Weekend Schedule of Events
Bard College Family Weekend offers families an opportunity to sample the academic and social activities enjoyed by students at the College. The three-day program of events includes classes from the curriculum led by members of the faculty, discussion panels, thematic campus tours, and performing art events.
October 24–26, 2008
Schedule is subject to change.
Family Weekend 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008 - Sunday, October 26, 2008
Bard College Campus
THE WEEKEND IS FAST APPROACHING.
IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED ONLINE, PLEASE DO NOT WORRY.
EVERYONE (including those who have registered on-line) SHOULD STOP AT REGISTRATION ON FRIDAY BETWEEN 3PM-6PM IN THE REEM AND KAYDEN SCIENCE CENTER. SIGN-IN AND RECEIVE DETAILED INFORMATION AND FINAL SCHEDULES FOR THE WEEKEND.
Registration
Friday, October 24, 2008
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center
Stop by the registration desk for general information, to check-in and receive a schedule of events for the weekend.
Welcoming Reception
Friday, October 24, 2008
3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center
Sponsored by the Parents Network. Meet members of the faculty and the student services staff.
Family Dinner
Friday, October 24, 2008
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Kline Commons
Enjoy a leisurely dinner with your family and other Bard families in the student dining area.
Tickets available at the door.
cost: $8.00
"Ask the Deans"
Friday, October 24, 2008
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center
Question and answer session
Bard Music Festival, Prokofiev in America and Russia, From Chicago to Moscow
Friday, October 24, 2008
7:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
8:00 p.m. Performance:Mira Wang, violin; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director. Call the box office 845-758-7900 for tickets and discount pricing.
Movie - "The Incredible Hulk"
Friday, October 24, 2008
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
2 showings: 7pm and 9:30pm
Family Trivia Night
Friday, October 24, 2008
9:00 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Family Fun.....Spanning the generations from Nixon to Nintendo.
Opening Breakfast and Registration
Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30 am - 10:30 am
Kline Commons
Enjoy breakfast with your family and other Bard families in the student dining area. Tickets available at the door.
Cost:$7.00
Missed check-in on Friday evening? Stop by registration desk in Kline.
Bard Music Festival, Prokofiev in America and Russia, Panel: Art and Dictatorship
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Olin Hall
Leon Botstein, Simon Morrison and others.
Free and open to the public.
Class- LIT 2007
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Olin, Room 201
Imagining Environment in East Asia
taught by Professor Hoyt Long
Class- HIST 2306
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Reem-Kayden Center
Gender, Sexuality and Power in Modern China
taught by professor Rob Culp
Class- FYS
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Olin, Room 205
First year Seminar taught by Professor Marina Van Zuylen
Class- FILM 248
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Avery Art Center, Center for Film, Electronic Arts and Music
Framing the election
taught by professor Jacqueline Gross
Class- BIO 141
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Reem-Kayden Center László Z. Bitó '60 Auditorium
Subcelluar Biology taught by Professor John Ferguson
Class-DAN 250
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Olin, Room 205
Anatomy of a Dancer
taught by Professor Maria Simpson
Class-CLAS 226
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Olin, Room 203
Virgil, Augustine, Dante
taught by professors Joseph Luzzi/Ben Stevens
Class-LIT 2102
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Olin, Room 201
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
taught by professor Charles Walls
Class-MATH 136
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Reem-Kayden Center
Voting theory taught by professor
John Cullinan
Class-PSY 103
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Olin, Room 102
Introduction to Psychology
taught by professor Sarah Lopez-Duran
Class- FYS
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Olin, Room 205
First Year Seminar
taught by Professor Thomas Barthscherer
Admissions Open House
Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Hopson Cottage
Student-led campus tours will depart at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Tours run approx. 90 minutes.
Lunch with Bard Community
Saturday, October 25, 2008
11:30 am - 3:30 pm
Kline Commons
Enjoy a leisurely Brunch/lunch with your family and other Bard families in the student dining area.
Tickets available at the door.
Cost:$9.00
Parents Network Annual Luncheon Meeting
Saturday, October 25, 2008
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center
11:30:meeting 12:45:lunch
An opportunity to learn more about the Parents Network and its work on behalf of Bard students.
Louis "Buzz" Gallien and Lee Gallien parents of Saralee 2009
President, Parents Network
Introduction to the Parents Network with tips on how and why you'll want to get involved.
David Shein, Assistant Dean of the College.
Debra Pemstein, Vice President of Development and Alumni Affairs,
Matt Soper, Director of Development and liaison to the Parents Network.
Class of 2009 Luncheon
Saturday, October 25, 2008
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Members of the class of 2009 and their families are invited to join Deans Dominy and Cannan for a celebratory luncheon.
"Ask the President"
Saturday, October 25, 2008
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Leon Botstein answers parents questions.
Bard Music Festival: The Uneasy Rivalry: Prokofiev and Stravinsky
Saturday, October 25, 2008
2:30 pm
Olin Hall
2:30 p.m.Preconcert Talk
3:00 p.m., Performance: Faculty and students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music
Call the box office at 845-758-7900 for tickets and discount pricing.
Panel Discussion
Saturday, October 25, 2008
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center László Z. Bitó '60 Auditorium
New Orleans Program
Tour of the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation
Saturday, October 25, 2008
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center
Guided tour of the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation featuring the new wing. Tour starts at 3:30p.m. Please wear comfortable walking shoes.
Horticultural Walking Tour of Campus
Saturday, October 25, 2008
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Hopson Cottage
Amy Foster, Bard horticulturist will give a walking tour of the Bard campus.
Please wear comfortable shoes. Rain option: Horticulture presentation in the Admissions office. (Hopson cottage)
Historical Walking Tour of the College
Saturday, October 25, 2008
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Tour led by Stuart Stritzer-Levine, Dean Emeritus of the College. Please wear comfortable shoes. Rain option:presentation in Bard Hall.
Panel Discussion
Saturday, October 25, 2008
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115
BGIA and BRSS
Bard in NYC.
Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum
Saturday, October 25, 2008
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
Special introduction/presentation of the current exhibit:
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art
Given by a member of the CCS executive staff.
Dinner
Saturday, October 25, 2008
4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Kline Commons
Enjoy a leisurely dinner with your family and other Bard families in the student dining area.
Tickets available at the door.
Cost:$8.00
Presentation of works by New Yorker Cartoonists
Saturday, October 25, 2008
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Join a presentation, reception and the viewing of works by three New Yorker Cartoonists, that happen to be parents of Bard students
Bard Music Festival, Prokofiev in America and Russia, From Chicago to Moscow
Saturday, October 25, 2008
7:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
8:00 p.m. Performance:
Mira Wang, violin; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Call the box office 845-758-7900 for tickets and discount pricing.
Movie- "Willie Wonka"
Saturday, October 25, 2008
7:00 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The classic Gene Wilder version. 2 showings at 7pm and 9:30pm
70's Rock: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:00 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Join us for an exciting 'Behind the Music' look at the 1970s with Barry Drake, one of rock music's foremost historians. The show will feature hundreds of slides, videos, and musical clips.
Panel Discussion and breakfast
Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:30 am
Olin Hall
time change
9:30am Continental breakfast
10:00am: Panel Discussion
"Discussing the Presidential Election"
panelists: Assoc. Professor of Sociology Amy Ansell, Assoc. Professor of Political Studies/Dean of International Studies Jonathan Becker, Asst. Professor of Political Studies Mark Lindeman, Executive VP of Bard/Pres. Of Levy Economics Institute Dimitri Papadimitriou, Associate Professor of International Relations at the United States Mililtary Academy Scott Silverstone.
Women's Volleyball Match vs. Polytech Institute of NYU and College of Mount Saint Vincent
Sunday, October 26, 2008
1:00 pm
Stevenson Gymnasium
Women's Soccer: Bard vs. Yeshiva University
Sunday, October 26, 2008
1:00 pm
Stevenson Gymnasium, Soccer Field
Presentation on Farm Workers
Sunday, October 26, 2008
1:00 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
A presentation about life in the mountains of Southern Mexico with writer and free lance photographer Joseph Sorrentino.
Bard Orchestra
Sunday, October 26, 2008
1:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The majority of participants are non-music majors (Bard students) who want to continue practicing and performing orchestral music in college. The ensemble also usually includes one or two community members and/or high school students (as well as Bard Conservatory musicians). Director: Nathan Madsen's The Orchestra will premiere "Ainu Dreams," a songcycle for voice and orchestra.
Men’s Soccer: Bard vs. Yeshiva University
Sunday, October 26, 2008
3:00 pm
Stevenson Gymnasium, Soccer Field