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The Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project are pleased to announce that Jeanne van Heeswijk, an artist based in the Netherlands, has been selected for the first Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College. Made possible through a five year-grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Keith Haring Fellowship is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting Fellowship for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College.

Peter N. Miller considers the power of artifacts to conjure human history.

Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program faculty and Carnegie Council president Joel Rosenthal discusses Andrew Carnegie's vision for peace on the World War I centenary.

How can the United States mitigate the strategic and humanitarian crises across the Middle East? Richard Aldous interviews Walter Russell Mead.

Bard College and the University of Witwatersrand collaborated on an innovative, interdisciplinary workshop on the arts and human rights at the Wits campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 5 to 7. A project of Bard and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, the event featured presentations by curators, practicing artists, legal advocates, and social scientists. The workshop explored the intersections of human rights and the arts, aiming to foster an intellectual community across disciplines and institutions.

Professor Buruma looks at the troubled history of "strategic bombing" in this op-ed.

Journalist, author, and policy expert Andrew Nagorski, a faculty member at the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, writes that anti-Semitism flourishes in modern Europe.

As the world's worst Ebola epidemic yet spreads through western Africa, Professor Specter calls for an improved global system to address future health disasters.