Archive of Past Events
2024
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Friday, November 8, 2024 Persian and Dari Language Table
Kline Commons 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays. |
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Thursday, November 7, 2024 They, the People: Decolonization and Popular Politics
A talk from Sandipto Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social ResearchOlin Humanities, Room 102 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. For the academic year 2024-25, he is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in Social Sciences and Historical Studies. He is the author of Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony, which reconstructs the institutionalization of nascent postcolonial futures through a historical study of the Indian constitution making experience. Sponsored by Dean of the College, Division of Social Studies, Asian Studies, Global and International Studies Program, Human Rights Project, Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, and Union College Political Science Department, and Dean of Academic Department and Programs Hudson Valley Political Theory Workshop is a new collaborative project organized by Bard College and Union College. The workshop aims to bring together political theorists working in the Hudson Valley Region in a series of workshops to share their work in progress, create new networks, and open up possibilities for new collaborative research projects that further advance humanities. |
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Friday, November 1, 2024 Persian and Dari Language Table
Kline Commons 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays. |
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Thursday, October 31, 2024 One Year On: War, Genocide, and the Transformation of Palestinian, Israeli, and Regional Politics
Online Panel with Tareq Baconi, Aslı Ü. Bâli, and Shay Hazkani. Moderated by Ziad Abu-Rish.Online Event 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This panel explores how the Hamas-led attack on October 7 and the Israeli war on Gaza have changed and intensified specific dynamics shaping Palestinian, Israeli, and regional/international politics. Taking seriously that history did not begin on October 7, and that the level of death, displacement, and destruction in Gaza caused by the Israeli military has raised the specter of genocide, this panel moves beyond adjudicating the nature of the war to interrogate its reverberations, reflections, and consequences for Palestinian, Israeli, and regional politics. Where does Hamas stand strategically vis-a-vis its objectives, other Palestinian factions, and the Palestinian people? What social, demographic, and institutional transformations are taking place within the Israeli state and society? In what ways is the regional and international order fundamentally different or affected by the past year? |
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024 Focus on Lebanon
Nassim Abi Ghanem in Conversation with Michelle MurrayReem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 This conversation between Nassim Abi Ghanem (Bard College Berlin) and Michelle Murray (Bard Annandale) will shed light on developments in Lebanon, particularly the Israeli bombardment and ground invasion of the country. Questions addressed will include the nature of domestic politics in Lebanon, the relationship of Hezbollah to those politics and the genocide in Gaza, the goals and methods of Israeli political and military leadership for Lebanon, and the regional and global reverberations of those policies. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. Nassim AbiGhanem is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bard College Berlin. Michelle Murray is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Bard College. Nassim Abi Ghanem’s areas of expertise include peace and conflict, non-state actors’ involvement in international politics, conflict management and peacebuilding, social network theory, and the Middle East. Abi Ghanem earned his PhD in International Relations from the Central European University (CEU) in 2022. Abi Ghanem’s research focuses on peacebuilding processes, particularly on the involvement of local actors in peacebuilding tools such as disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR), and social reconciliation. Outside academia, Abi Ghanem advises regional and international organizations on programmatic initiatives taking place in Lebanon and is Lebanon’s country expert for Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation Index for 2022 and 2024. This event is cosponsored by the Global and International Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Human Rights, and Politics Programs at Bard College. |
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Friday, October 25, 2024 Persian and Dari Language Table
Kline Commons 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays. |
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Friday, October 18, 2024 Persian and Dari Language Table
Kline Commons 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays. |
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Friday, October 11, 2024 Persian and Dari Language Table
Kline Commons 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays. |
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Unlearning at the Threshold of the Museum
Center for Human Rights and the Arts Talks SeriesRKC 103 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 In this lecture, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay invites the audience to stay at the threshold of the museum in order to recognize the impossibility of decolonizing museums without decolonizing the world. Refusing to study what was plundered as mere objects as museums command us to do, but rather as evidence of a destroyed world, Azoulay decenters the category of “restitution,” and proposes to understand plunder as communal remains. Azoulay weaves the plunder of objects stolen from Jews in Europe—and their partial restitution within the broader picture of European plunder from other places, among them from the world of her ancestors in the Maghreb, from Palestine, and West Africa, in an attempt to undo the exceptionalization of “the Jews” which continues to serve Euro-American imperial interests on a global scale. |
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Friday, October 4, 2024 Persian and Dari Language Table
Kline Commons 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays. |
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Friday, September 27, 2024 Persian and Dari Language Table
Kline Commons 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays. |
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Friday, September 20, 2024 Persian and Dari Language Table
Kline Commons 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays. |
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Monday, September 16, 2024 Swear to me Daughters of Jerusalem
Victoria HannaChapel of the Holy Innocents 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Building on ancient Kabbalistic traditions that see language, the voice, and the mouth as tools of cosmic creation, Victoria will reveal the Hebrew alphabet as an instrument for playing with the mouth. By thinking with foundational Kabbalistic texts such as the Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzirah) and the writings of Abraham Abulafia, Victoria will demonstrate how the letters have been, and can be, used for daily work with speech and the body. She will also perform works inspired by the biblical Songs of Solomon, as well as late antique Jewish amulets. Victoria grew up in Jerusalem in an Orthodox Jewish family with roots in Egypt and Iran. She has performed and taught at universities around the world including Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Michigan University, Virginia Tech, Monash University, Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University. Her work combines Jewish mysticism, Dada, surrealism, and feminism. |
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. |
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 Keywords in Understanding Israel/Palestine: A Panel on Anti-Semitism & Anti-Palestinian Racism
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4This panel on the terms "Anti-Semitism" and "Anti-Palestinian Racism" is part of the Spring 2024 common course Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine and will be open to the Bard College community as a whole. The course critically explores the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine with a focus on contemporary Gaza, and the vocabularies we use to understand it. The course brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to help students understand the histories of and contestations around important concepts and ideas that define our contemporary moment, and to stimulate informed dialogue within our community. Participating in the panel on the terms "Anti-Semitism" and "Anti-Palestinian Racism" will be Ken Stern of Bard College and Radhika Sainath of Palestine Legal. Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. He is an award-winning author and attorney, and was most recently executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation. Before that he was director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee, where he worked for 25 years. Stern is the author of numerous op-eds and book reviews, appearing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Forward, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and elsewhere. He most recently published The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (New Jewish Press, 2020), and previously published Loud Hawk: The United States vs. The American Indian Movement. Mr. Stern graduated from Bard College in 1975. Radhika Sainath is a senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, where she oversees the organization’s casework on free speech, censorship, and academic freedom. Prior to joining Palestine Legal, Radhika represented clients in individual and class action civil and constitutional rights cases involving discrimination, human rights abuses, and prison conditions at one of California’s most prestigious civil rights firms. Radhika has successfully litigated numerous state and federal class actions and other federal civil rights cases. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Jacobin, and Literary Hub. Radhika is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and the University of California, San Diego. She is based in Palestine Legal’s New York City office and is admitted to the California and New York state bars. This event is cosponsored by the Politics Program, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Global and International Studies Program, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Human Rights and the Arts. |
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024 Keywords in Understanding Israel/Palestine: Omer Bartov on “Genocide”
Olin Auditorium 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4This lecture on the term “Genocide” is part of the Spring 2024 common course Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine and will be open to the Bard College community as a whole. The course critically explores the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine with a focus on contemporary Gaza, and the vocabularies we use to understand it. The course brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to help students understand the histories of and contestations around important concepts and ideas that define our contemporary moment, and to stimulate informed dialogue within our community. Presenting the lecture on the term "genocide" to the course and the wider campus community will be Omer Bartov, the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Omer Bartov's early research concerned the crimes of the German Wehrmacht, the links between total war and genocide, and representation of antisemitism in twentieth-century cinema. More recently, he has focused on interethnic relations and violence in Eastern Europe, population displacement in Europe and Palestine, and the first generation of Jews and Palestinians in Israel. His books include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). Bartov is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine. His novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, was published this year in the United States and Israel. This event is cosponsored by the Politics Program, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Global and International Studies Program, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Human Rights and the Arts. |
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024 The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Visiting Professor of Humanities Adam Shatz reads selections from his new book, followed by a conversation with Ziad Dallal, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures and Director of Middle East Studies.Reem-Kayden Center; Room 103 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 About the Rebel's Clinic: “In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon’s stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War-era thriller.” |
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024 The Three Rs of Postwar Internationalism: Refugee, Return, Repatriation
Arie M. Dubnov, George Washington UniversityHegeman 106 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Three pivotal terms— "refugee," "return," and "repatriation" — played an exceptionally significant role in shaping international planning and discourse after World War II. Exploring the interconnections of international history and the history of political and religious concepts, the talk examines how these terms acquired distinct meanings within the framework of international policies and how they echo to this day in the context of the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. Arie M. Dubnov is the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies. Trained in Israel and the U.S., he is a historian of twentieth century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the history of political thought, the study of nationalism, decolonization and partition politics, and with a subsidiary interest in the history of Israeli popular culture. Prior to his arrival at GW, Dubnov taught at Stanford University and the University of Haifa. He was a G.L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a participant in the National History Center’s International Decolonization Seminar, and recipient of the Dorset Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a was Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford. |