Division of Social Studies News by Date
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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
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.
Credit: Photo by Matt Mendelsohn
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-22-2013
Credit: Photo by Matt Mendelsohn
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-14-2013
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 |
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
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 | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-10-2013
"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 |
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
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 |
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
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 |
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Hannah Arendt Center |
01-04-2013
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Foreign Language,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-04-2013
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 |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Economics | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Levy Economics Institute |
01-02-2013
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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