Division of Social Studies News by Date
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February 2014
02-28-2014
Ilan Greenberg, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program faculty, analyzes the political climate in India surrounding the "provocative and polarizing" Narendra Modi's candidacy for prime minister.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program |
02-27-2014
"Those interested in connecting with Arendt’s life, scholarship, and philosophical insight can find a wealth of archival materials online from the collections of Bard College and the Library of Congress."
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Hannah Arendt Center |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Hannah Arendt Center |
02-26-2014
Myra Young Armstead, Bard history professor and director of Africana Studies, pens her final piece in a series about freed slave and master gardener James F. Brown, revealing Dutchess county life before the Civil War.
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 |
02-26-2014
Mark Danner writes about former vice president Dick Cheney, examining the politician's long influence in Washington and his controversial policies during the War on Terror.
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 |
02-25-2014
The killing of 20-year-old student Nido Taniam in New Delhi has sparked protest and a national debate about racism against Indians from the country's northeast region.
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 |
02-24-2014
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Prison Initiative,Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
02-24-2014
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts,Foreign Language,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |
02-14-2014
Former slave and master gardener James F. Brown's 1840 trip home from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Exhibition offers a glimpse of what life was like in Dutchess County before the Civil War.
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 |
02-11-2014
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Graduate Center |
02-11-2014
Bard political studies professor Sanjib Baruah observes that India’s competitive political climate constrains support for internally displaced people.
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 |
02-10-2014
Professor Myra Young Armstead takes a look at the Hudson Valley cholera epidemic of 1849 from the perspective of freed slave and master gardener James F. Brown, whose life Armstead chronicles in her book Freedom's Gardener.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Social Studies,Inclusive Excellence | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Social Studies,Inclusive Excellence | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
02-04-2014
Can the Olympics afford to be apolitical? Ian Buruma considers the event's history of turning a blind eye to injustice in host countries.
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 |
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