The Human Rights Project has been organizing series of events and film screenings each semester. These events are free and open to the Bard community. To browse our archive of past events, please click on the links below:
archive of past events
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Neil Hertz on Ruins
Neil Hertz retired from the Johns Hopkins University in 2005 after teaching literature there and at Cornell University for just shy of 45 years.
He is the author of *The End of the Line* (1985), *George Eliot's Pulse* (2003), and some of the most xeroxed articles in literary history, and co-editor of two books on the wartime journalism of Paul de Man. His mix of what he calls "the literature of the sublime in all its forms," Romanticism, Freud, Derrida and de Man, backed up by a corrosive irony and a meticulous attention to textual detail, has made him one of the most quietly influential readers and theorists of literature in the American academy today.
Lately he has become interested in "urban literature and the history of photography," he says, and he will speak this Tuesday on the issue of whether it is acceptable to find beauty in contemporary ruins, starting with a dispute about the twin towers, then going back for some 18th- and 19th-century analogues, then forward to W.G. Sebald on WW2 (with a rapid reading of "The Rings of Saturn.")
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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Lecture: KAZYS VARNELIS
The Center for Curatorial Studies’ Graduate Program in collaboration with the Bard College Art History and Human Rights Programs invite you to a lecture by Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. The lecture is presented as part of the CCS Bard class, Intellectual Property in an Open Source Culture.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
| 10:00 am | | Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | Art History Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Human Rights Project | | CCS Bard | | ccs@bard.edu | | 845-758-7598 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Orville Schell
Orville Schell is a renowned author, professor, and journalist,
currently serving as the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on
U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He has a strong
background in Chinese history, as he graduated from Harvard University
with a B.A. in Far Eastern studies and the University of California,
Berkeley with an M.A. and Ph.D in Chinese History, studied the
language at Stanford University, and wrote extensively on the war in
Indochina. Schell has written nine books on various topics in Chinese
history, including the modern Chinese revolution as well as Chinese
reforms. His other books cover topics such as the American meat
industry and he has written articles on the journalist's life in Iraq.
Official Website: http://orvilleschell.com/
Link to Schell's Articles: http://orvilleschell.com/articles.htm
New York Review of Books Archive of Schell's Work: http://www.nybooks.com/authors/270
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
| 6:30 pm | | Campus Center, Weis Cinema | | Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project | | Human Rights Project | | hrp@bard.edu | | 845-758-7110 | | E-mail to Friend |
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“Writing the Ghosts of Eastern Europe”
Three authors discuss their recent work on the East European past and its legacy today Laimonas Briedis is a native of Vilnius, Lithuania educated in Canada. He received his doctorate from the University of British Columbia and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. His book Vilnius: City of Strangers has just been published. Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, is the author of the bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which was awarded many honors including the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Jonathan Brent is Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature and Executive Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He founded Yale University Press’ landmark Annals of Communism series and recently published Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
| 4:30 pm | | Olin Language Center, Room 115 | | Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program; Human Rights Project | | Cecile Kuznitz | | kuznitz@bard.edu | | 845-758-7543 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Foreign Labor migration, remittances, and remittances-induced development in Nepal. Will this development be sustainable?
A talk by
Jagannath Adhikari The talk will focus on growing practice of foreign labor migration in Nepal and on how participation in this new economy differs across regional, gender and class lines. The impact of this migration on the economy and society will be discussed. The analysis reveals that economy of Nepal is increasingly dependent on remittances. Labor migration and remittances have become a significant part of the household economy and a force for the reduction of poverty levels. But sustainability of this economy is still questionable particularly in the light of current recession and present trend of globalization. Comparison with other countries in South Asia will be made.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
| 6:30 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Levy Economics Institute; Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program; Economics Program; Human Rights Project | | Laura Kunreuther | | kunreuth@bard.edu | | 845-758-7215 | | E-mail to Friend |
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"Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil: Reflections on Moral Blindness"
A roundtable discussion of the modern significance of Hannah Arendt’s thesis about the banality of evil featuring:
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Roskilde University, Denmark) Artemy Magun (Smolny College, St. Petersburg) Asma Abbas (Bard College at Simons Rock) Robyn Marasco (Williams College) Lori Marso (Union College) Laurie Naranch (Siena College) Chair: Roger Berkowitz (Bard College)
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
| 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking | | Human Rights Project | | hrp@bard.edu | | 845-758-7110 | | E-mail to Friend |
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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; 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; 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, contributing writer to the New York Times; and James Chace, , Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law and Administration at Bard and director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. The panel will be moderated by Jonathan Becker, dean of International Studies at Bard College.
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
| Campus Center, Multipurpose Room | | Human Rights Project; Alumni/ae Association; Dean of International Studies, Dean of the College, and BGIA | | Jonathan Becker | | jbecker@bard.edu | | 845-758-7378 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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Human Weapon
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents a film by Ilan Ziv (55 min., Israel/USA, 2002).
Monday, September 9, 2002
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Workshop
Renee Bergan will give an introductory lecture on Middle Eastern music. She will discuss its scale system and introduce percussive rhythms, song, and dance. The lecture will include video and audio examples, culminating with a brief dance by Bergan.
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
| 3:00 pm | | Campus Center, Red Room 202 | | Student Activities; Human Rights Project; Languages and Literature, Anthropology, Dean of the College | | Jeffrey Lidke | | lidke@bard.edu | | 845-758-7364 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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"Sadaie Zan": Women's Voices from Afghanistan
Renée Bergan will be discussing her recent trip to Afghanistan and the current conditions there, in particular how they affect women. She will be showing an excerpt of her upcoming documentary about this trip.
She spent one week in Afghanistan and one week in Pakistan visiting various UN and NGO (non-governmental organization) aid groups, various women's groups, in particularly with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, refugee camps, victims of US bombings, schools, teachers and students.
Renée Bergan is an artist of varied sorts. Obtaining her film degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994, she worked in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara on various feature and documentary film projects.
In 1999 she decided to go out on her own, and pursue the arduous task of being an independent documentary filmmaker. She is currently working on three separate projects, one of which is about her recent trip to Afghanistan.
Renée is also a percussionist, dancer and singer of Middle Eastern music. While attending UCSB, she became involved with the UCSB Middle Eastern Ensemble and has been performing with them for the last 10 years. In 1998 she spent 6 months in Cairo, Egypt to pursue her studies of this music in its native land. She still performs with members of the UCSB Middle Eastern Ensemble, throughout California.
Monday, May 13, 2002
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Lecture
Renee Bergan will discuss her recent trip to Afghanistan and the current conditions there, with an emphasis on how they affect women. She will show an excerpt from her upcoming documentary, Sadaie Zan: Women's Voices from Afghanistan. Bergan spent one week in Afghanistan and one week in Pakistan visiting various United Nations and NGO (nongovernmental organization) aid groups. She visited various women's groups, particularly the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, as well as refugee camps, schools, and victims of U.S. bombings.
Monday, May 13, 2002
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Out of the Present
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents a film by Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujica.
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
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Ian Buruma
A distinguished freelance writer and journalist, Buruma writes political and cultural commentary on Asia for several western publications including the NY Review of Books.
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
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Punishment: Human or Inhumane?
A talk by Judith Butler, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, UC Berkeley.
Thursday, April 18, 2002
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Paul Gilroy
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
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Reading from the Same Book: The American and Nazi Military Justice Systems and the Persecution of Homosexuals in World W
A talk by John Fout, Professor Emertius of History, Bard College. Professor Fout's research focuses on the history of sexuality, European history, and homosexuality during WWII. He is a member of editorial boards for the Journal of Homosexuality and the Journal of Men’s Studies and is coeditor of European Women, A Documentary History, 1789—1945 (1980) and American Sexual Politics (1993). He is the editor of German Women in the Nineteenth Century, A Social History (1984) and Forbidden History (1992) and is the founding editor, Journal of the History of Sexuality and the Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society (University of Chicago Press).
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
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Rethinking the humanities, at the brink of the social sciences
A talk by Christopher Fynsk, Chair, Dept. of Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton. Fynsk teaches Comparative Literature and Philosophy, and is also a professor of continental philosophy at the Eropean Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Professor Fynsk is an internationally renown Heidegger scholar and literary theorist and author of several books.
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
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Contested Memories of Repression in the Southern Cone: Commemorations in a Comparative Perspective
A talk with Professor Elizabeth Jelin, a distinguished Argentinian sociologist and Senior Researcher, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientifica y Tecnicas (CONICET), Argentina. She is the author of several books, including Contructing democracy: human rights, citizenship, and society in Latin America (1996) and Citizenship and identity: women and social change in Latin America (1990). Prof. Jelin is currently a Visiting Professor at Princeton University.
Monday, February 11, 2002
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Panel Discussion
"The Geo-Political Implications of Militarizing Space." Moderated by Bard professor James Chace, the panelists are David Denoon, professor of politics and economics at New York University, who will present arguments for missile defense, and William D. Hartung, President's Fellow at the World Policy Institute of the New School, who will present arguments against missile defense. The program is presented by Bard's Trustee Leader Scholar Program, Human Rights Project, and the Division of Social Studies. Raimondo Chiari, a Bard student, organized this discussion. Time: 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
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Globalization and Democracy
A talk by Michael Hardt, Associate Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University.
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
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Nuremberg: A Courtroom Drama
The Human Rights Project Film Series invites Dr. Peter Maguire to present the film.
Monday, November 26, 2001
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Humanitarian Action Today
A talk by Joelle Tanguy, Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development and former Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders (USA).
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
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Presenting America's Prisons: a multimedia event
with Allison Cronyn of Picture Projects/360degrees.org and a screening of the documentary Books Not Bars, presented by Ronit Avni of WITNESS
Monday, November 19, 2001
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Kandahar
Human Rights Film Series presents a film written and directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (88 min, 2001, Iran). Presented by Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University.
Monday, November 12, 2001
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Citizenship, Religion, and Human Rights in post-colonial South Africa
A talk by Rico Settler, Lecturer in Religion, University of Cape Town, and Project Director of the International Human Rights Exchange program (IHRE).
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
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Nazareth 2000
Human Rights Project Film Series presents a documentary directed by Hany Abu-Assad
(Netherlands 2000). In Arabic with English subtitles.
Monday, October 29, 2001
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Atrocity, Memory, Photography: Imaging the Concentration Camps of Bosnia -- The Case of ITN versus Living Marxism
David Campbell, Political Scientist and Director, Center for Transnational Studies Newcastle University
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
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American Responses to Genocide
Samantha Power, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Tuesday, October 16, 2001
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Jung (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin
Human Rights Project Film Series presents a film by Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati (Afghanistan /Italy - 2000). In Dari and Italian with English subtitles.
Monday, October 15, 2001
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Women on Waves: abortion rights and ocean activism
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, Physician and founder of Women on Waves
Tuesday, October 2, 2001
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Panel Discussion
A panel discussion on the topic of "Islam, the Media, and Human Rights" will take place at Bard College. Panelists include Jonathan Brockopp, assistant professor of religion; Thomas Keenan, director of the Human Rights Project and visiting associate professor of comparative literature at Bard; and Salahuddin Muhammad, the Muslim chaplain at Bard. The program, cosponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College and the Muslim Students Organization, will be held in the multipurpose room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center on the Bard College Campus and is free and open to the public. 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
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You Don't Know Me
The Human Rights Project Film series presents a film by Cambiz Khosravi.
Monday, May 21, 2001
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China: Politics and Human Rights after Tiananmen
With Robert Bernstein and Andrew Nathan.
Tuesday, May 8, 2001
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Paragraph 175
The Human Rights Project Film series presents a film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Monday, April 30, 2001
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Death by Denial
The Human Rights Project Film series presents Ed Bradley's report on AIDS in Africa with David Gelber and Amy Kapczynski.
Monday, April 23, 2001
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On Prisons in America
With Marc Mauer and Susan Tucker.
Monday, April 16, 2001
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Human Rights and Human Wrongs
With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Thursday, April 12, 2001
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"Postcards from Peje" & "Peace of Mind"
The Human Rights Project Film series presents producer/director Mark Landsman to discuss the films and the Kosovo Youth Video Project (with WITNESS).
Monday, April 9, 2001
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Art and Politics
With Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock.
Tuesday, March 27, 2001
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Bought and Sold
The Human Rights Project Film series presents a film with Gillian Caldwell of WITNESS .
Monday, March 26, 2001
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Strategies of Net Activism
With Geert Lovink.
Monday, March 26, 2001
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Sanctions in Iraq
A presentation by Bard students Vanessa Norton, Emma Kreyche, and Ali Tonak who recently traveled to Iraq.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2001
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Citizenship Without Community?
A talk by Etienne Balibar, Professor of Philosophy
at the University of Paris-X.
Monday, March 19, 2001
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Looking Global
A talk by Homi Bhabha.
Monday, March 12, 2001
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Children, Trafficking, Smuggling
A talk by Jacqueline Bhabha.
Monday, March 12, 2001
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | | Campus Center, Meeting Room 214 | | 845-758-7332 | | E-mail to Friend |
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Beyond settler and native as political identities: overcoming the legacy of the colonial state
The John Bard Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government
at Columbia University.
Tuesday, February 27, 2001
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The Specialist
The Human Rights Project Film series presents the film by Eyal Sivan and Rony Brauman.
Monday, February 26, 2001
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Whose War? Whose Peace?
Reflections on the current situation in Israel with Yaron Ezrahi.
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
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"I thought I was seeing convicts" and "Interface"
Two films with director Harun Farocki.
Monday, February 19, 2001
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Humanitarian Action and Politics
A talk by Rony Brauman, the former president of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders.
Tuesday, February 13, 2001
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The Arusha Tapes: Justice After Genocide
The Human Rights Project Film series presents the film with filmmaker and producer Mandy Jacobson and film consultant Louise Mushikiwabo.
Monday, February 12, 2001
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The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Human Rights Project Film series presents a film by Michael Gray.
Monday, December 4, 2000
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Presentations on Student Field Research Projects
(Presentations on Student Field Research Projects)
Tuesday, November 28, 2000
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"What Does It Matter Who Is Speaking?": Censor, Census, and Address
A talk by Tom Dumm.
Tuesday, November 21, 2000
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Last Graduation
The Human Rights Project Film series presents a film by Barbara Zahm.
Monday, November 13, 2000
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Powerless By Design:The Age of the International Community
A talk by Michel Feher.
Monday, November 6, 2000
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East Timor and Beyond: The Future of Human Rights in Indonesia
A conversation with Balinese writer Putu Oka Sakanta and Charlie Sheiner of the East Timor Action Network.
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
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Truth, Race, and Justice in South Africa
A talk by South African poet Antjie Krog.
Wednesday, October 4, 2000
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STORM:Collaborative Activism After Seattle
A talk by DeeDee Halleck.
Tuesday, September 5, 2000
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Licensed to Kill
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents a film by Arthur Dong (80 min). A San Fransisco man's exploration of anti-gay violence and prejudice through interviews conducted with numerous men who are in prison for having murdered homosexuals.
Monday, May 15, 2000
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Information Session and Discussion on Vieques
Presented in cooperation with the Latin American Students' Association with presentations by Ariana Stokas, Shonali Choudhury, Idahlia Stokas and others.
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
| 5:30 pm | | Olin, Room 203 | | Human Rights Project; Latin American Students Association | | 845-758-7332 | | E-mail to Friend |
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A Pig's Tale
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents a film by Anne Parisio & Leah Gordon (60 min, 1997). Out of a desire to protect the US pork industry from potential exposure to a swine virus, the U.S. government embarked on a plan to exterminate every Creole pig in Haiti. This film follows the history of this attempt, and it's results: the devestation of Haiti's economic and cultural life, leading to poverty, hunger, and ultimately, revolution.
Monday, May 8, 2000
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Changing Subjects, Shifting Sands: Gender, Theory and Transformation
Amina Mama
University of Cape Town
Thursday, May 4, 2000
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Photographer
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents a film by Dariusz Jablonski (56 min). Some of the first color slides ever made were taken by the German accountant who oversaw the Lodz ghetto in Poland (taken between 1940 and 1943). Recently discovered, these slides form the starting point for this film about the Nazi extermination of the Jewish people.
Monday, May 1, 2000
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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa and Beyond
Alexander Boraine (Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa) and Kendall Thomas (Columbia Law School)
Monday, April 24, 2000
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Conflict, Intervention, Media: The West and the Balkans
Boris Buden (ARKZIN; Zagreb, Croatia) and Aferdita Kelmendi (RTV21; Pristina, Kosovo)
Wednesday, April 19, 2000
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Victim of Geography
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents a film by Doug Aubrey. From Sarajevo, Bosnia to Cape Wrath, Scotland is approximately 3,000km. This is a film about some of them. "An anthem from the camcorder generation that walks on the wierd, wild and wired sides of Europe."
Monday, April 17, 2000
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South
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents a film by Chantal Akerman (70 min). 'South' focuses on the June 1998 lynching of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. It is, Akerman says, "an evocation of how this event fits into a landscape and climate as much mental as physical." 'South' was a selection for the Director's Fortnight at the 1999 Cannes film festival.
Monday, April 10, 2000
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Nurruddin Farah
Nurruddin Farah, Somali novelist, reading from his latest work.
Introduced by Chinua Achebe
Monday, March 27, 2000
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Hillbrow Kids
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents the film by Michael Hammon and Jacqueline Goergen (94 min). On a select group of South African street children living in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, who all have one thing in common: the legacies of Apartheid have driven them from the townships to seek their fortune in the city of gold. But the future that awaits them there is not the one they bargained for.
Monday, March 20, 2000
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The Laughing Club of India
The Human Rights Project Film Series presents the film with filmmaker Mira Nair. Award-winning filmmaker Nair looks at the new phenomenon of laughing clubs in India.
Monday, March 13, 2000
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Alex de Waal
Alex de Waal, formerly of Africa Watch and African Rights, on war in Africa.
Wednesday, March 8, 2000
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Children in War
Human Rights Project Film Series presents the film with filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond.
Saturday, March 4, 2000
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No exceptions: Children's Rights are Human Rights
presented by Bard's Amnesty Chapter
Saturday, March 4, 2000
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Why one would pretend to be a victim of the Holocaust: Wilkomirski and the testimony industry
with Renata Salecl, a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Ecomomics.
Monday, February 28, 2000
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | | Olin, Room 102 | | Human Rights Project; Division of Languages and Literature | | 845-758-7332 | | Website | | E-mail to Friend |
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Tactical Media Workshop
with Geert Lovink and McKenzie Wark
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
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A Conversation with Chinua Achebe on his recent return to Nigeria
Conducted by Emmanuel Dongala
Monday, November 29, 1999
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Human Rights and its Discontents
A lecture by Slavoj Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Tuesday, November 16, 1999
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Human Rights Faculty Seminar Series
The faculty seminar series is designed as an opportunity for Bard faculty to discuss their own interests in human rights, and explore some of the key issues which arise out of an examination of human rights discourse and practice. The seminar will meet over the course of the fall semester (see website below for dates and readings). All seminars are in the meeting room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center, with dinner at 7pm and discussion beginning at 7:30pm. All interested faculty are welcome to attend. For copies of the readings, please contact Amy Kapczynski on ext. 7332, or at kapczyns@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 7, 1999 - Wednesday, November 3, 1999
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What's going on in East Timor?
Discussion with Alan Klima (Sociology, Bard College), James Chace (Political Studies, Bard College), and Jill Sternberg (Peace Brigades International, Referendum observer in East Timor).
Thursday, September 23, 1999
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