Center for Human Rights and the Arts Presents

State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025

The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Class of 2025 MA thesis exhibition.

The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3 – 7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students.

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Schedule of Events:
 
Opening Reception
Friday, 25 April 2025 
4pm–7pm
Exhibition opening and food-for-purchase provided by Samosa Shack.
 
Lecture Performance
Conducting Empire: “Free” Trade and the Transatlantic Cable Network by Elinor Arden 
Friday 25 April, Sunday 27 April, Saturday 3 May 
6:30 pm–7pm
 
Panel Presentation
Featuring Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Pyae Phyo Aung, and Arina Pshenichnaya
Saturday, May 3
4 pm–5 pm
 
Written Theses (Excerpts of these works are on display in the exhibition)
 
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South
Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona 

Sacred War as the Russian National Idea
Arina Pshenichnaya

“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution 
Pyae Phyo Aung 

A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in A Ruptured Geography
Nabil Salih 
 
Installations (Open daily, 3–7:30 pm)
 
FordDat
Sariyah Abuzant 

Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza 
Sarah Al-Yahya 

Calls from an Unseen Chorus
Amr Amer 

Conducting Empire: “Free” Trade and the Transatlantic Cable Network
Elinor Arden  

Songs of Erasure: Nubian Dispossession in Arab Nationalist Culture
Leil Zahra Mortada 

Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools
Mauro Tosarelli 

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 3:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Massena Campus