Bard College Names Ranjani Atur Inaugural Recipient of the Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies
Bard College announces the appointment of Ranjani Atur as the inaugural recipient of the College’s Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies, effective fall 2021. The newly established fellowship brings to Bard’s liberal arts classroom the cutting-edge research of early-stage teacher-scholars whose work takes the study of Ancient Greece and Rome in important new directions.
Student Organization Spotlight: Women of Color United
Women of Color United (WOCU) is a campus club created by and for, as the name suggests, women of color. Headed by a host of active and impressive women and femmes of center, Talaya Robinson-Dancy, Sage Swaby, Stecy Mbemba, Naty Rosario, and Luna Ramirez. They bring the spectrum of their expertise into the club experience as they attempt to curate a place where all can feel welcome. Skye Carter interviewed Sage Swaby to ask about the club and how it has fared during COVID.BardEATS: Working for More Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems on Campus
BardEATS is paving the way for more equitable and sustainable food systems on campus. Leading the program are Bard senior Melina Roise and junior Olivia Tencer, with help from fellow students, management from Bard Dining, and support from Bard faculty and staff.More News
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- Filmmaker Rebeca Huntt ’12 Receives Sustainable Artist Grant from Brown Girls Doc Mafia
- Distinguished Writer in Residence Masha Gessen on the Movement to Exclude Trans Girls from Sports
- Women’s History Month Focus: Emerald Rose McKenzie ’52
Upcoming Events
- 5/13Thursday5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Solidarity! Activism and the Origins of Asian American Studies
Calvin Cheung-Miaw (Stanford University)
Online Event 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Why did people of Asian descent in the United States begin calling themselves Asian American in the late 1960s, and why did so many young Asian Americans join the movement to demand Asian American Studies on college campuses? This talk explores the activist origins of Asian American identity, with a focus on how Asian Americans thought about multiethnic and multiracial solidarity. It places the founding of Asian American Studies within the context of activist ideas about the transformation of relationships between campus and community, and asks what this history might mean for us today.
Calvin Cheung-Miaw is a PhD candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. He is a historian of race, who works at the intersection of intellectual history and social movement history. His dissertation, “Asian Americans and the Color-Line,” provides the first intellectual history of Asian American Studies and explores the rise and decline of Third Worldism in the United States. His writings have been published in Amerasia Journal, In These Times, and Organizing Upgrade. An article on transnational political murders during the Reagan era is forthcoming from Pacific Historical Review, and another article on Claire Jean Kim’s work is forthcoming from Politics, Groups, and Identities. In the fall he will be joining the history faculty at Duke University.
Zoom Link:
https://zoom.us/j/99350907519?pwd=WjBpMzI3M0N0WmZXMGtVTlJRcFVQUT09
Meeting ID: 993 5090 7519
Passcode: 1c5EGQ - 5/13Thursday5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
- 5/14Friday1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
- 5/15Saturday10:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Experimental Humanities "Unconference" on COVID Exceptionalism
Online Event 10:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
10 am – 3 pm New York
4 pm – 9 pm Vienna
The OSUN Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN) invites all network members, including students, to an "unconference" on COVID Exceptionalism, taking place on Saturday, May 15. Unlike a traditional conference, all attendees will have the opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary discussions and performances, in an open forum in which to reflect on the wider implications of the pandemic.
COVID Exceptionalism is an interdisciplinary, virtual unconference focused on the intersection of public health, technology, and the arts and humanities. This event and companion online archive aims to reflect critically on the present moment both as a mirror of systemic inequalities—race, gender, class—and as a means of radical transformations—educational and economic, scientific and medical, cultural and interpersonal.
This virtual unconference aims to interrogate the structural social underpinnings that the pandemic has exposed as well as the extraordinary social transformations that it has set in motion.
What is exceptional about COVID? And for whom? What has truly changed, and what is being revealed for what it always was? Which of the profound changes to our modes of life should be fought, and which should be accepted as a change for the better? What new technologies, living arrangements, modes of governance, and models of care have emerged, and will they outlast this critical moment in our history?
Alongside the forum, we will host an expansive digital archive of the detritus of the epidemic—the traces left in the form of medical bills, journal entries, memorials to the lost, poems, songs, records of hygienic obsessions, artworks, vaccine stickers, eviction notices, loan statements, protest banners, prescription bottles, denied visa applications, administrative emails mandating protocols, memes, and children’s drawings.
Registration Deadline: May 3, 2021
Register here.
The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network rethinks how we engage with the humanities and seeks to redefine what they are in the light of changing technologies, an increasingly connected global landscape, and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through interdisciplinary and public-facing pedagogy, curricular design, and research, it strives to create more inclusive universities. The project is made possible through OSUN, EHCN, and the Inclusion Challenge funded by the Office of the Dean at Bard College. - 5/29Saturday9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Global Fellows Monthly Civic Engagement Workshop
Online Event 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
This workshop is designed to assist you in developing the needed skills as student leaders or students learning to lead civic engagement projects to ensure project progress and sustainability. We will also have different activities and fun energizers in this workshop!
Join via Zoom
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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.