On Friday, August 9, the Class of 2023 arrived on Bard College’s campus for the Language and Thinking Program. The first-year students embark on their Bard education with this intensive introduction to the liberal arts and sciences. The central question of L&T 2019 is: What needs to be the case for things to be otherwise? Students will examine this question in classes supported by a series of speakers and performers, a film series, and an L&T coding component. Students will read Gertrude Stein on how both war and the arts became otherwise during World War I, and Aristotle on how citizens need to live for cities to be noble. They will hear James Baldwin, Etel Adnan, and Ursula Le Guin make the case for migration and exile, and they will argue about revolutions (and their preludes) with Thomas Kuhn, Edmund Burke, Euripides, Karl Marx, and Layli Long Soldier. We look forward to seeing new Bardians gathered in class around campus, writing, thinking, discussing, and continuing this Bard tradition.
Post Date: 08-14-2019