Chapel of the Holy Innocents An ancient celebration of the Light (lucernaium) from the second century. Join us for liturgy, song, worship and a multitude of candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1 For the last few years Kitnick has been interested in Marshall McLuhan's writing on art and the ways it incorporates examples from contemporary art practice. McLuhan often turned to artworks when he was trying to give an idea of how new media and technologies affect the social body; he found new bodies in works of art. This talk will try to examine what the viability of such an approach might be today by looking back at a variety of recent projects.
Alex Kitnick is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Art History Program at Bard College. He also teaches at The Artist's Institute, a project of Hunter College. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2010. From 2011 to 2012 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Dan Graham (2011) and The Expendable Reader (2011). His writing has appeared in publications including Art Journal, Artforum, May, October, and Texte zur Kunst.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Wendy Ewald was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from Phillips Academy in 1969 and attended Antioch College between 1969–74, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied photography with Minor White. She embarked on a career teaching photography to children and young people internationally. In 1969 & 1970, she taught photography to Innuand Mi'kmaq Native-American children in Canada. Between 1976–80 she taught photography and film-making to students in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in association with Appalshop, a media co-op. In 1982, she traveled to Ráquira, Colombia on a Fulbright fellowship working with children and community groups; spending a further two years in Gujarat, India.
Her work is directed toward "helping children to see" and using the "camera as a tool for expression". In recent years Ewald has produced a number of conceptual installations—for example, in Margate, England and in Amherst, Mass.—making use of large scale photographic banners. Ewald was one of the founders of the Half Moon Photography Workshop in the East End of London; and in 1989 she created the "Literacy through Photography" programmes in Houston, Texas, and Durham, North Carolina. In 1992, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
She is currently senior research associate at the Center for International Studies at Duke University, visiting artist at Amherst College and director of the Literacy through Photography International program and artist in residence at the Duke University Center for International Studies.
In 2011, Ewald coordinated a project in Israel. She gave cameras to owners of stalls and stores at the Mahane Yehuda marketplace in Jerusalem, Arab women and gypsies in Jerusalem's Old City, schoolchildren in Nazareth, residents of Hebron, Negev Bedouin and high-tech employees in Tel Aviv. This was Ewald's first attempt to document an entire country, and the first use of digital cameras and color photography in her international projects.
In 2010, Ewald received a Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design. Sponsored by: Photography Program.
Olin Humanities, Room 205 The Ingenious Diversity of Fiction: The History of Fictionality in the American Republic
The first part of this talk offers an overview of my current project, which explores the historical contestations over fictionality in the United States from the 1790s through the 1860s. The project seeks to recover how the diverse forms and theories of fictionality circulating in the early republic shaped the way in which Americans thought and argued about the most pressing social and political issues of their moment. The talk then examines the role fiction played in republican political discourse by way of Hugh Henry Brackenridge’s picaresque satire Modern Chivalry (1792-1815). The talk closes with a discussion of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), which argues that attention to Jacobs’s engagement with fictionality allows us to rethink the question of sympathy in her narrative. Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7121, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts Liberty League rival Vassar. The first 50 students (with Bard ID) at the game will receive a free "Bird Gang" t-shirt. The student cheering section has called itself the Bird Gang. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts neighborhood and Liberty League rival Vassar in an important game. The first 50 students (with Bard ID) at the game will receive a free "Bird Gang" t-shirt. The student cheering section has called itself the Bird Gang. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
POSTPONED: The World Bank and the Struggle for Sustainable (and Human Rights–Friendly) Development
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 5–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 A roundtable discussion with:
Bruce Rich, author of Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction (2013), is a lawyer and writer, who has played a critical role in civil society’s engagement with international development institutions over a period of decades. He has testified in numerous Congressional hearings concerning U.S. participation in international organizations, and is also the author of To Uphold the World, with a Foreword by Amartya Sen and an Afterword by H.H. The Dalai Lama (2010), and Mortgaging the Earth (1994).
Jenik Radon, Adjunct Professor, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, is a lawyer engaged in advising developing countries and civil society organizations on investment projects. He was adviser to the Government of Georgia on the multinational “BTC” oil pipeline, one of the formative projects in contemporary large scale infrastructure investment. He now advises the Government of Afghanistan on the proposed multi-billion dollar TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) gas project.
Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, has been actively involved in research and advocacy related to investment and human rights. His past work focused on oil and mining investment; he has just completed a study of World Bank funded tea plantations in India.
Background:
The new World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, has announced a strategy for the Bank that relies on big risks for big rewards, notwithstanding the risk of big failure. For civil society activists, the President’s language recalls the worst of the World Bank’s past behavior and ignores decades of efforts to implement reforms intended to protect rights and preserve the environment, in other words, leveraging the money and influence of the Bank for the ‘right kind of development.’ Interestingly, the World Bank’s new strategy comes after a decade of booming investment in the developing world, that has been met with expanding demands for transparency, accountability and equity. This panel will discuss the progress that has been made in achieving those goals, generally, and the role of the World Bank. Peter Rosenblum will moderate.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents An ancient celebration of the Light (lucernaium) from the second century. Join us for liturgy, song, worship and a multitude of candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division Faculty Concert Alice Yoo, cello Adam Golka, piano
Sunday, February 9, 2014 2 pm
Olin Hall Program includes works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, and Michael Brown For more information, call 646-456-8795, or e-mail [email protected].
"Computational Reading of Classical Arabic Sources: The Case of Biographical Collections"
Maxim Romanov
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6–7:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202
Over the past decade a great number of classical Arabic sources became available as fully searchable texts. The volume of existing digital libraries now exceeds 800 mln. words. Although this makes traditional research more efficient, the volume of this corpus demands for new methods. Using the most recent digital methods of text analysis, the paper presents an analysis of about 29,000 biographies from “The History of Islam” (Taʾrīkh al-islām) compiled by the Damascene historian al-Dhahabī (d. 1348 CE), and offers a glimpse into how the Islamic society was changing during the first 700 years of its history.
Maxim Romanov is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Classics & Perseus Project at Tufts University. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan. His research combines experimental digital humanities methods and the study of classical Arabic sources.
Matthew Shepard: The Murder and the Myth - A Discussion with Stephen Jiminez
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student, was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that he died a few days later.
Does the real story behind this iconic crime matter? Or is the serviceable myth of the worst anti-gay hate crime in U.S. history more important?
What happens when landmark events take on a life of their own, but turn out to be myths?
EUS/Studio Arts Speaker: Brian Tolle on the Irish Famine Memorial in NYC and other works.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:30 pm
Fisher Studio Arts Building Brian Tolle's sculptures and installations emphasize a formal and iconographic dialog with history and context. Architecture, site and technology are recurring themes ... His public works include Irish Hunger Memorial, Battery Park City, NYC, NY, a one-half acre sculpture on the Hudson River, reshaping the landscape with a full-scale replica of a hillside Irish farm desiccated by the potato famine.
This lecture will take place in the Fisher Studio Arts seminar room. Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Mellon-Supported Course Development Grant; Studio Arts Program.
Friday, February 14, 2014 – Sunday, February 16, 2014 3–12 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Interested in a career in sustainability? Join the C2C Fellows’ workshops to learn the leadership skills necessary to succeed, such as how to: raise money, tell your story, build your network, pitch your idea, and know what you’re good at. C2C Fellows is a growing network of over 300 student sustainability leaders nationwide.
C2C Fellows will occur at Bard College over the weekend of February 14-16th, 2014. Applications are due by January 31st, 2014, and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
The workshop registration fee is $30, including food and lodging for students traveling over 1 hour. This fee will be waived for local students who are willing to host visiting C2C Fellows. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Bitó Conservatory Building Conservatory flute students play selections of works.
Paul Edmund-Davies established his international reputation as flautist and soloist in the twenty years that he was Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has performed concerti include Leonard Bernstein, Rostropovich, Pierre Boulez and Kent Nagano and he has played in Chamber Music ensembles with André Previn.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center What's more romantic than basketball on Valentine's Day? Come out and support the Raptors as they host Union College in a Liberty League game.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Band featuring vocalist Claudette Sierra
Friday, February 14, 2014 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Tickets: $20 SOLD OUT
“A Latin jazz institution.”—Time Out New York
Spend Valentine’s Day with one of the hottest jazz bands on the scene. SYOTOS performs boundary-busting music that gives new meaning to Latin jazz. Founded by Chris Washburne in 1992, SYOTOS boasts stars from the ensembles of Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, and Ray Barretto. Their music fuses strands of Afro-Cuban, funk, jazz, gospel, and contemporary classical into a swirl of surging rhythms and spicy solos.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission. Sponsored by: Catskill Jazz Factory; Fisher Center.
Stevenson Athletic Center What could be more romantic than basketball on Valentine's Day? Bard hosts Union in a Liberty League game. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Friday, February 14, 2014 – Sunday, February 16, 2014 3–12 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Interested in a career in sustainability? Join the C2C Fellows’ workshops to learn the leadership skills necessary to succeed, such as how to: raise money, tell your story, build your network, pitch your idea, and know what you’re good at. C2C Fellows is a growing network of over 300 student sustainability leaders nationwide.
C2C Fellows will occur at Bard College over the weekend of February 14-16th, 2014. Applications are due by January 31st, 2014, and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
The workshop registration fee is $30, including food and lodging for students traveling over 1 hour. This fee will be waived for local students who are willing to host visiting C2C Fellows. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Bitó Conservatory Building Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts Skidmore College in its final home game of the 2013-14 season. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts Skidmore College in its final home game of the 2013-14 season. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater February 15 at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion with the artists Tickets start at $25, Bard students $10
“Anna Deavere Smith is the ultimate impressionist. She does people’s souls.”—New York Times
Widely acclaimed as one of the most provocative writers and performers of our time, Anna Deavere Smith is as celebrated for her investigative “documentary style” theater (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992) as for her starring roles on The West Wing and Nurse Jackie. Join her for an intimate evening in which she shares portraits of real people she has embodied over the past two decades.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents An ancient celebration of the Light (lucernaium) from the second century. Join us for liturgy, song, worship and a multitude of candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, February 14, 2014 – Sunday, February 16, 2014 3–12 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Interested in a career in sustainability? Join the C2C Fellows’ workshops to learn the leadership skills necessary to succeed, such as how to: raise money, tell your story, build your network, pitch your idea, and know what you’re good at. C2C Fellows is a growing network of over 300 student sustainability leaders nationwide.
C2C Fellows will occur at Bard College over the weekend of February 14-16th, 2014. Applications are due by January 31st, 2014, and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
The workshop registration fee is $30, including food and lodging for students traveling over 1 hour. This fee will be waived for local students who are willing to host visiting C2C Fellows. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra.
The finalists are: Xi Yang, cello Adrienn Kántor, flute Maryna Kysla, piano John Belk, cello Xing Gao, harp Gabriel Baeza, violin Noémi Sallai, clarinet
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1 Since 2006 Thurston has been one of three Co-editors of Information as Material (York), a self-publishing collective whose varied output since 2002 has been synonymous with the emergent field of Conceptual Writing. In this talk, he will discuss how, together, we explore a form of co-working that may be described as a ‘praxis of publishing’. With slides, plus examples to hand from the archive of IAM publications recently acquired by the CCS Bard Library, Thurston will talk about anti-normative writing projects by a range of artists whom we’ve supported to self-publish and then about one of their recent exhibitions, Do or DIY (Whitechapel Gallery, London; Laurence Sterne Museum, Coxwold; both 2012). That exhibition included a temporary public reference library and in the final third of this talk he will try to explain why making functioning libraries as installationary art works is one of the things Thurston does, using as examples documentation from my recent solo show, Pretty Brutal Library (& Model Gallery, Leeds, 2013) and one of his works-in-progress, Hate Library.
Nick Thurston‘s third book, Of the Subcontract, was published in summer 2013. His poetic writings have been anthologised in various collections, including Against Expression (Northwestern UP) and The Unexpected Guest (Liverpool Biennial & A / B Publishing). Commissioned interviews with him and reviews by him for Afterall (London) and BOMB (New York) can be found online. Lengthy critical essays for the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect) and Writing After Conceptual Art (Toronto UP) will be published later this year. He exhibits internationally and his art works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Leeds City Art Gallery and The Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris). Since 2006 he has been a Co-editor of the publishing collective Information as Material (York), with whom he was the 2011-12 Writer in Residence at the Whitechapel Gallery (London). In 2012 he took up an academic post at the University of Leeds, England, and in summer 2014 he will be an Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin).
This talk is given as part of the lecture series The Visitor Talks : Pre-ambulation and Retrospection.
Music, Sound and Affect in Japan's Antinuclear Movement
David Novak (UC Santa Barbara)
Monday, February 17, 2014 4:45 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
This talk considers the recent mix of "sound demos,” art installations and antinuclear music festivals in contexts of political protest in Japan since the tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi on March 11, 2011. I focus on a performance festival called Project Fukushima! organized by experimental musician Ôtomo Yoshihide, poet Wago Ryoichi and punk rock legend Endô Michirô to provoke public discourse about nuclear power and the future of the partly-evacuated city (the name of his hometown, Ôtomo said, should not become a generalized reference to nuclear accident -- “another Chernobyl”). Only a few months after the meltdown in 2011 and again in August 2012, this group of underground performers brought audiences in the thousands back to Fukushima. Bands performed on stages, in the streets, and on local trains; the audience sat on a gigantic furoshiki cloth tapestry conceived to protect them from the irradiated ground. In addition to his role as primary organizer and performer in Project Fukushima! Ôtomo has written powerfully on the role of arts and culture in the response to the Fukushima Disaster, and gives regular public talks about cultural activism, as well as authoring widely circulated blogposts and tweets about the antinuclear movement. Through my ethnographic research in Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukushima in 2012 and 2013, I contextualize Project Fukushima! as part of an ongoing series of public actions of music and noise making and “reclaim-the-streets” performance tactics that galvanized public response to the nuclear restart and the future of energy policy in Japan.
David Novak is an Associate Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at UC Santa Barbara.
Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program; Ethnomusicology; Experimental Humanities Program; Japanese Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A Conversation between Photographers Paul Weinberg and Tim Davis '91
Monday, February 17, 2014 4:45–6:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Paul Weinberg, who is currently the Senior Curator of the Visual Archives at the University of Cape Town, was a founding member of the photographic collective Afrapix, which documented firsthand South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle in the 1980s and early 1990s. Tim Davis, an Associate Professor of Photography at Bard, is a highly-acclaimed American photographer who has participated in many collective and solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
William Rowe
Essayist, poet and translator, William Rowe is Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of several books on Latin American Poetry
William Rowe is founder of the Contemporary Poetics Research Center, University of London, Birkbeck, where he is Anniversary Professor Emeritus of Iberian and Latin American Studies. Professor Rowe is the author of ten books on Latin American literature and culture, including Poets of Contemporary Latin America, Oxford University Press, 2000. His many translations of Latin American authors, with special interest in the poetics of socio-political change, include Raul Zurita’s, INRI, Marick Press 2009 and his recently completed Trilce by César Vallejo. Rowe is a founding editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Travesia; he has taught at the Universities of Lambayeque (Peru), Liverpool, Kings College London, where he was given a Chair in Latin American Cultural Studies; San Marcos (Peru), Universidad Católica (Peru), Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico) and Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies; The John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail [email protected].
Lunchtime Talk with Wout Cornelissen: Writing about Willing: Arendt and "the Spring of Action"
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:30 pm
Arendt Center
In The Human Condition, Arendt offers a phenomenology of action and of political action in particular. She criticizes the traditional understanding of politics in terms of rule, i.e., sovereign command. She argues that this conception of politics is informed by the image of the craftsman who, isolated from his fellow human beings, organizes certain means in order to realize his chosen end, viz. to make an artifact. Because of her critique of this instrumentalist account of politics, it is often believed that she defends a conception of politics being an end-in-itself instead. Yet this reading has led to criticisms of the unrealistic nature of her account. For, in reality, political action is usually – if not always – directed towards the realization of specific ends. Since Arendt tied the notion of the will so strongly to that of the conception of politics she rejects, the actual role of aims and intentions in political action remains under-theorized. Only in her last work, The Life of the Mind, which she did not live to finish, Arendt explicitly turns to the question of the nature of the mental activity of willing and its relation to acting.
Cornelissen will first trace certain moments in Arendt’s earlier writing in which she refers to the role of the will as “the spring of action”. Next, he will bring these moments into discussion with a preliminary reconstruction of her explicit account of the activity of willing in The Life of the Mind. In doing so, he will also draw attention to the way in which her activity of writing, which she tends to conceive of as a form of making, is itself shaped by conditions of which it is not in complete command. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
MAT Building Learn more about Bard College's Master of Arts in Teaching Program! All attendees earn a $65 application fee waiver. Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
Thoughts on Artistic Decision-Making in the Early 21st Century
Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:30 pm
Olin Hall A contemplation and contemporary contextualization of processes and impact of selection in music as revealed in the moral dilemma of contemporary African-American commercial music.
ANTHONY M. KELLEY
BIOGRAPHY
Anthony Kelley joined the Duke University music faculty in 2000 after serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a grant from Meet the Composer. His recent work (like his soundtracks for the H. Lee Waters/Tom Whiteside film "Conjuring Bearden" [2006] Dante James's film, "The Doll" [2007], Josh Gibson's "Kudzu Vine" [2011]) explores music as linked with other media, arts, and sociological phenomena.
In 2011, Kelley was the winner of Duke's Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.
He has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Duke's Department of Music since his appointment to the post in Fall, 2012.
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Dean of the College; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-752-4775, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Followed by a discussion with the artists Tickets: $25, Bard students $10
Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper Featuring Anne Gridley ’02 and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner
“A hilariously deconstructed take on the enduring classic.”—Time Out New York
“Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As one by one the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.
This young American avant-garde theater troupe has received accolades all over the world for their quest to reclaim and reimagine the oral traditions of theater. At times hilarious, at times bizarre, and always disarmingly sincere, Nature Theater of Oklahoma is one of the most important ensembles working in the theater today.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater 7 pm Preconcert Talk by Christopher H. Gibbs Joan Tower Stroke
Erkki Melartin Concerto in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra Dongfang Ouyang ’15, violin Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2
Running time for this performance is approximately two hours including one 20-minute intermission.Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Fisher Center.
Sarah Rothenberg: Making Music with the Media of the Stage
Presented by The Bard College Conservatory of Music and Music Program
Friday, February 21, 2014 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building
Taking a quote from Arnold Schoenberg as the title of her lecture/presentation, pianist Sarah Rothenberg discusses her original multimedia productions that link music to visual art, literature, and the history of ideas. Central to several productions is an exploration of Schoenberg's own music and its relationship to German theatre (Moondrunk), identity and exile (The Musical World of Thomas Mann), abstraction in visual art (The Blue Rider in Performance) and the fin-de-siècle Vienna of Freud and Klimt (In the Garden of Dreams).
Presented by the Music Department and the Conservatory
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Nature Theater of Oklahoma Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper Featuring Anne Gridley ’02 and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A hilariously deconstructed take on the enduring classic.”—Time Out New York
“Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As one by one the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.Sponsored by: Fisher Center; Live Arts Bard.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater 7 pm Preconcert Talk by Christopher H. Gibbs Joan Tower Stroke
Erkki Melartin Concerto in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra Dongfang Ouyang ’15, violin Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2
Running time for this performance is approximately two hours including one 20-minute intermission.Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Fisher Center.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Followed by a discussion with the artists Tickets: $25, Bard students $10
Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper Featuring Anne Gridley ’02 and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner
“A hilariously deconstructed take on the enduring classic.”—Time Out New York
“Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As one by one the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.
This young American avant-garde theater troupe has received accolades all over the world for their quest to reclaim and reimagine the oral traditions of theater. At times hilarious, at times bizarre, and always disarmingly sincere, Nature Theater of Oklahoma is one of the most important ensembles working in the theater today.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
Olin Humanities, Room 202 Native plants and wildflowers are excellent alternatives to their non-native counterparts, and they provide habitat and food for birds and insects that keep our ecosystems in balance. Learn which natives are best suited to various conditions (sun, shade, and a range of soil types), which combinations provide continuous blooms from spring to fall, and tips on growing and maintaining these low-maintenance perennials.Anne Christian
Join Nature Theater of Oklahoma for the premiere U.S. screening of Nature Theater of Oklahoma: The Movie!
Saturday, February 22, 2014 2 pm
Film Center Free, reservations required
An intimate look into Nature Theater’s process and company dynamic, this epic documentary tracks their unprecedented 21-day takeover of the Hebbel Theater in Berlin in the summer of 2013. Nature Theater leaders Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper narrate this personal diary/video essay about grand ambition, grand sacrifice, and the struggle and reward of forging an artistic life. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents An ancient celebration of the Light (lucernaium) from the second century. Join us for liturgy, song, worship and a multitude of candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Followed by a discussion with the artists Tickets: $25, Bard students $10
Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper Featuring Anne Gridley ’02 and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner
“A hilariously deconstructed take on the enduring classic.”—Time Out New York
“Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As one by one the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.
This young American avant-garde theater troupe has received accolades all over the world for their quest to reclaim and reimagine the oral traditions of theater. At times hilarious, at times bizarre, and always disarmingly sincere, Nature Theater of Oklahoma is one of the most important ensembles working in the theater today.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
Bitó Conservatory Building Music Alive! Artistic Directors Joan Tower and Blair McMillen present a colorful selection of music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Program includes works by George Crumb, Toru Takemitsu, Don Byron, Harold Farberman, Maxwell McKee(014') and Paul Kerekes performed by over 30 musicians.
** Please note the change of location for this event. This concert will take place in the László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building and not Olin Hall.**
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Fiction Prize recipient Bennett Sims will read from recent work
Monday, February 24, 2014 7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Bennett Sims received the 2014 Bard Fiction Prize for his debut novel, A Questionable Shape. The Bard Fiction Prize committee writes: “The judges delight in welcoming to the literary community of Bard a writer whose first novel represents a powerful (and very readable) fusion of genres—a story about the vagaries of human perception which is also a wild romp of zombies biting through a curiously lyrical apocalypse. The writing is intricate, thoughtful, its characters are like most of us obsessed with games and devices, the text bejeweled with footnotes. The author was one of the last students of David Foster Wallace, who was the first reader of the first version of this haunting novel of love and estrangement.”
Bennett Sims was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and has studied at Pomona College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received a Provost Fellowship and a Michener-Copernicus Award after graduating. A Questionable Shape was published in 2013 by Two Dollar Radio. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Zoetrope: All-Story.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
"The Matriculating Indian and the Uneducable Negro: Slavery, Race and American Colleges": A Talk with Craig Steven Wilder
Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:30–10 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Professor Wilder’s most recent book is Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013). He is also the author of In the Company of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City (New York: New York University Press, 2001/2004); and A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000/2001). His recent articles include, “‘Driven . . . from the School of the Prophets’: The Colonizationist Ascendance at General Theological Seminary,” which was the inaugural essay in the fully digital journal New York History.
Professor Wilder is a senior fellow at the Bard Prison Initiative, where he has served as a guest lecturer, commencement speaker, academic advisor, and visiting professor. For more than a decade, this innovative program has given hundreds of men and women the opportunity to acquire a college education during their incarcerations in the New York State prison system.
He has advised and appeared in numerous historical documentaries, including the celebrated Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon film, The Central Park Five; Kelly Anderson’s highly praised exploration of gentrification, My Brooklyn; the History Channel’s F.D.R.: A Presidency Revealed; and Ric Burn’s award-winning PBS series, New York: A Documentary History.
Professor Wilder has directed or advised exhibits at regional and national museums, including the Brooklyn Historical Society, the New-York Historical Society, the Chicago History Museum, the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BLDG 92, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and the Weeksville Heritage Center. He was one of the original historians for the Museum of Sex in New York City, and he maintains an active public history program.
(from MIT's History Department webpage)
***Brought to you by The Difference & Media Project, with co-sponsorship from The Arendt Center, The Human Rights Project, Africana Studies, and Historical Studies at Bard College. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Difference and Media Project; Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Project.
Bard Hall Gregory Dinger, adjunct music faculty classical guitar instructor at Bard since 1997, will present a concert on Thursday, February 27 at 8 pm in Bard Hall. The program is a repeat of his SUNY New Paltz faculty recital of a week earlier and in line with that school's music department's theme this year of "Love, Jealousy & Despair." Dinger's program includes Tarrega's Fantasy on "La Traviata" and Dinger's own solo guitar arrangement of Tchaikovsky's orchestra work, the "Romeo & Juliet" Fantasy-Overture (never done on guitar before). The concert also includes a selection of milongas and tangos (sultry South American dances) by Jorge Cardoso, Emilio Pujol, Maximo Diego Pujol, Astor Piazzolla and Roland Dyens.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Third Annual Middle/High School Debate Tournament at Bard
Friday, February 28, 2014 8:30 am – 3:15 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join the Bard Debate Union and the Center for Civic Engagement in welcoming nearly 100 Middle and High School students to Bard for the day for the Third Annual Middle and High School Debate Tournament at Bard. Students will be coming from the Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and Kingston schools as well as from all three Bard High School Early Colleges in NYC. Debate topics will include nuclear weapons and smart phones among others. All are welcome! Come see these eager young minds debate some of the most pressing issues of our times!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Visions in Meditation #1 (Stan Brakhage, 1989, USA, 16 minutes, 16mm) *New print
Minnie the Moocher (Dave Fleischer, 1932, USA, 8 minutes, 35mm) *New print
In Titan’s Goblet (Peter Hutton, 1991, USA, 10 minutes, 16mm)
Beirut Outtakes (Peggy Ahwesh, 2007, USA, 7 minutes, Blu-ray)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950, USA, 94 minutes, 35mm) *Restored print
Part two:
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000, Hong Kong/France, 98 minutes, 35mm)
Refreshments, including pizzas provided by Two Boots Bard, will be available outside the theater. Support for the reception has been provided by the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents An ancient celebration of the Light (lucernaium) from the second century. Join us for liturgy, song, worship and a multitude of candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1 For the last few years Kitnick has been interested in Marshall McLuhan's writing on art and the ways it incorporates examples from contemporary art practice. McLuhan often turned to artworks when he was trying to give an idea of how new media and technologies affect the social body; he found new bodies in works of art. This talk will try to examine what the viability of such an approach might be today by looking back at a variety of recent projects.
Alex Kitnick is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Art History Program at Bard College. He also teaches at The Artist's Institute, a project of Hunter College. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2010. From 2011 to 2012 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Dan Graham (2011) and The Expendable Reader (2011). His writing has appeared in publications including Art Journal, Artforum, May, October, and Texte zur Kunst.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Wendy Ewald was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from Phillips Academy in 1969 and attended Antioch College between 1969–74, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied photography with Minor White. She embarked on a career teaching photography to children and young people internationally. In 1969 & 1970, she taught photography to Innuand Mi'kmaq Native-American children in Canada. Between 1976–80 she taught photography and film-making to students in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in association with Appalshop, a media co-op. In 1982, she traveled to Ráquira, Colombia on a Fulbright fellowship working with children and community groups; spending a further two years in Gujarat, India.
Her work is directed toward "helping children to see" and using the "camera as a tool for expression". In recent years Ewald has produced a number of conceptual installations—for example, in Margate, England and in Amherst, Mass.—making use of large scale photographic banners. Ewald was one of the founders of the Half Moon Photography Workshop in the East End of London; and in 1989 she created the "Literacy through Photography" programmes in Houston, Texas, and Durham, North Carolina. In 1992, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
She is currently senior research associate at the Center for International Studies at Duke University, visiting artist at Amherst College and director of the Literacy through Photography International program and artist in residence at the Duke University Center for International Studies.
In 2011, Ewald coordinated a project in Israel. She gave cameras to owners of stalls and stores at the Mahane Yehuda marketplace in Jerusalem, Arab women and gypsies in Jerusalem's Old City, schoolchildren in Nazareth, residents of Hebron, Negev Bedouin and high-tech employees in Tel Aviv. This was Ewald's first attempt to document an entire country, and the first use of digital cameras and color photography in her international projects.
In 2010, Ewald received a Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design. Sponsored by: Photography Program.
Olin Humanities, Room 205 The Ingenious Diversity of Fiction: The History of Fictionality in the American Republic
The first part of this talk offers an overview of my current project, which explores the historical contestations over fictionality in the United States from the 1790s through the 1860s. The project seeks to recover how the diverse forms and theories of fictionality circulating in the early republic shaped the way in which Americans thought and argued about the most pressing social and political issues of their moment. The talk then examines the role fiction played in republican political discourse by way of Hugh Henry Brackenridge’s picaresque satire Modern Chivalry (1792-1815). The talk closes with a discussion of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), which argues that attention to Jacobs’s engagement with fictionality allows us to rethink the question of sympathy in her narrative. Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7121, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts Liberty League rival Vassar. The first 50 students (with Bard ID) at the game will receive a free "Bird Gang" t-shirt. The student cheering section has called itself the Bird Gang. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts neighborhood and Liberty League rival Vassar in an important game. The first 50 students (with Bard ID) at the game will receive a free "Bird Gang" t-shirt. The student cheering section has called itself the Bird Gang. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
POSTPONED: The World Bank and the Struggle for Sustainable (and Human Rights–Friendly) Development
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 5–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 A roundtable discussion with:
Bruce Rich, author of Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction (2013), is a lawyer and writer, who has played a critical role in civil society’s engagement with international development institutions over a period of decades. He has testified in numerous Congressional hearings concerning U.S. participation in international organizations, and is also the author of To Uphold the World, with a Foreword by Amartya Sen and an Afterword by H.H. The Dalai Lama (2010), and Mortgaging the Earth (1994).
Jenik Radon, Adjunct Professor, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, is a lawyer engaged in advising developing countries and civil society organizations on investment projects. He was adviser to the Government of Georgia on the multinational “BTC” oil pipeline, one of the formative projects in contemporary large scale infrastructure investment. He now advises the Government of Afghanistan on the proposed multi-billion dollar TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) gas project.
Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, has been actively involved in research and advocacy related to investment and human rights. His past work focused on oil and mining investment; he has just completed a study of World Bank funded tea plantations in India.
Background:
The new World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, has announced a strategy for the Bank that relies on big risks for big rewards, notwithstanding the risk of big failure. For civil society activists, the President’s language recalls the worst of the World Bank’s past behavior and ignores decades of efforts to implement reforms intended to protect rights and preserve the environment, in other words, leveraging the money and influence of the Bank for the ‘right kind of development.’ Interestingly, the World Bank’s new strategy comes after a decade of booming investment in the developing world, that has been met with expanding demands for transparency, accountability and equity. This panel will discuss the progress that has been made in achieving those goals, generally, and the role of the World Bank. Peter Rosenblum will moderate.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents An ancient celebration of the Light (lucernaium) from the second century. Join us for liturgy, song, worship and a multitude of candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division Faculty Concert Alice Yoo, cello Adam Golka, piano
Sunday, February 9, 2014 2 pm
Olin Hall Program includes works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, and Michael Brown For more information, call 646-456-8795, or e-mail [email protected].
"Computational Reading of Classical Arabic Sources: The Case of Biographical Collections"
Maxim Romanov
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6–7:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202
Over the past decade a great number of classical Arabic sources became available as fully searchable texts. The volume of existing digital libraries now exceeds 800 mln. words. Although this makes traditional research more efficient, the volume of this corpus demands for new methods. Using the most recent digital methods of text analysis, the paper presents an analysis of about 29,000 biographies from “The History of Islam” (Taʾrīkh al-islām) compiled by the Damascene historian al-Dhahabī (d. 1348 CE), and offers a glimpse into how the Islamic society was changing during the first 700 years of its history.
Maxim Romanov is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Classics & Perseus Project at Tufts University. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan. His research combines experimental digital humanities methods and the study of classical Arabic sources.
Matthew Shepard: The Murder and the Myth - A Discussion with Stephen Jiminez
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student, was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that he died a few days later.
Does the real story behind this iconic crime matter? Or is the serviceable myth of the worst anti-gay hate crime in U.S. history more important?
What happens when landmark events take on a life of their own, but turn out to be myths?
EUS/Studio Arts Speaker: Brian Tolle on the Irish Famine Memorial in NYC and other works.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:30 pm
Fisher Studio Arts Building Brian Tolle's sculptures and installations emphasize a formal and iconographic dialog with history and context. Architecture, site and technology are recurring themes ... His public works include Irish Hunger Memorial, Battery Park City, NYC, NY, a one-half acre sculpture on the Hudson River, reshaping the landscape with a full-scale replica of a hillside Irish farm desiccated by the potato famine.
This lecture will take place in the Fisher Studio Arts seminar room. Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Mellon-Supported Course Development Grant; Studio Arts Program.
Friday, February 14, 2014 – Sunday, February 16, 2014 3–12 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Interested in a career in sustainability? Join the C2C Fellows’ workshops to learn the leadership skills necessary to succeed, such as how to: raise money, tell your story, build your network, pitch your idea, and know what you’re good at. C2C Fellows is a growing network of over 300 student sustainability leaders nationwide.
C2C Fellows will occur at Bard College over the weekend of February 14-16th, 2014. Applications are due by January 31st, 2014, and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
The workshop registration fee is $30, including food and lodging for students traveling over 1 hour. This fee will be waived for local students who are willing to host visiting C2C Fellows. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Bitó Conservatory Building Conservatory flute students play selections of works.
Paul Edmund-Davies established his international reputation as flautist and soloist in the twenty years that he was Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has performed concerti include Leonard Bernstein, Rostropovich, Pierre Boulez and Kent Nagano and he has played in Chamber Music ensembles with André Previn.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center What's more romantic than basketball on Valentine's Day? Come out and support the Raptors as they host Union College in a Liberty League game.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Band featuring vocalist Claudette Sierra
Friday, February 14, 2014 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Tickets: $20 SOLD OUT
“A Latin jazz institution.”—Time Out New York
Spend Valentine’s Day with one of the hottest jazz bands on the scene. SYOTOS performs boundary-busting music that gives new meaning to Latin jazz. Founded by Chris Washburne in 1992, SYOTOS boasts stars from the ensembles of Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, and Ray Barretto. Their music fuses strands of Afro-Cuban, funk, jazz, gospel, and contemporary classical into a swirl of surging rhythms and spicy solos.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission. Sponsored by: Catskill Jazz Factory; Fisher Center.
Stevenson Athletic Center What could be more romantic than basketball on Valentine's Day? Bard hosts Union in a Liberty League game. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Friday, February 14, 2014 – Sunday, February 16, 2014 3–12 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Interested in a career in sustainability? Join the C2C Fellows’ workshops to learn the leadership skills necessary to succeed, such as how to: raise money, tell your story, build your network, pitch your idea, and know what you’re good at. C2C Fellows is a growing network of over 300 student sustainability leaders nationwide.
C2C Fellows will occur at Bard College over the weekend of February 14-16th, 2014. Applications are due by January 31st, 2014, and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
The workshop registration fee is $30, including food and lodging for students traveling over 1 hour. This fee will be waived for local students who are willing to host visiting C2C Fellows. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Bitó Conservatory Building Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts Skidmore College in its final home game of the 2013-14 season. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts Skidmore College in its final home game of the 2013-14 season. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater February 15 at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion with the artists Tickets start at $25, Bard students $10
“Anna Deavere Smith is the ultimate impressionist. She does people’s souls.”—New York Times
Widely acclaimed as one of the most provocative writers and performers of our time, Anna Deavere Smith is as celebrated for her investigative “documentary style” theater (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992) as for her starring roles on The West Wing and Nurse Jackie. Join her for an intimate evening in which she shares portraits of real people she has embodied over the past two decades.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents An ancient celebration of the Light (lucernaium) from the second century. Join us for liturgy, song, worship and a multitude of candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, February 14, 2014 – Sunday, February 16, 2014 3–12 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Interested in a career in sustainability? Join the C2C Fellows’ workshops to learn the leadership skills necessary to succeed, such as how to: raise money, tell your story, build your network, pitch your idea, and know what you’re good at. C2C Fellows is a growing network of over 300 student sustainability leaders nationwide.
C2C Fellows will occur at Bard College over the weekend of February 14-16th, 2014. Applications are due by January 31st, 2014, and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
The workshop registration fee is $30, including food and lodging for students traveling over 1 hour. This fee will be waived for local students who are willing to host visiting C2C Fellows. Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra.
The finalists are: Xi Yang, cello Adrienn Kántor, flute Maryna Kysla, piano John Belk, cello Xing Gao, harp Gabriel Baeza, violin Noémi Sallai, clarinet
CCS Bard Seminar Room 1 Since 2006 Thurston has been one of three Co-editors of Information as Material (York), a self-publishing collective whose varied output since 2002 has been synonymous with the emergent field of Conceptual Writing. In this talk, he will discuss how, together, we explore a form of co-working that may be described as a ‘praxis of publishing’. With slides, plus examples to hand from the archive of IAM publications recently acquired by the CCS Bard Library, Thurston will talk about anti-normative writing projects by a range of artists whom we’ve supported to self-publish and then about one of their recent exhibitions, Do or DIY (Whitechapel Gallery, London; Laurence Sterne Museum, Coxwold; both 2012). That exhibition included a temporary public reference library and in the final third of this talk he will try to explain why making functioning libraries as installationary art works is one of the things Thurston does, using as examples documentation from my recent solo show, Pretty Brutal Library (& Model Gallery, Leeds, 2013) and one of his works-in-progress, Hate Library.
Nick Thurston‘s third book, Of the Subcontract, was published in summer 2013. His poetic writings have been anthologised in various collections, including Against Expression (Northwestern UP) and The Unexpected Guest (Liverpool Biennial & A / B Publishing). Commissioned interviews with him and reviews by him for Afterall (London) and BOMB (New York) can be found online. Lengthy critical essays for the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect) and Writing After Conceptual Art (Toronto UP) will be published later this year. He exhibits internationally and his art works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Leeds City Art Gallery and The Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris). Since 2006 he has been a Co-editor of the publishing collective Information as Material (York), with whom he was the 2011-12 Writer in Residence at the Whitechapel Gallery (London). In 2012 he took up an academic post at the University of Leeds, England, and in summer 2014 he will be an Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin).
This talk is given as part of the lecture series The Visitor Talks : Pre-ambulation and Retrospection.
Music, Sound and Affect in Japan's Antinuclear Movement
David Novak (UC Santa Barbara)
Monday, February 17, 2014 4:45 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
This talk considers the recent mix of "sound demos,” art installations and antinuclear music festivals in contexts of political protest in Japan since the tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi on March 11, 2011. I focus on a performance festival called Project Fukushima! organized by experimental musician Ôtomo Yoshihide, poet Wago Ryoichi and punk rock legend Endô Michirô to provoke public discourse about nuclear power and the future of the partly-evacuated city (the name of his hometown, Ôtomo said, should not become a generalized reference to nuclear accident -- “another Chernobyl”). Only a few months after the meltdown in 2011 and again in August 2012, this group of underground performers brought audiences in the thousands back to Fukushima. Bands performed on stages, in the streets, and on local trains; the audience sat on a gigantic furoshiki cloth tapestry conceived to protect them from the irradiated ground. In addition to his role as primary organizer and performer in Project Fukushima! Ôtomo has written powerfully on the role of arts and culture in the response to the Fukushima Disaster, and gives regular public talks about cultural activism, as well as authoring widely circulated blogposts and tweets about the antinuclear movement. Through my ethnographic research in Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukushima in 2012 and 2013, I contextualize Project Fukushima! as part of an ongoing series of public actions of music and noise making and “reclaim-the-streets” performance tactics that galvanized public response to the nuclear restart and the future of energy policy in Japan.
David Novak is an Associate Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at UC Santa Barbara.
Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program; Ethnomusicology; Experimental Humanities Program; Japanese Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A Conversation between Photographers Paul Weinberg and Tim Davis '91
Monday, February 17, 2014 4:45–6:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Paul Weinberg, who is currently the Senior Curator of the Visual Archives at the University of Cape Town, was a founding member of the photographic collective Afrapix, which documented firsthand South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle in the 1980s and early 1990s. Tim Davis, an Associate Professor of Photography at Bard, is a highly-acclaimed American photographer who has participated in many collective and solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
William Rowe
Essayist, poet and translator, William Rowe is Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of several books on Latin American Poetry
William Rowe is founder of the Contemporary Poetics Research Center, University of London, Birkbeck, where he is Anniversary Professor Emeritus of Iberian and Latin American Studies. Professor Rowe is the author of ten books on Latin American literature and culture, including Poets of Contemporary Latin America, Oxford University Press, 2000. His many translations of Latin American authors, with special interest in the poetics of socio-political change, include Raul Zurita’s, INRI, Marick Press 2009 and his recently completed Trilce by César Vallejo. Rowe is a founding editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Travesia; he has taught at the Universities of Lambayeque (Peru), Liverpool, Kings College London, where he was given a Chair in Latin American Cultural Studies; San Marcos (Peru), Universidad Católica (Peru), Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico) and Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies; The John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail [email protected].
Lunchtime Talk with Wout Cornelissen: Writing about Willing: Arendt and "the Spring of Action"
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:30 pm
Arendt Center
In The Human Condition, Arendt offers a phenomenology of action and of political action in particular. She criticizes the traditional understanding of politics in terms of rule, i.e., sovereign command. She argues that this conception of politics is informed by the image of the craftsman who, isolated from his fellow human beings, organizes certain means in order to realize his chosen end, viz. to make an artifact. Because of her critique of this instrumentalist account of politics, it is often believed that she defends a conception of politics being an end-in-itself instead. Yet this reading has led to criticisms of the unrealistic nature of her account. For, in reality, political action is usually – if not always – directed towards the realization of specific ends. Since Arendt tied the notion of the will so strongly to that of the conception of politics she rejects, the actual role of aims and intentions in political action remains under-theorized. Only in her last work, The Life of the Mind, which she did not live to finish, Arendt explicitly turns to the question of the nature of the mental activity of willing and its relation to acting.
Cornelissen will first trace certain moments in Arendt’s earlier writing in which she refers to the role of the will as “the spring of action”. Next, he will bring these moments into discussion with a preliminary reconstruction of her explicit account of the activity of willing in The Life of the Mind. In doing so, he will also draw attention to the way in which her activity of writing, which she tends to conceive of as a form of making, is itself shaped by conditions of which it is not in complete command. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
MAT Building Learn more about Bard College's Master of Arts in Teaching Program! All attendees earn a $65 application fee waiver. Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
Thoughts on Artistic Decision-Making in the Early 21st Century
Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:30 pm
Olin Hall A contemplation and contemporary contextualization of processes and impact of selection in music as revealed in the moral dilemma of contemporary African-American commercial music.
ANTHONY M. KELLEY
BIOGRAPHY
Anthony Kelley joined the Duke University music faculty in 2000 after serving as Composer-in-Residence with the Richmond Symphony for three years under a grant from Meet the Composer. His recent work (like his soundtracks for the H. Lee Waters/Tom Whiteside film "Conjuring Bearden" [2006] Dante James's film, "The Doll" [2007], Josh Gibson's "Kudzu Vine" [2011]) explores music as linked with other media, arts, and sociological phenomena.
In 2011, Kelley was the winner of Duke's Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.
He has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Duke's Department of Music since his appointment to the post in Fall, 2012.
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Dean of the College; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-752-4775, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Followed by a discussion with the artists Tickets: $25, Bard students $10
Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper Featuring Anne Gridley ’02 and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner
“A hilariously deconstructed take on the enduring classic.”—Time Out New York
“Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As one by one the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.
This young American avant-garde theater troupe has received accolades all over the world for their quest to reclaim and reimagine the oral traditions of theater. At times hilarious, at times bizarre, and always disarmingly sincere, Nature Theater of Oklahoma is one of the most important ensembles working in the theater today.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater 7 pm Preconcert Talk by Christopher H. Gibbs Joan Tower Stroke
Erkki Melartin Concerto in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra Dongfang Ouyang ’15, violin Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2
Running time for this performance is approximately two hours including one 20-minute intermission.Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Fisher Center.
Sarah Rothenberg: Making Music with the Media of the Stage
Presented by The Bard College Conservatory of Music and Music Program
Friday, February 21, 2014 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building
Taking a quote from Arnold Schoenberg as the title of her lecture/presentation, pianist Sarah Rothenberg discusses her original multimedia productions that link music to visual art, literature, and the history of ideas. Central to several productions is an exploration of Schoenberg's own music and its relationship to German theatre (Moondrunk), identity and exile (The Musical World of Thomas Mann), abstraction in visual art (The Blue Rider in Performance) and the fin-de-siècle Vienna of Freud and Klimt (In the Garden of Dreams).
Presented by the Music Department and the Conservatory
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Nature Theater of Oklahoma Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper Featuring Anne Gridley ’02 and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A hilariously deconstructed take on the enduring classic.”—Time Out New York
“Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As one by one the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.Sponsored by: Fisher Center; Live Arts Bard.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater 7 pm Preconcert Talk by Christopher H. Gibbs Joan Tower Stroke
Erkki Melartin Concerto in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra Dongfang Ouyang ’15, violin Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2
Running time for this performance is approximately two hours including one 20-minute intermission.Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Fisher Center.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Followed by a discussion with the artists Tickets: $25, Bard students $10
Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper Featuring Anne Gridley ’02 and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner
“A hilariously deconstructed take on the enduring classic.”—Time Out New York
“Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As one by one the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.
This young American avant-garde theater troupe has received accolades all over the world for their quest to reclaim and reimagine the oral traditions of theater. At times hilarious, at times bizarre, and always disarmingly sincere, Nature Theater of Oklahoma is one of the most important ensembles working in the theater today.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
Olin Humanities, Room 202 Native plants and wildflowers are excellent alternatives to their non-native counterparts, and they provide habitat and food for birds and insects that keep our ecosystems in balance. Learn which natives are best suited to various conditions (sun, shade, and a range of soil types), which combinations provide continuous blooms from spring to fall, and tips on growing and maintaining these low-maintenance perennials.Anne Christian
Join Nature Theater of Oklahoma for the premiere U.S. screening of Nature Theater of Oklahoma: The Movie!
Saturday, February 22, 2014 2 pm
Film Center Free, reservations required
An intimate look into Nature Theater’s process and company dynamic, this epic documentary tracks their unprecedented 21-day takeover of the Hebbel Theater in Berlin in the summer of 2013. Nature Theater leaders Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper narrate this personal diary/video essay about grand ambition, grand sacrifice, and the struggle and reward of forging an artistic life. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents An ancient celebration of the Light (lucernaium) from the second century. Join us for liturgy, song, worship and a multitude of candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Followed by a discussion with the artists Tickets: $25, Bard students $10
Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper Featuring Anne Gridley ’02 and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner
“A hilariously deconstructed take on the enduring classic.”—Time Out New York
“Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As one by one the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.
This young American avant-garde theater troupe has received accolades all over the world for their quest to reclaim and reimagine the oral traditions of theater. At times hilarious, at times bizarre, and always disarmingly sincere, Nature Theater of Oklahoma is one of the most important ensembles working in the theater today.
Running time for this performance is approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
Bitó Conservatory Building Music Alive! Artistic Directors Joan Tower and Blair McMillen present a colorful selection of music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Program includes works by George Crumb, Toru Takemitsu, Don Byron, Harold Farberman, Maxwell McKee(014') and Paul Kerekes performed by over 30 musicians.
** Please note the change of location for this event. This concert will take place in the László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building and not Olin Hall.**
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Fiction Prize recipient Bennett Sims will read from recent work
Monday, February 24, 2014 7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Bennett Sims received the 2014 Bard Fiction Prize for his debut novel, A Questionable Shape. The Bard Fiction Prize committee writes: “The judges delight in welcoming to the literary community of Bard a writer whose first novel represents a powerful (and very readable) fusion of genres—a story about the vagaries of human perception which is also a wild romp of zombies biting through a curiously lyrical apocalypse. The writing is intricate, thoughtful, its characters are like most of us obsessed with games and devices, the text bejeweled with footnotes. The author was one of the last students of David Foster Wallace, who was the first reader of the first version of this haunting novel of love and estrangement.”
Bennett Sims was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and has studied at Pomona College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received a Provost Fellowship and a Michener-Copernicus Award after graduating. A Questionable Shape was published in 2013 by Two Dollar Radio. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Zoetrope: All-Story.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
"The Matriculating Indian and the Uneducable Negro: Slavery, Race and American Colleges": A Talk with Craig Steven Wilder
Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:30–10 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Professor Wilder’s most recent book is Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013). He is also the author of In the Company of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City (New York: New York University Press, 2001/2004); and A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000/2001). His recent articles include, “‘Driven . . . from the School of the Prophets’: The Colonizationist Ascendance at General Theological Seminary,” which was the inaugural essay in the fully digital journal New York History.
Professor Wilder is a senior fellow at the Bard Prison Initiative, where he has served as a guest lecturer, commencement speaker, academic advisor, and visiting professor. For more than a decade, this innovative program has given hundreds of men and women the opportunity to acquire a college education during their incarcerations in the New York State prison system.
He has advised and appeared in numerous historical documentaries, including the celebrated Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon film, The Central Park Five; Kelly Anderson’s highly praised exploration of gentrification, My Brooklyn; the History Channel’s F.D.R.: A Presidency Revealed; and Ric Burn’s award-winning PBS series, New York: A Documentary History.
Professor Wilder has directed or advised exhibits at regional and national museums, including the Brooklyn Historical Society, the New-York Historical Society, the Chicago History Museum, the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BLDG 92, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and the Weeksville Heritage Center. He was one of the original historians for the Museum of Sex in New York City, and he maintains an active public history program.
(from MIT's History Department webpage)
***Brought to you by The Difference & Media Project, with co-sponsorship from The Arendt Center, The Human Rights Project, Africana Studies, and Historical Studies at Bard College. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Difference and Media Project; Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Project.
Bard Hall Gregory Dinger, adjunct music faculty classical guitar instructor at Bard since 1997, will present a concert on Thursday, February 27 at 8 pm in Bard Hall. The program is a repeat of his SUNY New Paltz faculty recital of a week earlier and in line with that school's music department's theme this year of "Love, Jealousy & Despair." Dinger's program includes Tarrega's Fantasy on "La Traviata" and Dinger's own solo guitar arrangement of Tchaikovsky's orchestra work, the "Romeo & Juliet" Fantasy-Overture (never done on guitar before). The concert also includes a selection of milongas and tangos (sultry South American dances) by Jorge Cardoso, Emilio Pujol, Maximo Diego Pujol, Astor Piazzolla and Roland Dyens.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Third Annual Middle/High School Debate Tournament at Bard
Friday, February 28, 2014 8:30 am – 3:15 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join the Bard Debate Union and the Center for Civic Engagement in welcoming nearly 100 Middle and High School students to Bard for the day for the Third Annual Middle and High School Debate Tournament at Bard. Students will be coming from the Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and Kingston schools as well as from all three Bard High School Early Colleges in NYC. Debate topics will include nuclear weapons and smart phones among others. All are welcome! Come see these eager young minds debate some of the most pressing issues of our times!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Visions in Meditation #1 (Stan Brakhage, 1989, USA, 16 minutes, 16mm) *New print
Minnie the Moocher (Dave Fleischer, 1932, USA, 8 minutes, 35mm) *New print
In Titan’s Goblet (Peter Hutton, 1991, USA, 10 minutes, 16mm)
Beirut Outtakes (Peggy Ahwesh, 2007, USA, 7 minutes, Blu-ray)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950, USA, 94 minutes, 35mm) *Restored print
Part two:
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000, Hong Kong/France, 98 minutes, 35mm)
Refreshments, including pizzas provided by Two Boots Bard, will be available outside the theater. Support for the reception has been provided by the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
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