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Faculty In the Press

• Eight Years: Bard College Diplomat in Residence Frederic Hof on Israel and Syria Relations appeared in Atlantic Council on 03-12-2019
• Climate Change and Human History: Bard Graduate Center Dean Peter N. Miller Reviews Philipp Blom’s Nature’s Mutiny appeared in New York Times on 03-12-2019
• Bard Artist in Residence Jeffrey Gibson’s Like a Hammer Opens at Seattle Art Museum on March 14 appeared in Seattle Times on 03-12-2019
• Consequences of a Spotless Mind: Bard Psychology Professor Justin Hulbert Delivers Talk at SUNY New Paltz appeared in New Paltz Oracle on 03-05-2019

Recent News and Notes

• Visiting Professor Peter Filkins Publishes Biography of Holocaust Writer H. G. Adler
  

  03-12-2019: Peter Filkins’s H. G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds is one of the first major works to be published about this influential writer. A survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, Adler published two dozen books of poetry, fiction, social science, history, and religion that detail the story of the Holocaust and analyze its influence on our world today. Filkins taps correspondence, broad historical research, and unpublished manuscripts to tell the story of how Adler lived through his times, and his effort to maintain human dignity amid systematic oppression, political corruption, and insufferable duress.
  http://www.bard.edu/news/notes/details/?id=3965
  

  Peter Filkins
• New Book by Bard’s Michelle Murray Addresses Problem of Rising Powers in International Politics
  

  03-05-2019: In The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations: Status, Revisionism, and Rising Powers, Professor Murray emphasizes the social dimensions of power transitions, challenging traditional explanations for when power transitions end peacefully or in war and offering new policy options for how established powers can manage the peaceful rise of new great powers.
  
• Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus Announces Three Spring Series Highlighting the History and Art of the Historic Hudson Valley Estate
  

  03-01-2019: Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus announces three spring series of events celebrating the history and arts of one of the Hudson Valley’s esteemed historic estates: Toward an Ethical Imagination: Gilsonfest, Spring Salon Series on Music of the Gilded Age, and The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place.
  http://www.bard.edu/news/features/?id=256
  
• Diplomat in Residence Frederic C. Hof Appointed to Syria Study Group
  

  02-12-2019: The 12-member, congressionally mandated group will (like its 2006 Iraq Study Group predecessor) convene at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. The mission is to assess the current situation in Syria, its impact on neighboring countries, the resulting regional and geopolitical threats to the United States, and current military, diplomatic, and political efforts to achieve a stable Syria. The group is also charged with developing recommendations on the military and diplomatic strategy of the United States with respect to the conflict in Syria.
  http://www.bard.edu/news/notes/details/?id=3934
  
• Bard College Berlin Receives Philipp Schwartz Initiative Grant for Scholar at Risk Aysuda Kölemen
  

  02-08-2019: In the fourth round of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, Bard College Berlin received a 24-month grant to be awarded to the Turkish scholar at risk Dr. Aysuda Kölemen.
   
  Aysuda Kölemen is a political scientist whose current research focuses on populism and democratic backsliding in Turkey. She examines the structural and psychological factors that contribute to the populist surge in Turkey from a comparative perspective. 
  
  In 2015, Aysuda Kölemen became a signatory of the Petition for Peace, which was signed by over 2000 academics from Turkey. The petition called for an end to the armed conflict in Turkey. Subsequently she lost her job as an assistant professor at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University (currently Altınbaş University) and was sued by the Turkish government for signing the petition. She moved to Germany in 2017. Her trial continues.
  
  Aysuda Kölemen received her PHD in political science from the University of Georgia, Athens in 2010.
  
  The Philipp Schwartz Initiative
  The Philipp Schwartz Initiative was launched by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation together with the German Federal Foreign Office. It enables universities, universities of applied science, and independent research institutions to grant threatened researchers fellowships for research stays in Germany. The initiative has been made possible through generous support from the Federal Foreign Office, the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Klaus Tschira Foundation, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Stifterverband, and the Stiftung Mercator.
  
  Scholars at Risk
  Bard College Berlin is a founding member of the German chapter of the "Scholars at Risk," together with 19 other German academic teaching and research institutions. Kerry Bystrom, Associate Dean of Bard College Berlin and Professor of Human Rights & English Literature, is a member of the German SAR's Steering Group. 
  http://www.bard.edu/news/notes/details/?id=3933
  
• Bard College Appoints Award-Winning Author Valeria Luiselli as Writer in Residence
  

  01-02-2019: Bard College announces the appointment of award-winning Mexican author Valeria Luiselli as writer in residence in the Division of Languages and Literature. 
  http://www.bard.edu/news/features/?id=241
  

  Valeria Luiselli. Photo by Alfredo Pelcastre.
• Bard Archaeology Field School Unearths Local Heritage at Germantown’s Historic Parsonage
  

  12-09-2018: Since 2009, Bardians and local high school students have worked with anthropology professor Christopher Lindner at the 1746 Parsonage in Germantown, 9 miles north of the College.
  http://www.bard.edu/archaeology/exhibits/germantown/archaeohistory/
  

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