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 various parts of Turkey and Syria. Panelists will include Ziad Abu-Rish (CHRA & Middle Eastern Studies), Lara Fresko Madra (CHRA), and Pinar Kemerli (Political Studies). […]

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 CHRA Fellow Lara Fresko Madra. The event will include a screening of The Lonely Trees by the Rojava Film Commune , with an introduction and discussion […]

“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 six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 34 states passed laws intending to silence boycott and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human […]

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 best-selling author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff. The event is co-presented by CHRA, Fisher Center, Bard Theater and Performance Department and Written Arts. Our Red Book takes […]

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 CHRA Fellow Lara Fresko Madra. The event will include a screening of Set Off by Mustafa Emin BĂĽyĂĽkcoĹźkun of The Material Aesthetic Research Collective , […]

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. 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 […]

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 bodies in an image, reside? In December 1999, a recent film school graduate moves from Los Angeles to New York City. With a fiction film […]

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 Apparitions is taking place from April 27 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus sites in Tivoli and Barrytown. The […]

Alluvial: First-Year MA Student Spring Microfestival

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

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 times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, […]

Alluvial: First-Year MA Student Spring Microfestival

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

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 times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, […]

Event Series Test: Forthcoming Event

Test: Forthcoming Event

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

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Event Series Test: Forthcoming Event

Test: Forthcoming Event

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

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