisor Dr. Apsel have directed my research interests even beyond GLS. Jon White, my advisor, has been amazingly supportive and finally, my GLS friends and classmatesAndrea, Maanya, Fanny, Zina, Isabel, Katia, and Fiona, to name a fewhave made this program incredibly fun for me!

Catch LS professor Bob Squillace on The Brian Lehrer Show discussing the data sale business model of companies like Facebook and Amazon and how Apple's new update threatens their infrastructure.

Join us for the first session of the CSI February Film Festival: Framing Identity, Coming to Consciousness on Friday, February 5 at 6:30 PM EST! This session's featured film will be Okja (Korea, 2017) and will be presented by Professor Jeannine Chandler. For more information, please visit our event page. This session is sponsored by Global Liberal Studies' Cultural and Social Identities concentration and open to the NYU community. Registration required. Register here: https://nyu.zoom.us/.../tJ0ldO-sqjooGNfK2KoXHmI5Uq_ObEL6_qFN

LS professor Patricio Navia discusses Chile's ongoing process to write a new constitution, campaign to secure economic rights, and transformation from authoritarianism to democracy with Alexander Heffner on PBS' The Open Mind. Listen now!

Already having launched Ark Republican innovative digital media outlet committed to telling rich and robust narrativesat the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, LS professor Kaia Shivers was perfectly poised to leverage her platform to address the mounting supply chain failures exacerbated by the global crisis. Acknowledging that, as much in pre-pandemic times as now, many communities of color live under food apartheid (racially discriminatory political structures that lim...it access to and control of nutritious food) and Black farmers have long been shunted by their white counterparts, government agencies, and the recounting of history itself, Professor Shivers set out to connect a hungry public directly with Black farmers. Having signed on more than 700 Black-owned farms to the Black Farmers Index, what began as a humble yet ambitious list housed at Ark Republic has grown into its own non-profit with both consumers and producers clamoring for more. More food for the stomach, and for the soul, as people across the United States build networks with farmers with storied relationships to the land. In an exceptionally rich interview, Professor Shivers asks us to consider those stories, and how they might guide us in weaving our societal constitution anew. See more

GLS alum Ian Kumamoto shares what helped him launch a successful writing career in a pandemic job market. With published pieces in The New York Times, Washington Post, and more, here are the resources Ian wishes he knew about earlier.