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Sean Connelly: Expert Witness Geomancer Mystic

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

An ‘expert witness geomancer mystic’ unites the forensic, spatial, and mystical elements of a place, giving testimony to concealed histories while constructing profound truths. They go beyond interpreting land to co-create spaces that are independent, sacred, and ecologically aligned, protecting and restoring places as active sites of continuity and renewal. In this talk, Hawai'i artist […]

Morgan Bassichis – Comedy for Organizers: Cliff Notes from an Anti-Zionist Jew

Studio North, Fisher Center 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, United States

How do artists, comedians, and performers respond to crises? What tools and opportunities do comedy and laughter offer political and social movements in their confrontations with fascism and supremacy? Comedian and performance artist Morgan Bassichis, a longtime member of Jewish Voice for Peace, shares their experience at the intersection of comedy and political organizing.   […]

Amar Kanwar: The Scene of Crime

Amar Kanwar's films and multi-media works explore the politics of power, violence, and justice. His multi-layered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterized by a unique poetic approach to the personal, social, and political. In this talk, Kanwar will present his learnings, doubts, and inadequacies in dealing with evidence […]

Brenna Bhandar – The Racial Politics of Pre-Emption: Property, Power and Deputization

Webinar
Virtual Event Virtual Event

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 of pre-emption, which was a key modality of Indigenous land dispossession in British Columbia and throughout North America. It examines the […]

One Year On: War, Genocide, and the Transformation of Palestinian, Israeli, and Regional Politics

Webinar
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Online Panel by Tareq Baconi, Aslı Ü. Bâli, and Shay Hazkani Moderated by Ziad Abu-Rish This panel explores how the Hamas-led attack on October 7 and the Israeli war on Gaza have changed and intensified specific dynamics shaping Palestinian, Israeli, and regional/international politics. Taking seriously that history did not begin on October 7, and that […]

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Unlearning at the Threshold of the Museum

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

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 […]

Molemo Moiloa: Becoming Ungovernable

Webinar

Molemo Moiloa discusses 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 strategies for collective and […]

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

Fisher Center, Resnick Studio

Sex, Cancer & Other Things My Mother Wishes I Never Had is a talk, performance, analysis and meditation on 20+ years living in a body which had cancer, healed from cancer, remained scarred from cancer, kept being questioned about cancer, worked with cancer, lost colleagues to cancer, a body which made cancer friends, lost cancer […]

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 […]