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Human Rights and the Arts

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The Program in Human Rights and the Arts is a new and integrated curriculum with a focus on human rights and the arts at both the graduate and undergraduate level. It includes network-wide teaching, research, fellowships, and public engagement at the intersection of activism and the arts. 

Program Focus

The Program in Human Rights and the Arts aims to confront the current practical and conceptual challenges of human rights discourse by stimulating new ways of thinking; developing new strategies of activism and engagement; incubating new relationships between activists, scholars, and artists; and working at a truly global scale.

The Center for Human Rights and the Arts builds on existing human rights projects across OSUN that share a commitment to the interdisciplinary critical exploration of human rights discourse and practice, while giving new emphasis to the explosive force of artistic research and creation in struggles for rights and justice. It links scholars with artists and activists outside the academic environment as well as within it, creating new opportunities for inquiry, practice, and experimentation.

The Program in Human Rights and the Arts educates a new generation of undergraduate and MA students, including artists, scholars, and activists, in an international, comparative, and interdisciplinary curriculum. It includes network-wide teaching, exchanges, research, fellowships, and public engagement at the intersection of activism and the arts. The first MA cohort began at Bard College in Fall 2021.
 

chra.bard.edu

Programming + Leadership

Programming + Leadership

  • Jason De León, “Where No Wall Remains,” Live Arts Bard Biennial, November 21–24, 2019. Photo courtesy the artist.
    Jason De León, “Where No Wall Remains,” Live Arts Bard Biennial, November 21–24, 2019. Photo courtesy the artist.
    New Initiatives
    • Integrated network-wide undergraduate classes
    • Curatorial collaborations with the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College
    • Support for student and faculty research and engagement projects
    • Postdoctoral and other fellowships
    • Internships
  • Leadership
    Ziad Abu-Rish, Bard College
    Tania El Khoury, Bard College
    Thomas Keenan, Bard College
    Gideon Lester, Bard College
    Renata Uitz, Central European University

    Contact us: [email protected]

News

Cutting-Edge Human Rights & the Arts Program Offers Students from Conflict Zones a Path to Art-Making
Post Date: 06-09-2023
Inaugural Graduates of Masters Program in Human Rights and the Arts Present MA Theses
Post Date: 05-19-2023
Center for Human Rights and the Arts Announces 2022-23 Residential Fellowship Recipients
Post Date: 07-18-2022
OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts Names Nadine Fattaleh and Oscar Humberto Pedraza Vargas as Inaugural Fellows
Post Date: 07-13-2021
Reclaiming the Palestinian Narrative By Centering Human Rights
Post Date: 05-24-2021
Center for Human Rights and the Arts Featured in Hyperallergic
Post Date: 04-29-2021
Open Society University Network
For more information contact: 
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