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March 2021

Fri 12
Talks Series

Featured Featured Friday March 12, 2021, 12:00 pm

Faustin Linyekula: Of Ruins And Responsibility

Virtual Event Virtual Event

This lecture will be (again) a dialogue with the ruins I inherited from my fathers, guided by the poet’s voice:
I would come to that country, my country, and I would say to it:
"Kiss me without fear… And if I do not know what to say, it is still for you that I speak. "

Free
Fri 26
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Friday March 26, 2021, 12:00 pm

The White Pube: [ideas for a new art world]

Virtual Event Virtual Event

The ~cultural sector~ has been resistant to change, it has held on to antiquated balances of power like no other area of society, and that rigidity has affected the way we distribute resources amongst ourselves within the creative industry. We have got to radically restructure the way we do things. If we had the chance to terraform the arts landscape...

Free

April 2021

Fri 2
Talks Series

Friday April 2, 2021, 12:00 pm

Cassils: The Struggle For/ The Struggle Against

Virtual Event Virtual Event

In a time of lockdown and quarantines, of fascism and propaganda, we need reason and action to be supported by visions of change. Cassils discusses artistic and performative tactics uniquely suited for our time. Reflecting on ten years of practice where they carve out strategies for trans representation, they discuss tactics to educate, engage and agitate while attempting to balance...

Free
Thu 8
Launch Event

Virtual Event Featured Thursday April 8, 2021, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

There is a Baba in Our House

Virtual Event Virtual Event

World premiere of the first in our annual digital commissions, featuring a Q&A with artist Leil Zahra Mortada and Nubian Geographic hosted by Dr. Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin). في بيتنا بابا Parting from a personal narrative, and using references from both popular culture and key political events, artist Leil Zahra Mortada uses the performative aspect of nationalism and its...

Fri 9
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Friday April 9, 2021, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Emily Johnson: Land and An Architecture of the Overflow

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center and Karyn Recollet. She was a co-compiler of the document, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts and is part of an advisory group, with Reuben Roqueni, Lori Pourier, Ronee Penoi, and Vallejo Gantner - developing a First Nations Performing Arts Network

Free
Fri 16
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Friday April 16, 2021, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Forensic Oceanography: Border Forensics

Virtual Event Virtual Event

In this presentation, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani will discuss the nature of contemporary borders and the ever-shifting modalities of border violence. Drawing on their work within the Forensic Oceanography project since 2011, which has focused on the Mediterranean frontier, they will discuss the strategies they have used to document traces of violent events and seek accountability for them. Reflecting...

Free
Fri 23
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Friday April 23, 2021, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Ashmina Ranjit: Politics of Being

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Just because we’re born with a vagina, why accept that our family, society, and state continue treating us as unequal ‘beings’? Why sexual violence, unequal rights, and inequities persist? Why do we need to rethink and re-imagine intersections of gender, caste, class and religion? I plan to reflect on insights from my journey of resisting and interrogating complex politics of...

Free
Fri 30
Talks Series

Friday April 30, 2021, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Mark Sealy: Photography, Race, Rights, and Representation

Virtual Event Virtual Event

The photographers discussed share a forensic dialogue with photography’s past and offer navigational tools for its future possibilities in the making of new identities and histories. We need to keep open cultural portals in which to discuss the application of photography as a vehicle for self-determination, remaking histories, and visual forms of resistance. The aim is a visual voyage through the...

Free

May 2021

Fri 7
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Friday May 7, 2021, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Hamed Sinno: Queerness in/as Metaphor

Virtual Event Virtual Event

An analysis of several musical and literary texts by Mashrou Leila, as sites for negotiating the discursive boundaries of gender construction in the public sphere, and an attempt to frame the work within ongoing conversations about the limits of representation as a mode of political engagement.

Free
Tue 18
Launch Event

Virtual Event Featured Tuesday May 18, 2021, 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Mise-en-crise

Virtual Event Virtual Event

World premiere of our second digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Malik Nashad Sharpe (Marikiscrycrycry) and writer Hélène Selam Kleih hosted by Dr. Fintan Walsh (Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre). Mise-en-Crise is a film that considers choreography as both the site and the scenography of hope, performatively carved from crisis and rebellion. Playing with the theatrical concept mise-en-scène, this...

Mon 24
Panel

Monday May 24, 2021, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Reflections from Al-Quds Bard on the Current Situation

Virtual Event Virtual Event

The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts, the Human Rights Project, and Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College are pleased to co-present the following panel: Ms. Rana Hajjaj, Program Manager for Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences Professor Saida Hamad, Head of Media Studies Program, Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences Professor Munir Nusseibeh, Assistant Professor...

June 2021

Thu 3
Launch Event

Thursday June 3, 2021, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Hands to Hold

Virtual Event Virtual Event

World premiere of our third digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Emilio Rojas and writer Pamela Sneed hosted by Dr. Sanjay Kumar (Central European University). Hands to Hold is centered around 2 durational performances devised by Emilio Rojas. For a 6.5-hour performance, the artist drank a 1.5 gallons of sap from a 250 year old sugar maple in the...

Mon 14
Launch Event

Monday June 14, 2021, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Dwala Lam’

Virtual Event Virtual Event

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Sethembile Msezane and writer Dr. Portia Malatjie, moderated by Panashe Chigumadzi and hosted by Wits School of Arts.  Praise singing and movement is the celebration of presence. Dwala Lam’ is a praise song that reminds one of the groundedness that is inscribed in their ancestry. These inscriptions, may come by way of being...

September 2021

Mon 20
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Monday September 20, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Coco Fusco: The Right to Have Rights: Cuban Artists Confront the State

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Fusco will discuss the recent efforts by "artivists" in Cuba to advocate for expanded expressive freedoms and civil rights. She will focus primarily on the activities of the 27N group and the San Isidro Movement.

October 2021

Mon 4
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Monday October 4, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Natq: Impossible Speech

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Lawrence Abu Hamdan presents 'Natq', a live audiovisual essay on the politics and possibilities of reincarnation. Through listening closely to "xenoglossy" (the impossible speech of reincarnated subjects), this performance explores a collectivity of lives who use reincarnation to negotiate their condition at the threshold of the law—people for whom injustices and violence have escaped the historical record due to colonial...

Mon 18
Launch Event

Monday October 18, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Only God Can Make Tomato Sauce

Virtual Event Virtual Event

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Brian Lobel and writer Season Butler, moderated by Jack Ferver (Bard College). Two friends and food makers share their recipes for healing, their personal histories and food journeys, and wider reflections on medicine versus the medicinal, knowledge versus expertise, the homegrown and the home-y, the wholesome and the...

November 2021

Mon 1
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Monday November 1, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Githa Hariharan: The Writer in Search of Citizenship

Virtual Event Virtual Event

How does a writer find her voice? And how does she locate herself among the power structures that operate in the world around her? Drawing on her own work, Githa Hariharan examines the writer’s struggle to enlarge the small space occupied by an individual life. She describes the project of giving voice to a mosaic of voices and their multiple...

Mon 15
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Monday November 15, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Sayak Valencia: The Livestreaming Regime: From Gore Capitalism to Contemporary Snuff Politics

Virtual Event Virtual Event

What is “gore capitalism” and how does it turn into “snuff politics” in the borderlands between Tijuana and San Diego? In answering those questions, Sayak Valencia discusses examples of audiovisual devices and virtual social networks that challenge the regime of truth through what she calls “the livestreaming regime.” Her talk considers how the contemporary body has become a platform for...

December 2021

Mon 6
Launch Event

Monday December 6, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Tastes of Loss

Virtual Event Virtual Event

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Alexandre Paulikevitch and writer Romy Lynn Attieh, moderated by curator Amanda Abi Khalil and co-presented by CEC ArtsLink. Tastes of Loss tells the story of a dancer's intimate relationship to food cooking and preservation. It is a visual essay on survival, womanhood, and joy. It is filmed in...

February 2022

Fri 11
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Friday February 11, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Bhenji Ra: Everything at Once: Permaculture, abolition, and trans love

Virtual Event Virtual Event

How do we exist in complexity and contradiction? Can we mourn and celebrate all at once? In a world focused on binaries, where do we find power on the edges? In this talk, Bhenji speaks to the beauty of everything at once, of finding meaning between practices, bridging bodies and islands of knowledge together in order to expand our potential...

Fri 25
Talks Series

Virtual Event Featured Friday February 25, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Kendall Thomas: Taking (A)part: Human Rights, Human Rites, “Human Writes”

Virtual Event Virtual Event

In Taking (A)part: Human Rights, Human Rites and “Human Writes,” Kendall Thomas revisits “Human Writes,” a 2005 performance-installation about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on which he collaborated with the choreographer William Forsythe and The Forsythe Company. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall once argued that in the arts “things get said in ways in which they can't get said...

March 2022

Tue 8
Talks Series

Tuesday March 8, 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Mohammed El-Kurd: “Bombs, women, children, etc”: Humanization, Victimhood, and the Politics of Appeal

RKC 103, Bard College Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States

For decades, well-meaning journalists and cultural workers used a humanizing framework in their representation of oppressed people, in hopes of countering the traditional portrayal of the Palestinian as a "terrorist." Within this framework, a perfect victimhood emerged as an ethnocentric prerequisite for sympathy and solidarity, often over-emphasizing oppressed people’s nonviolence, humane professions, and disabilities. In “Bombs, women, children, etc.”: Humanization,...

Wed 9
Student Projects

Wednesday March 9, 2022 – Wednesday March 16, 2022

Hunt & Gather: Work in Progress by MA students

Bard College 30 Campus Road, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

The inaugural cohort of eleven MA students developed work-in-progress as a part of "Collaborations & Community," a course taught by the Center's director Dr. Tania El Khoury. The collaborative creative projects span various formats and artistic mediums, from dinner performance, live art, digital work, party, and posters. Wednesday 9 March Howls in the Mountains by Carol Montealegre 2:30pm (Resnick Studio,...

Thu 17
Screening

Thursday March 17, 2022, 7:45 pm – 9:30 pm

Films by Omar Amiralay (Part of Imaging Land, Labor, and Infrastructure)

CHRA will be screening three short films by Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay on Thursday, March 17th, 7:45pm EDT at Upstate Films, Rhinebeck NY. The event is free and open to the public. Reservations can be made through this link. The films will be followed by post-screening discussions: محاولة عن سد الفرات Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam (1970), 13 min الدجاج The Chickens...

Tue 29
Screening

Tuesday March 29, 2022, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Films by Ateyyat El Abnoudy (Part of Imaging Land, Labor, and Infrastructure)

Virtual Event Virtual Event

CHRA will be screening four short films by Egyptian filmmaker Ateyyat El Abnoudy on Tuesday, March 29th, 12pm EDT on Zoom (link). The event is free and open to the public. Four films will be shown on Zoom and followed by post-screening discussion with audiovisual archivist Yasmin Desouki (Chicago Film Archives, formerly Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre in Cairo, Egypt)....

April 2022

Fri 1
Talks Series

Friday April 1, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Layli Long Soldier: My Art is a Being: Building a Relationship to Art through Agreement, Ethics, and Pleasure

Virtual Event Virtual Event

By understanding our art as a being with whom we create a relationship, Layli Long Soldier explores the ways in which we can make commitments and agreements with our writing and art; uphold expectations and enact reciprocity, as one would do with a relative; and nourish our relationship through pleasure, playfulness, or enjoyment. These agreements with our art, in turn,...

Tue 5
Screening

Tuesday April 5, 2022, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Mirt Sost Shi Amit / Harvest: 3,000 Years (Part of Imaging Land, Labor, and Infrastructure)

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

CHRA will be screening Mirt Sost Shi Amit / Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) by Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima on Tuesday, April 5th, 5:30pm EDT at Weis Cinema, Bard College. The event is free and open to the public. The film screening will be followed by post-screening discussions. Mirt Sost Shi Amit / Harvest: 3,000 Years is Part three of public film...

Fri 15
Launch Event

Friday April 15, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Khar va Attar خار وعطار : The Thorn and the Healers

Virtual Event Virtual Event

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission and a text by Dr. Manijeh Moradian, featuring a Q&A with artist Amitis Motevalli. For Khar va Attar, the artist takes on the challenge of channeling a conversation between 10th century Persian scholar and doctor, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), her uncle Manoucher Emrani, an agricultural engineer and botanist, and her friend, Soraya Medina, a...

Wed 20
Screening

Wednesday April 20, 2022, 7:45 pm – 10:15 pm

Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession, Violence, and War in Colombia

Upstate Films: Starr Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY, United States

CHRA will be screening Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession, Violence, and War in Colombia, a program of three short films made in collaboration between the Colombian Truth Commission and Forensic Architecture on Wednesday, April 20 at 7:45 pm EDT at Upstate Films, Rhinebeck NY. The films center around the issue of land dispossession in Urabá, a region in northwestern...

Wed 27
Panel

Wednesday April 27, 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Activism and Freedom in Egypt

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

CHRA is hosting the launch & discussion of Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s newly published book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated on Wednesday, April 27th, 5:00pm EDT at Weis Cinema, Bard College. Join us for a conversation with filmmaker and activist Sanaa Seif and scholar Omnia Khalil as they reflect on the ongoing incarceration of activists in Egypt beyond the...

Fri 29
Panel

Friday April 29, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Activism in Process: Projects from Afghanistan, Puerto Rico, and Tunisia

Join us for a panel discussion with CHRA's current collaborators in "Activism in Process". CHRA collaborates annually with a group of activists and organizers who are leading grassroots efforts in their communities. For our first “Activism in Process”, we are bringing together Badr Baabou from Damj (a LGBTQ++ rights organization based in Tunisia); Ernesto Pujol (a social choreographer based in...

May 2022

Wed 4
Student Projects

Wednesday May 4, 2022 – Wednesday May 11, 2022

UNDERCOOKED Works by MA in Human Rights & the Arts

Undercooked features works-in-progress by the current MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts. Developed as part of their practice-based core course with Tania El Khoury this spring (HRA 504: Collaborations and Community-based Art), all of the projects engage in different ways with the politics of food and land. The work includes performance, music, sound, murals, and...

Fri 6
Launch Event

Friday May 6, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Putting the Cooker on Low

Virtual Event Virtual Event

World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Ama Josephine Budge and writer Dr. Chelsea M. Frazier, moderated by Dr. J.T. Roane (Arizona State University). Putting the Cooker on Low explores the daily rituals that allow Black women, femmes and non-binary folk to keep creating in the midst of spiritual, emotional, familial, societal and ecological crises....

September 2022

Tue 6
Panel

Tuesday September 6, 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Out of Place: Three Writers on Fiction, Language, Exile, and Utopia

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

This event on Tuesday, September 6 at 5:30pm ET at Weis Cinema, Bard College, brings together in person three esteemed writers—Nuruddin Farah, Ilija Trojanow, and Aleksandar Hemon—to read from and discuss their work. As suggested by the titles North of Dawn (Farah) and Nowhere Man (Hemon), all three writers are concerned in their work with questions of place and displacement, of...

Wed 7
Reading

Wednesday September 7, 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

The Utopian Prerogative

RKC 103, Bard College Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States

This event will take place on Wednesday, 7 September, 5:30pm ET at Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation (RKC) 103 at Bard College. "Each day we are sold different versions of yesterday, but rarely offered a different tomorrow. The apocalypse streams into every household at a flat rate. In an era of dystopian forebodings, the future can no...

Thu 29
Screening

Thursday September 29, 2022, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Erased, ___Ascent of the Invisible

Upstate Films: Starr Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY, United States

CHRA will be screening Erased, ___Ascent of the Invisible (1976) by Lebanese filmmaker Ghassan Halwani at 4pm on Thursday, 29 September at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. The event is free and open to the public. The film screening is organized by CHRA's 2022-2023 Fellow Sabine El Chamaa. A Q&A between Ghassan and Sabine will follow. "Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed...

Fri 30
Talks Series

Friday September 30, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Zayaan Khan: From Seed-as-Object to Seed-as-Relation in South Africa

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Governments in South Africa and beyond are working to ratify new laws that limit and criminalize seed access and use. In response, a local and global resistance movement is working to keep seeds free and accessible. The idea of freedom is inherent to a seed, its very purpose is to share itself as widely as possible to ensure the continuity...

October 2022

Fri 21
Talks Series

Friday October 21, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Juliana Steiner: Flood the river, grow the food: embodying food systems

Virtual Event Virtual Event

This talk will focus on the work of Ecotone: Chagras, Payaos, Camellones, a program curated by Juliana Steiner as part of the as part of Common Ground, an international festival on the politics of land and food. By investigating and honoring food sovereignty and distinct foodways, Ecotone explores some examples of restorative and regenerative agricultural technologies in Colombia. The commissioned...

November 2022

Fri 4
Talks Series

Friday November 4, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Michael Rakowitz: (G)hosting

Virtual Event Virtual Event

A talk about hosts, ghosts, hospitality, hostility, and the complicated nature of a good time. In this lecture, Rakowitz will discuss (g)hosting, a term he uses to explore the intersection of hospitality and hostility in his work, as well as the recuperation of disappeared objects, smells, tastes, customs, and relationships through reactivations and substitutes.

Fri 18
Talks Series

Friday November 18, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Jumana Manna: When A Goat Eats the Scene

Virtual Event Virtual Event

In her talk, Jumana Manna will speak about her dual practice as a sculptor and a filmmaker, and her ongoing inquiries into the contradictions of preservation and ruination. Manna will focus on her recent film, Foragers, which depicts the criminalization of Palestinian plant foraging traditions. The film challenges the logic of extinction debates under settler-colonial and neoliberal regimes, namely the...

December 2022

Fri 2
Talks Series

Friday December 2, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Nicholas Galanin: Unshadowed Land

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Culture is rooted in connection to land; like land, culture cannot be contained. I am inspired by generations of Lingít & Unangax̂ creative production and knowledge connected to the land I belong to. From this perspective I engage across cultures with contemporary conditions. My process of creation is a constant pursuit of freedom and vision for the present and future....

Sat 10
Student Projects

Saturday December 10, 2022 – Monday December 12, 2022

Tender Edges: Microfestival by First-Year M.A. Students in Human Rights & the Arts

Tender Edges is a microfestival of live art projects created by the first year M.A. students in Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College. These works-in-progress are part of The Politics of Interactive Live Art course taught by Tania El Khoury. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus on Saturday 10 December and Monday 12...

February 2023

Fri 10
Talks Series

February 10, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Danielle Purifoy: “Remote Control”—Plantations and Black Forest Ecologies in the Black Belt

This talk examines how the contemporary timber industry reproduces plantation power. It explores the “remote control” of land — such as absentee land ownership, Black family land grabs, new markets for energy, and legal regimes designed to “devalue” common property in favor of individual ownership and profit. Multi-generation Black homeplaces and communities, rooted in alternative modes of land relations, sustain...

Fri 24
Talks Series

February 24, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Baha Hilo: The Olives of Palestine

Olive trees have been a major part of Baha's practice as an educator and community organizer. His talk will focus on the significance, history, and place of olive trees in Palestine, as well as the different methods used by the state of Israel to destroy this ancestral staple and tradition. Baha will share his project Preserve, which is curated by...

March 2023

Wed 1
Screening

March 1, 7:15 pm – 9:45 pm

Miguel’s War with director Eliane Raheb, in conversation with Sabine El Chamaa

CHRA will be screening Miguel's War (2021, 128 min) at Upstate Films, with director Eliane Raheb in person. The film will be introduced and discussed by CHRA Fellow and filmmaker Sabine El Chamaa. Eliane Raheb’s hybrid documentary follows Miguel, a gay man exiled in Spain who returns to Lebanon after 37 years to reflect on his experience growing up during...

Tue 14
Teach-in

March 14, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Turkey and Syria in the Aftermath of Recent Earthquake(s)

Olin 102

As the destruction continues to unfold, please join us on Tuesday, March 14th, 3:30–4:30pm in Olin 102 for a teach-in to take stock of the earthquake(s) and their devastation in various parts of Turkey and Syria. Panelists will include Ziad Abu-Rish (CHRA & Middle Eastern Studies), Lara Fresko Madra (CHRA), and Pinar Kemerli (Political Studies). The teach-in topics will include:...

Mon 27
Screening

March 27, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Archival Collective Counter-Imagination, Part 1: The Lonely Trees by Rojava Film Commune

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

CHRA is hosting a screening and discussion on Monday, March 27, 5pm, at Weis Cinema, as part of Archival Collective Counter–Imagination, a two-part program curated by art historian and current CHRA Fellow Lara Fresko Madra. The event will include a screening of The Lonely Trees by the Rojava Film Commune , with an introduction and discussion with Lara Fresko Madra and...

Tue 28
Screening

March 28, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

“Boycott”: film screening & conversation with director Julia Bacha

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

CHRA is co-sponsoring a screening of the film Boycott (2021), with director Julia Bacha in-person on Tuesday, March 28, at Weis Cinema, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm. Over the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 34 states passed laws intending to silence boycott and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record. These dangerous bills...

Tue 28
Reading

March 28, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Our Red Book: Reading & Conversation

Fisher Center, Resnick Studio

CHRA is co-sponsoring a reading of Our Red Book, a collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the New York Times best-selling author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff. The event is co-presented by CHRA, Fisher Center, Bard Theater and Performance Department and Written Arts. Our Red Book takes us through stories of first...

April 2023

Mon 3
Screening

April 3, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Archival Collective Counter-Imagination, Part 2: Set Off [Gitmek] and The Material Aesthetic Research Collective

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

CHRA is hosting a screening and discussion on Monday, April 3, 5pm, at Weis Cinema, as part of Archival Collective Counter–Imagination, a two-part program curated by art historian and current CHRA Fellow Lara Fresko Madra. The event will include a screening of Set Off by Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun of The Material Aesthetic Research Collective , with a discussion with director...

Mon 10
Talk

April 10, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Alya Karame: The Qur’an from Ink on Paper to Dust and Ashes

Olin 102

After capturing the city of Mosul in December 2014, the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) burned the university library destroying hundreds of thousands of books and manuscripts. The collections included Qur’ans, one of which was from the ninth century. Like other episodes of our times, this performance reflects a certain engagement with the Qur’an that revives historically...

Wed 12
Screening

April 12, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Sabine El Chamaa: “As if her song could have no ending”

Upstate Films: Starr Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, NY, United States

A film script is an unfinished work, a ghost that seeks to inhabit a form. Where do the characters that are conceived for years, but that fail to find their bodies in an image, reside? In December 1999, a recent film school graduate moves from Los Angeles to New York City. With a fiction film script in hand, she is...

Thu 27
Student Projects

April 27 – May 7

Tracing Apparitions: Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts

The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition, featuring the capstone projects of the Class of 2023. Tracing Apparitions is taking place from April 27 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus sites in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition features installations, live performances,...

May 2023

Tue 9
Student Projects

May 9, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Event Series Alluvial: First-Year MA Student Spring Microfestival

Alluvial: First-Year MA Student Spring Microfestival

Alluvial is a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress...

Fri 12
Student Projects

May 12, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm Event Series Alluvial: First-Year MA Student Spring Microfestival

Alluvial: First-Year MA Student Spring Microfestival

Alluvial is a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress...

September 2023

Fri 22
Talks Series

September 22, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Guadalupe Maravilla: Health and Border Politics

Webinar

Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to undocumented and cancer communities....

October 2023

Tue 17
Talks Series

October 17, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

New Red Order: How to Commit Crimes Against Reality

Weis Cinema, Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil, and Zack Khalil. Polys is a multi-disciplinary artist who examines negotiations toward the limits and viability of desires for Indigenous growth. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and was the recipient of a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Mentor...

Mon 30
Artist Presentation

October 30, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Brian Lobel: Sex, Cancer, and Other Things My Mother Wishes I Never Had

Fisher Center, Resnick Studio

Brian Lobel is a performer, teacher and curator who is interested in creating work about bodies and how they are watched, policed, poked, prodded and loved by others. His performance work has shown work internationally in a range of contexts from Harvard Medical School, to Sydney Opera House, to the National Theatre (London) and Lagos Theatre Festival, blending provocative humor with...

November 2023

Mon 13
Talks Series

November 13, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Fehras Publishing Practices: “Hader Halal” (With Regard to Presence)

Webinar

Co-presented with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, Fehras Publishing Practices’s Sami Rustom and Kenan Darwich share their research into the history and presence of publishing and its entanglement in the sociopolitical and cultural sphere in the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Arab diaspora. Engaging different methods and ways of production, the collective focuses on the relationship...

Tue 28
Installation & Food Gathering

November 28, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Juliana Steiner: Writing as Sowing, Reading as Eating

Manor House, Bard College 83 Manor Ave, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

Juliana Steiner is an independent curator and researcher from Bogotá interested in interdisciplinary practices in contemporary art that incorporate social sciences, pedagogy, architecture and long-term projects with communities. Her research focuses on more-than-human species, environmental justice and the transformations of landscapes. She curated Ecotone: Chagras, Payasos and Camellones, as part of Common Ground in 2022–23. Juliana is the co-founder and...

December 2023

Mon 11
Student Projects

December 11, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm Event Series Fall 2023 Microfestival

First-Year MA Students: Fall Microfestival (Day 1)

Each semester, CHRA presents a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place throughout the campus and surrounding area, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress are part of a course taught this semester by...

Tue 12
Student Projects

December 12, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm Event Series Fall 2023 Microfestival

First-Year MA Students: Fall Microfestival (Day 2)

Each semester, CHRA presents a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place throughout the campus and surrounding area, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress are part of a course taught this semester by...

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