Arts & Humanities
CAPSTONE FESTIVAL 2015
May 5 - 10, 2015
This eight-day student festival is the culmination of a yearlong process and a celebration of the work created across the arts and humanities.
CAPSTONE 2015
A Celebration of Arts & Humanities
During the fourth year, all NYUAD students produce a capstone project – either as an individual or team – in their major field. The Capstone Project is a demanding, year-long endeavor aiming at a significant piece of research or creative work– an historical narrative, musical composition, performance, invention, documented experiment, scholarly thesis, or other form appropriate to the student’s goals. Unlike other courses in which faculty establish the structure and set assignments, students work independently with guidance from NYUAD faculty. The fundamental challenge is to extend oneself in making knowledge, reframing conventional approaches to an issue, or creating something new.
Previously in this Event Series

Arts & Humanities
CAPSTONE 6
Student Showcase
Featuring works by students Brooks Fowler, Sanyu Kiyimba-Kisaka Kristina Kleymenova & Cristobal Martinez.

Arts & Humanities
CAPSTONE 5
Student Showcase
Featuring work by students Hasan Nabulsi, Valentina Vela , Krisztián Nagy, Darya Soroko & Joi Lee

Arts & Humanities
CAPSTONE 3
Student Showcase
Featuring works by students Valentina Vela, Sanyu Kiyimba-Kisaka, Kristina Kleymenova, Cristobal Martinez .

Arts & Humanities
CAPSTONE 2
Student Showcase
Featuring work by students Hasan Nabulsi, Krisztián Nagy, Rock Zou, Darya Soroko & Nikolai Kozak
ATTENDING CAPSTONE
Events at the Capstone Festival are free and open to the public. Audiences members must be 15 years and above.
All seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
These events are always very popular and often over subscribed. Arriving early is highly recommended and seating is not guaranteed.
Light snacks and beverages will be available during intermissions.
Please direct any questions on admissions to NYUAD THEATER PROGRAM
CAPSTONE PANELS
SUNDAY, MAY 3
Humanities
A6 – Multipurpose Room
5:00-5:10 PM Welcome
Judith Miller
Dean of Arts & Humanities
5:10-6:15 PM
IDENTITY
Sachi Leith
Unsettling Nomadism: Becoming-Minor in Galsan Tschinag’s «Die Rückkehr»
Laura Evans
Internalising Identities: Internment Camps in Australia in World War II as a Tool of Nation Building
6:30-7:45 PM REINVENTING TRADITION
Jamie Sutherland
‘The Time-Devouring Nightingale’: Toward A Borgesian Conception of World Literature
Sachith Cheruvatur
Against Concept Empiricism
Neila KelanI
On Leaving a Little Smarter: Navigating Space and a ‘Minor’ Identity in Transvergent Post-Beur Cinema
SUNDAY MAY 10th
Humanities
C2 – East Forum
5:10-6:15
DISCOURSE
Grace Hauser
A Feast for the Eyes: Pictorial Conspicuous Consumption in the Cornucopia of Food, Flora, and Fauna of 17th-century Dutch Still Life
Connor McMahon
Towards a Theory of Admissibility in Supervaluationism
6:30-7:45
COMMUNITY
Lauren Horst
Feminism, West African Fiction, and the Problem of Genre in Buchi Emecheta’s “The Rape of Shavi”
Craig Breckenridge
Banding Together: The Role of Fraternal Organizations in Fostering Communal Solidarity in Anatolia and the Levant, 12-14th Centuries
Christine Hristova
The Sultan’s Portrait: Experiments in Royal Patronage at the 15th century Ottoman Court