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Fall 2008: Now Accepting Applications!
The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program is currently accepting applications for the fall 2008 semester. Students are admitted into the program on a rolling basis. This fall's courses will include "Trends in International Terrorism and Counterterrorism," "International Affairs Writing," "Realism Reconsidered," "International Human Rights Law: Sources and Applications," and "Power, War & Terror in International Affairs."
Please note that due to reconstruction, our student housing will be relocating to the 92nd Street Y, located at East 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. The de Hirsch residence at the Y currently houses students from a number of different colleges. It has a special facility, including cooking facilities, designed exclusively for people spending more than a month in residence. The center also hosts numerous cultural events and has a full-service modern fitness center that you may choose to join.
Website: http://www.bard.edu/bgia/academics/summer.shtml
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Spring 2008 Student, Karen Pinchin, Published in Newsweek
Karen Pinchin, a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and a spring 2008 BGIA student was published in a recent issue of Newsweek . An excerpt from her article can be found below.
"The mysterious world of covert military operations has always had a kind of sex appeal—the illicit tease of the unknowable. But enthusiasts are piercing that secrecy with an unconventional weapon: the uniform patch. In a new book, "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me," military buff Trevor Paglen gives readers a peek into the shadows, linking dozens of colorful patches to the missions they represent, among them flight-test squadrons, space agencies, even Area 51 research."
For the web gallery that accompanies the story:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/118841
For full text of her article, please click on the link below
Website: http://www.newsweek.com/id/117877?tid=relatedcl
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Alumni Profile: Clémentine B. Igilibambe, fall 2007
Clémentine B. Igilibambe attended BGIA during the fall 2007 semester, and interned at the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Clémentine is an International Studies and Human Rights major at the University of Dayton. Originally from Rwanda, Clémentine left her country in 1994 to escape the Genocide and civil war. At the age of eight, she fled with her parents and six brothers and sisters and lived in refugee camps and settlements in Congo and Kenya before she and her family got visas to move to the United States.
Clémentine attended Chaminade Julienne Catholic High school in Dayton, Ohio and received several scholarships to attend the University of Dayton. At the University of Dayton, Clémentine Founded the Afrika Club and was a member of the Human Rights Committee, The Student Leadership Council, The Student Achievement in Research and Scholarships and secretary for the Student Advisory Committee for Foreign Languages. She was also selected to be on a panel on Africana Studies at Stander Symposium and another panel on International Discrimination. Clémentine also volunteered at the American Friends Service Committee and Habitat for Humanity.
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Alumni Profile: Özlem Gemici, spring 2006
Özlem is currently the Project Assistant at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) Foreign Policy Program. TESEV is an Istanbul-based, nongovernmental think tank and its areas of work are grouped under three titles: Foreign Policy, Democratization of Turkey, and Good Governance. The projects of the Foreign Policy Program focus on Cyprus, European Union, Armenian-Turkish and Greek-Turkish relations and the (broader) Middle East. TESEV is also one of the non-governmental partners of the Democracy Assistance Dialogue – a G-8 initiative aiming to bring together governmental and non-governmental actors in discussing democratic reform.
Özlem graduated from the Oberlin College in 2007 with a degree and honors in Politics and a degree in Neuroscience. While at BGIA during Spring 2006, Özlem interned for the International Crisis Group (ICG) as a legal assistant to the General Council and Special Projects Director. Following BGIA, she interned for No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), an international NGO which works on international criminal justice, female genital mutilation and Middle East and North Africa Democracy. She helped the organization of two NPWJ conferences in Italy and Yemen and managed the thematic session 'Role of Women' at the Sana'a International Conference on Democracy, Political Reforms and Freedom of Expression, which was designed to create a discussion platform for government and civil society representatives of the (broader) Middle Eastern countries. After graduating from Oberlin, Ozlem spent four months at Damascus, Syria taking Arabic language courses from the University of Damascus. She now lives in Istanbul, working for TESEV.
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Alumni Profile: Lyric Thompson, spring 2007
During her Spring 2007 semester at BGIA, Lyric interned with the Global Justice Center (GJC), an emerging international nonprofit working to uphold women's human rights in conflict and post-conflict situations. Throughout her internship, Lyric wrote winning proposals for program support and expansion in Iraq and Burma, and attended sessions of the 51st U.N. Commission on the Status of Women as a representative of the GJC, a member of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. Lyric's writing was published in the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 editions of BardPolitik, including pieces from her collegiate honors thesis work on political action and human rights in Ghana, West Africa. Over the course of her time at BGIA, Lyric was twice published by Newsweek International, and has continued to contribute to the news magazine. After graduating from BGIA, Lyric accepted a position in Washington, DC, backstopping a $52 million post-conflict, grants-based development project in Sudan, funded by USAID and implemented by Development Alternatives, Inc. She currently works for Women for Women International, an international organization that provides microfinance assistance to women victims of war. She is a Phi Beta Kappa, suma cum laude alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Alumni Profile: Anup Kaphle, summer 2006
Anup Kaphle attended BGIA's summer 2006 program where he interned at Newsweek International. He graduated magna cum laude in 2007 from Tusculum College in Greeneville, TN, where he earned a B.A. in English and was awarded the Bruce G. Batts medal, one of the two highest honors to a graduating senior. At Tusculum, Anup wrote for "The Pioneer Frontier," the college publication, while holding positions as Peer Tutor, Service Leader, Resident Assistant and a Student Government Association senator. He was inducted into Alpha Chi National Scholarship Honor Society and Sigma Tau Delta National English honor society. He has also won the lucrative Curtis and Billie Owens Award in Creative Writing three years in a row at Tusculum and was awarded "Journalist of the Year," by the English Department. He has done extensive work in the field of journalism, as an intern at The Himalayan Times in Katmandu, Westminster City Council Press Office in London and Forbes.com. Anup Kaphle is an aspiring conflict reporter. He is a M.S. candidate at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University after which he plans to work as a freelance journalist in Africa.
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Alumni Profile: Kira Lom, fall 2006
Kira Lom is the Grant Manager at the Third Millennium Foundation. During her undergraduate studies at Haverford College, Kira majored in East Asian Studies and completed an exchange program on Comparative Culture at Sophia University in Japan. After graduation, Kira returned to New York to attend BGIA in Fall 2006. Through BGIA she took courses on humanitarian affairs and international ethics, and worked full time as a Program Assistant at the International Center for Tolerance Education. At the completion of her internship, the Third Millennium Foundation (TMF) hired her as the Grant Manager. Kira now administers the Foundation’s many grants, fellowships and programs building the field of early childhood tolerance education and human rights.
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Faculty Profile: Kate Bourne
Kate Bourne is the Vice President for International Policy and Regional Programs at the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), working on a range of issues related to women’s sexual and reproductive rights and health with partners and policy makers around the world . Kate has extensive international experience in family planning, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS, and strong history of connecting global policies to women's local needs and priorities throughout her career.
Motivated to pursue a career in global women's health by encounters she had with women while traveling across Asia in the 1980s, Kate secured her Master's in Public Health in 1989, and then spent three years in Beijing, China as a consultant to UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund). During her time in China Kate helped draw attention to the need for further research on the country's widening sex ratio, resulting from a combination of cultural son preference and state-controlled fertility.
In 1994, as Country Representative for Pathfinder International, Kate opened their office in Viet Nam and managed a large reproductive health training program. In 1998 she returned to the United States and served as Pathfinder's Director of Public Affairs until 2001
Before joining IWHC in May 2005, Kate was Executive Vice President and later Vice President for Country and Regional Programs at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a global organization working toward discovery, development, and distribution of an AIDS vaccine.
Kate holds a Master's of Public Health degree in International and Family Health from the University of Texas in Houston, and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She speaks Chinese and basic Vietnamese.
Kate has been co-teaching Issues in Global Public Health at BGIA since 2006. She says, “The students have an impressive awareness of the larger world and a real passion for learning about other people and countries. Teaching at BGIA has also been a wonderful way for me to see my own work from a different perspective.”
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