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Professor Lagemann talks about the challenges of college access and completion, and how to make education research usable for educators.

Professor Romm considers the immense, plundered wealth on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” exhibition.

Professor Aldous reviews Lawrence J. Haas's book Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World.

After President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba in March, The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in Havana. Ian Buruma writes that rock and roll under communism is historically subversive.

Professor Joseph Luzzi breaks the code of The Divine Comedy and justifies its importance outside of the college and high school classroom.

On view through April 18, "Photographs of Educated Youth: Images of the Chinese Youth Sent to the Countryside during the Cultural Revolution 1966–1976," photography of Tang Desheng, is curated by Patricia Karetzky, who holds the Oskar Munsterberg Chair of Asian Art. The show comprises 25 photographs of the Cultural Revolution in China from the perspective of the young people sent to the countryside. The photographer, Tang Desheng, who was a youth during that time, embedded himself in the movement and traveled throughout China for 10 years documenting the lives of displaced youth. The Bard Art History Program, Asian Studies Program, Hannah Arendt Center, and Human Rights Program are sponsoring the exhibition.

The BBC interviews Sana Mustafa as one of thousands of students and academics displaced by the country's civil war.