Advancement of Public Action

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Just Like a Town Meeting: Music by Ives, Cowell, and Cage (Poster)
(Bennington College, 2004-11-11) Porter, David, pianist
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Transcription of Larry Diamond's Keynote Address at the "Learning Democracy" conference.
(2005-10-16) Diamond, Larry
The Democracy Project inaugural conference, “Learning Democracy,” was held on October 16-19, 2005. The keynote address was given by Larry Diamond, democracy scholar and author of the book, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. Invited participations to the conference included: Argentina: Gustavo Beliz - Former Minister of Justice, Security, and Human Rights and former Minister of Home Affairs; and Ernesto Seman - Co-founder of Argentina Observatory, which monitors political reform and reconstruction in Argentina; Political and Community Affairs Officer at the Consultate General of Argentina in New York Indonesia: Bahtiar Effendy - Author and public intellectual, especially on the issues of religion and state; Smita Notosusanto - Electoral reform activist; Executive Director of Centre for Electoral Reform and founder of National Commission on Violence Against Women; and Muhammad Ryaas Rasyid - Member of the National Parliament and former minister for administrative reform and regional autonomy Poland: Zbigniew Bujak: Former Minister of Ports; leading underground figure in Solidarity; Janina Ochojska – Founder and president of the Polish Humanitarian Organisation; Jerzy Osiatynski – Former minister of economy; critical figure in the structuring of Poland’s new economy South Africa: Mohammed Bhabha - Member of the negotiating team of the African National Congress during South Africa’s constitution-making process Turkey: Egemen Bagis – Foreign policy adviser to Turkish Prime Minister; member of Turkish Parliament; and Atilla Yayla – Political philosopher, professor, author; President, Association for Liberal Thinking
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Rebecca Tinsley (Poster)
(Bennington College, 2007-03-07) Tinsley, Rebecca
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The Long War: Consequences and Cost (Poster)
(Bennington College, 2008-09-15) Polk, William R.
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Guns and the Law: A Panel Discussion (Poster)
(Bennington College, 2010-11-08) Coleman, Elizabeth Moderator
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Isareli-Palestine Conflict Lecture Series (Poster)
(Bennington College, 2010-11-17) Cohen, Michael
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Understanding the Media in Everyday Life (Poster)
(Bennington College, 2011) Haratonik, Peter
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CAPA Opening Celebration (Poster)
(Bennington College, 2011-09-29)
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Rhetoric and Action (Poster)
(Bennington College, 2011-10-25) Kohut, Matt
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Water Dialogues Program
(2012-04)
The Water Dialogues was a series of discussions held April 16 - 21, 2012 at Bennington College. While access to water is considered to be a fundamental human right, available fresh water is diminishing causing food shortages, ecological destruction, and increased geo-political tension. Dialogue among people who share the need for clean water, concern about its scarcity, and a determination to effect positive change can result in new attitudes toward conservation, methods of distribution, and technologies. Participants in the Water Dialogues included scientists, mediators, artists, and policy makers working on the ground locally, nationally, and globally as well as Bennington students, faculty, and staff.
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Water Dialogues Biographies of Speakers and Presenters
(2012-04-16)
The Water Dialogues was a series of discussions held April 16 - 21, 2012 at Bennington College. While access to water is considered to be a fundamental human right, available fresh water is diminishing causing food shortages, ecological destruction, and increased geo-political tension. Dialogue among people who share the need for clean water, concern about its scarcity, and a determination to effect positive change can result in new attitudes toward conservation, methods of distribution, and technologies. Participants in the Water Dialogues included scientists, mediators, artists, and policy makers working on the ground locally, nationally, and globally as well as Bennington students, faculty, and staff.
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Water Dialogues Schedule
(2012-04-16)
The Water Dialogues was a series of discussions held April 16 - 21, 2012 at Bennington College. While access to water is considered to be a fundamental human right, available fresh water is diminishing causing food shortages, ecological destruction, and increased geo-political tension. Dialogue among people who share the need for clean water, concern about its scarcity, and a determination to effect positive change can result in new attitudes toward conservation, methods of distribution, and technologies. Participants in the Water Dialogues included scientists, mediators, artists, and policy makers working on the ground locally, nationally, and globally as well as Bennington students, faculty, and staff.
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Confronting the Present (Poster)
(2014) Stoler, Ann; Masco, Joseph; Kirsch, Stuart; Martin, Emily; Center for the Advancement of Public Action
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Stoler is the author of numerous articles and books, including Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2008), Imperial Formations (2007), and Haunted by Empire: Geographies of the Intimate in North American History (2006), among others. She is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at the New School. Stuart Kirsch teaches anthropology at the University of Michigan. Kirsch works in the Pacific and the Amazon on indigenous rights and the environment, including long-term research and advocacy with the people living downstream from the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea. He is the author of Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea and Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and their Critics. Joseph Masco teaches anthropology at the University of Chicago. Masco’s work examines the evolution of the national security state in the United States, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect, technology, and threat perception. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico and The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Emily Martin teaches anthropology at New York University. She is the author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, and Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, and Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture. Her current work is focused on experimental psychology and its influence on the formation of anthropological facts/subjects in the 1898 Torres Straits Expedition, in the reflections of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and beyond.
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Environmental Change and Infectious Disease (Press Release) : A speaker series sponsored by the Bennington College Program on Environment
(2014-03) Keesing, Felicia, Dr.; Smith, Katherine, Dr.; Luber, George, Dr.; Smith, Katherine, Dr.; Lips, Karen, Dr.
Infectious disease can be understood as an ecological and evolutionary phenomenon. It is important, in this context, to understand the effects of environmental change -- including, but not limited to, climate change -- on agents of infectious disease and the resulting epidemiological patterns.
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Rebecca Tinsley (Poster)
(2014-03-11)
A journalist and human rights activist, Tinsley founded Waging Peace, a London-based group campaigning on Darfur, and Network for Africa, a charity working with survivors of genocide after other aid agencies move on. Her third novel, When The Stars Fall To Earth, is based on interviews with the survivors of the genocide in Darfur.
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Never again (Poster)
(2014-03-11) Tinsley, Rebecca
If genocide is an inevitable part of human nature, what can we do to stop Rwanda, Bosnia, Dafur, and the Holocaust happening again? A journalist and human rights activist, Tinsley founded Waging Peace, a London-based group campaigning on Darfur, and Network for Africa, a charity working with survivors of genocide after other aid agencies move on. Her third novel, "When the stars fall to earth", is based on interviews with the survivors of the genocide in Darfur.
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Cities Arts Forum Event (Poster)
(2014-04-07) Horwitz, Andy
Andy Horwitz, Culturebot Arts & Media, Inc. founder and publisher of Culturebot.org, will offer a multifaceted look at current art-making trends using “City as Material.” The presentation will examine a variety of art practices and methods of cultural production while exploring the complications introduced by contemporary frameworks for art in cities such as creative place making and creative cities.
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40 years later (Poster) : rightsizing the United States Criminal Justice System : a talk by Glenn Martin on Incarceration in America
(2014-04-17) Martin, Glenn
The United States has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world, a rate that has increased by 500% in the past 40 years. Mr. Martin will examine how a series of ineffective tough-on-crime policy decisions--including mandatory minimums, three-strikes, and truth-in-sentencing laws--has led to an oversized prison system that costs more than $80 billion annually and fails more than 60% of the time. He will also discuss possibilities for system-wide reform. Founder and CRT of JustLeadershipUSA, Mr. Martin was incarcerated from 1994-2000 and earned a liberal arts degree while in prison. He has been advocating for reform of the criminal justice system since his release. He regularly contributes his expertise to national news outlets on topics such as policing, decarceration, alternatives to incarceration and reentry issues.
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Moving Bennington Forward (Poster) : A Series of Community Discussions
(2014-05-21) Quantum Leap
In Celebration of the 20th Quantum Leap Exhibit, we are inviting the Bennington Community to join us in moving Bennington forward.
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Climate Change: Our Shared Home - Opportunities and Challenges in an Area of Conflict (Poster)
(2014-09-17)
A public presentation and discussion with 13 Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian young leaders from the Middle East who are currently working on solving the complex environmental and political issues that are affected by climate change and current events.