Human Rights Project

Announcing the inaugural Margarita Kuchma Project Award In honor of Margarita, a student who was passionate about confronting injustice head-on, this annual award supports a real-world, student-led project that addresses […]

  jointly taught by professors Thomas Keenan & Brent Green (Cross-listed with Film and Electronic Arts) State governors (and the President) in the United States possess a strange remnant of […]

Rahile Dawut, a professor at Xinjiang University in Ürümqi in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is a folklorist and ethnographer. She created and directed the University’s Minorities Folklore Research Center […]

Human Rights senior projects going back to 2010 have been archived and are available for viewing in the Bard Digital Commons

The Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism brings a prominent scholar, activist, or artist to Bard College each year, where they spend one semester in residence, teaching in the […]

is an auditory platform exploring contemporary topics and issues in human rights, and includes edited talks from the Human Rights Project lectures series, interviews with leading human rights scholars, practitioners, […]

is an exploratory research and action initiative at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Through teaching, public programs, research, and engagement with communities in the region and globally, the Project aims at […]

is a trans-disciplinary program involving such diverse fields as literature, political studies, history, anthropology, economics, film and media, and art history. It emphasizes integrative historical and conceptual investigations, and offers […]