Division of Social Studies News by Date
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November 2015
11-27-2015
Logue's Homer, "because of its radical departures, gets us closer to the original than many more defensibly 'faithful' translations have ever managed."
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 |
11-25-2015
The Human Rights Project presents a lecture by Mark Danner, "The Management of Savagery: The Islamic State, Extreme Violence and Our Endless War," on Tuesday, December 1, at 6 p.m. in the Reem-Kayden Center room 103. Nearly a decade and a half after 9/11, the attacks in Paris have given another strong dose of the fear and panic that, since 2001, have done so much to nourish our enemies and indeed to create new ones. More and more we seem trapped in a self-perpetuating Forever War, doomed to endlessly play a part our enemies have designed for us. Is there any escape?
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-24-2015
Professor Romm on the "wickedly subversive" classicist Mary Beard and her recent lecture series at Bard, “Last Words: Roman Epitaphs and Their ‘Afterlife.’”
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 |
11-19-2015
Professor Ian Buruma has been described as “one of the few remaining ‘public intellectuals’."
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-18-2015
Center for Civic Engagement Senior Fellow Jonathan Cristol discusses revisions to the UNSC within the current structure.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
11-12-2015
In light of the Iraqi and Syrian refugee crisis, Tehseen Thaver Explores Mona Siddiqui’s Hospitality and Islam: Welcoming in God’s Name.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Religion and Theology | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Religion and Theology | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-10-2015
"Beard, who teaches classics at Cambridge, is a perennial champion of Rome's underrepresented and oppressed," writes Professor Romm.
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 |
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