May 1, 2026 – May 10, 2026,
Massena Campus
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2026.The exhibition is taking place May 1 through May 10, at the Massena and Annandale campuses at Bard College. It features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by[...]
April
Wed
01
April 1, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
Compelled by lineages of Sugpiaq cultural work and their continuance despite imperial and colonial disruptions of lifeways, Tanya Lukin Linklater will discuss her ongoing practice of visiting the ancestral belongings of her people in museum collections. The talk will bring into focus her speculative responses to photographic documentation of Sugpiaq belongings in the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg, Russia. Coupled with her meditations on[...]
February
Wed
25
February 25, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
Abir Saksouk from Public Works narrates cities and towns targeted by the ongoing Israeli aggressions on Lebanon as sites of contestation between conceived plans and lived realities. It underscores the power of documentation, material evidence, and mapping in deconstructing dominant discourses around places and their reconstruction. This talk is based on In Search for Justice Among the Rubble, an exhibition by Public Works that took[...]
