Division of Social Studies News by Date
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July 2013
07-18-2013
Stellar Bard volunteer Karimah Janelle Shabazz '15 brings her passion for civic engagement and education to Ghana this week, on a service trip funded by Episcopal Relief & Development.
07-08-2013
Professor Berkowitz examines the controversy over Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, and her insight "not that Eichmann was just following orders, but that Eichmann was a 'joiner.'''
07-03-2013
Professor Berkowitz discusses the founding of the Hannah Arendt Center, and the new biopic about the political thinker.
07-02-2013
"The Flood of Rights" conference will explore the intersection between photography, new media, and human rights. The conference is cosponsored by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, the Bard Human Rights Project, and the LUMA Foundation, and will take place in Arles, France, September 19–22, 2013.
07-02-2013
President Leon Botstein sits down with the Vienna Review to talk memoirs, modernism, and the role of music in a polyglot world. (PDF)
07-01-2013
Experimental Humanities director Maria Cecire and Bard professor Walter Russell Mead spoke with fellows from 16 countries at Bard's U.S. Foreign Policy Institute, cosponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs.
07-01-2013
History faculty member Richard Aldous marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's historic visit to Ireland with a look at a controversial presidency. "Certainly JFK the man was a contradiction. Yet none of the four presidents who followed ... showed anything approaching his public grace or calibre."
07-01-2013
Professor Mead discusses Edward J. Snowden's presence in Russia, and U.S. foreign policy concerns in Middle East.
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