Online Event  8:30 am – 9:30 am EST/GMT-5
Please join CLASP on Tuesday, December 15, at 8:30am (NY) / 2:30pm (Vienna) for a gathering of faculty across the network who teach in the sciences. The topic will be how to foster collaborative student work in online and hybrid teaching in the sciences. This session will focus on teaching in the natural sciences, but teachers of all scientific disciplines are welcome to join. To join, please register in advance using this link. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link.

Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EST/GMT-5
Join us via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/81662127894?pwd=NHJOK01odkdKa25xbnZXS2RudkMzZz09

Panelists: Haifa Jamal Al-Lail, President, Effat University (Saudia Arabia) Penn Loh, Senior Lecturer, Tufts University (U.S.) Julian Skyrme, Director of Social Responsibility, The University of Manchester (England)Moderated by Jonathan Becker, Vice-Chancellor of the Open Society University Network.

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International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kcXiFiLXUxThe 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.

Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EST/GMT-5
This workshop will provide students with tips on how to effectively manage their civic engagement projects, promote productivity, recruit dedicated members, and build capacity of their civic engagement projects.

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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EST/GMT-5
The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership is honored to host the Tomorrow Is Now virtual conference series in partnership with the COV-AID project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities. Members of Eleanor’s Circle, as well as students and faculty across the global networks, are invited to participate in the live Zoom sessions where speakers from around the world will reflect on the relevance of Eleanor’s legacy during the pandemic. Tomorrow Is Now is the title of the last book authored by Eleanor Roosevelt.

On December 8, the network will host the Tomorrow Is Now conference with guest speaker David Michaelis, author of Eleanor, as he explores Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy in today’s global challenges. 

Hosted by Douglas Brinkley; an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University.

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David Michaelis is the bestselling author of Schulz and Peanuts and
N.C. Wyeth, which won the Ambassador Book Award for Biography. His latest book Eleanor, a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, was published in October 2020. This New York Times bestseller "presents a 'stunning' (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt" (Simon & Schuster). He lives in New York with his wife and family. 

Douglas Brinkley is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues.
 

Online Event  11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
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Join us for our last meeting of the Fall 2020 term as we discuss our favorite (or most hated) book to screen adaptations! Bonus points if it is set in winter.

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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

Questions? Contact Emily Levine at [email protected] or Lauren Cooke at [email protected]

Also: check out Bard Bookworms, which meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm EST! For information, contact Alexa Murphy at [email protected]

Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
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Jan-Henry Gray is the author of Documents, selected by D. A. Powell as the winner of BOA Editions’ A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2019 Thom Gunn Award. His chapbook, Selected Emails, was published by speCt! and his poems are published in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, The Rumpus, Hyphen, and The Margins. Born in the Philippines and raised in California, where he worked as a chef, Jan lived undocumented in the United States for more than 32 years. He is Cooke Graduate Arts Scholar and has received fellowships through Kundiman and Undocupoets. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Adelphi University and lives in Brooklyn.

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the United States when he was nine. He was a 2018–19 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard and has been granted fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and Stanford University. Unaccompanied is his first collection. He lives in Harlem, where he’s working on a memoir.
 

  Online Event  8:30 am – 9:30 am EST/GMT-5
This event takes place Monday, November 30, at 8:30am (NY) / 2:30pm (Vienna).

Please join CLASP for a gathering of faculty across the network who teach world languages (foreign languages). To join, please register in advance here. You will then receive a confirmation email with the Zoom Meeting link. 

The format of this 60-minute session will be relatively informal—we’ll begin by hearing from several colleagues about their recent experiences teaching online and in-person socially distanced. We’ll then open up to a broader conversation about the teaching of languages. The goal of these sessions is to bring together faculty who teach similar subjects or content as a way to share resources, ideas, and collaborate.

Online  11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST/GMT-5
This event will take place at 5pm Vienna time.
 Educating a generation to rebuild the world: how social entrepreneurs around the world are working to equip a generation to launch solutionsAbout this EventWe’ve built a cutting edge program that puts the power to achieve the UN’s social development goals in the hands of students around the world. Our program, developed for the Open Society University Network (OSUN), remotely connects 100 students from 5 parts of the world to collaborate on innovative solutions to the globe’s most persistent problems.Our panel of social entrepreneurs from each country invites you to hear about this ongoing experiment, in which in any given week, students from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America (joined by Africa and Central America in the next cohort) can be found helping each other to launch new solutions to everything from medical wait times to educational opportunities for girls, from refugee safety to renewable energy. You’ll hear from social entrepreneurs who have become instructors, about the excitement and the challenges of bringing this to our respective regions.
We’ll talk about what we’ve learned as we’ve collaborated to pass our experience launching social ventures to a generation hungry to do so themselves. We’ll showcase some of the participant-generated solutions, and discuss our experience with state-of-the-art tools like RebelBase that have made our collaboration possible. Panelists will not only share their own experience, but also engage audience questions about how you can bring these skills and collaborations to young people in your regions and communities.
Participants will walk away with actionable tools for equipping and training a generation, and honest stories about the excitement and challenges we’ve faced during the pilot season. Our goal is to compare notes, learn from each other. share the knowledge and learn from each other. Join us, and let’s discuss how to unleash the innovators in your midst.
Panelists: Alejandro Juárez Crawford Eliza Edge Aibiike Esengulova Tomás Mora Daniel Ramirez-Raftree (Moderator)

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Following the film, join Leon Botstein, OSUN Chancellor and President of Bard College, for a discussion with director Jesse Dylan & special guests.
Online Event  8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
SOROSWatch on:
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 Billionaire activist George Soros is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. Famous for betting against the Bank of England in 1992 and making a billion dollars in one day, he is maligned by ideologues on both the left and the right for daring to tackle the world’s problems and putting his money behind his fight – from free elections and freedom of the press to civil rights for minorities. With unprecedented access to the man and his inner circle, American director Jesse Dylan follows Soros across the globe and pulls back the curtain on his personal history, private wealth, and public activism. Soros reveals a complicated genius whose experience as a Jew during the Holocaust gave rise to a lifelong crusade against authoritarianism and hate.

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www.SOROSFILM.com 

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Online  9:00 am – 10:00 am EST/GMT-5
The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with COV-AID, sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network, present a virtual discussion series highlighting the importance of Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy in today's crisis.

Jennifer Jones Austin, a child and family advocate, is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), an anti-poverty, policy and advocacy organization with 170 member human services agencies operating throughout New York City. Mayor de Blasio appointed Ms. Jones Austin as Board Chair in March 2020. She has served as a Board Member since October 2014. Prior to joining FPWA, Ms. Jones Austin served as Senior Vice President of United Way NYC, Family Services Coordinator for Mayor Bloomberg, Deputy Commissioner for the NYC Administration for Children's Services; Civil Rights Deputy Bureau Chief for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, and Vice President for LearnNow/Edison Schools Inc. Ms. Jones Austin has chaired and served on several influential boards and commissions, including serving as Co-Chair of NYC Mayor de Blasio's Transition, Chair of the NYC Procurement Policy Board, and Co-Chair of the New York State Supermarket Commission. She currently is a Board Member of the National Action Network, the New York Blood Center, the NYC Board of Correction, and the Fund for Public Housing.

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The first event of the Democracy Institute at Central European University will discuss the broader implications of the U.S. elections.
Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
This event takes place at 12pm New York time and 6pm Vienna time.

Every election is a historic event one way or another, but the 2020 U.S. elections were unique. While the result is usually clear on the night of the election, this year millions of Americans voted early, either in person or by mail because of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the delay in counting all the votes, the race for the White House between Donald Trump and Joe Biden remained unresolved for four days, and even after Joe Biden had become the projected winner, Donald Trump refused to concede, tweeted about alleged fraud, and declared to go to court.
The first event of the recently established Democracy Institute at Central European University will discuss the broader implications of the elections. The speakers, Stephen Holmes (New York University), Michael Ignatieff (CEU), David Runciman (Cambridge University) and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University) will focus on how the outcomes might affect the evolution of democracy in the USA and worldwide.

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Online Event  8:00 am – 9:00 am EST/GMT-5
Are you interested in applying for the civic engagement student-led microgrant initiative? Join Zar Sarmast, the global fellow coordinator, and network student leaders as they guide participants through the application process and answer any remaining questions.

Join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93781704712
 

Online Event  8:30 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Come join students virtually throughout the network to engage in conversation on the future of women's rights in connection with the global pandemics while exploring the skills and resources available to continue making an impact on gender equity in your community.

Keynote Speaker: Kavita Ramdas
Director of the Open Society Foundations’ Women’s Rights Program

Panels, workshops, and networking opportunities will be provided!

To register: https://forms.gle/1K79JppdPhwZLfLx9 

Email [email protected] for any questions!


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Online  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
This event will take place at 6pm Vienna time.

2020 Protests in Perspective: A Webinar Series Sponsored by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Civil disobedience is a storied political tradition. Can it empower today’s activists? How should we understand the connection between protest and democracy? Citing movements from the recent past and using empirical data, this panel will address the relationship between forms of resistance and successful progressive reform. Moderator: Ting Ting Cheng '02 (Legal Momentum). Panelists: Deva Woodly (New School) and Erica Chenoweth (Harvard University).

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To watch the livestream on YouTube, visit carnegiecouncil.org/live.

Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
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More than a week after the election, results may remain unclear but the narrative of “where we go from here” will have started to form. Professor Walter Russell Mead and Matt Taibbi, author, journalist, and contributing editor for Rolling Stone, will discuss the future of US foreign policy and the immediate lessons of the 2020 election.

Matt Taibbi '92 is a journalist, contributing editor for Rolling Stone, and the author of several bestselling books including, most recently, Hate Inc., an incisive look into how media is “manufacturing discontent” and driving polarization in the US. Taibbi is also the publisher of a newsletter on Substack and cohost of the Useful Idiots podcast.

Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EST/GMT-5
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Panelists: Tanya Rukuwah, paNhari Digital Platforms Manager, University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe) Gideon Maas, Executive Director, International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University (England)  Filliam Efiti, Dean, School of Media Technology, LivingStone International University (Uganda) Alejandro Crawford, CEO of RebelBase and Faculty, Social Entrepreneurship, Bard College (United States) Dalia Najjar, Farouk Systems Palestine and Lecturer, Al-Quds University (Palestine)Moderated by Lorlene Hoyt, Executive Director, Talloires Network of Engaged UniversitiesJoin via ZoomPasscode: 934521
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    International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/keI5yslzWThe 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, document 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.

Online Event  11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Join Bard Abroad for a special ~Halloween~ meeting of Bard Bookworms: International Edition! We will be sharing eerie tales from around the world. Attendees are also welcome to discuss anything they have been reading from around the world.

For Bard Abroad's eerie book suggestions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11jMAqg_rKatfdJDMQnPm3mkAwjXRzAS-Q3D7isimxo4/edit?usp=sharing

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Students, faculty, staff, alumni 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

Questions? Contact Emily Levine at [email protected] or Lauren Cooke at [email protected]

Also-- check out Bard Bookworms which meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM EDT! For information contact Alexa Murphy at [email protected]

Online Event  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
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Please join the OSUN Global Engagement Fellows for their second monthly civic workshop which will focus on civic Project Leadership.

 

Mark Steitz in conversation with Walter Russell Mead

Online  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
12-1pm NY | 5-6 pm Vienna

Mark Steitz, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs and senior principal at TSD Communications, will join Walter Russell Mead to discuss current polling data for the 2020 election. Looking beyond horse race politics, they will consider what the information teaches us about American society as it exists today.

Zoom info: https://bard.zoom.us/j/85215800019?pwd=b0lzRHR4SGMwN3NmSnFFMGtFVFl4Zz09

Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Recent elections have led to civil unrest and protests in both Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. What does this mean for each country and the region overall? Join us for a conversation with leading experts who are watching, analyzing, and living through the protests today.  Victor Martinovich, Associate Professor, Academic Department of Humanities and Art, EHU Maksimas Milta, Head of the Communication and Development Unit, EHU Saniya Toktogazieva, Associate Professor, International and Business Law Department, AUCA Moderated by Jonathan Becker, OSUN Vice Chancellor and Executive Vice President, Bard CollegeJoin via Zoom

Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
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Panelists: Patricio Belloy, Centro de Emprendizaje at Universidad Austral de Chile (Chile) Uncle Ray Woods, Wiradjuri Council of Elders (Australia) Sue Green, Charles Sturt University (Australia) Maura Sullivan, Chumash Language Activist, PhD student in Linguistics, Tulane University (US) Nada Greku, CEU Roma Students Organizer, PhD Student, Central European University (Hungary)To join via Zoom:https://bard.zoom.us/j/83438786118?pwd=RmNYb3N0c1F1Um1LMkFxcG1FZzc1Zz09
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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it?

Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. FPI Fellow Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learnt from that fight, and from her attempts to get the US Congress to act, make for essential reading.
How to Lose the Information War takes the reader on a journey through five Western governments' responses to Russian information warfare tactics—all of which have failed. She journeys into the campaigns the Russian operatives run, and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself.

Join us on Thursday, October 22, at 12pm EDT to discuss this important work and what we can expect leading up to the POTUS elections on November 3. 

RSVP is required.
Contact: Elmira Bayrasli [email protected]

Online  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
This event will take place at 3pm Vienna time.

The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with COV-AID, sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network, present a virtual discussion series highlighting the importance of Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy in today's crisis.

Dr. Mandeep Rai is a global authority on values, working with companies, institutions, and individuals around the world. She has traveled to more than 150 countries and reported as a broadcast journalist for the BBC World Service and Reuters, among others. She began her career in private banking at JPMorgan, and later worked for the United Nations, the European Commission, and grassroots NGOs before setting up the UAE’s first media venture capital fund. Mandeep studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), has an MSc in development from the London School of Economics, and completed an MBA at London Business School, with a year at Harvard Business School and MIT. She also holds a PhD in global values.

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Ben Judah in conversation with Walter Russell Mead
Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
12-1pm NY | 6-7pm Vienna

Author and POLITICO contributing writer, Ben Judah, joins Walter Russell Mead to discuss how a Biden administration's foreign policy will diverge from Donald Trump's. Ben Judah is an author and journalist. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. He is the author of Fragile Empire and This is London.

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Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
On August 9, 2020, Belarus erupted in protest following the results of a fraudulent presidential election. Among those facing intimidation from Belarusian authorities is Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author and president of PEN Belarus, who is a part of opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Coordinating Council.
In collaboration with PEN America and City of Asylum,  join us on Friday, October 16 from 6-7PM EDT for a reading of contemporary Belarusian literature by PEN America members and friends, including Masha Gessen, Ayad Akhtar, Jennifer Egan, and Valzhyna Mort. Register here

Online  10:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Global Humanities Network at OSUN and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College.

The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy? 


The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy? 

Hannah Arendt knew that democracy is tenuous. In 1970 she famously wrote: “Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”
 
Democracy is weakened when citizens are encouraged to hand over the time-consuming work of self-government to professional politicians. Arendt was continuously critical of representative models of democracy that rely upon experts in place of participation, which is why she rooted the crisis of democracy in the dissipation of public power.

Arendt’s response to the disempowerment of the people in our modern world of bureaucratized politics was decentralization and the council system. At all times, when the people are mobilized to engage politically to found freedom they form citizens councils, as happened in New England town meetings, the revolutionary clubs in France, the soviets in Russia, and the municipal councils in Hungary. In every case, these public forums provided spaces for the experience of public and political freedom. The life of the free man needs “a place where people could come together—the agora, the market-place, or the polis, the political space proper.” 

The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy?

“Sortition” is one answer increasingly forwarded by citizen activists. Sortition means a government of representatives chosen by lottery instead of by election. By bringing nonexpert citizens into political institutions, sortition both breathes energy into representative democracy and nurtures virtue amongst citizens. It is one way to address the deficit of democratic participation that plagues modern democracy.

At the Arendt Center we recently launched the Bard Institute for the Revival of Democracy through Sortition (BIRDS), a critical platform for diverse research and resources that are emerging around deliberative democracy and sortition. Sortition is not simply an abstract idea. Around the world, citizen assemblies of randomly selected participants are meeting to discuss and decide upon important political controversies. Our 2020 conference will bring leading experts on democracy and on the use of citizen assemblies to Bard to ask how elements of lottery and citizen governance can help reenergize our democracy. Questions to be asked at our conference include:

            • Can elements of lottery revitalize democracy today?
            • How can we make our representative democracies more participatory?
            • Should we be afraid of democratic populism?
            • How can we reinvigorate institutions of deliberative democracy?
            • What new institutions and practices can energize our politics?

Above all, we ask, how can we revitalize democracy in the 21st century?

 

Speakers

David van Reybrouck

David Van Reybrouck is considered ‘one of the leading intellectuals in Europe’ (Der Tagesspiegel) and is a pioneering advocate of participatory democracy. He founded the G1000 Citizens' Summit, and his work has led to trials in participatory democracy throughout Belgium and The Netherlands. He is also one of the most highly regarded literary and political writers of his generation, whose most recent book, Congo: The Epic History of a People, won 19 prizes, sold 500,000 copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. It was described as a ‘masterpiece’ by the Independent and ‘magnificent’ by The New York Times.

Helen Landemore

Hélène Landemore is Associate Professor of Political Science, with Tenure. Her research and teaching interests include democratic theory, political epistemology, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences (particularly economics), constitutional processes and theories, and workplace democracy.

Roger Berkowitz

Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy,  and Human Rights, Berkowitz writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, co-editor of Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012), and editor of the annual journal HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. His essay "Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation: Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt's Politics," has helped bring attention to the centrality of reconciliation in Hannah Arendt's work.  The Arendt Center organizes an annual conference every October. Professor Berkowitz edits the Hannah Arendt Center's weekly newsletter, Amor Mundi. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Paris Review Online, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The American Interest, and many other publications. Berkowitz is the 2019 recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, Germany. (Photo Credit: Doug Menuez)
 

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Online  9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
We are pleased to present this special online event, In association with the Open Society University Network, as a prelude to our annual conference, which will take place April 15 & 16, 2021. To learn more about the conference, click here.

This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy?

Hannah Arendt knew that democracy is tenuous. In 1970 she famously wrote:

“Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”
 
Democracy is weakened when citizens are encouraged to hand over the time-consuming work of self-government to professional politicians. Arendt was continuously critical of representative models of democracy that rely upon experts in place of participation, which is why she rooted the crisis of democracy in the dissipation of public power.

Arendt’s response to the disempowerment of the people in our modern world of bureaucratized politics was decentralization and the council system. At all times, when the people are mobilized to engage politically to found freedom they form citizens councils, as happened in New England town meetings, the revolutionary clubs in France, the soviets in Russia, and the municipal councils in Hungary. In every case, these public forums provided spaces for the experience of public and political freedom. The life of the free man needs “a place where people could come together—the agora, the market-place, or the polis, the political space proper.” 

The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy?

“Sortition” is one answer increasingly forwarded by citizen activists. Sortition means a government of representatives chosen by lottery instead of by election. By bringing nonexpert citizens into political institutions, sortition both breathes energy into representative democracy and nurtures virtue amongst citizens. It is one way to address the deficit of democratic participation that plagues modern democracy.

At the Arendt Center we recently launched the Bard Institute for the Revival of Democracy through Sortition (BIRDS), a critical platform for diverse research and resources that are emerging around deliberative democracy and sortition. Sortition is not simply an abstract idea. Around the world, citizen assemblies of randomly selected participants are meeting to discuss and decide upon important political controversies. Our 2020 conference will bring leading experts on democracy and on the use of citizen assemblies to Bard to ask how elements of lottery and citizen governance can help reenergize our democracy. Questions to be asked at our conference include:

            • Can elements of lottery revitalize democracy today?
            • How can we make our representative democracies more participatory?
            • Should we be afraid of democratic populism?
            • How can we reinvigorate institutions of deliberative democracy?
            • What new institutions and practices can energize our politics?

Above all, we ask, how can we revitalize democracy in the 21st century?

Part of the Hannah Arendt Global Humanities Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
Online  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join OSUN and the Hannah Arendt Global Humanities Network for a public debate on the question:

Should federal officeholders in the United States should be determined through sortition instead of election?

Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/99620625005?pwd=VHpMYUJFM0FqVnBNbTcrbE5xYU9xZz09
 Hannah Arendt writes: “Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”

The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. How can we revitalize our democracy today? How can we make our representative democracies more participatory? Might “sortition”—a system whereby governmental representatives are chosen by lottery instead of by election—provide an answer?

Learn more about the Hannah Arendt Center Special Webinar here:

Online  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
2020 Protests in Perspective: A Webinar Series Sponsored by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

The global wave of protests for racial justice did not occur in isolation or in a vacuum. Is this social movement like others in history? Or is it unique? What can be learned by looking at past protests with similar characteristics? This panel will consider the 2020 protests in light of the legacies of colonialism, self-determination, and previous struggles for universal human rights. Moderator: Neil Roberts (Williams College). Panelists: Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) and Michael Canham (Office of the Governor, Gauteng, South Africa).

Learn More

Register to join the webinarTo watch the livestream on YouTube, visit carnegiecouncil.org/live.

Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Dr. Kiron Skinner, former director for policy planning at the US State Department and senior adviser to the Secretary of State, will join Walter Russell Mead to discuss what a second Trump administration's foreign policy priorities and challenges might be.

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The Power of the Public Intellectual Series, moderated by Bard College Professor and Wall Street Journal “Global View” columnist Walter Russell Mead, is a series of virtual dialogues focused on the stakes and core issues of the 2020 US election. Professor Mead will be joined by distinguished policy experts, academics, and public servants to discuss the choice America will make this November. Over the course of several livestreamed events, the series will provide insight into both campaigns’ perspectives and the potential consequences, particularly for foreign policy, of either outcome.Kiron Skinner, Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University, was senior policy adviser to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Skinner also served as director of policy planning, one of the State Department’s most influential positions.. Skinner also serves as director of policy planning, one of the State Department’s most influential positions. Skinner is the founding director of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Politics and Strategy (IPS) and a renowned expert in foreign policy. She served on President Trump’s national security transition team in 2016.
 Learn more about the OSUN 2020 U.S. Election Series

Online  11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with COV-AID, sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network, presents a virtual discussion series highlighting the importance of Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy in today's crisis.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership is honored to host the Tomorrow Is Now virtual conference series in partnership with the COV-AID project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network. Members of Eleanor’s Circle, as well as students and faculty across the global networks, are invited to participate in the live Zoom sessions where speakers from around the world will reflect on the relevance of Eleanor’s legacy during the pandemic. Tomorrow Is Now is the title of the last book authored by Eleanor Roosevelt.

On September 23, the network will host the next Tomorrow Is Now conference with guest speaker Kathy Eldon of Creative Visions, as she explores Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy in today’s global challenges. This webinar series is hosted by Manuela Roosevelt, Chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership.

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    International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/abAjjVejRUKathy Eldon has worked as a teacher, journalist, author and film and television producer in England, Africa, and the United States. In 1998 she launched Creative Visions, inspired by the life of her son, Dan Eldon. Since 2004, the organization, recognized as a UN NGO (non-governmental organization), has worked with over 360 projects and impacted more than 100 million people globally. Kathy founded Creative Visions Productions to produce entertaining, impactful films that would ignite action. She is the author of 17 books, including her memoir, In the Heart of Life, published by HarperOne. A popular speaker, Kathy has been featured on countless television programs, including several appearances on Oprah.

Manuela Roosevelt is the chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership, a private nonprofit that works in tandem with the National Park Service for the enhancement of visitors' experience at the home of Eleanor Roosevelt, Val-Kill, in Hyde Park, in upstate New York. The organization funds educational programs, lectures, and has raised more than $2.5 million for NPS to assist in restoration projects at the site. She is the editorial director at Callaway Arts and Entertainment, a publisher and cross-platform media company in New York City. She lives with her family at Springwood, the estate where Franklin D Roosevelt was born that now belongs to the National Park Service.

Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
From Coleman Hughes: This talk will be about two competing visions for the future American race relations: color-blindness and race-consciousness. I will defend the color-blind ideal––namely that we should approach matters of ethics and public policy on a race-neutral basis. 

Coleman Hughes is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal, where his writing focuses on race, public policy, and applied ethics. Coleman’s writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Quillette, The City Journal and The Spectator. He is the host of a popular podcast, Conversation with Coleman. In June 2019, he testified before the U.S. Congress. Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Coleman briefly attended the Juilliard School to study jazz trombone before dropping out to pursue a career as an independent jazz/hip-hop artist. Shortly thereafter, Coleman discovered a passion for applied ethics and public policy at Columbia University, where he graduated with a B.A. in philosophy. 

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  A Bard Center for the Study of Hate Webinar
Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate as it welcomes Amy Spitalnick, the Executive Director of Integrity First For America. Amy will talk about the upcoming trial of a lawsuit that “seeks to hold accountable the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other far-right extremists who conspired to orchestrate a weekend of violence in Charlottesville in August, 2017.”Click here to register.

Adapting to the New Reality, Episode 6
Online via Zoom  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
The Open Society University Network and Talloires Network invite you to join the sixth episode of the Adapting to the New Reality, “Civically Engaged Universities and the Pandemic: Reflections on Action,” featuring winners of the COV-AID Student Engagement Award. The panelists will describe their projects, how they've adapted their engagement work during the pandemic, and their plans to continue to take action. 

Panelists: Daniela Aldazaba González, Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico) Keyvious Avery, Bard College (United States) Doreen Agyiriwaa Marfo, Ashesi University (Ghana) Phionah Namuwenge, LivingStone International University (Uganda) Thuong T. Hoai Nguyen, Fulbright University Vietnam (Vietnam)Moderator Erin Cannan, Dean of Civic Engagement at Bard College
To join via Zoom:
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Online Event  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Join student leaders from the Open Society University Network and Bard International Partners to get to know more about the monthly civic engagement workshops, where you can talk about your experience and build on it.

To join via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/wub-kezg-nwu

If you are not able to attend but still want to be involved, please fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/n95bRPWy8LmFySyV8

These workshops are facilitated by the Global Engagement Fellows. 
 

Online  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
2020 Protests in Perspective: A Webinar Series Sponsored by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

The killing of George Floyd and the wave of protests that followed bring to life the current struggle for civil rights, human rights, and social justice. Why did the protests go global? What principles unite the protestors in hundreds of cities across the US, Europe, Africa, and Asia? This program will explore the connection between racial protest in America and the quest for universal human rights. Moderator: Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House). Panelists: Mary Dudziak (Emory University) and Brenda Gayle Plummer (University of Wisconsin)

Learn More

To watch the livestream on YouTube, visit carnegiecouncil.org/live.

Presented by the Bard Center for the Study of Hate
Online via Zoom  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
We are now two months from election day in the United States. We might think that hate in politics is something new, and there are reasons to be particularly concerned about this problem in 2020, but hate and politics have a long history. Simply stated, if hate didn’t work in politics, politicians wouldn’t use it.
 
We just watched two weeks of virtual conventions – regardless of our political leanings, we saw evidence of “us” versus “them” thinking, some of it vilifying, but also calls to the greater good. How do we make sense of all of this?
 
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate as we host award-winning author Sam Freedman to speak on hate and politics on Wednesday September 2 at 3pm Eastern. To register for this webinar, please click here.
 
Sam is a professor of journalism at Columbia University, a former columnist for the New York Times, and an award-winning author of eight non-fiction books.
 
He is also working on a book about Hubert Humphrey and the 1948 Democratic National Convention – a time when there were also great debates about civil rights and the direction of the United States.
 
Last summer, as part of his archival research in Minnesota, he came across an article about a contemporary of Humphrey’s named Gerald LK Smith, who was a racist and antisemite who Sam correctly described as “a kind of proto-Trump in the 1930s and 1940s.” The article referred to Smith as a “hatriot,” a term which seems apt today.

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

Adapting to the New Reality, Episode 5
Online via Zoom  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Panelists: Thaís Mazzo da Costa, University of Campinas (Brazil) Catherine Kasungia Mumo, Strathmore University (Kenya) Zamima Islam Sabaa, BRAC University (Bangladesh) Vera Stojanovic, University College Cork (Ireland) Mohak Thukral, OP Jindal Global University (India)
Moderator Lorlene Hoyt, Executive Director, Talloires Network housed at Tufts University
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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  Online via Zoom  8:30 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
8:30AM (NY/EDT) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) /7:30PM (Vietnam) 

Workshop Description: In this 90-minute workshop, faculty will consider different modalities to facilitate and foster classroom discussion such as Google Chat, Parlay and Flipgrid in synchronous and asynchronous models. This workshop will address questions like:  How do we get students to talk to each other outside of specific class time?  How can I actively facilitate class discussion when students are not doing it at the same time? We will help faculty design assignments that make use of engaging and generative class discussions. Please sign up!

**Please also note, there are no drop-in hours this week. We'll resume our weekly sessions on August 12.
 

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Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

A faculty workshop cosponsored by OSUN and the Carey Institute for Global Good Center for Learning in Practice

Online via Zoom  7:00 am – 8:30 am EDT/GMT-4
7:00AM (NY/EDT) / 1:00PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 2:00PM (Palestine and Russia) / 5:00PM (Bishkek) /6:00PM (Vietnam) In this workshop, we will consider strategies for building community and trust among students in asynchronous and synchronous classes  How can students get to know each other if they aren’t all together in a classroom? How can we help them connect with each other?  In small groups, we will discuss the sorts of community we hope to achieve in our classes; learn how to use tools like Padlet, Flipgrid, and #Slack to build those moments of community and trust; and practice using them to design low-stakes assignments that promote community.  Participants should come to the workshop with a syllabus for a class they are planning to teach in the fall and a sense of their learning objectives for that class.Register to receive a Zoom link.

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

Adapting to the New Reality, Episode 4
Online via Zoom  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Panelists: Elvis Akomoneh, Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Meridian Global University (Cameroon) Kwame Holmes, Faculty Advisor, Bard Prison Initiative and Scholar-in-Residence, Human Rights Program, Bard College (U.S.) Claudia Lucia Mora Motta, FORJA Director, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) Angela Owusu-Ansah, Provost, Ashesi University (Ghana)
Moderator Cammie Jones, Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement, Bard College 
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

With Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder & CEO of Acumen and author of Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World
Online via Zoom  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Hosted by Manuela Roosevelt 
Join us on Zoom

Tomorrow is Now: The Eleanor Roosevelt Conferences
A Virtual Discussion Series Highlighting the Relevance of Eleanor Roosevelt's Legacy in Today's Crisis

The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership is honored to host the Tomorrow Is Now virtual conference series in partnership with the COV-AID project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network. Members of Eleanor’s Circle, as well as students and faculty across the global networks, are invited to participate in the live Zoom sessions where speakers from around the world will reflect on the relevance of Eleanor’s legacy during the pandemic.

Hosted by Manuela Roosevelt, Chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership, Tomorrow Is Now is the title of the last book authored by Eleanor Roosevelt.
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

Deadline: June 30
Online  The Open Society University Network (OSUN) invites faculty from member and partner colleges and universities to participate in the connected learning contest. We invite faculty to submit online assignments and discrete activities that worked particularly well in the remote learning context necessitated by COVID-19. We ask that these assignments and activities are submitted using this form, which will invite additional contextual information and pedagogical reflection. A network-wide committee of faculty judges will select fifty winners to receive an honorarium of $200USD and a certificate from OSUN acknowledging their contribution. Winning entries will also be featured on the OSUN Teaching Resources web site.

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

A Conversation with Patrick Gaspard
9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
A candid dialogue with Patrick Gaspard, President of the Open Society Foundations, moderated by Jonathan Becker, Vice-Chancellor of the Open Society University Network. Co-sponsored by OSUN and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.Watch Live on YouTube

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

  OSUN Connected Learning Working Group | Workshop Series: Preparing for Summer and Fall 2020
 
8:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Connected Learning Working Group is pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to support faculty as we plan and prepare for Summer and Fall 2020 courses with blended and connected learning environments in mind. These workshops are not webinars—they are intended to be small, seminar-style, interactive sessions and require one’s full attention and participation. Please visit osun.bard.edu/faculty-resources for the full workshop schedule.

All workshops will begin at 8:30AM (NY) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) / 7:30PM (Vietnam)

High Impact Engaged Teaching Practices for Blended/Online Instruction
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Central to the liberal arts experience is a student-centered classroom experience where learning is an interactive process. The classroom is an environment in which students are encouraged to question assumptions and conclusions, analyze texts and derive their own interpretations, debate and role play, and to learn from one another. This workshop focuses on reimagining these foundational practices with the blended or online classroom in mind. What opportunities does the connected classroom offer? What strategies keep students active and engaged without meeting face to face? How can we translate some of our tried and true practices into a virtual terrain? Please click here to register.
 

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

  OSUN Connected Learning Working Group | Workshop Series: Preparing for Summer and Fall 2020
 
8:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Connected Learning Working Group is pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to support faculty as we plan and prepare for Summer and Fall 2020 courses with blended and connected learning environments in mind. These workshops are not webinars—they are intended to be small, seminar-style, interactive sessions and require one’s full attention and participation. Please visit osun.bard.edu/faculty-resources for the full workshop schedule.

All workshops will begin at 8:30AM (NY) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) / 7:30PM (Vietnam)

Responding to Student Writing Online
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Responding to student writing is integral to our liberal arts practice.  What are the challenges of doing this in a remote instructional setting?  What opportunities does the remote setting present to change our practices?  In this workshop we will reflect on the reasons we respond to student writing, explore ways of adapting our favorite response strategies to the online environment, and identifying new strategies that remote teaching makes possible. Please click here to register.
 

  OSUN Connected Learning Working Group | Workshop Series: Preparing for Summer and Fall 2020
 
8:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Connected Learning Working Group is pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to support faculty as we plan and prepare for Summer and Fall 2020 courses with blended and connected learning environments in mind. These workshops are not webinars—they are intended to be small, seminar-style, interactive sessions and require one’s full attention and participation. Please visit osun.bard.edu/faculty-resources for the full workshop schedule.

All workshops will begin at 8:30AM (NY) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) / 7:30PM (Vietnam)

Assignments and Assessments for the Connected Learning Environment
Monday, June 22, 2020
This workshop explores an assignment-centered approach to course design, placing an emphasis on what students will learn over what content the instructor will cover. Beginning with the learning outcomes specific to our courses and disciplines, we will work to map out the activities and experiences students will need to have in order to learn the information necessary to succeed on formal (graded) assignments and assessments. With the blended or connected classroom in mind, we will explore a range of ways to scaffold activities synchronously and asynchronously, planning backwards so that feedback and grading practices are transparent and ascertain what students have really learned. Please click here to register.
 

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

  OSUN Connected Learning Working Group | Workshop Series: Preparing for Summer and Fall 2020
 
8:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Connected Learning Working Group is pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to support faculty as we plan and prepare for Summer and Fall 2020 courses with blended and connected learning environments in mind. These workshops are not webinars—they are intended to be small, seminar-style, interactive sessions and require one’s full attention and participation. Please visit osun.bard.edu/faculty-resources for the full workshop schedule.

All workshops will begin at 8:30AM (NY) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) / 7:30PM (Vietnam)

Making the Most of Multimedia
Monday, June 15, 2020
Connected Learning classes need more than the written word to inspire students and keep them engaged; images, sound and video are critical to creating a successful online class. This workshop will invite faculty to consider how to curate content so that students are neither distracted nor overwhelmed. Please click here to register.
 

  OSUN Connected Learning Working Group | Workshop Series: Preparing for Summer and Fall 2020
 
8:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Connected Learning Working Group is pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to support faculty as we plan and prepare for Summer and Fall 2020 courses with blended and connected learning environments in mind. These workshops are not webinars—they are intended to be small, seminar-style, interactive sessions and require one’s full attention and participation. Please visit osun.bard.edu/faculty-resources for the full workshop schedule.

All workshops will begin at 8:30AM (NY) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) / 7:30PM (Vietnam)

Strategies for Digital Citizenship and Etiquette
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Connected learning environments call for new ways of thinking about classroom conduct. Is it okay to ask students to turn on their cameras? What do you do about “lurking” (being logged on with no camera or sound)? What does participation mean online and how can it be assessed? How do you support students with fewer resources or connectivity issues? In this workshop, participants will look at best practices and begin to develop a statement on classroom conduct that can be used in online and blended syllabi. Please click here to register.
 

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

Civically Engaged Universities and the Pandemic— Issues of Displacement and Economics
Online via Zoom  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives, Al Quds Bard (Palestine) Miklos Koren, Professor of Economics, Central European University (Hungary) Maire Leane, Senior Lecturer, University College Cork (Ireland) Vera Stojanovic, student leader, University College Cork (Ireland) Agata Lisiak, Professor, Bard College Berlin (Germany) Nieves Segovia, President, SEK Education Group (Spain) Lorlene Hoyt, Talloires Network (moderator)Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/97625422755?pwd=VG5IMkVFM0J3QUplcVhtZFRYYUxLUT09
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  OSUN Connected Learning Working Group | Workshop Series: Preparing for Summer and Fall 2020
 
8:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Connected Learning Working Group is pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to support faculty as we plan and prepare for Summer and Fall 2020 courses with blended and connected learning environments in mind. These workshops are not webinars—they are intended to be small, seminar-style, interactive sessions and require one’s full attention and participation. Please visit osun.bard.edu/faculty-resources for the full workshop schedule.

All workshops will begin at 8:30AM (NY) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) / 7:30PM (Vietnam)

Rethinking Classes as Connected: Translating Syllabi to go Online
Monday, June 8, 2020
In this workshop, faculty will reflect on their rapid online learning curve and work toward designing a course to be online or blended from its inception, rather than as an emergency response. We invite faculty to come to this workshop with an existing syllabus intended for in-person teaching, ideally for a course to be taught in the summer or fall. Together we will write and discuss the purpose syllabi serve in our courses and the information they provide students regarding what and how they will learn. We will then identify concrete ways syllabi need to change when adapted to blended or online courses. Through generative writing and small group discussion, participants will annotate, edit and reshape their syllabus, producing an outline for an online or blended version of their course by the end of the workshop.  Please click here to register.

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with the COV-AID Project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network, presents:

A Virtual Discussion Series Highlighting the Relevance of Eleanor Roosevelt's Legacy in Today's Crisis

With Joel H. Rosenthal
Hosted by Manuela Roosevelt
Tuesday, June 2
9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm CEST
Online  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Join us on Zoom

The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership is honored to host the Tomorrow Is Now virtual conference series in partnership with the COV-AID project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network. Members of Eleanor’s Circle, as well as students and faculty across the global networks, are invited to participate in the live Zoom sessions where speakers from around the world will reflect on the relevance of Eleanor’s legacy during the pandemic.

On June 2 the network will host the second Tomorrow Is Now conference with guest speaker Joel H. Rosenthal, president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, as he explores Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy in today’s global challenges. 

Hosted by Manuela Roosevelt, Chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership, Tomorrow Is Now is the title of the last book authored by Eleanor Roosevelt.
 
Manuela Roosevelt is the chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership, a private nonprofit that works in tandem with the National Park Service for the enhancement of visitors' experience at the home of Eleanor Roosevelt, Val-Kill, in Hyde Park, in upstate New York. The organization funds educational programs, lectures, and has raised more than $2.5 million for NPS to assist in restoration projects at the site. She is the editorial director at Callaway Arts and Entertainment, a publisher and cross-platform media company in New York City. She lives with her family at Springwood, the estate where Franklin D Roosevelt was born that now belongs to the National Park Service.

Joel H. Rosenthal is president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He is also a faculty member in the Bard College Globalization and International Affairs program in New York City. As a scholar and teacher, Rosenthal has focused on ethics in US foreign policy, with special emphasis on issues of war and peace, human rights, and pluralism. He is the editor-in-chief of the Carnegie Council's flagship journal, Ethics & International Affairs, published by Cambridge University Press.

  OSUN Connected Learning Working Group | Workshop Series: Preparing for Summer and Fall 2020
 
8:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Connected Learning Working Group is pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to support faculty as we plan and prepare for Summer and Fall 2020 courses with blended and connected learning environments in mind. These workshops are not webinars—they are intended to be small, seminar-style, interactive sessions and require one’s full attention and participation. Please visit osun.bard.edu/faculty-resources for the full workshop schedule.

All workshops will begin at 8:30AM (NY) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) / 7:30PM (Vietnam)

Cohort and Community Building in Connected Learning Environments
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
This workshop invites participants to consider how to plan upcoming blended and connected courses with cohort and community building in mind. Together we will consider ways to engage students so that they develop relationships with one another, regardless of whether or not they ever get the chance to meet face to face. Some of the questions we’ll consider include: How do we intentionally design moments for students to connect authentically with each other? How do we humanize an online learning environment? What strategies are useful for motivating students to interact consistently with faculty and each other? Please click here to register.
 

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

  OSUN Connected Learning Working Group | Workshop Series: Preparing for Summer and Fall 2020
 
8:30 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
The OSUN Connected Learning Working Group is pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to support faculty as we plan and prepare for Summer and Fall 2020 courses with blended and connected learning environments in mind. These workshops are not webinars—they are intended to be small, seminar-style, interactive sessions and require one’s full attention and participation. Please visit osun.bard.edu/faculty-resources for the full workshop schedule.

All workshops will begin at 8:30AM (NY) / 2:30PM (Berlin and Vienna) / 3:30PM (Palestine and Russia) / 6:30PM (Bishkek) / 7:30PM (Vietnam)

Designing Online Course Modules
Monday, May 25, 2020
Designing online class sessions means thinking differently about expectations, assignments, and assessments. As faculty, we need to take into account potential connectivity challenges, as well as how to keep our students engaged and excited during each session as well as for the course’s duration. This workshop invites participants to design a module or unit of a course they will be teaching in the summer or fall. We will address considerations necessary in designing for synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. Please click here to register.

online  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
This event takes place at 9am New York time; 3pm Vienna time.Transnational PoliticsModerated by Robert Phillips, American University of Bulgaria
https://bard.zoom.us/j/98473177717

Iliyana Nalbantova , Sharp Power: Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Inquiry of Messages , American University of Bulgaria
Zhibek Abylbekova, Populist leaders in the US and the UK: drivers and comparison American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Asa Dahlborn, The International Condonation of the Argentinian Military Junta, Bard College Berlin (Germany)
Lily Chavez,  Sovereign Violence: Migrants, Borders, and the Brutal Logic of Nationhood, Bard College Annandale (United States)

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

Online Concurrent Sessions  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
This event takes place at 9am New York time; 3pm Vienna time.InequalityModerated by Agata Lisiak & Aysuda Kolemen BCB
https://bard.zoom.us/j/97049109921

Eman Joher, The low Participation of  Skilled Women’s in the West Bank Labor Force, Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
Sadykova Lola Dilshadbekovna, Psychological aspects of sex workers' securityscapes in Bishkek, American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Elisheva Lustig, The Design and Fabrication of a Pedal Powered Washing Machine, Ashesi University (Ghana)
Jude Macannuco, One’s Own Boss? Contested Discourses in Digital Platform Labor, Bard College Berlin (Germany)
Megan Connor, The Price Women Pay: Women's Attachment to Work, Bard College Annandale (United States)Sustainability and Climate ChangeModerator Eban Goodstein, Bard College, Annandale

https://bard.zoom.us/j/98259376097?

Savana Mjalli, Happy Ramallah: the city through the eyes of children, Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
Kejsi Jonuzaj, Comparison of ARIMA and RNNs Models for Wind Power Prediction, American University of Bulgaria
Lillian Mbithe Mwikali, Bintriks: Digitizing Household Waste Collection Efficient Delivery, Ashesi University (Ghana)
Gulzada Mitalova, The Transboundary Conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the Batken Region, American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Kara Tai, Effects of Pestalotiopsis microspora and Pleurotus ostreatus on the Surface Chemistry of Polyester Polyurethanes, Bard College at Simon's Rock (United States)
Colomba Dumay Neder, Making the Case for Tiny Houses: What is the demand for tiny Houses in Berlin? Bard College Berlin (Germany)

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

Online Concurrent Sessions  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Civic EngagementModerated by Chrys Margaritidis, Central European University
https://bard.zoom.us/j/97985782716

Baha' Ebdeir, The Charge of Anti-Semitism and Advocates of Palestine in the U.S., Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
Kamaliia Alieva, The Rise of Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia: an effective use of limited resources, American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Karam Alhamad, Governance without Government: The Case of Eastern Syria, Bard College Berlin (Germany)
 Emily Walshin, Good Things Come in Small Packages: How Youth Political Participation Strengthens U.S. Democracy, Bard College Annandale (United States)Human RightsModerated by Tom Keenan, Bard College Annandale
https://bard.zoom.us/j/96617422032?

Arina Aparina, I am a migrant, American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Yazan Mizher, Palestinian Prisoners and the Right to Health:  The Case for Systematic Violations, Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
Wafa Mustafa, Politics of a counter-archive: Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution, Bard College Berlin
Maggie Holloway, Beyond Moral Condemnation: Confronting Ideological Populism in Democratic Politics, Bard College Annandale (United States)

Online Concurrent Sessions  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Arts and Open SocietiesModerated by Christopher Coggins, Bard College at Simon’s Rock  

https://bard.zoom.us/j/92078194941?

Afnan Abbasi, The Highway- حب أزرق و أخضر, , Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
Sabina Davletkeldieva, Navigating Spaces of Ambiguity in Tashkent: Perceptions of Soviet and New Monuments across Generations, American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Caleb Sabatka  “Raw Tales”:  An Anthropology of Post-Colonial Writers in Exile, Bard College at Simon's Rock (United States)
Veronika Rišňovská, Freies Staatstheater: Attempts of Restructuring the German State Theaters for the 21st Century, Bard College Berlin (Germany)
 DemocracyModerated by Laszlo Brust, Central European University

https://bard.zoom.us/j/94110540101

Yordanka Savova, Intraparty Horizontal Role Contestation: The Bulgarian Socialist Party Case, American University of Bulgaria
Aziza Isakova, Freedom of Speech or Imprisonment?, American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Felix Bridel, Speak Your Body: Profane Words, Im/material Others, and Colonial Theology, Bard College at Simon's Rock (United States)
Karam Khaldi, The Palestinian Electronic Crimes Law Decree: Human Rights and Political Motivations, Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
Armanda Serwah, Colonial Amnesia: Rethinking Germany’s Erinnerungskultur, Bard College Berlin (Germany)

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

Presented by Bard College, Bard College Berlin and American University of Central Asia
Online  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic a dramatic increase has been reported in violence against women and domestic violence. The policy of isolation and confinement has magnified and aggravated already existing inequalities and disproportionally affected women of color, indigenous women, and trans women. The closing of borders has fractured global care chains and limited women’s access to crucial medical services. As schools and daycare centers remain closed across the globe, women everywhere are facing an additional burden of care work. All these developments are bound to have long-lasting effects on women's rights, economic independence, and participation in decision making and therefore need to be urgently addressed.  

Speakers from the USA, Germany, and Kyrgyzstan will discuss what is being done on a local level to address the issues women are facing during the current pandemic. 

To join via Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/91158452514?pwd=aEY2N0N3YmtHK1VVVXBhb1ZHcTc3Zz09 

Episode 2: Civically Engaged Universities and the Pandemic—Strategies that Work
Online  9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Felicia Keesing, David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of Science, Mathematics, and Computing, Bard College (US)
Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Director, Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy, Central European University (Hungary)
Fatima Jehangir, Assistant Professor, Ziauddin University (Pakistan)
Carol Ma, Associate Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences (Singapore)
Erin Cannan, Dean of Civic Engagement, Bard College  (moderator)

To join via Zoom:
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Online via Zoom  4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Susan Rogers will read and discuss her essay, "The Other Leopold" and the relationship between birding and preparing the perfect crime. We'll also discuss how to listen to and write about the natural world, followed by a crash-course in ornithology.  Download The Other Leopold Susan Fox Rogers is a birder, rock climber, kayaker, teacher, and writer who has authored and/or edited numerous works focused on the natural world and outdoor adventure. Her books include When Birds Are Near: Literary Bird Tales (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2020); My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir (Cornell University Press, 2011); Antarctica: Life on the Ice (Traveler's Tales, 2007; silver medal winner, Society of American Travel Writers); Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild (Seal Press, 2004); Two in the Wild: Tales of Adventure from Friends, Mothers, and Daughters (Vintage, 1999); Alaska Passages: 20 Voices from Above the 54th Parallel (Sasquatch Books, 1996); Solo: On Her Own Adventure (Seal Press, 1996; revised edition 2005); and Another Wilderness: New Outdoor Writing by Women (Seal Press, 1994). She was selected by the National Science Foundation to participate in a U.S. Antarctic Artists and Writers Program during the 2004–05 austral summer. 
 Please click the link below to join the webinar:  https://bard.zoom.us/j/93150979262?pwd=VEllNXRkTTBMVDJvSkQrM29IbERiUT09 Meeting ID: 931 5097 9262 Password: 987118 Or iPhone One tap:+16465588656,,93150979262#,,1#,987118# or +13017158592,,93150979262#,,1#,987118#  Or Telephone:         +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)         +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)         +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)         +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)         +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)         +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 931 5097 9262 Password: 987118


Download: theotherleopold.pdf

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with the COV-AID Project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network present: A Virtual Discussion Series Highlighting the Relevance of Eleanor Roosevelt's Legacy in Today's CrisisWith Peter Baker and Susan Glaser
Hosted by Manuela Roosevelt
Tuesday, May 5
2:00-3:00pm EDTJoin us on Zoom
The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership is honored to host the Tomorrow Is Now virtual conference series in partnership with the COV-AID project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network. Members of Eleanor’s Circle, as well as students and faculty across the global networks, are invited to participate in the live Zoom sessions where speakers from around the world will reflect on the relevance of Eleanor’s legacy during the pandemic.

On May 5 the network will host the first Tomorrow Is Now conference with guest speakers Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent of The New York Times, and Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker and founding editor of Politico Magazine, as they explore Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy in today’s global challenges. 

Hosted by Manuela Roosevelt, Chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership, Tomorrow Is Now is the title of the last book authored by Eleanor Roosevelt.
 
Additional Info:

Manuela Roosevelt is the Chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership, a private nonprofit that works in tandem with the National Park Service for the enhancement of visitors' experience at the home of Eleanor Roosevelt, Val-Kill, in Hyde Park, in upstate New York. The organization funds educational programs, lectures, and has raised more than $2.5 million for NPS to assist in restoration projects at the site. She is the Editorial Director at Callaway Arts and Entertainment, a publisher and cross-platform media company in New York City. She lives with her family at Springwood, the estate where Franklin D Roosevelt was born that now belongs to the National Park Service.

Peter Baker is the Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC who covered President Obama, three previous presidents, and now President Trump. He previously worked for The Washington Post and is the author of five books, including days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House. He lives in Washington with his wife, Susan Glasser, and their son, Theo Baker.

Susan Glasser writes the column "Letter from Trump’s Washington" in The New Yorker, where she is a staff writer. She has previously served as editor of Politico during the 2016 election cycle, founding editor of Politico Magazine, and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, which won three National Magazine Awards during her tenure. Before joining Foreign Policy, Glasser spent a decade at the Washington Post, where she edited the Post's Sunday Outlook and national news sections, helped oversee coverage of Bill Clinton's impeachment, covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and served as Moscow co-bureau chief. She is the author, with her husband Peter Baker, of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (2005) and The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (May 2020). They are also writing a book on the Trump presidency and impeachment.
 

An Open Society University Network Virtual Workshop
Online  9:00 am – 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Join the Civic Engagement teams from across the OSUN Network for this interactive workshop on how to engage and continue to engage over the summer and into the fall semester. Topics to be discussed: project management, timelines, engaging participants/volunteer/teams, and getting started!

Zoom details:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/96669172699?pwd=WWNnYjZ1d0JVR3lQVVNvdnlQMHphUT09

Meeting ID: 966 6917 2699
Password: 042796

  3:00 am – 4:00 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]
 

Online  Share photos of your surroundings, wherever you are this spring—on campus, at your family’s home, and other spots where you are working and learning. We will use locations and photos to build maps of student life in our global community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Show us where you are and what you see!Submit Photos

  8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Each Wednesday and Thursday colleagues from across the OSUN and International Network are invited (and encouraged) to join these drop-in hours. This is intended to serve as a space for faculty to gather, share pedagogical questions, and discuss teaching ideas.

Wednesdays (Cohosted by Erica Kaufman, Director, Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking)
8:30am NY / 2:30pm Berlin / 3:30 pm Palestine and Russia / 6:30pm Bishkek

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Thursdays (Cohosted by Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Bard College and Associate at the Institute for Writing & Thinking)
9am Berlin / 10am Palestine and  Russia / 1pm Bishkek

Online via Zoom  4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Presented by the Bard College Written Arts Program in conjunction with the Center for Civic Engagement and the Lifetime Learning InstituteFrancine Prose will be discussing her story “The Arnolfinis,” as well as her work as a novelist, essayist and critic, and how artists such as Jan Van Eyck have influenced and inspired her work.

Download “The Arnolfinis”

Bio:
Francine Prose received her BA from Radcliffe College. She is the author of 12 novels, including A Changed Man (HarperCollins, 2005) and Blue Angel (HarperCollins, 2000; finalist for National Book Award). Nonfiction works include Reading Like a Writer (HarperCollins, 2006); Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives, 2005); The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired (HarperCollins, 2002; a New York Times Notable Book for 2002). Contributing editor, Harper's; essays, reviews, and criticism in the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, Parkett, other publications. President, PEN America (2007– ); former Director's Fellow, Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library. Recipient, 2008 Edith Wharton Achievement Award for Literature; many other grants and awards, including Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships. At Bard since 2005.

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Presented by the Bard Center for the Study of Hate
Online  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate as we launch a series of webinars to temporarily replace (and ultimately supplement) our public programs.
 
We are delighted that our first webinar will feature Dr. Heidi Beirich, longtime leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, who has recently left SPLC and now leads the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. She will speak on “Hate and Covid-19.”
 
To register for this seminar please click this link: https://bard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J-MkErrDTqiy3S0BVBOdLg
 
The global pandemic has transformed life as we know it, with sickness and death, as well as social, economic and political disruption.
 
Hate studies teaches us that people are poised, even in the best of times, to see the world as made up of “us” and “them.” In the last few weeks, we’ve seen an uptick in hate, particularly  against Asian-Americans and Jews. Reportedly, white supremacists were plotting to infect Jews and other “non-whites” with Covid-19, while others were disrupting Zoom meetings. Haters, of course, will always update their playbook. But what are the dangers we face today, when political leaders have in recent years appealed to xenophobia and undermined democratic norms?
 
Dr. Beirich is one of the world’s leading experts on hate and hate groups. Please join us on April 17 at 3 pm.

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join Cammie Jones, Sway Rosario-Caliz, and Kim Sargeant as we come together as a community to unite, gather, pray and explore the topic of faith during the Covid-19 pandemic. Though we are distant, we are motivated to connect deeper into our faith and to support each other. We will focus on how to stay connected within one's faith, how to create a routine and implement practical ways to acknowledge and fight fear.

This conversation is open to all within our network. Any questions, please email Cammie at [email protected] or Sway at [email protected].

We look forward to coming together in fellowship as a global family!

Join Zoom Meeting
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Please note: this meeting takes place at 7pm EST/GMT-4.

Communities Of Virtual Alliance & Inter-Dependence
OSUN  A joint project of the Talloires Network (TN) and the Open Society University Network  (OSUN) 

The COV-AID Student Engagement Award is a pilot grant program to respond to the unfolding global pandemic, COVID-19. The award will publicly recognize and support undergraduate students at OSUN and Talloires Network member universities who are adapting or seeking to adapt their community engagement efforts to the challenges presented by COVID-19.

Student Award Amount: up to $2,500 USD
Number of awardees: 10

Who is eligible?
Undergraduate students at OSUN and Talloires Network member universities who have adapted or who would like to adapt their community engagement work to meet the challenges presented by COVID-19 are eligible to apply. This can include research and/or learning projects and initiatives between member universities and the community in which they are located, as well as student-led initiatives. 

Example:
Due to the spread of COVID-19, the university campus is closed. A student who was mentoring children in an afterschool program near campus is no longer able to meet face- to-face or by videoconference with mentees. This student also lost a part-time job at the university library. The uncertainty of the moment is unsettling. While in self-quarantine at home, the student proposes to meet twice a week by videoconference and/or through short letters with the many elderly neighbors who live nearby and are alone. He applies for the COV-AID Student Engagement Award were he proposes that the group of neighbors share stories about the history and evolution of the neighborhood, creating a short storybook to share with the neighborhood association.

Application and Timeline: 
Download, complete and submit the COV-AID Student Engagement Award Application before June 1, 2020 at 11:59 pm EDT. Selection decisions will be made in June 2020. Grant disbursements will begin as early as July 2020.

Frequently Asked Questions
How can I check the status of my application?
You are welcome to email us at any time to inquire about the status of your application: [email protected] 

How can I access support from the Talloires Network team for my application?
We are available to answer questions, discuss challenges you might face in the application process and offer guidance. The best way to reach us is to send an email to [email protected]. We will respond by email, or set up a phone or Skype conversation, as necessary.

How will applications be selected for funding? 
Each eligible application will be reviewed by OSUN and TN secretariat staff.

What are the award selection criteria?
Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria: Undergraduate student at an OSUN or Talloires Network member university Approach to engagement with community Potential to actively contribute to the international community of practice Contributes to geo-political and other dimensions of diversity

Winning works will be selected for online exhibition and special prizes
OSUN  European Humanities University (EHU), in cooperation with the Open Society University Network (OSUN), invites all students across OSUN member and partner colleges and universities to take part in the open visual contest dedicated to the topic “Civic consciousness or dystopia? What are the limits of freedom of expression during the Covid-19 pandemic?” Winning works will be selected for the online exhibition and special prizes sponsored by OSUN.

Students, faculty, and staff are also encouraged to raise awareness about the freedom of expression in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic using hashtag #PandemicFreedom.

During the struggle against the Covid-19 pandemic, we are facing not only a threat to our lives. Many of us are now living in isolation, which has broken our professional and life plans. Conferences, summer schools, and creative laboratories are either postponed or canceled, and despite wide access to online resources, psychological pressure makes it much more difficult to create something new and express one’s ideas and feelings. Moreover, we are now smothered by the uncontrolled information flow, where truth and deceit coexist. There are fights in the media between official authorities and private voices, with quite a few anonymous statements among the latter. This raises questions concerning the possibility of jeopardizing the source, as well as the reliability of it. In this situation, it is important to think about the limits of freedom of expression.

According to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” Within the contest, we propose considering what happens to freedom of expression in pandemic circumstances in your social, academic, and creative life. We propose finding expressive visual images, making it possible to reveal what is so problematic to articulate in the situation when words are not enough.

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A Play from Romania 
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Ashley Tata
 
Live Webcast  7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A landmark event blending live performance and technology—the Bard College Theater & Performance Program's reimagining of Caryl Churchill's sly, funny, and surreal account of the Romanian Revolution, was performed live by actors in isolation from 14 remote locations using a specially modified version of Zoom.

Romania. December 25th, 1989. A dictator is executed. A totalitarian regime topples. What happens next? Caryl Churchill’s 1990 play depicts life during and after a repressive dictatorship. Reimagined as a digital presentation by a professional creative team and student performers, this 30-year old work approached from a 2020 point of view powerfully resonates with our current global state.

The live webcast of Mad Forest was a project of UPSTREAMING: the Fisher Center’s Virtual Stage. 

Mad Forest Returns!

The Bard Theater & Performance Program production of Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest transfers Off-Broadway to Theatre for a New Audience for three live, virtual performances.

May 22–27
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The Faculty Reading Series continues—save these dates:
April 17 – Mona Simpson, “Wrong Objects” (short story)
April 24 – Francine Prose, Mr. Monkey
May 1 – Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
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Online  4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Presented by the Bard College Written Arts Program in conjunction with the Center for Civic Engagement and the Lifetime Learning Institute Dinaw Mengestu, All Our NamesFrom acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, the New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. 

All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart—one into the deepest peril as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom.Moderated by Daniel WilliamsDaniel Williams is an assistant professor of literature at Bard College. He was lecturer in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. His work is principally about 19th-century British literature, intellectual history, and the history of science. He is also interested in the literature of South Africa (and transnational Anglophone writing more generally), especially with respect to issues in animal ethics and the environmental humanities. Read more: https://www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com/about.html

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https://bard.zoom.us/j/910944295?pwd=aVBvOWlzYzFQUENwVDE1azZWd01WZz09

Webinar ID: 910 944 295
 

Online  7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Virtual Community Salon is a free entirely-online community-gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in any stage of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.

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The Virtual Community Salon is open to anybody.

If you're an artist in any medium, come and share what you're working on.

If you're not an artist, come and experience the new art being created right now and spend time listening and engaging in rich conversation as part of this incredible community. 

This next volume of the Virtual Community Salon will also feature a live setperformed by Contemporaneous core violinist and singer, Finnegan Shanahan.

We can't wait to see you there!

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6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Speaker: Chrisso Babcock | Coyote Kitchen Workshops, CoyoteKitchenWorkshops.com

This is the first of a three-part webinar series about food and gardens presented in partnership by Backyard to Table and BardEats at Bard College.

REGISTER NOW  $5 - $25 sliding scale

Recent events have made it clear that the need for building skills and sharing knowledge about efficient food preparation, food storage, and food preservation is more pressing than ever. The internet is overflowing with tips, tricks, and hacks – but how useful is this information without a system, or framework, in which to place it? The way we manage our Kitchen is at the very core of our continued health and well being, and we are doing ourselves a great disservice if we do not consider it carefully and create well reasoned systems and protocols. 

In this 60-minute online presentation, participants will use whole systems thinking to look carefully at the roles that our pantries, fridges and kitchens are playing, with an eye for increasing efficiency and reducing waste. Participants will leave with the mindset and tools to create a kitchen protocol, customized to their needs and space, that can function as a 'stepped up' or 'backup' system for uncertain times. You may even like the results so much (in nutrition, taste, and savings) that it becomes your primary kitchen protocol.

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Questions about the event? Email Kaitlin Doherty, Backyard to Table, [email protected]
 

Maximize engagement & impact with a 30-day effort
Nature  Join us for this 30-day challenge. You can commit to daily actions that will make you feel better and help ensure our community can thrive, especially in these most difficult times. Connect the dots between your actions and our collective impact to create more environmental and social good.

Team Name: BARD COLLEGE NETWORK, FRIENDS AND FAMILY
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