December 10, 2024 – December 11, 2024, 5:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Bard College Campus; Various Venues
The Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents Elegies, a microfestival of artwork created by the first-year MA students in Human Rights and the Arts, as part of The Politics of Interactive Art course taught by Tania El Khoury. The two-day microfestival on December 10 and 11 takes place throughout the campus and includes interactive installations, performances, and sound work.See the full schedule below.
Tue
03
December 3, 2024, 7:15 pm – 9:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Set against the backdrop of the worst European migrant crisis since WWII, It Will Be Chaos unfolds between Italy and the Balkan corridor. Five years in the making, the film features two refugee stories of human strength while capturing in real time the escalating tension between newcomers and locals. The cinema vérité documentary intertwines the harrowing journey of Aregai, an Eritrean [...]
November
Fri
08
November 8, 2024, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Online Event
12 PM New York l 6 PM ViennaThe Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a discussion with Brenna Bhandar, Associate Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, moderated by Adam HajYahia.Land dispossession in settler colonies was rooted in the assertion of colonial sovereignty, which empowered settlers to re-territorialize Indigenous lands and create a regime of private ownership. This talk explores the land law doctrine [...]
October
Thu
31
October 31, 2024, 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
Online Event
10:30 AM New York l 3:30 PM ViennaCenter for Human Rights and the Arts presents a panel on "One Year On: War, Genocide, and the Transformation of Palestinian, Israeli, and Regional Politics" with Tareq Baconi, Aslı Ü. Bâli, and Shay Hazkani; moderated by Ziad Abu-Rish. Panelists will explore how the Hamas-led attack on October 7 and the Israeli war on Gaza have changed and intensified specific dynamics [...]
Tue
08
October 8, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Center for Human Rights and the Arts Talks Series RKC 103
In this lecture, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay invites the audience to stay at the threshold of the museum in order to recognize the impossibility of decolonizing museums without decolonizing the world. Refusing to study what was plundered as mere objects as museums command us to do, but rather as evidence of a destroyed world, Azoulay decenters the category of “restitution,” and proposes to understand plunder as communal remains. [...]
Tue
08
October 8, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
RKC 103
In this lecture, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay invites the audience to stay at the threshold of the museum in order to recognize the impossibility of decolonizing museums without decolonizing the world. Refusing to study what was plundered as mere objects as museums command us to do, but rather as evidence of a destroyed world, Azoulay decenters the category of “restitution,” and proposes to understand plunder as communal remains. [...]
Tue
01
October 1, 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Preston Theater
Unlearning Imperial Plunder IUn-Documented is a film essay on the strong connection between the plundered objects in European museums and the calls of asylum seekers trying to enter the countries of their former European colonizers. The film treats these two subjects as ones of twinned migrations. The rights of the “undocumented” are inscribed in the plundered objects themselves: colonizers stole not just statues, but rights [...]
May
Fri
03
May 3, 2024, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
11 AM New York l 5 PM ViennaThe Center for Human Rights and the Arts, the Center for Experimental Humanities, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College are hosting a hybrid screening and discussion of The Bridge, a fictional film about the daily life of humanitarian interpreters, who are also refugees, in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. It aims to advocate for changes in their working conditions. Individuals [...]
Thu
02
May 2, 2024, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
This panel on the terms "Anti-Semitism" and "Anti-Palestinian Racism" is part of the Spring 2024 common course Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine and will be open to the Bard College community as a whole. The course critically explores the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine with a focus on contemporary Gaza, and the vocabularies we use to understand it. The course brings scholars from a range of [...]
April
Mon
29
April 29, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
A presentation by Alarm Phone member Leil Mortada Olin Humanities, Room 202
Monday, 4/29 6–7 pm Olin 202Alarm Phone (AF) is an activist network operating in Europe and Northern Africa, running a self-organized hotline for refugees and migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014. AF's primary goal is to give people on the move who are in distress an additional SOS option. AF alerts government authorities to SOS calls and to their rescue obligations, works to mobilize additional rescue [...]
Fri
19
April 19, 2024 – April 28, 2024, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, [...]
Tue
09
April 9, 2024, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Olin Auditorium
This lecture on the term “Genocide” is part of the Spring 2024 common course Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine and will be open to the Bard College community as a whole. The course critically explores the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine with a focus on contemporary Gaza, and the vocabularies we use to understand it. The course brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to help students [...]
March
Tue
26
March 26, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Lecture Performance by Argyro Nicolaou Weis Cinema, Campus Center
Unsettled is a lecture performance by scholar and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou that explores the fast-changing landscapes of an island under occupation and her attempts to reconstruct her mother’s past.The town of Varosha on the eastern coast of Cyprus, where Nicolaou’s mother is from, was fenced off by the occupying Turkish military for 46 years. Since the Greek-backed coup d’etat and Turkish invasion of 1974 that divided [...]
Fri
08
March 8, 2024, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Online Event
Register to join via Zoom The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents Molemo Moiloa, discussing the notion of becoming ungovernable in an effort to tap into our capacities to form new worlds in times of collapse. She shares her interdisciplinary contemporary practice, which centers on land justice and heritage restitution, anchored in South Africa’s histories of resistance and world-building. The talk discusses developing [...]
February
Mon
26
February 26, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Artist Talk by Robin Frohardt Resnick Theater Studio
In Magic of the Mundane, artist Robin Frohardt traces the development of her multidisciplinary practices. From puppet shows to short films and immersive theater, Frohardt discusses how she uses mundane concepts and discarded materials to formulate complex ideas, imbuing the trappings of late-capitalism with playfulness and magic. She also shares the role of humor in her work and her attempts to balance hope and despair in a world where [...]
Tue
13
February 13, 2024, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Panel by Forge Project and Center for Human Rights & The Arts RKC 103
While streets around the world remain sites of mobilization and solidarity for Palestine, many cultural institutions have chosen to reproduce colonial politics of repression. They employ intimidation, the cancellation or disruption of large and small exhibitions, film festivals, and biennials that showcase Palestinian and pro-Palestinian artists. In response to this attempted silencing, many artists have pulled their work, protesting the [...]
Tue
06
February 6, 2024, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Maksym Rokmaniko, Center for Spatial Technologies Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
The lecture offers an in-depth analysis of the Mariupol Drama Theater bombing, a tragic episode from the early stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Using advanced spatial analysis and visualization methods, it reconstructs the theater’s evolution into a resilient community and its subsequent devastation by the air strike. It explores the intricate interplay between architecture and memory amid the war, inviting the attendees [...]
