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Bard College Catalogue

The Bard College Catalogue contains detailed descriptions of the College's undergraduate programs and courses, curriculum, admission and financial aid procedures, student activities and services, history, campus facilities, affiliated institutions including graduate programs, and faculty and administration.

Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture Publications

Journal: Studies in the Decorative Arts This international, semiannual journal covers scholarly and professional issues in the decorative arts and design of all cultures and periods. Articles and reviews of new books and exhibitions provide a forum for current research, intepretation, and discussion, and set the decorative arts and design in the context of art, cultural, political, and socio-economic history.
Exhibition Catalogues Accompanying exhibitions are scholarly catalogues published by the Bard Graduate Center in collaboration with Yale University Press. Catalogues cover a broad range of subjects within the fields of the decorative arts, design, and culture. Various methodologies are employed in these publications that illuminate the study of objects, material and cultural history. Frequently they include new color photography and appendices of historical documents.
Scholarly Publications This initiative is a unique offering of the Bard Graduate Center in collaboration with Yale University Press to publish scholarly books on the decorative arts, design, and related fields. The primary goal of this initiative is to enhance scholarship and foster knowledge among the general public. The selection of book titles is based largely on merit and relevance to the Center's mission.

Bard Music Festival Book Series

Each year the Bard Music Festival undertakes the exploration of a single composer's life, work, and times. The concerts, lectures, and panel discussions of the festival are complemented by a book of related articles, essays, and letters edited by a prominent music scholar. The Princeton University Press publishes a paperback edition for public distribution edited by a major music scholar. In 2006, Franz Liszt was the featured composer. Among the other recent subjects of the festival are Ludwig van Beethoven, Béla Bartók, Charles Ives, Joseph Haydn, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Leos Janácek, Dmitrii Shostakovich, and Aaron Copland. In 2007 the Bard Music Festival will enter its 18th season and feature the work of Edward Elgar.

Bardian
Bardian

The Bardian, a magazine published three times a year, presents alumni/ae profiles, news of the College, class notes, and other articles and announcements that may be of particular interest to alumni/ae.

Center for Curatorial Studies
Center for Curatorial Studies publishes museum exhibition catalogues to accompany each of its major exhibitions.

Conjunctions

Bard's widely respected and influential literary journal, Conjunctions, publishes innovative fiction, poetry, translations, essays, and interviews by established and emerging writers from the United States and around the world. Edited by Bard professor and noted novelist Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions is published semiannually, in the spring and fall.

The forty-eighth issue of Conjunctions, Faces of Desire, celebrates that yearning which bends the soul out of its original shape—desire—in all its forms, all its hostile and gentle multiplicities.

Field Notes

Field Notes is a publication of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. This magazine is intended as a window into the workings of teacher education, emphasizing the best practices in teaching and learning while supporting initiatives for change in public school classrooms.

Hudsonia
Hudsonia Ltd. is an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt institute for environmental research and education housed in the Bard College Field Station. Hudsonia publishes books, publications by Hudsonia authors, and News from Hudsonia, an environmental newletter

Levy Institute Publications
The Levy Institute's publications program is the mainstay of its public education activities. It publishes research findings, policy analyses, conference proceedings, and other material for professional and general audiences.

Working Papers present research in progress by Levy Institute scholars and conference participants.
Strategic Analysis includes reports based on the Levy Institute models.
Public Policy Briefs are papers on the policy implications of a broad spectrum of contemporary economic issues. Public Policy Brief Highlights present condensed statements of the basic arguments and policy recommendations of the briefs.
Policy Notes are short articles by Levy Institute scholars and other contributors, presenting up-to-date research conclusions or policy statements on a wide range of topics for policymaking, business, and general audiences.
The Report, a quarterly newsletter, is aimed at a diverse, general audience interested in policy matters. It includes summaries of new publications, synopses of conferences and other events, reports on Levy Institute news and scholars' activities, interviews with prominent scholars and public officials who can provide insights into current topics of debate, and editorials by members of the research staff.
The Summary, a quarterly publication, is aimed primarily at an academic audience. It reports on current research by providing synopses of new publications, special features on continuing research projects, accounts of professional presentations by the research staff, and summaries of Levy Institute events.
Conference, symposium, and forum proceedings contain transcripts of addresses and summaries of discussion sessions.
The Levy Economics Institute book series is published by Palgrave (Macmillan) and Edward Elgar.
The Levy Institute website also offers information about research projects, publications, scholars, and upcoming events. It provides a critical means of outreach to the global community. Full-text versions of all Institute publications can be downloaded or ordered from the site. The same is true of audio archives of past conferences, and news and registration information for upcoming events. For the month of June 2002, gross file requests totaled 615,727.

Words Without Borders
Words Without Borders, an Online Magazine for International Literature. Words Without Borders undertakes to promote international communication through translation of the world's best writing—selected and translated by a distinguished group of writers, translators, and publishing professionals—and publishing and promoting these works (or excerpts) on the web. The publication's is to introduce exciting international writing to travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and media.

Student Publications

Bard Free Press
Bard Free Press is a student-run bimonthly publication presenting local, national, international and community news, as well as music, film, politics, and culture pertinent to the Bard community.

Bard Observer
The Bard Observer, a newspaper written and produced by students. It appears at timely intervals during the school year and features news on topics of importance to students, news of the College, reviews, and commentary.

The Bard Papers is an annual literary and arts magazine edited and produced by students to showcase the best creative work happening in the community. A combination of student and faculty work is meant to highlight the conversation that occurs on campus, and between disciplines.

BardPolitik
BardPolitik is a magazine where BGIA students engage in direct dialogue with scholars, journalists, activist and political experts. By fostering debate among the multitude of political communities, BardPolitik seeks to stimulate new ideas about globalization and world politics. The editors of BardPolitik, who are students in the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, aim to select controversial themes and topics that concern their peers worldwide. The journal's audience—students, academics, practitioners, and concerned citizens—finds in its pages a student perspective that offers fresh insight on contemporary political problems.

La Voz (The Voice) is a Bard-sponsored sixteen-page, monthly magazine written in Spanish by Bard College students and faculty, as well as by individuals and organizations from outside the Bard community. La Voz, with a circulation of 4,000 copies and an estimated readership of 12,000, is a service for the Hispanic community of the Mid-Hudson Valley area. In addition to featuring local news, La Voz is also an important tool in educating the its readership about legal rights awareness, health care, and the English language. La Voz is a bridge for connecting Anglo and Hispanic cultures in the Hudson Valley, so it is not only one voice, but rather a confluence of voices embodying a community of speakers.