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Supplementing the academic program, the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series features leading figures in international affairs discussing timely issues of global concern, and is cosponsored by Foreign Affairs magazine. Workshops help students smoothly transition into professional life through sessions covering résumé and cover-letter development, interview skills, workplace etiquette, and networking, among other topics. Additional panels provide candid discussions of various career paths and advice from young professionals.

BGIA News

Professor Walter Russell Mead on the Peril of Ignoring the Middle East

“The Biden administration faces a real dilemma,” writes Professor Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal. “Feeling overstretched against Russian aggression in Ukraine and Chinese ambition in the Indo-Pacific, the White House wants to minimize its exposure to the Middle East. Yet the region is too important to ignore—and the more the U.S. withdraws, the more influence it sheds. As America becomes less relevant, regional actors feel free to make more decisions that Washington dislikes, effectively undermining U.S. influence around the globe.” Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College.

Professor Walter Russell Mead on the Peril of Ignoring the Middle East

President Joe Biden walks with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan along the Colonnade of the White House Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
“The Biden administration faces a real dilemma,” writes Professor Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal. “Feeling overstretched against Russian aggression in Ukraine and Chinese ambition in the Indo-Pacific, the White House wants to minimize its exposure to the Middle East. Yet the region is too important to ignore—and the more the U.S. withdraws, the more influence it sheds. As America becomes less relevant, regional actors feel free to make more decisions that Washington dislikes, effectively undermining U.S. influence around the globe.” Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College.
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Post Date: 01-10-2023

BGIA Director Elmira Bayrasli Presents to Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Development of Feminist Foreign Policy

Over the Winter Break, Elmira Bayrasli, director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City, traveled to Santiago, Chile, at the invitation of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the University of Chile, where she presented on the development of a feminist foreign policy. Chile's new government made a commitment to adopt a feminist foreign policy, following the examples of Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. (Sweden’s new right wing coalition government has since rescinded the policy.) Chile will unveil its new policy in March. They invited Bayrasli as an expert to present the US perspective on feminist foreign policy, in her capacity as a member of the Coalition for a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States, as the head of Interruptrr, and as a faculty member at Bard College in Annandale, where she is teaching a class this semester, appropriately called Feminist Foreign Policy.

BGIA Director Elmira Bayrasli Presents to Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Development of Feminist Foreign Policy

Elmira Bayrasli presents on the development of a feminist foreign policy in Santiago, Chile.
Over the Winter Break, Elmira Bayrasli, director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City, traveled to Santiago, Chile, at the invitation of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the University of Chile, where she presented on the development of a feminist foreign policy. Chile's new government made a commitment to adopt a feminist foreign policy, following the examples of Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. (Sweden’s new right wing coalition government has since rescinded the policy.) Chile will unveil its new policy in March. They invited Bayrasli as an expert to present the US perspective on feminist foreign policy, in her capacity as a member of the Coalition for a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States, as the head of Interruptrr, and as a faculty member at Bard College in Annandale, where she is teaching a class this semester, appropriately called Feminist Foreign Policy.

Post Date: 01-04-2023

Works by Bard Faculty Featured in Best of 2022 Lists

This year, various media outlets are selecting works by Bard faculty members for their Best of 2022 lists. Some notable mentions so far include Angelica Sanchez’s album Sparkle Beings, Hua Hsu’s memoir Stay True, Joseph Luzzi’s Botticelli’s Secret, and Walter Russell Mead’s The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People.

Works by Bard Faculty Featured in Best of 2022 Lists

Foreground: Stay True by Hua Hsu, Sparkle Beings by the Angelica Sanchez Trio, Botticelli’s Secret by Joseph Luzzi, and The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead. Background: Montgomery Place, 2019. Photo by Chris Kendall ’82
This year, various media outlets are selecting works by Bard faculty members for their Best of 2022 lists. Some notable mentions include: 

Assistant Professor of Music Angelica Sanchez’s album Sparkle Beings is named one of the Best Jazz Albums of 2022 by the New York Times.

Professor of Literature Hua Hsu’s memoir Stay True is named one of the 10 Best Books of 2022 by the New York Times Book Review and The Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker.

Professor of Comparative Literature Joseph Luzzi’s Botticelli’s Secret is named one of the Best Books of 2022 So Far in nonfiction by the New Yorker. 

James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities Walter Russell Mead’s The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People is named among 100 Notable Books of 2022 by the New York Times Book Review. 

Bard Graduate Center's Threads of Power: Lace From the Textilmuseum St. Gallen featured in the New York Times Best Art Books of 2022.
 

Post Date: 12-01-2022

About the James C. Chace Memorial Speaker Series 

In honor of James C. Chace and his commitment to exchange and engagement

This Speaker Series explores today's pressing issues with today's leading experts. These events are free and open to the public by RSVP.

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Speaker Series Archive

  • COVID-19: One Year Later
    with Laurie Garett and Heidi Larson
    March 10, 2021
  • Ten Years After Tahrir
    with Thanassis Cambanis and Michael Hanna
    February 11, 2021
  • Trump After Trump
    Peter Resenblum and Omar Encanacion
    January 28, 2021
  • The UN at 75
    with Natalie Samarasinghe and Minh Thu Pham
    October 7, 2020
  • How to Lose the Information War
    with Nina Jankowicz
    October 2, 2020
  • What is Disinformation?
    with Nina Jankowicz
    October 2020