Faculty In the Press

• Professor Ian Buruma on the Battle of the Burkini
  appeared in Project Syndicate on 09-10-2016
• Interview: Filmmaker, Bard Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt from the Toronto Film Festival appeared in Observer on 09-09-2016
• Bard Professor Norman Manea to Be Awarded 2016 FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages appeared in Feria Internacional del Libro on 08-27-2016
• Religion Professor Tehseen Thaver Has Three More Questions about Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? appeared in Marginalia on 08-19-2016

Recent News and Notes

• Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Hosts International Conference October 20–21: “REAL TALK: Difficult Questions about Race, Sex, and Religion”
  

  08-26-2016: The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College will host its ninth annual international conference from Thursday, October 20 to Friday, October 21 in Olin Hall, on Bard’s Annandale-on-Hudson campus. The two-day conference, “REAL TALK: Difficult Questions about Race, Sex, and Religion,” asks: How can college be a safe and inclusive space for asking hard and uncomfortable questions essential to our democracy?
  http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2825
  
• Distinguished Scholar of Religion Shai Secunda to Join Bard College Faculty
  

  07-14-2016: Bard College announces the appointment of Shai Secunda as the Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism. Secunda, who joins the faculty in fall 2016, is a specialist in Talmudic and Judaic studies and will teach courses in Jewish Studies and other topics through the Religion Program at Bard. An endowed chair, the Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism was established in recognition of Neusner’s distinguished contributions to the field and to Bard College.
  http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2819
  

  Photo: Sasson Tiram
• Professor of Physics Matthew Deady Awarded Inaugural 2016 Michèle Dominy Award for Teaching Excellence
  

  07-01-2016: The Michèle Dominy Award was established in 2015 to honor Professor Dominy’s 14 years of service as the dean of the college. Professor Deady, the first recipient of the award, is described in the letter of nomination as “an exemplar of Bard’s intellectual mission and dedication.”
  http://www.bard.edu/doc/events/
  
• Bard College Mourns the Death of Professor Peter Hutton
  

  06-27-2016: A Letter to the Bard Community from President Leon Botstein
  
  It is with great sadness that I inform the community of the death of Peter Hutton, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts, on June 25 at the age of 71. 
  
  Peter began teaching at Bard in 1985 and chaired the Film and Electronic Arts Program for twenty-seven years. He also taught in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. 
  
  Peter was born in Detroit on August 24, 1944. He received B.F.A and M.F.A. degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute, and travelled the world as a merchant seaman, creating intimate studies of place from the Yangtze River to the Polish industrial city of Lodz, and from the coast of Iceland to a ship graveyard on the Bangladeshi shore. Anthology Film Archives presented a retrospective of his work in 1989, and the Museum of Modern Art presented a comprehensive, eighteen-film retrospective in 2008. His films have also been featured in the Biennial Exhibitions of the Whitney Museum of American Art for many years. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow in the early 1990s and received grants from the New York Artist Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for his work on the Hudson River. 
  
  Peter was one of the most gracious, talented, original, and generous colleagues I have ever known. His contribution to the College was transformative. My deepest condolences to his daughter, Manon Hutton-DeWys ’06, of whom he was justly proud, and her husband, Donald McClelland; and his widow, Carolina Gonzalez-Hutton. He is also survived by his twin sister, Wendy Hutton, and brother, William Hutton.
  
  A funeral service will take place on Tuesday, June 28, beginning with a quiet gathering at 5:00 p.m. at the Avery Center for the Arts, followed by a silent procession to Blithewood, where the service will be held on the West Portico, weather permitting, or in the Blithewood Foyer, if necessary. A reception at the president’s house will immediately follow the service.
  
  If you choose to honor Peter and his legacy at Bard, donations may be made to Bard College for the Peter Hutton Film Fund. Please do not send flowers. 
  
  Read Professor Hutton's obituary in the New York Times, "Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71."
  

  Professor Peter Hutton
  Photo by Pete Mauney '93 MFA '00
• Award-Winning Journalist and Bard College Professor Mark Danner Named 2016 Carnegie Fellow
  

  05-02-2016: The Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Mark Danner, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College, as one of its 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Recipients of the award receive up to $200,000 to fund one to two years of scholarly research and writing in the areas of education, law, technology, business, and public policy. The award will support Danner’s reporting and writing project, entitled “Breaking the Borders,” on the dissolving borders of the Middle East. The project is related to his forthcoming book, Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in June.
  http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2799
  
• Bard College to Host Celebration of Poet and Essayist Ann Lauterbach on April 21
  

  04-17-2016: On Thursday, April 21, Bard College will host a celebratory reading in honor of the work of Ann Lauterbach, David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature, member of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts faculty, and the renowned author of Under the Sign; Or to Begin Again (National Book Award nominee); Hum; If in Time: Selected Poems 1975–2000; The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience; and other books. Poet John Ashbery, Charles P. Stevenson Professor Emeritus of Languages and Literature, writes, “Ann Lauterbach’s poetry goes straight to the elastic, infinite core of time.” Celebrating Lauterbach’s work will be poets Jibade-Khalil Huffman ’03, Simone White, Michael Ives, Camille Guthrie, and Anselm Berrigan, who will briefly discuss their artistic relationship to Lauterbach’s influential oeuvre. The evening will culminate with Lauterbach reading her own work.
  http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2780
  
• Touch the Sky: Bard Professor Laura Battle Shows New Work in Art and Astronomy Exhibition
  

  04-13-2016: Professor of Studio Arts Laura Battle has created a site-specific, sixteen-foot painting, structured on the spiral galaxy, for Vassar College's Touch the Sky exhibition. Curated by Mary-Kay Lombino at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the exhibition celebrates astronomy as seen through the eyes of 18 artists. Works on view include artist books, prints, drawings, paintings, photography, and film. The opening lecture and reception will take place on Friday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m., and the exhibition will be open through August 21.
   
  http://fllac.vassar.edu/exhibitions/2016/touch-the-sky.html
  

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