Look at what one competitor had to say about last year's experience:
The Threesis encourages students to take a step back from their research to see how it sits in a world outside of academia. It is about explaining what you are writing about in a way that grandma and grandpa, mom and dad and the random person that you meet on the street can understand. It is the opposite of what were are trained to do in our masters work and that's what makes it so challenging.
Jailee Rychen 2011 GSAS
Threesis WinnerHave you submitted your 2012 Threesisapplication? To submit your application, send the application and your abstract to gsas.threesis@nyu.edu. Applications are due by January 31st!
Watch the highlight video from last year's competition here:
http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/
The Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS) is pleased to invite you to the Spring 2012 New Student Orientation and let you know about the variety of electronic resources that will help ease your transition to graduate school.
We will hold the 2012 GSAS Spring Orientation on Friday, January 27, 2012, from 5:30pm to 7:30 pm on campus. The New Student Orientation is designed to introduce you to the Graduate School of Arts and Science and offer information on University based resources and services. Registration will open at 5 pm so we will be able to begin our program at 5:30 sharp. The orientation provides an opportunity to meet other newly admitted students as well as current graduate students. A wine and cheese reception will immediately follow.
SAVE THE DATE!
To register for this event, respond to this message with your name and academic department.
We know you have many questions about the GSAS graduate offices, registration, tuition, the NYU Wellness Center, Health Services and health insurance, as well as other aspects of NYU. To help you keep organized about joining the student body, please follow our New Student Checklist <gsas.nyu.edu/page/new.
To learn more about the Master's College, please view our videos on-line:
http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/grad.
http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/
http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/
If you are an international student, please carefully read our International
Student Reference Guide <http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/
For University Life Events use this link: http://www.nyu.edu/life/
We look forward to welcoming you to GSAS in the New Year!
Sincerely,
Graduate Enrollment Services,
The Master’s College &
The Office of Academic and Student Life
The Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS) is pleased to announce its preliminary Orientation offerings for the Fall 2011 semester. The GSAS Orientation Series consists of two main components, stand alone individualized sessions and a generalized “Core” Orientation. This series is meant to supplement the specific guidance provided by academic departments and administrative offices.
The Fall New Student Orientation Series is designed to offer new students a range of informational programs that are tailored to match the interests of the diverse students admitted to GSAS each year. Although attendance for the Orientation Series is not mandatory, students are strongly encouraged to attend.
Registration for the Orientation Series will begin on Monday, August 22, 2011. Please bookmark this site and check back for important updates, including event location information, at that time.
GSAS Fall New Student Orientation Series Preliminary Schedule
Graduate Students of Color Lunch
(Intended for newly admitted GSAS students from the United States)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Students are encouraged to join us for a networking lunch for domestic students of color. Students will have the opportunity to meet new and advanced graduate students of color and hear advice from faculty and administrators on strategies on how to make a smooth transition to graduate school.
Financial Aid, Bill Payment and Registration Workshop
(Intended for newly admitted GSAS Master’s students)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
The financial aid, bill payment and registration processes can be daunting for newly admitted students who are trying to accumulate themselves to the University. Join us for a discussion that will demystify these processes and meet administrators who will answer your general questions.
GSAS Core Orientation
(Open to newly admitted GSAS students)
Friday, September 9, 2011
12:00 noon to 4:00 pm
Students can expect to learn about the Graduate School’s structure, hear strategies how to successfully navigate academics, social and community life, hear from advanced graduate students about their experiences, learn about the academic support and student affairs resources available to you as graduate students, learn about program that are offered by the University.
Core Orientation Schedule:
12:00 noon Orientation Check-in
12:15 – 12:25 Welcome, Introductions and Orientation Series Overview
12:25 – 12:40 GSAS 101 & Tips to Help You Get Started
12:40 – 12:45 Graduate Student Government (GSG) Student Welcome
12:45 – 1:30 GSG Leader’s Networking Lunch
1:30 – 2:25 Plenary Session: Graduate Student
Perspectives: “What I Wish I Knew”
2:25 – 3:10 NYU Libraries: Resources and Subject Area Specialties
3:10 – 3:40 Student Health Services: A Health and
Disability Services and Wellness Overview
3:40 – 3:50 Graduate Student Life @ NYU
3:50 – 4:00 Core Orientation Wrap-Up, Upcoming Orientation
Series Events
Let's get the summer started off right. The GSAS Master's College Program Board
is hosting a Summer Happy Hour at Murphy & Gonzalez. Guests receive two drink
tickets and free appetizers. Friday, June 10th from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm. To
register send an email with your name and the name of the event to
gsas.masterscollege.rsvp@nyu.edu.
Dean Malcolm Semple
on behalf of
The Graduate School of Arts and Science
cordially invites you to be a part of our audience for the first annual
GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge
hosted by
The Graduate School of Arts and Science Master's College
Saturday, April 9th
Final Round begins at 4:00 PM. Doors open at 3:30 PM.
NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square
New York, NY
Please RSVP for this event through the link below
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/forms/threesisacademicchallenge/form.html
*A reception will follow in the NYU Skirball Center Lobby
This event will have an audience favorite award, so you being there will have a huge impact on the event's outcome. Please come out to support the competitors from your department and from across the Graduate School.THE GRADUATE FORUM
New York University
Sponsored by the
Graduate School of Arts and Science Dean’s Office
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Spring 2011
The Graduate Forum, now entering its tenth year, is accepting applications from students across New York University for participation beginning in September 2011.
The Graduate Forum was established to encourage interdisciplinary inquiry into intellectual and moral problems, to question the foundations of the disciplines, and to experiment in translating basic research into a language accessible to a variety of audiences without oversimplification. Over the course of their tenure Forum members become part of an intellectual community that fosters creative cross-disciplinary discourse. At monthly dinners held during the academic year, Forum members make formal presentations of their work and enjoy genuinely interdisciplinary dialogue in sessions moderated by Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, Malcolm Semple, joined by Assistant Dean for the Office of Academic and Student Life, Kathleen Talvacchia, and facilitated by Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature, and an alumna of the Graduate Forum.
Graduate students interested in participating in the Forum should submit an application by Tuesday March 8, 2011. Applications should consist of a letter of no more than 500 words describing your interest in the Forum and why you would make a good member, a curriculum vitae and a copy of your graduate transcript (unofficial copies are accepted). In addition, all nominations should include a letter of recommendation from at least one NYU faculty member who can comment on the student’s ability to contribute to the Forum. Students whose work addresses modes of visual representation and their products in any culture or period should consider applying to the more specialized Forum on Forms of Seeing, which is co-sponsored by GSAS and the IFA.
Considerations for selection include a promising academic record, the capacity for innovative thinking, the ability to contribute to interdisciplinary inquiry, and an interest in the new technologies of education. Each Forum member will be paid an honorarium of $500 per semester for her or his active participation. Student membership in the Forum is for a term of two academic years, unless a student graduates earlier. The Forum strongly encourages applications from students of diverse racial, ethnic, national and/or cultural backgrounds. Please refer to our website ( www.nyu.edu/ graduate.forum) for more information on past and present members as well as our meetings.
Nominations for membership beginning in the 2011 academic year will be due on Friday, March 11, 2011. They should be submitted electronically to Anna Antoniak at anna.antoniak@nyu.edu. The selection process may include interviews conducted in early April by current Forum members. Dean Semple will extend offers for membership by late April for a term to begin at the September 2011 Graduate Student Forum meeting.
New York University
Forum on Forms of Seeing
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS & APPLICATIONS
Spring 2011
Forum Description
The Graduate School of Arts and Science and the Institute of Fine Arts are pleased to invite nominations and applications for a specialized interdisciplinary forum for graduate students whose work addresses modes of visual representation and their products. Focused on the ways in which cultures give form to visual experience, the Forum on Forms of Seeing aims to bring together students from a wide range of graduate programs. Applications are encouraged from students who have strong historical and/or theoretical interests in images and visuality in the broadest sense, and who wish to become closely familiar with other disciplines concerned with visual representation.
Over the past few decades, many disciplines have become interested in “visuality” as a wider natural and cultural phenomenon that includes not only the traditional fine arts but imaging practices of all kinds, from cinema and popular print culture to digital reality techniques and scientific modeling. Anthropology, Philosophy, History, Literary Criticism, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience have taken significant interest in the concept of the visual, and relatively young disciplines such as Cinema Studies and Visual Studies or Visual Culture put visual representation at the center of their research. Art History itself has become more cognizant of the limitations of traditional medium-bound definitions of the image, and has taken up a more fluidly-defined visuality as one of its central problems. Reflecting the dramatic expansion of visuality as a category for scholarly inquiry, the Forum invites applications for membership from any graduate program at NYU.
How images in different periods and cultures imitate, model, render, or critique the world and our visual apprehension of it, for their makers and for their viewers, will be of central interest to the Forum. This historical and comparative approach may profitably be complemented by a philosophical understanding of the image as record of, or model for, acts of seeing. The creation, dissemination, function, signification, efficacy, duration, destruction, and demise of images will be welcome topics for the Forum.
Meeting Format
Membership in the Forum on Forms of Seeing will be for one academic year, commencing in September 2011 and ending in April 2012. All eight members will present and critique work in progress during monthly, moderated lunch sessions, scheduled on Fridays, from 12 – 3 p.m., at Washington Square and the Institute of Fine Arts. The meetings will culminate in a one-day event at the end of the semester, showcasing the year’s presentations. Members are expected to attend every session and to participate in the end-of-year symposium. A stipend of $500 is distributed per semester.
Application Procedure
To apply for membership in the 2011-12 Forum on Forms of Seeing, please provide a one-page statement of your scholarly interest in visual representation and the relevance of interdisciplinary debate about visuality for your graduate work. Your application should include a current transcript (unofficial is fine), CV, and a recommendation by a NYU faculty member. Please submit your completed application electronically by end-of-day Monday, April 4 to Anna Antoniak at anna.antoniak@nyu.edu.
The Forum on Forms of Seeing is supported by the Office of the Provost, the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Institute of Fine Arts and its Alumni Association.
Dear Students,
Please be reminded that NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science, by default, sends all notices to each student's nyu.edu account. If you use a different personal address, even if that address is on the Draper listserve, you may miss GSAS announcements. Please make sure that you regularly check your nyu.edu account, or that you have mail from that account forwarded to your personal email account.
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