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.
Programming + Leadership
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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
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LeadershipZiad Abu-Rish, Bard College
Tania El Khoury, Bard College
Thomas Keenan, Bard College
Gideon Lester, Bard College
Renata Uitz, Central European University
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