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Saturday, April 17, 2021
Trauma Informed Teaching Lecture Series: An Introduction with Ariane Simard
Online Event 4:00 am – 6:00 am EDT/GMT-4
10 AM Vienna l 4 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series, developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse, and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life” (Democratic Education), then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations—be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated—we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the first session with Ariane Simard of Bard College Berlin, we will introduce ourselves and discuss how we understand definitions of trauma in the classroom as well as explore definitions of cultural trauma, intergenerational trauma and institutional trauma. Because these topics get heavy at times, we will use the methods of the workshop, practice, and humor to sketch out a better understanding of how trauma affects our work in blended learning classrooms. Participants should read the bell hooks essay “Democratic Education,” in her book Teaching Community, before attending the workshop.
Please register to receive the Zoom link to attend.
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Friday, April 16, 2021
Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani: Border Forensics
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.
In this presentation, Heller and Pezzani will discuss the nature of contemporary borders and the ever-shifting modalities of border violence. Drawing on their work within the Forensic Oceanography project since 2011, which has focused on the Mediterranean frontier, they will discuss the strategies they have used to document traces of violent events and seek accountability for them. Reflecting on the effectiveness, but also the ambivalences, limits, and blindspots of this practice, they will point to the directions they are beginning to explore within their new project, Border Forensics.
Working together since 2011, Heller and Pezzani cofounded Forensic Oceanography, a collaborative project that critically investigates the militarized border regime and the politics of migration in the Mediterranean Sea. Their collaborative work has been used as evidence in courts of law, published across different media and academic outlets, as well as exhibited and screened internationally.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
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Friday, April 16, 2021
Kenny Fries: Disability Can Save Your Life
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
When disability is placed at the center of events, where it belongs, it provides the lens through which much of our society's ills can be clearly seen and, thus, changed.
On Friday, April 16, the Bard College Speaker Series on Disability welcomes all OSUN members to join a presentation by writer Kenny Fries, who will read and talk about how societal views of disability, most importantly eugenics, have come to the surface once again as the COVID pandemic confronts us. Fries makes connections between his research on Aktion T4, the Nazi program that mass murdered disabled people, and how it resonates today, as well as the importance of understanding how disability representation affects all of us, disabled and non-disabled alike.
For over two decades, Kenny Fries has looked at how disability provides an understanding of the interconnectedness between individuals and also between different cultures, using the prism of his life as a writer who lives with a congenital physical disability to forge a new understanding of a wide range of values and ideas, from systems of interdependence to intersectionality to Darwinian evolution to disability and the Holocaust.
Fries' works include The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; In the Province of the Gods, recipient of the Creative Capital literature award; and his forthcoming Stumbling over History: Disability and the Holocaust, for which he received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship.
This is a live webinar. Please join via Zoom.
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. There will be live captioning, as well as an ASL interpreter and transcription services offered for this webinar. For other accessibility needs or for more information about this event please contact Disability Speaker Series Coordinator Jaime Alves at [email protected] or 845-758-7112. Sponsored by the Dean of the College and Disability Services.
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Friday, April 16, 2021
Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement
Online Event 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
This Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement is sponsored by the Civic Engagement Working Group and is open to all OSUN members. This session will pose the question of how to define civic engagement on your campus.
Please share this networking opportunity with interested colleagues at your institution.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
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Monday, April 12, 2021
Bilingualism vs. No-lingualism: Speechlessness as a Tool
Online Event 9:30 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4
OSUN, along with European Humanities University and Bard Translation and Translatability initiative, invites OSUN members to an online event with Tatsiana Zamirouskaya, a writer and journalist from Minsk, Belarus, currently living in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her recent collection of metaphysical sci-fi stories, The Land of Random Numbers (2019), was longlisted for the Russian Bestseller Award and NOS Literary Award. Her novel about digital immortality and memory, The Deadnet, will be published in April 2021 by the AST/Elena Shubina Imprint. She has an MFA from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and is a recipient of fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom link.
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Friday, April 9, 2021
Research to Action Lecture Series: Making Ideas Into Law
Online Event 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN's Economic Democracy Initiative Research-to-Action series brings scholars, policy makers, and activists into conversation with OSUN students to discuss pathways for meaningful social change. The sessions highlight the practical ways in which guests have helped to actively change how we approach social and economic problems. From direct action and organizing, to public writing and speaking, to drafting legislation and other policy documents, the discussions will showcase how small steps and bottom-up efforts could potentially lead to big changes.
On Friday, April 9, Rohan Grey, Founder and President, Modern Money Network and Assistant Professor, Willamette Law and Pavlina Tcherneva, Founding Director of the Economic Democracy Initiative and Associate Professor, Bard College will discuss their respective experiences working with legislators on various policy documents, including the Job Guarantee Resolution, the ABC Act, and the WPA Act.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
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Friday, April 9, 2021
Emily Johnson: Land and An Architecture of the Overflow
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Emily Johnson, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an activist for justice, sovereignty and well-being.
A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in Lenapehoking / New York City. Emily is of the Yup’ik Nation, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as portals and care processions, engaging audiences within and through space, time, and environment–interacting with a place's architecture, peoples, history and role in building futures.
Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.
Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center and Karyn Recollet. She was a co-compiler of the document, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts, and is part of an advisory group, with Reuben Roqueni, Lori Pourier, Ronee Penoi, and Vallejo Gantner - developing a First Nations Performing Arts Network.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom Link.
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
Digital Commission: There is a Baba in Our House
Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
World premiere of the first in the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts' annual digital commissions, featuring a Q&A with artist Leil Zahra and Nubian Geographic hosted by Dr. Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin).
في بيتنا بابا
Parting from a personal narrative, and using references from both popular culture and key political events, artist Leil Zahra Mortada uses the performative aspect of nationalism, and its propaganda, to contribute to a much-needed debate around Pan-Arabism and its consequences, history and present.
In this political coming-of-age, the video highlights the blurred lines between the Father figure as both the patriarch of the family and the leader of the nation. The author holds their father’s bias accountable despite the latter’s unquestionable commitment to social justice.
Leil Zahra Mortada is a transfeminist queer activist, researcher, and artist born in Beirut. Their film work includes the archival project “Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution” and the awarded experimental short Breakup in 9 Scenes. Leil is behind the collaborative project Sound Frontier, a music research project focusing on marginalized music and sound art from a decolonial and feminist perspectives. They are a researcher and trainer on digital security, online privacy and open-source investigations. Recently they concluded a fellowship at Mozilla Foundation on the impacts of content policing on social media platforms. Their work focuses on queer and feminist politics, archiving, migration, anti-racism and decolonialism.
Nubian Geographic was founded in 2015 to document Nubia and its geography, history, language, wildlife and more. As a Nubian initiative, it works to counter the systemic erosion of the Nubian culture through research, documentation, producing resources and raising awareness. Nubian Geographic aims to become the origin of a Nubian Scientific Society that would help to preserve and revive Nubia's rich culture and history.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
First Meeting of OSUN Advancement Network Working Group
Online Event 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Ashesi University, Bard College, and Central European University invite OSUN fundraising leaders and staff to join in the creation of a fundraising and philanthropy-focused working group that will facilitate knowledge sharing, mutual capacity building, and connections for joint initiatives.
The first meeting of the OSUN Advancement Network is on April 7, 10 AM New York | 4 PM Vienna.
Register via Zoom.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
The Evolving Understanding of Gender in International Law and "Gender Ideology" Pushback
Online Event 8:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade welcomes all OSUN members to attend a virtual talk with Marija Antić and Ivana Radačić, who will discuss the use of the term "gender" in international human rights law, with particular attention paid to the social constructionist definition of gender in the Istanbul Convention. It will be argued that anti-gender discourse has a strong potential to undermine the developments in the domain of gender equality, only 25 years after the Beijing Conference on Women.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
Find out more.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
What Does Psychology Tell Us about the Human Capacity for Hate?
Online Event 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
What does psychology tell us about the human capacity for hate?
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday, April 6 at 3 pm New York Time in welcoming Samantha Moore-Berg, Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab. She will speak about her work studying conflict across the globe. The lab “aims to understand how the human mind drives intergroup conflict and to put research into action to heal those divisions.”
This is an online event.
Please register here.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 – Thursday, April 15, 2021
Solve Climate by 2030: A Global Dialog
Green Recovery / Climate Solutions / Just Transition
Online Event 9:00 am – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
On Tuesday, April 6, OSUN's Solve Climate by 2030 project and the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College are organizing simultaneous “global dialog” webinars to focus the world on regional and local solutions—in 50 different countries and in every US state.
The webinars will present climate solutions from experts in Hungary, South Africa, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Florida, New Mexico and Minnesota—100 sites worldwide—about ambitious but feasible actions that could spur a just, Green Recovery and get the world on track to solving climate by 2030. Colleges and universities and local faith, civic, and business groups will host viewings of the webinars and in-person discussions of how to get involved in climate solutions.
Faculty at all levels are being asked to assign viewing the webinars as homework, and then spend the following class discussing climate solutions. This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. The challenges posed by solving climate change range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism, and the arts. Solve Climate has disciplinary guides for follow-up discussions about the state-level, solutions-focused webinars.
The project will engage 300+ climate experts around the world as panel speakers, such as state and national political leaders, including members of the US Congress, a US Senator, a US governor, and two ambassadors from Kazakhstan.
See the list of global dialogs
Follow the #MakeClimateAClass social media campaign
Sign up here to stay informed
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Workshop: Practical Introduction to Facilitating Classroom Debates
Online Event 8:00 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4
IWT CLASP and the Global Debate Network invite faculty from across the network to join us for a 3-hour hands-on, interactive workshop on facilitating classroom debates.
We will walk through the various steps of organizing classroom debates - setting a debate topic, choosing a debate format, assigning the debate, preparing students, and grading the debate - as well as the various pedagogical functions of debate - public speaking, critical thinking, research, close reading, argument construction, and analytic writing. We will also discuss specific strategies for hosting virtual/online debates.Click here to registerPlease note: Space is limited. Please only register if you are able to join us for the entire 3-hour session.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Engaged Research Fund 2021 Information Session
Online Event 7:00 am – 8:00 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund invites applications for funding and research support for graduate students and faculty at OSUN partner institutions who are working to develop long-term, sustainable community partnerships as a central part of their research with a goal to develop shared knowledge about issues that align with OSUN priorities and themes.
The Engaged Scholar Award (ESA) is for graduate students pursuing research that integrates community engagement into new or existing scholarship. Award: $6,000
The Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (EFSA) is for faculty whose scholarship incorporates community-based research into new or existing research and supports sustained community partners as long term collaborators. Award: $9,000
The deadline for applications is April 15, 2021.
Join us for an information session to learn more about these opportunities.
7 AM NY/12 PM Vienna
See more details.
Registration Link
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Saturday, April 3, 2021
Bard Bookworms: International Edition
Online Event 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join Bard Bookworms: International Edition as we discuss our favorite stories that are 100 pages or less! For some suggestions from around the world, click here.
To join via Zoom:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/86931622552?pwd=RXZQVUhERUpHdnBJbTdzS3Z2SThUQT09
Meeting ID: 869 3162 2552
Passcode: 942980
Students, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. To sign up for our email alerts: https://forms.gle/n3yaH2BAZjgAAfZH9
Want to keep in touch between meetings? Join our GoodReads group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1135375-bard-abroad-bard-book-worms
Questions? Contact Emily Levine at [email protected] or Lauren Cooke at [email protected]
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Friday, April 2, 2021
Cassils: The Struggle for/The Struggle Against
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Cassils, the third speaker in the Artists and Activists lecture series.
In a time of lockdown and quarantines, of fascism and propaganda, we need reason and action to be supported by visions of change. Cassils discusses artistic and performative tactics uniquely suited for our time. Reflecting on ten years of practice where they carve out strategies for trans representation, they discuss tactics to educate, engage and agitate while attempting to balance and center love, community and relevant action.
Cassils is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Cassils’s art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle and survival. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, Cassils’ work investigates historical contexts to examine the present moment.
This event is a webinar.
Join via Zoom.
Find out more about the Talks by Artists and Activists series.
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
OSUN Community Action Award Info Session
Online Event 8:00 am – 8:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The Open Society University Network sponsors Community Action Awards that help cover costs associated with unpaid summer internships that support preprofessional experiences. Eligible internships address issue(s) related to the broad field of civic engagement, including education, government, social justice, human rights, media, public policy, the arts, and social entrepreneurship.
Join us to learn more about the award and your potential summer opportunities!
https://bard.zoom.us/j/4395717800
Or, ready to apply? Click here for the application!
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Sunday, March 28, 2021
Moolaadé: Women's History Month Film Screening
Online Event 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN and the Center for Civic Engagement invite students from across the OSUN international network for a screening of Moolaadé, a 2004 film by the Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène telling the story of a woman, Collé, who uses moolaadé (magical protection) to protect her daughter from female genital mutilation. This was Sembéne's last film before his death in 2007.
Discussion following led by Beryl and Dorothy, social workers from the Kakamega Care Center in Kenya.
Contact [email protected] with any questions.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
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Friday, March 26, 2021
The White Pube: Ideas for a New Art World
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Zarina Muhammad from the influential UK-based art criticism collective, The White Pube, is the guest in OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts' second public talk.
The White Pube is a collaboration between Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente, born out of the need for art writing that goes beyond the “just bad chat by middle class white men.” They use social media, audio recording, unconventional punctuation, billboards in the public space, and a practice of embodied criticism.
The ~cultural sector~ has been resistant to change; it has held on to antiquated balances of power like no other area of society, and that rigidity has affected the way we distribute resources amongst ourselves within the creative industry. We have got to radically restructure the way we do things. If we had the chance to terraform the arts landscape we’ve got, and become more expansive in what we do, where would we start? How do you go about making an industry that’s sustainable, accessible, genuinely diverse, and fundamentally joyful?
You can find The White Pube at thewhitepube.com or on twitter and instagram at @thewhitepube.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Financial Literacy and the COVID-19 Outbreak
Online Event 10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
March 24th, 10 am NY; 3 pm Vienna; 4 pm Vilnius
The Department of Social Sciences at the European Humanities University (EHU) together with Professor Panu Kalmi hosts a webinar on “Financial Literacy and the COVID-19 Outbreak” for students, prospective students and everyone who might be interested.
Financial literacy is a very important skill because it helps individuals to make effective and deliberate financial decisions. Nowadays, during the COVID-19 outbreak, the topic of financial literacy is even more relevant than ever before. The pandemic treats different people very differently, depending on their education, profession and financial literacy.
The webinar will cover: Financial literacy and how it is related to different economic outcomes, especially to preparation for adverse economic shocks; The empirical evidence of the importance of financial literacy in the COVID-19 shock; Changes in consumer behavior in the United States and Europe due to COVID-19 outbreak; Advice on how individuals can improve their financial preparedness for economic shocks.
Panu Kalmi is a Professor of economics at the University of Vaasa, Finland; the vice leader of the Digiconsumers research project and a council member of the European Association of Economics Education. He has a Ph.D. in economics at Copenhagen Business School. The main research interest of Professor Panu Kalmi is financial literacy and how it can be improved by financial education.
The event will be moderated by EHU MA student Viyaleta Volkavam, in English.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
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Monday, March 22, 2021
CEU Speaker Series: Research as a Transformative Process: Methodology, Practice, and Positionality
Online Event 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
As part of the CEU Speaker Series, Dr. Özge Yaka, Alexander von Humbolt PSI Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity, University of Potsdam, will speak on Frustration/Revelation – "Research as a Transformative Process: Methodology, Practice, and Positionality.
Research can be characterized by long stretches of frustration and puzzlement, punctuated by occasional moments of revelation. This series focuses on exceptional scholars who will not deliver standard academic talks, but who will bring to life struggles faced when pursuing their research, how they came to study a specific topic, difficult choices made, failures, and then sometimes revelations - sudden or slowly accumulating - that have transformed how they view their research, their respective disciplines, and even the world at large.
In the process, we also learn about academic disciplines and the kind of work scholars do in crafting their research. Conventional academic talks are about sharing the outcomes of research. This talk, however, will focus on the research itself, not as a vehicle to produce outcomes, but as a transformative process – which transforms both the conceptual frameworks and disciplinary identities of the researcher, and the way she positions herself within the inter-subjective practice of knowledge production.
Monday, March 22, 2021 / 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. CET / 11:30 am to 12:30 pm EST
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
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Monday, March 22, 2021
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Building a Learning Community
Online Event 10:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 3 – Building a Learning Community. Facilitated by Dan Glass
This workshop is part of Phase 1 (March 16th - March 22nd), which is open to all faculty and graduate students across OSUN who are interested in learning more about integrating engaged research into their scholarship. Register:Join via Zoom.Questions:Dan Glass: [email protected] and Caitlin O’Donnell: [email protected]For information on the rest of the series, click hereFor information on the Engaged Research Fund, click here
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Monday, March 22, 2021
The Heart of the Matter: Inspiring Climate Action Through Culture and Art
Online Event 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
On Monday, March 22, OSUN Chancellor Leon Botstein will participate in a panel titled "The Heart of the Matter: Inspiring Climate Action through Culture and Art," at the inaugural Global Summit of the Climate Governance Initiative.
In collaboration with the World Economic Forum, the Initiative convenes board members, regulators, experts, academics and corporate governance leaders to understand and act upon the risks and opportunities that the climate emergency poses to the long-term resilience and business success of their companies.
Panelists joining Chancellor Botstein include:
Lera Auerbach - Composer, Artist, Poet; World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
Cristina Vollmer de Burelli - Founder, SOS Orinoco; Founding Co-Chair, The Global Leaders Program
Olafur Eliasson - Artist; UN Goodwill Ambassador on climate action; WEF Young Global Leader
Miranda Massie - Director, The Climate Museum
Moderator: Katya Gorbatiouk - Board Member, The Global Leaders Program; Advisory Council, London Symphony Orchestra
Learn more and register.
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Sunday, March 21, 2021
Minorities’ Bids For Political Representation in the US: A Conversation with Ahmed Mansour
Online Event 9:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Sunday, March 21; 9:30 am NY; 2:30 pm Vienna; 3:30 pm Jerusalem
OSUN and Al Quds Bard Social Science Division invites you to the event "Minorities' Bids For Political Representation in the US: A Conversation with Ahmed Mansour."
Ahmed Mansour, born and raised in the Gaza Strip, is an NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, News and Documentary Program graduate. His debut film "Brooklyn lnshallah," a feature documentary on the first Palestinian to ever run for the New York City Council, was released in 2019 and premiered at prestigious film festivals such as DOC NYC and TPFF. The film will be broadcasted on TRT and PBS this spring.
At this virtual meeting, Mansour will be sharing insights on "Brooklyn lnshallah" as well as the political climate that was looming when he made the film. A short clip from the film will be screend before the conversation.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
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Saturday, March 20, 2021
Third Annual Difference and Justice Seminar
Online Event 9:30 am – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN and Bard present the Third Annual Difference and Justice Seminar. With over twenty panels on Historical Structures, Wellness, and Activism, the theme of this year's symposium is, "How Do We Create an Equitable Environment While Living In an Inequitable World?"
Keynote Address by Dr. Angel Love Miles, Scholar / Activist
View the full schedule here.
Free Registration Here
For more information, email [email protected]
Download: Third Annual D&J Symposium Poster.pdf
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Friday, March 19, 2021
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Diversity, Culture and Transformation - All Injustices are Connected
Online Event 10:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 2 – Diversity, Culture and Transformation - All Injustices are Connected. Exploring economic, social, and political facets of poverty, will be facilitated by Vidya Venkat, a doctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London.
This workshop is part of Phase 1 (March 16th - March 22nd), which is open to all faculty and graduate students across OSUN who are interested in learning more about integrating engaged research into their scholarship.Register:Join via Zoom.
Questions:Dan Glass: [email protected] and Caitlin O’Donnell: [email protected]For information on the rest of the series, click here
For information on the Engaged Research Fund, click here
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Thursday, March 18, 2021
The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
Online Event 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate for a talk with award-winning and best-selling author Philippe Sands, who will speak about his new book, The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive, described as a “historical detective story that sets out to uncover the truth behind what happened to leading Nazi Otto von Wächter.” Sands says it’s “a deep and long lesson on how hate begins.”
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
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Thursday, March 18, 2021
Open Climate Coordination and Decision Making
Online Event 9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Open Society Climate Network presents a seminar on "Open Climate Coordination and Decision Making"
Speakers:
Martin Wainstein (Yale) on Open Climate: Digitally Integrated Global Climate Accounting for the Paris Agreement
Leanne Ussher (Bard Annandale) on Tokens for Climate Coordination
Manfred Laubichler (Arizona State University) on Decision Theaters and Civic Engagement
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
For more information contact Leanne Ussher at [email protected] or Harold Hastings at [email protected].
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Thursday, March 18, 2021
Engaged Research Fund 2021 Information Session
Online Event 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund invites applications for funding and research support for graduate students and faculty at OSUN partner institutions who are working to develop long-term, sustainable community partnerships as a central part of their research with a goal to develop shared knowledge about issues that align with OSUN priorities and themes.
The Engaged Scholar Award (ESA) is for graduate students pursuing research that integrates community engagement into new or existing scholarship. Award: $6,000
The Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (EFSA) is for faculty whose scholarship incorporates community-based research into new or existing research and supports sustained community partners as long term collaborators. Award: $9,000
The deadline for applications is April 15, 2021. The Engaged Research Application Portal will open on April 1, 2021. Join us for an information session to learn more about these opportunities.See more details.
Registration Link
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021 – Tuesday, May 25, 2021
English Language Conversation Tables
Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
On Tuesdays and Thursdays during the Spring Semester, the Bard College Remote Student Ambassador Program will be hosting weekly Conversational English Groups; all interested students are welcome to attend.
Please help spread the word!Join our Remote Student Ambassadors Wandi Liang, Yuchen Zhou, Ethan Gutman, Lizi Tabliashvili and practice your conversational English! 2021 SPRING SEMESTER
TUESDAYS @ 1:00 pm NY; 5 pm London; 6 pm Vienna; 8 pm Moscow; 12 pm Bishkek; 1 am Beijing
Join via Zoom THURSDAYS @ 9:00am NY; 1 pm London; 2 pm Vienna; 4 pm Moscow; 8 pm Bishkek; 9 pm Beijing
Join via Zoom
Click here for access to a Global Time Converter that can verify the time of these events for your time zone.Questions? Email [email protected]
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Introduction to Transformative Development and Engaged Research
Online Event 9:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 1 – Introduction to Transformative Development and Engaged Research, will be facilitated by Lyndsay Burtonshaw, a facilitator-activist working with Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Navigate coop and Beautiful Trouble UK.
This workshop is part of Phase 1 (March 16th - March 22nd), which is open to all faculty and graduate students across OSUN who are interested in learning more about integrating engaged research into their scholarship. Registration/Questions:Dan Glass: [email protected] and Caitlin O’Donnell: [email protected]For information on the rest of the series, click hereFor information on the Engaged Research Fund, click here
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Monday, March 15, 2021
Politics or Policies? Confronting the Effects of Anti-Gender Narratives of Family and Gender on LGBT Organizations in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia
Online Event 9:00 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4
The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade welcomes all OSUN members to attend a virtual discussion with Slobodanka Boba Dekić on "Politics or Policies? Confronting the Effect of Anti-Gender Narratives of Family and Gender on LGBT Organizations in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia."
Dekić will speak on the dominant narratives around "traditional families," framed within the "anti-gender" understanding of the term, which rejects the sex and gender distinction. Dekić will also discuss the readiness of local LGBT organizations to substantially challenge such narratives. Dekić will put a particular stress on organizations from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
Find out more about the event.
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Friday, March 12, 2021
Center for Human Rights and the Arts Inaugural Event — Faustin Linyekula: Of Ruins And Responsibility
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College invites you to its inaugural public event, an online lecture by Faustin Linyekula entitled "Of Ruins and Responsibility."
According to Linyekula, "This lecture will be (again) a dialogue with the ruins I inherited from my fathers, guided by the poet’s voice."
Linyekula is a multi-award-winning dancer, choreographer, and director living in Kisangani, DRC. He is the founder of Studios Kabako, a community-based space dedicated to dance, visual theater, music, and film, providing training programs, and supporting research and creation in the Lubunga district. His work is site-specific, politically driven, and multidisciplinary. It mixes movements, texts, video, and music.
This event is part of an eight-part international lecture series produced by CHRA.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Webinar on the Historic Return of Pell Funding for Incarcerated Students and What Comes Next
Online Event 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bard Prison Initiative invites all OSUN members to join a discussion and Q+A with panelists on "The Historic Return of Pell Funding for Incarcerated Students and What Comes Next" on March 10, 1 pm EST.
Panelists
Vivian Nixon, Executive Director, College & Community Fellowship
George Chochos '10, Senior Federal Policy Associate, Vera Institute Institute of Justice
Max Kenner '01, Executive Director, Bard Prison Initiative
With the passing and signing of the omnibus spending and COVID relief bill at the end of the year, the insidious provision of the ’94 Crime Bill—which revoked modest student aid from incarcerated people and eviscerated college-in-prison—has been reversed.
Since 1994, restoration of Pell eligibility in prison has been the North Star for our field. The new legislation restores the possibility of college-in-prison nationally. It is a victory decades in the making, creating new challenges and opportunities.
With college-in-prison at a crossroads, join us for a discussion of how we got here and what comes next.
Register for the webinar here.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Fighting for Freedom 2020: Protest Across Eurasia
Online Event 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Human Rights Project and Russian/Eurasian Studies Program present a panel discussion on "Fighting for Freedom 2020: Protest Across Asia."
Moderator: Thomas Keenan, Bard College
Thomas Keenan teaches human rights, media theory, and literature, and directs the Human Rights Project as well as Bard’s degree program in Human Rights. He has served on the boards of a number of human rights organizations and journals, including WITNESS, Scholars at Risk, The Crimes of War Project, The Journal of Human Rights, and Humanity. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility, 1997; and with Eyal Weizman, Mengele’s Skull, 2012. He is co-editor, with Wendy Chun, of New Media, Old Media, 2006, 2nd ed. 2015; with Tirdad Zolghadr, of The Human Snapshot, 2013. The Flood of Rights, co-edited with Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr, appeared in 2017.
Maksimas Milta on Belarus, European Humanities University
Maksimas Milta leads the Communication and Development Unit and is a part-time faculty member in the Department of Humanities and Arts at the European Humanities University, a Belarusian University-in-Exile. Starting from the outbreak of the revolt in Belarus, Maksimas has been a frequent commentator to Lithuanian, regional and international media (including BBC, Times Higher Education etc.), providing daily reports on the dynamics of the protest and analysis of the political movement in the country. Maksimas holds a Master's degree in Eastern European and Russian Studies from Vilnius University.
Alesia Rudnik on Belarus, Karlstad University
Lesia Rudnik is a Research Fellow at the Center for New Ideas, PhD Fellow at Karlstad University (Sweden). Lesia Rudnik is also involved in consulting ongoing projects of the Belarusian opposition. She is based in Sweden where she also chairs an organization of Belarusian diaspora. Alesia has published her analyses for media and analytical editions based in Belarus, Sweden, Poland, Germany, UK, the USA. Lesia holds the following degrees: MA pol sci (Stockholm University), MA Journalism (Sodertorn University), BA pol sci and European research (European Humanities University). Her academic research is digitalization of politics, protest mobilization via social media.
Medet Tiulegenov on Kyrgyzstan, America University of Central Asia
Medet Tiulegenov teaches political science at the Department of International and Comparative Politics of American University of Central Asia. His teaching and research interests include normative diffusion, civil society in transition countries, contentious politics, politics of identity and political participation.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
For more information, contact Olga Voronina at [email protected] or Danielle Riou at [email protected].
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
COVID-19: Addressing Vaccination Inequality in an Interconnected World
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join OSUN member SOAS for a discussion with new Director Adam Habib and guests on "COVID-19: Addressing Vaccination Inequality in an Interconnected World."
Panelists:
Dr. Peter Singer, Special Advisor to the Director General, WHO
Dr. Segenet Kelemu, Director General and CEO, ICIPE
Martin Wolf CBE, Chief Economic Commentator, Financial Times
Find out more and access via Zoom.
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Monday, March 8, 2021
Adapting to the New Reality – Graduate Students Respond to the Crisis
Online Event 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Graduate students who received mini-grants supporting their community engagement efforts adapting to the challenges presented by COVID-19 will share their projects and experiences with a global audience.
PANELISTS
Freddy Yanez Cerda, Universidad Austral de Chile (Chile)
Sol Rodriguez, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Rose Macharia, Mount Kenya University (Kenya)
Decent Mutanho, Witwatersrand University (South Africa)
Andy Saunders, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (United States)
Adnan Schubert, Central European University (Hungary)
MODERATOR
TBD
The COV-AID webinar series Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope collects and shares stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, and documents practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere. The series is a collaboration between the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities.
Join via Zoom
Image of the Pankow ist immer schön video workshop at Bard College Berlin, February 2019, by Vera Yung (Bard College Berlin '20).
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Monday, March 8, 2021
Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement
Online Event 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
This Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement is sponsored by the Civic Engagement Working Group and is open to all OSUN members. This session will pose the question of how to define civic engagement on your campus.
Please share this networking opportunity with interested colleagues at your institution.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
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Saturday, March 6, 2021
Bard Bookworms: International Edition
Online Event 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
If some things are lost in translation, can things also be added? Join Bard Bookworms: International Edition to discuss any literature that you've read that has been translated from the original text as we try and figure out what has been lost (or gained) in translation!
To join via Zoom:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/86931622552?pwd=RXZQVUhERUpHdnBJbTdzS3Z2SThUQT09
Meeting ID: 869 3162 2552
Passcode: 942980
Students, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. To sign up for our email alerts: https://forms.gle/n3yaH2BAZjgAAfZH9
Want to keep in touch between meetings? Join our GoodReads group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1135375-bard-abroad-bard-book-worms
Questions? Contact Emily Levine at [email protected] or Lauren Cooke at [email protected]
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Saturday, March 6, 2021 – Sunday, March 7, 2021
Dissent in Dark Times 2021: A Weekend of Critical Thought, Convened by Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities with London Review of Books
Online Event 6:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN is delighted to announce we have sponsored tickets for Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities' Dissent in Dark Times, a virtual event taking place on Saturday, March 6th and Sunday, 7th March 2021, in partnership with the London Review of Books.
The full program for this weekend of critical thought about our current times can be viewed here, but speakers include Jeremy Harding, Aviah Sarah Day, Hazel V. Carby, Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani, Costas Douzinas, and John Lanchester.
Students and academics from anywhere in the world are invited to come together to listen, learn and contribute to a unique debate about the role of dissent in addressing the challenges of our contemporary world.
Speakers and Topics:
Saturday 6th March (times are GMT)
11.00 Jeremy Harding on "Pillars of Salt: Distancing has consequences for mental health"
12.30 Aviah Sarah Day on "Survived and Punished: How Criminal Justice Programmes are Criminalising Survivors of Domestic Violence"
16.00 Hazel V. Carby on "Black Futurities: Shape-shifting beyond the Limits of the Human"
Sunday 7th March
10.00 Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani on "Representing/translating/transforming carceral-border violence: knowledge-resistance-existence within Australia's border industrial complex"
11.00 Costas Douzinas on "Resistance in dark times: Biopolitics, the state of exception, rights"
15.00 John Lanchester on "'Disruption' in the writer's life"OSUN-institution members can apply for an OSUN-sponsored ticket by emailing [email protected] and putting OSUN/DiDT in the subject of the email, and including the following information in the body of the email:First and last name
Email address
Ticket date
Ticket type: student/non-student
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Friday, March 5, 2021
Open Networking Session for Student-Led Initiative Coordinators
Online Event 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
This Open Networking Session for Student-Led Initiative Coordinators is sponsored by the Civic Engagement Working Group and is open to all OSUN members. The session will cover cocurricular and student-led involvement in civic engagement.
Please share this networking opportunity with interested colleagues at your institution.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Open Networking Session for Academic Civic Engagement Coordinators
Online Event 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
This Open Networking Session for Academic Civic Engagement Coordinators is sponosored by the Civic Engagement Working Group and is open to all OSUN members. The session will cover community-engaged courses, service learning, and certificate programs.
Please share this networking opportunity with interested colleagues at your institution.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
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Monday, March 1, 2021 – Friday, March 5, 2021
CEU Virtual Open Week
Online Event 9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Want to experience what it's like to study at a global university in Vienna? Interested in applying to Central European University’s degree programs but have some questions? Join the CEU Virtual Open Week between March 1 and 5 from wherever you are!
Check out the online lectures and podcasts, sign up for open classes to get a sneak peek into the CEU learning experience, watch webinar recordings to meet current students and faculty and hear insider application tips, and book a one-on-one online consultation to get all your questions answered.Find more information here.
Sign up for open classes here.
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Monday, March 1, 2021
Hotspots of Democracy: Grasping Russian Democracy With Mind: Can We Still Believe in It?
Online Event 8:00 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The participants of the second edition of the Democracy Institute's Hotspots of Democracy debates will pose the questions: Can we, after thirty decades, still believe in the rise of a liberal type of democratic system in Russia? Is the Navalny case the beginning of a new chapter for the Russian democracy or it is just a prologue for another change of oligarchic elite? Is the actual Russian political elite discredited enough to sharpen the reactions of the EU and USA? How should Western Democracies react to the openly repressive and anti-democratic measures of the Russian 'hybrid regime'? How would a change in internal power relations affect the global geo-political context for the EU?
BBC-journalist Olga Ivshina, political scientist Ivan Krastev, MEP Sergey Lagodinsky and legal expert Olga Sidorovich will address these questions in a discussion moderated by CEU’s President and Rector, Michael Ignatieff.
Speakers:
Olga Ivshina
Ivan Krastev
Sergey Lagodinsky
Olga Sidorovich
Moderator:
Michael Ignatieff
The discussion will be streamed live on the Institute’s Facebook page. If you are interested, then please join the Facebook event.
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: A Strategic Vision for Tuskegee University
Honoring Professor Emeritus of History Frank L. Toland
Online Event 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A Deans' Panel. Join via Zoom.
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Latin(x)Club Open Discussion Event on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine Writer Jorge Luis Borges
Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Latin(x)Club of Bard College Berlin welcomes OSUN members to an open discussion with Luis Miguel Isava, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Emory University, Atlanta, USA), on the enigmatic short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, considered by many the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. In this conversation, we will explore the metaphysical complexities in the story with the help of Isava, whose fields of study are poetry and contemporary poetics, relationships between literature and philosophy, theory, aesthetics and film studies.
The event will take place in Spanish, but all interested students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. The conversation will stem from the principle that the attendants will already be familiar with the story, which means that reading it in advance is encouraged but feel free to join even if you haven’t had the time.
About Latin(x)Club:Latin(x)Club wants to create a safe and sustainable space for the Latin American community across the OSUN Network using Bard College Berlin as a basis. This collective originates from the need to bring together the growing Latin American student body. We want to create a safe space to share our passion for our cultures and our personal experience of relocation. To continue this conversation across geographies and disciplines, we will host events open to the entire network inviting guest speakers to help us broaden our understanding of the region using literature, performance art, politics, theater, mix-media, among other cultural manifestations. The following event is the first of our international events open to the entire OSUN community.
Read the Borges story in Spanish
Read the Borges story in English
Join via Zoom.
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Retracing the Footsteps of History
Honoring Professor Emeritus of History Frank L. Toland
Online Event 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Lula Joe Williams, Gladis Williams, Barbara Jean Williams Parker. Join via Zoom.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Unforgotten: Photography as Resistance
Online Event 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Chester Higgins, staff photographer for the New York Times for more than four decades, on Unforgotten: Photography as Resistance.
This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”
This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The Future of Democracy in EU Member States
Online Event 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The Open Society University Network and the CEU Democracy Institute cordially invite all OSUN members to an online event on "The Future of Democracy in EU Member States."
Debates on the state of democracy in EU Member States have been intensifying and attacks against the rule of law have regularly been occurring. Both authoritarian incumbents and their opponents try to use elements of the international legal and political framework for or against de-democratization.
In this debate Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission; Clément Beaune, Secretary of State for European affairs in the French government; and Michal Šimečka, MEP and Vice-Chair of the Renew Europe Group will address the question of how to strengthen democracy on the national level, integrating the political and legal aspects of the problem. The discussion will be moderated by R. Daniel Kelemen, Professor of Political Science and Law and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Rutgers University. Opening remarks will be delivered by Dimitry Kochenov (CEU Democracy Institute).
Please note that registration is required to attend this online event. Please register here.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Webinar: Nadine Strossen and Richard Wilson on "Law and Hateful Speech: What Is to Be Done?"
Online Event 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday February 23, 2021 at 3:00pm Eastern Time as we welcome Nadine Strossen, a professor at New York Law School, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of HATE: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship, and Richard Wilson, professor of law and anthropology at the University of Connecticut and the author of Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes. They will speak on “Law and hateful speech—what is to be done?”
Join via Zoom. Register here.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: COVID-19 and the African American Community
Online Event 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion on COVID-19 and the African American Community with panelists: Deloris Alexander, Crystal James, Rueben Warren, and Frank Lee
This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”
This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: The Color of Law
Online Event 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
This event takes place at 11 am EST/10 am CST
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Benjamin Crump, nationally recognized trial lawyer for justice, on "The Color of Law."
This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, "Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle."
This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
CLASP and the Global Debate Network: Debate in the Classroom
Online Event 8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
CLASP (Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy) and the Global Debate Network invite faculty from across the network to join us for an informal gathering to share experiences and expertise related to classroom debates. We welcome faculty who already use debates in their classes as well as those looking to learn more and/or give it a try for the first time.
We will discuss strategies for both in-person and virtual debates, ways to fit debate into the curriculum, as well as the various pedagogical functions of debate (public speaking, English as a second language, critical thinking, research, argument construction, analytic writing, etc.). The session will offer us the time to share pedagogical approaches as well as to learn more about the offerings of the OSUN Global Debate Network.
Join via Zoom.
Register here.
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Friday, February 19, 2021
Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic"
Online Event 8:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
The Open Society University Network and the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University in Belgrade invite all OSUN members to attend an online lecture by Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic."
Shaw, who holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, will explore how the meaning of certain social acts has been shifting under pandemic conditions, allowing us to gain new insights into the character of constitutional citizenship and its relationship with political ideas such as populism and fundamental principles such as equality and dignity. The focal points of the lecture are face-coverings and masks, alongside public protests against restrictions on liberties imposed in the name of combating the spread of the virus.
These shifts in social acts illustrate the changing meaning of what constitutes the “good citizen," playing on what Jean Cohen terms “the paradoxical dialectic inherent in modern constitutionalism,” which “drives republican or liberal democratic conceptions of citizenship into the arms of thicker, more communitarian understandings of identity.” This, then, raises the question of whether it is feasible and reasonable to place a brake upon such trends, and to ask which types of norms and institutions, at the national and international levels, are suitable for that task.
The annual seminar 2020/21 “Horizons of Freedom” events at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, examine the intrinsic connection between freedom and engagement in order to expand the conceptual and political horizons of freedom as a central principle guiding action in democratic politics, and initiates a more intensive dialogue among antagonistic traditions of academic perception of freedom in the face of urgent challenges and threats to freedom and democracy.
Join via Zoom.
Link to the IFDT site.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Holocaust Scholarship on Trial: Jan Grabowski in Conversation with Masha Gessen
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Jewish Studies Program and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present an online event featuring Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, who was convicted in a Polish court for his work documenting Polish collaboration during the Holocaust. Grabowski will be in conversation with Masha Gessen, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
In 2018 Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking published Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski [Night Without End: The Fate of the Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland], which documents the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust in a series of local case studies.
The Polish League against Defamation, which has close ties to the right-wing ruling Law and Justice Party, brought a lawsuit against Grabowski and Engelking on behalf of the niece of a figure discussed in the book. This action is widely viewed as a continuation of the government’s campaign to stifle free inquiry into Poland’s wartime history and to punish those who question the narrative of Poles as exclusively the victims of Nazi atrocities who rescued Jews on a massive scale.
On February 9, 2021 a Warsaw court found Grabowski and Engelking guilty, declining to fine the scholars but demanding that they issue an apology. In his first public remarks since the trial Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.
Jan Grabowski is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. His books include Polacy, nic się nie stało! Polemiki z Zagładą w tle [Poles, Nothing Happened! Polemics with the Holocaust in the Background] (2021); Na posterunku: Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów [On Duty: Participation of Blue and Criminal Police in the Destruction of the Jews], (2020); Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize; and "Ja Tego Żyda Znam!": Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-1943 [“I Know that Jew!”: The Blackmailing of Jews in Warsaw, 1939-1943] (2004). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has held fellowships and guest professorships at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich), the University of Haifa, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yad Vashem.
Masha Gessen is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (2020); as well as The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). The Moscow-born Gessen is the recipient of Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie, and Nieman Fellowships, Hitchens Prize, Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary, and an honorary doctorate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
For more information, contact Cecile Kuznitz at [email protected].
Join this event via Zoom.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Get Engaged Conference Info Session
Online Event 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Join us on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 8 am EST for an Info Session on the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference.
See more details about the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference, April 10–11, 2021.
Join via Zoom.
Register here.
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Monday, February 15, 2021
Democracy in the Time of Pandemic
Online Event 11:30 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
CIVICA--The European University of Social Sciences--warmly invites all OSUN members to the launch of the Public Lecture Series Tours d'Europe with an event on "Democracy in the Time of Pandemic" hosted online by Central European University on 15 February 2021, 11:30 am EST/5:30 pm CET.
With the Public Lecture Series Tours d'Europe, experts from CIVICA universities present their research on timely topics to the general public. The series aims to strengthen citizens' knowledge base and to facilitate a direct dialogue between social science researchers and the wider society.
Speakers
Michael Ignatieff, Central European University
Catherine E. De Vries, Bocconi University
Martial Foucault, Sciences Po
Andrés Velasco, London School of Economics
Moderator
Krisztina Bombera, broadcast journalist
Registration for this online event is not required. Join the event here.
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Saturday, February 13, 2021
Bard Bookworms: International Edition
Online Event 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join Bard Abroad for a Valentine's themed Bard Bookworms: International Edition. We will be discussing books we love and books on love!
To join via Zoom:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/86931622552?pwd=RXZQVUhERUpHdnBJbTdzS3Z2SThUQT09
Meeting ID: 869 3162 2552
Passcode: 942980
Students, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. To sign up for our email alerts: https://forms.gle/n3yaH2BAZjgAAfZH9
Want to keep in touch between meetings? Join our GoodReads group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1135375-bard-abroad-bard-book-worms
Questions? Contact Emily Levine at [email protected] or Lauren Cooke at [email protected]
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Friday, February 12, 2021
Get Engaged Conference Info Session
Online Event 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Join us this Friday, February 12, 2021, 8am EST for an Info Session on the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference.
See more details about the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference, April 10–11, 2021.
Join via Zoom.
Register here.
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
BGIA Chace Speaker Series: Ten Years After Tahrir
A discussion with Thanassis Cambanis, Michael Hanna and Aya Ibrahim
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down) at 12 pm EST/6 pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings, and Deutsche Welle correspondent and BGIA alumnus Aya Ibrahim.
Join via Zoom. RSVP Required.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Engaged Research Fund 2021 Information Session
Online Event 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund invites applications for funding and research support for graduate students and faculty at OSUN partner institutions who are working to develop long-term, sustainable community partnerships as a central part of their research with a goal to develop shared knowledge about issues that align with OSUN priorities and themes.
The Engaged Scholar Award (ESA) is for graduate students pursuing research that integrates community engagement into new or existing scholarship. Award: $6,000
The Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (EFSA) is for faculty whose scholarship incorporates community-based research into new or existing research and supports sustained community partners as long term collaborators. Award: $9,000
The deadline for applications is April 15, 2021. The Engaged Research Application Portal will open on April 1, 2021. Join us for an information session to learn more about these opportunities.See more details.Registration Link
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Monday, February 8, 2021
Adapting to the New Reality – Civic Universities Engaging in The Arts
9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
PANELISTS
Adnan Z. Morshed, Professor, Catholic University of America and BRAC University
Judith Mossman, Pro Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University
Kseniya Shtalenkova, MA in Sociology, PhD candidate at the joint doctoral programme of philosophy (EHU, VMU, LSRI); Assistant Lecturer in the Academic Department of Humanities and Arts, Academic Secretary to the Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies Topos, European Humanities University
Tania El Khoury, Distinguished Artist in Residence in Theater & Performance and the Director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College
MODERATOR
Lorlene Hoyt, Executive Director, Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, Research Professor, Tisch College of Civic Life, Research Professor, Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, Visiting Scholar, President’s Office, Albion College
The COV-AID webinar series Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope collects and shares stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, and documents practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere. The series is a collaboration between the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities.
Join via Zoom
Passcode: 823030
Image of the Pankow ist immer schön video workshop at Bard College Berlin, February 2019, by Vera Yung (Bard College Berlin '20).
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Monday, February 1, 2021
Belarus: Is There a Winner Six Months After the 2020 Elections?
Online Event 8:00 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
This Central European University Democracy Institute event is a roundtable exploring what kind of political stabilization or destabilization may be awaiting Belarus.
Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration link
PANELISTS
Kateryna Bornukova, Academic Director, BEROC Economic Research Center
Anaïs Marin, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Artyom Shraibman, Nonresident Scholar,Carnegie Moscow Center
Gábor Tóka, Senior Research Fellow, Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Central European University
Kenneth S. Yalowitz, Adjunct Lecturer, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
Addressing one of her last election rallies in the summer, independent presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya prepared her followers for a patient wait until their apparent will to unseat their country’s long-serving and proudly authoritarian president Lukashenka will be honored. It will take more than just casting votes to get their will expressed in the outcome that matters, she suggested. But she will be there to fight for a fair acknowledgement of the true election results for many months if need be.
Nearly six months after the rigged August 9 elections, Tsikhanouskaya is in half-voluntary exile, and many of her supporters are in prison after a reported 30,000 were detained and often treated brutally by the security forces. Crucially, the latter remained, at least as an organization, loyal to the incumbent after he was (self-) declared the winner of the election while the massive, spirited and impressively enduring post-electoral protests of Tsikhanouskaya’s supporters slowly but inevitably diminished in size and determination. However, not only the pro-democracy movement and all foreign governments aspiring for influence in Belarus seem deprived of the outcome that they hoped for, but Lukashenka’s regime also remains severely deprived of domestic political authority and international respect.
Our roundtable shall explore what kind of political stabilization or destabilization may be awaiting Belarus, what the realistic options and constraints are for the regime, the opposition, Russia, and the international community concerned over the state of human rights in Belarus.
Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration link
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Workshop Series: Designing Engaged Research
Online Event 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Connect with OSUN researchers in this workshop series to learn about how to ethically incorporate community engagement into your research using inclusive practices designed to generate new scholarship that helps center community voices. Engaged research transforms traditional research methodology by integrating and centering community knowledge as part of the research process. Engaged research works to enhance and develop sustained community partnerships between researchers and community partners. The core mission of the research aims to investigate, understand, and address an issue of interest or concern to communities and where community partners are actively involved throughout the research process. Engaged research fosters community partnerships with the goal of mobilizing research to influence systems and serve as catalysts for change within communities.
These workshops are by and for OSUN scholars. Registration is required to participate.
Registration Link
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Saturday, January 23, 2021
Bard Bookworms: International Edition
Online Event 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join Bard Abroad to discuss the books you've read over the break and all the places you "traveled to" through books. We will also be discussing our To Be Read lists for 2021!
To join via Zoom:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/86931622552?pwd=RXZQVUhERUpHdnBJbTdzS3Z2SThUQT09
Meeting ID: 869 3162 2552
Passcode: 942980
Students, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. To sign up for our email alerts: https://forms.gle/n3yaH2BAZjgAAfZH9
Want to keep in touch between meetings? Join our GoodReads group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1135375-bard-abroad-bard-book-worms
Questions? Contact Emily Levine at [email protected] or Lauren Cooke at [email protected].
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Monday, January 18, 2021
Adapting to the New Reality: The Public Purpose of Universities in a Post-Covid19 World
Online Event 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Panelists: Mapendo Mindje, Graduate Student, University of Rwanda (Rwanda) Verity Firth, Executive Director, Social Justice, University of Technology Sydney (Australia) Leslie Van Rooi, Senior Director, Social Impact and Transformation, Stellenbosch University (South Africa) Joanne Curry, Vice President, External Relations, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Moderated by Mathew Johnson, President, Albion College (US)
The COV-AID webinar series Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope collects and shares stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, and documents practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere. The series is a collaboration between the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities.
Join via Zoom
Webinar ID: 825 9106 1534
Passcode: 431462
Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +16465588656,,82591061534# or +13017158592,,82591061534#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782
International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kehAEihu0v
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Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Engaged Research Fund 2021 Information Session
8:00 am – 8:45 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund invites applications for funding and research support for graduate students and faculty at OSUN partner institutions who are working to develop long-term, sustainable community partnerships as a central part of their research with a goal to develop shared knowledge about issues that align with OSUN priorities and themes.
The Engaged Scholar Award (ESA) is for graduate students pursuing research that integrates community engagement into new or existing scholarship. Award: $6,000
The Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (EFSA) is for faculty whose scholarship incorporates community-based research into new or existing research and supports sustained community partners as long term collaborators. Award: $9,000
The deadline for applications is April 15, 2021. The Engaged Research Application Portal will open on April 1, 2021. Join us for an information session to learn more about these opportunities.See more detailsRegister Now
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