Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
The Fall Recruiting Consortium (FRC) - Important Deadlines
Runs through Sunday, October 1, 2017 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
New York City
Bard Juniors & Seniors Only
The deadline to submit your resume to CDO for participation in the 2017 Fall Recruiting Consortium is September 13. Students should email their resume as a Word document to [email protected].
Other important events for FRC include:
Weds. 9/13 - FRC Info. Session, Campus Center 214 Fri. 9/15 - Resume Blitz Drop-in Hours at CDO Tues. 9/19 - Resume Blitz Drop-in Hours at CDO Sun. 10/1 - Final Application Deadline Fri. 10/27 - FRC Interview Day in NYC
The Fall Recruiting Consortium (FRC) is a recruiting event in NYC that offers Junior level students the opportunity to interview for Summer 2018 internships, and offers Senior level students the opportunity to interview for full-time job opportunities beginning May 2018.
This selective consortium includes students from top liberal arts schools, including Bard, Connecticut College, Swarthmore, Wesleyan and William & Mary. Companies that participate and recruit students come from the following fields:
If you are a Bard Junior or Senior and are interested in participating in this recruiting event, the first step is to email your resume to [email protected].
A preview of participating employers and opportunities will be available soon. Please check back.
One Day University Film School Presents: "Norman" and a Discussion with Roger Berkowitz
Location: NYC
Sunday, October 1, 2017 9:15 am – 12:00 pm
One Day University Film School Presents: "Norman"
Is world history changed by the machinations of great persons or small acts by anonymous people? Do loyalty and honor still matter in public life? Can a small act of kindness lead to a life-changing friendship? Can a powerful politician hold on to his soul? Is power as sweet as it seems? Or must power in the end lead to corruption?
These are the questions that inspire "Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer," a 2017 film written and directed by Joseph Cedar and starring Richard Gere. "Norman" raises eternal and timely questions about power, insiders, and outsiders. In its complexity, the movie reflects on clichés about Jewish Machers and political players. Join us for a discussion of struggle between anonymity and the will to power led by Bard College Professor Roger Berkowitz.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Come to this joyous celebration with your best friend. Bring along your cat, dog, horse, bird, monkey, or mule! Or bring your favorite stuffed animal for a blessing if you do not have a four footed, gilled, or creepy crawly at home. Pictures of pets are welcome too. Also, bring your two footed friends!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Are you ready for an engaging and immersive experience abroad? Consider studying with the Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program!
Monday, October 2, 2017 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby ISLE is a one-semester program affiliated with the University of Peradeniya in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The program offers courses in Gender & Women's Studies, Peace & Conflict Studies, Religion, Political Science, Public Health, and more. During the semester, you'll live with a host family, learn introductory Sinhala and Tamil languages, takes classes with renowned Sri Lankan professors, and complete a field-based independent research project on a topic of your choice. Past ISLE projects have become the foundations of Senior Projects and post-graduate research fellowships.
To learn more about the opportunities that await you in Sri Lanka, stop by the ISLE information table in the Campus Center on Monday, October 2nd. ISLE representative and Bard '15 alumna, Hannah Durham, will be present to answer your questions about the integrating a semester in Sri Lanka into your Bard experience. We hope to see you there!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
A Conversation with Bradford Morrow and Mary Caponegro
Monday, October 2, 2017 4:45 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Monday, October 2nd, at 4:45 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bradford Morrow presents a reading from his brand-new novel, The Prague Sonata. Hailed as "an elegant foray into music and memory" (Kirkus Reviews), the novel revolves around an unsolved eighteenth-century musical mystery that transports readers between Nazi-occupied Prague and turn-of-the-millennium New York. This event also features Morrow in conversation with Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing at Bard, Mary Caponegro.
Bard Center Fellow, Conjunctions editor, novelist, and Bard literature professor, Morrow is the author of novels including Trinity Fields, The Forgers, and The Almanac Branch. His many awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, O. Henry and Pushcart prizes for his short stories, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Nora Magid Award for excellence in editing a literary journal.
Mary Caponegro has authored numerous short story collections including All Fall Down, The Complexities of Intimacy,The Star Café, and Five Doubts. Among her accolades are the General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers, the Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature from American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Bruno Arcudi Award.
Refreshments will be served. Oblong Books will offer copies of The Prague Sonata for sale.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Preston Xaviera Simmons's body of work spans photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture, and installation, and she is committed equally to the examination of these different artistic modes and processes. She may dedicate part of a year to photography, another part to performance, and other parts to installation, video, and sound works, keeping her practice in constant and consistent rotation.
Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks. She completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art (2005) while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio. In 2017, Simmons’ solo shows include Harvard University, and recent museum purchases also 2017, include three works acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Group exhibitions in 2017 include Wexner Center for the Arts; Prospect 5 New Orleans; Trussardi Foundation, Milan; Studio Museum in Harlem, MCA Chicago and numerous others.
This lecture is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Photography Program.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Shakuhachi and Ichigenkin: Discovery in a Single Tone
New American music for ancient Japanese instruments
Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Featuring the performers Elizabeth Brown and Ralph Samuelson, shakuhachi (vertical bamboo flute) Issui Minegishi, ichigenkin (one-string koto).
With roots in the principles of Zen Buddhism and in spiritual practice, these traditional Japanese instruments share an underlying aesthetic concept: the discovery of the world that lies within one note, one sound. Both Traditional and new music.
http://elizabethbrowncomposer.com/2017/08/23/shakuhachi-and-ichigenkin-discovery-in-a-single-tone-u-s-tour-september-28-october-21-2017/Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby Stop by the campus center to learn about study aborad opportunites in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan! Bard College's partnership with the American University of Cental Asia (AUCA) offers students semester, academic year, and summer study abroad programs.
AUCA has academic offerings in areas such as the humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. Kyrgyzstan's unique history enriches classroom discussions. Themes such as its role as a historic Silk Road hub, a post-Communist state, and its contemporary democratic transition come together to form complex discussions about development in Central Asia.
Come talk to Bard Abroad program coordinator, Quinton Scribner, to find out more! We hope to see you there! Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Hegeman 204 Eric Zhang, ’18 COMPACTNESS OF RIGID GRAPH Given a graph G, a framework is a straight line embedding of a G into d-dimensional space. Two frameworks of G are equivalent if the corresponding edges in the two frameworks have the same length. Given a collection of equivalent frameworks of G, a framework is compact if the distance between all pairs of vertices is minimal among the collection. We are mainly considering generic frameworks, in which the coordinates of the vertices of G are algebraically independent. In this paper, we studied compact frameworks in R and R^2.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby Interested in finding more about law school?
Elizabeth Madigan, Esq., Assistant Director of Admissions at Brooklyn Law School, will be tabling at Bard to speak with students about Brooklyn Law School, and to answer any questions you have about the law school application process.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 3, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM WHERE: Campus Center Lobby
No appointment needed, just stop by Elizabeth's table!
Afterwards, please join Elizabeth Madigan, Bard faculty, and CDO Staff for a Graduate School Planning Process Workshop. Open to all class years, this is for those applying to, or even thinking about, grad school!
The Feedback Group provides relaxed workshops for all creative writing genres. Bring a short piece or excerpt to be critiqued, or just come to join the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email your piece to [email protected] by 1:00 PM the day of to be printed, or bring at least 5 of your own copies.
For more information, call 505-699-3323, or e-mail [email protected].
Confucianism on Relationships, Roles, and Marriage
Stephen Angle Wesleyan University
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 4:45 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This lecture analyzes the key Confucian idea of “human relationship (renlun)” and then explores both conservative and progressive Confucian arguments concerning the meaning of human relationships today, especially in the context of marriage.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Performing works by John Adams, Louis W Ballard, Judd Greenstein, Curtis Cacioppo, Kyle Gann, Talib Rasul Hakim, Philip Glass and Frederic Rzewski
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Emanuele Arciuli has established himself as one of the most original and interesting performers on today’s classical music scene. His repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music, with a strong affinity for composers from the United States.
Having gained the respect of distinguished composers such as Helmut Lachenman, Frederic Rzewski, John Adams and George Crumb, Emanuele Arciuli has had many new works written for him, including piano concertos by Michael Nyman and Louis W. Ballard, whose Indiana Concerto he premiered in 2008 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
His special interest in Native American cultures has impacted Emanuele Arciuli’s career, and resulted in him commissioning works from a number of Native American composers. His most recent project is called Indian Gallery and will feature new works inspired by Native American visual art by composers such as John Luther Adams, Martin Bresnick, Michael Daugherty, Kyle Gann, Peter Garland, Huang Ruo and Morton Subotnick.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
National Climate Seminar: Cities Taken By Storm: Hurricanes and Urban Sustainability
Dr. Michael Neuman, University of Westminster
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
https://bluejeans.com/465542196
Katrina, Irene, Sandy, Matthew, Harvey, Irma, Maria. We all know the names of these hurricanes. The reason: they were all record-breaking monsters, and they all hit the US in the last dozen years—three this year. Less known, but far more deadly, have been the devastating floods hitting South Asia this year, with over 7,000 people killed, and tens of millions displaced. Records are supposed to fall every thousand years, not every season, but as carbon pollution is warming the oceans and the atmosphere, we are juicing hurricanes and forcing the hydrological cycle, while raising sea levels and putting cities at risk from storm surge. Can we change direction? And how do we adapt?
Join distinguished urban sustainability expert Dr. Michael Neuman for a Bard CEP webinar: Cities Taken by Storm: Hurricanes and Urban Sustainability live streaming on Wednesday, October 4 at noon.
NATIONAL CLIMATE SEMINAR
Bard Center for Environmental Policy hosts the National Climate Seminar, a webinar series, at 12pm EST. Listeners can watch live or listen to past podcasts and webinars here. Past speakers have included thought leaders from 350.org, Sierra Club, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and many more.
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer masters programs in Environmental Policy, Climate Science and Policy, and Sustainable Business. The Bard Center for Environmental Policy's career-focused, science based, interdisciplinary masters of science programs are located in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. The rigorous first year coursework, followed by a required 4-6 month immersive internship, culminates with a Master’s Capstone Project and a 93% job placement rate within 6 months of graduation. Graduates are currently pursuing careers in many fields such as: alternative energy, international Development, advocacy/lobbying, conservation, research, and strategic consulting. For more information: bard.edu/cep/
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts Ramapo College in a non-league match. This is a BirdGang Event and a Breast Cancer Awareness event! There will be an opportunity to win free pizza at halftime. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts Sage in a non-league match. This is a BirdGang Event and a Breast Cancer Awareness event! There will be an opportunity to win free pizza at halftime. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Mental Health Screenings open to the entire Bard community.
Thursday, October 5, 2017 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby Free, anonymous, confidential mental health screenings, information about mental health resources on and off campus. Bard Counselors available all day to answer questions, connect students to supports. Also alcohol and marijuana screenings available. BRAVE counselors present as well. Sponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Kline Commons The Choose Your Menu program is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Bard students to vote on food they want to eat for dinner on Thursdays at Kline.Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.
Olin Humanities, Room 102 “Water is Life” has become a rallying cry from Standing Rock to Flint, Newburgh to New Jersey. The need for water organizing — and the increasing number of people engaged in it — will only grow as aging infrastructure and conservative environmental policies combine to damage our already polluted watersheds. Drawing on twenty years experience in community organizing and local politics, Jason West will discuss the importance of water — and the power to be found locally — through the development of the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Professor Tyler Bickford (University of Pittsburgh)
New Media Poetics and the Politics of Childhood: Doing Media Ethnography in School
Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:30 pm
RKC 103 Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at an elementary school in New England, this talk explores the politics and poetics of children’s everyday performances of mass media texts in school contexts. Elementary schools are places where the expressive environment is tightly regulated. But because schools’ pedagogical emphasis on literacy privileges language and communication as a field of action, expressive repertoires from popular music and entertainment media provide a powerful resource for children to challenge adult authority and claim childhood as a space of opposition, intimacy, and solidarity. An ethnographic perspective on the situated everyday activities in which children engage with poetic, musical, and narrative texts reveals that, in the “wild” of everyday school life, mass media texts circulate in fragmentary and partial forms, as snippets, tropes, half-remembered quotations, puns, improvisations, and momentary performances that are powerful in part because of their ephemerality and incompleteness. In their everyday performances, children put forward a poetics tightly linked to new media forms—drawn from the internet, mobile music devices, video games, and social media—to politicize and complicate the bureaucratic regime of school literacy and adulthood. In doing so, children’s performances point to new ways of thinking about the social structures that organize schools.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Bard Ethnomusicology, the IDEA Fund, Experimental Humanities; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-2405, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program Information Session
Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Room 102 Join us to learn more about the BardMAT Program's options for earning your master's degree and teacher certification. 4+1 and traditional program offerings will be discussed. Open to all students.Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
Muslims in Diaspora: Navigating the Politics of Old and New
Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bard Hall (NYC) Juris Pupcenoks of Marist College will discuss his new book, "Western Muslims and Conflicts Abroad: Conflict Spillovers to Diasporas," which looks at the ways different Muslim immigrant communities respond to political upheaval and violence in their homelands and in their new communities. He will be in conversation with BGIA director James Ketterer.
This event is part of the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series, which is supported by Foreign Affairs.
This event is free and open to the public by RSVP.
*Please note this event will not be held at BGIA's main office*Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 646-839-9262, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Sustainable Business Fridays: How the World's Largest Confectionary Plans to Go Sustainable in a Generation
Kevin Rabinovitch, Global Sustainability Director, Mars, Inc.
Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Podcast Kevin Rabinovitch is the Global Director of Sustainability and Chief Climate Officer for Mars, Incorporated. In his role he developed and leads Mars’ Sustainable in A Generation program covering the environmental impacts of their direct operations including more than 400 facilities globally. As part of this program his team manages a global portfolio of renewable energy projects in conjunction with efficiency work led by the business units. He also leads the assessment of environmental impact for Mars’ entire value chain and the translation of external environmental science into policy and strategy for the business Kevin is the Lead Corporate Director on the Board of The Sustainability Consortium, Mars’ representative in the Corporate Consultative Group at the World Resources Institute, leads Mars’ environmental engagement with the Consumer Goods Forum and frequently speaks externally on behalf of Mars’ sustainability program. He has been with Mars for 23 years, 10 years in sustainability and the first 13 in R&D functions of multiple Mars business segments in the U.S. and Europe specializing in technology development, scale up and intellectual property.
Sustainable Business Fridays (SBF) is the first podcast of its kind bringing together students in Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability Program with leaders in business, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Twice monthly, these conversations go live via iTunes and Spotify. Past SBF featured guests have included top sustainability leaders from Unilever, HSBC, GM, Campbell’s Soup, PepsiCo, Green Mountain Energy and many more.
BARD MBA in SUSTAINABILITY:
The Bard MBA in Sustainability is one of a select few graduate programs globally that fully integrates sustainability into a core business curriculum. In the Bard MBA every class is organized around one critical question: How can we build or transform our businesses so that they are in business to solve the pressing social and environmental problems of our time? Graduates of the Bard MBA are transforming existing companies, starting their own, and pioneering a new paradigm of doing business that meets human needs, protects and restores the Earth's systems, and treats all stakeholders with justice and respect. To learn more, visit www.bard.edu/mba.
POSTER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD BELOW.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Listening to the Universe: The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Antonios Kontos Physics Program
Friday, October 6, 2017 12:00 pm
Hegeman 107 The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for the conception, construction and operation of the LIGO detector that detected Gravitational Waves for the first time. Considering the impossibly weak nature of gravitational waves, this was a monumental achievement of experimental ingenuity which has now opened a new type of window to the Universe (a microphone really). I will go through how the detectors work, what Gravitational Waves tell us about the universe and some personal experiences from being part of the collaboration.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail [email protected].
Sanctuary: From Ancient Ritual to Modern Imperative.
Institute of Advanced Theology Lecture with Bruce Chilton
Friday, October 6, 2017 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The concept of sanctuary -- understood as a space reserved for sacrifice to the divine and therefore exempt from the claims of commerial and even state interests - appears with the emergence of the first cities and the temples that anchored them. The practices involved proved intricate and contested, but until the Enlightenment the principle of sanctuary was honored in law and in practice. Since then, it has sporadically re-emerged during times of political strife, in a way that invites and analysis of whether sanctuary can find a new basis of acceptance.
A lunch buffet will be available at the Bard Faculty Dining Room at Kline Commons from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. There will be a cost for lunch. The price has not been determined as of yet.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail [email protected].
A writing/discussion group about emotional eating, restrictive eating, body shame, hunger, and metaphor.
Friday, October 6, 2017 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Health and Counseling Servie; Robbins Please join Bard's nutritionist, Ilyse Simon RDN CDN, Fridays (beginning 9/15/2017), 1:30-2:30 in the Health and Counseling Group Room (enter the Health and Counseling Service). If interested/for more info email: [email protected] or just show up. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/counseling.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Fall Ball Baseball Finale - Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017 12:00 pm
Honey Field The baseball team will wrap up "Fall Ball" with an exhibition doubleheader against SUNY Ulster. Pregame, the team will wear pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Week.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts Liberty League newcomer Ithaca College for the first time. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Women's Tennis Match - Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017 3:00 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The women's tennis team hosts Liberty League foe RPI. The team will be wearing pink t-shirts during warmups as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Week. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Women's Volleyball Match - Dig Pink! Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:00 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Liberty League rival Skidmore. Both teams will wear pink t-shirts during warmups for Breast Cancer Awareness Week. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Catskill Jazz Factory Heard Fresh: Music for Two Pianos
Fred Hersch & Sullivan Fortner
Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater “A pianist of cultivated taste and erudition… the sort of jazz musician who brings a lissome elegance to his playing.” – The New York Times on Fred Hersch Sponsored by: Catskill Jazz Factory.
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
The Office of Admission Welcomes Prospective Students and Their Families
Discovery Day will include a 90-minute student-led campus tour, (including a dorm walk-through), followed by a 30-minute information session and Q&A with representatives from Admission, Faculty, Dean of Students, Residence Life, and Athletics.
Conservatory drop-in tours are in the Lászlo Z. Bitó Conservatory Building (and are separate from the campus tours).Sponsored by: Admission.
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
The Feedback Group provides relaxed workshops for all creative writing genres. Bring a short piece or excerpt to be critiqued, or just come to join the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email your piece to [email protected] by 1:00 PM the day of to be printed, or bring at least 5 of your own copies.
For more information, call 505-699-3323, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Mary Pattillo Harold Washington Professor of Sociology & African American Studies Northwestern University
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 4:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium School choice is promoted as one strategy to improve educational outcomes for African Americans. Key themes in Black school choice politics are empowerment, control, and agency.
Using qualitative interviews with poor and working-class Black parents in Chicago, Pattillo explored: how do these themes characterize the experiences of low-income African American parents tasked with putting their children in schools?
Also, what kind of political positions emerge from parents’ everyday experiences given the ubiquitous language of school choice?
Parents’ stories convey limited and weak empowerment, limited individual agency, and no control. What should we learn?
Mary Patillo is the author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class and Black on the Block: the Politics of Race and Class in the City; she co-edited Imprisoning America: the Social Effects of Mass Incarceration.
Come learn about the possibility of up to $20,000 in scholarship aid via the Boren program (at the undergraduate or graduate level)!
• Are you a U.S. citizen interested in a career in government service/international affairs? • Want to study a foreign language abroad in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, or other regions outside of Western Europe? • Already studying Arabic, Russian, Chinese, French, or Japanese here at Bard and working towards fluency?
Boren Program Representative Kyle Cox will detail all of the possibilities and requirements for applying for a Boren Scholarship (for juniors) or Fellowship (for graduate students) for studies in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and other regions less commonly visited by American study abroad students. Language fluency is a key goal of the program: Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, French (in Africa), and other languages.
Also meet Bard’s first Boren Scholarship recipient, Global and International Studies major (with Middle East Studies concentration) Tonery Rogers and learn about her plans!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room A public debate in conjunction with the annual Hannah Arendt Center Conference – “Crises of Democracy: Thinking In Dark Times” (October 12-13, 2017). This debate will feature both the Bard and West Point debate teams on mixed teams. Co-sponsored by the Bard Debate Union, The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Bard-West Point Exchange.
DATE: October 11, 2017 TIME: 6:00 pm LOCATION: Bard College, Campus Center MPR MAP
Co-Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center, the Bard Debate Union, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Bard-West Point Exchange.
Free & Open to the Public Questions: [email protected] by: Bard Debate Union; Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Kline Commons The Choose Your Menu program is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Bard students to vote on food they want to eat for dinner on Thursdays at Kline.Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.
Have Farmers Cracked the Partisan Code? What a Divided Nation Must Learn From Rural Organizing
Lindsey Lusher Schute (CEP '07) Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Young Farmers Coalition
Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:40 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Lindsey Lusher Shute will address the lessons a divided America can learn from the successes of rural organizing by young farmers. Lusher Shute is the co-founder and executive director of the National Young Farmers Coalition and a member of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy Class of 2007. She was named a "Champion of Change" by the White House in 2014 and she owns Hearty Roots Community Farm with her husband in Clermont, NY.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Interview Prep Session - Practice Your Interview Skills
Thursday, October 12, 2017 5:30 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Prepare for the Interview - Your time to shine!
Are you interested in learning more about the interview process? Were you selected for a FRC interview in NYC? Eager to learn tips and strategies for successful interviewing?
Join us!
When: Thursday October 12, 2017, 5:30 PM Where: Campus Center, Room 214
OPEN TO ALL CLASS YEARS AND MAJORS!
A CDO led session sharing tips and advice, bring your questions for Q&A
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Concerto Competition Preliminary Round
Thursday, October 12, 2017 7:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Singers from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra.
free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) All are welcome to lend a hand in the kitchen as cwe bake challh and prepare food for Shabbat! For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
A writing/discussion group about emotional eating, restrictive eating, body shame, hunger, and metaphor.
Friday, October 13, 2017 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Health and Counseling Servie; Robbins Please join Bard's nutritionist, Ilyse Simon RDN CDN, Fridays (beginning 9/15/2017), 1:30-2:30 in the Health and Counseling Group Room (enter the Health and Counseling Service). If interested/for more info email: [email protected] or just show up. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/counseling.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A major new work from Tere O’Connor, one of the foremost choreographers of our day, whose abstractions engage the tension between the geometries of the rectangular stage, the organic forms of nature, and the vast terrain of human behavior. Long Run pushes the emotional content of O’Connor’s movement to new physical extremes, allowing time-based elements like polyrhythms, velocity, and duration to overtake the performers as they struggle to bring their bodies into a state of calm.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Water-Based Liquid Crystals: Ordered Fluids with Unusual Properties and Significant Potential for Applications
Peter J. Collings Department of Physics & Astronomy, Swarthmore College
Friday, October 13, 2017 12:00 pm
Hegeman 107 The liquid crystals used in displays are oily fluids in which the molecules possess orientational order. Another class of liquid crystals relies on the spontaneous formation of molecular assemblies when certain dyes and drugs are dissolved in water. These aqueous systems are the subject of significant scientific research, due to the possibility of applications in biology and medicine. This research reveals that water-based liquid crystals behave quite differently from their oily counterparts, thus creating the understanding necessary to develop new techniques and devices in an area where liquid crystals have had little impact.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building Bard Conservatory undergraduates compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Free admission.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts national powerhouse and Liberty League foe St. Lawrence University. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Olin Humanities, Room 101 Come one, come all to the first LUX Literary Magazine Meeting of the semester! We would love to see new initiates and old members of our collective LUX family alike to talk about plans, ideas, and questions concerning LUX. In addition, we are looking for staff editors, so if you are interested, this is your chance to speak up! Hope to see you there.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Join us this Friday and every Friday as we welcome Shabbat with an informal, relaxed service at 6:30 pm and a home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner at 7:30. Everyone is invited! For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A major new work from Tere O’Connor, one of the foremost choreographers of our day, whose abstractions engage the tension between the geometries of the rectangular stage, the organic forms of nature, and the vast terrain of human behavior. Long Run pushes the emotional content of O’Connor’s movement to new physical extremes, allowing time-based elements like polyrhythms, velocity, and duration to overtake the performers as they struggle to bring their bodies into a state of calm.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Mount Holyoke and Hunder as part of a tri-match. At 12, Bard hosts Mount Holyoke; Mount Holyoke plays Hunter in the middle match, and Bard vs. Hunter will wrap up the day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Finalists from the Bard Conservatory compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra. Free admission.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The women's tennis team hosts Purchase College in a non-league match, the last home contest of the 2017 portion of the schedule. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A major new work from Tere O’Connor, one of the foremost choreographers of our day, whose abstractions engage the tension between the geometries of the rectangular stage, the organic forms of nature, and the vast terrain of human behavior. Long Run pushes the emotional content of O’Connor’s movement to new physical extremes, allowing time-based elements like polyrhythms, velocity, and duration to overtake the performers as they struggle to bring their bodies into a state of calm.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The women's tennis team hosts rival Vassar in a Liberty League match. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Conservatory Percussion Studio Works by Quinn Collins
Sunday, October 15, 2017 3:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building The Bard College Conservatory Percussion Studio performs recent works and a world premiere by contemporary composer Quinn Collins. Quinn Collins will also give a pre-concert talk at 2 pm. Free admission.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Emma Smith-Stevens '09: Fiction Reading & Conversation
The Bard alumna reads from her first novel and discusses life after Bard
Monday, October 16, 2017 4:40 pm – 6:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join the Written Arts Senior Colloquium for a free public event with Emma Smith-Stevens on Monday, October 16, at 4:40 p.m. in Weis Cinema.
Smith-Stevens will read from her work and talk with current students about her post-Bard personal, educational, career, and literary development.
Smith-Stevens is the author of a novel, The Australian (Dzanc, May 2017), and a short story collection, Greyhounds (Dzanc). A graduate of Bard's Program in Written Arts, she has been a server at a pancake house in Delray Beach, FL, a gift-wrapper in Boca Raton, a personal assistant in Los Angeles, a scriptwriter for virtual patients used by nursing students, and an instructor at the University of Florida, Santa Fe College, and the Bard Prison Initiative. Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions, BOMB Magazine, Day One, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Her essay "The Sun" will be included in the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Eds. Roxane Gay and Ashley C Ford) forthcoming from Harper Perennial. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Florida and is currently at work on a memoir. She lives in New York.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Info Session with The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Monday, October 16, 2017 5:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Please join The Earth Institute at an information session to learn about our Master’s program in Environmental Science and Policy at Columbia University. The session will cover admissions, fellowships, and careers after graduation. Before the information session, The Earth Institute will be tabling in the RKC Lobby.
Monday, October 16 Table: 4:00 pm, RKC Lobby Information Session: 5:00 pm, RKC 103
About us: Columbia’s Earth Institute blends research in the physical and social sciences, education and practical solutions to help guide the world onto a path toward sustainability. The Earth Institute works with many schools, departments and programs at Columbia University to develop rigorous and innovative curricula across multiple disciplines. The more than two dozen academic programs currently affiliated with the Earth Institute engage undergraduates and graduate students in the classroom, in the lab and in the field. Students learn hard science, policy, and research and practical skills they can apply in the field, and in future employment.
For further details, queries may be directed to Laura Piraino [[email protected]].
Sponsored by: Career Development Office; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Exploration School Information Session for Summer 2018 Jobs
Earn $3,800-$5,500+ over the summer!
Monday, October 16, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Interested in working with and teaching students in grades 2-12 over the summer? Learn about opportunities with Exploration School programs that take place on the campuses of Wellesley, Yale, and Wheaton. Hear firsthand accounts about working at Explo, ask questions, and discover how a summer spent at Explo is the perfect stepping stone to your future career — whether in education, business, law, the arts, or wherever your path may lead you.
When: Monday, October 16, 5:00 - 6:00pm Where: Campus Center, Room 214
Explo has several different summer jobs available, from instructors and residential directors, to program assistants, IT coordinators and photojournalists. You can see all of Explo's positions HERE.
Promising Beginnings and Arrested Developments: Early Arabic Translations of the Novel in Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine
Maya Issam Kesrouany, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)
Monday, October 16, 2017 6:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202 This talk looks at specific texts that borrow from three European novels through creative translation, effectively transforming the originals, but maintaining their original alienness from the new reading culture they find themselves in. Such creative appropriation can tell us a lot about the early borrowing of fictional narrative precisely as a form of negotiation and not full reproduction. Comparing the different ways translators engaged with the original novels also complicates what they thought of as “modern,” “fiction” and how they theorized the “worlds” of their works.
Maya Issam Kesrouany, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, is an assistant professor of Modern Arabic Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Her book manuscript "Prophetic Translation: The Promise of European Literature in the Egyptian Imaginary" is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests include nationalism and political imaginaries; civil society formations and the public sphere; critical translation theory; the politics of language, literary form and genre. She has taught at Emory University, the American University of Beirut, and the American University of Sharjah.
co-sponsors: Literature Program and the Translation Initiative Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
The Feedback Group provides relaxed workshops for all creative writing genres. Bring a short piece or excerpt to be critiqued, or just come to join the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email your piece to [email protected] by 1:00 PM the day of to be printed, or bring at least 5 of your own copies.
For more information, call 505-699-3323, or e-mail [email protected].
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Online Job Fair for the Real Estate Finance Industry
Virtual Session Hosted by Mortgage Bankers Association
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
LOOKING FOR A JOB IN THE NORTHEAST OR MID-ATLANTIC? Interview with great companies in the real estate finance industry!
This event is FREE for students and alumni. The Real Estate Finance Industry Online Job Fair, hosted by the Mortgage Bankers Association, is a recruiting event for college students interested in a mortgage banking career. When: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Time: 3:00 - 6:00 pm ET
The mortgage banking industry is growing, with approximately 77,000 new jobs expected to be created by 2022.
REGISTER ON HANDSHAKE: https://bard.joinhandshake.com/events/71243 For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7539, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cdo/.
Peace Corps Fall Visit - Discussion & Girl Rising Screening
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Interested in the Peace Corps?
Meet Douglas Miller, Regional Recruiter and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, during his fall visit to Bard College.
When: Tuesday, October 17, 4:30-6:30 PM Where: Campus Center 214
Douglas will hold drop-in hours earlier in the day for students who have already started the Peace Corps process. Douglas will reach out to students directly to set up those meetings.
The informational discussion at 4:30 PM will provide a brief overview of the Peace Corps and focus on how Peace Corps Volunteers around the world are working with communities to address gender equality and empower women and girls. You can learn how you can help support this mission by becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer. Following the discussion, there will be a screening of Girl Rising.
Learn what it takes to be a Peace Corps Volunteer!
"When I started college in the early 1980s, I really wanted to learn how shoot, light, and, especially, develop 35mm B&W film. I took an evening class, and began to photograph whatever was around me. At that time, I was hanging out with a mobile d.j. crew, based on Long Island, where I lived. So, much of what I shot was of them.
"Eventually, though, I gave up photography, put my negatives in a bag, and began to write, ultimately growing to be a print and radio journalist with a focus on hip-hop.
"Those d.j.s, however, went on to become hip-hop legends Public Enemy and, their history-making production arm, the Bomb Squad. My photos—some of the only photo-documents of them during that period—soon were enlisted into the service of documentaries for the BBC, MTV, VH-1, and other productions. As well, a number of them were recently acquired as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture's permanent collection.
"This year is the 30th anniversary of Public Enemy's debut, Yo! Bum Rush the Show. In 2018, it will be three decades since the release of their landmark It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
"Since I lived through, worked during, and documented the rise of hip-hop culture as a media professional—and this even earlier era with my camera—I’m bringing the entirety of what I've seen to Bard College, doing so in the spirit of openness and learning."
Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, publishes the blog Media Assassin at harryallen.info. There he writes about race, politics, and culture, much as he does for VIBE, The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, and has been doing so for over twenty years.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; American and Indigenous Studies Program; Dean of Inclusive Excellence; Division of Social Studies; Experimental Humanities Program.
As the wild ride of the 1960’s came to a close, Eva Hesse, a 34 year-old German-born American artist was cresting the wave of a swiftly rising career. One of the few women recognized as central to the New York art scene, she had over 20 group shows scheduled for 1970 in addition to being chosen for a cover article in ArtForum Magazine. Her work was finally receiving both the critical and commercial attention it deserved. When she died in May, 1970 from a brain tumor, the life of one of that decades’ most passionate and brilliant artists was tragically cut short.
Eva Hesse deepens the understanding of this extraordinary artist, not only in terms of her ground-breaking work, but also the life that provided the fertile soil for her achievements. With dozens of new interviews, high quality footage of Hesse's artwork and a wealth of newly discovered archival imagery, the documentary not only traces Eva's path but engages in a lively investigation into the creative community of 1960's New York and Germany.
Producer Karen Shapiro '78 will be on campus for a Q&A after the film.
Sponsored by the Bard College Alumni/ae Association, The Art History Program and a faculty member, the Brandt Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Art, a joint appointment between the CCS and the Art History Program.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
A reading by poet and translator Peter Cole (Yale University)
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 5:00 pm
Weis Cinema MacArthur winner Peter Cole reads from his new book, Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (American Poets), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work. His poetry, writes Ben Lerner, “is remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac, pissed off – the affective range is wide and the forms restless.”
“Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.” —Harold Bloom
For more info please contact [email protected] Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
The Melodious Sound of the Right-Turning Conch: Historiography and Buddhist Counter-Development among Tibetans in China
Charlene Makley Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:30 pm
Preston In this talk, we travel upriver from the famous Tibetan Buddhist town of Rebgong in southeastern Qinghai province, China to the small and marginalized Tibetan community of Langmo. Here we explore the stakes and consequences of village history-making as a dialogic process in the context of increasing state-led pressures on rural land use. I had met Langmo elders back in 2005 when I was first looking for highland communities to research. Langmo elders, it turned out, had their own goals for our collaboration. Their counter-development plans for the village meant "capturing" foreign donors and converting them to village patrons. Thus my naive offer in 2008 to help fund Langmo's primary school roof repair drew me into deepening relationships with villagers I had never anticipated. And that meant taking a role as a key listener and medium for elders' oppositional accounts of Langmo history. In the face of resettlement pressures, elders insisted that Langmo's Buddhist history grounded the community's sovereign right to their former lands.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7215, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Columbia Law School Assistant Director Susan Cersovsky and Recruitment Advisor Christina Ross vist Bard College to discuss their program, the admissions process, and more!
Wednesday, October 18 Information Session - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Campus Center Yellow Room 214 Table - 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Campus Center Lobby
Clif Bar’s VP of Environmental Stewardship, Elysa Hammond on of Clif's mission to make good food with a purpose.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Clif Bar’s VP of Environmental Stewardship, Elysa Hammond, tells the story of Clif's journey toward sustainability and mission to make good food with a purpose.
Since Clif Bar’s owners, Kit Crawford and Gary Erickson, decided to keep the company private back in 2000, Clif Bar has been pushing the envelope on sustainability. Unlike most companies who account for a single—financial—bottom line, Clif accounts for five bottom lines which they call their 5 Aspirations: economic sustainability (Business); brand integrity (Brands); giving back (Community); employee wellbeing (People); and environmental sustainability (Planet). Elysa Hammond, who leads the Planet Aspiration, has been working with Clif since 2000 to develop and lead Clif Bar’s work in environmental sustainability. During that time, she helped launch Clif Bar’s transition to organic, their green supply chain program, the integration of biophilic design principles into their new bakery, and their on-going work in climate action for which they were recently awarded the EPA’s Climate Leadership Award. Elysa also serves on the Board of the Bard MBA in Sustainability program to support the creation of a new kind of business leader.
REI, in collaboration with Bard MBA in Sustainability, presents Elysa Hammond: she will tell the story of Clif Bar’s journey to sustainability in an effort to raise the bar on making the bar.
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Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Kline Commons The Choose Your Menu program is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Bard students to vote on food they want to eat for dinner on Thursdays at Kline.Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
God Mountains and Fengshui Forests: Sacred/Secular Dialectics and the Fate of Rural Tibetan and Han Communities in China’s Ecological Civilization
Christopher Coggins Professor of Geography & Asian Studies Simon's Rock College
Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:40 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Animism and vitalism have captured the imagination of post-structural theorists, ontologically-inclined ethnographers, and several cultural geographers. This presentation draws on works by scholars who have explored the divide, or dialectic, between sacred and secular space (Lefebvre, Foucault, Viveiros de Castro, and others) to explore the contemporary political ecology of Tibetan sacred mountains (gzhi bdag) and Han sacred forests (fengshuilin) as China strives to build a post-industrial Ecological Civilization (Shengtai Wenming).Sponsored by: Anthropology Program and Asian Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Thursday, October 19, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions (over cookies and tea).
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Till we have built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
Adina Hoffman
Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Award-winning essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman will discuss her book, Till We Have Built Jerusalem, which is a gripping and intimate journey into the lives of three very different architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. A powerfully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, the book uncovers multiple layers of one great city's buried history as it asks what it means, in Jerusalem and everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.
Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century, and, with Peter Cole, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which won the American Library Association's prize for the best Jewish book of 2011. The LosAngelesTimes called her most recent book, TillWeHave Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, “brave and often beautiful,” and Haaretz described it as “a passionate, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.” A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and one of the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Literary Prizes, she divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven.
Praise for Till We Have Built Jerusalem “A fascinating synthesis that manages to distill biography, history, politics, aesthetics, religion and psychology into one illuminating, lively, witty text. This is one of the finest books I’ve ever read on the difficult, fragile arts of architecture and city-making.” - Phillip Lopate
“Adina Hoffman does for Jerusalem what great writers have done for Paris, London, and New York: with charm, skill, and originality, she weaves together a vivid social and architectural history of one of the fabled cities of the world.” - Vivian Gornick
“Adina Hoffman is that very rare writer who moves lightly across vast realms of knowledge, transmuting the most intransigent material into illuminating and affecting narratives. Here is a book about the making of a city that is as emotionally potent as it is intellectually bracing.” - Pankaj Mishra
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
As President Trump pursues a regressive, isolationist agenda, business is stepping up to address climate change, promote equality and protect human rights, and create economic opportunity. Join sustainability pioneer Hunter Lovins for a conversation series with industry experts to explore this shift in progressive business leadership.
October's Business Stepping Up conversation will feature Kathy Hipple discussing how to achieve true sustainability, we need to move trillions of dollars from destructive projects into regenerative investments. Kathy is a founding partner of Noosphere Marketing, where she works with mission-driven organizations, financial services and tech firms to communicate – and advance -- their ESG initiatives. Prior to launching Noosphere, Kathy worked extensively on Wall Street with international institutional clients at Merrill Lynch, and in local search, where she ran a NYC-based media company with nearly 200 employees and $35 million in revenues while serving on the national board of the Local Search Association. Kathy is a founding member of the Generative Council, a group of women leaders in the for-profit and not-for-profit sector. She serves on the boards of Meals on Wheels in Bennington, Vermont; Sawah Bali, in Bali, Indonesia; and The Center for Nature and Leadership, in Washington, DC. She is working to launch a Sustainable Women’s Investment fund, which will select investments through a gender and sustainability lens.
Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as we host the Business Stepping Up Series monthly in downtown Manhattan featuring Hunter Lovins in discussion with Bard MBA faculty and alumni who are part of this business revolution.
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Follow along with Business Stepping Up in the monthly Huffington Post column previewing that month's event:
Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy Webinar - Information Session
Thursday, October 19, 2017 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Webinar Jan Kregel, Director Levy Graduate Programs will be hosting an Information Session for students interested in the M.A. or M.S. in Economic Theory and Policy and the 3+2 or 4+1 programs.Sponsored by: Levy Graduate Programs.
Blum Hall Percussionist Jeff “Siege” Siegel will be performing with his sextet, featuring tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, pianist Francesca Tanksley, bassist Rich Syracuse and percussionist Fred Berryhill along with special guest, master trumpeter Feya Faku, of Johannesburg, South Africa.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
A writing/discussion group about emotional eating, restrictive eating, body shame, hunger, and metaphor.
Friday, October 20, 2017 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Health and Counseling Servie; Robbins Please join Bard's nutritionist, Ilyse Simon RDN CDN, Fridays (beginning 9/15/2017), 1:30-2:30 in the Health and Counseling Group Room (enter the Health and Counseling Service). If interested/for more info email: [email protected] or just show up. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/counseling.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Olin Humanities, Room 101 Come one, come all to the first LUX Literary Magazine Meeting of the semester! We would love to see new initiates and old members of our collective LUX family alike to talk about plans, ideas, and questions concerning LUX. In addition, we are looking for staff editors, so if you are interested, this is your chance to speak up! Hope to see you there.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sustainable Business Fridays: Personal Care Products that are Good for Body & Planet
Rebecca Hamilton, VP of R&D, WS Badger Company, Inc.
Friday, October 20, 2017 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Podcast Rebecca Hamilton is an owner and the Vice President of Research and Development/Quality Assurance at the W.S. Badger Company, where she oversees technical research, new product innovation and development, companywide quality assurance and regulatory affairs as well as Badger’s product related sustainability initiatives. Rebecca has over a decade of experience in the natural products industry and has served as an industry expert and public presenter at over 30 conferences and events. Her background in ethnobotany and supply chain management coupled with her passions for organic living, safe products, and ethical commerce have led her to wider industry involvement and public service outreach. She is currently involved in safe cosmetics legislation and toxic chemical reform, has served as the chair of the Natural Products Association Natural Personal Care Steering Committee, and is an active committee member on both the Personal Care Products Council’s Sunscreen Taskforce and on the American Sustainable Business Council’s Safer Chemicals Coalition.
Sustainable Business Fridays (SBF) is the first podcast of its kind bringing together students in Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability Program with leaders in business, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Twice monthly, these conversations go live via iTunes and Spotify. Past SBF featured guests have included top sustainability leaders from Unilever, HSBC, GM, Campbell’s Soup, PepsiCo, Green Mountain Energy and many more.
BARD MBA in SUSTAINABILITY:
The Bard MBA in Sustainability is one of a select few graduate programs globally that fully integrates sustainability into a core business curriculum. In the Bard MBA every class is organized around one critical question: How can we build or transform our businesses so that they are in business to solve the pressing social and environmental problems of our time? Graduates of the Bard MBA are transforming existing companies, starting their own, and pioneering a new paradigm of doing business that meets human needs, protects and restores the Earth's systems, and treats all stakeholders with justice and respect. To learn more, visit www.bard.edu/mba.
POSTER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD BELOW.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Breakfast conversation with Bard MBA alumni Jess King '15
Friday, October 20, 2017 8:00 am – 9:00 am
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Jess King earned an MBA in Sustainability from Bard College three years ago: three months ago, she announced she was running for US Congress in her home district representing Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Come hear from Jess about how her MBA experience, along with her day job as Director of ASSETS, a non-profit economic development agency, influenced her decision to run.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution Symposium
Friday, October 20, 2017 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema A symposium commemorating the centennial of the Russian Revolution which will examine a wide range of topics related to the history, politics, and culture of this seminal event in modern Russian history. Bard President Leon Botstein will deliver the keynote address, and speakers include scholars from Bard, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College). The scholars will discuss, among other topics, the history and politics of the Revolution, literature in early Soviet Russia, visual culture of the two 1917 revolutions and the Russian Civil War, music of the Revolution, and the Russian Revolution and Eastern European ethnic cultures. The symposium is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Center for Moving Image Arts; Experimental Humanities Program; German Studies Program; Russian Art of the Avant-Garde Project at Bard, and the Yeltsin Presidential Library and Russian National Library (St. Petersburg, Russia).; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 626-628-6557, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Award-winning memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn’s new book is a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading—and reliving—Homer’s Odyssey. When 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual.
Acclaimed poet, memoirist, and Hudson Valley resident Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) joins Bard Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities Daniel Mendelsohn on stage to discuss the Odyssey’s themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel, and the meaning of home.
Copies of An Odyssey and other titles by both authors will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
This event includes an audience Q&A and book signing.“Beguiling . . . Mendelsohn unwraps layers of timeless meaning in the ancient Greek poem . . . weaves family history and trenchant literary analysis into a luminous whole.” –Publisher's Weekly
“Rich, vivid, a blood-warm book . . . a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading—and reliving—the Odyssey. Mendelsohn wears his learning lightly yet superbly. What catches you off guard about this memoir is how moving it is: it has many things to say not only about Homer’s epic poem, but about fathers and sons. Revealing and funny . . . Mendelsohn makes Homer’s epic shine in your mind.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra
Frank Martin Six Monologues from Jedermann Eerie and emotionally charged with Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone, a winner of the Bard College Conservatory 2016 Concerto Competition
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Who doesn’t love this piece? It’s joyous, epic, and monumental.” –Dan Honaker, tuba with Chloe Olivia Moore, soprano; Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano; John Pickle, tenor; Alfred Walker, bass-baritone; and the Bard College Chamber Singers& Bard Festival Chorale
The concert will run approximately 2 hours including one 20-minute intermission. Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Maestro Botstein will lead the Conservatory Orchestra in a special one-hour preview of Mahler's Symphony No. 1, "Titan".Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts RIT in the final home match of the season. It's Senior Day! Come out and send them off in style!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Trump and American Foreign Policy Faculty-Student Roundtable
Saturday, October 21, 2017 2:45 pm
Olin Hall Faculty members Jonathan Becker - Vice President for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Political Students, and Director of the Center for Civic Engagement - and Walter Russell Mead - James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities - join members of the Bard Debate Union (Templeton Kay '19, Matt Caito '20, and Estrella Frankenfeld '20) for a panel discussion on President Trump and the state of American Foreign Policy today.Sponsored by: Brd Debate Union.
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra
Frank Martin Six Monologues from Jedermann Eerie and emotionally charged with Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone, a winner of the Bard College Conservatory 2016 Concerto Competition
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Who doesn’t love this piece? It’s joyous, epic, and monumental.” –Dan Honaker, tuba with Chloe Olivia Moore, soprano; Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano; John Pickle, tenor; Alfred Walker, bass-baritone; and the Bard College Chamber Singers& Bard Festival Chorale
The concert will run approximately 2 hours including one 20-minute intermission. Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Bitó Conservatory Building MUSIC ALIVE! Featuring compositions by Sebastian Currier, a Grawemeyer Award-winning composer, and Derek Bermel, clarinetist, Grammy-nominated composer, and artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra.
Music Alive! is co-directed by pianist Blair McMillen and composer Joan Tower, and will feature 20 performers from the Bard Conservatory, as well as Derek Bermel on clarinet and Blair McMillen on piano.
free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Symposium: Unpacking Histories, in conjunction with the exhibition "No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects"
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Unpacking Historiesaims to shed light on the historical blind-spots uncovered by artists whose work responds to, or emerges from, landscapes in transition and conflict. The geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa is the context for these lines of inquiry that intersect histories of art with social and political events.
This symposium unfolds in conjunction with No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, which runs from June 24, 2017 until October 29, 2017 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
Followed by free vegetarian dinner (send me an email if you plan to attend the meal!)
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
"Other Worlds: An Evening with Poets Michael Ives and Yehoshua November"
Yehoshua November & Michael Ives
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 201 Concerning Violence (2014) is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s landmark book, written over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it. (Excerpt from: https://dogwoof.com/concerningviolence)
Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4600, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring the music of special guest saxophonist, composer and educator Paavo Carey
Monday, October 23, 2017 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Blum N211 (The Jazz Room) The Bard College Community Orchestra will demonstrate it's range in playing styles of jazz from the Hard Bop period in the 50s on to the Free Jazz styles in the 60s. Performing the music of Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Michael Mossman and Thurman Barker.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
The Feedback Group provides relaxed workshops for all creative writing genres. Bring a short piece or excerpt to be critiqued, or just come to join the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email your piece to [email protected] by 1:00 PM the day of to be printed, or bring at least 5 of your own copies.
For more information, call 505-699-3323, or e-mail [email protected].
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
1917 Russian Revolution Round Table from Smolny College
BlueJeans Video-conference
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Henderson Center Smart Classroom ; Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Roundtable at Smolny with the participation of key-speakers from the Conference held at the European University in St. Petersburg by Artemy Magun. Potential participants: Jodi Dean, Andreas Kalyvas, Boris Groys, Sophie Wahnich, etc. We plan to broadcast this event via Bluejeans to Bard and the Bard audience will be able to participate in the Q&A.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 626-628-6557, or e-mail [email protected].
Bottleneck in the Drug Pipeline? Alternative Tumor Measurement-based Phase II Clinical Trial Endpoints for Predicting Overall Survival
Ming-Wen An, Vassar College
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:00 pm
Hegeman 204 In the final stages of a long and costly drug discovery process, a drug compound is introduced into humans as part of a clinical trial. A clinical trial is a research study with a pre-defined protocol and is conducted in different phases. In oncology, as many as 60% of drug compounds that reach the last phase (Phase III) fail this final step. This high failure rate may reflect inappropriate evaluation of compounds in preceding Phase II trials, in which the primary endpoint is often binary tumor response, based on the Response Evaluation Criteria for Solid Tumors (RECIST). This motivates the search for alternative Phase II endpoints. In this talk, we will introduce clinical trials and survival analysis to contextualize the problem. Then we will describe our work evaluating alternative categorical and continuous tumor measurement-based endpoints for their ability to predict overall survival using data from real clinical trials.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7362, or e-mail [email protected].
'The Glitter of Putrescence': Cinema between Poetry and Horror
Philippe C. Met
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 5:00 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center How germane and applicable is poetry as both idiom and practice to such an ostensibly unrelated, if not diametrically opposed filmic genre as horror (or the fantastic)? Through the dual mediation of E.A. Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition” and Shakespeare’s Ophelia, the purpose of this talk is to bring out and elucidate secret affinities or conceptual commonalities between the two realms concerned within a type of cinema that deliberately subverts narrativity. Specific examples across periods and countries will be examined (C. Laughton, J. Tourneur, H. Harvey, G. Franju, M. Bava, D. Argento, R. Vadim).
Philippe C. Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal French Forum. He is the author of Formules de la poésie (1999) and La lettre tue. Spectre(s) de l'écrit fantastique (2008), and co-editor of Screening the Paris Suburbs (2017). He is currently editing a collected volume devoted to French filmmaker Louis Malle, to be published next year.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts; Division of Languages and Literature; Film and Electronic Arts Program; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room A panel of Latinos in Local Politics, with:
Dutchess County Legislator Francena Amparo
President of Hispanic Coalition of NY Monica Arias Miranda
Candidate for Orange County Legislature Kevindaryán Lujan
Candidate for Dutchess County Legislature Giancarlo Llaverias
Rhinebeck Judge William Sánchez
Moderated by:
Mariel Fiori, co-founder and managing editor of La Voz
October 24th - 6PM MPR
Free and Open to the Public
Refreshments will be served
Presented by: La Voz magazine. Bard CCE, 100 Days Initiative, Student Labor Dialogue, and the Latino American Students Organization at Bard College (LASO)Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Human Rights Program; La Voz.
Olin Humanities, Room 102 A Brilliant Genocide is a powerful documentary exposing the true story behind the rise of the brutal warlord, Joseph Kony, and the Ugandan government's campaign against the Acholi people. This one-hour film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring:
Helen C. Epstein—author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror and instructor in the Human Rights program at Bard College
Lawrence Kiwanuka Nsereko—Ugandan journalist and instructor at Dutchess County Community College
Zachariah Mampilly—Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana and International Studies at Vassar College, author of Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War and co-author of Africa Uprising! Popular Politics and Unarmed Resistance
John Ryle—writer, anthropologist, and specialist in Eastern Africa, Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, and co-founder of the Rift Valley Institute, a Kenya-based organization working in Eastern Africa to bring local knowledge to bear on development
Pizza and drinks will be served. Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program, Africana Studies Program, and Rift Valley Institute; Human Rights Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 The First-Year Success Workshop provides a series of discussions on topics contributing to student success in college: time/task management, studying strategies, paper writing, active reading strategies, stress management, and more. Come once or come every week. The workshops are designed with first-year students in mind, and open to any student. Sponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs.
Past, Present, and Future of Economic Research on LGBT People
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 101 Come hear Michael Martell, Assistant Professor Economics at Bard College, discuss the origins of stereotypes of gay and lesbian affluence and the history of economic research that has developed a more accurate depiction of the economic experiences of sexual minorities.
Learn about the empirical methods economists have utilized to understand the socioeconomic experience of LGBT individuals. Also, find out how the economic outcomes of LGBT individuals relate to existing economic theory. Lastly, discover the impact of the current political climate on recent efforts of policymakers and researchers to advance economic equality through better data and public policies.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Economics Program; Economics and Finance Program.
Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, installations, and essays to research failed left utopias and incomplete decolonizations– framed by Third World Internationalism and World Socialism. The terrain is a “a revolutionary past meaningful in the sudden eruption of a revolutionary present” (Kaelen Wilson-Goldie). In spite of underscoring a left tendency toward misrecognition, a hope for an as-yet unborn international left, as the only future alternative to silos of race and religion, is a basis for the work. Project chapters have shown at documenta 14, Kiran Nadar, Ashkal Alwan, Sharjah, Marrakech, and Venice Biennales, Tate Britain, and MoMA. His essays include “Islamic roots of Hip-Hop” (Sound Unbound, 2008), “Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon” (e-flux Supercommunity, 2015), “Anabasis of the Japanese Red Army” (e-flux Journal, 2015), and “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Campaign” (Assuming Boycott/Walker Art Center, 2017). Naeem is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University researching left histories outside state patronage. Speakers Series events are all free-of-charge with seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
False Dawn: Protest, Democracy and Violence in the New Middle East
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 170 E 64th St, New York, NY 10065 Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. How did things go so wrong so quickly across a wide range of regimes?
Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss why the recent Arab uprisings failed and have led to more repression and conflict, and the role that the United States can and should play in the Middle East.
He will be in conversation with James Ketterer, dean of International Studies at Bard College and director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program.
This event is part of the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and Foreign Affairs.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Mount St. Mary College in the final home match of the season. It's Senior Day! Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts Union College in a key Liberty League contest. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Kline Commons The Choose Your Menu program is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Bard students to vote on food they want to eat for dinner on Thursdays at Kline.Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Thursday, October 26, 2017 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
72 labors brought us this food...
Thus we eat this food with everyone. We eat to stop all evil, to practice good, to save all sentient beings and to accomplish our Buddha way.
Thursday, October 26, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Kline, College Room
Join the Buddhist group for a mindful meal at Kline.
We will begin the meal in silence and then open it up for discussion.
If you are interested, email me and we will meet in the College Room at Kline.
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center Grab your lunch and head across the road to the Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center to learn about how the Office of Prospect Research identifies potential funders for Bard projects and programs. Informal Q&A -- bring questions! Open to all faculty and staff. Hosted by the Bard College Office of Institutional Support, Office of Prospect Research. For more information, call 845-758-7831, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline Commons Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Health, Counseling, and Wellness; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Sustainability.
Science or Snake Oil? Managing eutrophication in Jordan Lake, NC
Robyn Smyth Assistant Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies, Bard College
Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:40 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Eutrophication is a widespread and growing problem in aquatic ecosystems. Caused by excess nutrient loading from multiple human activities in the watershed, eutrophication is difficult to reverse, often requiring costly reductions in both point and non-point nutrient sources and resulting in long waits for water quality improvements. The high cost of nutrient management has led the State of North Carolina (NC) to pursue alternative means of addressing the water quality impairments of Jordan Lake, a 60 km2 recreational reservoir and drinking water supply in central NC. Thirty-six solar-powered circulators (SPCs) were deployed in two impaired embayments of Jordan Lake which were monitored for water quality improvements over 2 years. To complement the state’s predominately biological monitoring, temperature gradient microstructure was used to estimate turbulence parameters (dissipation) in proximity to and away from the SPCs. I found the physical mixing induced was far less than expected based on claims by the device manufacturer. The State found no effect of the SPCs in its biological monitoring and the pilot project was canceled in August 2016. Results and implications of this project on decision making for eutrophication management will be discussed. Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drug Treatment in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Allison McKim Sociology Program
Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:45 pm
Preston Theater After decades of the American “war on drugs," relentless prison expansion, and rising opioid deaths, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution: addiction treatment. However, we know so little about what goes on inside treatment programs that scholars have called it a “black box.” Allison McKim’s ethnographic research heads inside the black box to compare two treatment programs for women – one in the criminal justice system and one in the healthcare system. There, she finds two different ways of defining and treating addiction. She reveals that the category "addiction" reflects punitive criminal justice policy and its race, class, and gender politics. Thus when we use "addiction" to understand and address complex social problems, we further stigmatize marginalized women, reproduce inequality, and extend punishment.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7380, or e-mail [email protected].
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions (over cookies and tea).
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Joshua Billings Assistant Professor of Classics, Princeton University
Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:00 pm
Aspinwall 302 Prometheus has been a trickster, a rebel, a creator, a benefactor, a savior, a blackmailer, and a prisoner, sentenced to gruesome torture. The talk will describe transformations of the figure in antiquity and modernity, and the meaning of the figure today in the context of prison education.
For more info please contact [email protected]Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us every Thursday night as we bake (incredibly delicious) challah and cook our vegetarian food for Friday evening's Shabbat dinner. All are welcome! For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
A writing/discussion group about emotional eating, restrictive eating, body shame, hunger, and metaphor.
Friday, October 27, 2017 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Health and Counseling Servie; Robbins Please join Bard's nutritionist, Ilyse Simon RDN CDN, Fridays (beginning 9/15/2017), 1:30-2:30 in the Health and Counseling Group Room (enter the Health and Counseling Service). If interested/for more info email: [email protected] or just show up. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/counseling.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Olin Humanities, Room 101 Come one, come all to the first LUX Literary Magazine Meeting of the semester! We would love to see new initiates and old members of our collective LUX family alike to talk about plans, ideas, and questions concerning LUX. In addition, we are looking for staff editors, so if you are interested, this is your chance to speak up! Hope to see you there.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Friday, October 27, 2017 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Celebrate the end of another great harvest season with the Bard Farm. Beer made from the farm's hops. Seasonal snacks, live music and more! All are welcome!
Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 503-821-9750, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening we meet for a relaxed, informal service at 6:30 and a home-cooked vegetarin dinner at 7:30. All are welcome to parrticiopate in this warm and fuzzy Jewish community! For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Saturday, October 28, 2017 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Saturday, October 28, 2017 2:00 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts Skidmore College in the final home match of the season. It's Senior Day! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater All are invited to the Cultural Show organized by the ISO. This is a great opportunity to experience the hidden talents of our students. This includes music, dance, and other performances from around the world. For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Sunday, October 29, 2017 4:00 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Montgomery Place With Jon Bowermeister (filmmaker), Libby Zemaitis (NY D.E.C), and Christian Crouch (Bard College). Hudson Canoe and Kayak Trip with Susan Rogers (Bard College).
Bard College and the Good Work Institute will copresent a series of discussions, called the Hudson Valley Climate Salon Series, over four Sundays in October and November at Montgomery Place. These sessions will provide a clear and honest assessment of the local risks and challenges that come with changing climate. The Hudson Valley Climate Change Salon Series will be hosted on Sunday October 29, November 5, November 12, and November 19, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm at Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus, 26 Gardener Way, Red Hook, New York. This series is made possible with support from Dandelion and Hudson Solar. Admission is a ‘pay what you wish’ donation.
From raging wildfires to this year’s unprecedented hurricane season, there is ample evidence that an unstable climate is wreaking havoc around the world. The Climate Salon Series aims to bring the climate discussion home to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and to enable participants to gain a deeper understanding of the potential impacts of a changing climate on our communities.
These sessions will also offer tools and tactics for addressing these changes, and the inspiration to help build more connected and resilient local communities. Each Salon will explore a different theme, and will be preceded by related experiential activities.
November 5th: Farming With Gidon Eshel (Bard College), Elizabeth Ryan (Stone Ridge Orchards) Activity: Montgomery Orchard Farm Tour with Talea and Doug Taylor (Montgomery Place Orchards)
November 12: Forests With Cathy Collins (Bard College), Gary Lovett (Cary Institute), John Thompson (Catskill Center) Activity: Tree identification and Climate Change Walk with Amy Parella (Bard College)
November 19: Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute) Activity: Tick Identification and Protection Lab With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute)
Presenting partners include Chronogram, Climate Citizens Lobby, Hawthorne Valley Farm Association, La Voz, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater An afternoon of music, dance and poetry to stand in solidarity with Puerto Rico. All proceeds will be donated to Taller Salud, Casa Pueblo and Iser Caribe, community based organizations working to support the health and wellness of Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane María.
This event is organized by Bard’s Dean of Inclusive Excellence, Ariana Gonzalez Stokas 00' with the support of Ivette Romero, Marist College and Jessica Pabón, SUNY New Paltz. Sponsored by: A Special Community Fundraiser.
Ratatouille: Wrap up Food Days with a showing of the Disney Pixar movie Ratatouille. Come watch and indulge in real French pastries that will be provided with the show, courtesy of the French Department!
Sponsored by: French Studies Program.
For more information, call 503-821-9750, or e-mail [email protected].
Visiting Artists: icarus Quartet Two Pianos and Two Percussionists perform Bartok and Maric
Sunday, October 29, 2017 7:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building
A quartet specializing in 20th and 21st century repertoire composed for two pianos and percussion. They will perform the Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Dave Maric's recent work, Trophic Cascades (2014). Free admission. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
The celebrated author reads from The Zookeeper’s Wife
Monday, October 30, 2017 2:30 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema On Monday, October 30, at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Diane Ackerman reads from The Zookeeper’s Wife. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
The Zookeeper’s Wife, a little known true story of WWII, enjoyed months as the New York Times #1 nonfiction bestseller, was the basis for the 2017 feature film of the same title, and received the Orion Book Award, which honored it as “a groundbreaking work of nonfiction, in which the human relationship to nature is explored in an absolutely original way through looking at the Holocaust. A few years ago, ‘nature’ writers were asking themselves, How can a book be at the same time a work of art, an act of conscientious objection to the destruction of the world, and an affirmation of hope and human decency? The Zookeeper’s Wife answers this question.”
Diane Ackerman’s other works of nonfiction include An Alchemy of Mind, a poetics of the brain based on the latest neuroscience; Deep Play, which considers play, creativity, and our need for transcendence; A Slender Thread, about her work as a crisis line counselor; The Rarest of the Rare and The Moon by Whale Light, in which she explores the plight and fascination of endangered animals; On Extended Wings, her memoir of flying; and her bestseller, A Natural History of the Senses. Her most recent book, The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, a celebration of the natural world and human ingenuity, and an exploration of human-driven planetary change, received the P.E.N. Henry David Thoreau Award for Nature Writing.
Several of Ackerman's books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Circle Critics Award finalists. She also has the rare distinction of having a molecule named after her—dianeackerone— a pheromone in crocodilians. Her essays about nature and human nature have been appearing for decades in the New York Times, New Yorker, American Scholar, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and elsewhere.
Any supporter who donates $500 or more to Bard’s literary journal Conjunctions receives a BackPage Pass providing VIP access to any Fall 2017 or future event in the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series. Have lunch with a visiting author, attend a seminar on their work, and receive premium seating at their reading. Or you can give your BackPage Pass to a lover of literature on your gift list! To find out more, click here or contact Micaela Morrissette at [email protected] or (845) 758-7054.Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
The Introduction to Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet: An Unprecedented Network of Disorientations.
A talk by music theorist Eric Wen presented by the Bard College Music Program and the Conservatory of Music
Monday, October 30, 2017 4:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Eric Wen, professor in music theory and analysis at the Curtis Institute of Music, CUNY, and Juilliard School of Music, Graduate Division, will discuss the Introduction from the first movement of Mozart's String Quartet in C, K.465, known as the "Dissonance”. His book Structurally Sound, an analytical examination of seven classical masterpieces, has recently been published by Dover Publications. Room 210 in the Conservatory Building.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
In the Guesthouse of Language: Translation as Asylum
Christine Ivanovic Max Kade Distinguished Professor of German (Brown University & University of Vienna)
Monday, October 30, 2017 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201 One of the most persistent topics in translation studies is the differentiation between “Domestication” and “Foreignization” – two alternative modes of literary translation first conceptualized by Friedrich Schleiermacher and (in English) coined by Lawrence Venuti. What happens when literary texts demand a crossing of borders? How do we perceive, conceptualize, and argue about the translation of literature, and, ultimately, about the translation of people? What do “Domestication” and “Foreignization” reflect when it is not texts but rather people who are crossing borders? How do these questions define the task of the translator today?
Professor Ivanovic will discuss these questions in response to eminent thinkers such as Friedrich Hölderlin, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and Elfriede Jelinek.
For further information, please contact Thomas Wild: [email protected] Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; German Studies Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Since Gutenberg, printing technologies changed only modestly through five centuries of print production. However, starting in the mid–20th century, computational media began to be integrated with printing technologies with the invention of phototypesetters. This initiated a new era of reading, writing, and book production that I call postprint, to mark the ontological rupture separating it from traditional print techniques. This talk will sketch in this history and explore its implications for the transition from humans conceived as autonomous individuals to humans as part of cognitive assemblages that include networked and programmable machines.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
Bard Electric Guitar Ensemble performs Terry Riley's "In C"
Monday, October 30, 2017 8:00 pm
Blum Hall The Bard Electric Guitar Ensemble, a student ensemble of ten electric guitarists (directed by Prof. Matt Sargent), perform Terry Riley's minimalist masterwork, "In C."Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
The Future of Writing in the Digital Age: Postprint Productions and Asemic Writing
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 3:00 am – 5:00 pm
Henderson 106 (Mac Lab) This workshop will explore the implications of the changed nature of alphabetic writing in digital technologies, where the surface inscription is generated through layers of software and hardware. As printing technologies move into postprint, the fundamental nature of what constitutes “the text” transforms from human-only legibility to the mixed ecology of cognitive assemblages. For contemporary literature, this is often represented as a crisis in the human ability to read, write, and understand alphabetic language. This linguistic crisis is at the center of two contemporary novels, The Silent History and The Word Exchange, both of which entwine concerns about the obsolescence of print with the obsolescence of humanity as we know it. The connections of these texts to renewed interest in asemic writing will also be discussed. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reunión semanal de La Voz (con la mesa de español)
We invite students of all skills and talents to come by for our informal weekly meeting, on Tuesdays from 12 pm to 1:30 pm, to eat lunch and talk. ¡También es la hora de la mesa de español!
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
College Room, Kline Commons Sponsored by: La Voz.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x3759, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 204 Sam Baumgartner Yuming Liu Andres Mejia Kirill Shakhnovskiy Yida Shao Darren Tirto Eric Zhang Lingxin ZhaoSponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Introduced by Francine Prose In conversation with Charlotte Mandell, his translator.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 5:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 “Énard has written a masterful novel that speaks to our current, confused moment in history by highlighting the manifold, vital contributions of Islamic and other Middle Eastern cultures to the European canon. More than that, it points toward, as one character puts it, ‘a new vision that includes the other in the self.’ ” Andrew Ervin, The Washington Post
French novelist Mathias Énard is the award-winning author of Zone (2008) and Street of Thieves (2012), and a translator from Persian and Arabic. He won the Prix Goncourt (France’s oldest and most prestigious literary prize) in 2015 for Compass. The novel, translated like previous ones by Bard’s own Charlotte Mandell, was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
For more information, please contact Professor Éric Trudel at [email protected]Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program; Written Arts Program; the Book Department at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Artist Presentation Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Fisher Studio Arts Building
Terry Winters is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art.
“The point is to tell the truth, but, as Emily Dickinson wrote, to tell it slant. And in the case of the abstract artist, to tell it extremely slant. To evoke an emotional and cerebral response without resorting to any of the usual ways in which artists have learned to tap into our thoughts and feelings. To work by indirection, by association, to sidestep the familiar and well-worn paths that the visual artist constructs between the hand and the mind of the artist and the eye and the mind of the viewer.”
Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Montgomery Place Campus Landscape and Arboretum Program presents a free exhibition focusing on the antique garden implements used at Montgomery Place for vegetable gardening, landscaping, orchard care, and ornamental floral display. “Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place” is on display in the Greenhouse Tool Room on the Montgomery Place Campus, which is open daily from sunrise to sunset.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
The Fall Recruiting Consortium (FRC) - Important Deadlines
Runs through Sunday, October 1, 2017 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
New York City
Bard Juniors & Seniors Only
The deadline to submit your resume to CDO for participation in the 2017 Fall Recruiting Consortium is September 13. Students should email their resume as a Word document to [email protected].
Other important events for FRC include:
Weds. 9/13 - FRC Info. Session, Campus Center 214 Fri. 9/15 - Resume Blitz Drop-in Hours at CDO Tues. 9/19 - Resume Blitz Drop-in Hours at CDO Sun. 10/1 - Final Application Deadline Fri. 10/27 - FRC Interview Day in NYC
The Fall Recruiting Consortium (FRC) is a recruiting event in NYC that offers Junior level students the opportunity to interview for Summer 2018 internships, and offers Senior level students the opportunity to interview for full-time job opportunities beginning May 2018.
This selective consortium includes students from top liberal arts schools, including Bard, Connecticut College, Swarthmore, Wesleyan and William & Mary. Companies that participate and recruit students come from the following fields:
If you are a Bard Junior or Senior and are interested in participating in this recruiting event, the first step is to email your resume to [email protected].
A preview of participating employers and opportunities will be available soon. Please check back.
One Day University Film School Presents: "Norman" and a Discussion with Roger Berkowitz
Location: NYC
Sunday, October 1, 2017 9:15 am – 12:00 pm
One Day University Film School Presents: "Norman"
Is world history changed by the machinations of great persons or small acts by anonymous people? Do loyalty and honor still matter in public life? Can a small act of kindness lead to a life-changing friendship? Can a powerful politician hold on to his soul? Is power as sweet as it seems? Or must power in the end lead to corruption?
These are the questions that inspire "Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer," a 2017 film written and directed by Joseph Cedar and starring Richard Gere. "Norman" raises eternal and timely questions about power, insiders, and outsiders. In its complexity, the movie reflects on clichés about Jewish Machers and political players. Join us for a discussion of struggle between anonymity and the will to power led by Bard College Professor Roger Berkowitz.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Come to this joyous celebration with your best friend. Bring along your cat, dog, horse, bird, monkey, or mule! Or bring your favorite stuffed animal for a blessing if you do not have a four footed, gilled, or creepy crawly at home. Pictures of pets are welcome too. Also, bring your two footed friends!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Are you ready for an engaging and immersive experience abroad? Consider studying with the Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program!
Monday, October 2, 2017 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby ISLE is a one-semester program affiliated with the University of Peradeniya in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The program offers courses in Gender & Women's Studies, Peace & Conflict Studies, Religion, Political Science, Public Health, and more. During the semester, you'll live with a host family, learn introductory Sinhala and Tamil languages, takes classes with renowned Sri Lankan professors, and complete a field-based independent research project on a topic of your choice. Past ISLE projects have become the foundations of Senior Projects and post-graduate research fellowships.
To learn more about the opportunities that await you in Sri Lanka, stop by the ISLE information table in the Campus Center on Monday, October 2nd. ISLE representative and Bard '15 alumna, Hannah Durham, will be present to answer your questions about the integrating a semester in Sri Lanka into your Bard experience. We hope to see you there!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
A Conversation with Bradford Morrow and Mary Caponegro
Monday, October 2, 2017 4:45 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Monday, October 2nd, at 4:45 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bradford Morrow presents a reading from his brand-new novel, The Prague Sonata. Hailed as "an elegant foray into music and memory" (Kirkus Reviews), the novel revolves around an unsolved eighteenth-century musical mystery that transports readers between Nazi-occupied Prague and turn-of-the-millennium New York. This event also features Morrow in conversation with Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing at Bard, Mary Caponegro.
Bard Center Fellow, Conjunctions editor, novelist, and Bard literature professor, Morrow is the author of novels including Trinity Fields, The Forgers, and The Almanac Branch. His many awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, O. Henry and Pushcart prizes for his short stories, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Nora Magid Award for excellence in editing a literary journal.
Mary Caponegro has authored numerous short story collections including All Fall Down, The Complexities of Intimacy,The Star Café, and Five Doubts. Among her accolades are the General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers, the Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature from American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Bruno Arcudi Award.
Refreshments will be served. Oblong Books will offer copies of The Prague Sonata for sale.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Preston Xaviera Simmons's body of work spans photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture, and installation, and she is committed equally to the examination of these different artistic modes and processes. She may dedicate part of a year to photography, another part to performance, and other parts to installation, video, and sound works, keeping her practice in constant and consistent rotation.
Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks. She completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art (2005) while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio. In 2017, Simmons’ solo shows include Harvard University, and recent museum purchases also 2017, include three works acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Group exhibitions in 2017 include Wexner Center for the Arts; Prospect 5 New Orleans; Trussardi Foundation, Milan; Studio Museum in Harlem, MCA Chicago and numerous others.
This lecture is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Photography Program.
Carney, Sandoe & Associates is the largest educational recruitment firm that places teachers and administrators in private, independent and like-kind (charter, magnet, pilot and merit) schools across the nation and worldwide. You do NOT need teaching certification to work in independent schools!
Information Session:
When: Monday, November 6, 7:00 - 8:00pm Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room Led by: Corinne Wener, Senior Associate of Operations & Conferences/Recruitment
Shakuhachi and Ichigenkin: Discovery in a Single Tone
New American music for ancient Japanese instruments
Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Featuring the performers Elizabeth Brown and Ralph Samuelson, shakuhachi (vertical bamboo flute) Issui Minegishi, ichigenkin (one-string koto).
With roots in the principles of Zen Buddhism and in spiritual practice, these traditional Japanese instruments share an underlying aesthetic concept: the discovery of the world that lies within one note, one sound. Both Traditional and new music.
http://elizabethbrowncomposer.com/2017/08/23/shakuhachi-and-ichigenkin-discovery-in-a-single-tone-u-s-tour-september-28-october-21-2017/Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby Stop by the campus center to learn about study aborad opportunites in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan! Bard College's partnership with the American University of Cental Asia (AUCA) offers students semester, academic year, and summer study abroad programs.
AUCA has academic offerings in areas such as the humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. Kyrgyzstan's unique history enriches classroom discussions. Themes such as its role as a historic Silk Road hub, a post-Communist state, and its contemporary democratic transition come together to form complex discussions about development in Central Asia.
Come talk to Bard Abroad program coordinator, Quinton Scribner, to find out more! We hope to see you there! Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Hegeman 204 Eric Zhang, ’18 COMPACTNESS OF RIGID GRAPH Given a graph G, a framework is a straight line embedding of a G into d-dimensional space. Two frameworks of G are equivalent if the corresponding edges in the two frameworks have the same length. Given a collection of equivalent frameworks of G, a framework is compact if the distance between all pairs of vertices is minimal among the collection. We are mainly considering generic frameworks, in which the coordinates of the vertices of G are algebraically independent. In this paper, we studied compact frameworks in R and R^2.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby Interested in finding more about law school?
Elizabeth Madigan, Esq., Assistant Director of Admissions at Brooklyn Law School, will be tabling at Bard to speak with students about Brooklyn Law School, and to answer any questions you have about the law school application process.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 3, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM WHERE: Campus Center Lobby
No appointment needed, just stop by Elizabeth's table!
Afterwards, please join Elizabeth Madigan, Bard faculty, and CDO Staff for a Graduate School Planning Process Workshop. Open to all class years, this is for those applying to, or even thinking about, grad school!
The Feedback Group provides relaxed workshops for all creative writing genres. Bring a short piece or excerpt to be critiqued, or just come to join the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email your piece to [email protected] by 1:00 PM the day of to be printed, or bring at least 5 of your own copies.
For more information, call 505-699-3323, or e-mail [email protected].
Confucianism on Relationships, Roles, and Marriage
Stephen Angle Wesleyan University
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 4:45 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This lecture analyzes the key Confucian idea of “human relationship (renlun)” and then explores both conservative and progressive Confucian arguments concerning the meaning of human relationships today, especially in the context of marriage.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Performing works by John Adams, Louis W Ballard, Judd Greenstein, Curtis Cacioppo, Kyle Gann, Talib Rasul Hakim, Philip Glass and Frederic Rzewski
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Emanuele Arciuli has established himself as one of the most original and interesting performers on today’s classical music scene. His repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music, with a strong affinity for composers from the United States.
Having gained the respect of distinguished composers such as Helmut Lachenman, Frederic Rzewski, John Adams and George Crumb, Emanuele Arciuli has had many new works written for him, including piano concertos by Michael Nyman and Louis W. Ballard, whose Indiana Concerto he premiered in 2008 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
His special interest in Native American cultures has impacted Emanuele Arciuli’s career, and resulted in him commissioning works from a number of Native American composers. His most recent project is called Indian Gallery and will feature new works inspired by Native American visual art by composers such as John Luther Adams, Martin Bresnick, Michael Daugherty, Kyle Gann, Peter Garland, Huang Ruo and Morton Subotnick.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
National Climate Seminar: Cities Taken By Storm: Hurricanes and Urban Sustainability
Dr. Michael Neuman, University of Westminster
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
https://bluejeans.com/465542196
Katrina, Irene, Sandy, Matthew, Harvey, Irma, Maria. We all know the names of these hurricanes. The reason: they were all record-breaking monsters, and they all hit the US in the last dozen years—three this year. Less known, but far more deadly, have been the devastating floods hitting South Asia this year, with over 7,000 people killed, and tens of millions displaced. Records are supposed to fall every thousand years, not every season, but as carbon pollution is warming the oceans and the atmosphere, we are juicing hurricanes and forcing the hydrological cycle, while raising sea levels and putting cities at risk from storm surge. Can we change direction? And how do we adapt?
Join distinguished urban sustainability expert Dr. Michael Neuman for a Bard CEP webinar: Cities Taken by Storm: Hurricanes and Urban Sustainability live streaming on Wednesday, October 4 at noon.
NATIONAL CLIMATE SEMINAR
Bard Center for Environmental Policy hosts the National Climate Seminar, a webinar series, at 12pm EST. Listeners can watch live or listen to past podcasts and webinars here. Past speakers have included thought leaders from 350.org, Sierra Club, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and many more.
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer masters programs in Environmental Policy, Climate Science and Policy, and Sustainable Business. The Bard Center for Environmental Policy's career-focused, science based, interdisciplinary masters of science programs are located in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. The rigorous first year coursework, followed by a required 4-6 month immersive internship, culminates with a Master’s Capstone Project and a 93% job placement rate within 6 months of graduation. Graduates are currently pursuing careers in many fields such as: alternative energy, international Development, advocacy/lobbying, conservation, research, and strategic consulting. For more information: bard.edu/cep/
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts Ramapo College in a non-league match. This is a BirdGang Event and a Breast Cancer Awareness event! There will be an opportunity to win free pizza at halftime. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts Sage in a non-league match. This is a BirdGang Event and a Breast Cancer Awareness event! There will be an opportunity to win free pizza at halftime. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Mental Health Screenings open to the entire Bard community.
Thursday, October 5, 2017 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby Free, anonymous, confidential mental health screenings, information about mental health resources on and off campus. Bard Counselors available all day to answer questions, connect students to supports. Also alcohol and marijuana screenings available. BRAVE counselors present as well. Sponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Kline Commons The Choose Your Menu program is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Bard students to vote on food they want to eat for dinner on Thursdays at Kline.Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.
Olin Humanities, Room 102 “Water is Life” has become a rallying cry from Standing Rock to Flint, Newburgh to New Jersey. The need for water organizing — and the increasing number of people engaged in it — will only grow as aging infrastructure and conservative environmental policies combine to damage our already polluted watersheds. Drawing on twenty years experience in community organizing and local politics, Jason West will discuss the importance of water — and the power to be found locally — through the development of the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Professor Tyler Bickford (University of Pittsburgh)
New Media Poetics and the Politics of Childhood: Doing Media Ethnography in School
Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:30 pm
RKC 103 Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at an elementary school in New England, this talk explores the politics and poetics of children’s everyday performances of mass media texts in school contexts. Elementary schools are places where the expressive environment is tightly regulated. But because schools’ pedagogical emphasis on literacy privileges language and communication as a field of action, expressive repertoires from popular music and entertainment media provide a powerful resource for children to challenge adult authority and claim childhood as a space of opposition, intimacy, and solidarity. An ethnographic perspective on the situated everyday activities in which children engage with poetic, musical, and narrative texts reveals that, in the “wild” of everyday school life, mass media texts circulate in fragmentary and partial forms, as snippets, tropes, half-remembered quotations, puns, improvisations, and momentary performances that are powerful in part because of their ephemerality and incompleteness. In their everyday performances, children put forward a poetics tightly linked to new media forms—drawn from the internet, mobile music devices, video games, and social media—to politicize and complicate the bureaucratic regime of school literacy and adulthood. In doing so, children’s performances point to new ways of thinking about the social structures that organize schools.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Bard Ethnomusicology, the IDEA Fund, Experimental Humanities; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-2405, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program Information Session
Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Room 102 Join us to learn more about the BardMAT Program's options for earning your master's degree and teacher certification. 4+1 and traditional program offerings will be discussed. Open to all students.Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
Muslims in Diaspora: Navigating the Politics of Old and New
Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bard Hall (NYC) Juris Pupcenoks of Marist College will discuss his new book, "Western Muslims and Conflicts Abroad: Conflict Spillovers to Diasporas," which looks at the ways different Muslim immigrant communities respond to political upheaval and violence in their homelands and in their new communities. He will be in conversation with BGIA director James Ketterer.
This event is part of the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series, which is supported by Foreign Affairs.
This event is free and open to the public by RSVP.
*Please note this event will not be held at BGIA's main office*Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 646-839-9262, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Sustainable Business Fridays: How the World's Largest Confectionary Plans to Go Sustainable in a Generation
Kevin Rabinovitch, Global Sustainability Director, Mars, Inc.
Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Podcast Kevin Rabinovitch is the Global Director of Sustainability and Chief Climate Officer for Mars, Incorporated. In his role he developed and leads Mars’ Sustainable in A Generation program covering the environmental impacts of their direct operations including more than 400 facilities globally. As part of this program his team manages a global portfolio of renewable energy projects in conjunction with efficiency work led by the business units. He also leads the assessment of environmental impact for Mars’ entire value chain and the translation of external environmental science into policy and strategy for the business Kevin is the Lead Corporate Director on the Board of The Sustainability Consortium, Mars’ representative in the Corporate Consultative Group at the World Resources Institute, leads Mars’ environmental engagement with the Consumer Goods Forum and frequently speaks externally on behalf of Mars’ sustainability program. He has been with Mars for 23 years, 10 years in sustainability and the first 13 in R&D functions of multiple Mars business segments in the U.S. and Europe specializing in technology development, scale up and intellectual property.
Sustainable Business Fridays (SBF) is the first podcast of its kind bringing together students in Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability Program with leaders in business, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Twice monthly, these conversations go live via iTunes and Spotify. Past SBF featured guests have included top sustainability leaders from Unilever, HSBC, GM, Campbell’s Soup, PepsiCo, Green Mountain Energy and many more.
BARD MBA in SUSTAINABILITY:
The Bard MBA in Sustainability is one of a select few graduate programs globally that fully integrates sustainability into a core business curriculum. In the Bard MBA every class is organized around one critical question: How can we build or transform our businesses so that they are in business to solve the pressing social and environmental problems of our time? Graduates of the Bard MBA are transforming existing companies, starting their own, and pioneering a new paradigm of doing business that meets human needs, protects and restores the Earth's systems, and treats all stakeholders with justice and respect. To learn more, visit www.bard.edu/mba.
POSTER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD BELOW.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Listening to the Universe: The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Antonios Kontos Physics Program
Friday, October 6, 2017 12:00 pm
Hegeman 107 The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for the conception, construction and operation of the LIGO detector that detected Gravitational Waves for the first time. Considering the impossibly weak nature of gravitational waves, this was a monumental achievement of experimental ingenuity which has now opened a new type of window to the Universe (a microphone really). I will go through how the detectors work, what Gravitational Waves tell us about the universe and some personal experiences from being part of the collaboration.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail [email protected].
Sanctuary: From Ancient Ritual to Modern Imperative.
Institute of Advanced Theology Lecture with Bruce Chilton
Friday, October 6, 2017 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The concept of sanctuary -- understood as a space reserved for sacrifice to the divine and therefore exempt from the claims of commerial and even state interests - appears with the emergence of the first cities and the temples that anchored them. The practices involved proved intricate and contested, but until the Enlightenment the principle of sanctuary was honored in law and in practice. Since then, it has sporadically re-emerged during times of political strife, in a way that invites and analysis of whether sanctuary can find a new basis of acceptance.
A lunch buffet will be available at the Bard Faculty Dining Room at Kline Commons from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. There will be a cost for lunch. The price has not been determined as of yet.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail [email protected].
A writing/discussion group about emotional eating, restrictive eating, body shame, hunger, and metaphor.
Friday, October 6, 2017 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Health and Counseling Servie; Robbins Please join Bard's nutritionist, Ilyse Simon RDN CDN, Fridays (beginning 9/15/2017), 1:30-2:30 in the Health and Counseling Group Room (enter the Health and Counseling Service). If interested/for more info email: [email protected] or just show up. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/counseling.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fall Ball Baseball Finale - Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017 12:00 pm
Honey Field The baseball team will wrap up "Fall Ball" with an exhibition doubleheader against SUNY Ulster. Pregame, the team will wear pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Week.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts Liberty League newcomer Ithaca College for the first time. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Women's Tennis Match - Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017 3:00 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The women's tennis team hosts Liberty League foe RPI. The team will be wearing pink t-shirts during warmups as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Week. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Women's Volleyball Match - Dig Pink! Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:00 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Liberty League rival Skidmore. Both teams will wear pink t-shirts during warmups for Breast Cancer Awareness Week. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Catskill Jazz Factory Heard Fresh: Music for Two Pianos
Fred Hersch & Sullivan Fortner
Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater “A pianist of cultivated taste and erudition… the sort of jazz musician who brings a lissome elegance to his playing.” – The New York Times on Fred Hersch Sponsored by: Catskill Jazz Factory.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
The Office of Admission Welcomes Prospective Students and Their Families
Discovery Day will include a 90-minute student-led campus tour, (including a dorm walk-through), followed by a 30-minute information session and Q&A with representatives from Admission, Faculty, Dean of Students, Residence Life, and Athletics.
Conservatory drop-in tours are in the Lászlo Z. Bitó Conservatory Building (and are separate from the campus tours).Sponsored by: Admission.
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
The Feedback Group provides relaxed workshops for all creative writing genres. Bring a short piece or excerpt to be critiqued, or just come to join the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email your piece to [email protected] by 1:00 PM the day of to be printed, or bring at least 5 of your own copies.
For more information, call 505-699-3323, or e-mail [email protected].
Mary Pattillo Harold Washington Professor of Sociology & African American Studies Northwestern University
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 4:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium School choice is promoted as one strategy to improve educational outcomes for African Americans. Key themes in Black school choice politics are empowerment, control, and agency.
Using qualitative interviews with poor and working-class Black parents in Chicago, Pattillo explored: how do these themes characterize the experiences of low-income African American parents tasked with putting their children in schools?
Also, what kind of political positions emerge from parents’ everyday experiences given the ubiquitous language of school choice?
Parents’ stories convey limited and weak empowerment, limited individual agency, and no control. What should we learn?
Mary Patillo is the author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class and Black on the Block: the Politics of Race and Class in the City; she co-edited Imprisoning America: the Social Effects of Mass Incarceration.
Come learn about the possibility of up to $20,000 in scholarship aid via the Boren program (at the undergraduate or graduate level)!
• Are you a U.S. citizen interested in a career in government service/international affairs? • Want to study a foreign language abroad in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, or other regions outside of Western Europe? • Already studying Arabic, Russian, Chinese, French, or Japanese here at Bard and working towards fluency?
Boren Program Representative Kyle Cox will detail all of the possibilities and requirements for applying for a Boren Scholarship (for juniors) or Fellowship (for graduate students) for studies in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and other regions less commonly visited by American study abroad students. Language fluency is a key goal of the program: Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, French (in Africa), and other languages.
Also meet Bard’s first Boren Scholarship recipient, Global and International Studies major (with Middle East Studies concentration) Tonery Rogers and learn about her plans!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room A public debate in conjunction with the annual Hannah Arendt Center Conference – “Crises of Democracy: Thinking In Dark Times” (October 12-13, 2017). This debate will feature both the Bard and West Point debate teams on mixed teams. Co-sponsored by the Bard Debate Union, The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Bard-West Point Exchange.
DATE: October 11, 2017 TIME: 6:00 pm LOCATION: Bard College, Campus Center MPR MAP
Co-Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center, the Bard Debate Union, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Bard-West Point Exchange.
Free & Open to the Public Questions: [email protected] by: Bard Debate Union; Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline Commons The Choose Your Menu program is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Bard students to vote on food they want to eat for dinner on Thursdays at Kline.Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.
Have Farmers Cracked the Partisan Code? What a Divided Nation Must Learn From Rural Organizing
Lindsey Lusher Schute (CEP '07) Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Young Farmers Coalition
Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:40 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Lindsey Lusher Shute will address the lessons a divided America can learn from the successes of rural organizing by young farmers. Lusher Shute is the co-founder and executive director of the National Young Farmers Coalition and a member of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy Class of 2007. She was named a "Champion of Change" by the White House in 2014 and she owns Hearty Roots Community Farm with her husband in Clermont, NY.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Interview Prep Session - Practice Your Interview Skills
Thursday, October 12, 2017 5:30 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Prepare for the Interview - Your time to shine!
Are you interested in learning more about the interview process? Were you selected for a FRC interview in NYC? Eager to learn tips and strategies for successful interviewing?
Join us!
When: Thursday October 12, 2017, 5:30 PM Where: Campus Center, Room 214
OPEN TO ALL CLASS YEARS AND MAJORS!
A CDO led session sharing tips and advice, bring your questions for Q&A
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Concerto Competition Preliminary Round
Thursday, October 12, 2017 7:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Singers from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra.
free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) All are welcome to lend a hand in the kitchen as cwe bake challh and prepare food for Shabbat! For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
A writing/discussion group about emotional eating, restrictive eating, body shame, hunger, and metaphor.
Friday, October 13, 2017 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Health and Counseling Servie; Robbins Please join Bard's nutritionist, Ilyse Simon RDN CDN, Fridays (beginning 9/15/2017), 1:30-2:30 in the Health and Counseling Group Room (enter the Health and Counseling Service). If interested/for more info email: [email protected] or just show up. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/counseling.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A major new work from Tere O’Connor, one of the foremost choreographers of our day, whose abstractions engage the tension between the geometries of the rectangular stage, the organic forms of nature, and the vast terrain of human behavior. Long Run pushes the emotional content of O’Connor’s movement to new physical extremes, allowing time-based elements like polyrhythms, velocity, and duration to overtake the performers as they struggle to bring their bodies into a state of calm.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.
New York Women in Communications Student Conference - Application Deadline November 5
Event in New York City
Runs through Sunday, November 5, 2017
New York City
New York Women in Communications Foundation hosts a day-long conference, featuring over 40 communications professionals speaking on 10 different topics. More than 300 college students attend to get career tips on various communication fields, ranging from journalism, marketing, and public relations, to broadcasting, social media, and entrepreneurship.
The Career Development Office is pleased to sponsor a limited number of students to attend the 2017 conference. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the field of communications, or want to learn more about the industry and would like to attend the event, please follow the application instructions below.
**Although this is the New York Women in Communications Conference, all students are welcome and encouraged to apply/attend**
Please note that the Career Development Office will cover the admission cost for a limited number of students, which is $120 per person, however, students will be responsible for transportation costs to/from the event.
Application Instructions for CDO Sponsorship: Due to high interest, the Career Development Office asks that students submit a resume and a one-page letter of interest describing why they would like to attend the conference and what they hope to gain from the experience. Preference will be given to upperclassmen and students with a financial need. Materials should be submitted via email to [email protected].
The deadline to apply for CDO sponsorship is SUNDAY, November 5, 2017. Selected students will be notified by Tuesday, November 7.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding this event or participation, please contact the Career Development Office at [email protected] or 845-758-7539.
Students who would like to attend the conference on their own may do so by registering online HERE. The cost for students to attend on their own is $120.00 for non-NYWIC members and $75.00 for members.
Water-Based Liquid Crystals: Ordered Fluids with Unusual Properties and Significant Potential for Applications
Peter J. Collings Department of Physics & Astronomy, Swarthmore College
Friday, October 13, 2017 12:00 pm
Hegeman 107 The liquid crystals used in displays are oily fluids in which the molecules possess orientational order. Another class of liquid crystals relies on the spontaneous formation of molecular assemblies when certain dyes and drugs are dissolved in water. These aqueous systems are the subject of significant scientific research, due to the possibility of applications in biology and medicine. This research reveals that water-based liquid crystals behave quite differently from their oily counterparts, thus creating the understanding necessary to develop new techniques and devices in an area where liquid crystals have had little impact.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building Bard Conservatory undergraduates compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Free admission.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts national powerhouse and Liberty League foe St. Lawrence University. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Olin Humanities, Room 101 Come one, come all to the first LUX Literary Magazine Meeting of the semester! We would love to see new initiates and old members of our collective LUX family alike to talk about plans, ideas, and questions concerning LUX. In addition, we are looking for staff editors, so if you are interested, this is your chance to speak up! Hope to see you there.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Join us this Friday and every Friday as we welcome Shabbat with an informal, relaxed service at 6:30 pm and a home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner at 7:30. Everyone is invited! For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A major new work from Tere O’Connor, one of the foremost choreographers of our day, whose abstractions engage the tension between the geometries of the rectangular stage, the organic forms of nature, and the vast terrain of human behavior. Long Run pushes the emotional content of O’Connor’s movement to new physical extremes, allowing time-based elements like polyrhythms, velocity, and duration to overtake the performers as they struggle to bring their bodies into a state of calm.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Mount Holyoke and Hunder as part of a tri-match. At 12, Bard hosts Mount Holyoke; Mount Holyoke plays Hunter in the middle match, and Bard vs. Hunter will wrap up the day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Finalists from the Bard Conservatory compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra. Free admission.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The women's tennis team hosts Purchase College in a non-league match, the last home contest of the 2017 portion of the schedule. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A major new work from Tere O’Connor, one of the foremost choreographers of our day, whose abstractions engage the tension between the geometries of the rectangular stage, the organic forms of nature, and the vast terrain of human behavior. Long Run pushes the emotional content of O’Connor’s movement to new physical extremes, allowing time-based elements like polyrhythms, velocity, and duration to overtake the performers as they struggle to bring their bodies into a state of calm.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The women's tennis team hosts rival Vassar in a Liberty League match. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Conservatory Percussion Studio Works by Quinn Collins
Sunday, October 15, 2017 3:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building The Bard College Conservatory Percussion Studio performs recent works and a world premiere by contemporary composer Quinn Collins. Quinn Collins will also give a pre-concert talk at 2 pm. Free admission.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Emma Smith-Stevens '09: Fiction Reading & Conversation
The Bard alumna reads from her first novel and discusses life after Bard
Monday, October 16, 2017 4:40 pm – 6:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join the Written Arts Senior Colloquium for a free public event with Emma Smith-Stevens on Monday, October 16, at 4:40 p.m. in Weis Cinema.
Smith-Stevens will read from her work and talk with current students about her post-Bard personal, educational, career, and literary development.
Smith-Stevens is the author of a novel, The Australian (Dzanc, May 2017), and a short story collection, Greyhounds (Dzanc). A graduate of Bard's Program in Written Arts, she has been a server at a pancake house in Delray Beach, FL, a gift-wrapper in Boca Raton, a personal assistant in Los Angeles, a scriptwriter for virtual patients used by nursing students, and an instructor at the University of Florida, Santa Fe College, and the Bard Prison Initiative. Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions, BOMB Magazine, Day One, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Her essay "The Sun" will be included in the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Eds. Roxane Gay and Ashley C Ford) forthcoming from Harper Perennial. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Florida and is currently at work on a memoir. She lives in New York.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Info Session with The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Monday, October 16, 2017 5:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Please join The Earth Institute at an information session to learn about our Master’s program in Environmental Science and Policy at Columbia University. The session will cover admissions, fellowships, and careers after graduation. Before the information session, The Earth Institute will be tabling in the RKC Lobby.
Monday, October 16 Table: 4:00 pm, RKC Lobby Information Session: 5:00 pm, RKC 103
About us: Columbia’s Earth Institute blends research in the physical and social sciences, education and practical solutions to help guide the world onto a path toward sustainability. The Earth Institute works with many schools, departments and programs at Columbia University to develop rigorous and innovative curricula across multiple disciplines. The more than two dozen academic programs currently affiliated with the Earth Institute engage undergraduates and graduate students in the classroom, in the lab and in the field. Students learn hard science, policy, and research and practical skills they can apply in the field, and in future employment.
For further details, queries may be directed to Laura Piraino [[email protected]].
Sponsored by: Career Development Office; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Exploration School Information Session for Summer 2018 Jobs
Earn $3,800-$5,500+ over the summer!
Monday, October 16, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Interested in working with and teaching students in grades 2-12 over the summer? Learn about opportunities with Exploration School programs that take place on the campuses of Wellesley, Yale, and Wheaton. Hear firsthand accounts about working at Explo, ask questions, and discover how a summer spent at Explo is the perfect stepping stone to your future career — whether in education, business, law, the arts, or wherever your path may lead you.
When: Monday, October 16, 5:00 - 6:00pm Where: Campus Center, Room 214
Explo has several different summer jobs available, from instructors and residential directors, to program assistants, IT coordinators and photojournalists. You can see all of Explo's positions HERE.
Promising Beginnings and Arrested Developments: Early Arabic Translations of the Novel in Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine
Maya Issam Kesrouany, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)
Monday, October 16, 2017 6:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202 This talk looks at specific texts that borrow from three European novels through creative translation, effectively transforming the originals, but maintaining their original alienness from the new reading culture they find themselves in. Such creative appropriation can tell us a lot about the early borrowing of fictional narrative precisely as a form of negotiation and not full reproduction. Comparing the different ways translators engaged with the original novels also complicates what they thought of as “modern,” “fiction” and how they theorized the “worlds” of their works.
Maya Issam Kesrouany, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, is an assistant professor of Modern Arabic Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Her book manuscript "Prophetic Translation: The Promise of European Literature in the Egyptian Imaginary" is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests include nationalism and political imaginaries; civil society formations and the public sphere; critical translation theory; the politics of language, literary form and genre. She has taught at Emory University, the American University of Beirut, and the American University of Sharjah.
co-sponsors: Literature Program and the Translation Initiative Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
The Feedback Group provides relaxed workshops for all creative writing genres. Bring a short piece or excerpt to be critiqued, or just come to join the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email your piece to [email protected] by 1:00 PM the day of to be printed, or bring at least 5 of your own copies.
For more information, call 505-699-3323, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Job Fair for the Real Estate Finance Industry
Virtual Session Hosted by Mortgage Bankers Association
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Virtual Event
LOOKING FOR A JOB IN THE NORTHEAST OR MID-ATLANTIC? Interview with great companies in the real estate finance industry!
This event is FREE for students and alumni. The Real Estate Finance Industry Online Job Fair, hosted by the Mortgage Bankers Association, is a recruiting event for college students interested in a mortgage banking career. When: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Time: 3:00 - 6:00 pm ET
The mortgage banking industry is growing, with approximately 77,000 new jobs expected to be created by 2022.
REGISTER ON HANDSHAKE: https://bard.joinhandshake.com/events/71243 For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7539, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cdo/.
Peace Corps Fall Visit - Discussion & Girl Rising Screening
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Interested in the Peace Corps?
Meet Douglas Miller, Regional Recruiter and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, during his fall visit to Bard College.
When: Tuesday, October 17, 4:30-6:30 PM Where: Campus Center 214
Douglas will hold drop-in hours earlier in the day for students who have already started the Peace Corps process. Douglas will reach out to students directly to set up those meetings.
The informational discussion at 4:30 PM will provide a brief overview of the Peace Corps and focus on how Peace Corps Volunteers around the world are working with communities to address gender equality and empower women and girls. You can learn how you can help support this mission by becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer. Following the discussion, there will be a screening of Girl Rising.
Learn what it takes to be a Peace Corps Volunteer!
"When I started college in the early 1980s, I really wanted to learn how shoot, light, and, especially, develop 35mm B&W film. I took an evening class, and began to photograph whatever was around me. At that time, I was hanging out with a mobile d.j. crew, based on Long Island, where I lived. So, much of what I shot was of them.
"Eventually, though, I gave up photography, put my negatives in a bag, and began to write, ultimately growing to be a print and radio journalist with a focus on hip-hop.
"Those d.j.s, however, went on to become hip-hop legends Public Enemy and, their history-making production arm, the Bomb Squad. My photos—some of the only photo-documents of them during that period—soon were enlisted into the service of documentaries for the BBC, MTV, VH-1, and other productions. As well, a number of them were recently acquired as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture's permanent collection.
"This year is the 30th anniversary of Public Enemy's debut, Yo! Bum Rush the Show. In 2018, it will be three decades since the release of their landmark It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
"Since I lived through, worked during, and documented the rise of hip-hop culture as a media professional—and this even earlier era with my camera—I’m bringing the entirety of what I've seen to Bard College, doing so in the spirit of openness and learning."
Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, publishes the blog Media Assassin at harryallen.info. There he writes about race, politics, and culture, much as he does for VIBE, The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, and has been doing so for over twenty years.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; American and Indigenous Studies Program; Dean of Inclusive Excellence; Division of Social Studies; Experimental Humanities Program.
As the wild ride of the 1960’s came to a close, Eva Hesse, a 34 year-old German-born American artist was cresting the wave of a swiftly rising career. One of the few women recognized as central to the New York art scene, she had over 20 group shows scheduled for 1970 in addition to being chosen for a cover article in ArtForum Magazine. Her work was finally receiving both the critical and commercial attention it deserved. When she died in May, 1970 from a brain tumor, the life of one of that decades’ most passionate and brilliant artists was tragically cut short.
Eva Hesse deepens the understanding of this extraordinary artist, not only in terms of her ground-breaking work, but also the life that provided the fertile soil for her achievements. With dozens of new interviews, high quality footage of Hesse's artwork and a wealth of newly discovered archival imagery, the documentary not only traces Eva's path but engages in a lively investigation into the creative community of 1960's New York and Germany.
Producer Karen Shapiro '78 will be on campus for a Q&A after the film.
Sponsored by the Bard College Alumni/ae Association, The Art History Program and a faculty member, the Brandt Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Art, a joint appointment between the CCS and the Art History Program.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
A reading by poet and translator Peter Cole (Yale University)
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 5:00 pm
Weis Cinema MacArthur winner Peter Cole reads from his new book, Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (American Poets), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work. His poetry, writes Ben Lerner, “is remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac, pissed off – the affective range is wide and the forms restless.”
“Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.” —Harold Bloom
For more info please contact [email protected] Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
The Melodious Sound of the Right-Turning Conch: Historiography and Buddhist Counter-Development among Tibetans in China
Charlene Makley Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:30 pm
Preston In this talk, we travel upriver from the famous Tibetan Buddhist town of Rebgong in southeastern Qinghai province, China to the small and marginalized Tibetan community of Langmo. Here we explore the stakes and consequences of village history-making as a dialogic process in the context of increasing state-led pressures on rural land use. I had met Langmo elders back in 2005 when I was first looking for highland communities to research. Langmo elders, it turned out, had their own goals for our collaboration. Their counter-development plans for the village meant "capturing" foreign donors and converting them to village patrons. Thus my naive offer in 2008 to help fund Langmo's primary school roof repair drew me into deepening relationships with villagers I had never anticipated. And that meant taking a role as a key listener and medium for elders' oppositional accounts of Langmo history. In the face of resettlement pressures, elders insisted that Langmo's Buddhist history grounded the community's sovereign right to their former lands.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7215, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Columbia Law School Assistant Director Susan Cersovsky and Recruitment Advisor Christina Ross vist Bard College to discuss their program, the admissions process, and more!
Wednesday, October 18 Information Session - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Campus Center Yellow Room 214 Table - 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Campus Center Lobby
Clif Bar’s VP of Environmental Stewardship, Elysa Hammond on of Clif's mission to make good food with a purpose.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
REI SoHo | 303 Lafayette Street | New York, NY 10012 <<<<< FREE TICKETS HERE >>>>>
Clif Bar’s VP of Environmental Stewardship, Elysa Hammond, tells the story of Clif's journey toward sustainability and mission to make good food with a purpose.
Since Clif Bar’s owners, Kit Crawford and Gary Erickson, decided to keep the company private back in 2000, Clif Bar has been pushing the envelope on sustainability. Unlike most companies who account for a single—financial—bottom line, Clif accounts for five bottom lines which they call their 5 Aspirations: economic sustainability (Business); brand integrity (Brands); giving back (Community); employee wellbeing (People); and environmental sustainability (Planet). Elysa Hammond, who leads the Planet Aspiration, has been working with Clif since 2000 to develop and lead Clif Bar’s work in environmental sustainability. During that time, she helped launch Clif Bar’s transition to organic, their green supply chain program, the integration of biophilic design principles into their new bakery, and their on-going work in climate action for which they were recently awarded the EPA’s Climate Leadership Award. Elysa also serves on the Board of the Bard MBA in Sustainability program to support the creation of a new kind of business leader.
REI, in collaboration with Bard MBA in Sustainability, presents Elysa Hammond: she will tell the story of Clif Bar’s journey to sustainability in an effort to raise the bar on making the bar.
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CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline Commons The Choose Your Menu program is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Bard students to vote on food they want to eat for dinner on Thursdays at Kline.Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.
God Mountains and Fengshui Forests: Sacred/Secular Dialectics and the Fate of Rural Tibetan and Han Communities in China’s Ecological Civilization
Christopher Coggins Professor of Geography & Asian Studies Simon's Rock College
Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:40 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Animism and vitalism have captured the imagination of post-structural theorists, ontologically-inclined ethnographers, and several cultural geographers. This presentation draws on works by scholars who have explored the divide, or dialectic, between sacred and secular space (Lefebvre, Foucault, Viveiros de Castro, and others) to explore the contemporary political ecology of Tibetan sacred mountains (gzhi bdag) and Han sacred forests (fengshuilin) as China strives to build a post-industrial Ecological Civilization (Shengtai Wenming).Sponsored by: Anthropology Program and Asian Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Thursday, October 19, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions (over cookies and tea).
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Till we have built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
Adina Hoffman
Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Award-winning essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman will discuss her book, Till We Have Built Jerusalem, which is a gripping and intimate journey into the lives of three very different architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. A powerfully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, the book uncovers multiple layers of one great city's buried history as it asks what it means, in Jerusalem and everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.
Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century, and, with Peter Cole, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which won the American Library Association's prize for the best Jewish book of 2011. The LosAngelesTimes called her most recent book, TillWeHave Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, “brave and often beautiful,” and Haaretz described it as “a passionate, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.” A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and one of the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Literary Prizes, she divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven.
Praise for Till We Have Built Jerusalem “A fascinating synthesis that manages to distill biography, history, politics, aesthetics, religion and psychology into one illuminating, lively, witty text. This is one of the finest books I’ve ever read on the difficult, fragile arts of architecture and city-making.” - Phillip Lopate
“Adina Hoffman does for Jerusalem what great writers have done for Paris, London, and New York: with charm, skill, and originality, she weaves together a vivid social and architectural history of one of the fabled cities of the world.” - Vivian Gornick
“Adina Hoffman is that very rare writer who moves lightly across vast realms of knowledge, transmuting the most intransigent material into illuminating and affecting narratives. Here is a book about the making of a city that is as emotionally potent as it is intellectually bracing.” - Pankaj Mishra
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
As President Trump pursues a regressive, isolationist agenda, business is stepping up to address climate change, promote equality and protect human rights, and create economic opportunity. Join sustainability pioneer Hunter Lovins for a conversation series with industry experts to explore this shift in progressive business leadership.
October's Business Stepping Up conversation will feature Kathy Hipple discussing how to achieve true sustainability, we need to move trillions of dollars from destructive projects into regenerative investments. Kathy is a founding partner of Noosphere Marketing, where she works with mission-driven organizations, financial services and tech firms to communicate – and advance -- their ESG initiatives. Prior to launching Noosphere, Kathy worked extensively on Wall Street with international institutional clients at Merrill Lynch, and in local search, where she ran a NYC-based media company with nearly 200 employees and $35 million in revenues while serving on the national board of the Local Search Association. Kathy is a founding member of the Generative Council, a group of women leaders in the for-profit and not-for-profit sector. She serves on the boards of Meals on Wheels in Bennington, Vermont; Sawah Bali, in Bali, Indonesia; and The Center for Nature and Leadership, in Washington, DC. She is working to launch a Sustainable Women’s Investment fund, which will select investments through a gender and sustainability lens.
Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as we host the Business Stepping Up Series monthly in downtown Manhattan featuring Hunter Lovins in discussion with Bard MBA faculty and alumni who are part of this business revolution.
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Follow along with Business Stepping Up in the monthly Huffington Post column previewing that month's event:
Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy Webinar - Information Session
Thursday, October 19, 2017 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Webinar Jan Kregel, Director Levy Graduate Programs will be hosting an Information Session for students interested in the M.A. or M.S. in Economic Theory and Policy and the 3+2 or 4+1 programs.Sponsored by: Levy Graduate Programs.
Blum Hall Percussionist Jeff “Siege” Siegel will be performing with his sextet, featuring tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, pianist Francesca Tanksley, bassist Rich Syracuse and percussionist Fred Berryhill along with special guest, master trumpeter Feya Faku, of Johannesburg, South Africa.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
A writing/discussion group about emotional eating, restrictive eating, body shame, hunger, and metaphor.
Friday, October 20, 2017 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Health and Counseling Servie; Robbins Please join Bard's nutritionist, Ilyse Simon RDN CDN, Fridays (beginning 9/15/2017), 1:30-2:30 in the Health and Counseling Group Room (enter the Health and Counseling Service). If interested/for more info email: [email protected] or just show up. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/counseling.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 101 Come one, come all to the first LUX Literary Magazine Meeting of the semester! We would love to see new initiates and old members of our collective LUX family alike to talk about plans, ideas, and questions concerning LUX. In addition, we are looking for staff editors, so if you are interested, this is your chance to speak up! Hope to see you there.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sustainable Business Fridays: Personal Care Products that are Good for Body & Planet
Rebecca Hamilton, VP of R&D, WS Badger Company, Inc.
Friday, October 20, 2017 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Podcast Rebecca Hamilton is an owner and the Vice President of Research and Development/Quality Assurance at the W.S. Badger Company, where she oversees technical research, new product innovation and development, companywide quality assurance and regulatory affairs as well as Badger’s product related sustainability initiatives. Rebecca has over a decade of experience in the natural products industry and has served as an industry expert and public presenter at over 30 conferences and events. Her background in ethnobotany and supply chain management coupled with her passions for organic living, safe products, and ethical commerce have led her to wider industry involvement and public service outreach. She is currently involved in safe cosmetics legislation and toxic chemical reform, has served as the chair of the Natural Products Association Natural Personal Care Steering Committee, and is an active committee member on both the Personal Care Products Council’s Sunscreen Taskforce and on the American Sustainable Business Council’s Safer Chemicals Coalition.
Sustainable Business Fridays (SBF) is the first podcast of its kind bringing together students in Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability Program with leaders in business, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Twice monthly, these conversations go live via iTunes and Spotify. Past SBF featured guests have included top sustainability leaders from Unilever, HSBC, GM, Campbell’s Soup, PepsiCo, Green Mountain Energy and many more.
BARD MBA in SUSTAINABILITY:
The Bard MBA in Sustainability is one of a select few graduate programs globally that fully integrates sustainability into a core business curriculum. In the Bard MBA every class is organized around one critical question: How can we build or transform our businesses so that they are in business to solve the pressing social and environmental problems of our time? Graduates of the Bard MBA are transforming existing companies, starting their own, and pioneering a new paradigm of doing business that meets human needs, protects and restores the Earth's systems, and treats all stakeholders with justice and respect. To learn more, visit www.bard.edu/mba.
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Breakfast conversation with Bard MBA alumni Jess King '15
Friday, October 20, 2017 8:00 am – 9:00 am
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Jess King earned an MBA in Sustainability from Bard College three years ago: three months ago, she announced she was running for US Congress in her home district representing Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Come hear from Jess about how her MBA experience, along with her day job as Director of ASSETS, a non-profit economic development agency, influenced her decision to run.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution Symposium
Friday, October 20, 2017 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema A symposium commemorating the centennial of the Russian Revolution which will examine a wide range of topics related to the history, politics, and culture of this seminal event in modern Russian history. Bard President Leon Botstein will deliver the keynote address, and speakers include scholars from Bard, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College). The scholars will discuss, among other topics, the history and politics of the Revolution, literature in early Soviet Russia, visual culture of the two 1917 revolutions and the Russian Civil War, music of the Revolution, and the Russian Revolution and Eastern European ethnic cultures. The symposium is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Center for Moving Image Arts; Experimental Humanities Program; German Studies Program; Russian Art of the Avant-Garde Project at Bard, and the Yeltsin Presidential Library and Russian National Library (St. Petersburg, Russia).; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 626-628-6557, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Award-winning memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn’s new book is a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading—and reliving—Homer’s Odyssey. When 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual.
Acclaimed poet, memoirist, and Hudson Valley resident Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) joins Bard Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities Daniel Mendelsohn on stage to discuss the Odyssey’s themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel, and the meaning of home.
Copies of An Odyssey and other titles by both authors will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
This event includes an audience Q&A and book signing.“Beguiling . . . Mendelsohn unwraps layers of timeless meaning in the ancient Greek poem . . . weaves family history and trenchant literary analysis into a luminous whole.” –Publisher's Weekly
“Rich, vivid, a blood-warm book . . . a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading—and reliving—the Odyssey. Mendelsohn wears his learning lightly yet superbly. What catches you off guard about this memoir is how moving it is: it has many things to say not only about Homer’s epic poem, but about fathers and sons. Revealing and funny . . . Mendelsohn makes Homer’s epic shine in your mind.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra
Frank Martin Six Monologues from Jedermann Eerie and emotionally charged with Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone, a winner of the Bard College Conservatory 2016 Concerto Competition
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Who doesn’t love this piece? It’s joyous, epic, and monumental.” –Dan Honaker, tuba with Chloe Olivia Moore, soprano; Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano; John Pickle, tenor; Alfred Walker, bass-baritone; and the Bard College Chamber Singers& Bard Festival Chorale
The concert will run approximately 2 hours including one 20-minute intermission. Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Maestro Botstein will lead the Conservatory Orchestra in a special one-hour preview of Mahler's Symphony No. 1, "Titan".Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts RIT in the final home match of the season. It's Senior Day! Come out and send them off in style!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Trump and American Foreign Policy Faculty-Student Roundtable
Saturday, October 21, 2017 2:45 pm
Olin Hall Faculty members Jonathan Becker - Vice President for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Political Students, and Director of the Center for Civic Engagement - and Walter Russell Mead - James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities - join members of the Bard Debate Union (Templeton Kay '19, Matt Caito '20, and Estrella Frankenfeld '20) for a panel discussion on President Trump and the state of American Foreign Policy today.Sponsored by: Brd Debate Union.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra
Frank Martin Six Monologues from Jedermann Eerie and emotionally charged with Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone, a winner of the Bard College Conservatory 2016 Concerto Competition
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Who doesn’t love this piece? It’s joyous, epic, and monumental.” –Dan Honaker, tuba with Chloe Olivia Moore, soprano; Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano; John Pickle, tenor; Alfred Walker, bass-baritone; and the Bard College Chamber Singers& Bard Festival Chorale
The concert will run approximately 2 hours including one 20-minute intermission. Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Bitó Conservatory Building MUSIC ALIVE! Featuring compositions by Sebastian Currier, a Grawemeyer Award-winning composer, and Derek Bermel, clarinetist, Grammy-nominated composer, and artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra.
Music Alive! is co-directed by pianist Blair McMillen and composer Joan Tower, and will feature 20 performers from the Bard Conservatory, as well as Derek Bermel on clarinet and Blair McMillen on piano.
free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Symposium: Unpacking Histories, in conjunction with the exhibition "No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects"
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Unpacking Historiesaims to shed light on the historical blind-spots uncovered by artists whose work responds to, or emerges from, landscapes in transition and conflict. The geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa is the context for these lines of inquiry that intersect histories of art with social and political events.
This symposium unfolds in conjunction with No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, which runs from June 24, 2017 until October 29, 2017 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
Followed by free vegetarian dinner (send me an email if you plan to attend the meal!)
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
"Other Worlds: An Evening with Poets Michael Ives and Yehoshua November"
Yehoshua November & Michael Ives
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 201 Concerning Violence (2014) is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s landmark book, written over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it. (Excerpt from: https://dogwoof.com/concerningviolence)
Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4600, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring the music of special guest saxophonist, composer and educator Paavo Carey
Monday, October 23, 2017 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Blum N211 (The Jazz Room) The Bard College Community Orchestra will demonstrate it's range in playing styles of jazz from the Hard Bop period in the 50s on to the Free Jazz styles in the 60s. Performing the music of Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Michael Mossman and Thurman Barker.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
Find out how to connect with over 13,000 Bardians working across all industries
Victoria Morrell, Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement, is joining the CDO to help connect you with Bard's dynamic network of graduates
Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
The Feedback Group provides relaxed workshops for all creative writing genres. Bring a short piece or excerpt to be critiqued, or just come to join the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email your piece to [email protected] by 1:00 PM the day of to be printed, or bring at least 5 of your own copies.
For more information, call 505-699-3323, or e-mail [email protected].
1917 Russian Revolution Round Table from Smolny College
BlueJeans Video-conference
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Henderson Center Smart Classroom ; Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Roundtable at Smolny with the participation of key-speakers from the Conference held at the European University in St. Petersburg by Artemy Magun. Potential participants: Jodi Dean, Andreas Kalyvas, Boris Groys, Sophie Wahnich, etc. We plan to broadcast this event via Bluejeans to Bard and the Bard audience will be able to participate in the Q&A.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 626-628-6557, or e-mail [email protected].
Bottleneck in the Drug Pipeline? Alternative Tumor Measurement-based Phase II Clinical Trial Endpoints for Predicting Overall Survival
Ming-Wen An, Vassar College
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:00 pm
Hegeman 204 In the final stages of a long and costly drug discovery process, a drug compound is introduced into humans as part of a clinical trial. A clinical trial is a research study with a pre-defined protocol and is conducted in different phases. In oncology, as many as 60% of drug compounds that reach the last phase (Phase III) fail this final step. This high failure rate may reflect inappropriate evaluation of compounds in preceding Phase II trials, in which the primary endpoint is often binary tumor response, based on the Response Evaluation Criteria for Solid Tumors (RECIST). This motivates the search for alternative Phase II endpoints. In this talk, we will introduce clinical trials and survival analysis to contextualize the problem. Then we will describe our work evaluating alternative categorical and continuous tumor measurement-based endpoints for their ability to predict overall survival using data from real clinical trials.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7362, or e-mail [email protected].
'The Glitter of Putrescence': Cinema between Poetry and Horror
Philippe C. Met
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 5:00 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center How germane and applicable is poetry as both idiom and practice to such an ostensibly unrelated, if not diametrically opposed filmic genre as horror (or the fantastic)? Through the dual mediation of E.A. Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition” and Shakespeare’s Ophelia, the purpose of this talk is to bring out and elucidate secret affinities or conceptual commonalities between the two realms concerned within a type of cinema that deliberately subverts narrativity. Specific examples across periods and countries will be examined (C. Laughton, J. Tourneur, H. Harvey, G. Franju, M. Bava, D. Argento, R. Vadim).
Philippe C. Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal French Forum. He is the author of Formules de la poésie (1999) and La lettre tue. Spectre(s) de l'écrit fantastique (2008), and co-editor of Screening the Paris Suburbs (2017). He is currently editing a collected volume devoted to French filmmaker Louis Malle, to be published next year.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts; Division of Languages and Literature; Film and Electronic Arts Program; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room A panel of Latinos in Local Politics, with:
Dutchess County Legislator Francena Amparo
President of Hispanic Coalition of NY Monica Arias Miranda
Candidate for Orange County Legislature Kevindaryán Lujan
Candidate for Dutchess County Legislature Giancarlo Llaverias
Rhinebeck Judge William Sánchez
Moderated by:
Mariel Fiori, co-founder and managing editor of La Voz
October 24th - 6PM MPR
Free and Open to the Public
Refreshments will be served
Presented by: La Voz magazine. Bard CCE, 100 Days Initiative, Student Labor Dialogue, and the Latino American Students Organization at Bard College (LASO)Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Human Rights Program; La Voz.
Olin Humanities, Room 102 A Brilliant Genocide is a powerful documentary exposing the true story behind the rise of the brutal warlord, Joseph Kony, and the Ugandan government's campaign against the Acholi people. This one-hour film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring:
Helen C. Epstein—author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror and instructor in the Human Rights program at Bard College
Lawrence Kiwanuka Nsereko—Ugandan journalist and instructor at Dutchess County Community College
Zachariah Mampilly—Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana and International Studies at Vassar College, author of Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War and co-author of Africa Uprising! Popular Politics and Unarmed Resistance
John Ryle—writer, anthropologist, and specialist in Eastern Africa, Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, and co-founder of the Rift Valley Institute, a Kenya-based organization working in Eastern Africa to bring local knowledge to bear on development
Pizza and drinks will be served. Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program, Africana Studies Program, and Rift Valley Institute; Human Rights Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 The First-Year Success Workshop provides a series of discussions on topics contributing to student success in college: time/task management, studying strategies, paper writing, active reading strategies, stress management, and more. Come once or come every week. The workshops are designed with first-year students in mind, and open to any student. Sponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs.
Past, Present, and Future of Economic Research on LGBT People
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 101 Come hear Michael Martell, Assistant Professor Economics at Bard College, discuss the origins of stereotypes of gay and lesbian affluence and the history of economic research that has developed a more accurate depiction of the economic experiences of sexual minorities.
Learn about the empirical methods economists have utilized to understand the socioeconomic experience of LGBT individuals. Also, find out how the economic outcomes of LGBT individuals relate to existing economic theory. Lastly, discover the impact of the current political climate on recent efforts of policymakers and researchers to advance economic equality through better data and public policies.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Economics Program; Economics and Finance Program.
Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, installations, and essays to research failed left utopias and incomplete decolonizations– framed by Third World Internationalism and World Socialism. The terrain is a “a revolutionary past meaningful in the sudden eruption of a revolutionary present” (Kaelen Wilson-Goldie). In spite of underscoring a left tendency toward misrecognition, a hope for an as-yet unborn international left, as the only future alternative to silos of race and religion, is a basis for the work. Project chapters have shown at documenta 14, Kiran Nadar, Ashkal Alwan, Sharjah, Marrakech, and Venice Biennales, Tate Britain, and MoMA. His essays include “Islamic roots of Hip-Hop” (Sound Unbound, 2008), “Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon” (e-flux Supercommunity, 2015), “Anabasis of the Japanese Red Army” (e-flux Journal, 2015), and “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Campaign” (Assuming Boycott/Walker Art Center, 2017). Naeem is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University researching left histories outside state patronage. Speakers Series events are all free-of-charge with seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
False Dawn: Protest, Democracy and Violence in the New Middle East
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 170 E 64th St, New York, NY 10065 Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. How did things go so wrong so quickly across a wide range of regimes?
Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss why the recent Arab uprisings failed and have led to more repression and conflict, and the role that the United States can and should play in the Middle East.
He will be in conversation with James Ketterer, dean of International Studies at Bard College and director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program.
This event is part of the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and Foreign Affairs.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Mount St. Mary College in the final home match of the season. It's Senior Day! Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts Union College in a key Liberty League contest. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline Commons The Choose Your Menu program is dedicated to providing an opportunity for Bard students to vote on food they want to eat for dinner on Thursdays at Kline.Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Thursday, October 26, 2017 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
72 labors brought us this food...
Thus we eat this food with everyone. We eat to stop all evil, to practice good, to save all sentient beings and to accomplish our Buddha way.
Thursday, October 26, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Kline, College Room
Join the Buddhist group for a mindful meal at Kline.
We will begin the meal in silence and then open it up for discussion.
If you are interested, email me and we will meet in the College Room at Kline.
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center Grab your lunch and head across the road to the Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center to learn about how the Office of Prospect Research identifies potential funders for Bard projects and programs. Informal Q&A -- bring questions! Open to all faculty and staff. Hosted by the Bard College Office of Institutional Support, Office of Prospect Research. For more information, call 845-758-7831, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline Commons Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Health, Counseling, and Wellness; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Sustainability.
Science or Snake Oil? Managing eutrophication in Jordan Lake, NC
Robyn Smyth Assistant Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies, Bard College
Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:40 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Eutrophication is a widespread and growing problem in aquatic ecosystems. Caused by excess nutrient loading from multiple human activities in the watershed, eutrophication is difficult to reverse, often requiring costly reductions in both point and non-point nutrient sources and resulting in long waits for water quality improvements. The high cost of nutrient management has led the State of North Carolina (NC) to pursue alternative means of addressing the water quality impairments of Jordan Lake, a 60 km2 recreational reservoir and drinking water supply in central NC. Thirty-six solar-powered circulators (SPCs) were deployed in two impaired embayments of Jordan Lake which were monitored for water quality improvements over 2 years. To complement the state’s predominately biological monitoring, temperature gradient microstructure was used to estimate turbulence parameters (dissipation) in proximity to and away from the SPCs. I found the physical mixing induced was far less than expected based on claims by the device manufacturer. The State found no effect of the SPCs in its biological monitoring and the pilot project was canceled in August 2016. Results and implications of this project on decision making for eutrophication management will be discussed. Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drug Treatment in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Allison McKim Sociology Program
Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:45 pm
Preston Theater After decades of the American “war on drugs," relentless prison expansion, and rising opioid deaths, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution: addiction treatment. However, we know so little about what goes on inside treatment programs that scholars have called it a “black box.” Allison McKim’s ethnographic research heads inside the black box to compare two treatment programs for women – one in the criminal justice system and one in the healthcare system. There, she finds two different ways of defining and treating addiction. She reveals that the category "addiction" reflects punitive criminal justice policy and its race, class, and gender politics. Thus when we use "addiction" to understand and address complex social problems, we further stigmatize marginalized women, reproduce inequality, and extend punishment.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7380, or e-mail [email protected].
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions (over cookies and tea).
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Joshua Billings Assistant Professor of Classics, Princeton University
Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:00 pm
Aspinwall 302 Prometheus has been a trickster, a rebel, a creator, a benefactor, a savior, a blackmailer, and a prisoner, sentenced to gruesome torture. The talk will describe transformations of the figure in antiquity and modernity, and the meaning of the figure today in the context of prison education.
For more info please contact [email protected]Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us every Thursday night as we bake (incredibly delicious) challah and cook our vegetarian food for Friday evening's Shabbat dinner. All are welcome! For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
A writing/discussion group about emotional eating, restrictive eating, body shame, hunger, and metaphor.
Friday, October 27, 2017 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Health and Counseling Servie; Robbins Please join Bard's nutritionist, Ilyse Simon RDN CDN, Fridays (beginning 9/15/2017), 1:30-2:30 in the Health and Counseling Group Room (enter the Health and Counseling Service). If interested/for more info email: [email protected] or just show up. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/counseling.
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A) Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 101 Come one, come all to the first LUX Literary Magazine Meeting of the semester! We would love to see new initiates and old members of our collective LUX family alike to talk about plans, ideas, and questions concerning LUX. In addition, we are looking for staff editors, so if you are interested, this is your chance to speak up! Hope to see you there.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Friday, October 27, 2017 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Celebrate the end of another great harvest season with the Bard Farm. Beer made from the farm's hops. Seasonal snacks, live music and more! All are welcome!
Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 503-821-9750, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening we meet for a relaxed, informal service at 6:30 and a home-cooked vegetarin dinner at 7:30. All are welcome to parrticiopate in this warm and fuzzy Jewish community! For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Saturday, October 28, 2017 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Saturday, October 28, 2017 2:00 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts Skidmore College in the final home match of the season. It's Senior Day! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater All are invited to the Cultural Show organized by the ISO. This is a great opportunity to experience the hidden talents of our students. This includes music, dance, and other performances from around the world. For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Curated by artist WaleadBeshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition of works drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, a collecting philanthropic institution based in the United Arab Emirates. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Sunday, October 29, 2017 4:00 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Crimp’s rarely performed masterwork is an examination of the construction of identity in the age of modern media. The protagonist, Anne, never appears, but the question of who she is or was is examined from different, contradictory, and brilliantly theatrical perspectives.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Montgomery Place With Jon Bowermeister (filmmaker), Libby Zemaitis (NY D.E.C), and Christian Crouch (Bard College). Hudson Canoe and Kayak Trip with Susan Rogers (Bard College).
Bard College and the Good Work Institute will copresent a series of discussions, called the Hudson Valley Climate Salon Series, over four Sundays in October and November at Montgomery Place. These sessions will provide a clear and honest assessment of the local risks and challenges that come with changing climate. The Hudson Valley Climate Change Salon Series will be hosted on Sunday October 29, November 5, November 12, and November 19, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm at Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus, 26 Gardener Way, Red Hook, New York. This series is made possible with support from Dandelion and Hudson Solar. Admission is a ‘pay what you wish’ donation.
From raging wildfires to this year’s unprecedented hurricane season, there is ample evidence that an unstable climate is wreaking havoc around the world. The Climate Salon Series aims to bring the climate discussion home to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and to enable participants to gain a deeper understanding of the potential impacts of a changing climate on our communities.
These sessions will also offer tools and tactics for addressing these changes, and the inspiration to help build more connected and resilient local communities. Each Salon will explore a different theme, and will be preceded by related experiential activities.
November 5th: Farming With Gidon Eshel (Bard College), Elizabeth Ryan (Stone Ridge Orchards) Activity: Montgomery Orchard Farm Tour with Talea and Doug Taylor (Montgomery Place Orchards)
November 12: Forests With Cathy Collins (Bard College), Gary Lovett (Cary Institute), John Thompson (Catskill Center) Activity: Tree identification and Climate Change Walk with Amy Parella (Bard College)
November 19: Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute) Activity: Tick Identification and Protection Lab With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute)
Presenting partners include Chronogram, Climate Citizens Lobby, Hawthorne Valley Farm Association, La Voz, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater An afternoon of music, dance and poetry to stand in solidarity with Puerto Rico. All proceeds will be donated to Taller Salud, Casa Pueblo and Iser Caribe, community based organizations working to support the health and wellness of Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane María.
This event is organized by Bard’s Dean of Inclusive Excellence, Ariana Gonzalez Stokas 00' with the support of Ivette Romero, Marist College and Jessica Pabón, SUNY New Paltz. Sponsored by: A Special Community Fundraiser.
Ratatouille: Wrap up Food Days with a showing of the Disney Pixar movie Ratatouille. Come watch and indulge in real French pastries that will be provided with the show, courtesy of the French Department!
Sponsored by: French Studies Program.
For more information, call 503-821-9750, or e-mail [email protected].
Visiting Artists: icarus Quartet Two Pianos and Two Percussionists perform Bartok and Maric
Sunday, October 29, 2017 7:00 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building
A quartet specializing in 20th and 21st century repertoire composed for two pianos and percussion. They will perform the Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Dave Maric's recent work, Trophic Cascades (2014). Free admission. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and current debaters and to learn about all that we do - competitive debate, public debates, and outreach projects. No previous debate experience necessary! All are welcome! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
The celebrated author reads from The Zookeeper’s Wife
Monday, October 30, 2017 2:30 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema On Monday, October 30, at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Diane Ackerman reads from The Zookeeper’s Wife. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
The Zookeeper’s Wife, a little known true story of WWII, enjoyed months as the New York Times #1 nonfiction bestseller, was the basis for the 2017 feature film of the same title, and received the Orion Book Award, which honored it as “a groundbreaking work of nonfiction, in which the human relationship to nature is explored in an absolutely original way through looking at the Holocaust. A few years ago, ‘nature’ writers were asking themselves, How can a book be at the same time a work of art, an act of conscientious objection to the destruction of the world, and an affirmation of hope and human decency? The Zookeeper’s Wife answers this question.”
Diane Ackerman’s other works of nonfiction include An Alchemy of Mind, a poetics of the brain based on the latest neuroscience; Deep Play, which considers play, creativity, and our need for transcendence; A Slender Thread, about her work as a crisis line counselor; The Rarest of the Rare and The Moon by Whale Light, in which she explores the plight and fascination of endangered animals; On Extended Wings, her memoir of flying; and her bestseller, A Natural History of the Senses. Her most recent book, The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, a celebration of the natural world and human ingenuity, and an exploration of human-driven planetary change, received the P.E.N. Henry David Thoreau Award for Nature Writing.
Several of Ackerman's books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Circle Critics Award finalists. She also has the rare distinction of having a molecule named after her—dianeackerone— a pheromone in crocodilians. Her essays about nature and human nature have been appearing for decades in the New York Times, New Yorker, American Scholar, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and elsewhere.
Any supporter who donates $500 or more to Bard’s literary journal Conjunctions receives a BackPage Pass providing VIP access to any Fall 2017 or future event in the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series. Have lunch with a visiting author, attend a seminar on their work, and receive premium seating at their reading. Or you can give your BackPage Pass to a lover of literature on your gift list! To find out more, click here or contact Micaela Morrissette at [email protected] or (845) 758-7054.Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
The Introduction to Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet: An Unprecedented Network of Disorientations.
A talk by music theorist Eric Wen presented by the Bard College Music Program and the Conservatory of Music
Monday, October 30, 2017 4:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Eric Wen, professor in music theory and analysis at the Curtis Institute of Music, CUNY, and Juilliard School of Music, Graduate Division, will discuss the Introduction from the first movement of Mozart's String Quartet in C, K.465, known as the "Dissonance”. His book Structurally Sound, an analytical examination of seven classical masterpieces, has recently been published by Dover Publications. Room 210 in the Conservatory Building.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
In the Guesthouse of Language: Translation as Asylum
Christine Ivanovic Max Kade Distinguished Professor of German (Brown University & University of Vienna)
Monday, October 30, 2017 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201 One of the most persistent topics in translation studies is the differentiation between “Domestication” and “Foreignization” – two alternative modes of literary translation first conceptualized by Friedrich Schleiermacher and (in English) coined by Lawrence Venuti. What happens when literary texts demand a crossing of borders? How do we perceive, conceptualize, and argue about the translation of literature, and, ultimately, about the translation of people? What do “Domestication” and “Foreignization” reflect when it is not texts but rather people who are crossing borders? How do these questions define the task of the translator today?
Professor Ivanovic will discuss these questions in response to eminent thinkers such as Friedrich Hölderlin, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and Elfriede Jelinek.
For further information, please contact Thomas Wild: [email protected] Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; German Studies Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Since Gutenberg, printing technologies changed only modestly through five centuries of print production. However, starting in the mid–20th century, computational media began to be integrated with printing technologies with the invention of phototypesetters. This initiated a new era of reading, writing, and book production that I call postprint, to mark the ontological rupture separating it from traditional print techniques. This talk will sketch in this history and explore its implications for the transition from humans conceived as autonomous individuals to humans as part of cognitive assemblages that include networked and programmable machines.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
Bard Electric Guitar Ensemble performs Terry Riley's "In C"
Monday, October 30, 2017 8:00 pm
Blum Hall The Bard Electric Guitar Ensemble, a student ensemble of ten electric guitarists (directed by Prof. Matt Sargent), perform Terry Riley's minimalist masterwork, "In C."Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard College Assistant Director of Development for Alumni/ae Programs and Student Engagement Victoria Morrell One-On-One Appointments
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Room 201 LET THE BARD NETWORK WORK FOR YOU NOW … AND AFTER GRADUATION!
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Meet one-on-one with Victoria to discuss your specific interests, goals, and career opportunities, and learn how to reach alumni/ae working in your field of interest!
Tuesdays from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm October - December Campus Center, Room 201
The Future of Writing in the Digital Age: Postprint Productions and Asemic Writing
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 3:00 am – 5:00 pm
Henderson 106 (Mac Lab) This workshop will explore the implications of the changed nature of alphabetic writing in digital technologies, where the surface inscription is generated through layers of software and hardware. As printing technologies move into postprint, the fundamental nature of what constitutes “the text” transforms from human-only legibility to the mixed ecology of cognitive assemblages. For contemporary literature, this is often represented as a crisis in the human ability to read, write, and understand alphabetic language. This linguistic crisis is at the center of two contemporary novels, The Silent History and The Word Exchange, both of which entwine concerns about the obsolescence of print with the obsolescence of humanity as we know it. The connections of these texts to renewed interest in asemic writing will also be discussed. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reunión semanal de La Voz (con la mesa de español)
We invite students of all skills and talents to come by for our informal weekly meeting, on Tuesdays from 12 pm to 1:30 pm, to eat lunch and talk. ¡También es la hora de la mesa de español!
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
College Room, Kline Commons Sponsored by: La Voz.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x3759, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 204 Sam Baumgartner Yuming Liu Andres Mejia Kirill Shakhnovskiy Yida Shao Darren Tirto Eric Zhang Lingxin ZhaoSponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Introduced by Francine Prose In conversation with Charlotte Mandell, his translator.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 5:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 “Énard has written a masterful novel that speaks to our current, confused moment in history by highlighting the manifold, vital contributions of Islamic and other Middle Eastern cultures to the European canon. More than that, it points toward, as one character puts it, ‘a new vision that includes the other in the self.’ ” Andrew Ervin, The Washington Post
French novelist Mathias Énard is the award-winning author of Zone (2008) and Street of Thieves (2012), and a translator from Persian and Arabic. He won the Prix Goncourt (France’s oldest and most prestigious literary prize) in 2015 for Compass. The novel, translated like previous ones by Bard’s own Charlotte Mandell, was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
For more information, please contact Professor Éric Trudel at [email protected]Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program; Written Arts Program; the Book Department at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Artist Presentation Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Fisher Studio Arts Building
Terry Winters is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art.
“The point is to tell the truth, but, as Emily Dickinson wrote, to tell it slant. And in the case of the abstract artist, to tell it extremely slant. To evoke an emotional and cerebral response without resorting to any of the usual ways in which artists have learned to tap into our thoughts and feelings. To work by indirection, by association, to sidestep the familiar and well-worn paths that the visual artist constructs between the hand and the mind of the artist and the eye and the mind of the viewer.”
Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
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