The Difference and Media Project Office of Multicultural Affairs – Bard College
Events
Other Israel Week: Where Are We 64 Years Later?
Other Israel Week: Where are we 64 years later? A week of celebration, discussion, and questions around Israel Independence Day. Co-sponsored by J Street U and the Difference and Media Project Tuesday, April 24-Tuesday May 1 Tuesday, April 24 – An Israeli and Palestinian Perspective in Washington on How 1948 Has Led To Current Events [...]
Freeing Silvia Baraldini
Thursday, February 23 8pm Weis Cinema Pre-event dinner at 7:30 in Weis Lobby The Difference and Media Project presents a special screening of the documentary FREEING SILVIA BARALDINI with a discussion with the filmmakers following the screening. Run time: 99 minutes Read more about the film and watch the trailer here. Silvia Baraldini moved to [...]
Short Film Screening with filmmaker panel
The Difference and Media Project presents Black History Month Film Festival Shorts series with filmmaker panel Wednesday, February 22 at 8pm Weis Cinema Pre-event dinner in Weis Lobby at 7:30pm Visiting filmmakers present their work, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Run time: 68 minutes No Ward (Terence Nance) is a short documentary about [...]
Black Power Mixtape
Tuesday, February 21 8pm Weis Cinema The Difference and Media Project presents an exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary BLACK POWER MIXTAPE. Run time: 100 minutes Read more about the film. Watch the trailer. “Nothing short of a revelation.” Amy Taubin, Film Comment
Black History Month Film Festival
The Difference and Media Project presents Black History Month Film Festival at Bard College February 21-23, 2012 Weis Cinema Black Power Mixtape: Tuesday, February 21 at 8pm Pre-event dinner (in the cinema) at 7pm About the film: The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community and Diaspora [...]
Edna Bonhomme: Constructions of Race
The Difference and Media Project, co-sponsored by Citizen Science Presents Edna Bonhomme (Princeton University) Sunday, January 22, 2012 2-3pm Olin Hall “Constructions of race in North Africa 1820 and 1850: French portrayals of the Indigenous in popular and scientific texts” Previous scholarship concerning 19th century French imperialism in Algeria has engaged with French militarization and [...]
Bard on Bard on Bard: Hannah Arendt’s “Little Rock” essay and Ellison’s response in the age of Occupy
Saturday, October 29, 2011 11-12 a.m. in the Laszlo C. Bito Auditorium (RKC/Science Building) “Bard on Bard on Bard”: Hannah Arendt’s “Little Rock” essay and Ellison’s response in the age of Occupy A Panel Discussion with: Hannah Arendt’s controversial essay argues for segregation. Bard professor Ellison says she’s got it wrong. How does this relate [...]
Rethinking Difference: Joaquin Terrones
November 9 @ 7:30 in Olin 102 Hard to Swallow: Cannibalism and Queer Bodies in 1990s São Paulo Since Oswald de Andrade issued his Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal Manifesto) in 1928, cannibalism has served as a major trope for Brazilian cultural production. Antropofagia, as theorized in the Manifesto, negotiates difference and marginality through a logic of [...]
Rethinking Difference: Abdi Latif Ega
Wednesday, November 30 at 7:30pm in the Weis Cinema Read the Columbia Spectator article: “Guban burns away misconceptions of Somali culture in Ph.D candidate’s new novel” Book by Columbia Ph.D candidate and teaching fellow should be read not just for its stunning imagery and language, but also for what it says about the human condition. [...]
Difference@Bard: Ted Hall
Wednesday, October 26 @ 7pm, Multipurpose Room Edward T Hall III is the co-director of AcaWiki.org, collaborator with WindowFarms.org and dedicated poet of science. He conducts behavioral economic research at Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions where social scientists of all stripes collaborate to figure out “why our brain isn’t green.” He researches [...]
Institute for Recruitment of Teachers visits Bard
Wednesday, October 19 @ 7pm, MPR (Campus Center) IRT representative Leislie Godo-Solo will visit Bard on Oct 19 to give an information session to potential program candidates (MPR 7-9pm). Oct 20 she will be interviewing students who submit applications (Difference and Media Program Lounge, Annandale House, 11am-2pm). To be eligible for the program, you must [...]
Artist Residency with Mitch McEwen
September 13 – September 17, 2011 Bard workshop with Mitch McEwen, with support from Chloë Bass REscape Workshop (Territory, Landscape Architecture, and the Campus Tour) Participants in this week long workshop at Bard college will design personal tours of the College and its landscape architecture, using 3 dimensional models, site diagrams and documentation of performance. [...]
Difference@Bard: Michael Tan
Michael Tan, Skadden Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project (IRP), will visit Bard College on Wednesday, September 14 for a lecture and discussion as a part of the Difference and Media Project’s Difference@Bard series. The event is scheduled for 8:00pm. Location: Weis Theatre (Campus Center). Michael is a graduate of Harvard College and the [...]
Global versus Local: Who are you Here?
Global versus Local: Who are you Here? A workshop for all first year students, participation is expected Saturday September 24 & Sunday September 25 A weekend of workshops, dancing, drumming, yoga, music, and really good food. It’s about being present where you are, creating community, and shattering stereotypes. Activities will be centralized in and around [...]
Ashwini Sukthankar visits Bard
As part of the Difference and Media Project’s Difference@Bard visitor series, we are pleased to welcome international rights lawyer Ashwini Sukthankar for an open discussion this September. Wednesday, September 21 7pm Weis Theatre (Campus Center) Ashwini Sukthankar researches and advocates on international labor rights and transnational labor regulation; her work has included projects with the [...]
Study Lab
Come join your peers in a casual end-of-semester study session hosted by the Difference ad Media Project. We have both Mac and PC desktops, printer access, a widescreen TV, and a comfy couch! Finals are quickly approaching. Will you be ready? When: May 2nd to May 16th from 7 pm to 12 am, 7 days a [...]
The Fund for Difference sponsors Ghetto Metal music concert and barbeque event
GHETTO METAL is a category of music representing a fusion of musical cultures; a collaboration of metal, rock, hip-hop, funk, soul, blues, spoken word, and reggae. .. Spearheaded by hip hop/rock Bloodline Records recording artist Bazaar Royale and hip-hop recording artist/activist M1 (Dead Prez) GHETTO METAL is the next phase of urban music. To celebrate [...]
Fund for Difference sponsors International Student Organization’s Photography Contest
Submit photos for ISO Photo Contest Location: Campus Center, Lobby Friday, April 1, 2011 Submit photos for the upcoming ISO Photo Exhibition in one of three categories: Culture, People, Nature All photos will be printed in large size and high quality and displayed in the campus center from April 4th – April 11th There will [...]
Fund for Difference sponsors visiting performer Nao Bustamante
The Film Dept/Committee, Studio Arts Program, and The Fund for Difference present a Performance Nao Bustamante Monday, April 4, 2011 5:00 p.m. Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Nao Bustamante is an internationally known artist and a recent contestant on the Bravo TV reality series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Originally from California, she [...]
Institute for Recruitment of Teachers – coming to Bard
The Institute for Recruitment of Teachers is coming to Bard! Monday March 28, 6pm At the Difference and Media Project Lounge in Annandale House Information Session with IRT Associate Director Leslie Godo-Solo See http://www.andover.edu/SummerSessionOutreach/IFROTeachers/Pages/ApplyOnline.aspx TAKE THE NEXT STEP W/ THE INSTITUTE FOR RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS Founded in 1990 by Kelly Wise, the IRT provides academic [...]
Celebrated Anthropologist Nina Jablonski to Speak at Bard College
Celebrated Anthropologist Nina Jablonski to Speak at Bard College on Tuesday, March 1 Jablonski is the Author of Skin: A Natural History and a Leading Researcher on the Evolution of Human Skin Color On Tuesday, March 1, the Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series and Women and Science Project at Bard College present Nina Jablonski, the author [...]
Black@Bard
4-6 this Thursday, February 17 in the MPR: Black@Bard: A community gathering for Black History Month for students, faculty, and staff, to talk about what it means to be in this space, who we are, differences, identities, and goals. Keywords: black, African-American, mixed-race, Caribbean, Blasian, African from Africa, Blatino, black-identified, what is black identity at [...]
Race and the Pastoral Conference
May 8, 2010: Interdisciplinary undergraduate/grad student/faculty conference on “Race and the Pastoral,” talks by Julian Letton and Kabren Levinson, and presentations by Amy Pedulla, Kyle Gipson, Frank Brancely, Tschabalaba Self, Carolyn Lazard, Cooper Jacoby, Otis Gaddis, Aaron Barlow, and Curtis Fuller. “Race and the pastoral” was just the start for a week of intensive explorations [...]
Race and the Pastoral
“Race and the Pastoral” Saturday, October 23, 2010 The Difference and Media Project at Bard (Director: Dr. Annie Seaton) presents ”Race and the Pastoral,” an ongoing, interdisciplinary investigation of the pastoral aesthetic in landscape, literature,and culture. Amy Pedulla and Kyle Gipson, Class of 2013, presented “Race and Space.” Cooper Jacoby, Class of 2011, discussed Kim Keever, Hudson Valley landscape painting and Dutch vernacular architecture. Related installation: ”A meditation on race and the pastoral,” a twenty-minute long [...]