Division of Social Studies News by Date
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October 2015
10-31-2015
The Economist reviews Sean McMeekin's new book, The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923.
10-23-2015
Professor Christopher Lindner and students in the Bard Archeology Field School participated in an open house at the historic Parsonage in Germantown, where the Field School is excavating the site.
10-17-2015
Snowden accused Hillary Clinton of "a lack of political courage," during his appearance via satellite at the Arendt Center conference, "Why Privacy Matters."
10-15-2015
10-07-2015
History professor Richard Aldous reviews Niall Ferguson’s Kissinger: The Idealist, "a brilliant, magisterial work."
10-07-2015
The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College will host its eighth annual international conference from Thursday, October 15 to Friday, October 16 in Olin Hall, on Bard’s Annandale-on-Hudson campus. The two-day conference, “Why Privacy Matters,” features NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden, Robert Litt (Second General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Charged with Prosecuting Snowden), David Brin, Kate Crawford, Ben Wizner, Anita Allen, and more. The conference asks: What do we lose when we lose our privacy? Reading on Kindles, searching Google, and using cell phones leave a data trail of intimate details. Governments and businesses track our comings, goings, and doings. Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, speaks for many when he says, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” It is easy to note the violence of the slogan “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear,” but few offer an intelligent response. Why do we willfully participate in the loss of our privacy? How is it that we rarely register its loss? Do we simply value privacy less? It is time to ask why privacy matters? It is amidst this sense that privacy is being lost and we are powerless to resist its loss that the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College asks: How can a right to privacy and a meaningful private life exist today?
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