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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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, […]

The Utopian Prerogative

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

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 […]

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

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 […]