December 2, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Webinar talk by Nicholas Galanin Online 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. Using Indigenous and non-Indigenous technologies and [...]
November
Fri
18
November 18, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Webinar talk by Jumana Manna Online 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 hierarchies of who determines what [...]
Fri
04
November 4, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Webinar talk by Michael Rakowitz Online 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.
Wed
02
November 2, 2022, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Manor House Cafe
A conversation on seed rematriation. A part of Common Ground, an international festival on the politics of land and seed. Please register here. What does it mean to be in a community with seed? How can we treat seeds with autonomy and respect? In the face of colonization, climate chaos, and biotech patenting, returning diasporic seeds to their geographic and cultural homelands is an act of emergence and survival. Join us [...]
October
Fri
21
October 21, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Webinar Talk by Juliana Steiner Online Event
This talk will focus on the work of Ecotone: Chagras, Payaos, Camellones, a program curated by Juliana Steiner as part of the Common Ground biennial, 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 projects that comprise Ecotone strive to [...]
Fri
07
October 7, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
A reading and conversation on disabled ecologies and building alternative futures with author Sophie Strand ’16 Bard Community Garden; Community Garden
Our wounds don’t just show up in our bodies. They show up in our ecosystems. When we feel pain, we must ask where that pain is asking us to direct our gaze. What plant, landscape, ocean, mountain, or fungus resonates with our particular plight? How can we let personal illness galvanize us into greater connection with our ecosystem? What if the bodies of the disabled, survivors abuse, the neurodivergent, the chronically ill were not [...]
September
Fri
30
September 30, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Webinar talk by Zayaan Khan Online 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 of its species while also providing material for further use. Yet these laws claim the exact opposite: [...]
Thu
29
September 29, 2022, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Film screening and discussion with director Ghassan Halawani Upstate Films, Rhinebeck 6415 Montgomery St, NY, 12572,
“Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I know. He has disappeared since. Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking in the street, but I wasn’t sure it was him. Parts of his face were torn off, but his features had remained unchanged since the incident. Yet something was different, as if he wasn’t the same man.”Director Ghassan Halawani takes the viewer on a forensic chase, uncovering, [...]
May
Fri
06
May 6, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
Join us for the launch of Putting the Cooker on Low, a new Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge. Ama was the 2020/21 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard, and we are honored to welcome her back to premiere her new video. Ama is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, researcher and pleasure activist whose intradisciplinary praxis works to hold together Blackness, pleasure, art and ecology towards queerly climate changing [...]
Wed
04
May 4, 2022 – May 11, 2022,
Multiple Locations
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 food. Some performances take place on Wednesday May [...]
April
Fri
29
April 29, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
12 pm New York l 6 pm ViennaOSUN members are invited to join a panel discussion with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts' 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 [...]
Wed
27
April 27, 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Weis Cinema, 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 victimization [...]
Wed
20
April 20, 2022, 7:45 pm – 10:15 pm
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 Colombia, which has been gripped [...]
Fri
01
April 1, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
12 pm New York l 6 pm ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Layli Long Soldier entitled "My Art Is a Being: Building a Relationship to Art through Agreement, Ethics, and Pleasure."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 [...]
March
Tue
08
March 8, 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center
5:30 PM New York l 11:30 PM ViennaRKC 103 Bard CollegeFor 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 [...]
February
Fri
25
February 25, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
12 pm New York l 6 pm ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts welcomes network members to attend a talk by Kendall Thomas of Columbia University School of Law as he revisits “Human Writes.” "Human Writes" was a 2005 performance-installation about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on which Thomas collaborated with the choreographer William Forsythe and The Forsythe Company.The cultural [...]
Fri
11
February 11, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Online Event
4 pm New York l 10 pm ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts proudly presents its first public event of the semester: a webinar discussion called “Everything at Once: Permaculture, Abolition, and Trans Love" with transdisciplinary artist Bhenji Ra, who asks if we can mourn and celebrate at the same time.Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi (LSE) moderates as attendees learn from the practice of choreographer, dancer, and [...]
