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Economist Pavlina Tcherneva Speaks About Labor Market for Marketplace

L-R: Daniel Wortel-London and the cover of his book The Menace of Prosperity.

Professor Daniel Wortel-London Interviewed in Phenomenal World

Wortel-London also discussed his book The Menace of Prosperity, about economic history in nineteenth century New York.

Nicole Meselsohn ’26 Named 2025–26 Newman Civic Fellow

Meselsohn, a psychology major, leads Young Leaders: Women in Fire, a series of hands-on and presentation based workshops and training to show young girls in middle and high school that there is a place for them in the fire service.

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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.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

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.

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Anthropology Program,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

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."

Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |

10-15-2015

Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |

10-07-2015

History professor Richard Aldous reviews Niall Ferguson’s Kissinger: The Idealist, "a brilliant, magisterial work."

Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

10-07-2015

Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Hosts International Conference on Surveillance and the Private Life, October 15–16<br />

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?

Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |

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