CCS Bard Convenes Leading Scholars to Explore How Black Art and Blackness Have Been Framed through Contemporary Exhibition-Making
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display, a scholarly conference that explores a selection of pioneering exhibitions over the past century that have shaped the contemporary understanding of Black art.
“I’m LGBTQIAP+… & gay”: Commentary by Michael Sadowski
In a LGBTQ Nation commentary for National Coming Out Day, Associate Dean of the College Michael Sadowski discusses his pride and solidarity in being part of a community whose expressions of sexuality and gender are so expansive, fluid, and diverse that we need eight initials and a plus sign to contain them. “At the same time,” he writes, “when I think about my own coming out, my old-fashioned gayness keeps calling to me, too."Nineteenth-Century Black Master Gardener of Montgomery Place Honored with Cemetery Marker
The 19th-century Black master gardener who tended hundreds of plants and an arboretum at Montgomery Place, who hybridized two flower species, and who mentored white gardeners in Rhinebeck was recognized with a plaque astride his burial place at the Methodist Church Cemetery on Cherry Street in Red Hook. In an interview, Bard Professor Myra Young Armstead discusses the fascinating history of Alexander Gilson.More News
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Upcoming Events
- 10/18Monday6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Preston
Monday, October 18, 2021
Anti-Semitism and Racism: Entangled Genealogies
Jonathan Judaken
Rhodes College
Preston 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
This lecture series, held throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, will explore the ongoing phenomenon of antisemitism by examining its myriad historical contexts and relationships to other forms of prejudice and hatred.
This presentation will first consider the recent debate whether anti-Semitism should be considered a form of racism or a unique form of hatred. Framing this discussion within a historical overview, we will consider how Judeophobia was entangled with Islamophobia and what Fanon called Negrophobia. We will unpack the origins of the terms “anti-Semitism” and “racism” and consider how many theorists in the aftermath of the Holocaust and during anti-colonial struggles understood the linkages between these terms. These theorists were opposed by scholars and writers who insist upon the singularity of anti-Semitism. I will suggest that the root of these claims stem from notions of Jewish choseness, Zionist understandings of anti-Semitism, and claims about the uniqueness of the Holocaust. I will argue that the assertions of uniqueness do not hold up to scrutiny, make a case for why exceptionalist arguments lead to a dead-end in efforts to fight anti-Semitism, and conclude that the struggle today demands that we be clear that anti-Semitism is racism and must be combatted as part of the broader anti-racist struggle.
Jonathan Judaken is the Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities at Rhodes College. He is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual (Nebraska, 2006) and the editor of Race After Sartre: Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism (SUNY 2008) and Naming Race, Naming Racisms (Routledge 2009). He recently edited a round table in the American Historical Review titled, “Rethinking Anti-Semitism” (October 2018) and co-edited a special issue of Jewish History (with Ethan Katz) on “Jews and Muslims in France Before and After Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher” (September 2018). He has just finished co-editing The Albert Memmi Reader (with Michael Lejman), a compendium of the Tunisian Franco-Jewish writer’s work (Nebraska, 2020).
NOTE: These lectures are open to the public but all visitors to the Bard campus must register in advance and provide proof of vaccination by completing this form.
Co-sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center and The Center for the Study of Hate - 10/22Friday12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Bito Conservatory Rm 106
- 10/26Tuesday12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Photo credit: Berlin Summer 2019, Vera Yung BCB '20Tuesday, October 26, 2021Bard Abroad Peer Advising Drop-In Hour
Online Event 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Interested in studying abroad on the Bard in Berlin program and want to hear from a current student abroad? Join the Bard Abroad Peer Advising Drop-In Hour with Study Abroad Ambassador, Jourdan Perez '22!
He will be taking questions about the application process, life abroad from a current abroad student, and more. To learn more about Jourdan check out @BardAbroad on Instagram!Join via ZoomMeeting ID: 874 3349 9675
Passcode: abroad - 11/02Tuesday6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Antisemitism and Ableism: Refugees and Immigration Policy towards Jews and the Disabled in the Wake of the Holocaust
Katherine Sorrels
University of Cincinnati
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
This talk will discuss the Camphill movement, an international network of intentional communities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities that was founded in Scotland during World War II by Austrian Jewish refugees. It will focus on the antisemitism and ableism that forced Camphill’s founders to flee Nazi Central Europe, the antisemitic and ableist immigration policies that they confronted in the US and Britain, and the way their response to these overlapping forms of prejudice informed the mission and identity of the movement they founded. Drawing on her forthcoming book On the Spectrum: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Austria and the Politics of Disability in the Britain and North America, Sorrels will use Camphill to reconstruct the larger story of how Jewish refugees transformed British and North American approaches to disability and, in the process, reshaped the tradition of Viennese curative education.
Katherine Sorrels is Associate Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty in Judaic Studies, and Chair of the Taft Health Humanities Research Group at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Outsiders: Imperial Inclusion, National Exclusion, and the Pan-European Idea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is the co-editor of two forthcoming volumes, Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, and Culture (Camden House, 2022) and Ohio under COVID: Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis (under review with the University of Michigan Press). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Fellowship Program, and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
NOTE: These lectures are open to the public but all visitors to the Bard campus must register in advance and provide proof of vaccination by completing this form.
Co-sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center and The Center for the Study of Hate
Reflecting on the Moment
Conversations on Racial Equity and Justice
Reflecting on the Moment is a collaborative initiative spearheaded by the Dean of the College in consultation with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The new series invites alumni/ae, current undergraduates, faculty, and staff to have honest conversations about the current moment we are living in the wake of a global pandemic and systemic police brutality. The aim is to present models of inclusive dialogue, to draw from the rich personal experiences and expertise of our ever-developing and ever-changing community, and to present approaches for community activism and engagement in the name of racial equity and justice.