The NYIT Center for Humanities and Culture at NUPT is a New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Nanjing organization funded by a grant from the United States Embassy, Beijing and the United States Department of State located on the campus of its partner institution, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT). Its purpose is to provide a venue in which to foster intercultural communication through the exchange of ideas and art and thereby enhance international understanding.

The NYIT Center is one of the twelve American Culture Centers in China created to present a variety of American viewpoints to the Chinese. The NYIT Director, NUPT Associate Director, and sixteen part time NYIT-NUPT students are responsible for presenting at least one international and/or local guest speaker a month in addition to conducting weekly activities such as international film colloquiums and English Corner. Specific activities may include the following: lectures by international or local scholars and politicians; readings or screenings and discussions of the work of novelists, poets, filmmakers, and dramatists; performances of dancers and musicians; demonstrations and/or exhibits of painters, sculptors, and folk artists.

The Directors and student Assistants of the NYIT Center at NUPT are also responsible for hosting annual NYIT-NUPT Film Festivals & Symposiums and Language and Literature Conferences. The recently completed Center is an aesthetically pleasing and comfortable place where Chinese and international students, faculty, staff, guests, and the public can congregate to read available periodicals and other materials from our library, use the MAC computers, and share ideas both formally and informally in English.

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 6:30 - 8:00 pm: Dr. Jerry Ward, Distinguished Professor of African American World Studies, Dillard University, speaks on “Southern Versions of Truth:  Minrose Gwin’s The Queen of Palmyra and Katherine Stockett’s The Help.”  

American Culture Club (organized by Professors Annie Christain and Marcia Kear):