Network courses are
developed by faculty across the Bard international network and are taught
simultaneously at two or more Bard campuses.
Network courses expose students to diverse perspectives through a
wide-range of cross-network assignments, activities and events. Contributing campuses include:
Al-Quds-Bard College of Arts and
Sciences
American University of Central Asia
Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson
Bard College Berlin
European Humanities University
the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (“Smolny
College”).
18509 |
HR 218 Free Speech |
Roger Berkowitz |
T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
ALBEE 106 |
MBV |
HUM |
Cross-listed: Political Studies
(Human Rights core
course)
An introduction to debates about freedom of
expression. What is 'freedom of speech'? Is there a right to say anything? Why?
We will investigate who has had this right, where it has come from, and what it
has had to do in particular with literature. and the arts. What powers does
speech have, who has the power to speak, and for what? Debates about
censorship, hate speech, the First Amendment and Article 19 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights will be obvious starting points, but we will also
explore some less obvious questions: about faith and the secular, confession
and torture, surveillance, the emergence of political agency. In asking about
the status of the speaking human subject, we will look at the ways in which the
subject of rights, and indeed the thought of human rights itself, derives from
a 'literary' experience. These questions will be examined, if not answered,
across a variety of literary, philosophical, legal and political texts, with a
heavy dose of case studies (many of them happening right now) and readings in
contemporary critical and legal theory. This course will be done in
collaboration with other courses offered in Bard’s international network. This
course is part of the Courage to Be College Seminar and students will
participate in common lectures in the Courage To Be Lecture Series sponsored by
the Arendt Center. Class
size: 22
18435 |
PS 257 Nations and
Nationalism |
Christopher McIntosh |
M W 10:10 am-11:30 am |
OLIN 203 |
SA |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Global & International Studies (core course) From Brexit to the
election of Donald Trump to the rise of ethno-nationalist political parties
across Europe and beyond, nationalism has taken center stage as a driving force
in international political life. For even
the most casual observer of European and American politics, it is obvious that
nationalism plays a foundational role in contemporary movements and
ideologies. It is important to note,
however, that nationalism is not a recent phenomenon. Throughout the 20th
century, nationalism remained a central animating factor of domestic and
international politics. It is the time
where the concept of the nation-state replaced alternative political
arrangements to become the dominant ordering principle in world politics. With the end of the Cold War and the apparent
rise in globalization, many anticipated an emerging conflict between nations
and states—a conflict that has manifested in a variety of ways. Nationalism intersects and overlaps countless
other areas of political, social, and cultural concern. This class will explore the historical
emergence of nations, their social and political construction, and the means by
which they are produced and reproduced in political life. We will investigate the intersection of nationalism
and race, ethnicity, culture, gender, postcoloniality, and subjectivity through
authors such as Du Bois, Anderson, Brubaker, Butler, Puar, and Rankine. This course will be taught concurrently at
Bard's international partner institutions. Students will benefit from
collaboration with peers at these institutions, as well as have the opportunity
to engage students from these institutions on the issues raised by the class. Class size: 22