Bard College Professor Dina Ramadan Receives 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Dina A. Ramadan, continuing associate professor of Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College, has received a 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the category of Short-Form Writing. One of 27 grantees, professor Ramadan will write a series of articles on the relation of contemporary art to migration from the Middle East and North Africa. The articles will approach art criticism as a decolonial strategy that counters neutralizing practices of inclusion and representation.
What Is the Cost of Inclusion? Dina Ramadan Reviews Baseera Khan’s I Am an Archive for Art Papers
As museums and exhibition spaces make efforts to showcase more diverse artwork and perspectives, in her review of Baseera Khan’s I Am an Archive for Art Papers, Dina Ramadan, assistant professor of Arabic, considers the cost for the artist. Noting Khan’s usage of collage and texture, Ramadan calls the exhibition “energetic and ambitious,” with many pieces serving as “a deliberate reflection on capitalist economies of extraction and imperialist trade routes that continually ravage the Middle East and South Asia.”Professor Shai Secunda Awarded $40,000 National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship for his Monograph on the Formation of the Talmud
Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism, has been awarded a NEH Fellowship to support the preparation of his book-length monograph, The Formation of the Talmud in Sasanian Babylonia, on the circa sixth century C.E. formation of the Babylonian Talmud, the almost two-million-word-long foundational Jewish text comprising the diverse traditions of rabbinic Judaism.More News
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Professor Dina Ramadan Reviews Lebanese Artist Etel Adnan’s Guggenheim Museum Show Light’s New Measure
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Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Named Joint Winner of the 2021 Sharon Stephens Book Prize
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Professor Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Wins American Anthropological Association Book Award for Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
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U.S. Department of State Awards Bard Undergraduate Student Grace Molinaro ’24 Critical Language Scholarship to Study Arabic During Summer 2021
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Forms of Regulation and Control: Professor Dina Ramadan on the Subversive Humor of Yara El-Sherbini
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Bard Anthropology Professor Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Wins Prestigious Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association
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