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Wiháŋble S’a Center at Bard College Receives Wagner Foundation Grant

The grant will support the project “Cosmologyscape,” a multi-platform, socially engaged public art initiative.

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James Romm’s Book Plato and the Tyrant Reviewed in the Washington Post

“A deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography, as well as a meta-commentary on the perils of regarding canonical thinkers as disembodied minds,” writes Becca Rothfield.

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Coralie Kraft ’13 Interviewed by PBS News About Doomsday Preppers

Kraft discussed her thoughts on why more people are preparing for disasters, the companies that build the structures meant to safeguard their clients, and the mindsets behind those who are preparing for such scenarios.

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January 2013

01-23-2013

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

01-23-2013

Bard Professor Daniel Mendelsohn Named Finalist for 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award<br />

Daniel Mendelsohn, award-winning author, critic, and Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College since 2006, has been named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for his most recent book, Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture.

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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

01-22-2013

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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

01-14-2013

Bard Professor and Renowned Photojournalist Gilles Peress Exhibits Work in Schenectady

Gilles Peress, Bard College visiting professor of human rights and photography and internationally renowned photojournalist, is exhibiting work in Art or Evidence: The Power of Photojournalism, on view from January 3 through March 10 at the Mandeville Gallery, Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Photo: First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland, 1981 (detail). Credit: ©Gilles Peress/Magnum
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

01-13-2013

01-10-2013

Student Spotlight: Julia DeFabo ’14<br />

"All those jokes about Bard students always talking about Hannah Arendt or Foucault or Derrida are pretty true," says junior Julia DeFabo. Read Julia's story and other student stories:

Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Career Development,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts,Foreign Language,Student | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

01-10-2013

Center for Civic Engagement Announces Essay Contest

What does it mean to be human? How can we consider freedom and constraint in the year 2013? Bard's Center for Civic Engagement invites students from the Bard network of institutions to examine these questions in a written essay or multimedia piece for its annual contest. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2013.

Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |

01-07-2013

Arendt, Kafka, Wolff, and the Story Behind an Inscription, by Bard Senior Kerk Soursourian

A handwritten inscription in a copy of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, gifted from publisher Kurt Wolff to Hannah Arendt, stands as a symbol of survival on many levels: from the survival of the names mentioned to the survival of friendship, to the implications of the date. Bard College senior Kerk Soursourian investigates.

Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Hannah Arendt Center |

01-04-2013

Bard Professor and Levy Economist Pavlina R. Tcherneva Wins Prestigious Helen Potter Prize<br />

The Association for Social Economics (ASE) has awarded Pavlina R. Tcherneva, research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and assistant professor of economics at Bard, the 2013 Helen Potter Prize. The prize was created and endowed by the ASE in 1975 and is awarded each year to a promising scholar of social economics for authoring the best article in The Review of Social Economy.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Economics | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Levy Economics Institute |

01-04-2013

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Foreign Language,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

01-02-2013

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

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