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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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May 2013

05-31-2013
Professor Berkowitz participated in a discussion with Pamela Katz, Hannah Arendt screenwriter, and Natan Sznaider, professor of government and society at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |
05-30-2013
"To make a film about a thinker is a challenge; to do so in a way that is accessible and gripping is a triumph," writes Roger Berkowitz.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |
05-29-2013
Too Busy to Think: Hannah Arendt on the Need for Contemplation
Hannah Arendt wrote, after moving to the United States, “One feels very lonely in this country; this has to do in particular with the fact that everyone is very busy ... ” Reflecting on Arendt's experience of Americans as isolated by their own absent mindedness, Arendt Center fellow Thomas Wild makes the case for leisure and contemplation in response to a culture of distraction.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |
05-23-2013
Art historian and Bard professor Susan Aberth discusses Matta's painting "Prisoner of Light," which is being seen for the first time on the international art market as part of Christie's Latin American Sale this month.

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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
05-15-2013
What can Greek tragedy teach us about the controversy surrounding Tamerlan Tsarnaev's burial? Professor Mendelsohn looks at the reaction in Boston in light of classic texts.
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05-14-2013
History professor Richard Aldous, author of Reagan and Thatcher, reviews Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher. Former Daily Telegraph editor Moore is "an inspired choice," writes Aldous.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
05-09-2013
Zeitgeist Films and Arendt Center Present Official U.S. Opening of <em>Hannah Arendt</em> Biopic<br />
In conjunction with Zeitgeist Films, the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College presents the official U.S. opening of the film Hannah Arendt on Wednesday, May 29, at Film Forum in New York City. The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Margarethe von Trotta, screenwriter Pam Katz, and actors Barbara Sukowa (Hannah Arendt) and Janet McTeer (Mary McCarthy).
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |
05-09-2013
Bard Graduate Center faculty member Amy Ogata's new book, Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America, looks at how U.S. worries about conformity during the Cold War changed parenting and play.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Graduate Center |
05-08-2013
Dance/philosophy double major Samuel Pratt ’14 talks about the interdisciplinary study opportunities at Bard, and how his two chosen fields illuminate each other. "What I knew was that any academic pursuit was going to be integral to my growth and evolution as an artist," he says.



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