The Human Rights Project organizes a series of events and film screenings each semester. These events are free and open to the Bard community. To find out what's happening on campus this year, click on the schedules below:
archive of past events
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"Mapping Disaster: Critical Geography and the Politics of Risk"
A one day conference on new technologies and strategies in critical geography and GIS. Sponsored by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, the Human Rights Program, and the Science, Technology and Society Program.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
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Human Rights Project Lecture: JANA HRDILKOVA
"Chechnya 2007: Stress, Normalization, and Glimmers of Hope," a discussion on the current situation in Chechnya by Czech human rights activist Jana Hrdilkova.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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Conference: Music and Torture (Postponed)
Postponed until September 2008. Date, location, and details to be announced.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
| Olin Hall | | Human Rights Project; Bard Music Festival; Musical Quarterly | | 845-758-7110 | | E-mail to Friend |
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HRP Lecture: Global HIV/AIDS Solidarity Speaker Tour
“Globalization, Gender, and Justice: Ending the Global AIDS Pandemic.” lecture by Zambian activist Sandra Mubiana Banda and Matthew Kavanagh, codirector of Global Justice.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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Bard Prison Initiative on 60 Minutes Sunday, April 15, Screening in Weis Cinema.
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – On Sunday, April 15, at 7 p.m., the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) will be featured on the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. The show will be screened at 7 p.m. Sunday in Weis Cinema in the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
| 7:00 pm | | Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | Bard Prison Initiative | | 845-758-7308 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Conference: Human Rights and Technology
"Wielding the Double Edged Sword—Practicum." First of a two-weekend conference presented jointly by the Human Rights Project and the Science, Technology, and Society Program. This weekend is student centered and consists of a series of workshops that teach and share technical skills that aid in deploying new technologies for social change.
Friday, April 14, 2006
| To be announced | | Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program | | 845-758-7110 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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Bard College to Host Free Performance by Internationally Acclaimed Ugandan-American Artist
Bard College to Host Free Performance and Film Screening by Internationally Acclaimed Ugandan-American Artist Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine on March 15 and 16
On March 16, at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Ntare Will Perform Biro, His Solo Multimedia Performance Piece
Chronicling The Life of an HIV Positive African’s Epic Journey
Thursday, March 16, 2006
| 8:00 pm | | Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater | | Theater Program; Human Rights Project; Film Dept/Committee; Dean of the College; Anthropology Program; Africana Studies Program; Black Students Office, Fisher Center | | 845-758-7900 | | Press Release | | E-mail to Friend |
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"Constitutional Thought and the Problem of History and the Social: The Case of India"
A lecture by Dr. Uday Singh Mehta, Clarence Francis Professor in the Social Sciences at Amherst College.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
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Alec Ewald - Inside and Outside: The Debate over the Voting Rights of Prisoners.
Should people convicted of serious crimes retain the right to vote? This question raises profound problems in democratic theory, criminal justice, and constitutionalism -- but you wouldn't know it from the way American courts have handled the matter. Inside the courts, much of the life is drained out of this question, as lawyers and judges struggle within the narrow, quirky confines of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Outside the U.S. courts, however, judges in other countries, scholars, and advocates engage in a much more vibrant debate. This talk will survey that debate, concluding with a modest proposal for an "ideal" policy designed to offend just about everyone.
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
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Lecture: Shaping Technologies that Affect Our Lives – An Emerging Human Right?
Presented by Langden Winner, Thomas Phelan Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and co-director of the Center for Cultural Design, Rensellear Polytechnic Institute
Today we recognize that technologies of many kinds have the power to affect our well being in fundamental ways. But seldom has the right to participate in the shaping of crucial technologies been upheld as one of the basic human rights. How can we explain the silence that surrounds this issue? What is involved in moving this question onto the agenda of humanity's central concerns?
Praised by The Wall Street Journal as "The leading academic on the politics of technology," Prof. Winner is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he serves as co-director of the newly founded Center for Cultural Design. Mr. Winner is past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. In the early 1980s he was consultant on Godfrey Reggio's film "Koyaanisqatsi." Mr. Winner's views on social, political and environmental issues appear regularly in Tech Knowledge Revue, published in the on-line journal "NetFuture". His satires, including The Masked Marauders and Automatic Professor Machine (available on his website at www.langdonwinner.org), appear on occasion, sometimes announced, sometimes not. In May 2005 Langdon gave the Tenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture for the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge on the topic: "Technology Studies for Terrorists: A Short Course".
Thursday, December 15, 2005
| 6:30 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program | | 845-758-7296 | | E-mail to Friend |
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LOVE AND TERROR FILM SERIES : A Very British Coup
This film in Mark Danner's "Love and Terror" series is : A VERY BRITISH COUP - 1988. DIRECTED BY MICK JACKSON,
STARRING RAY MCANALLY, and will be followed by discussion with Mark Danner, Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism.
Monday, December 12, 2005
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Lecture: "A Democracy of Distinction: Democracy and Constitutionalism in Classical Greece"
Jill Frank, Univ. of South Carolina (C), will speak on democracy and constitutionalism in classical Greece. She is the author of "A Democracy of Distinction" a text that re-conceptualizes Democracy and constitutionalism out Aristotle's work. A part of the lecture series "Technology, Technocracy, and Human Rights"
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
| Science, Technology, and Society Program; Human Rights Project | | 845-758-7296 | | E-mail to Friend |
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LOVE AND TERROR FILM SERIES : Interrogation (Pesluchanie)
This film in Mark Danner's "Love and Terror" series is : INTERROGATION (PESLUCHANIE) - 1982. DIRECTED BY RYSZARD BUGAJSKI and will be followed by discussion with Mark Danner, Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism.
Monday, December 5, 2005
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LOVE AND TERROR FILM SERIES : Internal Affairs
This film in Mark Danner's "Love and Terror" series is : ALFIE - 1990. DIRECTED BY MIKE FIGGIS, STARRING RICHARD GERE, ANDY GARCIA, AND LAURIE METCALF, and will be followed by discussion with Mark Danner, Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism.
Monday, November 28, 2005
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Lecture: Struggles for a Chinese Civil Society in the Information Age: Environmental Activism in China
(Final lecture title forthcoming)
Presented by Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, Columbia University.
Co-sponsored by the History and Asian Studies Programs.
This lecture is in conjunction with the History and East Asian Studies programs.
Prof. Yang has published extensively on Chinese civil society in the information age, environmental activism in china, and China's cultural revolution in history and memory. For a full list of Prof. Yang's publications visit:
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~gyang/
Monday, November 21, 2005
| 6:30 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program | | 845-758-7296 | | E-mail to Friend |
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LOVE AND TERROR FILM SERIES : Alfie
This film in Mark Danner's "Love and Terror" series is : ALFIE - 1966. DIRECTED BY LEWIS
GILBERT, STARRING MICHAEL
CAINE, and will be followed by discussion with Mark Danner, Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism.
Monday, November 21, 2005
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Lecture: Infrastructure is a Political Act: Obligation, Place, and the Borders of the Polis
Presented by Michael Menser, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College
Dr. Michael Menser is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Place, Culture, and Politics (both at the CUNY Grad Center.) He has been a member of the NYC Social Forum "seed group" since 2001 and was an invited speaker at the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2002. Further information on Prof. Menser can be found at: http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/philo/Menser.htm
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
| 6:30 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program | | 845-758-7296 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Bhopal Photo Exhibit
An exhibit of photos about the Bhopal gas disaster and its aftermath
Friday, November 11, 2005 - Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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DIANE WILSON: An Unreasonable Woman
Diane Wilson, author, fisherwoman and anti-corporate activist, will speak and read from her new book "An Unreasonable Woman." Don't miss it.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
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LOVE AND TERROR FILM SERIES : "Z"
This film in Mark Danner's "Love and Terror" series is : "Z" - 1969. DIRECTED BY COSTA-GRAVES, WITH YVES MONTAND, IRENE PAPAS, AND JACQUES
PERRIN, and will be followed by discussion with Mark Danner, Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism.
Monday, November 7, 2005
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LOVE AND TERROR FILM SERIES : Shampoo
This film in Mark Danner's "Love and Terror" series is : SHAMPOO - 1975. DIRECTED BY HAL ASHBY,
STARRING WARREN BEATTY,
JULIE CHRISTIE, AND GOLDIE
HAWN
, and will be followed by discussion with Mark Danner, Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism.
Monday, October 31, 2005
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HRP/STS: Fred Lazin "ISRAEL VERSUS THE AMERICAN JEWISH ESTABLISHMENT"
The talk conncerns the political struggle on behalf of Soviet Jewry in
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United States. Initially, both Israel and mainstream American Jewish
organizations. worked to facilitate Soviet Jews going to Israel.
However, when Soviet Jews began to prefer to the United States as their destination, a conflict arose between Israel and American Jewry over the issue of freedom of choice for Soviet Jews. Yet when Soviet leader Gorbachev allowed free emigration of Soviet Jews in 1989, the American Jewish community supported a quota limiting their entry into the United States. Thus many Soviet Jews were forced to go to Israel if they chose to leave the Soviet Union. About a million former soviet Jews have settled in Israel. The talk details and explains the shifts in the positions of these political forces.
Monday, October 24, 2005
| 6:30 pm | | Olin Language Center, Room 115 | | Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program | | Bridget Hanna | | bhanna@bard.edu | | 845-758-6822 x7110 | | E-mail to Friend |
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HRP/STS: Evelyn Fox-Keller - "Innate Confusions"
Presented by Evelyn Fox-Keller, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Conceptions of innateness, and of a meaningful distinction between innate and acquired, between nature and nurture, are so widespread as to seem to many to belong to a universal folk-biology. It has even been suggested that such distinctions are the products of a hard-wired (i.e., innate) mental module, a feature of human biology programmed in our genetic makeup, and serious research efforts are being made at identifying and clarifying the nature of such a module. But what if our attribution of innateness to such generic tendencies is itself an expression of those tendencies?
Friday, October 21, 2005
| 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | | Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program | | bridget Hanna | | bhanna@bard.edu | | 845-758-6822 x7110 | | E-mail to Friend |
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LOVE AND TERROR FILM SERIES : Burn!
This film in Mark Danner's "Love and Terror" series is : BURN! - 1969. DIRECTED BY GILLO PONTOCORVO, STARRING MARLON BRANDO, and will be followed by discussion with Mark Danner, Luce Professor in Human Rights and Journalism.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
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JOEL PERLMANN: Constructing Race, Defining Citizens
Combining two of the most powerful techniques or technologies of the
late nineteenth century -- statistics and archived classification --
with one of its most problematic 'scientific' premises, the racial
classification of people, Prof. Perlmann's talk will examine the
meaning of these fields within the new technocractic administration of
mass immigration. Enabled by new technologies such as the Hollerith
(IBM) tabulation machine both in America and Europe, the ability to
'classify' masses of people would, along with new systems of personal
and state identification, decisively effect twentieth century history
by establishing on what basis individuals had access -- or not -- to
state rights and priveledges.
Thursday, October 6, 2005
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BRIDGET HANNA: "The Bhopal Reader" book release, reading, reception
A reception and reading to celebrate the publication of Bridget Hanna's new anthology, "The Bhopal Reader: 20 years of the world's worst industrial disaster." This event will also include an introduction to the combined Human Rights Project/ Science Technology and Society lectures and events year with Bridget Hanna and HRP acting director Greg Moynahan.
Monday, October 3, 2005
| 5:30 pm | | Campus Center, George Ball Lounge | | Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program | | Bridget Hanna | | bhanna@bard.edu | | 845-758-6822 x7110 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Avi Mograbi screens his film "Avenge But One Of My Two Eyes"
In this provocative, wry, and mournful mosaic, documentary filmmaker Avi Mograbi ponders the relationship between stories of Jewish struggles for freedom and the Palestinian resistance seen most dramatically in the two intifadas.
Monday, September 26, 2005
| 6:30 pm | | Olin Language Center, Room 115 | | Film Dept/Committee; Human Rights Project; Science, Technology and Society Program | | Bridget Hanna | | bhanna@bard.edu | | 845-758-6822 x7110 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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Drucilla Cornell : "Dignity Jurisprudence in South Africa"
Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She writes on contemporary continental thought, critical theory, grass-roots political and legal mobilization, jurisprudence, women's literature, feminism, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy.
She is currently the Director of the "Ubuntu Project," a network of scholars in South African and the United States combining ethnographic and jurisprudential research into the African practice of Ubuntu.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
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DAVID GARCIA - Knowledge Networks Freedom
David Garcia teaches Design for Digital Cultures at the Utrecht School of Art Media and Technology. He is the founder and co-organiser of The Next 5 Minutes (94-2003), perhaps the most interesting and exciting and cool international conferences ever organized, on electronic 'samizdat' or tactical media. His current research, and his developing projects, connect new work in Amsterdam tactical television to Italy's Telestreet movement (nationwide micro TV stations) and the Autolabs of Sao Paulo's peripheral communities.
This talk will draw on political philosophy, of different eras along with recent work in Amsterdam tactical media, Sao Paulo auto Labs and the Italian Telestreet movement to ask: what is freedom actually being made to mean now; in the era of networks?
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
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ARIELLA AZOULAY - Emergency Claims
What are the conditions of visibility of the catastrophic event? Azoulay discusses being on the verge of catastrophe in the Occupied Territories through reading of some photos and a screening of the film "The Chain of Food" (13 minutes) on the question wether or not there is famine in the occupied territories.
Monday, April 25, 2005
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DAVID RIEFF & AHILAN KADIRGAMAR - After the Tsunami: the Politics and Ethics of Humanitarian Aid
David Rieff and Ahilan Kadirgamar discuss the political and ethical dimensions of relief and reconstruction efforts in tsunami-affected areas, with a special focus on Sri Lanka.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
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PETER MAGUIRE - Facing Death in Cambodia
FACING DEATH IN CAMBODIA: Peter Maguire, author of the newly-published book of the same name, will discuss the Cambodian genocide 30 years later, with Meng-Try Ea and Vannak Huy of the Documentation Center of Cambodia.
Monday, April 18, 2005
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JENNIFER BAUMGARDENER AND AMY RICHARDS “So You Say that You’re a Feminist…”
Organizing as Feminists in the 21st Century
Monday, April 11, 2005
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SATHYU SARANGI and RYAN BODANYI -- Frontiers in International Activism : the case of Bhopal
Satinath Sarangi of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Ryan Bodanyi of Students for Bhopal, discuss the intersection of human rights, environmentalism and corporate accountability, and the tools necessary to make global change internationally.
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
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FRANCISCO GOLDMAN - A Perfect Crime of State: The Bishop Gerardi Murder Case
Prize-winning journalist and novelist Francisco Goldman examines the 1998 murder of the Guatemalan human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was a driving force in exposing military respnsibility for widespread atrocities committed, primarily against the country's indigenous Maya communities, during the 36-year Guatemalan civil war. Activists believe his murder was politically motivated, but the circumstances were mired in controversy, creating a mystery that has not been resolved to this day. Goldman explores the ambiguities that arise in the quest to expose the painful conflicts that haunt Guatemalan historical memory.
Monday, April 4, 2005
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HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER - A reading
A reading, with a mix of essays and poetry Introduced by Norman Manea, Francis Flournoy Professor in European Studies and Culture
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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H. M. ENZENSBERGER - "Is there still a west?"
A dialogue between Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Ian Buruma, Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism.
Monday, March 21, 2005
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Ananya Vajpeyi: Iconography of Camp and Refugee
Ananya Vajpeyi, Center for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi -- is giving a talk entitled --Violent Space, Violated Person: The Iconography of the Camp and the Refugee -- Ananya Vajpeyi is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has recently held visiting positions at the School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University) and at the Society for Old and New Media (Waag) in Amsterdam, and as a Scholar of Peace 2004-05 with WISCOMP: Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace, New Delhi. She received an M.Phil. from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar (1994-96), and a Ph.D. from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Chicago (2004).
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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temporary facts, flexible lines / the architecture of Israeli occupation
A guest lecture by Tel Aviv / London architect Eyal Weizman.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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Play Money - A talk by Julian Dibbell
Early in 2003, technology writer and contributing editor to WIRED Magazine, Julian Dibbell, set out to test the following proposition: "On April 15, 2004, I will truthfully report to the IRS that my primary source of income is the sale of imaginary goods -- and that I earn more from it, on a monthly basis, than I have ever earned as a professional writer." The tax return was filed, and it listed a net profit ... but I won't give away the end of the story.
He is also the author of _My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World_ (Henry Holt, 1999). Part memoir and part ethnography, it's about the social life of the online, text-based virtual world LambdaMOO and Dibbell's brief encounter with it. Andrew Leonard, in Salon, called it “the best book yet on the meaning of online life.”
Monday, February 14, 2005
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Bhopal: 20 Years Later
A play about Bhopal.
Friday, December 3, 2004
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Bhopal Commemoration
On December 2-3 1984 poisonous methyl-isocyante gas leaked from a Union Carbide Chemical plant in Bhopal, India, killing thousands and permanently disabling hundreds of thousands. Twenty years later, justice has still not been served.
These evenings of events will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas disaster.
Tonight, show your support and come to the candle lighting vigil Thursday night at 7pm in the campus center lobby. We will light candles in honor of the victims and read their testimonials.
Thursday, December 2, 2004
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Screening Bhopal: Films by Ilan Ziv and Harold Crooks
The Human Rights Project screens Bhopal: Litigating Disaster, a film by Ilan Ziv made for the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster (India, Dec. 1984). Lawyer Rajan Sharma, will speak to us about the film and the process of making it.
We will also be screening Harold Crooks (director of "the Corporation") new film about Bhopal - followed by a disscussion of the two films by Crooks and Sharma.
Monday, November 22, 2004
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Guantánamo: America’s war on human rights
British journalist David Rose talks about his new book on Guantanamo.
"Camp Delta at Guantánamo Bay is the most controversial prison in the world. The 600 detainees in Cuba have been held in a legal black hole. Are they 'the hardest of the hard-core' Al Qaeda terrorists, ruthless men 'involved in a plot to kill thousands of ordinary Americans', as the Bush administration has maintained? And has their continued imprisonment really been a necessary weapon in the war against terror, preventing further murders and providing an invaluable trove of intelligence?"
Thursday, November 18, 2004
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Error-Centricity, Habeas Corpus, and the Rule of Law as the Law of Rules
UC Berkeley Robbins Collection Research Fellow Roger Berkowitz speaks on habeas corpus.
Monday, November 1, 2004
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Lecture: Alex Melamid's "Art Ministry"
"In Art We Trust (Since We Can't Explain It): The Gospel According to Alex." Russian conceptual artist Alex Melamid, known for his irony and irreverence, will bring his latest project "Art Ministry" to Bard.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
| 7:00 pm | | Chapel of the Holy Innocents | | Art History Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Human Rights Project; Institute for International Liberal Education; Philosophy Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature | | Lena Siyanko | | | 845-758-7835 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Bus 174
A screening of the film BUS 174 (2003), with director Felipe Lacerda. "In the summer of 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, a 21-year-old hijacked a commuter bus and held its passengers hostage. The police were flummoxed as local TV crews arrived en masse to cover the headline-grabbing events as they unfolded... (Film Forum)"
Monday, October 25, 2004
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Breakdown in the Gray Room: The Images from Abu Ghraib
A talk by writer David Levi Strauss on the images from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Strauss looks at the images in the context of other recent and historical public images, to try to determine their meaning and understand their effects.
Why did these images have such an immediate and profound effect? During the first two and a half years after 9/11, the Bush administration proved to be highly skilled in the production, manipulation, and control of public images, and were especially effective in controlling images of the war in Iraq. This changed abruptly on April 28th, when the Abu Ghraib images first appeared in public.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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Rwanda 1994
Rwandan journalist and Rwandan Human Rights Commission member Tom Ndahiro speaks on the role of the mass media in the mass murders of Rwanda.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
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Humanitarian Military Intervention in the Aftermath of Iraq and the 'Run-Up' to Darfur.
The Human Rights Project lecture series for the fall semester begins with a talk by David Rieff. Rieff is the author of many books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and Failure of the West, Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World, and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. He is also co-editor (with Roy Gutman) of War Crimes, What the Public Should Know, a primer on international humanitarian law. Rieff covers wars and humanitarianism in many parts of the world.
Monday, September 20, 2004
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Satinath Sarangi
A talk by the founder of the Bhopal Group for
Information and Action and administrator at the Sambhavna Clinic and Research Center on the 1984 disaster in Bhopal, India.
Monday, May 3, 2004
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Richard Dicker
A talk by Richard Dicker, director of the international justice program at Human Rights Watch:
The current challenges in strengthening the "system" of international justice: Iraq, the Former Yugoslavia, and the first cases at the ICC.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
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Burned Books and Blasted Shrines: Documenting War Crimes against Cultural Heritage in the Balkans
A talk (with slides) by Andras Riedlmayer, Bibliographer for Islamic Art at the Harvard Fine Arts Library.
Monday, April 19, 2004
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Palestine Awareness Week: Film Screening
Canticle of Stones (Michael Khalefi, 1989). Organized by students, Palestine Awarness Week features a series of free events focused on raising awareness about Palestinian life, history, and culture.
Saturday, April 17, 2004
| 5:30 pm | | Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | Human Rights Project; Students for Justice in Palestine and TLS | | 845-758-0204 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Palestine Awareness Week: Exhibition and Discussion
Two International Solidarity Movement activists will show and discuss a traveling exhibition created by and about residents of Balata refugee camp in Nablus.Organized by students, Palestine Awarness Week features a series of free events focused on raising awareness about Palestinian life, history, and culture.
Thursday, April 15, 2004
| Robbins Lounge | | Human Rights Project; Students for Justice in Palestine and TLS | | 845-758-0204 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Palestine Awareness Week: Film Screening and Lecture
Bard professor and author Joel Kovel will show a short film about the history of the conflict followed by a brief lecture and Question-and-answer period. Organized by students, Palestine Awarness Week features a series of free events focused on raising awareness about Palestinian life, history, and culture.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
| 5:00 pm | | Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | Human Rights Project; Students for Justice in Palestine and TLS | | 845-758-0204 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Palestine Awarness Week: Exhibition
Reservations. Featuring a scale model of the wall currently under construction in the West Bank, the exhibition also includes photos and slides of the actual wall and fence; an illustrated story board; and projected video. A gray sheet will partition the room into two sides. Organized by students, Palestine Awarness Week features a series of free events focused on raising awareness about Palestinian life, history, and culture. The exhibition opening will be at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday; on Thursday and Friday the exhibition will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - Friday, April 16, 2004
| Campus Center, Multipurpose Room | | Human Rights Project; Students for Justice in Palestine and TLS | | 845-758-0204 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Palestine Awareness Week: Lecture
"The Persistence of the Palestine Question." Lecture by Columbia professor Joseph Massad. Organized by students, Palestine Awarness Week features a series of free events focused on raising awareness about Palestinian life, history, and culture.
Monday, April 12, 2004
| 7:00 pm | | Campus Center, Multipurpose Room | | Human Rights Project; TLS and Students for Justice in Palestine | | 845-758-0204 | | E-mail to Friend |
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The Persistence of the Palestine Question
A talk by Joseph Massad, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, as part of Palestine Awareness week.
Monday, April 12, 2004
| 7:00 pm | | Campus Center, Multipurpose Room | | Human Rights Project; TLS and Students for Justice in Palestine | | 845-758-7332 | | E-mail to Friend |
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In Rwanda we say...the family that does not speak dies
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the Human Rights Project Film series presents Anne Aghion, Director of "Gacaca: Living together in Rwanda." She will screen her new film about Rwanda, called "In Rwanda we say...the family that does not speak dies" (First Run Icarus Films, 54 min).
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
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Conference, "One Year Later"
A two-day conference focusing on the "global" protests of February 15, 2003, and the movement against the war in Iraq. Location and time to be announced. Visit our website for complete details or to register for the conference.
Saturday, March 27, 2004 - Sunday, March 28, 2004
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Documentary/Verite: Bio-Politics, Human Rights and the Figure of Truth in Contemporary Art
The Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project present Okwui Enwezor, Artistic Director, Documenta XI.
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
| 7:00 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Center for Curatorial Studies | | 845-758-7332 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Performances: Osagyefo Theatre Company from Ghana
The Ghanaian Osagyefo Theatre Company, in residence at Bard College from March 17–20, will offer two performances. On Friday, March 19, the company will perform "Dances of Life," a
series of contemporary and traditional African dances; and on Saturday, March 20, they will present the play Verdict of the Cobra, written by Mohammed Ben Abdallah. Both programs are free to the Bard and Vassar communities; an $8 donation is requested from the general public.
Friday, March 19, 2004 - Saturday, March 20, 2004
| 7:30 pm | | Olin Hall | | Theater Program; Office of Student Activities; Music Program; Human Rights Project; Dance Program; Anthropology Program; Africana Studies Program; BSO, TLS, Office of Multicultural Affairs, | | Jesse Shipley | | | 845-758-7201 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Minders and Keepers: Intellectuals in Communist Bulgaria
Elizabeth Frank grills Zlatko Anguelov, author of Communism and the Remorse of an Innocent Victimizer, on his involvement in day-to-day communism.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
| 7:00 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Russian and Eurasian Studies | | 845-758-7332 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Symposium: "From the National to the Global and Back
"From the National to the Global and Back? The Role of the United Nations as a Supranational Institution." Second Annual Bard/Humboldt Student Symposium.
Friday, March 12, 2004 - Saturday, March 13, 2004
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Antigone
A screening of the film made by WITNESS, and a talk by Mimi Doretti, co-founder of Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense, on forensic science and human rights.
Monday, March 8, 2004
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Lecture
"'It Is as It Was'; What's at Stake in Mel Gibson's Passion." James Shapiro, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, will speak about the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ.
Thursday, March 4, 2004
| 6:00 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Medieval Studies, Literature | | 845-758-6822 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Who Knows?
The Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project present a talk by Natalie Jeremijenko. Jeremijenko is the Director of the Engineering Design Studio at Yale University, and an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts UC San Diego.
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
| 7:00 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Center for Curatorial Studies | | 845-758-7332 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Conference Workshop, "One Year Later"
A workshop in preparation for the “One Year Later” conference on March 27 and 28 in New York City. The March conference will present critical discussion of the "global" protests of February 15, 2003 and the movement against the war in Iraq. Visit our website for complete details or to register for the paper workshop.
Sunday, February 15, 2004
| 12:30 pm | | Olin Language Center | | Human Rights Project; Trustee Leader Scholar Program | | 845-752-4141 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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The Battle of Algiers
The Human Rights Project Film Series and Bard's Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism Mark Danner present the film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966).
Monday, December 15, 2003
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"One Family" and "The Journey"
The Human Rights Project welcomes the Global Action Project. A screening and conversation with the filmmakers.
Friday, December 12, 2003
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Guatemala 2003 Elections
Report from a group of eight Bard students and seven faculty and staff from Bard and Bard High School Early College who spent a week as volunteers in the OAS Election-monitoring mission in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Monday, December 1, 2003
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Report from Baghdad
A talk with Bard's Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism Mark Danner on his trip to Iraq moderated by David Gelber, CBS News.
Monday, November 10, 2003
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The Junction
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents the avant-premiere of the new Israel-Palestine film with filmmaker Ilan Ziv.
Monday, November 3, 2003
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What do students do with their time and our money?
The Human Rights Project presents an evening of conversation with the Summer 2003 HRP interns.
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
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The Space Station as Perfect Island
The Institute for International Liberal Education presents a talk by Peter Sloterdjik followed by the film "Out of the Present," by Andrei Ujica.
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
| 6:00 pm | | Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | Human Rights Project; Institute for International Liberal Education | | 845-758-7332 | | E-mail to Friend |
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What if Cross-Cultural Consensus on Human Rights Turns Out to Be Impossible?
A talk by Wiktor Osiatynski of the Central European University, Budapest-Warsaw.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
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The Right to Have Rights
A talk on political theology, globalization, and human rights by Prof. Werner Hamacher, of the Institute of General and Comparative Literary Study (Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt-am-Main).
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
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On the ethics and politics of medicine in wartime
The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and the Human Rights Project present a talk by author Sheri Fink, M.D.
Friday, September 19, 2003
| 6:00 pm | | Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY | | Human Rights Project; BGIA | | 845-758-7332 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Lecture Series: "What is Enlightenment?"
“From Kant to Kosovo: Does Enlightenment Still Work?” Thomas Keenan, director of the Human Rights Project, Bard College. Presented by the First-Year Seminar.
Monday, September 8, 2003
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Love Letters in Colonial Exile: Family Estrangements and the Distortions of Empire
A talk by Ann Stoler, Professor of Anthropology, History, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Stoler has done more than twenty-five years of ethnographic and archival research on questions related to social inequality in Indonesia, colonial Vietnam, and in the Netherlands and France. Her current research is on memories of 'the colonial' in Indonesia, and on the cultural politics of the radical right in France.
Monday, May 12, 2003
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Literature, Politics, Aesthetics: Approaches to Democratic Disagreement
A talk by Jacques Rancière, Professor of aesthetics at the University of Paris VIII.
"Politics is not the exercise of power. Politics must be defined by itself, as a specific way of acting put into practice by a particular kind of subject and deriving from a particular kind of rationality. It is the political relationship which makes it possible to conceive of the political subject, not the reverse." (the first of Rancière's Eleven Theses on Politics)
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Knowing the Enemy: The Epistemology of Secret Intelligence
A talk with Eva Horn, of the Program in West-European Literature, Europa-Universitat Viadrina, in Frankfurt/Oder. Horn has recently published some articles on the history and structure of secret services and edited a book on territoriality and the violation of borders (Grenzverletzer, Berlin: Kadmos, 2002). She is working on a book about espionage and treason in the literature and political discourse of the 20th century.
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
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The War in Iraq: What’s Next?
The Human Rights Project and Dean of International Studies present a panel discussion with: Suzanna Price (BBC UN Correspondent, former BBC Correspondent in Islamabad),
Mark Lytle (Professor of History), and James Chace (Paul Williams Professor of Government).
Monday, March 24, 2003
| 7:00 pm | | Campus Center, Multipurpose Room | | Human Rights Project; Dean of International Studies | | 845-758-7332 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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The Implications of the USA Patriot Act on College Information Policy
Less than two months after September 11th, federal legislators passed the USA Patriot Act (whose official title is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001") in order to shield U.S. citizens from further terrorist attacks. However a closer reading of the Patriot Act has brought to the fore several important questions relating to citizens' rights and freedoms. Can the Patriot Act protect Americans from terrorism without infringing on their constitutional rights? How can a reasonable balance be struck between these two essential concerns?
The Bard College Information Resources Council, the Human Rights Project and the Dean's Office proudly present a panel discussion about the USA Patriot Act and its ramifications throughout college and university campuses. It is a timely issue of critical importance, and this event will both serve to inform the Bard community as well as encourage community participation in the shaping of Bard's response to its obligations under the Patriot Act.
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
| 7:00 pm | | Campus Center, Multipurpose Room | | Human Rights Project; Bard Information Resources Council, Dean of the College | | 845-758-7332 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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The New Economy Workplace: Con Job or Worker's Paradise?
Andrew Ross, Director of the American Studies Program at NYU, will discuss his latest book, No-Collar: The Human Workplace and its Hidden Costs (Basic Books, 2002).
Monday, February 17, 2003
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photography, human rights, memory
The Human Rights Project and the Bard Photography Department proudly present Robert Lyons, a distinguished photographer whose work has taken him on many trips to the African continent, in particular Morocco, Egypt, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Ethiopia. Lyons made his first trip to Rwanda in 1994, with the intent of capturing the images and the stories of a country ravaged by war and forgotten by the media.
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
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Habit
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents the film with filmmaker and activist Gregg Bordowitz (53 min., 2001).
Monday, November 25, 2002
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an evening with Ian Buruma and Mark Danner
The Human Rights Project presents Bard's Henry R. Luce Professors of Human Rights, New Media and Democracy.
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
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An Ordinary President
The Human Rights Project Film Series and the Bard Film Department present a film by Yuri Khashchevatsky (56 min. Germany/Belarus, 1996. Russian w/ English subtitles).
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
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The cause of the outcastes: India's Dalits
A talk by M.C. Raj, Director, Rural Education and Development Society (REDS).
Monday, October 28, 2002
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On the Road to Herat : The shaping of Afghanistan's new political regime
A talk by Elizabeth Rubin. Rubin is an award-winning journalist who contributes to Harper's, the New Yorker, The New Republic, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
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The Indonesia Trials on East Timor
A talk by David Cohen. Cohen teaches in both the Rhetoric and Classics Departments at UC Berkeley, and is the founder and director of the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. His areas of interest include social theory, legal and social history, legal philosophy, classical rhetoric, and international law & human rights.
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
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The Humanitarian Trap
A talk by David Rieff presented by the Bard Program on Globalization and International Affairs.
Thursday, October 3, 2002
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Justice and the Generals
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents the film with filmmaker Gail Pellett (90 min., El Salvador).
Monday, September 30, 2002
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Human Rights Project Test Event
This is a test event that can be deleted.
Monday, September 30, 2002
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War and Peace
First Year Seminar and the Human Rights Film Series present a film by Anand Patwardhan. Anand Patwardhan will be at Bard to discuss his film following the 2nd screening at 7:00pm in the MPR.
Monday, September 23, 2002
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | | Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | Human Rights Project; First-Year Seminar | | 845-758-7332 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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War and Peace
First Year Seminar and the Human Rights Film Series present a film by Anand Patwardhan.
Sunday, September 22, 2002
| 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | | Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | First-Year Seminar; Human Rights Project | | 845-758-7332 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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Two panels to mark the events of September 11, 2001
On September 10, 2002 Bard College will present two panels to mark the events of September 11, 2001. Panel One: "The War on Terrorism" (4:30-6:00 p.m.), featuring: Thomas Keenan (moderator), Director, Bard Human Rights Project; Mark Lytle, Professor of History, Bard College; and James Miller, Deputy Director, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. Panel Two: "What's Next- War or Peace?" (7:30-9:00 p.m.), featuring: Jonathan Becker (moderator), Dean of International Studies; Caleb Carr, Author, "The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians"; Barbara Crossette, contributing writer, "The New York Times"; James Chace, Paul W. Williams Professor of Government, Bard College; and Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Politics, Bard College.
The panels will be on September 10, 2002 in the Multipurpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. The panels are free and no reservations are required.
Sponsored by: Dean of International Studies, Dean of the College, the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, the Human Rights Project and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association.
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
| 4:30 pm | | Campus Center, Multipurpose Room | | Human Rights Project; Dean of Students Office; Alumni/ae Association; Bard Globalization and International Affairs Progam | | Cecilia Maple | | cmaple@bard.edu | | 845-758-7089 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Panel Discussion
"The World Since September 11th,"
Panel 1, "The War on Terrorism at Home," 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Panelists include Mark Lytle, professor of history at Bard, and James Miller, deputy director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. The panel will be moderated by Thomas Keenan, director of the Human Rights Project at Bard.
Panel 2, "What's Next-War or Peace?," 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Panelists include Sanjib Baruah, professor of political studies at Bard; Caleb Carr, author of The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians; Barbara Crossette, c | |
