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@BardCollege.bsky.social researches and supports art and activist practices globally.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/chrabard
HajYahia and Haddad’s award is in support of a film work as part of a collaborative research project they’re developing together. "A lover is one who waits" contemplates the aesthetics and politics of time and labor as they figure within settler-colonial economies.
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CHRA’s HajYahia and Haddad Awarded 2026 NYSCA Grant
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January 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
HajYahia and Haddad’s award is in support of a film work as part of a collaborative research project they’re developing together. "A lover is one who waits" contemplates the aesthetics and politics of time and labor as they figure within settler-colonial economies.
chra.bard.edu/news/chras-h...
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CHRA alumni spotlight: For her thesis project, CHRA graduate Isabella Indolfi developed and presented a research-based lecture performance titled “Leave the Community Alone.” The performance explores the politics and ethics of “community art” in rural contexts.
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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Leave the Community Alone
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December 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
CHRA alumni spotlight: For her thesis project, CHRA graduate Isabella Indolfi developed and presented a research-based lecture performance titled “Leave the Community Alone.” The performance explores the politics and ethics of “community art” in rural contexts.
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CHRA alumni spotlight: Katya Korableva’s documentary film Cranes and Ships was screened as part of the 2024 Oxford Shorts International Film Festival in Oxford, UK and the 2025 Mimesis Documentary Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado. Read more at the link:
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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Migration and the Russian War on Ukraine
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December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
CHRA alumni spotlight: Katya Korableva’s documentary film Cranes and Ships was screened as part of the 2024 Oxford Shorts International Film Festival in Oxford, UK and the 2025 Mimesis Documentary Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado. Read more at the link:
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You can purchase our first three volumes of Talks on Human Rights & the Arts for your personal collections and libraries (or for your holiday gifts!) on our website, linked in bio. If you are local, get in touch to schedule a pick up of your copies from our offices at Bard College.
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You can purchase our first three volumes of Talks on Human Rights & the Arts for your personal collections and libraries (or for your holiday gifts!) on our website, linked in bio. If you are local, get in touch to schedule a pick up of your copies from our offices at Bard College.
Thank you everyone who joined us from around the world at the re/presentare webinar “Reframing Evidence for the Commons”. For those who missed it, we have published the entire talk online.
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re/presentare: Reframing Evidence From the Commons
The Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College presents re/presentare: Reframing Evidence From the Commons November 14, 2025 Webinar moderated by…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thank you everyone who joined us from around the world at the re/presentare webinar “Reframing Evidence for the Commons”. For those who missed it, we have published the entire talk online.
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The first program of the international festival Evidence, took place in Tunis in October 2025 curated by CHRA’s director Tania El Khoury and Dream City’s Artistic Director Jan Goosens. It featured five installation and performance works programmed during Dream City, a festival by L’Art Rue.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The first program of the international festival Evidence, took place in Tunis in October 2025 curated by CHRA’s director Tania El Khoury and Dream City’s Artistic Director Jan Goosens. It featured five installation and performance works programmed during Dream City, a festival by L’Art Rue.
CHRA MA graduate Elie Arden presented “Sacrifice Zones: The Rights of Mother Nature, or, Becoming Indispensable” at the 5th Conference on Latin American Political Ecology held in Mexico City.
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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: The Rights of Mother Nature
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November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
CHRA MA graduate Elie Arden presented “Sacrifice Zones: The Rights of Mother Nature, or, Becoming Indispensable” at the 5th Conference on Latin American Political Ecology held in Mexico City.
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So what is evidence? Instead of asking the San Gregorio farmers to transform their knowledge into methodologies,
we attempt to use art and visual tools to inscribe their history. Through methods and languages legible to them and their communities, but without risking their extraction.
we attempt to use art and visual tools to inscribe their history. Through methods and languages legible to them and their communities, but without risking their extraction.
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
So what is evidence? Instead of asking the San Gregorio farmers to transform their knowledge into methodologies,
we attempt to use art and visual tools to inscribe their history. Through methods and languages legible to them and their communities, but without risking their extraction.
we attempt to use art and visual tools to inscribe their history. Through methods and languages legible to them and their communities, but without risking their extraction.
And so, we enter into a new phase of extraction: One where this ancient situated knowledge [of chiampas] is processed through technoscientific methodologies, and begins to decouple atlapulcan epistemologies from their bodies and their communities.
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
And so, we enter into a new phase of extraction: One where this ancient situated knowledge [of chiampas] is processed through technoscientific methodologies, and begins to decouple atlapulcan epistemologies from their bodies and their communities.
Although it is not the place of the state to recognize their ancestral ties to Pueblos originarios, these communities have learned to navigate the many bureaucratic and judicial roadblocks to protect their lands.
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Although it is not the place of the state to recognize their ancestral ties to Pueblos originarios, these communities have learned to navigate the many bureaucratic and judicial roadblocks to protect their lands.
Las madres buscadores have developed and registered many indicators of possible mass graves. A specific type of flower that only grows under high concentrations of nitrites, or a different color of soil that sinks when the bodies are decomposing.
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Las madres buscadores have developed and registered many indicators of possible mass graves. A specific type of flower that only grows under high concentrations of nitrites, or a different color of soil that sinks when the bodies are decomposing.
The webinar is happening now. Tune in at the link.
Images are from re/presentare's ongoing project "Tlamachtiloyan" as part of Evidence: an international festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Webinar talk this Friday:
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November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The webinar is happening now. Tune in at the link.
Images are from re/presentare's ongoing project "Tlamachtiloyan" as part of Evidence: an international festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Webinar talk this Friday:
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November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Images are from re/presentare's ongoing project "Tlamachtiloyan" as part of Evidence: an international festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Webinar talk this Friday:
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In this talk, re/presentare reflects on the practice of working from the commons, in its frictions and possibilities.
Friday, November 14th at 12:00 pm New York / 11am Mexico City. Moderated by Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.
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Friday, November 14th at 12:00 pm New York / 11am Mexico City. Moderated by Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.
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re/presentare: Reframing Evidence from the Commons at Bard College
Events and Performances at Bard College.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In this talk, re/presentare reflects on the practice of working from the commons, in its frictions and possibilities.
Friday, November 14th at 12:00 pm New York / 11am Mexico City. Moderated by Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.
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Friday, November 14th at 12:00 pm New York / 11am Mexico City. Moderated by Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.
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CHRA student spotlight: Lubnah showed work as part of “Domestic Departures: (Im)mobility, Loss, and Resilience in An Uncertain World” (November 2024). Read the full story:
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CHRA Student Spotlight: Exploring Hindu Temples in the UAE
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November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
CHRA student spotlight: Lubnah showed work as part of “Domestic Departures: (Im)mobility, Loss, and Resilience in An Uncertain World” (November 2024). Read the full story:
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CHRA alumni spotlight: Immanuel J. presented two live interactive performances in Fall 2024. They also published “The Black Performer Becomes Sisyphus” in Culturebot (March 5, 2025). Read more: chra.bard.edu/news/chra-al...
CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Performative Politics of Black Bodies
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October 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
CHRA alumni spotlight: Immanuel J. presented two live interactive performances in Fall 2024. They also published “The Black Performer Becomes Sisyphus” in Culturebot (March 5, 2025). Read more: chra.bard.edu/news/chra-al...
Join us online Friday, November 14th at 12pm ET/ 11am CST for a conversation with re/presentare co-founders, Sergio Beltrán-García and Elis Mendoza.
re/presentare is a spatial investigations agency that centers work from the commons to research human rights violations.
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re/presentare is a spatial investigations agency that centers work from the commons to research human rights violations.
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re/presentare: Reframing Evidence from the Commons at Bard College
Events and Performances at Bard College.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Join us online Friday, November 14th at 12pm ET/ 11am CST for a conversation with re/presentare co-founders, Sergio Beltrán-García and Elis Mendoza.
re/presentare is a spatial investigations agency that centers work from the commons to research human rights violations.
chra.bard.edu/event/repres...
re/presentare is a spatial investigations agency that centers work from the commons to research human rights violations.
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CHRA alumni spotlight: Leil Mortada Zahra is showing their interactive installation, “The Land, not a film by Youssef Chahine” as part of AL.Berlin’s 2025 AL.FESTIVAL on October 3.
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CHRA Alumni Spotlight: On Nubian Dispossession
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October 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
CHRA alumni spotlight: Leil Mortada Zahra is showing their interactive installation, “The Land, not a film by Youssef Chahine” as part of AL.Berlin’s 2025 AL.FESTIVAL on October 3.
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Recognizing the exclusionary nature of high art, Owen originally wanted the works to draw people in from the street, as the inside of the gallery was visible from the sidewalk.
September 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Recognizing the exclusionary nature of high art, Owen originally wanted the works to draw people in from the street, as the inside of the gallery was visible from the sidewalk.
Zoé Samudzi: “Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko
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September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Zoé Samudzi: “Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko
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Please join us for a webinar on Friday, September 26 at 12pm ET with Zoé Samduzi titled “Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko. The talk will be
moderated by Folarin Ajibade. Registration link is in bio.
moderated by Folarin Ajibade. Registration link is in bio.
September 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please join us for a webinar on Friday, September 26 at 12pm ET with Zoé Samduzi titled “Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko. The talk will be
moderated by Folarin Ajibade. Registration link is in bio.
moderated by Folarin Ajibade. Registration link is in bio.
This year, CHRA sponsored two publications: "The Alarm Phone Scrapbook," and "Ecotono: revoluciones silenciosas." As always, our publications are available to read on our website for free.
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September 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This year, CHRA sponsored two publications: "The Alarm Phone Scrapbook," and "Ecotono: revoluciones silenciosas." As always, our publications are available to read on our website for free.
chra.bard.edu/publications/
chra.bard.edu/publications/
Best wishes to our alumni students! As some begin PhDs, others have been continuing humanitarian and non-profit work, producing art and performing throughout the tri-state area, or otherwise enriching the crossroads between art and activism in their own pursuits. We wish them all the very best!
September 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Best wishes to our alumni students! As some begin PhDs, others have been continuing humanitarian and non-profit work, producing art and performing throughout the tri-state area, or otherwise enriching the crossroads between art and activism in their own pursuits. We wish them all the very best!
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In an essay for the @nytimes.com series “Finding Beauty,” Bard Prison Initiative student Robert Lee Williams wrote about his bittersweet relationship to trees during his incarceration.
Opinion | Finding Beauty in a Prison Yard
These trees were the only living beings that I could touch without fear.
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September 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In an essay for the @nytimes.com series “Finding Beauty,” Bard Prison Initiative student Robert Lee Williams wrote about his bittersweet relationship to trees during his incarceration.
Art Curator and Scholar Zoè Samudzi offers a reflection on the ethnopolitical and historical implications of “Sibathontisele” (2010-present), a series of paintings by Zimbabwean artist and genocide survivor Owen Maseko.
Friday, September 26 at 12pm ET online.
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Friday, September 26 at 12pm ET online.
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“Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko at Bard College
Events and Performances at Bard College.
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August 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Art Curator and Scholar Zoè Samudzi offers a reflection on the ethnopolitical and historical implications of “Sibathontisele” (2010-present), a series of paintings by Zimbabwean artist and genocide survivor Owen Maseko.
Friday, September 26 at 12pm ET online.
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Friday, September 26 at 12pm ET online.
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