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March 2021
03-27-2021
“The goal of this campaign is not to protect cis-girl athletes as much as it is to make trans athletes disappear,” writes Gessen. “This is a movement to exclude trans girls from community and opportunity. It is a movement driven by panic over the safety of women and children that reproduces earlier panics, like those over the presence of lesbians on women’s sports teams. And, just like earlier panics, this one is based on what passes for common sense but is in fact ignorance and hate.”
Photo: Photograph from Getty. Courtesy the New Yorker
Meta: Type(s): Article,Faculty | Subject(s): Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,Division of Languages and Literature,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Article,Faculty | Subject(s): Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,Division of Languages and Literature,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
03-25-2021
PEN America has announced its 2021 career achievement award winners, to be honored at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on April 8 at 7pm ET. This year’s honorees are Bard alumnus Pierre Joris ’69, Anne Carson, Kwame Dawes, Daniel Alexander Jones, and George C. Wolfe. Joris will receive the PEN/Manheim Award for Translation, bestowed every three years to a translator whose body of work demonstrates a commitment to excellence. The committee wrote that Joris’s work “has long been and remains essential in mapping currents and countercurrents of global modernity.”
Photo: Pierre Joris ’69. Photo by Guy Jallay
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
03-19-2021
The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program profiles Jahari Fraser, a Bard junior and Posse Scholar studying Global and International Studies and Spanish Studies. This semester, Jahari is studying at BGIA and interning at Project CETI, a nonprofit organization and 2020 TED Audacious Project Grant recipient that is applying advanced machine learning and non-invasive robotics to listen to and translate the communication of whales. Some of Jahari’s work will be aimed toward Project CETI’s launch in mid-April, including various research projects and contributing to CETI’s overall organizational development.
Photo: Jahari Fraser ’22.
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program,Global and International Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Posse Foundation |
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program,Global and International Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Posse Foundation |
03-10-2021
The Simpson Literary Project announced today that Bard College Writer in Residence Jenny Offill, author of Weather, has been named a finalist for the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Offill and the three other finalists will appear, alongside Joyce Carol Oates, in a live “Meet the Finalists” event on March 30 at 8 p.m. EST. For more information, click here. The recipient of the $50,000 prize is expected to be named in late April.
Photo: Writer in Residence Jenny Offill, Knopf/Emily Tobey
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
03-04-2021
“[President Biden] has begun his term by using sanctions in much the same way as previous Presidents did: because he has to, and only to the extent that he has to,” writes Gessen in the New Yorker. “Morally, the Biden Administration had to act, because the President ran on the promise of being tough on Russia. More important, he ran on the promise of knowing right from wrong and acting accordingly. But, both morally and legally, Biden is doing little more than the bare minimum.”
Photo: Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP
Meta: Type(s): Article,Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Politics and International Affairs,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Article,Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Politics and International Affairs,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
03-01-2021
“Were this an isolated case, it might be understood differently than what in fact it is: part of a much wider effort of the Polish government and active elements of Polish society to silence the legitimate work of Holocaust scholarship in favor of protecting the supposed interests of the Polish state for which the narrative of Polish innocence during the Holocaust plays an important role. The present case must be seen as part of that larger effort,” write Brent and Grabowski in Tablet. Jonathan Brent is the executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature at Bard College.
Photo: Old Town Warsaw. © Sergii Figurnyi/Fotolia
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Literature Program,Russian and Eurasian Studies Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Literature Program,Russian and Eurasian Studies Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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