Archive of Past Events
2021
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021 The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation, Film Screening and Q&A
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5Join us for a screening of the documentary followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Avi Mograbi, and the co-director of Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, Avner Gvaryahu. |
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Thursday, November 4, 2021 The Beauty of the Houri: Images and Interpretations of the Heavenly Virgins
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Dr. Nerina Rustomji, Associate Professor of History at St. John's University, will be giving a talk titled The Beauty of the Houri: Images and Interpretations of the Heavenly Virgins. This talk addresses the images of the pure female companions of Islamic paradise or houris by presenting how the houri was understood from the seventh to the twenty-first century in Arabic, French, and English texts. The houri offered a feminine ideal of purity for a variety of interpreters, including Qur’anic commentators, Latin Christendom theologians, British and French travel writers, eighteenth and nineteenth century poets and writers, and twentieth and twenty-first century interpreters of Islam. The talk considers how an unknowable feminine figure continues to compel, even while signifying the differing aims of spiritual purity, political violence, and gender parity. |
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Afghanistan: 20 Years On
Afghanistan: 20 Years On Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 President George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan in 2001, in an effort to capture and defeat Al Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden. Twenty years later, Joe Biden ended this "forever" war this past summer, noting that Washington achieved its goal of capturing bin Laden. Yet, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was chaotic, as thousands of Afghans scrambled to leave the country. Was withdrawal the right decision? Did the U.S. achieve its goal in Afghanistan? To answer thse questions, we'll be joined by former U.S. State Department official Annie Pforzheimer. Ms. Pforzheimer served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul from 2017-18. She also served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan. She will be joined by Bard professor Fred Hof, also an alumnus from the State Department. Via Zoom. RSVP required. |
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Nothing to Lose but Our Tents: Camp, Revolution, Novel
Nasser Abourahme, Faculty Fellow, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Revolution and narrative are entangled forms. Both are understood as being about the forward progressive movement of time, as organized around totalizing events and central protagonists. The Palestinian Revolution was at once a territorial and narrational struggle. And these struggles came together in what was the Revolution’s principal dilemma—the camp. How one might form a historical subject of movement from the encamped refugees became itself a problem of narrative. If revolution and narrative are both about the movement of time, and camps are essentially devices for the immobilization of time, then how does one stage and write a revolution from the camp? The challenge required nothing less than the transformation of the camps into the means of their own undoing. This talk examines three novels of the revolutionary period to show that Palestinian revolutionary realism both heeded the insurrectionary call but also undermined it. Reading these novels along this defining tension, I argue, points us to political roads not taken, to ways of thinking about revolution itself differently.Nasser Abourahme is a faculty fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, where he works between political and urban geography, colonial studies, and political theory. |
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021 White Supremacist Extremism in the U.S. and Beyond
A Virtual Panel and Discussion with Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Kathleen BleeOnline 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, September 9, 2021 9/11: 20 Years On
9/11: 20 Years On Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 September 11. 2001 was the first foreign attack on U.S. soil. Not long after, then U.S. President George W. Bush put forward an aggressive plan to retaliate against the perpetrators. It gave birth to the "war on terror," which has been a core component of U.S. foreign policy since. How has this war on terror impacted U.S. foreign policy and America's place in the world? Joining us to answer that question and dive into a look at 9/11 20 years on are Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law and the author of the forthcoming book, Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump, Maha Hilal, the inaugural Michael Ratner fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. and author of Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11, and Jamil Dakwar, BGIA professor and the Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program. Via Zoom. RSVP required. |
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 The Hacked World Order
Foreign Policy in the Digital AgeOnline Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Foreign policy is among the things that the Internet has revolutionized. No longer is diplomacy confined to oak-paneled rooms and gilded corridors. This change, as New York Times reporter Mark Landler noted, “happened so fast that it left the foreign policy establishment gasping to catch up.” Author Adam Segal joins us for a conversation about how technology has changed diplomacy, geopolitics, war, and, most of all, power. |
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021 The Geo-Politics of Malcolm X Screening and Discussion with Hisham Aidi Online Event 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Hisham Aidi is senior lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is the author of Redeploying the State (Palgrave, 2008), a comparative study of market reform and labor movements in Latin America; coeditor, with the late Manning Marable, of Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave, 2009); and author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon, 2014). As a cultural reporter, his work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Nation, and the New Yorker. Aidi is the recipient of the Carnegie Scholar Award (2008), the American Book Award (2015), and the Hip Hop Scholar Award (2015. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, working on a project titled “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-Arab World.” His most recent documentary short is titled Malcolm X and the Sudanese. Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/84087117322 |
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Friday, May 7, 2021 The Evolution of the Palestinian Cause in Japan: In the Face of Mainstream Media and Political Culture
Online Event 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4Since its defeat in WWII Japan has continuously been a close political ally of the United States, with local corporate media serving as a primary main tool for directing public opinion and silencing dissent. Despite media blackouts on the occupation of Palestine through the late 1990s, information on the Palestinian cause trickled in. A solidarity movement was created through individual-level communication and activism, and evolved from marginalized intellectual circles in the 1960s, to underground student activism and armed struggle in the 1970s and 80s. The long journey of solidarity from the Far East has yet to celebrate justice for Palestine, but where does it stand today? Mei Shigenobu is a journalist, writer, and media specialist focusing on Middle Eastern issues. She holds a PhD in media studies from Doshisha University in Japan and an MA in international relations from the American University of Beirut. She is the author (in Japanese) of Unveiling the "Arab Spring"; Democratic Revolutions Orchestrated by the West and the Media (2012), From the Ghettos of the Middle East (2003), and Secrets — From Palestine to the Country of Cherry Trees, 28 years with My Mother (2002). She has worked as a live TV host for Asahi Newstar in Tokyo and currently works as a media consultant and producer of programs and documentaries for Japanese and Middle Eastern TV channels. She is the daughter of Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu and has been featured in films such as Children of the Revolution, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Adachi Masao and 27 years Without Images,and others. Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/88504383921?pwd=TCtmQjZEdkM2Y0VwWXgxRlpMbjBIdz09 Meeting ID: 885 0438 3921 Passcode: 752368 |
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Friday, April 30, 2021 Solidarity, In Messy Practice
Eszter Szakács + Naeem MohaiemenOnline Event 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 The anthology Solidarity Must Be Defended (editors: Szakacs, Mohaiemen, forthcoming) weaves together gestures and alignments, within the visual arts, around transnational solidarity during the Cold War era. We survey both grand initiatives and tragic misfires from an entangled, decolonizing world. Events, alliances, and actions are in dialogue and dialectic with, among others, the reformist tendencies of non-alignment and the insurrectionary energy of liberation movements. This anthology proposes that transnational solidarity is always worth celebrating, and extremely difficult to inhabit. Eszter Szakács is a PhD candidate in the project IMAGINART—Imagining Institutions Otherwise: Art, Politics, and State Transformation at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Previously she worked at tranzit.hu Budapest, where she has been co-editor of the online international art magazine Mezosfera, co-editor of the book IMAGINATION/IDEA: The Beginning of Hungarian Conceptual Art – The László Beke Collection, 1971 (tranzit.hu, JRP|Ringier, 2014), and curator of the collaborative research project Curatorial Dictionary. She is a curatorial team member of the civil initiative OFF-Biennale Budapest. Her research revolves around prefigurative politics in art organizing, questions of internationalisms, relations between Eastern Europe and the Global South, as well as the exhibitionary form of research. Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, drawings, sculptures, and essays to research socialist utopia, incomplete decolonization, malleable borders, unreliable memory, and the decaying family unit. His projects often start from Bangladesh’s two postcolonial markers (1947, 1971) and then radiate outward to unlikely, and unstable, transnational alliances: Lebanese migration networks, Japanese hijackers, and a Dutch academic. He is author of Midnight’s Third Child (Nokta, forthcoming) and Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014); and co-editor (w/ Lorenzo Fusi) of System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning (Sylvana, 2007). He is currently a Mellon Teaching Fellow at Columbia University, New York, and Senior Research Fellow at Lunder Institute of American Art, Maine. This talk is organized in conjunction with MES301 Solidarity as Worldmaking. Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86461530312 |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 "Who Killed Malcolm X?" Netflix series discussion with producer and civil rights activist, Abdur-Rahman Muhammad
Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4Please join the Muslim Student Organization this Wednesday, April 28th at 6 PM in their zoom conversation with Abdur-Rahman Muhammad–a historian who is widely regarded as one of the most respected authorities on the life and legacy of the civil rights-era black leader Malcolm X |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 A Celebration of Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins's Award-Winning Book Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Online Event 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 (Stanford University Press, 2019) Please join us to recognize this remarkable achievement. Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86439563616 |
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Who Is Afraid of Ideology?
A talk by artist and filmmaker Marwa Arsanios 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 In this talk, Marwa Arsanios will present the research she has been conducting since 2017, which took her to different geographies such as Iraqi Kurdistan and southern Colombia, and to the encounter of different women's communes and feminist cooperatives that are directly resisting the dispossession of their land and resources and fighting for a "diprivatization" and a communalization process. Working at the intersection of feminist, ecological, and land struggles, they are often making paradigmatic shifts that Arsanios will try to articulate. She will also talk about her position as an artist and researcher in relation to their struggles, especially when it comes to their theoretical and political paradigms. Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders politics of the mid 20th century from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, urbanism, and industrialization. She approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. Arsanios has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Skuc gallery in Lujubljana (2018); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); and Art in General, New York (2015). Her work has also been shown in a number of group exhibitions, including the Warsaw Biennial (2019), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Gwangju Biennial (2018), Lulea Biennial (2018), Let’s Talk About the Weather, Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016); Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); Home Works Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), among others. Arsanios is the recipient of the Georges de Beauregard award at FID Marseille (2019) and the Special Prize of the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize (2012). She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (2014), and the Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space (2010). She is the cofounder of the 98weeks Research Project. Arsanios received a master's of fine art, University of the Arts London (2007), and was a researcher in the Fine Art Department, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2011–12). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna. This event is organized in conjunction with MES301, Solidarity as Worldmaking. Tuesday, April 20, 3pm Annandale / 9pm Berlin / 10pm Abu Dis |
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Enactment Online Event 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Artist Ibrahim Zayer shot himself in 1972, following the opening of a three-artist exhibition in Beirut. The reporting on this historical account overlooks the relationship between the timing of the exhibition and the artist’s act; it has always centered on the artist’s political and emotional life. His friend later wrote that the ‘shock factor’ resulted from Zayer’s choice of timing—apparently, he had talked about taking his own life since 1969. He moved from Baghdad to Beirut to join the PFLP in 1969. He wrote and illustrated for its magazine Al Hadaf (The Target). The cover of the sixth issue of Al Hadaf, published in 1969, depicts two militants jumping into the void. The duo appears as a two-headed, four-legged, multi-angled figure. The form of the two synched bodies signify their collaboration in combat. Photographs of sportsmen attempting to jump over the Berlin Wall in 1974 suggest a similar performance. In these isolated yet related incidents, particular bodies are forced in or out of a collective. These bodies are physical, minimal, choreographed—and driven by politics. This presentation is on the forms the body takes when supporting other bodies in a political project, in relation to the Arab world’s history of insurgency and collective struggle. Ala Younis is an artist with research, curatorial, film, and publishing projects. Younis’s projects are expanded experiences of relating to materials from distant times and places; working against archives play on predilections and how its lacunas and mishaps manipulate imagination. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Berlinale’s Forum Expanded the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. She co-founded Kayfa ta, a non-profit publishing initiative that publishes in book and exhibition formats. Younis's projects include Nefertiti, Tin Soldiers, An Index of Tensional and Unintentional Love of Land, Plan for Greater Baghdad, and Drachmas. Younis curated the first Kuwaiti Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; and the Museum of Manufactured Response to Absence interventions in Algeria, Kuwait and Ramallah. She holds a B.Sc. in Architecture from University of Jordan, and a Masters of Research from Goldsmiths College. This event is organized in conjunction with MES301 Solidarity as WorldMaking. Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/82783757059 |
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey
Online Event 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm EDT/GMT-4Environmental and infrastructural transformations in Turkey’s expansive swamps and marshes have unfolded against the backdrop of tightening authoritarian rule and the rise of wetland conservation. Drawing on fieldwork with farmers, scientists, and bureaucrats in two Turkish agrarian deltas, this talk explores how relationships between water, sediment, infrastructure, plants, and animals matter in contemporary Turkey, and what these relationships reveal about the intersection of moral and ecological concerns in the current moment. The “wetland” emerged as a globally significant scientific category over the course of the 20th century, becoming a key concept within Turkish state-making projects built on attempts to manipulate swampy nature. As transnational science and environmentalism cast the wetland in a starring role, Turkish farmers, scientists, and bureaucrats also drew on wetlands (sulakalanlar) as a novel idiom for claiming divergent ecological futures. I analyze these transformations between humans, non-humans, and their unstable surroundings in Turkey through the concept of moral ecologies—contrasting notions of just relations among people, land, water, infrastructure, animals, and plants. Divergent moral claims about ecology, infrastructure, and the livelihood of nonhuman animals have become central to a Turkish politics of livability. This approach to the wetlands of contemporary Turkey demonstrates how the valuation and governance of non-human creatures and elemental assemblages are not only entangled with human politics: they constitute it. Caterina Scaramelli is an anthropologist of the environment and science. After completing her PhD at MIT's History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Program, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Humanistic Inquiry and in the Anthropology Department at Amherst College, and an Agrarian Studies postdoctoral associate at Yale. Currently, she is research assistant professor in the departments of Anthropology and of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Scaramelli's research addresses practices and politics of environmental expertise and the political ecology of conservation. Her fieldwork in Turkey has focused on the making and unmaking of watery places—rivers, wetlands, marshes, urban waters, and agricultural irrigation—and now she is studying the cultivation and contested meanings of "local" agricultural seeds. Her first book, How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey, was published in March 2021 with Stanford University Press. Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/88142814000?pwd=S2ZqRVZoQVVnMTFQekdwc3RWbG5zdz09 Meeting ID: 881 4281 4000 Passcode: 337474 |
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Monday, March 22, 2021 Ultra-Orthodoxy and Aesthetics
A Conversation with Israeli Filmmaker Yehonatan IndurskyOnline Event 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 A young filmmaker who already has international successes and local cult hits to his name, Yehonatan Indursky (Shtisel, Autonomies, Zman Ponevezh) is a prominent member of a new generation of Israeli artists who have brought artistic sensibilities and sensitivities to exploring the riches and paradoxes of the Orthodox Jewish community in which they were raised. This conversation, moderated by Shai Secunda, will consider Yehonatan’s personal story from Talmudic academy to filmmaking, the aesthetic potentialities of ultra-Orthodox life, his collaboration with Sayed Kashua (“Arab Labor”), the politics of Haredi society during a time of COVID, and more. Join via Zoom:https://bard.zoom.us/j/84309541838 |
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021 The Voyage of the Fateh Al-Khair:
Fahad Bishara (University of Virginia)The Indian Ocean and Other Arab Worlds Online Event 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 In this talk, Fahad Bishara charts out an Indian Ocean microhistory grounded in the voyages of a particular Arab dhow - the Fateh Al-Khayr - and the writings of its captain. It is from the deck of the dhow, he argues, that we can see the limits of political and metageographical categories like the Middle East, and we can begin to write the histories of other Arab worlds. Fahad Ahmad Bishara is the Rouhollah Ramazani Associate Professor of Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies at the University of Virginia. His first book, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), won the J. Willard Hurst Prize (awarded by the Law and Society Association), the Jerry Bentley Prize (awarded by the World History Association), and the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (given by the American Society for Legal History). Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/82970591846?pwd=ZTlyenlFcGkreUw1Z1pEeU4zeG9qdz09 Meeting ID: 829 7059 1846 Passcode: 528381 |
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Monday, March 15, 2021 The Arab Jacobins: The Lebanese National Movement, the Palestinian Revolution, and the Struggle for Popular Sovereignty in the Arab East
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4This presentation begins to excavate the buried history—concealed and repressed by a string of bitter defeats—of the intertwined struggle to abolish sectarian political representation and liberate Palestine. It considers the efforts of the LNM to push its “Transitional Program for the Democratic Reform of the Political System in Lebanon,” in the political sphere and on the battlefield, during the tumultuous 1975–77 period of the Lebanese civil war. At the same time, the LNM was deeply enmeshed in an interdependent alliance with the PLO and its struggle for political independence and liberation. Against a historiography that either dismisses the venture as predestined to fail, or only considers the period within the shackles of post-defeat melancholia, this presentation reevaluates the history of one of the most explicit emancipatory challenges to the Arab order. In doing so, it addresses the persistent analytical challenges for both actors and observers posed by the relationship between religious affiliation, political ideology, and political practice. I aim to broaden understandings of revolution and anticolonialism by placing the struggle over political representation—over colonial “define and rule”—at the center of my analysis. Nate George is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Palestine Studies. He holds a PhD in History from Rice University and an MA in Middle East Studies from the American University of Beirut. His publications include a chapter on the transnational political praxis of the Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka and an article on the last 200 years of US-Arab relations. His research was supported by the Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Rice University, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, and the Hoover Institution. Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/87261751851?pwd=WWRDQ3JjNEwwdlBXQWJKTElnR0MxZz09 Meeting ID: 872 6175 1851 Passcode: 411734 |
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Muslim Women and the Black Freedom Movement
Dr. Jamillah KarimOnline Event 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Dr. Jamillah Karim, a foremost scholar of race and gender in Islam, takes us through the rich history of Muslim Women’s legacy in the Black Freedom Movement through storytelling grounded in academic analysis and family history, providing a window into how she interweaves her academic training and personal faith to present true images of American Muslim women and to portray Islam in America as a Black Liberation Faith. Dr. Jamillah Karim is an award-winning author, speaker, and blogger. She specializes in race, gender, and Islam in America. She is author of Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam (with Dawn-Marie Gibson) and American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender Within the Ummah, which was awarded the 2008 Book Award in Social Sciences by the Association for Asian American Studies. She is currently working on a new book, Radical Love, where she explores the depth and beauty of divine and human love. Dr. Karim blogs for Sapelo Square, Hagar Lives, Race+Gender+Faith, NYU Press Blog, and Huffington Post Religion. In 2014, her scholarly activism was recognized by JET magazine, which featured her as a young faith leader in the African American community. Dr. Karim is a former associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Spelman College. She holds a BSE in electrical engineering and a PhD in Islamic Studies from Duke University. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 844 6864 6575 / Passcode: 328029 |
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |
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Thursday, February 11, 2021 Tahrir at 10
A Look at the Arab Spring a Decade LaterOnline Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down), at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings. RSVP required. |
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Arabic Table on Zoom
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join the Arabic table on Zoom to practice your skills and chat in Arabic with your fellow students, tutor, and professors! Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81681466447?pwd=ckJDTmVwSVBBUU1yTDB5SkE2NzQzZz09 Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 |