2025
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025 |
Kenneth Stern ’75, Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, Spoke About Anti-Semitism, Free Speech, and American Universities on College Matters
In a conversation with Jack Stripling on College Matters, a podcast produced by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate Kenneth Stern ’75 discussed what he saw as the “weaponization of the definition” of anti-Semitism that he helped to create. “I’m not ever saying don't combat speech or contest speech that you don’t like,” Stern said, “but I’m saying don’t use instruments of the state to suppress what teachers can teach and what students can hear.”
Kenneth Stern ’75, Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, Spoke About Anti-Semitism, Free Speech, and American Universities on College Matters
The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) works to increase the serious study of human hatred, and ways to combat it. The Center supports faculty and students throughout the Bard network who want to study and/or combat hatred and its various manifestations. BCSH brings scholars from diverse disciplines to Bard College and all of its campuses to speak about the human capacity to hate and demonize others. The Bard Center for the Study of Hate was established in 2018 with a generous endowment from the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation and is a program of Bard’s Human Rights Project.
Post Date: 10-28-2025
Professor Helen Epstein’s Book Why Live Reviewed in the Wall Street Journal
A new book by Helen Epstein, visiting professor of human rights and global public health at Bard College, has been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. The book, Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic, delves into the reasons why people consider suicide, and “highlights a number of case studies that imply a connection between high rates of suicide and rapid societal changes that disrupt old ways of life,” the Wall Street Journal writes.Professor Helen Epstein’s Book Why Live Reviewed in the Wall Street Journal
The Human Rights Program at Bard is a transdisciplinary program involving such diverse fields as literature, political studies, history, anthropology, economics, film and media, and art history. It emphasizes integrative historical and conceptual investigations, and offers a rigorous background that can inform meaningful practical engagements. The program seeks to orient students in the intellectual tradition of human rights and provide them the resources with which to appreciate and criticize its contemporary status.
Post Date: 09-30-2025
Ingrid Becker Named a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study
Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights Ingrid Becker has been named a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, for the 2025-2026 academic year. This prestigious membership allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas among an international community of scholars at one of the foremost centers for intellectual inquiry.Ingrid Becker Named a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study
Ingrid Becker’s research bridges poetry and poetics, human rights, and sociology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While at the IAS, she will work on a new research project about the rise of the questionnaire—a sociological technology and ubiquitous mass cultural form—in relation to the shifting status of the question in post-1945 Anglo-American poetry.
Each year, IAS welcomes more than 250 of the most promising post-doctoral researchers and distinguished scholars from around the world to advance fundamental discovery as part of an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Visiting scholars are selected through a highly competitive process for their bold ideas, innovative methods, and deep research questions by the permanent Faculty—each of whom are preeminent leaders in their fields. Past IAS Faculty include, Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, John von Neumann, Hetty Goldman, George Kennan, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The Institute for Advanced Study was established in 1930. Today, research at IAS is conducted across four Schools—Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science—to push the boundaries of human knowledge.
Among past and present scholars, there have been 37 Nobel Laureates, 46 of the 64 Fields Medalists, and 24 of the 28 Abel Prize Laureates, as well as MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows, winners of the Turing Award and the Wolf, Holberg, Kluge, and Pulitzer Prizes.
Post Date: 09-30-2025
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