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In Our Thousands, In Our Millions: Cultural Censorship and Anti-Colonial Solidarity with Palestine

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

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, using the cancellation or disruption of large and small exhibitions, film festivals, and biennials that showcase Palestinian and pro-Palestinian artists to suppress critical dialogue. In response to this […]

The Utopian Prerogative

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

This event will take place on Wednesday, 7 September, 5:30pm ET at Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation (RKC) 103 at Bard College. "Each day we are sold different versions of yesterday, but rarely offered a different tomorrow. The apocalypse streams into every household at a flat rate. In an era of dystopian […]

Mohammed El-Kurd: “Bombs, women, children, etc”: Humanization, Victimhood, and the Politics of Appeal

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

For 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 nonviolence, humane professions, and disabilities. In […]