Speakers Series - Grupa Spomenik (Monument Group)

The Human Rights Project and CCS Bard this year inaugurate a joint series of lectures and presentations which seek to explore the increasingly profound and manifest intersections between the discourses of contemporary arts and human rights, both affirmative and critical. Nowhere are the orthodoxies of the human rights movement, its wishful universalism and its proximity to power, challenged with such rigor, creativity, and severity than in the realm of culture. And when the most imaginative, forceful, and far-reaching claims for rights are made today, on the other hand, they are expressed in a language, visual and otherwise, that owes everything to the arts. In a sense, the arts (in the broadest sense) has become the leading edge of human rights work and research, the best currently available lab for redefining, critiquing, rebuilding, and re-imagining what human rights might be.

Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Olin, Room 102
Contact: 845-758-7598
E-mail: ccs@bard.edu