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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Uri Shanas, Associate Professor at University of Haifa-Oranim
Olin Humanities, Room 201 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 In this talk, Prof. Uri Shanas, will introduce the TiME (This is My Earth) initiative. TiME is a non-profit and volunteer-based international conservation organization that works with local communities to acquire and steward biodiversity hotspots around the world. The organization is led by an array of environmental leaders and renowned scientists from around the world. Since 2016, TiME has purchased and protected ten biodiversity hotspots in the upper Amazon, the Caribbean, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, and Ecuador, protecting a total area of over 15 million square yards. After the talk, Professor Shanas will talk with students about potential involvement in TiME. This event is sponsored by the Sociology and EUS/ES Programs. |
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Friday, April 11, 2025 – Saturday, April 12, 2025 These totalitarian regimes molded their relationship with religious institutions and traditions since their oriented conception of religion. This was discernible, and an extremization of post–Westphalian understanding about religion was based on a dialectical relationship between political power and religious institutions in which the latter are essentially subjugated to the former. However, this did not preclude regimes, such as the fascist one, from establishing agreements and collaborations with religious institutions, nor did it prevent their state secularism from mimetically and selectively embed some religious practices or symbols. In the case of communist and socialist–relative regimes, it could happen that state institutions subjugated religious ones in what we might call the “domestication of religion” which could involve blatant anti–religious conflict, as in the instance of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, or even the incorporation of national worship and state ideology into religious organizations. Indeed, it also included the shaping of the architectural religious landscape, which could be subdued to state purpose or even targeted by the anti–religious campaigns as in Albania’s in 1967 when churches and mosques were closed, destroyed or converted to civilian uses. Yet in the case of communist–inspired regimes as much as fascist ones, it would be inaccurate to believe that state institutions were able to totally erase the religious monumental and architectural landscape: both religious authorities and faithful were able to develop practices of negotiation and resistance through re–using and preserving religious spaces. Specific sacred locations were occasionally used to elaborate the cultural memory of religious communities, as happened in Soviet Central Asia. This workshop aims to investigate, according to various epistemological perspectives (historical, anthropological, architectural, archaeological) and through different methodological approaches how totalitarian regimes in the short 20th century shaped the religious monumental and architectural landscape. |
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In her new book, When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusing on surveillance, we should examine such incidents for what they tell us about youth peer cultures and the gender norms and sexual ethics governing their interactions. Drawing from interviews with teens and high-profile cases of mediated juvenile sexual assault, Gjika exposes the deeply unequal and heteronormative power dynamics informing teens' intimate relationships and online practices, and she critically interrogates the role of digital cultures and broader social values in sanctioning abuse. |
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 Olin Humanities, Room 202 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 The period since October 7, 2023 has seen the emergence of a "complicity discourse" manifested in injunctions to speak publicly about Israel-Palestine. While this is particularly prevalent in pro-Palestinian activism, pro-Israel groups also associate silence with complicity. This lecture explores the profound implications for Jewish life of competing demands that Jews be public. It is becoming necessary for Jews across the political spectrum to re-consider the value of the private, mundane realms of Jewish existence. Keith Kahn-Harris is a British sociologist and writer. He is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College. The author of eight books, his next book Everyday Jews: Why the Jewish People Are Not Who You Think They Are will be published in March 2025. |
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Come learn about the sociology major! Meet sociology students and professors. Learn about the courses we are offering next semester and celebrate our newly moderated majors. Snacks will be served! For more information, contact Professor Jomaira Salas Pujols at [email protected]. |
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Friday, March 29, 2024 Carol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice (1982)—the “little book that started a revolution” brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time. Forty years later, Gilligan returns to the subject matter of her classic book, re-examining its central arguments and concerns from the vantage point of the present. Thanks to the work that she and others have done in recent decades, it is now possible to clarify and articulate what couldn't quite be seen or said at the time of the original publication: that the “different voice” (of care ethics), although initially heard as a “feminine” voice, is in fact a human voice—and that the voice it differs from is a patriarchal voice (bound to gender binaries and hierarchies). While gender is central to the story Gilligan tells, this is not a story about gender: it is a human story. Copies of the book will be signed and sold. This event is sponsored by the Gender Equity Initiative, the Hannah Arendt Center, the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence, the Open Society University Network, the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, and the Programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology |
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Gabriel Hetland, Associate Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Sociology Department, SUNY Albany Olin 102 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 This will be a book talk. In case you want an image of the book or other details, click here.Is democracy possible only when it is safe for elites? Latin American history seems to suggest so. Right-wing forces have repeatedly deposed elected governments that challenged the rich and accepted democracy only after the defanging of the Left and widespread market reform. Latin America’s recent “left turn” raised the question anew: how would the Right react if democracy threatened elite interests? This book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country. He finds that such measures were more successful in Venezuela than Bolivia regardless of which type of party held office, though existing research suggests that deepening democracy is much more likely under a left party. Hetland accounts for these findings by arguing that Venezuela’s ruling party achieved hegemony—presenting its ideas as the ideas of all—while Bolivia’s ruling party did not. The Venezuelan Right was compelled to act on the Left’s political terrain; this pushed it to implement participatory reform in an unexpectedly robust way. In Bolivia, demobilization of popular movements led to an inhospitable environment for local democratic deepening under any party. Democracy on the Ground shows that, just as right-wing hegemony can reshape the Left, leftist hegemony can reshape the Right. Offering new perspectives on participation, populism, and Latin American politics, this book challenges widespread ideas about the constraints on democracy. |
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Naiima Khahaifa, Guarini Fellow
Departments of Geography and African and African-American Studies Dartmouth College Olin 102 5:15 pm EST/GMT-5 Mass incarceration, characterized by unprecedented prison population growth in the US and a disproportionately large representation of Black men, has garnered much scholarly attention; however, a parallel increase in the proportion of Black correctional officers (COs) has not yet received the same consideration. During the early 1970s, demands made by the Prisoners’ Rights Movement led to the recruitment of thousands of Black men and women into the US correctional workforce over the following decades. Thus, focusing on New York State, I argue that as correctional workforce integration redefined the state’s prison system and broader carceral geography, the racialized process of mass incarceration came to depend on the labor of Black COs. Based on a qualitative analysis of life/occupational history interviews with Black COs in Buffalo, NY, recruited between the late 1970s and early 1990s, I find that dynamics of race, class, and gender shape relationships between Black COs and incarcerated individuals as their day-to-day encounters cultivated cooperation and consent in an otherwise volatile prison environment. Deriving from notions of community policing and fictive kinship, I developed the concept of carceral kinship, which refers to the formation of familial-like bonds that appeared the strongest between Black women COs and Black incarcerated men. This concept matters because it reveals the intricate dynamics and micro-politics of prison spaces and how carceral geographies rely on intimate, empathetic, and emotional care work that is profoundly raced and gendered. |
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Olin patio (area outside Olin Hall) 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sociology welcomes all sociology or prospective sociology students to attend their Fall 2023 open house. Come learn about course offerings and meet sociology faculty and other students. Refreshments will be provided. |
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 – Thursday, April 27, 2023 Kline, Faculty Dining Room 8:45 am – 9:45 am EDT/GMT-4 A talk and discussion on how Civic Engagement is implemented in other universities across OSUN and how involvement in civic engagement activities can improve the well-being of your students. Breakfast included. Come at 8:30 to gather your breakfast! |
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Monday, April 24, 2023 Olin 102 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Women are the fastest growing segment of virtually all sectors of the carceral system (jail, prison, parole, and probation). This is also the case at the back end of the system, among those serving extreme sentences of 50 years in prison or more. People serving these sentences refer to their experience as "death by incarceration" given that sentence length and statutory limitations and exclusions from parole eligibility guarantee that they will die in prison. The number of women serving these sentences has exponentially increased in recent decades. The vast majority are survivors of gender violence. Their criminal convictions are often directly or indirectly tied to their encounters with violence and abuse. In this talk, I'll discuss why and how this is happening and what we can and should be doing about it. https://www.jillmccorkel.com/ Philadelphia Justice Project for Women and Girls |
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Friday, April 7, 2023 Olin Humanities, Room 203 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 This teach-in will not only uncover some histories of Russian oppression and colonial domination within Ukrainian context, but will also include a panel discussion where students from other post-soviet countries will share their experience with Russification and how it affects their daily life. Since the event is during lunch time, a free meal and drinks will be provided. Looking forward to seeing you on Friday, April 7 in Olin 203! RSVP |
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Friday, February 10, 2023
Webinar talk by Danielle Purifoy
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 This talk examines how the contemporary timber industry reproduces plantation power. It explores the “remote control” of land — such as absentee land ownership, Black family land grabs, new markets for energy, and legal regimes designed to “devalue” common property in favor of individual ownership and profit. Multi-generation Black homeplaces and communities, rooted in alternative modes of land relations, sustain themselves despite the friction between the economic interests of racial capitalism and the ecological interests of long-standing forest interdependence. With the further concentration of forestland ownership and local divestment throughout the Alabama Black Belt and the US South, the reciprocal traditions of Black forest ecologies represent modes of land relation and intervention that are necessary for livable futures. The CHRA Talk & Book Series celebrates critical voices working at the intersection of Human Rights and the Arts. Each year, we invite inspiring artists and activists from around the globe to share their practice or discuss their research. Each public talk is followed by a moderated discussion, and both are subsequently edited and published in a collected volume. |
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Friday, December 9, 2022 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Come drink bubble tea and answer a series of questions with a stranger. Both will prove surprisingly lovely. |
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Sarah Iverson, PhD candidate, New York University
Olin 102 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 How do organizations fight for racial inequality? While discussions about the meaning of race are increasingly within the context of organizations, little is known about how they understand race as a category of difference. Based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews (N=47) at a diverse community health center (CHC), I show how organizational race concepts are critical to the fight for racial inequality. Where past research has pointed to individual socialization, education, and identity as predictors of race concepts, I argue that organizations are critical sites of racial sense making subject to a different set of factors. Influenced by meso-level factors, the CHC emphasized race as rooted in culture, despite organizational commitments to a structural approach to racial inequality. The cultural concept of race in turn constructed anti- racist action at the organization, limiting its work to culture-based interventions. This case illustrates why organizations may adopt courses of action related to race in contention with their stated aims, advancing theories of race and strengthening institutional approaches to inequality. |
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Gillian Gualtieri, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barnard College
Olin 102 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 As creative workers face increasing calls to attend to concerns around diversity, equity, and inclusion, producers, critics, and consumers in these industries have navigated calls to attend to systems of racial inequality and devaluation in their work. In this paper, I use the case of American fine dining to attend to the ways in which the ethnoracial categories of both producers and their products in interaction shape how chefs and critics understand their value. I focus on one form of evaluative criteria—the elusive concept of authenticity—and show how chefs who have different relationships to whiteness and who cook products that are categorically associated or dissociated with whiteness enact distinct authenticity strategies to explain their creative work. I introduce the framework of producer/product (mis)match and then present a typology of six authenticity strategies that uniquely enable and constrain chefs’ and restaurants’ value depending on the categorical match or mismatch of chefs and their products and those categories’ racialized associations with whiteness. |
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Monday, November 28, 2022
Alexandra Brewer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University
Olin 102 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 A broad literature demonstrates profound inequalities by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status in health outcomes in the U.S. Integrating insights from theories of racialized organizations and inhabited institutions, I show how hospital-based clinicians legitimate unequal care and thereby produce inequalities in health. To do this, I leverage the case of pain management and a sudden, U.S.-wide shortage of intravenous (IV) opioids. Drawing on a 21-month hospital ethnography conducted both before and during the shortage, I demonstrate that evidence-based medicine existed in tension with clinicians’ negative emotional and material experiences of providing IV opioids to their primarily Black and low-income pain patients. These negative work experiences were, in turn, shaped by financial pressures in healthcare. Rather than interpreting the IV opioid shortage as a disaster because it challenged their ability to adhere to professional standards around pain management, clinicians largely embraced it as a convenience because it provided a new, legitimate framework through which they could exclude “undeserving” pain patients from opioids and other hospital resources in ways that had previously been seen as desirable, but not justifiable. Through this case study, I show that clinicians may allocate medical resources unequally because the exclusion of disadvantaged groups appears to solve problems in their daily work life. I extend this case to consider the reproduction of inequalities in other workplaces and organizations. |
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Monday, November 14, 2022 Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Bard’s new Carceral Studies speaker series launches with a visit from the NYU Prison Education Project. Their recently published book Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality explores how the car, despite its association with American freedom and mobility, functions at the crossroads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state. We will be joined by four of the Lab members, a group representing formerly incarcerated scholars and non-formerly incarcerated NYU faculty. |
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Thursday, November 18, 2021 Peace is the goal for every country, community, and, hey, family. (See, we're funny here at BGIA.) In general, peace is the absence of war and violence. Through its work on the Global Peace Index and the Positive Peace Framework, the Institute for Economics and Peace takes peace and peace building further. It focuses on strengths not deficits and individual action on creating and sustaining positive societies. Join us on Thursday, November 18 at 12pm for an hour long Positive Peace Workshop. In this workshop, participants will learn how to better think about actions and approaches to creating peaceful societies. It will focus on policy, strategy, and implementation. If you're interested in conflict resolution, policymaking, and peace building, don't miss this virtual event. RSVP required. |
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Friday, November 5, 2021
Panel I: Arts of Resistance, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Panel II: Systems and Power, 2:00pm - 3:30pm Finberg House Panel I: Arts of Resistance, 10:00am - 12:00pm Mie Inouye, “W.E.B. Du Bois on ‘The Art of Organization’” Rohma Khan, "Tipping Point: Immigrant Workers' Activism in the Taxi and Restaurant Industries" Jomaira Salas-Pujols, “Black Girl Refusal: "Acting Out" Against Discipline & Scarcity in Schools” Pınar Kemerli, “Muslim Nonviolence in an Age of Islamism: War-resistance and Decolonization in Turkey” Panel II: Systems and Power, 2:00pm - 3:30pm Rupali Warke, “The Zenana that incited war: Maharajpur, 1843” Lucas Pinheiro, “Data Factories: The Politics of Digital Work at Google and MTurk” Yarran Hominh, “The Problem of Unfreedom” |
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021 Online Event 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Although white supremacist movements have received renewed public attention since the 2017 violence in Charlottesville and the attack on the U.S. Capitol, they need to be placed in deeper historical context if they are to be understood and combated. In particular, the rise of these movements must be linked to the global war on terror after 9/11, which blinded counterextremism authorities to the increasing threat they posed. In this panel, two prominent sociologists, Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Kathleen Blee, trace the growth of white supremacist extremism and its expanding reach into cultural and commercial spaces in the U.S. and beyond. They also examine these movements from the perspective of their members’ lived experience. How are people recruited into white supremacist extremism? How do they make sense of their active involvement? And how, in some instances, do they seek to leave? The answers to these questions, Miller-Idriss and Blee suggest, are shaped in part by the gendered and generational relationships that define these movements. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Kathleen Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. If you would like to attend, please register here. Zoom link and code will be emailed the day of the event. |
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
Alyssa Newman, PhD
Hecht-Levi Fellow Berman Institute of Bioethics Johns Hopkins University Online Event 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The widespread use of assisted reproductive technologies, coupled with processes of demographic and social change, are contributing to the normalization of new family configurations that extend beyond biological kinship. Despite the new populations and family formations utilizing these technologies, gamete donor selection is still predominated by heteronormative logics and an interest in family resemblance achieved through racial matching. Focusing on interviews with interracial lesbian couples about their selection of a sperm donor, I examine the conflicts that arose when the logic of racial matching encountered the desire for a biological kinship between donor-conceived siblings—such as when both partners planned to initiate pregnancies conceiving with the use of their own egg. Whereas for same-race couples these dual aims would be in alignment, interracial lesbian couples perceived that they were instead faced with two options: prioritizing either a biological sibling relationship using the same donor, or emphasizing racial matching of the siblings by utilizing two donors. This research reveals that despite the new forms of relatedness that non-traditional families enable, within the use of reproductive technologies, biological framings of race and kinship continue to structure decisions about family formation. Please watch the pre-recorded talk on her research here. Attend the live Q&A about her talk via zoom. |
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Jomaira Salas Pujols
Doctoral candidate in Sociology at Rutgers University Online Event 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Social scientists have long examined the consequences of school and neighborhood segregation on the lives of Black youth. Yet, these discrete studies of schooling leave unexamined the many locations young people traverse day to day and the consequences of this movement on their perceptions of self and their social location. “Journeying: Black Girls' Sensemakings of (In)justice” uses ethnographic methods to trace how 45 multi-ethnic Black girls learn to perceive and critique injustice through their spatial navigations. My findings reveal that although participants are likely to inhabit racially segregated neighborhoods and schools, they still come into contact with inequality through their daily commutes, visits to other schools, and afterschool program participation. I further suggest that as they physically move through multiple sites of inclusion and exclusion, Black girls develop an awareness and negotiation of the inequalities and injustices that attempt to dominate their lives—what I theorize as journeying. This presentation builds on previous studies of education, urban space, and Black girlhood studies.Please watch the pre-recorded talk on her research here. Attend the live Q&A about her talk via zoom. |
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Sean Drake; Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology of Education New York University Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Previous research in middle-class districts has focused on within-school segregation but not between-school segregation. In this study, I unveil hidden institutional mechanisms of between-school segregation and inequality in an affluent, suburban school district. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic observations and 122 in-depth interviews with students, teachers, administrators, and parents at two dissimilar high schools, I identify distinct policies and practices of segregation that disproportionately place Black, Latinx, and lower-income students at risk. I also examine how institutional definitions of success and failure affect school policies and practices in ways that contribute to segregation and inequality, and how institutional actors leverage these definitions to legitimize and justify segregation in the district. This research is part of my book project, Academic Apartheid (under contract with University of California Press), which sits at the sociological intersection of education, race and ethnicity, class, and immigration scholarship. Please watch his pre-recorded talk on his research and attend a live Q&A via Zoom. |
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020 All of us work and study on a large campus and live in a thinly populated rural area. We tend to inhabit virtual bubbles where we are surrounded by people who see things the way we do. And whether we are newcomers to the Mid-Hudson Valley or longtime residents, we do not always understand the “signs” we encounter. What do yard signs in election season or “thin blue line” flags tell us about the landscape in which we live? What do colonial estates-turned-museums reveal about enduring inequalities? What murals and monuments “hide” in plain sight because they do not match our pre-set ideas about the place we may (or may not) feel we belong to? Who harvests the local crops but cannot afford to shop at the farmers’ market? In an effort to shine some light on systemic racism and anti-racist alternatives in our everyday surroundings, the Division of Social Studies is organizing a “Reading the Signs” roundtable over Zoom as well as an accompanying online archive. The roundtable will also offer Bard community members an opportunity to reflect on the implications of the election on November 3rd, whatever the outcome happens to be. Call for Contributions! What signs do you think need reading? What is an image, flag, space, mural, monument, memorial, item of clothing, word/phrase, etc. that points to instances of systemic racism in the past or present? What is a sign that points to anti-racist precedents in the past and/or emancipatory possibilities for the future? In the days leading up to the roundtable, the Social Studies Division invites all Bard community members (students, staff, and faculty) to send photos, videos, audio recordings, and other documents of systemic racism and anti-racism to [email protected]. All contributions must be accompanied by a brief written statement (anything from a few sentences to a substantial paragraph) that provides initial context, explanation, and interpretation. The roundtable will feature many of these contributions, which can be made anonymous upon request. The Division of Social Studies will also maintain an online archive of signs that will be available to Bard community members before and after the event. Join via Zoom Meeting ID: 863 8920 3500 Passcode: 583480 |
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Friday, September 25, 2020
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Visger
Associate Professor and Academy Professor, Army Cyber Institute United States Military Academy, West Point 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Professor Visger will be joining Laura Ford’s Legal Practices & Civil Society (Sociology 305) class, an Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences (ELAS) class. Visitors are welcome to join by zoom, using the zoom link provided below. Join via ZoomProfessor Visger will mainly be speaking with us about the international law framework that governs cybercrime, with a focus on the Mueller indictment of Russian hackers, who were charged with conspiracy in connection with the 2016 hack of DNC computers. We will learn about the Talinn Manual 2.0, a 2017 publication based on the collective work of international law scholars and practitioners, working collaboratively as part of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence Project. Professor Visger will also speak with us about his legal experience, working as an army lawyer in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) corps, including his experience as a Preliminary Hearing Officer, responsible for recommending legal proceedings in the case of Sergeant Beaudry Robert (“Bowe”) Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier captured by the Taliban in 2009 and held captive until 2014. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s case garnered considerable attention, forming the basis for Season 2 of the Serial Podcast. For those interested in learning more about the case, Professor Visger has recommended the Wikipedia page, as a good summary, including links to the Preliminary Hearing transcript. Based on his review of the evidence, Professor Visger recommended a Special Court Martial, a legal proceeding with less punitive consequences, relative to a General Court Martial. Professor Visger’s recommendation was rejected, however, and Bergdahl’s case went forward as a General Court Martial proceeding, one that garnered high levels of political attention, including from President Trump. In late 2017, Bergdahl pled guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He was dishonorably discharged from the army and fined, but he did not receive a prison sentence. Professor Visger has been teaching at West Point Military Academy since 2011. Before joining the faculty at West Point, he served in the following positions: Chief, Rule of Law, and Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, I Corps, Fort Lewis, Washington and Baghdad, Iraq (2008-2010) Officer-in-Charge, Bamberg Law Center, Bamberg, Germany (2005-2008); Senior Defense Counsel, Fort Rucker Trial Defense Services (2000-2001); Chief, International and Operational Law, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1999-2000) Trial Counsel, Legal Assistance Attorney and Tax Center Officer-in-Charge, Fort Drum, New York (1997-1999). Lauraleen Ford is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Legal Practices & Civil Society Time: Sep 25, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/91296798196 Meeting ID: 912 9679 8196 One tap mobile +16465588656,,91296798196# US (New York) +13017158592,,91296798196# US (Germantown) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 912 9679 8196 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/awvrOBio0 Join by SIP [email protected] Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 69.174.57.160 (Canada) 207.226.132.110 (Japan) Meeting ID: 912 9679 8196 |
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Thursday, April 2, 2020
Manor House Dining Room 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join Experimental Humanities, Food Lab, and the Human Rights Program for a free lecture and panel discussion between Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and the Traveling Kitchen, and Ken Greene, founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Company and Seedshed, a local nonprofit dedicated to seed stewardship literacy that promotes social justice solutions. Free lecture, 4:00–5:30 pm. Ticketed dinner workshop, 6:00–8:00 pm. RSVPs required. annandaleonline.org/eatinghistoriesdinner |
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Charlene Teters, who received death threats for trying to retire racist sports team mascots at the University of Illinois, will speak following the showing of the award-winning PBS documentary about her—In Whose Honor? |
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
Yinon Cohen, Columbia University
Olin Humanities, Room 102 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 In this talk, Yinon Cohen demonstrates that the strategies Israel has deployed to dispossess Palestinian land and settle Jews in the West Bank have been uncannily similar to those used in Israel proper. After briefly analyzing the Judaization of space from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean Sea, he focuses on territorial and demographic processes in the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) since 1967. He Shows how the settler population has flourished demographically and socioeconomically, thereby enhancing Israel’s colonial project in the West Bank. Yinon Cohen is Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israeli and Jewish Studies in the department of sociology at Columbia University. Before moving to Columbia in 2007, he was a professor of sociology and labor studies at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on labor markets, social demography, ethnic inequality, and immigration. His most recent publications are on Israel’s territorial and demographic politics (Public Culture, 2018), Ashkenazi-Mizrahi education gap among third-generation Israelis (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2018), and rising inequality in fringe benefits in the US (Sociological Science 2018). |
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Dale Ho, ACLU Voting Rights Project Director
Olin Humanities, Room 201 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EDT/GMT-4 Since the 2010 midterm election, a wave of voter suppression laws has been unleashed around the country. The ACLU has been at the frontlines, successful challenging unnecessary voter registration requirements and barriers on Election Day in dozens of states. Attacks on voting rights have now grown to encompass not only registration and the ballot, but also the Decennial Census itself, which the Trump Administration sought to weaponize by attempting to add citizenship question to the census questionnaire. ACLU Voting Rights Project Director, Dale Ho, who argued the census citizenship question case in the Supreme Court, will address these issues and emerging threats to voting rights as we head towards the 2020 election. |
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Roger Waldinger
Professor of Sociology, UCLA Olin Humanities, Room 201 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Becoming “American” entails more than understanding oneself as an insider; it equally involves adopting American attitudes toward persons beyond the territorial divide, a population that includes nationals of one’s country of origin or ancestry. The talk begins with a conceptual framework to understand how attachment to the people of the state of emigration gets transformed into attachment to the people of the state of immigration. Then we focus on Mexican immigrants and their descendants in particular. A variety of data sources can highlight the degree to which group members explicitly identify as Americans and express pride in their American identity. We then focus on Mexican American views of immigration policy in particular. Support for some level of restriction is a fundamental attribute of commitment to the national community. With that in mind, we examine the links between informants’ patriotism, identification and attitudes toward immigrant rights and immigration.Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA, is among the most influential sociologists of contemporary American immigration. He has studied especially the work immigrants get, and how they seek to control their economic fate and long-term improvements. More recently, he has worked on aspects of transnationalism—that is, how immigrants' lives are involved in both their old and new countries. He is the author of scores of articles and numerous books, such as Still the Promised City: African Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York (1999, Harvard UP) and The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants and their Homelands (2017, Harvard UP). |
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Olin Humanities, Room 102 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm EDT/GMT-4 In the 1990s, the well-known tactic of "broken-windows policing" targeted homeless people by removing them from core areas of New York City and other global mega-cities. Yet today, with a progressive administration and softer policing in place, homeless New Yorkers still find themselves unable to exist comfortably in public space. How should we understand this shift? In this presentation, I argue that the regime of anti-homelessness in New York has shifted to what I call "ecological development," and present evidence from an ethnographic study to show how green spaces, linear parks, and urban plaza areas have taken up the mantle of anti-homelessness, and how homeless activists resist these nefarious tools of urban planning and development. |
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Olin Humanities, Room 102 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 In the US and Brazil alike, the housing crisis sweeps millions into its grasp each year, producing homelessness, destroying public space, and forcing people to migrate long distances. But homeless activists have powerfully resisted this trend through community organizing, collective action, and legislative change. Landless activists have occupied plantations, successfully resettling hundreds of thousands of people on land that used to be controlled by big agriculture. Come hear from housing organizers in New York City and landless organizers in Brazil. Learn more about how we can create new models of land and public space so that all have a right to a home. |
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Thursday, February 28, 2019 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 A panel discussion will be held in connection with the Maré de Dentro exhibition Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, currently on view in the Campus Center. A reception follows. |
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Friday, February 1, 2019 – Friday, March 1, 2019 Campus Center, Gallery A panel discussion, followed by a reception, will take place in Weis Cinema on Thursday, February 28, 5:00–6:30 p.m. |
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Stephen J. Trejo, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
Olin Humanities, Room 102 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 We document generational patterns of educational attainment and earnings for contemporary immigrant groups. We also discuss some potentially serious measurement issues that arise when attempting to track the socioeconomic progress of the later-generation descendants of U.S. immigrants, and we summarize what recent research has to say about these measurement issues and how they might bias our assessment of the long-term integration of particular groups. Most national origin groups arrive with relatively high educational attainment and/or experience enough improvement between the first and second generations such that they quickly meet or exceed, on average, the schooling level of the typical American. Several large and important Hispanic groups (including Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) are exceptions to this pattern, however, and their prospects for future upward mobility are subject to much debate. Because of measurement issues and data limitations, Mexican Americans in particular and Hispanic Americans in general probably have experienced significantly more socioeconomic progress beyond the second generation than available data indicate. Even so, it may take longer for their descendants to integrate fully into the American mainstream than it did for the descendants of the European immigrants who arrived near the turn of the twentieth century. |
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Monday, September 17, 2018
Thomas A. Guglielmo, Associate Professor of American Studies, George Washington University
Olin Humanities, Room 102 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Anyone with a passing knowledge of the World War II–era U.S. military likely knows that it was segregated. Less well known, surprisingly, is who was segregated from whom, exactly, and how the military made these decisions. Neither was simple or straightforward. My talk will explore a long-forgotten chapter of this larger story: the fraught and complex struggle over inductees’ “proper” racial classification and placement in the segregated World War II–era military. Drawing on a variety of federal records from the army, the Selective Service System, and the courts, I trace the stories of an eclectic mix of Americans —Waccamaw Siouans, Chickahomines, Creoles, Puerto Ricans, Cape Verdeans—who fit neatly into neither of the military's catchall categories of “white” and “colored.” In the process, I shed light on the evolving meaning and boundaries of race—from official state policy down to ordinary people’s attitudes and actions. |
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Olin Humanities, Room 102 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Based on demographic projections, most Americans believe that their society will transition soon to a majority-minority one. But the projections fail to adequately account for a major social and demographic phenomenon of the early 21st century: the rise of a group of young Americans with mixed minority-white ancestry. In a departure from the one-drop regime of past racism, these individuals appear to be growing up in mixed family settings, but because of the binary, zero-sum rigidities that still guide our thinking, they are mostly classified as minorities in demographic data. Without this classification, however, the emergence of a majority-minority society in the foreseeable future is far from certain. Moreover, the evidence we possess about the characteristics, social affiliations, and identities of mixed individuals contradicts an exclusively minority classification, except for partly black individuals, who suffer from high levels of racism. Taking into account the ambiguous social locations of most mixed minority-white persons, I suggest that, even should a majority-minority society appear, it will not look like we presently imagine it. |
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Friday, April 6, 2018 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 10:00 am – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Speakers include: Kevin Duong (Bard) David Kettler (Bard) Zak Rawle (Bard) Jane Glaubman (Cornell) Joseph Sheehan (Bard) Simon deBevoise (Bard) Zeke Perkins (SEIU) Ed Quish (Cornell) Maggie Dickinson (CUNY) Joy Al-Nemri (Bard) Ella McLeod (Bard) Laura Ford (Bard) Holger Droessler (Bard) |
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Thursday, April 5, 2018 Staff Attorney, Special Litigation Unit Legal Aid Society Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 4:40 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Governments have swiftly embraced automated decisions about policing and criminal justice despite very little evidence that these tools are fair or accurate. We will survey the various stakeholders investing in, using, and subject to these tools, as well as the types of decisions that are being automated, and examine how these tools are created. The discussion will then move to the training data that these tools are built on, how human bias gets baked into the automation, and how competing stakeholders’ definitions of fairness struggle to define success. |
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Monday, November 6, 2017 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University Olin Humanities, Room 202 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This talk will explore Iraqi women’s social, political activism and feminisms relying on an in-depth ethnography of post-2003 women’s rights organizations and a detailed historical study of women’s social, economic and political experiences since the 1960s. Through a transnational/postcolonial feminist approach Ali will look particularly at the context following the US-led invasion and occupation and analyse the realities of Iraqi women’s lives, political activism and feminisms especially the challenges posed by sectarianism, militarism and “global” interferences. Zahra Ali is a sociologist whose research explores dynamics of women and gender, social and political movements in relation to Islam(s) and the Middle East and to contexts of war and conflicts with a focus on contemporary Iraq. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers university. Her book “Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-building and Fragmentation” is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2018). She also edited Féminismes Islamiques, the first collection on Muslim feminist scholarship published in France (La Fabrique editions, 2012), and translated and published in German (Passagen Verlag, 2014). This event is co-sponsored by Human Rights Project, the Sociology Program, and Gender and Sexuality Studies |
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Mary Pattillo
Harold Washington Professor of Sociology & African American Studies Northwestern University Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 School choice is promoted as one strategy to improve educational outcomes for African Americans. Key themes in Black school choice politics are empowerment, control, and agency. Using qualitative interviews with poor and working-class Black parents in Chicago, Pattillo explored: how do these themes characterize the experiences of low-income African American parents tasked with putting their children in schools? Also, what kind of political positions emerge from parents’ everyday experiences given the ubiquitous language of school choice? Parents’ stories convey limited and weak empowerment, limited individual agency, and no control. What should we learn? Mary Patillo is the author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class and Black on the Block: the Politics of Race and Class in the City; she co-edited Imprisoning America: the Social Effects of Mass Incarceration. |
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Dror Ladin, ACLU Staff Attorney
Olin Humanities, Room 102 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Intelligence agencies often claim that their work must be conducted in secret for the sake of national security. But with secrecy comes a lack of oversight, enabling grave abuses of those targeted by intelligence agencies and significant danger to the democratic process. One of the most extreme examples of this dynamic is the CIA's construction and operation of a network of secret prisons called "black sites," where prisoners were tortured. For years, the CIA fought to keep the program secret. Over years, however, sustained efforts by civil rights lawyers, government leakers, intrepid reporters, and Senate overseers forced the grim details of the CIA program into the light. The CIA's torture program was designed and implemented by two psychologists working as independent contractors. The CIA paid the company they formed 81 million dollars to design, implement, and oversee the agency's program of “enhanced interrogation." The psychologists' methods include exposure to extreme temperatures, starvation, stuffing in boxes, and infliction of various kinds of water torture. Although every previous attempt at seeking justice for CIA torture had failed, three survivors and victims of CIA torture sued the psychologists in federal court in 2015. The ACLU represented Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and the family of Gul Rahman in their fight for accountability. After prevailing over numerous obstacles, they secured the first-ever settlement at the end of the summer. A lead ACLU attorney on the case, DROR LADIN will reflect on its significance and his own impressions of the process and protagonists. Ladin is a staff attorney at the ACLU National Security Project, and was previously a Skadden Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights project. Earlier, he clerked for a U.S. Court of Appeals judge. |
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Thursday, September 7, 2017
Katherine Benton-Cohen
Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University Olin Humanities, Room 101 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 “Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Progressive-Era America,” examines the enormous impact of the largest study of immigrants in US History. From 1907 to 1911, a staff of 300—over half of them women--compiled 41 volumes of reports and a potent set of recommendations that shaped immigration policy for generations to come. The talk will discuss the Commission’s surprising origins in US-Asia relations, its enthusiasm for distributing immigrants throughout the United States, and its long-term effect not just on federal policy, but on how Americans think about immigration in general. Katherine Benton-Cohen is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the author of Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2009), as well as her forthcoming book on the history of the Dillingham Commission. |
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 Come celebrate the end of the year with fellow MESers. Meet faculty, hear about exciting new courses, study abroad programs, senior projects, and a number of incredible iniatives MES students are working on. Snacks will be served. All are welcome. |
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Friday, December 2, 2016
Laura R. Ford
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Bard College Olin Humanities, Room 102 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Intellectual property – a legal category that currently encompasses patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other closely-related, knowledge-based forms of intangible property – has become pervasive in everyday life and in our modern economies. This development raises two closely-related questions. First, how did a form of property that has not always existed emerge? And second, how has this new form of property come to play such an important role in our society? In other words, how do we explain the emergence and influence of intellectual property? In this presentation I will discuss a core finding of my research, which is that intellectual property emerged in the 18th Century, as part of the modern nation-state. I will also introduce the thesis of Semantic Legal Ordering, which is a theoretical paradigm for explaining how legal culture contributes to social change. The paradigm is rooted in Max Weber’s theory of law as a meaningful Order, and it emphasizes the close connections between law and religion. It is also a causal theory about the ways in which legal culture influences social structures. I will seek to persuade you that the thesis of Semantic Legal Ordering helps to explain how intellectual property emerged, and why this new type of property is exercising such a pervasive influence in our society. |
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Sorcha Brophy
Kenneth P. Dietrich postdoctoral fellow University of Pittsburgh Olin LC 118 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5 How does the responsibility of maintaining a societal institution shape how individuals engage in organizational conflict? In this talk, I will address this question through a case study of the creation of an organizational belief statement at a religious undergraduate college. This case is a part of my current book project, which examines the creation of organizational moral standards in medical, religious, and financial organizations. I will demonstrate how individuals who create standards on behalf of an organization understand themselves to be engaged in a shared ideological project. I will also discuss how such “projects” lead organization members—even those who strongly disagree with one another—to coordinate their ideological positions in order to preserve broader societal institutions. |
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Monday, November 28, 2016
Mariana Craciun
Postdoctoral Fellow Northwestern University Olin Humanities, Room 203 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 How do psychotherapists make sense of mental and emotional difficulties? And how do they do so authoritatively in a field beset by uncertainty? Cognitive behavioral therapists (CBT) meet these challenges through the use of scales and forms I call “ego-inscriptions.” These tools help them convert patients’ subjective states into objective knowledge that can travel beyond the clinical setting to the experimental scene of randomized controlled trials, insurers’ reimbursement practices, and the sphere of self-help. I draw on ethnographic observations in the training program of an outpatient clinic, interviews with psychotherapists, and the writings of mental health researchers and clinicians, to argue that while these standard tools have cemented CBT’s institutional dominance, a different story emerges when we examine their use in clinical work. There, cognitive behavioral therapists fall back on psychoanalytically-informed strategies to shore up their expertise and claims to authority. This research has implications for how we theorize the relationship between standards, knowledge, and power in professional domains. It highlights the importance of attending to institutional and individual levels of analysis, integrating the concerns of the sociology of professions with those of science and technology scholars. |
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Friday, November 4, 2016
John Logan, Professor of Sociology at Brown University
Olin Humanities, Room 102 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Recent highly publicized police violence has been widely described as "misbehavior." This presentation will argue that issues of policing need to be tackled within a wider context of the spatial containment of disadvantaged and minority communities that reinforces the privilege of others, in other words, ghettoization. The issue was identified by the famous National Commission on Civil Disorders in the 1960s: America's division into two societies, separate and unequal. The responses proposed by that Commission fifty years ago -- community policing, civilian review boards, better training and more sensitivity -- were not implemented then, and they would have little impact now. After the talk and an intermission for refreshments, Professor Logan will offer an introduction to the user-friendly website on which the talk was based and which could also be used for student and faculty research papers and projects Data Resources on Urban Inequality: The American Communities Project This presentation will introduce a series of data resources that are readily available through Brown University's American Communities Project. Some of these cover recent decades: measures of neighborhood-level racial/ethnic and income segregation, school segregation and disparities in school quality. The Longitudinal Tract Database (LTDB) provides census data for 1970-2010 estimated within 2010 tract boundaries, facilitating studies of neighborhood change and neighborhood effects. Other data sets in the Urban Transition HGIS provide mapped data for the period 1880-1940. See https://www.brown.edu/academics/spatial-structures-in-social-sciences/american-communities-project John Logan is professor of Sociology at Brown University and Director of its Research Initiative on Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4). He is the author or editor of numerous books and many scores of articles, including recently (co-authored), “Emergent Ghettos: Black Neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880-1940” American Journal of Sociology, 2015. |
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Nancy L. Green
Reem-Kayden Center Room 102 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Over the last four decades, research has moved from the “discovery” of the history of immigration – initially seen largely as a story of male workers – to a “discovery” of female migrants. Closer attention to the gender composition of migration streams has become an increasingly important aspects of migration studies. Using the United States and France, two major historical sites of labor immigration, as examples, I will show how gender studies bring new questions – and answers – to the understanding of the history of migration. How have gender regimes in the countries of origin affected emigration and how has immigration affected gender relations? Nancy Green is professor of history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of several books in French and English including Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York and The Other Americans in Paris : Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941. She recently also co-edited (with sociologist Roger Waldinger) the collection of essays, A century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections. |
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Olin Humanities, Room 102 7:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come watch Shtisel, an Israeli television drama series that follows the intersecting story-lines of a large ultra-Orthodox Jewish family living in the present-day Jerusalem, followed by comments from Yuval Elmelech (Sociology), Cecile Kuznitz (History), and Shai Secunda (Religion). Meet other Jewish Studies faculty and students, hear about spring courses, and enjoy a snack. |
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Thursday, October 6, 2016 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 Barens’ film portrays the final months of a terminally ill incarcerated man and the work of the hospice volunteers, themselves incarcerated men, who care for him. Prison Terminal draws on footage that Barens shot over a six-month period at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Ft. Madison. With its careful attention to the dynamics of aging and dying in a maximum-security prison, the film offers a revealing look into little-known aspects of American incarceration. Prison Terminal was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary in 2014. After screening the film, which is about 40 minutes long, we will have commentary from both Edgar Barens and Allison McKim, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard. Edgar Barens received his BFA in Film and Photography and MFA in Cinematography from Southern Illinois University. He is currently Social Documentary Developer in the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois, Chicago. |
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Olin Humanities, Room 102 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 David Rieff is the author of many books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, and, most recently, The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the 21st Century. He lives in New York City.In his Book "In Praise of Forgetting", He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has, or indeed ever could, “inoculate” the present against repeating the crimes of the past. He argues that rubbing raw historical wounds—whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces—neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation. If he is right, then historical memory is not a moral imperative but rather a moral option—sometimes called for, sometimes not. Collective remembrance can be toxic. Sometimes, Rieff concludes, it may be more moral to forget.Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times—the Irish Troubles and the Easter Uprising of 1916, the white settlement of Australia, the American Civil War, the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11—Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses and abuses of historical memory. His contentious, brilliant, and elegant essay is an indispensable work of moral philosophy.We Hope to see you there!! |
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Just Eat It is a film that asks: where is your food going? Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of food waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food. What they find is truly shocking. Snacks provided by Bard EATS Discussion following screeing |
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 We will screen the Black in Latin America film about the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Dinner and discussion will be part of the event. Co-hosted by Spanish Studies Program, BEOP Club, LASO, BSO and La Voz |
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Stephen Ruszcyk
Olin Humanities, Room 102 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 This talk will feature findings from an eight-year comparative study of the transition to adulthood for undocumented youth in New York and Paris. While most research frames the effects of immigrant “illegality,” the consequences of not having legal status, in terms of the national citizenship, this research focuses on the local efforts in Paris and New York City to help undocumented youth. These efforts, best-case scenarios in each country, create very different experiences of early adulthood for undocumented youth. Most importantly, the local context shifts access to work, education, and even legal status. Biographical cases show how these factors accelerate and decelerate adulthood for undocumented youth. |
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Sunday, January 17, 2016
Stephen Ruszczyk
Olin Humanities, Room 102 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This talk will feature findings from an eight-year comparative study of the transition to adulthood for undocumented youth in New York and Paris. While most research frames the effects of immigrant “illegality,” the consequences of not having legal status, in terms of the national citizenship, this research focuses on the local efforts in Paris and New York City to help undocumented youth. These efforts, best-case scenarios in each country, create very different experiences of early adulthood for undocumented youth. Most importantly, the local context shifts access to work, education, and even legal status. Biographical cases show how these factors accelerate and decelerate adulthood for undocumented youth. |
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Olin Humanities, Room 201 7:00 pm – 8:30 am EST/GMT-5
Want to tutor Bard Prison Initiative students next semester? Come to our first info session to learn how to apply. |
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Laura R. Ford
The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy Olin Humanities, Room 205 Intellectual property – a legal category that currently encompasses patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other closely-related, knowledge-based forms of intangible property – has become pervasive in everyday life, and in our modern economies. This development raises two closely-related puzzles. First, how did a form of property that has not always existed emerge? And second, how has this new form of property come to play such an important role in our society? In other words, how do we explain the emergence and influence of intellectual property?This presentation will weave together several strands of my current research, each of which is driven by the effort to respond to these basic questions. I will briefly introduce the core finding of my dissertation, which is that intellectual property emerged in the 18th Century, as part of the modern nation-state. I will also introduce the thesis of Semantic Legal Ordering, which is my theoretical paradigm for explaining how law makes a difference in the social world. This is a theoretical paradigm that I am continuing to develop, and about which I will value feedback and discussion. The paradigm is rooted in Max Weber’s theory of law as a meaningful Order, and it emphasizes the parallels between law and religion. It is also a causal theory about the ways in which legal culture influences social structures. The thesis is basically that institutions (like property) derive some of their structural “fixity” from semantic “fixities” in legal traditions. In this presentation, I will seek to persuade you that this type of causal process helps to explain how intellectual property emerged, and why it is exercising such a pervasive influence in our society. |
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Monday, September 28, 2015 If we look at refugee camps through the lens of architectural preservation, how might our understanding of camps change?Refugee camps are considered temporary spaces to be quickly dismantled. But how are we to understand the Palestinian refugee camps that are now almost 70 years old? Can we consider them cultural sites to be preserved?For many, being asked to look at refugee camps from this perspective may be a disturbing proposition. But this is the reality that is in front of our eyes, and therefore one that we cannot negate. One of the urgent questions becomes: do Palestinian refugee camps have history? And how might this history be mobilized for the right of return, instead of being perceived as a threat? And at the same time how does the concept of architectural heritage change when applied to refugee camps? For the workshop we would like to examine these questions and explore the political implications of challenging existing categories of nation, camp, and heritage. In collaboration with the Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation and in the framework of the Riwaq Biennial, we have just started work on the documentation that will support the inscription of a group of buildings in refugee camps as World Heritage Sites under the protection of UNESCO.Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti are both architects and artists. Together they direct Campus in Camps, an experimental educational program based in Dheisheh refugee camp in Palestine. They are also co-founders, along with Eyal Weizman, of the Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency in Bethlehem. |
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Friday, September 4, 2015
Olin 102 Interested in applying for a Fulbright Scholarship, a Watson fellowship, or another postgraduate scholarship or fellowship? This information session will cover application procedures, deadlines, and suggestions for crafting a successful application. Applications will be due later this month, so be sure to attend one of the two information sessions!
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
RKC 103 Interested in applying for a Fulbright Grant, a Watson Fellowship, or another postgraduate scholarship or fellowship? This information session will cover application procedures, deadlines, and suggestions for crafting a successful application. Applications will be due later this month, so be sure to attend one of these two sessions!
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join the Sociology Program as our seniors share the results of their senior project research.
All are welcome and refreshments will be served Download: conference poster final.doc |
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Monday, May 4, 2015
Emily Brissette, PhD
SUNY Oneonta RKC 102B The movement against the Vietnam War began modestly, but grew in both size and intensity as the years and the war dragged on. The movement against the Iraq War, in contrast, came together quickly and massively in the space of months and then largely receded from public view. Although the presence (and then absence) of the draft is often invoked as an explanation for the different trajectories of these movements, military recruitment practices are not the most important thing to have changed since the Vietnam era. Drawing on original archival work, this talk will trace how basic understandings of the nature of the state and citizenship (what I call “state imaginaries”) have also changed, and argue that this had profound consequences for antiwar activism in each moment by shaping how and where activists located responsibility for war. |
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Thursday, March 26, 2015 Movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzsbuGYCTJc |
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Erin Johnston
Department of Sociology Princeton University Olin 307 Perceived failures and shortcomings abound in the process of spiritual formation: spiritual experiences are few and far between, progress is difficult to evaluate, and the lofty ideals of the aspired-to spiritual identity are unachievable for the majority of practitioners. In addition, training programs in spiritual disciplines such as yoga and meditation explicitly encourage practitioners to identify and acknowledge their failures and shortcomings both within and outside of formal practice. Given the frequency of these experiences and the well-known tendency for repeated failures to elicit exit, why do people continue to engage in these practices? Drawing from case studies of two organizations dedicated to the transmission of personal spiritual disciplines – an Integral Yoga studio and a Catholic prayer house – I examine how teachers and students interpret, account for, and respond to perceived shortcoming in the course of training. In this talk, I will argue that these communities encourage what I call a compassionate growth model in relation to experiences of perceived failure: an ideal typical discourse which normalizes, universalizes, and even valorizes failure, and which balances internal and external attributions in accounting for these experiences. In addition, I will show how practitioners struggle to not only enact but to fully internalize this perspective, and demonstrate the important role that interaction with fellow journeymen plays in the iterative process of failure, interpretation and persistence. Finally, I will argue that the official, socially-sanctioned approach to failure becomes a key element in the definition, performance, and identification of the spiritual self, serving as a marker of commitment and authenticity and distinguishing members and the community from culturally relevant others. |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Internships and workshops focused around architecture, urban planning, sustainable living and agriculture!
Olin Humanities, Room 201 We are set for another great semester of internships, guest lectures and workshops. We will hold our first bi-weekly group meeting this Wednesday at 7pm on the second floor of Olin–specific room TBA. We will give a brief introduction to the three divisions of BardBuilds, as well as the expectations we have for members. Then figure out what internship or workshops you will be interested in! |
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Friday, February 13, 2015
Join up to 20 other schools in the Northeast for a weekend of organizing, campaigning, learning and celebrating around FOOD JUSTICE!
Olin, MPR, Olin LC, Village A, RKC, Kline, and Hegeman The Real Food Challenge is coming to Bard!! Join up to 20 other schools in the Northeast to learn about your purchasing power with a weekend full of leadership development, training, and Social Justice! To attend, you MUST register here (the BFI will pay for your attendance, but only if you let us know ahead of time!): http://goo.gl/forms/1fgmUz230e Come for the whole weekend, or just the panel and following workshop on Saturday (5:15 on, Olin LC 115) or the Creative Action Design Lab on Sunday (3:00 to 5:00 in the RKC Lazlo Z Bito Auditorium). Learn more about the Real Food Challenge here: http://www.realfoodchallenge.org/ Direct all questions to Amelia Leeya Goldstein ([email protected]) Rough Schedule: February 13 - 16, Bard College FRIDAY beginning in Olin 203 at 5PM Welcome // Defining Leadership // Real Food Wheel SATURDAY beginning for breakfast at 9:00 Location TBD Story of the Real Food Challenge // Theory of Change // Logic of the Plantaton: Universities, Slavery, and the Food System // PANEL ON THE FOOD SYSTEM OLIN LC 115// Leadership Development Skills // Cafe Cultura Open Mic SUNDAY: beginning for breakfast at 9:00 Location TBD Understanding Our Selves in Systems of Power // Power: Movements and How We Build Them // Cycle of Organizing // CREATIVE ACTION DESIGN LAB OLIN 205// Self and Community Care MONDAY beginning for breakfast at 9:00 Location TBD Campaign Planning Session // Closing and Goodbyes |
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Join us for a panel discussion of incarceration in the United States with guest speakers Keith Reeves, Richard Smith, and Jed Tucker.
Part of the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement series of events. |
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
A Talk By Keith Reeves, Swarthmore College
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Professor Reeves will present work from his current project examining the effects of incarceration on Black males, followed by a Q&A session. Part of the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement series of events. |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Kline, Faculty Dining Room Jason Lydon will talk about strategies and tactics for abolishing the prison system. Using personal narratives from prisoners, participants will learn how the prison industrial complex affects LGBTQ people and how reformists and abolitionists respond differently to the modern day prison system. Jason Lydon is a formerly incarcerated queer, Unitarian Universalist minister and founder of the queer prison abolitionist organization Black and Pink. Black and Pink is an open family of LGBTQ prisoners and “free world” allies who support each other. Black and Pink distributes a newspaper written by prisoners, runs a prisoner pen pal program and supports abolitionist reforms that lessen the harm of the prison system. |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014 RKC 200 Please join us for the most in-depth information about the Levy M.S. program. Levy Institute Scholar and Director of Applied Micromodeling Thomas Masterson will be available to discuss the program curriculum as well as the research that takes place at the Institute.Dinner will be catered by Rusty’s Farm Fresh Eatery and the Bard Farm. Please RSVP by e-mailing Azfar Khan ([email protected]) and indicate your choice of meal: vegetarian, vegan, or nonvegetarian.Early Decision deadline: November 15 | Regular Decision deadline: January 15Visit us at www.bard.edu/levyms. |
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Friday, October 10, 2014
Olin Hall 3:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and co-founder of Creative Commons. He is the author of Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—And a Plan to Stop It. Lessig will provide a stimulating presentation on the broken political system, big money dominance, and the corrupt funding that is destroying the American republic. This event is part of the seventh annual Hannah Arendt Center Conference: "The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For?" Admission is complimentary for Hannah Arendt Center members, Bard College faculty and staff, and students. Regular admission for the two-day conference is $20 per person. To view a full conference schedule, bios of featured speakers, and to register for the conference please visit hac.bard.edu. For more information or any questions about the conference, contact [email protected]. |
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Friday, October 10, 2014
Olin Hall 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Norman Rush is an American author, best known for his novel, Mating, which won the 1991 National Book Award and the 1992 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for its exploration of notions such as society, poverty, and heterosexual relationships. This event is part of the seventh annual Hannah Arendt Center Conference: "The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For?" Admission is complimentary for Hannah Arendt Center members, Bard College faculty and staff, and students. Regular admission for the two-day conference is $20 per person. To view a full conference schedule, bios of featured speakers, and to register for the conference please visit hac.bard.edu. For more information or any questions about the conference, contact [email protected]. |
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Thursday, October 9, 2014 Olin Hall The two-day conference, “The Unmaking of Americans” will ask what aspirations and which dreams still animate American idealism. Americans today must confront the weakening of a collective vision of freedom and equality. And yet few dare to articulate a collective vision that might hold the country together. The Arendt conference brings together scholars, writers, and educators to ask, “Are there still American values worth fighting for? America has long imagined itself a “city upon a hill.” Yet, we confront today a weakening of our collective vision. Americans are dismayed at the power of money, the decay of self-governance, and a bureaucracy impervious to popular control. And yet few dare to articulate a collective vision that might hold the country together. As Hannah Arendt argued nearly 50 years ago, “we face the ominous silence that answers us whenever we ask: 'What are we fighting for?'" In the United States of America, there has long been an assumption that we had an answer to Arendt's question. We fight for freedom and democracy. We fight for equality and difference. Above all we fight for "a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Not only in America, but around the world, we confront a weakening of such political visions. In America, the ideals of freedom, equality, and a common destiny that have are in decline. On both the left and the right there is fear the country has lost its way. To explore the future of an American idea, we will sponsor "The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For?" Press Release: View |
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014 Is America an exceptional nation? If so, of what is it a model? Democratic self-government? Something else? Does America's success or failure even matter for the fate of the world? Please join us for an exciting public debate inspired by the topic of this year's Hannah Arendt Center Conference, "The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For?" The debate will feature Bard Debate Union members, Bard College faculty, and cadets and faculty from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Their topic will be, "Resolved: Individualism is an American value worth fighting for." Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center, Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Debate Union, West Point Military Academy, and the International Debate Education Association. Tuesday, October 7, 2014 7PM Location: Bard College, Campus Center Multipurpose Room Free and open to the public Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center. For more information, call 845-758-7878, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://hac.bard.edu/conference-fall14/page.php?listing_id=9066950. |
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Monday, October 6, 2014 Panelists: Alexandra Cox, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY New Paltz Quinton Cross, President and Executive Director of Staley B.Keith Social Justice Center Simon Gilhooley, Assistant Professor of Political Studies Allison McKim, Assistant Professor of Sociology Delia Mellis, BPI Director of College Writing Moderated by Shari Stiell-Quashie '16 Event followed by a discussion on campus climate culture in the George Ball Lounge at 7PM, sponsored by the Multicultural Diversity Committee. Photo by David Broome, UPI. |
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
"Two Cheers for Corporate Social Responsibility"
A Talk in the Social Studies Divisional Colloquium Olin Humanities, Room 102 As “corporate social responsibility” enters the mainstream, itsinitials "CSR" have become a dirty word for a broad segment of the engaged public. The voluntariness, vagueness, and uncertainty of enforcement – not to mention blatant propaganda by companies – overwhelm any positive value, they argue. At the other end of the spectrum, CSR enthusiasts insist that it is leading to a new paradigm, even challenging traditional forms of corporate governance. Oft overlooked in the debate over CSR is the way in which public campaigns have driven change and, even more importantly, shaped the mechanisms that emerge. CSR continues to be as much the story of savvy activists leveraging global networks as it is the monitoring mechanisms and codes of conduct -- maybe more so. Peter Rosenblum will explore the current debate, drawing on his recently completed research on Indian Tea plantations and a soon-to-published chapter addressing advocates and critics of CSR. |
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Interested in a sociology class?
Kline, President's Room Come and meet current and returning faculty to learn about courses in the Sociology Program this fall. All are welcome—whether you are considering majoring or interested in a particular class. Refreshments will be served. |
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Campus Center, Weis Cinema "New Orleans, Louisiana has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the United States. For the last decade, statistics have shown murder rates four to six times higher than the national average. Eighty percent of the victims are black males, mostly in their teenage years. This is the city's greatest neglected crisis with profound implications for the issues of violence and crime most American cities face. New Orleans government, law enforcement, community leaders, and well-intentioned citizens cannot agree on a prognosis or a solution to this situation. Wherever a disagreement is escalating into violence, an execution is being planned, or a victim is taking his last breath, it is more than likely a youth is witnessing or carrying out these actions. Shell Shocked attempts to bridge the gap of this disconnect by hearing the ideas, opinions, and testimonies from activists, community leaders, police, city officials, youth program directors, family and friends of victims, and the children who live in these violent circumstances. We are looking for positive solutions to an extremely negative situation." Join the Bard New Orleans Exchange for a benefit dinner and screening of the award-winning film. Jambalaya and cornbread will be served for $5 a plate with all proceeds going toward BNEO's Summer Intensive in Education program. All are welcome! |
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Friday, December 13, 2013
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The Belo Monte hydroelectric facility, located in the Brazilian Amazon, will be the world’s third largest dam when completed in 2019. This energy project is touted as a sustainable development initiative, but its construction is bringing rapid social and environmental changes to the urban centers closest to the construction site, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities through displacement, rising prices, and inadequate government services. In this context, I examine the factors that enable and constrain dam-affected people as they make demands for their rights, highlighting the importance of collective imaginations of the future. I argue that effective translation, or the reframing of these imagined futures into language and demands that can be understood and acted upon by others, is a necessary step in addressing the needs of the most marginalized.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Monday, December 9, 2013
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium What do activists do when facing a supposedly unstoppable force? In the context of the housing boom of the last decade, efforts to limit abuses in the so-called sub prime home lending market were complicated by rising home ownership and rapidly growing industry profits. In this talk I examine how advocacy and nonprofit organizations mobilized to confront a problem with local consequences but extra-local causes.
I focus on the development of city and state anti-predatory lending laws intended to limit abuses, and the subsequent push-back against these efforts. Using legal cases, interviews, and documents by advocates, industry representatives, and policy-makers, I argue that debates between supporters and opponents were as much about scale as they were about the particular laws themselves. In other words, the question was whether cities and states should even have the power to regulate lending. Finally, I argue that the legal outcomes of these debates reshaped the home lending market, with consequences for the larger economy. |
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Saturday, November 9, 2013
Root Cellar Selling used books, hot cider and vegan baked goods at the Root Cellar. All proceeds go to the Bard Prison Initiative.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Come to our weekly meeting to learn about and be a part of labor actvism at Bard.
What is the Student Labor Dialogue? Over the years, the Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) has served many purposes in its relationship with workers on campus and involvement in workers rights campaigns across the country. At times, it has been simply a social forum for workers and students to meet and connect. At other times students and workers have rallied together for better wages and benefits with a good degree of success. In broader terms, the SLD is a forum for all issues of socio-economic class to be aired. For many issues which workers face, such as unaffordable health care and debt, are the same issues students face. Our contention is that, when workers and students work in solidarity, both parties gain power in the Bard community. |
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Robbins Join the AUCA-Bard staff for an evening of Central Asian culture and cooking! Learn to make Eurasian favorites like plov and manti or just enjoy the food and company.
Held in Robbins House kitchens and common room. Download: Central Asian Cooking Nights.pdf |
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Friday, April 12, 2013 Olin Humanities, Room 102 This day-long workshop brings together Bard faculty and students to explore a range of questions on teaching and learning about cities in an academic context. We will ask: How do the reading of texts, the building of cultural monuments, and the creation of artistic works transform our understandings of the city? Is it possible to read the city as a text or view it as a cultural monument? Are there cities better preserved in cultural memory than physical space? How are identities and ideas of cities formed through literature, film, and other media? In what ways can these different strategies of representation transform the urban experience and the city itself? Students will present their work on cities at a panel, to be followed by a roundtable for faculty on teaching methodologies, theoretical frameworks, and principles of canon formation to consider when discussing cities and urban space in the classroom. |
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Campus Center, Room 214, "Yellow Room" Sarah Egan, Ph.D.
Candidate for the Position of Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology In this talk I draw on my research on the pro- and anti-hunting movements in England, explaining the meaning of the foxhunting ritual in the English countryside, the claims that its defenders made regarding the relationship between foxhunting and national identity, and the rejection of this perspective by anti-hunting activists. Traditional foxhunting scenes present a quintessentially English image for many audiences, yet the practice and performance of hunting is a politically divisive issue, nonetheless so for having been banned in 2004. I describe the way that those who defend hunting draw on tropes of national identity as part of the justification for the continuation of this traditional sport. I show that their anti-hunt opponents do not deny that foxhunting images were once iconic emblems of Englishness, but assert that the nation is now more civilized and that this ritual has no place in modern England, insisting rather that England is a nation of animal lovers. I demonstrate the pervasiveness of mobilizing discourses about national identity on both sides through the analysis of movement documents, media sources and parliamentary debates from 1997 to 2004. The interaction between the two movements has both reconfigured the performance of the hunt in the field through the continuous opposition of hunting people and their opponents, and this opposition and the mobilization of discourses have redefined the meaning of hunting in relation to national identity, such that on both material and symbolic levels, opposition to hunting is part of the sport. Sarah Egan is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. She received her PhD in 2012 from Yale University and holds Bachelor and Master of Social Science degrees from University College Dublin. Her research interests include cultural sociology, political sociology and social movements. |
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 Tewksbury Hall Join the AUCA-Bard staff for an evening of Central Asian culture and cooking! Learn to make Eurasian favorites like plov and manti or just enjoy the food and company. Held in Tewksbury Hall kitchens and common roomJoin the AUCA-Bard staff for an evening of Central Asian culture and cooking! Learn to make Eurasian favorites like and or just enjoy the food and company.Held in the Tewksbury Hall Kitchen and common room |
Professor Karen Barkey Receives Grant to Support Research on Historical Religious Pluralism
Professor Karen Barkey has been awarded a 2024 Expenses Grant from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University in support of her upcoming book project, Successful Religious Pluralism in the Mediterranean: A Comparative-Historical Study. The grant also supports Barkey’s work with a Bard undergraduate who is transcribing, translating, and organizing Greek interviews into English.
Professor Karen Barkey Receives Grant to Support Research on Historical Religious Pluralism
Professor Barkey has taught at Bard since 2021, during which time she was named the 2021-22 Germaine Tillion Chair of Mediterranean Studies from the Institute for Advanced Studies D'aix-Marseille. Her current research explores how religious coexistence, toleration and sharing occurred in different historical sites under Ottoman rule. Previously, she focused on the comparative and historical study of the Ottoman Empire in relation to France and the Russian Empire.
Post Date: 02-17-2025
Bard Professor Peter Klein Receives Fulbright US Scholar Award
Peter Klein, associate professor of sociology and environmental and urban studies at Bard College, has received a 2024 Fulbright US Scholar Program Award for his project “The Favela and the Sea: Fishing, Urbanization, and Environmental (In)Justice in Rio de Janeiro.” The grant, sponsored by the Brazilian government, will support Klein’s work in Brazil for four months starting in August.Bard Professor Peter Klein Receives Fulbright US Scholar Award
“The mission of the Fulbright Program to increase cross-cultural understanding and develop long-lasting collaborations is central to my work in Brazil, so I'm extremely grateful to be named a Fellow,” said Klein. “The support that the Fulbright Scholar Award provides will allow me to deepen my research, advance my book project, and create new opportunities to work with scholars and community members in the future.”
His project will use archival work, oral histories, interviews, and ethnography to examine the history and contemporary struggles of the fishers of Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro’s largest conglomeration of favelas, which have faced urbanization, militarization, industrialization, and environmental degradation since the mid-20th century. Klein proposes that the ways these fishers have persevered, protested, produced art, and protected their way of life can reveal a great deal about what successive urban and climatic upheavals do to individuals and communities, and how these communities not only survive, but create a constantly changing cultural, social, political, and economic life in response.
Fulbright US Scholars are faculty, researchers, administrators, and established professionals teaching or conducting research in affiliation with institutes abroad. Fulbright Scholars engage in cutting-edge research and expand their professional networks, often continuing research collaborations started abroad and laying the groundwork for forging future partnerships between institutions. Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided over 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research abroad. Fulbrighters exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work to address complex global challenges. Notable Fulbrighters include 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 80 MacArthur Fellows, 41 heads of state or government, and thousands of leaders across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Post Date: 06-27-2024
Six Bard College Students Win Gilman International Scholarships to Study Abroad
Six Bard College juniors—Lyra Cauley, David Taylor-Demeter, Lisbet Jackson, Yadriel Lagunes, Angel Ramirez, and Jennifer Woo—have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the US Department of State. Gilman Scholars receive up to $5,000, or up to $8,000 if also a recipient of the Gilman Critical Need Language Award, to apply toward their study abroad or internship program costs.Six Bard College Students Win Gilman International Scholarships to Study Abroad
Biology major Yadriel Lagunes ’25, from Clifton, New Jersey, has been awarded a $3,000 Gilman scholarship to study at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador via tuition exchange for spring 2024. At Bard, he serves as a Residential Life Peer Counselor and a supervisor on the Bard EMT Squad. “This scholarship has made studying abroad a possibility for me,” says Lagunes. “I want to center global public health in my future career as a healthcare worker and researcher. Through travel, I hope foster cultural sensitivity and communication skills that are desperately needed in my field. I am so grateful for Gilman scholarship for this opportunity.”
French and Anthropology double major Lyra Cauley ’25, from Blue Hill, Maine, has been awarded a $4,000 Gilman scholarship to study at the Center for University Programs Abroad (CUPA) in Paris, France via tuition exchange for spring 2024. “I would like to thank the Gilman scholarship for giving me financial security and freedom abroad. This scholarship allows me to fully embrace the experience of learning and living abroad with financial worry or strain,” says Cauley.
Biology major Angel Ramirez ’25, from Bronx, New York, has been awarded a $3,000 Gilman scholarship to study at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, The Netherlands via tuition exchange for spring 2024. “I’m very grateful to be a recipient of the Gilman scholarship,” says Ramirez. “It’s a huge opportunity to be able to pursue my goals within biology for my future in STEM. I’m excited to learn a new language abroad in the Netherlands and experience new cultures without a financial barrier. I proudly come from a family of Mexican immigrants; therefore, I feel empowered that people like me are able to partake in a change as great as this one.”
Spanish and Written Arts joint major Lisbet Jackson ’25, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $4,000 Gilman scholarship to study at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador via tuition exchange for spring 2024. “I am incredibly grateful to the Gilman Scholarship for supporting my semester in Ecuador and ensuring I can commit to developing my Spanish, studying literature, and immersing myself in Ecuadorian culture. Thanks to the Gilman Scholarship I will also be more prepared to pursue a career in multilingual and global education,” says Jackson.
Sociology major Jennifer Woo ’25, from Brooklyn, New York, has been awarded a $3,500 Gilman scholarship to study at Bard College Berlin in Germany for spring 2024. “To be awarded this scholarship means to fully explore and pursue my dream of studying abroad with the freedom of having the financial support I hoped for,” says Woo. “My dad is an artist who has always pushed me to travel and search for culture, the arts, and new experiences, so being able to fulfill this dream while having the resources of education means the world to me.”
German Studies major David Taylor-Demeter ’25, from Budapest, Hungary, has been awarded a $5,000 Gilman scholarship to study at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany via tuition exchange for spring 2024. “To combine my studies of German language and literature with a day-to-day experience of Berlin is an invaluable opportunity,” says Taylor-Demeter.
Since the program’s inception in 2001, more than 41,000 Gilman Scholars from all US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other US territories have studied or interned in more than 160 countries around the globe. The Department of State awarded more than 3,600 Gilman scholarships during the 2022-2023 academic year.
The late Congressman Gilman, for whom the scholarship is named, served in the House of Representatives for 30 years and chaired the House Foreign Relations Committee. When honored with the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal in 2002, he said, “Living and learning in a vastly different environment of another nation not only exposes our students to alternate views but adds an enriching social and cultural experience. It also provides our students with the opportunity to return home with a deeper understanding of their place in the world, encouraging them to be a contributor, rather than a spectator in the international community.”
The Gilman Program is sponsored by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and is supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE). To learn more, visit: gilmanscholarship.org.
Post Date: 12-15-2023
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Can Millennials Afford a House without Family Help? Professor Yuval Elmelech on Marketplace
Can Millennials Afford a House without Family Help? Professor Yuval Elmelech on Marketplace
Yuval Elmelech, an associate professor of sociology at Bard College and author of the book Wealth, spoke with Marketplace about the difficulty millennials face in buying a house, especially in cities such as San Francisco and New York where they are being priced out and even forced to relocate. For many who live there, parental wealth has made a big difference. “If parents can help their children buy a home, this means that these children will need to rely less on loans and mortgages,” he said. “Whereas other young couples, individuals who cannot rely on parental resources—and this is the majority of the population—will have to take out higher loans.”
Post Date: 01-10-2023
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Opinion: Alumna Jennifer H. Madans ’73 Identifies “Weak Link in the Administration’s Data-Driven COVID-19 Response”
Opinion: Alumna Jennifer H. Madans ’73 Identifies “Weak Link in the Administration’s Data-Driven COVID-19 Response”
Jennifer H. Madans ’73, former National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) associate director for science and acting director, cowrites an op-ed for The Hill about how a lack of government funding for the NCHS was a “weak link in the administration’s data-driven COVID-19 response.” The NCHS is the Department of Health and Human Services’ equivalent of the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. It collects and disseminates core public health information on births, deaths, chronic and acute disease, disability and health care access and utilization. “Just as the timeliness and granularity of employment data, with information by state, if not county, and by sector or product category, help bolster our economy and job growth, more timely and granular health statistics would improve public health.”
Madans asserts: “Had investments been made in maintaining and modernizing the health data infrastructure we would have had information on COVID-related deaths, hospitalizations, ambulatory care visits and symptoms along with information on the impacts of the pandemic on wellbeing. This would have allowed for immediate tracking of the pandemic at its earliest stages and the continuing monitoring of response capabilities as it changed course. Without this investment, the data that were produced were delayed and in many cases they were of limited quality, which hampered our ability to control the pandemic and meet the health and health care needs of the population.”
Post Date: 04-26-2022
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Jomaira Salas Pujols, Alumna of the Posse Foundation, to Join Bard Faculty in Fall 2022
Jomaira Salas Pujols, Alumna of the Posse Foundation, to Join Bard Faculty in Fall 2022
Currently completing her doctoral work in sociology at Rutgers University, Jomaira Salas Pujols will join the faculty of the Sociology Program at Bard College in fall 2022. Her work focuses on race, place, education, and Black girlhood, with her doctoral dissertation examining the consequences of movement on Black girls’ perceptions of self, their identities, and their worlds. “I look forward to supporting Posse Scholars as a faculty member at Bard,” Jomaira says, “and to joining an institution that is so deeply committed to the public good.”
Post Date: 12-21-2021
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How Campus Activist Madeline Firkser ’19 Channeled Her Passions Into a Career
How Campus Activist Madeline Firkser ’19 Channeled Her Passions Into a Career
Madeline Firkser’s advice for activists and young job seekers is the same: Participate. Firkser spoke with the Wall Street Journal about how she pivoted after realizing her first job wasn’t a good fit. Firkser is the special projects associate at JustLeadershipUSA, a New York City–based criminal justice reform organization.
Post Date: 07-19-2021
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Two Bard College Students Win Highly Competitive Gilman Study Abroad Scholarships
Two Bard College Students Win Highly Competitive Gilman Study Abroad Scholarships
Bard College students Jourdan Perez ’23 and Tallulah Woitach ’23 have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State to study abroad. Perez was awarded $4,500 toward his studies at Bard College Berlin in fall 2021, and Woitach was awarded $4,000 toward her studies at the University of Sydney in Spring 2022.
“It is an unbelievable honor to be selected for such a prestigious award,” said Woitach, a written arts major. “I am so beyond excited to go to Australia to study indigenous culture, with a focus on oral tradition. All too often in western culture, the written word becomes distanced from the deeper ancient energy language is borne out of. I want to learn from those who know how to make words come alive, by connecting to something much greater than ourselves.”
“I'm very excited to explore Berlin and continue studying German language and culture,” said Perez, a sociology major with a concentration in gender and sexuality studies. “I would like to thank Trish Fleming (Bard’s Study Abroad Adviser) for informing me about the Gilman Scholarship, as well as reviewing my application one last time before I submitted.”
Perez and Woitach were among more than 1,500 U.S. undergraduate students selected to receive Gilman scholarship awards from the March 2021 application deadline. The recipients of this prestigious scholarship are American undergraduate students attending 467 U.S. colleges and represent all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These Gilman Scholars will study or intern in 96 countries through the end of 2022.
The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, providing them with skills critical to our national security and economic prosperity. Gilman Scholars receive up to $5,000, or up to $8,000 if also a recipient of the Gilman Critical Need Language Award, to apply toward their study abroad or internship program costs. Since the program’s establishment in 2001, over 1,300 U.S. institutions have sent over 33,000 Gilman Scholars of diverse backgrounds to 151 countries around the globe. The program has successfully broadened U.S. participation in study abroad, while emphasizing countries and regions where fewer Americans traditionally study. As Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, “People-to-people exchanges bring our world closer together and convey the best of America to the world, especially to its young people.” The late Congressman Gilman, for whom the scholarship is named, served in the House of Representatives for 30 years and chaired the House Foreign Relations Committee. When honored with the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal in 2002, he said, “Living and learning in a vastly different environment of another nation not only exposes our students to alternate views but adds an enriching social and cultural experience. It also provides our students with the opportunity to return home with a deeper understanding of their place in the world, encouraging them to be a contributor, rather than a spectator in the international community.”
The Gilman Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and is supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE). For more information, visit gilmanscholarship.org.
About Bard College
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 161-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.# # #(5/24/21)
Post Date: 05-20-2021
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Sociologist Karen Barkey Joins Bard Faculty as Charles Theodore Kellogg and Bertie K. Hawver Kellogg Chair of Sociology and Religion
Sociologist Karen Barkey Joins Bard Faculty as Charles Theodore Kellogg and Bertie K. Hawver Kellogg Chair of Sociology and Religion
Bard College announces the appointment of Sociologist Karen Barkey to the College faculty as Charles Theodore Kellogg and Bertie K. Hawver Kellogg Chair of Sociology and Religion for the five-year period 2021-2026, beginning fall 2021. Barkey’s research explores the fields of comparative, historical and political sociology and the sociology of religion. Her research areas span from the rise of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires to the end of these empires in the late 19th and 20th centuries, and nation building in their aftermath. She is the Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity at the Othering & Belonging Institute, the director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, the co-director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
“We are honored to welcome distinguished scholar Karen Barkey to the Bard faculty as well as the Open Society University Network at a moment when renewed efforts to understand cooperation, coexistence, and inclusion as well as conflict across difference have become increasingly critical,” said Bard’s Dean of the College, Deirdre d’Albertis.
Karen Barkey has been engaged in the comparative and historical study of the state, with special focus on its transformation over time. She has focused on state society relations, peasant movements, banditry, opposition and dissent organized around the state. Her main empirical site has been the Ottoman Empire, in comparison with France, the Habsburg, and the Russian Empires. She also pays attention to the Roman and Byzantine worlds as important predecessors of the Ottomans.
Her work Empire of Difference (Cambridge UP, 2008) is a comparative study of the flexibility and longevity of imperial systems. In different chapters, the book explores the key organizational and state society related dynamics of imperial longevity. This book demonstrates that the flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy, the cooperation of their diverse elites both at the center and in the provinces, as well as the control over the economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this particular “negotiated empire.” In the process, it explores important issues such as diversity, the role of religion in politics, Islam and the state as well as the manner in which the Sunni-Shi’a divide operated during the tenure of the Ottoman Empire. Such topics are relevant to the contemporary setting and the conflicts we endure today.
Barkey is now pursing different projects on religion and toleration. She has written on the early centuries of Ottoman state toleration and is now exploring different ways of understanding how religious coexistence, toleration and sharing occurred in different historical sacred sites under Ottoman rule. She published an edited book, Choreography of Sacred Spaces: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution (with Elazar Barkan) (Columbia UP, 2014) that explores the history of shared religious spaces in the Balkans, Anatolia and Palestine/Israel, all three regions once under Ottoman rule. The book explores the politics and culture of conflict and cooperation over religious sites. It also provides the historical antecedents to help us understand the accommodation and contention around specific sites in the modern period, tracing comparatively areas and regime changes over time. In many places the long history of sharing sacred sites serves as an indicator of the possibilities for pluralism in the context of empire.
Barkey is one of the curators of the traveling Shared Sacred Sites exhibition. She has worked on the exhibition in the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Museum of Photography and the Yeni Cami in Thessaloniki (2017) and the New York exhibition at the NYPL, Morgan Library and Museum and CUNY Graduate Center (2018). She also runs a website on this topic which brings international participants and expertise on many shared sites around the world. She started this project to promote awareness and understanding of coexistence among religions. You can see more on the site: sharedsacredsites.net.
Barkey was awarded the Germaine Tillion Chair of Mediterranean Studies at IMéRA, for 2021-2022. IMéRA is the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University, and a member of the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study. Barkey was born in Istanbul, Turkey. After she graduated from the Lycée Notre Dame de Sion, in Istanbul, she moved to the United States for her college education. She got her BA degree from Bryn Mawr College, an MA degree from The University of Washington, and a PhD from the University of Chicago.
About Bard College
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 161-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.# # #(4/09/21)
Post Date: 04-09-2021
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