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Cecile E. Kuznitz, associate professor of history and director of Jewish studies, discusses her book YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation.

Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk begins her work in Annandale this week as the inaugural Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism.

A huge circular structure discovered underground at the site of the ancient Greek city Amphipolis is one of the most puzzling finds of modern archeology.

The Bard Globalization and International Affairs program and the West Point–Bard College Exchange will present “New World Disorder: U.S. Grand Strategy in a Chaotic Middle East,” a panel featuring Walter Russell Mead and James Ketterer of Bard College and Ruth Beitler of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The panel will address the increasing and overlapping challenges facing the United States across the Middle East and North Africa. It will take place on Monday, September 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College.

Bard College Professor of Historical Studies Myra Young Armstead has been awarded a fellowship as a Schomburg Scholar-in-Residence. The fellowship, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, gives access to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and other centers of The New York Public Library. Schomburg Scholars research and write about black history and culture throughout the black diaspora, interact with other participating scholars, and give lectures on their findings. Professor Armstead has begun her six-month residency, during which she will research progressive public history in Harlem.
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Hannah Arendt Center director Roger Berkowitz examines a new book about the life of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi who was responsible for the logistics of the Holocaust.

President Botstein lectured on "Beyond the Fiddler on the Roof: The European Jewish Experience before 1933 and Contemporary European Anti-Semitism" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last weekend.

Richard Aldous interviews Walter Russell Mead on the American Interest podcast, considering the state of world affairs and the American role in conflict abroad.

The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, together with Bard's Center for Civic Engagement and Human Rights Project, is launching a new initiative, Hate and the Human Condition. The initiative aims to promote sustained reflection on what hate is and how it works, and to organize its exploration through a range of interdisciplinary and co-taught courses. Both a theoretical and a practical endeavor, it seeks to foster the academic study of hate while also connecting scholars and students to institutions and organizations whose work involves dealing with hate-related issues. Four such courses will take place this fall at Bard College in New York and three Bard-affiliated campuses: Al-Quds University, the American University of Central Asia, and Bard College Berlin.