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Forms of Regulation and Control: Professor Dina Ramadan on the Subversive Humor of Yara El-Sherbini

Dina Ramadan, assistant professor of Arabic, reviews Yara El-Sherbini's Forms of Regulation and Control at the Cue Art Foundation in New York for Art-agenda. “The first US solo exhibition for British-born, Santa Barbara–based El-Sherbini, curated by Naeem Mohaiemen, is an elegant rejoinder to the din of recent months,” Ramadan writes. “Deftly weaponizing humor through a series of discreet interventions, it challenges the so-called ‘unconscious’ bias that permeates even the most seemingly benign forms of knowledge and their production.”

Forms of Regulation and Control: Professor Dina Ramadan on the Subversive Humor of Yara El-Sherbini

Dina Ramadan, assistant professor of Arabic, reviews Yara El-Sherbini's Forms of Regulation and Control at the Cue Art Foundation in New York for Art-agenda. “The first US solo exhibition for British-born, Santa Barbara–based El-Sherbini, curated by Naeem Mohaiemen, is an elegant rejoinder to the din of recent months,” Ramadan writes. “Deftly weaponizing humor through a series of discreet interventions, it challenges the so-called ‘unconscious’ bias that permeates even the most seemingly benign forms of knowledge and their production.”
Read More in Art-agenda

Post Date: 02-08-2021

Professor James Romm Asks: What Happened at Masada? 

We know the Roman conquest of Masada only through the account of the enigmatic Jewish historian Josephus, whose shifting allegiances make his motives hard to discern. James Romm, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics, writes for the New York Review of Books, reviewing A History of the Jewish War, AD 66–74 by Steve Mason (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness (Princeton University Press, 2019).

Professor James Romm Asks: What Happened at Masada? 

We know the Roman conquest of Masada only through the account of the enigmatic Jewish historian Josephus, whose shifting allegiances make his motives hard to discern. James Romm, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics, writes for the New York Review of Books, reviewing A History of the Jewish War, AD 66–74 by Steve Mason (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness (Princeton University Press, 2019).
 
Read More in New York Review of Books

Post Date: 02-07-2021

Uyghur Scholar Rahile Dawut Named Honorary Professor in the Humanities by the Open Society University Network

The Open Society University Network (OSUN) has named Rahile Dawut, the prominent Uyghur folklorist who has been missing since December 2017, the first OSUN Honorary Professor in the Humanities. Rahile Dawut, a professor at Xinjiang University in Ürümqi in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is a folklorist and ethnographer. She created and directed the University's Minorities Folklore Research Center and is the author of dozens of articles and a number of books.

Uyghur Scholar Rahile Dawut Named Honorary Professor in the Humanities by the Open Society University Network

The Open Society University Network (OSUN) has named Rahile Dawut, the prominent Uyghur folklorist who has been missing since December 2017, the first OSUN Honorary Professor in the Humanities.

Rahile Dawut, a professor at Xinjiang University in Ürümqi in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is a folklorist and ethnographer. She created and directed the University's Minorities Folklore Research Center and is the author of dozens of articles and a number of books, including landmark studies on Islamic sacred sites in Central Eurasia.

“Rahile Dawut is internationally recognized as a leading authority on Uyghur cultural life and practices,” said Leon Botstein, Chancellor of the Open Society University Network. “She has trained a generation of young scholars in the study of the region’s folklore and tradition, and her rigorous and illuminating work has become a portal through which the global community has been able to discover the richness of Uyghur culture.”

Prof. Dawut disappeared in December 2017, after telling a relative that she was preparing to board a plane from Ürümqi to Beijing. Her current whereabouts are unknown, although it is believed that she is being held by the Chinese Government in a so-called “re-education camp,” a detention center, or a prison.

Human Rights Watch and other organizations have reported on so-called “political education” camps in Xinjiang, where an estimated 1 million or more Uyghurs and others have been “detained without any legal process, and subjected to political indoctrination, ill-treatment, and sometimes torture.” A group of United Nations human rights experts stated, in December 2019, that “incommunicado detention, enforced disappearances and secret trials have no place in a country governed by the rule of law,” adding that “such practices go against the spirit of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which China has signed in 1998.”

The Open Society University Network (OSUN) is a global partnership of 34 educational institutions across 19 nations that integrates learning and the advancement of knowledge across geographic and demographic boundaries, promotes civic engagement on behalf of open societies, and expands access to higher education for underserved communities.  The defense and advocacy of human rights and academic freedom, and the protection of threatened scholars, is at the core of OSUN’s mission.

In appointing Dawut to this position, OSUN expressed its support for the international movement for her release, and pledged to welcome her to a network institution to further her research and teaching when she is freed.

Rahile Dawut was recently awarded the 2020 Courage to Think prize by Scholars At Risk. Accepting the award, her daughter Akeda Pulat said: “My mother is a scholar, not a criminal. She studies the folklore and cultural traditions of minority populations. She promoted the culture and history of her people. She has been doing research within the strict confinement of censorship imposed by the Chinese government.”

“December 12 marks the third anniversary of Rahile Dawut’s disappearance,” said Botstein. “We call on the Chinese authorities to reveal her whereabouts, to disclose any charges against her, and to allow her immediate return to her family, her classroom, and to the scholarship that has made her an essential part of the international academic community.”

The OSUN appointment came at the initiative of a group of students studying human rights advocacy and academic freedom at Bard College, a founding partner in OSUN, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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12/8/20
 
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Post Date: 12-08-2020
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  • Two Bard College Students Win Critical Language Scholarships for Foreign Language Study Abroad

    Two Bard College Students Win Critical Language Scholarships for Foreign Language Study Abroad

    Adelina Colaku ’18 and Evan Tims ’19 have both won US State Department Critical Language Scholarships for study abroad this summer. 
    Read More

    Post Date: 04-25-2018
  • Violence and Creativity: Bard Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason on Pierre Michon

    Violence and Creativity: Bard Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason on Pierre Michon

    Wyatt Mason on translating the works of the French writer Pierre Michon.
    Read More

    Post Date: 09-10-2017
  • Bard College Alumna Charlotte Mandell ’90 Named Finalist For Prestigious Man Booker International Prize

    Bard College Alumna Charlotte Mandell ’90 Named Finalist For Prestigious Man Booker International Prize

    Bard College alumna Charlotte Mandell ’90 has been named one of six finalists for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.
    Read More

    Post Date: 06-14-2017
  • Bard College Students Win Prestigious Fulbright, Watson, and Davis Awards

    Bard College Students Win Prestigious Fulbright, Watson, and Davis Awards

    Bard College students have won several highly competitive awards for international travel including two Thomas J. Watson Fellowships, four Fulbright grants, and a Davis Projects for Peace prize.
    Read More

    Post Date: 04-24-2017
  • Professor Joseph Luzzi Discusses A Cinema of Poetry at Harvard

    Professor Joseph Luzzi Discusses A Cinema of Poetry at Harvard

    Professor Luzzi was interviewed at Harvard University about his book A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film, as part of their De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies.
    Read More

    Post Date: 03-08-2017
  • How to Read Dante in the 21st Century, by Professor Joseph Luzzi

    How to Read Dante in the 21st Century, by Professor Joseph Luzzi

    Professor Joseph Luzzi breaks the code of The Divine Comedy and justifies its importance outside of the college and high school classroom.
    Read More

    Post Date: 04-10-2016

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  • 3/10
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    Wednesday, March 10, 2021

    Fighting for Freedom 2020: Protest Across Eurasia

    Online Event 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    The Human Rights Project and Russian/Eurasian Studies Program present a panel discussion on "Fighting for Freedom 2020: Protest Across Asia."

    Moderator: Thomas Keenan, Bard College
    Thomas Keenan teaches human rights, media theory, and literature, and directs the Human Rights Project as well as Bard’s degree program in Human Rights. He has served on the boards of a number of human rights organizations and journals, including WITNESS, Scholars at Risk, The Crimes of War Project, The Journal of Human Rights, and Humanity. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility, 1997; and with Eyal Weizman, Mengele’s Skull, 2012. He is co-editor, with Wendy Chun, of New Media, Old Media, 2006, 2nd ed. 2015; with Tirdad Zolghadr, of The Human Snapshot, 2013. The Flood of Rights, co-edited with Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr, appeared in 2017.

    Maksimas Milta on Belarus, European Humanities University
    Maksimas Milta leads the Communication and Development Unit and is a part-time faculty member in the Department of Humanities and Arts at the European Humanities University, a Belarusian University-in-Exile. Starting from the outbreak of the revolt in Belarus, Maksimas has been a frequent commentator to Lithuanian, regional and international media (including BBC, Times Higher Education etc.), providing daily reports on the dynamics of the protest and analysis of the political movement in the country. Maksimas holds a Master's degree in Eastern European and Russian Studies from Vilnius University.

    Alesia Rudnik on Belarus, Karlstad University
    Lesia Rudnik is a Research Fellow at the Center for New Ideas, PhD Fellow at Karlstad University (Sweden). Lesia Rudnik is also involved in consulting ongoing projects of the Belarusian opposition. She is based in Sweden where she also chairs an organization of Belarusian diaspora. Alesia has published her analyses for media and analytical editions based in Belarus, Sweden, Poland, Germany, UK, the USA. Lesia holds the following degrees: MA pol sci (Stockholm University), MA Journalism (Sodertorn University), BA pol sci and European research (European Humanities University). Her academic research is digitalization of politics, protest mobilization via social media.

    Medet Tiulegenov on Kyrgyzstan, America University of Central Asia
    Medet Tiulegenov teaches political science at the Department of International and Comparative Politics of American University of Central Asia. His teaching and research interests include normative diffusion, civil society in transition countries, contentious politics, politics of identity and political participation.

    This is an online event. Join via Zoom.

    For more information, contact Olga Voronina at voronin@bard.edu or Danielle Riou at riou@bard.edu.

     

    10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Online Event
  • 3/10
    Wednesday

    Wednesday, March 10, 2021

    Fighting for Freedom 2020: Protest Across Eurasia

    A Panel
    Online Event 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Thomas Keenan Moderator, Bard College
    Thomas Keenan teaches human rights, media theory, literature, and directs the Human Rights Project as well as Bard’s degree program in Human Rights. He has served on the boards of a number of human rights organizations and journals, including WITNESS, Scholars at Risk, The Crimes of War Project, The Journal of Human Rights, and Humanity. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility, 1997; and with Eyal Weizman, Mengele’s Skull, 2012. He is co-editor, with Wendy Chun, of New Media, Old Media, 2006, 2nd ed. 2015; with Tirdad Zolghadr, of The Human Snapshot, 2013. The Flood of Rights, co-edited with Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr, appeared in 2017.

    Maksimas Milta on Belarus, European Humanities University
    Maksimas Milta leads the Communication and Development Unit and is a part-time faculty member in the Department of Humanities and Arts at the European Humanities University, a Belarusian University-in-Exile. Starting from the outbreak of the revolt in Belarus, Maksimas has been a frequent commentator to Lithuanian, regional and international media (including BBC, Times Higher Education etc.), providing daily reports on the dynamics of the protest and analysis of the political movement in the country. Maksimas holds a Master's degree in Eastern European and Russian Studies from Vilnius University.

    Alesia Rudnik on Belarus, Karlstad University
    Lesia Rudnik is a Research Fellow at the Center for New Ideas, PhD Fellow at Karlstad University (Sweden). Lesia Rudnik is also involved in consulting ongoing projects of the Belarusian opposition. She is based in Sweden where she also chairs an organization of Belarusian diaspora. Alesia has published her analyses for media and analytical editions based in Belarus, Sweden, Poland, Germany, UK, the USA. Lesia holds the following degrees: MA pol sci (Stockholm University), MA Journalism (Sodertorn University), BA pol sci and European research (European Humanities University). Her academic research is digitalization of politics, protest mobilization via social media.

    Medet Tiulegenov on Kyrgyzstan, America University of Central Asia
    Medet Tiulegenov teaches political science at the Dep't of International and Comparative Politics of American University of Central Asia. His teaching and research interests include normative diffusion, civil society in transition countries, contentious politics, politics of identity and political participation.

    Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87030710599?pwd=WEVySi9YcGtnaW15VjVIV01rOHhNZz09
    Meeting ID: 870 3071 0599 Passcode: 9Syx5z

    For more information, contact Olga Voronina at voronin@bard.edu or Danielle Riou at riou@bard.edu

    10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Online Event
  • 3/10
    Wednesday

    Wednesday, March 10, 2021

    Spanish Table on Zoom


    Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

    Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
    At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment. 

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  • 3/10
    Wednesday

    Wednesday, March 10, 2021

    Arabic Table on Zoom

    Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
    Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors!

    Join Zoom Meeting
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  • 3/11
    Thursday

    Thursday, March 11, 2021

    French Table On Zoom

    Online Event 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
    Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132

    French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.

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