Charif Kiwan, spokesperson for the acclaimed Syrian film collective,  Abou Naddara, will come to Bard to screen a series of short films and give a talk. “We committed to making a short film every Friday as a contribution to the revolution. But we didn’t film our revolution in the way that you might see it on youtube through unbearable chaotic images. Rather we sought to understand it through the stories of individuals who are on the other side of the news.…

On Sunday October 20th, acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz will screen and discuss his recent film “The Law in These Parts,” winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Sundance and Jerusalem Film Festivals. The Law in These Parts is a tour-de-force examination of the system of military administration used by Israel since the Six Day War of 1967 — featuring the system’s leading creators. In a series of thoughtful and candid interviews, Israeli judges, prosecutors and legal advisers, who helped…

This event has been cancelled and will not take place.   The leading force behind the New York Times’ decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971, James Goodale will discuss his recent book, Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles. Soon after the book was published, James Goodale wrote an article based on the last few chapters: “Is Obama Worse For Press Freedom Than Nixon?” (The Daily Beast, May 14, 2013). This drew a torrent of…

Associate Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University, Margaret Gray will discuss her new book about migrant labor in the Hudson Valley, “Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic” In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, and saving small farms at the forefront of their attention. Yet amid this turn to wholesome and responsible food choices, the lives and working conditions of farmworkers…

  Assistant Professor of Law, Jourisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College, Adam Sitze will discuss his new book, The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In The Impossible Machine Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC’s legal, political, and cultural importance.…

Aslı Iğsız is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her teaching and research interests include cultural representation and cultural history, narratives of war and displacement, and dynamics of heterogeneity in late Ottoman and contemporary Turkish contexts. Her current book project, Humanism in Ruins: Habitus, Memory, and the 1923 Greek-Turkish Compulsory Religious Minority Exchange explores the habitus of recollecting remnants of the ruins of modern nation states and dynamics of diversity in contemporary Turkey. The…

The Human Rights Project, The Hannah Arendt Center and the Center for Civic Engagement invite you to join us for an evening with award-winning journalist and Red Hook resident TREY KAY on Thursday, November 7th at 7PM for a special listening session and Q&A for his new radio documentary The Long Game: Texas’ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom This documentary delves into the culture war battles over public school curriculum content, which have ebbed and flowed in the Lone…

This dynamic panel of journalists and lawyers includes reporter and senior digital producer Azmat Khan (Al Jazeera America, formerly at Frontline), attorney/blogger Noorain Khan (Jezebel/Gawker Media), and attorney/writer Nabiha Syed (NYTimes, Slate, DroneU). CHILDCARE PROVIDED click here for details. For more information, call 845-758-7697, e-mail mcecire@bard.edu, or visit http://eh.bard.edu/. Brought to you by the Division of Languages and Literature, the Difference and Media Project, and the Human Rights Project.

Daniel Klaidman, journalist and author, will deliver an inside look at the early years of the Obama administration. Klaidman will speak about the choice to use drones as a primary instrument of counter-terrorism and the personal struggles of individual policy-makers within the administration over the moral and ethical dimensions of this strategy. Klaidman is author of “Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Administration,” a landmark publication that shaped much of the popular understanding…