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Coralie Kraft ’13 Interviewed by PBS News About Doomsday Preppers

Kraft discussed her thoughts on why more people are preparing for disasters, the companies that build the structures meant to safeguard their clients, and the mindsets behind those who are preparing for such scenarios.
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Henry Mielarczyk ’25 Joins Stennis Program for Congressional Interns

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Michael Martell Included in United Nations #NoToHate Campaign

“If you think about the cost of hate, it’s like hate crimes are kind of a recession every single year,” said Martell.

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September 2022

09-20-2022
Jonathan Becker Discusses the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Chernobyl, and the War in Ukraine with C Mandler ’19 for CBS News
As the world watches the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant suffer “weeks of shelling,” the potential for “another nuclear disaster on the scale of the Chernobyl explosion” looms large, writes Bard alum C Mandler ’19 for CBS news. The similarities between Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia are as much organizational as they are structural, says Jonathan Becker, executive vice president and vice president for academic affairs for Bard College. Both share “an environment… in which people are disincentivized from communicating genuine problems to higher-ups,” Becker says, which could result in a “series of mistakes, which are reinforced by a system which doesn't encourage transparent communication.” A nuclear disaster in Ukraine would be catastrophic on “both human and geopolitical” levels, Becker says. Should a nuclear disaster occur, “it will be difficult to imagine the path forward after that,” he said.

 
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Photo: Russian bombardment outside Zaporizhzhia. Photo courtesy mvs.gov.ua
Meta: Type(s): Alumni,Faculty | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Care and Maintenance,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Faculty,Philosophy Program,Political Studies Program,Politics,Politics and International Affairs,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
09-06-2022
Bard Professor Drew Thompson Curates Exhibition on Hudson Valley Artist Ben Wigfall
Professor Drew Thompson curates an exhibition dedicated to Ben Wigfall, artist, printmaker, and SUNY New Paltz’s first Black professor of art. Benjamin Wigfall & Communications Village opens at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz on September 10. The exhibition surveys Wigfall's multimedia work over four decades, including pieces from the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Hampton University, as well as display prints, photographs, and other ephemera documenting Communications Village, the printmaking facility he founded in the 1970s that trained and employed local youth to assist distinguished, mostly Black printmakers. Communications Village played an essential role as an alternative space enabling artists of color to make and show their work, says Professor Thompson. “This was a subversive space, not recognized by the mainstream American art scene,” he says. The exhibition runs through December 10 at the Dorsky Museum and then travels to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Drew Thompson is associate professor of Africana and historical studies at Bard College. He has been a member of the faculty since 2013. (Chronogram)
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Photo: Ben Wigfall, 1993. Photo by Nancy Donskoj
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Historical Studies Program,Inclusive Excellence | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
09-06-2022
Opinion: “Austin Tice: Ten Years Later,” Frederic Hof on Securing the Hostage Release of an American Journalist Kidnapped in Syria
For the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, Bard Diplomat in Residence Frederic Hof writes about the complexities that the US government, currently the Biden administration, face in trying to negotiate the release of the American journalist Austin Tice, who was kidnapped in Damascus a decade ago and is still being held hostage by Syria’s Assad regime. Hof urges media commentators to “try harder to explain to their readers what exactly they think the president should do and the potential consequences – intended or not – of what they recommend.” Emphasizing the enormous difficulty of engaging in foreign policy with Syria, Hof asserts: “As we encourage our government to act diligently to secure the freedom of Austin Tice, let us at least remember the name of the person responsible for his captivity: Bashar al-Assad.”
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Photo: Evening over Damascus, Syria. Photo by Sebastian Wallroth
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