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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor
Edible Book Festival
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor
Join us for Bard’s first Edible Book Festival! All members of the Bard community are invited to participate in this international celebration of literary culinary delights! Participants will submit a food entry that looks like a book, is food from a book, or is otherwise literary inspired. Everyone is invited to attend and vote for your favorites, regardless of whether you submit an entry.
Please register your entry by Friday, March 27.
Contact: Alexa Murphy
E-mail: [email protected]
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars With Omar Encarnación and Michael Sadowski
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Although a lot has been said about the factors behind the stunning success of the marriage equality movement, not much is known about why the global struggle over gay marriage varied across countries with respect to the severity of the conservative backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ equality. Join us for a conversation with Charles Flint Kellogg Professor of Politics Omar G. Encarnacion and Associate Dean of the College Michael Sadowski about Omar’s new book, Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars (Oxford University Press, 2025). The book looks at how gay marriage activists framed their advocacy in Spain, the United States, and Brazil, and the consequences of this framing for gay marriage and LGBTQ equality.
Contact: Alexa Murphy
E-mail: [email protected]
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Friday, April 3, 2026
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, Room 402
Shut Up & Sproj
Friday, April 3, 2026
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, Room 402
Work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space. By showing up for your project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time.
Contact: Jane Smith
E-mail: [email protected]
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Curatorial Talk: We Have Been Here Before
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Join the curator of our exhibition, "We Have Been Here Before," Processing Archivist and Special Collections Cataloger Michael Orsini ‘13, for a discussion on censorship, the history of the book and Stevenson Library’s collections.
Contact: Alexa Murphy
E-mail: [email protected]
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Thursday, April 16, 2026
6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Stevenson Library
Black Poetry in Times of Crisis
A Reading and Conversation with Kevin Young and Evie Shockley
Thursday, April 16, 2026
6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Stevenson Library
On Thursday, April 16th, at 6pm in the Stevenson Library, poets Kevin Young and Evie Shockley will come together for a reading and conversation on writing and poetry in times of crisis. This event will launch the Black Poetry Day Collection in the Stevenson Library. All are welcome to attend.
Poet and literary scholar Evie Shockley thinks, creates and writes with her eye on a Black feminist horizon. Her books of poetry include suddenly we, semiautomatic and the new black. Her work has twice garnered the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and appeared internationally. Her honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Holmes National Poetry Prize and the Stephen Henderson Award. Her joys include participating in poetry communities such as Cave Canem and collaborating with like-minded artists working in various media. Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.
Kevin Young is an American poet and the former director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Award for his 2003 collection Jelly Roll: A Blues, Young was Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and curator of Emory's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. In March 2017, Young was named poetry editor of The New Yorker.
The Black Poetry Day Collection was donated to Bard in 2023 by retired Director of the Plattsburgh Public Library Stanley Ransom and his wife, Christina Palhof Ransom (Bard alum ‘73). The collection includes autographed copies of books by each of the poets honored at Black Poetry Day at SUNY Plattsburgh from 1970 to the present.
Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing, Written Arts Program, Stevenson Library, Ellison Center, and Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence
Contact: Megan Brien
E-mail: [email protected]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Stevenson Library - 1st Floor
Literature Open House
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Stevenson Library - 1st Floor
Please join us for the Literature Program's Spring Open House. The Open House will be an opportunity to meet Literature faculty, hear about next semester's courses, talk with Literature seniors and other students about their experiences, and celebrate the spring semester.
Everyone, whether or not you've already taken a course in Literature, is welcome!
Sponsored by: Literature Program
Contact: Marisa Libbon
E-mail: [email protected]
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Renaissance Books from Stevenson Library
Curated by students in HIS280: The Renaissance World
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Join us for an opening reception celebrating an exhibit curated by students in Professor Nathaniel Aschenbrenner's class, The Renaissance World, on Thursday, March 26 from 4 to 5 pm on the third floor of Stevenson Library. This exhibition is on view through through May 24.
Contact: Helene Tieger
E-mail: [email protected]
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Monday, May 25, 2026 – Tuesday, November 30, -0001
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor
We have been here before: Censorship and its combatants
Monday, May 25, 2026 – Tuesday, November 30, -0001
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor
This exhibit traces a history of the book and of censorship with selections from the Alan Sussman Collection. Curated by Michael Orsini '13.
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