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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at Bard seeks to materialize our commitment to plurality, dialogue, and rigorous study. We strive to create a learning environment that upholds the College’s mission to meaningfully include the voices, works, and ideas of communities and cultures historically marginalized in liberal arts and sciences education. DEI at Bard aims to work at the systemic as well as the interpersonal level to address the implicit and explicit ways racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and religious discrimination impact the learning process.Upcoming Events
- 8/11Wednesday1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
On Hannah Arendt: Virtual Reading Group - 'The Crisis in Education' with Griselda Pollock
Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
A virtual reading group in collaboration between Richard Saltoun Gallery and the Hannah Arendt Center to accompany the gallery's year-long exhibition programme 'On Hannah Arendt'.
Led by Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, the next event in the series will discuss Arendt's essay 'The Crisis in Education' from her 1968 publication 'Between Past and Future'. The essay will be introduced by Griselda Pollock, acclaimed author, feminist art historian and academic.
The discussion is held on the occasion of a joint exhibition of the same name featuring work by Eleanor Antin and Siân Davey, on view in London from 3 August until 11 September.Register Now
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Roger Berkowitz
Founder and Director @Hannah Arendt CenterFounder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Human Rights, Roger Berkowitz writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, co-editor of Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012) and editor of the annual journal HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. Berkowitz is the 2019 recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, Germany.
Griselda Pollock
Griselda Pollock is an internationally acclaimed writer, academic, art historian and cultural analyst of international, postcolonial feminist studies in the visual arts and visual culture. Based in the United Kingdom, she is known for her theoretical and methodological innovation, combined with readings of historical and contemporary art, film and cultural theory. Since 1977, Pollock has been one of the most influential scholars of modern, avant-garde art, postmodern art, and contemporary art and has been a major influence in feminist theory, feminist art history and gender studies. Her 1988 book, 'Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity, and Histories of Art', a study of women’s role in shaping modern art as it is known today, is considered essential for the way it considered gender alongside class and larger economic factors.
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DEI collaborates with faculty, staff, and students on learning, teaching, student development, institutional functioning, and engagement in local and global communities. In an increasingly intertwined and rapidly changing world, we are dedicated to a rigorous examination of the institutions and structures that sustain inequality. Above all, we maintain an ongoing commitment to decreasing the distance between these ideals and our everyday realities.
The Council for Inclusive Excellence (CIE) sponsors and cosponsors campus-wide events such as speakers, panels, and movie screenings that relate to social justice, intercultural communication, equity, and inclusion. The council is committed to making Bard an environment that is supportive of communities historically marginalized in liberal arts and sciences education.
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This coalition—composed of student-athletes, faculty, and staff—is charged with reviewing Bard’s Office of Athletics and Recreation in areas of accessibility as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion, taking into account existing policies, facilities, and student and staff experiences. As the coalition’s work progresses, the administration of the Department of Athletics and Recreation has undertaken the important work of creating a diversity strategic plan that includes goals for mandatory training for all student-athletes, increasing diversity in the coaching staff, increasing community engagement, and more diversity among student-athletes.
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Gilson Place, formerly Grey Stone Cottage, is a space dedicated to the advancement of students of color. Bard faculty and student leaders collaborated on its recent renovation and redesign. Gilson Place supports the academic, personal, and social success of members of the Bard community historically underrepresented in liberal arts and sciences education and fosters dialogue about race and culture on campus. The space is named for Alexander Gilson (c. 1824–89), an African American who labored for 50 years at Montgomery Place, now part of the Bard College campus. Gilson became head gardener at Montgomery Place and eventually opened up his own nursery business.
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