Peter Filkins’s Translation of Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death Reviewed in the Wall Street Journal
“This is the first time the complete text of The Book Against Death has appeared in English, compliments of a superlative translation by Peter Filkins,” writes Sam Sacks for the Wall Street Journal. The Book Against Death, translated by Visiting Professor of Literature Peter Filkins from German, is a collection of notes, fragments, and aphorisms that Elias Canetti wrote across half a century.
Book Review: Richard Aldous Reviews America’s Cold Warrior by James Graham Wilson
In a review for the Wall Street Journal, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Culture at Bard College Richard Aldous calls James Graham Wilson’s America’s Cold War Warrior on the life and legacy of statesman Paul Nitze “a brilliant political biography, elegantly written, rich in archival material.” Nitze was an expert on military power and strategic arms and served as negotiator and diplomat in several administrations from the era of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference Held Its 2024 Event
The annual gathering, organized by the Civic Engagement Initiative in partnership with the Bard College Berlin Civic Engagement Office and the Bard College Center for Civic Engagement, brought together participants from 22 partner institutions representing 50 different countries.More CFCD News
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Professor Dinaw Mengestu Interviewed in the New York Times about His New Book, Someone Like Us
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Bard Physicists Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Li-Heng Henry Chang ’23, Ziyu Xu ’23, and Shea Roccaforte ’21 Coauthor Cover Story in the American Journal of Physics
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Professor Valerie Barr: “Visualizing Progress in Broadening Participation in Computing: The Value of Context”
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The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Welcomes Pavlina R. Tcherneva as New President
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Opinion: “Dismantle the Global System that Lets the Rich Hide their Wealth” Writes Daniel Calingaert for The Hill
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Professor Lauren Rose Interviewed on the Today Show and in the New York Times about Using the Rubik’s Cube as a Teaching Tool