Division of Social Studies News by Date
Results 1-11 of 11
October 2013
10-30-2013
Professor Danner reflects on the violence in the region, U.S. intervention, and the new book The Syria Dilemma, edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel.
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 |
10-30-2013
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-27-2013
What really caused World War I? Professor Richard Aldous looks at The War That Ended Peace, by Margaret MacMillan.
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 |
10-17-2013
In the New York Review of Books 50th anniversary issue, Daniel Mendelsohn finds feminism in the cultural phenomenon that is Game of Thrones.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Film | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Film | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-16-2013
Ian Buruma looks at how Europe and Asia rebuilt after the war's devastation to people, infrastructure, and institutions in his new book Year Zero: A History of 1945.
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 |
10-11-2013
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Economics,Film,Foreign Language,Inclusive Excellence,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-09-2013
What goes into a good translation? Professor Mendelsohn considers the fine balancing act of bring a work to life in a different language.
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 |
10-08-2013
Ian Buruma considers Edward Snowden's claim that he acted in accordance with his own conscience in light of recent remarks by Pope Francis on the importance of individual conscience to living morally.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs,Religion and Theology | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs,Religion and Theology | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-04-2013
Daniel Mendelsohn asks what the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy can tell us about the U.S. government shutdown.
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 |
10-01-2013
Ian Buruma "depicts heroism, exultation and gratitude, but also brutality, venality, injustice, deceit, hypocrisy—and crushing disappointment" at the end of World War II.
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 |
10-01-2013
Elena Ferrante is "so gifted that by the end she has you in tears," writes Italian professor Joseph Luzzi on Ferrante's newest novel.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Foreign Language | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Foreign Language | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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