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The Author as Stranger: Nietzsche and CamusDaniel Berthold, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Bard CollegeFriday, April 5, 2024Hegeman 204A |
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Acosmism: Hassidism’s Gift to the Jews… and the WorldProfessor Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins UniversitySunday, April 7, 2024Bard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, NYC |
IAT Lecture Series: Divisions that Define UsBruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced TheologyMonday, April 8, 2024Bard Hall |
Keywords in Understanding Israel/Palestine: Omer Bartov on “Genocide”Tuesday, April 9, 2024Olin Auditorium |
Blossoms from AshA Documentary on Rohingya RefugeesWednesday, April 10, 2024Weis Cinema |
South Asia Film Series presents: TelevisionDirected by Mostofa Sarwar FarookiThursday, April 11, 2024Olin 205 |
The Force of BreathWorkshop in Somatic Movement and ResilienceFriday, April 12, 2024Thorne Studio, Fisher Center |
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The Politics and Policing of Memory in GermanyEmily Dische-Becker '04Wednesday, April 17, 2024ZOOM |
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Social Philosophy Workshop: Explanation, Imagination, TransformationFriday, April 19, 2024Finberg House library |
Social Philosophy Workshop: Explanation, Imagination, TransformationSaturday, April 20, 2024Finberg House library |
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IAT Lecture Series: Divisions that Define UsBruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced TheologyMonday, April 22, 2024Bard Hall |
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Rabbi Spinoza:
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Olin 102
This paper argues that the most significant Jewish contribution to modern Western philosophy - the notion of acosmism, according to which only God truly and fully exists - originated in early Hassidism. I will show that through the mediation of Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) this bold notion was adopted from the school of the Maggid of Mezhrich and introduced into the systems of German Idealism.
Free and open to the public.
Register for event here: https://forms.gle/P2qJ6vkciD74e8du6Sponsored by: Jewish Studies Program, Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program, Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, and Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 5, 2024
Hegeman 204A
I argue that not only do Nietzsche and Camus share a sense of the world as fundamentally “strange,” but that each adopts an authorial position as stranger to the reader as well. The various strategies of concealment, evasion, and silence they employ to assure their authorial strangeness are in the service of what Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault would later call “the death of the author,” the disappearance of the author as authority over his or her own text. I argue further, however, that within this largely shared commitment, Nietzsche and Camus finally have quite different conceptions of the goals of their respective authorships and different manners of pursuing their deaths as authors. These contrasts leave us, finally, with distinct constructions of the author as stranger.
Daniel Berthold is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Bard College, where he taught from 1984–2022. He holds a BA and MA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from Yale University. He is the author of Hegel’s Grand Synthesis, Hegel’s Theory of Madness, and The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as well as articles and reviews in journals including Clio, Environmental Ethics, History and Theory, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Human Ecology Review, Idealistic Studies, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Journal of European Studies, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Ludus Vitalis, Man and World, Nous, Metaphilosophy, Modern Language Notes, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Religious Studies, Review of Metaphysics, Social Theory and Practice, and Southern Journal of Philosophy. Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Bard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, NYC
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He works on Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, Medieval Philosophy, and some issues in contemporary metaphysics, and is the author of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (Oxford 2013), and Spinoza’s Labyrinths (Oxford, forthcoming). Currently, he is working on the completion of a book on Spinoza and German Idealism, and on an introduction to Spinoza’s philosophy. His research has been featured in BBC (The World Tonight), LeMond, Ha’aretz, Kan Tarbut (Israeli Cultural Radio).
This paper argues that the most significant Jewish contribution to modern Western philosophy - the notion of acosmism, according to which only God truly and fully exists - originated in early Hassidism. I will show that through the mediation of Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) this bold notion was adopted from the school of the Maggid of Mezhrich and introduced into the systems of German Idealism.
The Bard Graduate Center is located at 38 West 86 street, New York, NY, 10024.Sponsored by: Jewish Studies Program, Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, and Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 8, 2024
Bard Hall
During the past two millennia, systemic ruptures in the understanding of religion and society have shaped the cultural contours of all the lands that once comprised the Roman Empire. These schisms have of course featured in the histories of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, but they also have exerted a profound influence on the ways that people in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and later the Americas conceive of themselves of their relations with one another. Our series will deal in order with: (1) the emergence of Christianity from Judaism and the resulting contention, (2) the breach between the Latin West and the Greek East after the conversion of Constantine, (3) the rise of Islam and response of the Crusades, (4) the Reformation and its consequences, and (5) the opposition between religion and science in the modern period.
This series will be on the following Mondays at noon: April 8 and 22.Sponsored by: The Institute for Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Olin Auditorium
This lecture on the term “Genocide” is part of the Spring 2024 common course Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine and will be open to the Bard College community as a whole. The course critically explores the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine with a focus on contemporary Gaza, and the vocabularies we use to understand it. The course brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to help students understand the histories of and contestations around important concepts and ideas that define our contemporary moment, and to stimulate informed dialogue within our community. Presenting the lecture on the term "genocide" to the course and the wider campus community will be Omer Bartov, the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
Omer Bartov's early research concerned the crimes of the German Wehrmacht, the links between total war and genocide, and representation of antisemitism in twentieth-century cinema. More recently, he has focused on interethnic relations and violence in Eastern Europe, population displacement in Europe and Palestine, and the first generation of Jews and Palestinians in Israel. His books include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). Bartov is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine. His novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, was published this year in the United States and Israel.
This event is cosponsored by the Politics Program, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Global and International Studies Program, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Weis Cinema
Blossoms from Ash (2020) is a feature documentary coproduced by the United States and Bangladesh, directed by Bangladeshi filmmaker Noman Robin. The film focuses on the plight of the Rohingya refugees, the world's largest refugee group, who have been subjected to ethnic cleansing attempts by the Myanmar government and living in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. Director Noman Robin will participate in a Q&A session following the screening (6:00 pm).
The film's duration is 52 minutes.
Presented by: Aniruddha Mitra, Thomas Keenan, and Fahmidul HaqSponsored by: Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Fisher Studio Arts, Room 140
Created using the batik wax-resistance technique, the Ukrainian Easter egg or pysanka (from the word “писати” or “to write”) was believed to possess enormous power. For the ancients, holding a pysanka in one’s hand was a way of harnessing the power of the sun. The whole egg represented the rebirth of nature, while the yolk alone was the symbol of the all-powerful Sun god. Pysanky were revered as talismans; they protected the family against evil, disease, and fire. People believed that through patterns on the eggshell they could send messages of tributes and entreaties to the pagan gods.
This workshop will teach participants about this ancient folk art and expose them to modern-day practices that experiment with tradition. Participants will have the opportunity to make their own pysanka using the simple materials of a chicken egg, beeswax, dyes, and a candle.
Sofika Zielyk is a native New Yorker, ethnographer, and internationally renowned practitioner of Ukrainian pysankarstvo, or the art of writing Ukrainian Easter eggs.
There are limited spots for this workshop. Please contact Maria Sonevytsky or Lisa Sanditz to be added to the waitlist.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program and the Ukrainian Solidarity Club.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Olin 205
Chairman Amin, a leader in a water-locked village in rural Bangladesh, enforces a ban on all images, condemning even imagination as sinful. As the clash between tradition and modernity intensifies, it impacts the lives of villagers, entwining them in a semi-triangle love story involving Chairman Amin's son, a village girl, and their connected employee.
Discussant: Prof. Fahmidul Haq
Please note this film location is different from the past films in this series. It will take place in Olin 205, not Weis Cinema.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thorne Studio, Fisher Center
Katja Kolcio, PhD Somatics and Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME), is an associate professor at Wesleyan University. Working in the US and Ukraine, Kolcio works with body-based somatic practices for stabilizing psycho-social wellness and resilience during conflict and social upheaval. Kolcio’s current research, Vitality Project Donbas, a collaboration with Ukrainian NGO Development Foundation/Community Self-Help, draws on the expertise of Ukrainian activists, volunteers, members of the armed forces, and veterans to develop and assess the impact of somatic methods for generating resilience and agency during conflict. The program has been integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard training and published in The Force of Breath, Somatic Methods for Psychosocial Resilience by Volyn National University (2022, Rivne, Ukraine).
This workshop is open to all (no previous experience required; dress comfortably). We will remove our shoes.Sponsored by: Dance Program; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
ZOOM
The Network Collaborative course on "Freedom of Expression" is making available to the public a series of online lectures. On April 17, Emily Dische-Becker, writer, organizer and curator living in Berlin will discuss "On Conflation and Comparison: The politics and policing of memory in Germany."
Dische-Becker, a Bard alum, is the Germany director of Diaspora Alliance, as well as a researcher for Forensis/Forensic Architecture, and is on the steering committee of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism. From 2005 to 2013, Emily lived in Beirut where she worked as a journalist and researcher. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
Viewers can address questions to Emily Dische-Becker in advance by sending an email to Pinar Kemerli at [email protected], indicating "Lecture with Emily Dische-Becker" as the email subject.
Direct link to join here: https://osun-eu.zoom.us/j/99032179594?pwd=N1g3OXAyWW9NZDg5QURLRWl6d21SZz09Sponsored by: OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 19, 2024
Finberg House library
The 2024 Social Philosophy Workshop brings together early career scholars from across the humanities and social sciences who examine contemporary social and political issues. Papers are pre-read, with workshop time devoted to commentators introducing and responding to each paper, followed by general discussion.
Registration is required in order to receive the pre-read papers.
The address for Finberg House is 51 Whalesback Road, Red Hook, New York 12571.
Generous support for this workshop has been provided by the Philosophy, Politics, and Interdisciplinary Study of Religions programs at Bard; Bard's Office of the Dean of the College; the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard; and the American Philosophical Association.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Finberg House library
The 2024 Social Philosophy Workshop brings together early career scholars from across the humanities and social sciences who examine contemporary social and political issues. Papers are pre-read, with workshop time devoted to commentators introducing and responding to each paper, followed by general discussion.
Registration is required in order to receive the pre-read papers.
The address for Finberg House is 51 Whalesback Road, Red Hook, New York 12571.
Generous support for this workshop has been provided by the Philosophy, Politics, and Interdisciplinary Study of Religions programs at Bard; Bard's Office of the Dean of the College; the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard; and the American Philosophical Association.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 22, 2024
Bard Hall
During the past two millennia, systemic ruptures in the understanding of religion and society have shaped the cultural contours of all the lands that once comprised the Roman Empire. These schisms have of course featured in the histories of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, but they also have exerted a profound influence on the ways that people in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and later the Americas conceive of themselves of their relations with one another. Our series will deal in order with: (1) the emergence of Christianity from Judaism and the resulting contention, (2) the breach between the Latin West and the Greek East after the conversion of Constantine, (3) the rise of Islam and the proclamation of the Crusades, (4) the Reformation and its consequences, and (5) the opposition between religion and science in the modern period.
This is the final lecture in the series.Sponsored by: The Institute for Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Erin Dworkin
Monday, April 22, 2024
Olin LC 210
Erin Dworkin: “‘I Repel His Blows With a Bare Breast:’ The Conversion of an Early Modern Jewish Woman”
Sarah Corwith Eckert: “Hungry for McMindfulness? The Effect of Linguistic Framing on Perceptions of Vipassana (Insight Meditation)”
The Colloquium on the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions:
The colloquium is a forum for the presentation of new works in progress, where students and faculty interested in the study of religions and intersecting fields can gather to share and discuss new research and writing.
Following the Lecture please join us for an Open House in the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions. Meet ISR majors and ask questions about moderation and senior project ideas. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED-will be rescheduled at a later date
Friday, April 26, 2024
Hegeman 204
In this paper I discuss the axiomatic manner in which Spinoza’s Ethics has been written, Spinoza’s reasons for choosing this manner of exposition, and its development throughout Spinoza’s writing career.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Rabbi Spinoza:
Baruch Spinoza as a Jewish Bible Commentator
Professor Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5:30 pm
Olin 102Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He works on Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, Medieval Philosophy, and some issues in contemporary metaphysics, and is the author of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (Oxford 2013), and Spinoza’s Labyrinths (Oxford, forthcoming). Currently, he is working on the completion of a book on Spinoza and German Idealism, and on an introduction to Spinoza’s philosophy. His research has been featured in BBC (The World Tonight), LeMond, Ha’aretz, Kan Tarbut (Israeli Cultural Radio).
This talk traces the influence of Spinoza’s early Rabbinic schooling on his writing from the period after he left the Jewish community. It argues that Spinoza is frequently unaware of the formative role of his early Rabbinic education, and that he commonly reads the Bible through Rabbinic eyes without the least being conscious of this fact. If this argument is cogent, it would seem that much more attention should be paid to Spinoza’s early education.
This talk traces the influence of Spinoza’s early Rabbinic schooling on his writing from the period after he left the Jewish community. It argues that Spinoza is frequently unaware of the formative role of his early Rabbinic education, and that he commonly reads the Bible through Rabbinic eyes without the least being conscious of this fact. If this argument is cogent, it would seem that much more attention should be paid to Spinoza’s early education.
Acosmism: Hassidism’s Gift to the Jews… and the World
Sunday, April 7th, 2024 | 4:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, 38 West 86 street, New York, NY, 10024
Sunday, April 7th, 2024 | 4:00 pm
Bard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, 38 West 86 street, New York, NY, 10024
This paper argues that the most significant Jewish contribution to modern Western philosophy - the notion of acosmism, according to which only God truly and fully exists - originated in early Hassidism. I will show that through the mediation of Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) this bold notion was adopted from the school of the Maggid of Mezhrich and introduced into the systems of German Idealism.
Free and open to the public.
Register for event here: https://forms.gle/P2qJ6vkciD74e8du6
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Author as Stranger: Nietzsche and Camus
Daniel Berthold, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Bard College
Friday, April 5, 2024
12 pm
Hegeman 204AI argue that not only do Nietzsche and Camus share a sense of the world as fundamentally “strange,” but that each adopts an authorial position as stranger to the reader as well. The various strategies of concealment, evasion, and silence they employ to assure their authorial strangeness are in the service of what Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault would later call “the death of the author,” the disappearance of the author as authority over his or her own text. I argue further, however, that within this largely shared commitment, Nietzsche and Camus finally have quite different conceptions of the goals of their respective authorships and different manners of pursuing their deaths as authors. These contrasts leave us, finally, with distinct constructions of the author as stranger.
Daniel Berthold is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Bard College, where he taught from 1984–2022. He holds a BA and MA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from Yale University. He is the author of Hegel’s Grand Synthesis, Hegel’s Theory of Madness, and The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as well as articles and reviews in journals including Clio, Environmental Ethics, History and Theory, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Human Ecology Review, Idealistic Studies, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Journal of European Studies, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Ludus Vitalis, Man and World, Nous, Metaphilosophy, Modern Language Notes, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Religious Studies, Review of Metaphysics, Social Theory and Practice, and Southern Journal of Philosophy. Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Acosmism: Hassidism’s Gift to the Jews… and the World
Professor Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
Sunday, April 7, 2024
4 pm
Bard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, NYCYitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He works on Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, Medieval Philosophy, and some issues in contemporary metaphysics, and is the author of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (Oxford 2013), and Spinoza’s Labyrinths (Oxford, forthcoming). Currently, he is working on the completion of a book on Spinoza and German Idealism, and on an introduction to Spinoza’s philosophy. His research has been featured in BBC (The World Tonight), LeMond, Ha’aretz, Kan Tarbut (Israeli Cultural Radio).
This paper argues that the most significant Jewish contribution to modern Western philosophy - the notion of acosmism, according to which only God truly and fully exists - originated in early Hassidism. I will show that through the mediation of Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) this bold notion was adopted from the school of the Maggid of Mezhrich and introduced into the systems of German Idealism.
The Bard Graduate Center is located at 38 West 86 street, New York, NY, 10024.Sponsored by: Jewish Studies Program, Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, and Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
IAT Lecture Series: Divisions that Define Us
Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology
Monday, April 8, 2024
12–1:30 pm
Bard HallDuring the past two millennia, systemic ruptures in the understanding of religion and society have shaped the cultural contours of all the lands that once comprised the Roman Empire. These schisms have of course featured in the histories of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, but they also have exerted a profound influence on the ways that people in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and later the Americas conceive of themselves of their relations with one another. Our series will deal in order with: (1) the emergence of Christianity from Judaism and the resulting contention, (2) the breach between the Latin West and the Greek East after the conversion of Constantine, (3) the rise of Islam and response of the Crusades, (4) the Reformation and its consequences, and (5) the opposition between religion and science in the modern period.
This series will be on the following Mondays at noon: April 8 and 22.Sponsored by: The Institute for Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Keywords in Understanding Israel/Palestine: Omer Bartov on “Genocide”
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
1:30–3 pm
Olin AuditoriumThis lecture on the term “Genocide” is part of the Spring 2024 common course Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine and will be open to the Bard College community as a whole. The course critically explores the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine with a focus on contemporary Gaza, and the vocabularies we use to understand it. The course brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to help students understand the histories of and contestations around important concepts and ideas that define our contemporary moment, and to stimulate informed dialogue within our community. Presenting the lecture on the term "genocide" to the course and the wider campus community will be Omer Bartov, the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
Omer Bartov's early research concerned the crimes of the German Wehrmacht, the links between total war and genocide, and representation of antisemitism in twentieth-century cinema. More recently, he has focused on interethnic relations and violence in Eastern Europe, population displacement in Europe and Palestine, and the first generation of Jews and Palestinians in Israel. His books include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). Bartov is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine. His novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, was published this year in the United States and Israel.
This event is cosponsored by the Politics Program, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Global and International Studies Program, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Blossoms from Ash
A Documentary on Rohingya Refugees
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
5 pm
Weis CinemaBlossoms from Ash (2020) is a feature documentary coproduced by the United States and Bangladesh, directed by Bangladeshi filmmaker Noman Robin. The film focuses on the plight of the Rohingya refugees, the world's largest refugee group, who have been subjected to ethnic cleansing attempts by the Myanmar government and living in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. Director Noman Robin will participate in a Q&A session following the screening (6:00 pm).
The film's duration is 52 minutes.
Presented by: Aniruddha Mitra, Thomas Keenan, and Fahmidul HaqSponsored by: Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Pysanka Workshop with Sofika Zielyk
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
6:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Studio Arts, Room 140Created using the batik wax-resistance technique, the Ukrainian Easter egg or pysanka (from the word “писати” or “to write”) was believed to possess enormous power. For the ancients, holding a pysanka in one’s hand was a way of harnessing the power of the sun. The whole egg represented the rebirth of nature, while the yolk alone was the symbol of the all-powerful Sun god. Pysanky were revered as talismans; they protected the family against evil, disease, and fire. People believed that through patterns on the eggshell they could send messages of tributes and entreaties to the pagan gods.
This workshop will teach participants about this ancient folk art and expose them to modern-day practices that experiment with tradition. Participants will have the opportunity to make their own pysanka using the simple materials of a chicken egg, beeswax, dyes, and a candle.
Sofika Zielyk is a native New Yorker, ethnographer, and internationally renowned practitioner of Ukrainian pysankarstvo, or the art of writing Ukrainian Easter eggs.
There are limited spots for this workshop. Please contact Maria Sonevytsky or Lisa Sanditz to be added to the waitlist.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program and the Ukrainian Solidarity Club.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
South Asia Film Series presents: Television
Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5 pm
Olin 205Chairman Amin, a leader in a water-locked village in rural Bangladesh, enforces a ban on all images, condemning even imagination as sinful. As the clash between tradition and modernity intensifies, it impacts the lives of villagers, entwining them in a semi-triangle love story involving Chairman Amin's son, a village girl, and their connected employee.
Discussant: Prof. Fahmidul Haq
Please note this film location is different from the past films in this series. It will take place in Olin 205, not Weis Cinema.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Force of Breath
Workshop in Somatic Movement and Resilience
Friday, April 12, 2024
4:30–6:30 pm
Thorne Studio, Fisher CenterKatja Kolcio, PhD Somatics and Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME), is an associate professor at Wesleyan University. Working in the US and Ukraine, Kolcio works with body-based somatic practices for stabilizing psycho-social wellness and resilience during conflict and social upheaval. Kolcio’s current research, Vitality Project Donbas, a collaboration with Ukrainian NGO Development Foundation/Community Self-Help, draws on the expertise of Ukrainian activists, volunteers, members of the armed forces, and veterans to develop and assess the impact of somatic methods for generating resilience and agency during conflict. The program has been integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard training and published in The Force of Breath, Somatic Methods for Psychosocial Resilience by Volyn National University (2022, Rivne, Ukraine).
This workshop is open to all (no previous experience required; dress comfortably). We will remove our shoes.Sponsored by: Dance Program; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Politics and Policing of Memory in Germany
Emily Dische-Becker '04
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
10 am
ZOOMThe Network Collaborative course on "Freedom of Expression" is making available to the public a series of online lectures. On April 17, Emily Dische-Becker, writer, organizer and curator living in Berlin will discuss "On Conflation and Comparison: The politics and policing of memory in Germany."
Dische-Becker, a Bard alum, is the Germany director of Diaspora Alliance, as well as a researcher for Forensis/Forensic Architecture, and is on the steering committee of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism. From 2005 to 2013, Emily lived in Beirut where she worked as a journalist and researcher. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
Viewers can address questions to Emily Dische-Becker in advance by sending an email to Pinar Kemerli at [email protected], indicating "Lecture with Emily Dische-Becker" as the email subject.
Direct link to join here: https://osun-eu.zoom.us/j/99032179594?pwd=N1g3OXAyWW9NZDg5QURLRWl6d21SZz09Sponsored by: OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Social Philosophy Workshop: Explanation, Imagination, Transformation
Friday, April 19, 2024
10 am – 5 pm
Finberg House libraryThe 2024 Social Philosophy Workshop brings together early career scholars from across the humanities and social sciences who examine contemporary social and political issues. Papers are pre-read, with workshop time devoted to commentators introducing and responding to each paper, followed by general discussion.
Registration is required in order to receive the pre-read papers.
The address for Finberg House is 51 Whalesback Road, Red Hook, New York 12571.
Generous support for this workshop has been provided by the Philosophy, Politics, and Interdisciplinary Study of Religions programs at Bard; Bard's Office of the Dean of the College; the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard; and the American Philosophical Association.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Social Philosophy Workshop: Explanation, Imagination, Transformation
Saturday, April 20, 2024
10 am – 5 pm
Finberg House libraryThe 2024 Social Philosophy Workshop brings together early career scholars from across the humanities and social sciences who examine contemporary social and political issues. Papers are pre-read, with workshop time devoted to commentators introducing and responding to each paper, followed by general discussion.
Registration is required in order to receive the pre-read papers.
The address for Finberg House is 51 Whalesback Road, Red Hook, New York 12571.
Generous support for this workshop has been provided by the Philosophy, Politics, and Interdisciplinary Study of Religions programs at Bard; Bard's Office of the Dean of the College; the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard; and the American Philosophical Association.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
IAT Lecture Series: Divisions that Define Us
Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology
Monday, April 22, 2024
12–1:30 pm
Bard HallDuring the past two millennia, systemic ruptures in the understanding of religion and society have shaped the cultural contours of all the lands that once comprised the Roman Empire. These schisms have of course featured in the histories of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, but they also have exerted a profound influence on the ways that people in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and later the Americas conceive of themselves of their relations with one another. Our series will deal in order with: (1) the emergence of Christianity from Judaism and the resulting contention, (2) the breach between the Latin West and the Greek East after the conversion of Constantine, (3) the rise of Islam and the proclamation of the Crusades, (4) the Reformation and its consequences, and (5) the opposition between religion and science in the modern period.
This is the final lecture in the series.Sponsored by: The Institute for Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Colloquium in the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions: A Presentation of Student Works in Progress
Erin Dworkin
Sarah Corwith Eckert
Monday, April 22, 2024
4 pm
Olin LC 210Erin Dworkin: “‘I Repel His Blows With a Bare Breast:’ The Conversion of an Early Modern Jewish Woman”
Sarah Corwith Eckert: “Hungry for McMindfulness? The Effect of Linguistic Framing on Perceptions of Vipassana (Insight Meditation)”
The Colloquium on the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions:
The colloquium is a forum for the presentation of new works in progress, where students and faculty interested in the study of religions and intersecting fields can gather to share and discuss new research and writing.
Following the Lecture please join us for an Open House in the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions. Meet ISR majors and ask questions about moderation and senior project ideas. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED-will be rescheduled at a later date
Spinoza’s Axiomatic Method
Yitzhak Melamed, Johns Hopkins University
Friday, April 26, 2024
12–1 pm
Hegeman 204In this paper I discuss the axiomatic manner in which Spinoza’s Ethics has been written, Spinoza’s reasons for choosing this manner of exposition, and its development throughout Spinoza’s writing career.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].