The Art Newspaper Highlights “Through the Ruins”
Recommended in the Art Newspaper’s Book Club, Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1, brings together activists, scholars, and artists working at the intersection of human rights […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Boycott”: film screening & conversation with director Julia Bacha
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 […]
Archival Collective Counter-Imagination, Part 2: Set Off [Gitmek] and The Material Aesthetic Research Collective
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 […]
Sabine El Chamaa: “As if her song could have no ending”
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 […]
Alya Karame: The Qur’an from Ink on Paper to Dust and Ashes
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. […]
Turkey and Syria in the Aftermath of Recent Earthquake(s)
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 […]
Archival Collective Counter-Imagination, Part 1: The Lonely Trees by Rojava Film Commune
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 […]
Our Red Book: Reading & Conversation
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 […]
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 […]
CHRA’s Tania El Khoury at Sharjah Biennial 15
Artist and CHRA Director Tania El Khoury has been awarded Special Mention for the 2023 Sharjah Biennial Jury Prize, presenting two interactive installations at the Sharjah Biennial 15: Cultural Exchange Rate and The Search […]
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 […]
CHRA Announces Spring 2023 Public Programs
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) is pleased to announce its Spring 2023 public programming. The new lineup, listed below, includes online talks, […]
CHRA’s Tania El Khoury Featured in Spring 2023 Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Artist and CHRA Director Tania El Khoury participated in the Spring 2023 lineup of the University of Michigan Stamps School of Arts Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. The event, on […]
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 […]
MA Students Visit Mass MoCA
Over the 2022–23 winter break, CHRA organized a field trip for MA students to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts (Mass MoCA), situated on the ancestral homelands of the Muhheaconneok or Mohican people (People of […]
CHRA’s Michelle Song Opens Two Shows in New York City to Kick Off 2023
On view at the Clemente Center, Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger features artists Jaguar Mary X, Taro Masushio, Luna Luis Ortiz, and Lisa Ross. The exhibition presents photographs and videos that […]