2010 Archive
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Samuel Moyn
Posted September 21, 2010“Human Rights in the History of Global Cosmopolitanisms” Samuel Moyn is a Professor of History at Columbia University. His research interests are in Modern European intellectual history, with […] -
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Jeremy Scahill
Posted May 3, 2010Jeremy Scahill is the National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of the international bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which won […] -
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Hamid Dabashi
Posted April 29, 2010“Epics and Empires: Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh in Comparative Context” and “The Moral Crisis of an Islamic Republic” Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at […] -
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Raul Zurita Canessa
Posted April 28, 2010Raúl Zurita Canessa (born 1950) is a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000. In 1984 Raúl Zurita was awarded a scholarship by the […] -
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Matthew Bogdanos
Posted April 26, 2010Colonel Matthew Bogdanos is an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan (since 1988), author, and a colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. In 2003, while on active duty […] -
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Tonya Foster and Rachel Zolf
Posted April 22, 2010“Territories & Language Under Stress: New Orleans to Palestine” Tonya Foster is the author of Swarms of Bees in High Court, from Belladonna Press and Futurepoem Books. Her […] -
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Philippe Nonet
Posted April 20, 2010Philippe Nonet was born and raised in Belgium, where he earned his law degree (Doctorat en Droit) in 1961. He studied and taught in the sociology department at UC […] -
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Marcelo Brodsky
Posted March 16, 2010“On memory, disappearance, and human rights” Marcelo Brodsky is an internationally renowned artist and human rights activist now based in Buenos Aires after many years in exile in […] -
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Sean Carasso
Posted March 14, 2010An avid adventurer, Sean left college early to travel the world with an entrepreneur and with every step wanted to see more. In 2008 he went to South Africa […] -
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Beyond Silence: meaning and memory in the noise of Haiti’s present
Posted March 12, 2010Winter Schneider, a Bard senior, organized an all-day multi-disciplinary conference on Haiti and history. Caught in the Haitian earthquake over intersession, she gained a new sense of urgency around […]