Alpine Fellowship and Bard College
In 2022 and 2023, the Alpine Fellowship Symposium has been hosted in partnership with Bard College through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
Bard College/OSUN Speakers have included:
Allison Stanger
Allison Stanger is a political scientist and founding director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, where she is Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics. She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2004 and, between 2009 and 2011, served as consultant to the US Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. Stanger is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, both with Yale University Press.
Nazam Laila
Nazam Laila is a doctoral candidate and a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Politics and International Studies. She is conducting her PhD research as a Commonwealth Doctoral Scholar. She is also a research group member of The Center for AI and Digital Policy [CAIDP]. Nazam has been involved with academic teaching and various research and development work in Bangladesh. Her roles include lecturer and senior fellow at BRAC University and Asian University for Women respectively and research associate at Biomedical Research Foundation. Nazam completed her MSc in Gender, Development, and Globalisation from The London School of Economics and Political Science and her MA and BA in Interdisciplinary English Literature from BRAC University.
Kenyon Adams
Kenyon Adams is an interdisciplinary artist and creative director. Through performance-based practices, he seeks to reclaim or expand embodied ways of knowing, towards imagining and constructing sustainable futures. Kenyon’s performance work, PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE, invites audiences to sit, kneel, and chant King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. His practice is concerned with notions of citizenship, locating pleasure and satisfaction within the scope of justice. For this work, the artist engages text, photography, music and performance; as well as foodways, devised liturgies, and site-specific interventions. COMMUNION, a ritual of nourishment and commemoration, premieres at the Fisher Center in 2022. Kenyon is a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center, and founder of FUTURE SOLITUDE, an art series and lifestyle brand that examines and speculates modes and sites of leisure.
Deirdre d'Albertis
Dean of the College; Professor of English. Diedre has a B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Author, Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (Palgrave, 1997), and volume editor, Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (Pickering & Chatto, 2006). Essays published most recently in Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives (2016); Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Literature, 1830-1900 (2015); Afterlives of the Brontës: Biography, Fiction, and Literary Criticism (2014); Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (2008), and The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (2007). Articles and reviews in Nineteenth-Century Contexts; Victorian Studies; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; Victorians Institute Journal; Journal of the History of Sexuality; and Review. President, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (2013-15). Areas of interest: Victorian literature and culture, gender studies, narrative theory, history of the novel, Irish history and literature. At Bard since 1991.