Archive of Past Events
2015
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Arabic Language Table
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 The Management of Savagery: The Islamic State, Extreme Violence, and Our Endless War
The Human Rights Project presents a public lecture by Mark DannerReem-Kayden Center Lynda and Stewart Resnick Science Laboratories 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us December 1 at 6:00 PM in the RKC Room 103 for a public lecture by Mark Danner.Mark Danner is a writer, journalist and professor who has written for three decades on foreign affairs and international conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, Balkans, Iraq and the greater Middle East, among many other stories, and has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, with a focus on human rights violations during that time. Danner is Chancellor's Professor of English and Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College. Press Release: View |
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015 Arabic Language Table
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Thursday, November 19, 2015 From Fellahin to Fatah: The Experience of Palestinian Political Prisoners
A talk by Rebecca Granato, Assistant Dean, Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and SciencesCampus Center, Weis Cinema 12:30 pm EST/GMT-5 In the past several weeks, hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested or administratively detained by Israel. This technique of mass arrests is not new to Israel. Since the Occupation's inception in 1967, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have cycled through the Israeli prison system, many of them more than once. This talk will trace the evolution of an organized prisoner movement in the 1970s and 1980s and will look at how different the situation is amongst prisoners today. Rebecca Granato, Bard class of 1999, is the Assistant Dean and a founding faculty member of Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences. She has since been a Palestinian American Research Center Fellow, faculty associate of the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking, and PhD candidate of Middle Eastern History at the University of Waterloo. |
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Desert Borderland: Local Identity, Territoriality
Matthew Ellisand the Making of Modern Egypt and Libya Assistant Professor of History, Sarah Lawrence College Olin Humanities, Room 204 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 co-sponsored by Historical Studies and Africana Studies |
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Sunday, November 8, 2015 Israeli Cooking Workshop
Center for Spiritual Life (Village A Basement) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5Learning how to make Shakshuka with Yarden! |
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Rasha Abbas and Alice Guthrie
Olin Humanities, Room 102 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5Rasha Abbas is a Syrian journalist and writer of short stories currently based in Berlin, Germany. In 2008, she published her first collection, "Adam Hates the Television," and was awarded a prize for young writers during the Damascus Capital of Arab Culture festival. In 2013 she co-wrote the script for a short film, "Happiness and Bliss," produced by Bedayat foundation, and in 2014 she contributed, both as a writer and as a translator, to "Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline," published by Saqi Books. Last year she completed a Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fellowship, supported by Solitude Schloss Akademie, in Stuttgart, Germany, where she was working on her second short story collection, tentatively entitled "The Gist of It." Alice Guthrie' s translations of contemporary Arabic literature have been published by a wide range of UK and US presses and venues, most recently Words Without Borders and the Massachusetts Review. She also edits Arabic-English translations for London’s Darf Books. Diverse media, NGO and academic translations have appeared in international online and print media, and her own (non-translated) journalistic work has featured in the Guardian and on the BBC. She was an American Literary Translators Association Fellow in 2014 and she is a recipient – with Rasha Abbas – of the 2015 Omi International Translation Lab fellowship. This event is co-sponsored by Human Rights Project, the Translation Initiative and the Written Arts Program |
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Sunday, November 1, 2015 Israeli Film Screening
Preston 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 |
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015 The Wanted 18
The screening will be followed by a directed by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan discussion with Amer Shomali Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Director Amer Shomali will be joining us for a screening and discussion of his animated documentary “The Wanted 18.” Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army’s pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared “a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.” In response to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a group of people from the town of Beit Sahour decide to buy 18 cows and produce their own milk as a co-operative. Their venture is so successful that the collective farm becomes a landmark, and the cows local celebrities—until the Israeli army takes note and declares that the farm is an illegal security threat. Consequently, the dairy is forced to go underground, the cows continuing to produce their “Intifada milk” with the Israeli army in relentless pursuit. Recreating the story of the “wanted 18” from the perspectives of the Beit Sahour activists, Israeli military officials, and the cows, Palestinian artist Amer Shomali and veteran Canadian director Paul Cowan create an enchanting, inspirational tribute to the ingenuity and power of grassroots activism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlKZ8daLtOo co-sponsored by: The Human Rights Project and Film Program |
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Arabic Language Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you would like.Kline (back corner, by President's Room) |
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Friday, September 4, 2015 Post-Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships Information Session
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 Post-Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships Information Session
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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Monday, April 27, 2015 Hard Traveling: Commuting Costs and Welfare in the Second Palestinian Uprising
Reem-Kayden Center, Room 100 Alexei AbrahamsWorld Bank and Brown University |
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Sufism in North America
Reem-Kayden Center, Room 101 Shobhana XavierPhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier-Waterloo University in the Religion and Culture DepartmentSufism in America forms a formative current of Islamic and non-Islamic spirituality and religiosity. In the American context Sufism was present ritually among some early African American indentured slaves of the 17th century, while Sufism’s Persian poetic traditions were influential in the circles of American literary masters, such as the Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. But the systemic proliferation of Sufism is often cited as emerging with the arrival of Hazrat Inayat Khan (d. 1927) in 1910. Sufi communities have now institutionalized and are seminal manifestations of Islam and spirituality across America. As the demographics of Sufi communities transform in the 21st century in America, these movements are also contending with issues of authority, gender and legitimacy. How are issues of legitimacy of Sufism within Islam or the role of women in Sufi American movements being negotiated? How is the role of the classical Sufi shaykh (master) unfolding in the American context? As a means to explore these questions within the development of Sufism in North America, this talk situates the historical development of Sufism in America and then uses the case study of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, which is headquartered in Philadelphia with transnational connections to Sri Lanka, to explore how these negotiations are unfolding in one particular Sufi community and what this can tell us about Sufism in America, but also Sufism in contemporary global contexts. |
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Omar Tesdell: Nature Reserves, Territory, and the Question of Palestinian Cultivation
Olin 304 Beginning mid-nineteenth century, first French and Ottoman officials, and later British officials set aside significant tracts of land for environmental conservation in the Arab world. The convention was continued under subsequent Jordanian administration of the West Bank. In fact, nature areas remain one of the largest classifications of land in the Palestinian West Bank today, covering more than 30 official reserves, or about 5 percent of the land area. This little-known legacy reveals the enduring and contested status of protected conservation areas in Historic Palestine. Recent scholarship on the topic has elucidated the establishment of forest and nature reserves in Palestine and connections with other British colonial sites. However, little is known about the relationship between conservation programs and affected Palestinians. This paper explores the contested status of protected areas through the articulation of official conservation programs and Palestinian cultivation practice in the West Bank. |
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Sunday, April 12, 2015 A Reading by Rabih Alameddine
The 2014 National Book Award finalist Rabih Alameddine reads from his work.Campus Center, Weis Cinema Rabih Alameddine is the author of the story collection The Perv and the novels Koolaids; I, the Divine; The Hakawati; and, most recently, An Unnecessary Woman, a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award. He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut. An Unnecessary Woman dramatizes a wonderful mind at play. The mind belongs to the protagonist, and it is filled with intelligence, sharpness and strange memories and regrets. But, as in the work of Calvino and Borges, the mind is also that of the writer, the arch-creator. His tone is ironic and knowing; he is fascinated by the relationship between life and books. He is a great phrase-maker and a brilliant writer of sentences. And over all this fiercely original act of creation is the sky of Beirut throwing down a light which is both comic and tragic, alert to its own history and to its mythology, guarding over human frailty and the idea of the written word with love and wit and understanding and a rare sort of wisdom.—Colm Tóibín Introduced by Mary Caponegro and followed by a Q&A, this reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Copies of An Unnecessary Woman will be available for sale and signing by Oblong Books & Music. |
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Thursday, April 9, 2015 Open Sounds, Hidden Spaces: Listening, Wandering, and Spatial Formation in Sufi Iran
with Seema GolestanehOlin Humanities, Room 101 As the Iranian authorities continue to frown upon public gatherings, Sufi Orders have sought alternative methods of convening while still complying with city regulations. One informal Sufi group in the city of Isfahan does so by meeting in private homes and rotating locations each week. Rather than circulate the specific address of a meeting place, however, the mystics instead instruct the others to meet at a nearby intersection, and then broadcast music from a courtyard or house to alert the members to the exact location. This in turn allows them to locate the site by listening for and ultimately “following” the sounds. It is in this way that the Sufis utilize the practice of intentional listening (sama) and mystical ideals of wandering to navigate the politics of Iranian urban space. This talk will hence examine the utilization of mystical epistemologies to lead to the emergence of an alternative Islamic space in post-revolutionary Iran. |
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Monday, April 6, 2015 CCE In the News Series Panel: The Portrayal of Muslims in the Media
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room As the next installment of the Center for Civic Enagegment panel discussion series we will be unpacking the possible issues surrounding and arising from the portrayal of American Muslims in the media. |
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 Israeli Apartheid and the Divestment Movement
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Hazem Jamjoum, PhD candidate at NYU, will be speaking about apartheid as a legal category and how it applies to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. He will eleborate on the international divestment movement and why it is important to support. |
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Monday, March 23, 2015 Islamic Awareness Week
Campus Center, Gallery
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Thursday, March 5, 2015 “Al-Qaeda's Branching Out Strategy and Its Consequences”
Presented by The James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series BGIA (NYC) Barak Mendelsohn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College; Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Center for the Study ofTerrorism, Foreign Policy Research Institute; author ofExpansion and Decline: al-Qaeda's Branching Out Strategy and Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2015) and Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and International Cooperation in the War on Terrorism (University of Chicago Press, 2009). The James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series is cosponsored by Foreign Affairs. It is free and open to the public by RSVP. Please visit our website for the complete list of upcoming public events: http://bgia.bard.edu/speakerseries/ Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program 36 West 44th St, #1011, NY, NY |
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Coups, Cadavers, and Catastrophes: The Persian Gulf in the New Year
Preston The Persian Gulf region is never quiet, and the start of 2015 has been no exception: the death of the Saudi King; the collapse of the Yemeni government; the continued expansion of ISIS; and the new necessity of collaborating and negotiating with Iran, all foreshadow a year of major change, turmoil, and power shifts. Join James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities Walter Russell Mead, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA) Director Jonathan Cristol, and Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern & Historical Studies Omar Cheta for a discussion of the current/latest instability in the Persian Gulf and its impact on both American grand strategy and specific policy decisions in the region. |
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Monday, March 2, 2015 "Egyptian Cinema, Nostalgia, and the Arab Spring"
Christopher StoneHegeman 204 In this talk, Christopher Stone explores the possibility of using nostalgia in popular culture as a predictor of social change. Specifically, it asks why Ahmad Zaki’s "Halim" and Adel Imam’s "Yacoubian Building" were received so differently when they came out in 2005 and how that difference in reception might be read as a predictor of Egypt’s 2011 “revolution.” Christopher Stone is Associate Professor of Arabic and Head of the Arabic Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of "Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: Fairouz and the Rahbani Nation." In the spring of 2008 he was a Fulbright Scholar to Egypt where he started his current project on Egyptian popular culture, a project he continued as an NEH Fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt in 2013. He is also working on several literary translation projects. He is currently the Literature book review editor at The International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).This event is co-sponsored by the Literature Program and the Film Program. |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Mother Tongues and Other Tongues: Jews, Zionism, and the Politics of Language in Interwar Palestine
Liora HalperinAssistant Professor of History & Jewish Studies University of Colorado–Boulder Olin Humanities, Room 204 Liora Halperin is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado--Boulder. Her research focuses on Jewish cultural history, Jewish-Arab relations in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine, language ideology and policy, and the politics surrounding nation formation in Palestine in the years leading up to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Her first book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 was published last November by Yale University Press. |
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Thursday, February 12, 2015 Activism in the Age of Cyber War
A conversation with Dlshad OthmanCampus Center, Multipurpose Room Dlshad Othman, Systems Engineer from the Information Safety & Capacity Project (ISC) will be on campus to discuss protest and activism in a time of social media and interconnectivity. Hosted by Danielle Riou. A workshop will be held on Friday, February 13th from 10AM-12AM with hands-on activity and discussions on activism. Registration required, RSVP to [email protected] |