Division of Social Studies News by Date
March 2016
03-13-2016
Arthur Holland Michel, cofounder and codirector of Bard's Center for the Study of the Drone, talks about the public fascination with, and fear of, drones.
03-09-2016
Professor Buruma argues that the increase in referendums in European nations reflects popular mistrust of elected officials.
03-03-2016
Virginia Hanusik's photography project focuses on coastal land loss in Louisiana, which relates to work she began during her sophomore year at Bard.
03-02-2016
J. p. Lawrence '14, an Army National Guard member who was deployed to Iraq, reports on an American lawyer who defends Ugandans wounded on American bases in Iraq.
February 2016
02-27-2016
On February 19, Bard student and Syria native Sana Mustafa spoke at the United Nations as part of the UN Association of the USA Members' Day. She participated in a panel on the refugee crisis. "We all have names, we have lives, we have dreams," she said. "What you may see as news is not just news—it is our lives." Her speech was met with a standing ovation.
02-25-2016
Elizabeth Royte '81 wrote the cover story for the March issue of National Geographic on how one third of global food is wasted, and the people who are working to change that.
02-24-2016
"Apple’s marketing promises that each new product will help us live up to our highest ideals; however, more often than not, the products ... enable our basest impulses," Marrs writes.
02-22-2016
Professor Manea is visiting Bard College Berlin and gave a talk at the German Marshall Fund on migration, globalization, and exile.
02-20-2016
Language and Thinking faculty member Bruce Watson's Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age is "a delightful journey."
02-12-2016
Peter Rosenblum, professor of international law and human rights, spent two years investigating human rights abuses at Indian tea plantations.
02-10-2016
The writer and critic reveals his nostalgia for an older Paris, mourns the city's disappearing café culture, and touches on the urban defects of neoliberalism.
02-09-2016
On Thursday, February 25, award-winning author Luc Sante, visiting professor of writing and photography at Bard College, will read from his most recent book, The Other Paris. Presented by Bard’s Written Arts Program, the reading takes place at 7:00 p.m. in Bard Hall, and is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books will be available for sale and signing from Oblong Books & Music.
02-05-2016
Sean McMeekin's book The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East has won the Goodzeit Award from the New York Military Affairs Symposium.
02-02-2016
Professor Armstead discusses her NEH-funded fellowship with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as part of a larger Schomburg mixtape of interviews with black intellectuals.
January 2016
01-29-2016
Thatcher historian Richard Aldous explores the newest volume in Moore's biography of the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow.
01-27-2016
Arthur Holland Michel investigated how a small team of engineers built the first lethal Predator drone and created the basis for modern drone warfare leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.
01-26-2016
Americans are angrier than ever, writes Steven Mazie, and this survey reveals the most heated demographics.
01-26-2016
Helen Epstein, Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health, examines Uganda's troubled history, its relationship with the United States government, and the upcoming election.
01-25-2016
In his book Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War, Bard professor Ian Buruma discusses his Jewish grandparents’ experience in Britain during World War II.
01-11-2016
Bard professor Walter Russell Mead, David Rothkopf, Kori Schake, and Lara Jakes debate which country had the best (and worst) 2015, reviewing the year’s big headlines.
01-07-2016
Mia Lotan '18, Ava Lindenmaier '16, and Zelda May Bas '16 have been named the winners of the 2015 Student Opinion Contest from the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College. Last fall, as part of its eighth annual fall conference, "Why Privacy Matters: What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?," the Arendt Center challenged undergraduates to answer the following question: "Does Privacy Matter in the 21st century?" After reviewing close to 50 submissions, the Arendt Center staff is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 contest. The winning entries are: an essay entitled "Community and the Self at the 2015 Hannah Arendt Center Conference," by Mia Lotan '18, and a short film entitled What Does Privacy Feel Like?, by Ava Lindenmaier '16 and Zelda May Bas '16. Matthew Balik '17 and Dina Toubasi '18 earned honorable mention for their essays.
01-04-2016
"In Beginning Greek, too, one settles for small victories and accepts huge shortfalls. But giving up is not an option," writes Professor Romm on teaching this difficult course.