Category: <span>Special Events</span>

Concealing the Facts of Climate Change

This past Friday, BardCEP Environmental Policy graduate students attended the keynote address at the Hannah Arendt Center’s fourth annual conference, “Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age Withought Facts.” The keynote address was given by Naomi Oreskes, co-author of “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues …

Rethinking Finance for Sustainability

Direct link to lecture audio file This past Wednesday, the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP) and Levy Economics Institute hosted a public lecture entitled “Finance for Sustainability.”  Bard CEP director, Eban Goodstein, moderated the presentation by finance experts John Fullerton and Rick Stuckey of the Capital Institute, who …

Bard in the News: The Bard Prison Initiative

The Bard Prison Initiative on PBS, Parts I & II Tuesday night, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer broadcast the first segment of a two-part story on The Bard Prison Initiative. Last night they broadcast part II of this extraordinary piece. Below, please find links for both segments. Again, kudos to …

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Conference Draws Worldwide Attention

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College held its 20th annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: Financial Reform and the Real Economy. recently The three-day conference, held at, and with support from, the Ford Foundation, drew and extraordinary international group of speakers and audience members composed of many of the world’s …

Dr. Botstein on The Colbert Report Interview

Bard President LEON BOTSTEIN appears on THE COLBERT REPORT on October 5, 2010 To view the interview, click here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361087/october-05-2010/leon-botstein