Precisely Not: Works from the Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo Collection
curated by John Ohrenberger '16
Runs through Thursday, October 29, 2015
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 29, 4-6 pm Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Bard College Archives.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Adrift: Photographs by Carolyn Marks Blackwood, an ongoing exhibit at the Fisher Center
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Weis Atrium, Fisher Center Rhinecliff-based photographer Carolyn Marks Blackwood's Hudson River photographs reframe segments of air, ice and water into vivid color fields, geometric abstractions, and flattened motifs. By removing perspective and context, her unmodified images seize ephemeral moments within everyday occurrences and heighten them into foreign, unfamiliar pictures. These large-scale images are presented in the lobby of the LUMA Theater through February 14, 2016.
“Carolyn Marks Blackwood is a modern day artist for whom the Hudson River is also an unfailing muse. Consumed by her daily photographic study of the water over which her studio is perched—as well as the sky that hovers above it—Blackwood’s images are not the romantic vistas of her predecessors, but almost their opposite: focused close-ups that capture the river’s power through the drama of detail. Instead of coalescing several scenes into one, her photographs are a celebration of the variation a single geographic location can elicit through the constantly changing conditions of wind, light, day, night, temperature and tide.” —Excerpt from the essay Elements of Place by Carol Diehl
CANCELED "The Amplification of Shame: International Media Coverage of Human Rights Organization Criticism"
Thursday, October 1, 2015 6:15–7:45 pm
BGIA (NYC) Unfortunately, tonight's talk with Professor Davis on human rights and the media was cancelled but it will be rescheduled.
The next event in the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series will be held on November 5 at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Please join us for "Beyond Silicon Valley: A Conversation with Elmira Bayrasli on Innovation in Unlikely Places."
RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-silicon-valley-a-conversation-with-elmira-bayrasli-on-innovation-in-unlikely-places-tickets-18869387847?aff=es2Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Please join us on the following dates for our film festival:
1. September 17
2. October 1
3. October 15
4. October 29
5. November 12
All films have English subtitles
All films will be screened on select Thursdays in PRE 110 (PRESTON THEATER) – 7-9 pm
Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7392, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts Clarkson in a key Liberty League game. Bard beat Clarkson last fall and the Golden Knights will be looking for their revenge! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts St. Lawrence in a key Liberty League game. The Saints are annually among the top teams in the country! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
A celebration of contemporary piano music curated by Blair McMillen and Joan Tower featuring a wide range of exciting new piano music by composers performed by faculty and students from the Conservatory and the College.
Free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
A Talk by Financial Journalist and Editor Carol Loomis
Monday, October 5, 2015 4:45–5:45 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Carol Loomis inaugurates the John J. Curran '75 Lectures in Journalism Series, introduced by Wyatt Mason.
The venerated financial journalist Carol Loomis is the former senior editor-at-large of Fortune Magazine, and the coiner of the term "hedge fund." The editor of Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letter, she has been recognized by the New York Times for her success in battling gender stereotypes within the financial-services industry, having started her career in the 1950s as one of only two female reporters at Fortune. The Reformed Broker calls Loomis "a lion of financial journalism," while ValueWalk celebrates her as, "without doubt, the greatest business writer of all time."
John J. Curran '75 Lectures in Journalism honors the memory of a proud Bardian whose dedication to ethical reporting in journalism informed a trusting readership for over a quarter of a century and promoted a culture of honesty, integrity, and truth.
Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Philippe Pirotteis an art historian, curator, and writer. Currently he is Dean of the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts, and Director of Portikus, a leading center for contemporary art in Germany and beyond. At Portikus he organized exhibitions with Ade Darmawan, Otobong Nkanga, and Lucy Raven, amongst others. Philippe Pirotte was the Founding Director of the contemporary art center objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium. From 2005 to 2011, he was Director of the internationally renowned Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland where he organized solo exhibitions by artists such as Santu Mofokeng, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Owen Land, Oscar Tuazon, Jutta Koether, Allan Kaprow, and Corey McCorkle. From 2004 – 2014, Pirotte has held the position of Senior Advisor of the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam, and in 2012 he became Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive where he curated the first retrospective of acclaimed Chinese film artist Yang Fudong.
On Hannah Arendt’s Republican Criticism of Liberal Conceptions of Human Rights
Monday, October 5, 2015 5 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 203 Few phrases that Hannah Arendt coined have inspired more political, social and legal thinking than the assertion of “the right to have rights.“ Some critics believe that Arendt is suggesting that without citizenship human rights are practically worthless. Every time a migration crisis looms, interpretations of this kind reoccur. Another reading tends to think that Arendt is criticizing human rights discourse as such: as a paradoxical or even tautological effort that has been confusing political philosophy from the very start. This view finds resonance in hegemonic studies believing that human rights are nothing else but a subtle instrument of power.
My reading aspires to engage with Arendt's original intention, which was not to criticize the idea of human rights as such, but the specific concept of that idea that prevailed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which dominates human rights discourse in our times as well. In Arendt’s view, human rights can only guide actions, but they cannot replace them. Historically, human rights were most successful when they were linked to the foundation of a polity guided by the principles that human rights stand for. Her argument reflects a classical republican position by emphasizing that norms are nothing without actors and that it is the purpose of human beings, not just to enjoy as many rights as possible, but to be able to act in the first place.
Marcus Llanque is Professor for Political Theory at University of Augsburg/ Germany. He’s published several books on the theory of democracy, republicanism, and the history of political ideas. He is the editor of Hannah Arendt’s “What is Politics?” within the upcoming critical edition of Arendt’s complete works.
Dennis Dalton Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Barnard College, and author of Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action and several other books.
The value of forgiveness was central to Gandhi's teaching as well as to his effectiveness as the leader of India's independence movement. The lecture will describe specific cases where Gandhi demonstrated its power throughout his career, from 1919 to 1947. In the broadest sense, the virtue of forgiveness has an enduring and universal meaning so the lecture starts with its recent expression by members of Emmanuel Church in Charleston and includes commentary on Martin Luther King's teaching. This shows its relevance to conflict resolution in America today. From this cross cultural narrative comes the question of what we may learn from Gandhi's example about the redeeming force of forgiveness?
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7364, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater, 110 Please join us on the following Monday's for our Spanish Film Screening. All films will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles.
9/21 10/5 10/19 11/2 11/9 11/23 12/7
Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 323-561-1472, or e-mail [email protected].
co-sponsored by the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 4:45 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema RE-EMBRACING KEYNES: SCHOLARS, ADMIRERS, AND SKEPTICS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE CRISIS
By Cristina Marcuzzo University of Rome
Cristina Marcuzzo is a Full Professor of Political Economy at the Sapienza University of Rome with research interests in Keynesian economics and history of thought. Cristina earned a Diploma in Philosophy of Science from the University of Milan in 1974, and a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1977. She has held academic positions in universities across Italy, as well as had fellowships and academic experiences at many U.S. institutions such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University.
Currently, she serves as President of the Association for the History of Political Economy, and has served at the head of various University Research Projects on speculation and instability in financial markets. She has published many books across a variety of subjects, from the history of Keynesian thought, to her most recent book on the development of the Latin American economy. She has served as a referee for many peer-reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Political Economy, and Economica Politica. She has also been published in many top journals.
This talk is part of the ongoing Economics seminar series, which is dedicated to furthering the exchange of economic ideas in the greater Bard community.
Sponsored by: Economics Club; Economics Program; Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Robert Rozehnal Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University
Within the 'spiritual marketplace' of American religious life, Cyberspace offers tech-savvy Muslims an alternative platform for narratives, networking and ritual experience. Since the adoption of the printing press, Sufis have demonstrated a remarkable ability to adopt and adapt to emerging media technologies. Even so, the use of the Internet by global Sufi communities remains largely unexplored by academic scholarship. Drawing on new research, this presentation examines how several distinct American Sufi orders utilize Cyberspace as a unique mediascape for the refashioning of authority, identity and ritual performance.
Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7207, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitlesSponsored by: Italian Studies.
National Climate Seminar: The Power Dialog, 10,000 Student Voices
Dr. Dallas Burtaw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12–1 pm
Albee B102
The National Climate Seminar is a biweekly, dial-in conversation and podcast that features climate scientists, political leaders, and policy analysts, each exploring the politics and science driving critical climate change decisions. Join us the first and third Wednesday of each month at noon eastern for a chance to connect with experts on climate and clean energy solutions.
On October 7th, Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future. Dallas Burtraw is one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficient and politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He also studies electricity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation. He is particularly interested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation, the most notable of which is a tradable permit system, and recently has studied ways to introduce greater cost-effectiveness into regulation under the Clean Air Act. Burtraw’s current areas of research include analysis of the distributional and regional consequences of various approaches to national climate policy. Burtraw and his colleagues recently completed a major project on estimating benefits of the value of natural resources in the Adirondack Park through surveying area residents on their willingness to pay for improvements. He also served on California’s Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee advising the governor’s office and the Air Resources Board on implementation of the state’s climate law. Read about Dallas' work here.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Jeffrey Talyer, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic
The talk will discuss the author’s life changing experience in writing the book Topless Jihadis: Inside Femen, the World’s Most Provocative Activist Group (ebook, The Atlantic Books, 2013) about Femen, a group of Ukrainian feminist activists that promotes women’s rights in Ukraine.
Jeffrey Tayler is author of numerous books, including Murderers in Mausoleums (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), River of No Reprieve (Houghton Mifflin; Boston, New York, 2006), Angry Wind (Houghton Mifflin; Boston, New York, 2005), Glory in a Camel’s Eye (Houghton Mifflin; Boston, New York, 2003), Facing the Congo (Hardcover: Ruminator Books; St. Paul, Minnesota, 2000), Siberian Dawn (Hungry Mind Press; St. Paul, Minnesota, 1999). His books have been translated in many languages.
In addition, Jeffrey Tayler is a regular contributor to numerous paper and online publications, including The Atlantic, The Atlantic.com, The American Scholar, Bloomberg Business Week, Bloomberg View: World View, Conde Nast Traveler, Foreign Policy, Harper’s Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Marie Claire, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic.com, New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, Smithsonian and many others.
He currently lives in Moscow, Russia.Sponsored by: Division of Social Studies; Russian-Eurasian Club; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium With Nuruddin Farah and Robert Kelly
One of South Africa’s most finely tuned observers. -Ted Hodkingson, The Times Literary Supplement
A tantalizingly unnameable region between fable, allegory and parable, Ivan Vladislavić’s first novel announces a powerfully original imagination, expressed in unparalleled stylistic precision and brilliance. -Neel Mukherjee Ivan Vladislavić lives in Johannesburg, where he works as a writer, editor, and teacher. His books include The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View, Portrait with Keys, and Double Negative. He has won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Alan Paton Award, the University of Johannesburg Prize, and a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for fiction.
Followed by Q&A, which will be led by Nuruddin Farah.
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Human Rights Project; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building Autumn Songfest, an introduction to the singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and Collaborative Piano fellows, in a program of songs and arias.
free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Genre's include thriller, history, mafia, etc.. All TV shows are free, in Italian language with English subtitles Sponsored by: Italian Studies; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Hall A founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, winner of the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award, and author of I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, and the forthcoming They and We Will Get into Trouble for This reads from her work, introduced by Ann Lauterbach, Bard College's David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature.
This event takes place in Bard Hall at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 8th. It is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books will be available for sale and signing from Oblong Books & Music.
ninth: a conversation between Annabot and the Human Machine on the subject of overpowering emotion (Note: Though Annabot is ostensibly downloadable, the attempt to open her produced an error, a string of errors.)
ANNABOT: What now? HUMAN MACHINE: The Brain, the brain—that is the seat of trouble! ANNABOT: My brain, whose brain? Those who feel, feel. HUMAN MACHINE: On the blink? ANNABOT: Or, discipline. The brain is a machine of habit. The heart is a hell. HUMAN MACHINE: “The secret of smooth living is a calm cheerfulness which will leave me always in full possession of my reasoning faculty.” ANNABOT: But I am not cheerful. HUMAN MACHINE: I ought to reflect, again and again, and yet again, that all others deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself. I place my hand over your heart. ANNABOT: I cannot feel your hand. HUMAN MACHINE: I cannot feel your heart.
This is the language of simple, obvious things The conclusion and the part before
Anna held her hand out to feel the cold It was cold
Then, nothing
PRAISE FOR ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS—
“You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake is easy-on-the-ear, accessible, wise, and funny, as when human Anna tells her imaginary robot counterpart things like, ‘human nature has changed since yesterday.’ She takes on the big questions by way of unusual details.” —Bookforum
“Moschovakis assualts materialism, waste, and the internet and repossesses elements of that culture in her poems—Craigslist ads, Wikipedia articles, and MySpace posts—in such a way that proves how demoralizing it can all be … [Readers will] appreciate her philosophically bent poetry, her austere use of language, and the sense of violence that charges her poems.”—San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Anna Moschovakis takes up the citizen’s task of thinking through political and existential issues relevant to lives lived in increasing dependence on internet access and globalization both. She performs the painful experience of the complicity with injustice that comes with citizenship—while lamenting colonization, opportunism, and capitalism, her poems search themselves for the common root of the urge toward empire. Ambitious and compassionate, her work believes—or hopes—that mindful attention to language might happily lead us elsewhere, toward other economies, other ways of being here together.” —Academy of American Poets
“Moschovakis shows us how it feels to want answers to certain kinds of questions, to see processes and seek causalities, and then get stuck in hermeneutic circles instead … You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake feels like a book of erasures and extracts: mysterious, haunted, terse.”—The Nation
“[Moschovakis performs] a biting cultural study of our technological habits … a forced, and imperative, reconsideration of the world we inhabit and mindlessly exploit.”—Coldfront
"If history has been the history of systems that turn persons into functions (human machines), Moschovakis's poetry is a counter-system whose loving jokes and satiric repetitions reflood machinery with personhood."—Lana Turner Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater "Once in a not too frequent while ... there comes along an evening that reminds you ... why you're in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was ... American Ballet Theatre." —The Washington Post
Since 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. “America’s National Ballet Company” returns to the Fisher Center as part of its 75th anniversary season, with new and classic works that demonstrate the elegance and spectacle of ABT’s unforgettable performances.
This engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater "Once in a not too frequent while ... there comes along an evening that reminds you ... why you're in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was ... American Ballet Theatre." —The Washington Post
Since 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. “America’s National Ballet Company” returns to the Fisher Center as part of its 75th anniversary season, with new and classic works that demonstrate the elegance and spectacle of ABT’s unforgettable performances.
This engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater "Once in a not too frequent while ... there comes along an evening that reminds you ... why you're in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was ... American Ballet Theatre." —The Washington Post
Since 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. “America’s National Ballet Company” returns to the Fisher Center as part of its 75th anniversary season, with new and classic works that demonstrate the elegance and spectacle of ABT’s unforgettable performances.
This engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Castleton (at 11) and Old Westbury (at 3). The two visiting teams will play each other at 1. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater "Once in a not too frequent while ... there comes along an evening that reminds you ... why you're in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was ... American Ballet Theatre." —The Washington Post
Since 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. “America’s National Ballet Company” returns to the Fisher Center as part of its 75th anniversary season, with new and classic works that demonstrate the elegance and spectacle of ABT’s unforgettable performances.
This engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
Fall BreakMonday, October 12, 2015 – Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Italian Film Festival
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7–10 pm
Preston Theater 110 Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitlesSponsored by: Italian Studies.
Fall BreakMonday, October 12, 2015 – Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Italian TV Series
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 9–11 pm
Preston Theater 110 Genre's include thriller, history, mafia, etc.. All TV shows are free, in Italian language with English subtitles Sponsored by: Italian Studies; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Mount Saint Mary College in a non-league match. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Bard College Public Debate: "Is national security more important than the individual right to privacy?"
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 7 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Public Debate: Is national security more important than the individual right to privacy? Bard and West Point. Please join us for an exciting public debate inspired by the topic of this year's Hannah Arendt Center Conference, "Why Privacy Matters." The debate will feature Bard Debate Union members, Bard College faculty, and cadets and faculty from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Their topic will be, "Is National Security More Important Than Individual Right To Privacy." Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center, Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Debate Union, West Point Military Academy, and the International Debate Education Association.
"Why Privacy Matters" The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Eighth Annual Conference
What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?
Thursday, October 15, 2015 – Friday, October 16, 2015
Olin Hall
“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.” —Hannah Arendt
Reading on a Kindle, searching Google, and using cell phones, we leave a data trail of intimate details. Government and business tracks our comings, goings, and doings. Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems speaks for many when he says: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” It is easy to notice the violence of the slogan, “if you have nothing to hide; you have nothing to fear”; but few offer an intelligent response. Why is that we are complicit in the loss of our privacy of privacy? How is that we rarely register its loss? Do we simply value privacy less? It is time to ask the question: Why Privacy Matters?
Featured Speakers Edward Snowden (via satallite) NSA Whistle Blower David Brin Multiple award-winning author for novels like The Postman and author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? Anita Allen Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Philosophy (U Penn); author of Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? Jeremy Waldron NYRB Contributor and author of Dignity, Rank, and Rights
Schedule: The full conference schedule and speaker times will be posted sometime in August 2015. Thursday, Oct. 15th (10am-6pm) Friday, Oct. 16th (10am-4pm)
Registration: Due to overwhelming demand, and in order to guarantee seats to registrants, we have closed online registration at this time. Onsite Registration will be available for $45. Bard Faculty, Staff, and Students are free to attend. Press Release
Visit our website to learn more about the topic, full schedule and speakers!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
Robert Wiesenberger 2014–16 Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow Harvard Art Museums
Thursday, October 15, 2015 3:10–4:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Latter-day Bauhaus? Muriel Cooper and the Digital Imaginary
Graphic designer Muriel Cooper’s career at MIT spanned the transition from print to software, from the MIT Press in the 1960s to the Media Lab in the 1980s. Perhaps her best-known achievement in print was the monumental and still authoritative tome The Bauhaus, released by the MIT Press in 1969. But less known are Cooper’s restagings of that book in multiple media, including posters, a film, and an exhibition. This research coincided with her first exposure to computer programming, and can be understood as a way of prototyping in analog the effects she would spend her career seeking from software. The Bauhaus is thus both a landmark and an inflection point for Cooper: at once her masterpiece in print and evidence of a growing anxiety about the medium; a gesture toward reading's possible futures, and a source of durable metaphors for them. Choosing this book for her research was also no coincidence: In both scale and subject, The Bauhaus was an ideal test case for Cooper.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4388, or e-mail [email protected].
RKC 111 Join this event's co-sponsors, the Center for Civic Engagement and the Computer Science Program, to hear Ashley Gavin give a talk about diversity in STEM fields.
Ashley Gavin is the Curriculum Director of All Star Code, a non-profit organization helping to get more young men of color into the tech sector. Prior to her work at All Star Code Ashley spent 2 years working as a software engineer at MIT Lincoln Labs, and then went on to serve as the founding curriculum director of Girls Who Code. She continues to teach computer science as an adjunct faculty at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She did her undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors in Computer Science. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Computer Science Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, or e-mail [email protected].
Nothing Concentrates the Mind: Thoughts of Death Improve Recall
Joshua Hart, Union College
Thursday, October 15, 2015 4:45 pm
Preston Theater
Death awareness poses an unusual psychological predicament for people, leading to an array of reactions generally aimed at reducing existential anxiety. However, it is also possible that humans' ability to conceptualize their own mortality has some utility. For one thing, thinking about death probably helps us avoid it. Another potential consequence of death-related musings might be a deep cognitive set that facilitates information processing. If so, then death thoughts should lead to, among other things, better retention of information subsequently encoded. I will present several experiments demonstrating memory improvements induced by "mortality salience" and exploring the mechanisms of the effect.
Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail [email protected].
Brave New Sanriku: Recovering from Japan's Triple Disaster
by Dr. Ramona Bajema
Thursday, October 15, 2015 6:30 pm
RKC 103 Ramona Bajema has spent the past four years searching through the post-triple disaster remains to understand what cannot be washed away by a 100-meter high wave that obliterated entire cities, leaving only scraps, shards, and severed lives. The wave left debris in its wake, but there have been intangible forces that it could not erase—traces of memory, ghosts, and rituals that gave new life to long-abandoned public works projects, machi-tsukuri (town-building) plans, and disaster tourism. In addition to the clean-up of contaminated areas in Fukushima, a second wave of “recovery” and “reconstruction” has swept through northeastern Japan powered by slogans of hope and solidarity to people in despair hoping to go back in time. Bajema will discuss some of her observations of Sanriku’s recovery as she has witnessed them since 2011. Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Japanese Studies, and The Henry Luce Foundation; Politics Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us on the following dates for our film festival:
1. September 17
2. October 1
3. October 15
4. October 29
5. November 12
All films have English subtitles
All films will be screened on select Thursdays in PRE 110 (PRESTON THEATER) – 7-9 pm
Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7392, or e-mail [email protected].
The OBIE Award-winning playwright, novelist, and poet reads from The Exalted
Thursday, October 15, 2015 7:30–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Carl Hancock Rux is the author of the novel Asphalt, the OBIE Award-winning play Talk, and the Village Voice Literary Prize-winning collection of poetry, Pagan Operetta.
His work, which crosses the disciplines of poetry, theater, music, and literary fiction in order to achieve what one critic describes as a "dizzying oral artistry ... unleashing a torrent of paper bag poetry and post modern Hip-Bop music; the ritualistic blues of self awakening," is the subject of the Voices of America television documentary Carl Hancock Rux, Coming of Age.
Introduced by Gideon Lester, the reading takes place October 15th at 7:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema and will be followed by a Q&A. The event is free and open to all; no tickets or advance reservations are required.
Rux is in residence with Live Arts Bard to rehearse a stage version of The Exalted, directed by Anne Bogart ‘74, which will have preview performances at the Fisher Center on October 16th and 17th at 7:30 p.m; find more details at fishercenter.bard.edu.
Sponsored by: Fisher Center; Written Arts Program.
"Why Privacy Matters" The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Eighth Annual Conference
What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?
Thursday, October 15, 2015 – Friday, October 16, 2015
Olin Hall
“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.” —Hannah Arendt
Reading on a Kindle, searching Google, and using cell phones, we leave a data trail of intimate details. Government and business tracks our comings, goings, and doings. Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems speaks for many when he says: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” It is easy to notice the violence of the slogan, “if you have nothing to hide; you have nothing to fear”; but few offer an intelligent response. Why is that we are complicit in the loss of our privacy of privacy? How is that we rarely register its loss? Do we simply value privacy less? It is time to ask the question: Why Privacy Matters?
Featured Speakers Edward Snowden (via satallite) NSA Whistle Blower David Brin Multiple award-winning author for novels like The Postman and author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? Anita Allen Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Philosophy (U Penn); author of Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? Jeremy Waldron NYRB Contributor and author of Dignity, Rank, and Rights
Schedule: The full conference schedule and speaker times will be posted sometime in August 2015. Thursday, Oct. 15th (10am-6pm) Friday, Oct. 16th (10am-4pm)
Registration: Due to overwhelming demand, and in order to guarantee seats to registrants, we have closed online registration at this time. Onsite Registration will be available for $45. Bard Faculty, Staff, and Students are free to attend. Press Release
Visit our website to learn more about the topic, full schedule and speakers!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
Preview Performances Carl Hancock Rux Anne Bogart ‘74 Theo Bleckmann
Friday, October 16, 2015 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right A poetic meditation on heritage, love, and the willpower to overcome atrocity, this collaboration by three landmark American artists, tells the story of Carl Einstein, the influential German-Jewish art historian and one of the first critics to affirm the importance of African sculpture. Through music, video, and text, writer-performer Carl Hancock Rux, director Anne Bogart, and composer-musician Theo Bleckmann examine the atrocities of occupation and the discovery of African art by the West to weave a mesmerizing narrative on the fight for freedom. Friday night's performance is sold out. Limited Availability Saturday.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
Attend to learn more about the Bard MBA experience!
Friday, October 16, 2015 – Monday, October 19, 2015 9 am – 8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 The Bard MBA program is structured around monthly Weekend Residencies with regular online instruction in between. This low-residency design allows full-time Bard MBA students to continue working up to 30 hours a week or to complete multiple internships over the two-year course of their study. The part-time program, completed over three years, accommodates students working 40 hours a week or more. Residencies are held once a month over four-day (Fri-Mon) weekends for full-time students and three-day weekends for part-time students.
PUBLIC EVENTS: Friday, October 16, 6-8PM Sustainable Business Series Freya Williams, CEO US Futerra, Author of Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses Information & RSVP HERE -- a great opportunity to engage withsome of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni
Saturday, October 17, 12-4PM AttendBard MBA Classes! On Saturday's we invite prospective students to eat lunch with current students, attend a class, ask questions of admissions staff, and have coffee with Director Eban Goodstein.
Prospective students please email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions and to RSVP to Saturday's classes.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
First hypothesized by Pauli in 1930, the elusive neutrino only interacts with matter via the Weak Force, making them exceedingly difficult to detect. Eventually, very clever experiments indicated that there are actually three distinct types of neutrinos, that they might have small masses, and that they might change from one type into another in mid-flight. The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for their measurements of these neutrino oscillations at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector near Tokyo and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario. These results solve some mysteries – primarily the “solar neutrino problem” – but open new questions about the need to modify the Standard Model of particles and interactions. In this talk, I will trace the theoretical and experimental history of the neutrino, with a focus on the detector designs at Super-K and SNO that allowed the oscillations to be measured, and speculate on the consequences of these results.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Institute of Advanced Theology Fall 2015 Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton: "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus."
Friday, October 16, 2015 12:30–1 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theologly will host the 2015 Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus," led by Bruce Chilton. The lecture series will begin on Friday, October 16 and will continue on Fridays - October 23, 30, and November 6, and November 13th.
Presentation begins at 12:30 at the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents. No reservations required for just attending the lectures.
At noon, Box Lunches will be provided at a cost of $10.00. RESERVATIONS FOR LUNCH ARE REQUIRED BY CALLING 845-758-7279 OR [email protected].
A brief description: Resurrection: the Case of Jesus
- Issues concerning the possibility of afterlife have provoked perennial controversy, especially since the Enlightenment. Because Jesus is the most famous case of the claim a person rose from the dead, partisans have drawn up sides between those who insist his Resurrection was physical and those who argue it was an hallucinogenic metaphor. Most of that discussion has been conducted in the abstract, without regard to specific texts. Our discussion will reverse that emphasis, and develop a properly exegetical understanding of how the Resurrection was experienced and iinterpreted before asking whether it might attract belief.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League contest. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts Bard hosts Western Connecticut State University in a non-league match. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Pool It's the first home match of the 2015-16 season as Bard hosts Lehman College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Green Giants: the six secrets to building a billion dollar, sustainable business
Friday, October 16, 2015 6–8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as we bring together sustainable business experts for our conversation series on Friday evenings 6:00 - 8:00 pm during the Bard MBA residency each month. Held at Impact Hub NYC, this is a unique opportunity to engage with some of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni.
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center All films directed by Jean Epstein and screened using 35mm restoration prints courtesy the Cinémathèque française. Silent films will be presented with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model.
Part 1
La Glace à trois faces (1927, 38 minutes)
Sa tête (1929, 36 minutes)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, 66 minutes)
Part 2
Mor'vran (1929-1930, 26 minutes)
Six et demi onze (1927, 73 minutes)
This program has been made possible thanks to generous support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule. Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Attend to learn more about the Bard MBA experience!
Friday, October 16, 2015 – Monday, October 19, 2015 9 am – 8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 The Bard MBA program is structured around monthly Weekend Residencies with regular online instruction in between. This low-residency design allows full-time Bard MBA students to continue working up to 30 hours a week or to complete multiple internships over the two-year course of their study. The part-time program, completed over three years, accommodates students working 40 hours a week or more. Residencies are held once a month over four-day (Fri-Mon) weekends for full-time students and three-day weekends for part-time students.
PUBLIC EVENTS: Friday, October 16, 6-8PM Sustainable Business Series Freya Williams, CEO US Futerra, Author of Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses Information & RSVP HERE -- a great opportunity to engage withsome of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni
Saturday, October 17, 12-4PM AttendBard MBA Classes! On Saturday's we invite prospective students to eat lunch with current students, attend a class, ask questions of admissions staff, and have coffee with Director Eban Goodstein.
Prospective students please email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions and to RSVP to Saturday's classes.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Preview Performances Carl Hancock Rux Anne Bogart ‘74 Theo Bleckmann
Saturday, October 17, 2015 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right A poetic meditation on heritage, love, and the willpower to overcome atrocity, this collaboration by three landmark American artists, tells the story of Carl Einstein, the influential German-Jewish art historian and one of the first critics to affirm the importance of African sculpture. Through music, video, and text, writer-performer Carl Hancock Rux, director Anne Bogart, and composer-musician Theo Bleckmann examine the atrocities of occupation and the discovery of African art by the West to weave a mesmerizing narrative on the fight for freedom. Friday night's performance is sold out. Limited Availability Saturday.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym It's Liberty League Weekend at Bard. The Raptors will play Union (at 2) and Skidmore (at 4), but there will also be two matches at noon (Union vs. Vassar and Skidmore vs. RIT). Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts nationally-ranked William Smith in a Liberty League contest. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Attend to learn more about the Bard MBA experience!
Friday, October 16, 2015 – Monday, October 19, 2015 9 am – 8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 The Bard MBA program is structured around monthly Weekend Residencies with regular online instruction in between. This low-residency design allows full-time Bard MBA students to continue working up to 30 hours a week or to complete multiple internships over the two-year course of their study. The part-time program, completed over three years, accommodates students working 40 hours a week or more. Residencies are held once a month over four-day (Fri-Mon) weekends for full-time students and three-day weekends for part-time students.
PUBLIC EVENTS: Friday, October 16, 6-8PM Sustainable Business Series Freya Williams, CEO US Futerra, Author of Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses Information & RSVP HERE -- a great opportunity to engage withsome of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni
Saturday, October 17, 12-4PM AttendBard MBA Classes! On Saturday's we invite prospective students to eat lunch with current students, attend a class, ask questions of admissions staff, and have coffee with Director Eban Goodstein.
Prospective students please email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions and to RSVP to Saturday's classes.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Attend to learn more about the Bard MBA experience!
Friday, October 16, 2015 – Monday, October 19, 2015 9 am – 8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 The Bard MBA program is structured around monthly Weekend Residencies with regular online instruction in between. This low-residency design allows full-time Bard MBA students to continue working up to 30 hours a week or to complete multiple internships over the two-year course of their study. The part-time program, completed over three years, accommodates students working 40 hours a week or more. Residencies are held once a month over four-day (Fri-Mon) weekends for full-time students and three-day weekends for part-time students.
PUBLIC EVENTS: Friday, October 16, 6-8PM Sustainable Business Series Freya Williams, CEO US Futerra, Author of Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses Information & RSVP HERE -- a great opportunity to engage withsome of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni
Saturday, October 17, 12-4PM AttendBard MBA Classes! On Saturday's we invite prospective students to eat lunch with current students, attend a class, ask questions of admissions staff, and have coffee with Director Eban Goodstein.
Prospective students please email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions and to RSVP to Saturday's classes.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
David Brin National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Monday, October 19, 2015 12 pm
Hegeman 107 For philosophical reasons, some scientists like Einstein preferred to picture a universe that's limitless in space and time. That view faded as evidence mounted for a titanic start—a Big Bang. Now, as we plumb the earliest picoseconds of that event, we are starting to realize—it may hint at a much, much bigger cosmic realm. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Religion, Self, and the Other in Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
by Tehseen Thaver, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bard College
Monday, October 19, 2015 4:45–6:15 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufayl (d.1185 CE) represents one of the most enduring though often less appreciated texts in Muslim intellectual history. The themes of the nature of the self, reason, revelation, travel and knowledge that animate this text continue to be pressing issues of human concern. How can this text be situated in broader debates on self, reason and revelation in the Muslim tradition? In what ways do such discussions connect with comparative religious and spiritual knowledge traditions? Why and how is this text significant to the humanities and the liberal arts today? These are among the questions this presentation will seek to highlight and explore. Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
Preston Theater, 110 Please join us on the following Monday's for our Spanish Film Screening. All films will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles.
9/21,10/5, 10/19, 11/2, 11/9, 11/23, 12/7
Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 323-561-1472, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitlesSponsored by: Italian Studies.
No Word Breaks Into The Dark—The Poetry of Hannah Arendt
“Of all things of thought, poetry is closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art . . .” -The Human Condition, p. 170.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 1 pm
Arendt Center Hannah Arendt always returned to poetry, and kept the language of German poems in her hinterkopf. For Arendt, poetry is the closest form we have to thought itself, bearing the burden of language and memory. It should then be no surprise that Arendt herself wrote poems.
Between 1923 and 1961 Hannah Arendt penned 73 poems. She carried the poems she wrote between 1923 and 1926 with her throughout exile, and eventually added them to those she wrote in New York. On the one hand, the poems offer a distinct space where Arendt reflected on World Wars, loneliness, alienation, and homelessness – those conditions that came to define the 20th Century for so many. On the other, we see a young reflective Arendt, writing love letters to Martin Heidegger and taking delight in the play of language and Romanticism.
The poems now appear in translation for the first time, edited and translated into English by Samantha Hill and French by Karin Biro. Biro and Hill join us to read from their translations and discuss Arendt’s poetry, the work of translation, and the place of poetry across Arendt’s political and philosophical works.
Samantha Rose Hill is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Hill received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2014. She completed postdoctoral work at Universität Heidelberg and the Institut für Philosophie at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. Hill is currently working on a bilingual edition of Hannah Arendt’s poems in German and English, and a second manuscript on Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno’s lectures on Kant and aesthetics.
Karin Biro Trained as a specialist in Romance and Germanic languages, Karin Biro studied at the universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg in Germany, the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She taught German and French at the Ecole Allemande de Paris from 1971 to 2000, and from 1993 to 2014 taught German language and civilization at the prestigious Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), Paris. She has translated and written books and articles on culture and Franco-German relationships, has authored a volume of poems illustrated by German artist Helmut Booz, and co-authored with Adam Biro a travelogue on Oriental-Prussia, which received funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006). Her discovery of Hannah Arendt’s poems during a seminar she was teaching at Science-Po led to further research and eventually to the publication in October 2015 of a complete bilingual edition of Hanna Arendt’s poems by the French publisher Payot/Rivages (the translations into French are by François Mathieu). She also inspired the German publisher Piper to prepare a scholarly publication on the same topic.
Location: The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College 1448 Annandale Road Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504 Seminar Room (first floor)
Free & Open to the Public. However, space is limited! Please rsvp at [email protected]
Edith Grossman is widely considered one of the most accomplished Spanish-to-English translators in the world. Also a literary critic and teacher, she is best known for translating the works of Nobel laureates Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, among many others. Grossman's 2003 translation of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote has been hailed as one of the finest English-language translations of the classic Spanish novel. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Guggenheim Fellowships, the PEN Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Grossman will read from her forthcoming translations of the prose and poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Norton, 2015). Sor Juana (1651–1695), known during the Spanish Golden Age as "the Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of Mexico," is now read as a proto-feminist and early defender of the right of women to a formal education. Grossman will discuss the challenges of translating Sor Juana’s work and will speak of the importance for the contemporary reader of this 17th-century colonial writer and self-taught intellectual.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail [email protected].
Conducted by Heidi Knoblauch, Digital Projects Coordinator Collin Jennings, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Humanities and Gretta Tritch Roman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Humanities
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 5 pm
Henderson Annex 106 As part of our workshop series “Search and Surveillance,” this workshop will lead participants through the process of setting up a programming environment suited for research projects that combine technical and critical material. We will install the Anaconda distribution of Python and Jupyter notebooks, which allow users to switch easily between text, code, and visualization in a dynamic interface. We will conclude the workshop by testing out this environment with data from Google Correlate, which provides information on search terms that tend to co-occur over time. Sponsored by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ; Experimental Humanities Program.
A Bestiary: An Evening of Text and Performance with Bradford Morrow and Alex Skolnick
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 7:30–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Novelist Bradford Morrow ("one of America's major literary voices" —Publishers Weekly) and musician Alex Skolnick ("one of the most remarkable guitarists in hard-rock history" —Guitar World Magazine) present a live collaborative performance of Morrow's lyrical prose pieces about animals real and imaginary—from Snake to Mongoose, Rooster to Bat, Unicorn to Whale, Elephant to Anenome. Set to Skolnick's innovative world music, this reading of A Bestiary unites voice with guitar virtuosity in unexpected, magical ways.
Conjunctions editor, Bard Center fellow, and Bard literature professor BRADFORD MORROW's many books of fiction include Trinity Fields, The Diviner's Tale, The Uninnocent, and The Forgers.
The latest albums from ALEX SKOLNICK, lead guitarist of the heavy-metal band Testament and the jazz group Alex Skolnick Trio, are Dark Roots of Earth and Planetary Coalition. He is a founding member of Metal Allegiance. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program; the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Genre's include thriller, history, mafia, etc.. All TV shows are free, in Italian language with English subtitles Sponsored by: Italian Studies; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail [email protected].
National Climate Seminar: Beyond Coal: Report from the Front
Mary Anne Hitt, Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 12–1 pm
Albee B102
The National Climate Seminar is a biweekly, dial-in conversation and podcast that features climate scientists, political leaders, and policy analysts, each exploring the politics and science driving critical climate change decisions. Join us the first and third Wednesday of each month at noon eastern for a chance to connect with experts on climate and clean energy solutions.
On October 21st, we spoke with Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Beyond Coal Campaign for the Sierra Club which is working to eliminate the pollution caused by coal throughout its life cycle, and repower the nation with clean energy. In 2012, Mother Jones described the campaign as “a grassroots rebellion [that] is winning the biggest victory yet on climate change.” Mary Anne previously served as executive director of Appalachian Voices (where she was one of the creators of the award-winning campaign to end mountaintop removal, iLoveMountains.org), the Ecology Center, and the Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project.
Mary Anne was named one of the 10 most influential people of 2013 by SNL Energy, and was listed in 2013 by the Washingtonian as part of “The New Guard: People Who are Shaping Washington” in Obama’s second term. She is an alum of the Rockwood Leadership Institute’s National Yearlong Leading from the Inside Out Fellowship, and also a senior fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. She received her Master’s of Science from the University of Montana, where she received the Len and Sandy Sargent Environmental Advocacy Award, and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, where she was a Whittle Scholar and the founder of the campus group Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville (SPEAK), and where she later received the 2008 Notable UT Woman Award. She grew up in the mountains of east Tennessee and now lives in West Virginia with her family.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
"When 'Papa' Haydn Was Young—Some Thoughts On His Early Works"
Peter Laki
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building A lecture by visiting professor and music historian Peter Laki, author of the program notes for the Conservatory's new noontime concert series, The Haydn Project.
Free admission
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Peter Godfrey-Smith Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney
I’ll look at the evolution of cognition and subjective experience (or consciousness), considering the overall history of animal life. Where might we find smooth gradients and where might there be more definite transitions (if not jumps)? What is the likely role of parallel evolution, as opposed to single origins for important traits? Octopuses will provide a case study.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
The Greek Financial Crisis and the Economics of Human Rights
Thursday, October 22, 2015 4–6 pm
RKC 103; Reem-Kayden Center
The Human Rights Project and the Center for Civic Engagement invite you to join us on Thursday October 22, at 4:00 PM in RKC 103 for a panel discussion with
International labor rights attorney and Deputy Director of UNITE HERE
Christina Miliou Theocharaki (’15), 2015 Rosenberg Internship Fellow, worked as the Combating Anti-Semitism and Extremism Intern at Human Rights First.
This panel will focus on the interplay between economic conditions in Greece and the socio-political landscape of the country. Through a focus on the current erosion of human rights protections, the privatization of public infrastructures, and the surge in popularity of the right-wing extremist political party Golden Dawn, this panel will situate these pressing issues within the broader systemic forces at work in both the European Union and in the global economy more generally, and to offer a human rights critique of the economic austerity measures that the Greek government is now having to carry out.
The panel will be moderated by Economics and Human Rights major, Iro Grimpizi (’17)
Does Literature Become More Relevant when We Incorporate History, Science, and Other Elements of Change?
A Talk by David Brin
Thursday, October 22, 2015 4:30–5:30 pm
Bard Hall National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow DAVID BRIN is a scientist who has served as a NASA visiting scholar in exobiology. As a writer of science fiction, he has received the Nebula award, two Hugo awards, and four Locus awards, and has published books including Earth and The Postman. He is also the author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy?
This event takes place Thursday, October 22nd, at 4:30 p.m. in Bard Hall. It is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Hannah Arendt Center; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
The Cycle of Interstate Violence and How It Can Be Broken: Evidence from the United States, South Korea, Serbia, Iran, and Israel
Mengyao Li, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Thursday, October 22, 2015 4:45 pm
Preston Theater
How and why does interstate violence spread and perpetuate itself? Across five countries and in four different international contexts, we examined two ways in which violence between nations can spread: 1) from past violence to future, unrelated interstate tensions, and 2) from perpetrators of violence to members of victim groups. I will also present empirical evidence that international tribunals can serve as an effective intervention for breaking the cycle of violence from perpetrators to victims. Implications and practical applications will be discussed.
Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail [email protected].
Institute of Advanced Theology Fall 2015 Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton: "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus."
Friday, October 23, 2015 12:30–1 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theologly will host the 2015 Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus," led by Bruce Chilton. The lecture series will begin on Friday, October 16 and will continue on Fridays - October 23, 30, and November 6, and November 13th.
Presentation begins at 12:30 at the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents. No reservations required for just attending the lectures.
At noon, Box Lunches will be provided at a cost of $10.00. RESERVATIONS FOR LUNCH ARE REQUIRED BY CALLING 845-758-7279 OR [email protected].
A brief description: Resurrection: the Case of Jesus
- Issues concerning the possibility of afterlife have provoked perennial controversy, especially since the Enlightenment. Because Jesus is the most famous case of the claim a person rose from the dead, partisans have drawn up sides between those who insist his Resurrection was physical and those who argue it was an hallucinogenic metaphor. Most of that discussion has been conducted in the abstract, without regard to specific texts. Our discussion will reverse that emphasis, and develop a properly exegetical understanding of how the Resurrection was experienced and iinterpreted before asking whether it might attract belief.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Ken Olum, Research Professor, Tufts Institute of Cosmology
Friday, October 23, 2015 12 pm
Hegeman 107
Cosmic strings are a common (though not universal) prediction of grand unified theories, and may also arise from inflation in superstring theory. If they exist, they will provide a window into fundamental physics at otherwise unreachable scales. Cosmic strings form a "network" of infinite strings and loops of all sizes. To understand the possibility for observable signals, we determine the properties of this network by extrapolating from Large-scale numerical simulations and analyzing the emission of gravitational waves (which are both the most important signal and the most important energy-loss mechanism).
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Faculty members Walter Russell Mead and James Ketterer join members of the Bard Debate Union and BGIA alumni for a round-table discussion on this important issue in current events. Co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://debate.bard.edu.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Kline Commons; Kline Terrace In celebration of National Food Day, Bard EATS is sponsoring a Farmers Market. Come support local vendors, learn about sustainable agriculture and eat delicious food.
We are also sponsoring a Real Food Drive to benefit Caring Hands Soup Kitchen in Kingston that begins TODAY!
To donate healthy food to those in need please visit:
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts College of Staten Island in a non-league contest. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Bitó Conservatory Building Performers include Anna Obaggy, Zhi Ma, Tianpei Ai, Marka Gustavsson, and Robert Martin in the Brahms Piano Quintet and Beethoven’s String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3.
Trio for violin, viola, cello, Op. 9 no. 3 L. van Beethoven
Allegro con spirito
Adagio con espressione
Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace
Finale: Presto
Tianpei Ai, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Robert Martin, cello
Intermission
Duos for two violins B. Bartok
Zhi Ma, violin
Tianpei Ai, violin
Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 J. Brahms
Allegro non troppo
Andante, un poco Adagio
Scherzo: Allegro
Finale: Poco sostenuto; Allegro non troppo
Zhi Ma, violin
Tianpei Ai, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Robert Martin, cello
Anna Obbagy, piano
Free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Olin Hall The National Book Award winner, two-time Pulitzer nominee, and widely acclaimed fiction writer and essayist reads "Walking Wounded," an new, unpublished story specially commissioned for its world premiere at this event.
Introduced by Bradford Morrow and followed by a Q&A, this event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required.
Praise for Lovely, Dark, Deep—
“Oates, one of few writers who achieves excellence in both the novel and the short story, has more than two dozen story collections to her name and she continues to inject new, ambushing power into the form. Oates’ stories seethe and blaze.” —Booklist
“With every new book Oates proves anew that she is perhaps our greatest contemporary American writer.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
Praise for Carthage—
“Knotted, tense, digressive and brilliant.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Joyce Carol Oates has outdone herself.” —NPR
“Brilliant … amazing. A compassionate tenderness suffuses the final sections of the book, as palpable as the cold irony with which the book begins. It’s a breathtaking effect.” —Washington Post
Praise for Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong—
“An extraordinarily vivid depiction of lives gone awry ... A creepy, macabre thrill from start to finish. Terrific stuff.” —Independent
“Oates at her best—spare, swift, beautifully observed and quietly lethal.”—Times Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Sarah Pierce (born Connecticut 1968) is an artist working across a variety of media, including performance, video, sculpture, publishing and installation. For the past 15 years she has been based in Dublin. Since 2003, she has used the term The Metropolitan Complex to describe her project. Despite its institutional resonance, this title does not signify an organization. Instead, it demonstrates Pierce’s broad understanding of cultural work, articulated through a personal methodology involving performance, video, papers, interviews, archives, talks and exhibitions. Characterised as a way to play with a shared neuroses of place (read ‘complex’ in the Freudian sense), whether a specific locality or a wider set of circumstances that frame interaction, her activity considers forms of gathering, both historical examples and those she initiates. The processes of research and presentation that Pierce undertakes highlight a continual renegotiation of the terms for making art: the potential for dissent and self-determination and the proximity of past artworks.
Pierce holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College at London University and an MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and is a past participant of the Whitney Museum ISP in New York. In 2013, Book Works published the first monograph on Pierce’s work, edited by Rike Frank and designed by Peter Maybury, entitled Sketches of Universal History Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce. Exhibitions in 2015 include a four-person show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art called El Lissitzky: the Artist and the State; Sarah Pierce: Pathos of Distance,a collaborative research based exhibition with the ESB CSIA at the National Gallery of Ireland; and a presentation of new work for Positions #2, curated by Annie Fletcher at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
Annie Fletcher is Chief Curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and a tutor at de Appel, Amsterdam. She has most recently curated or co-curated projects including A Republic of Art (VAM), El Lissitzky: the Artist and the State with Rosella Biscotti, Nuria Guell, Alice Milligan, Sarah Pierce and Hito Steyerl (IMMA Dublin) , and the mid career retrospectives of Ahmet Ogut, Hito Steyerl and Sheela Gowda. She has worked on theMuseum of Arte Útilwith Tania Bruguera, which opened in the fall of 2013 at the Van Abbemuseum. In 2012 she was curator of the biennale EVA International. She was co-founder and co-director of the rolling curatorial platform If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution with Frederique Bergholtz (2005-10). As a writer she has contributed to various magazines suchAfterallandMetropolis M and other publications.
Albert Knoll, of the Dachau Archives, will be honored as Archivist of the Year
Presented by the Scone Foundation in collaboration with The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
Monday, October 26, 2015 6:30 pm
BGC (38 West 86th NYC)
The special event will take place in Manhattan on Oct. 26, 2015, 6.30pm, at the Bard Graduate Center at 38. West 86th Street, New York, NY, in conjunction with The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The Introductory Presentation will be by Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of the acclaimed, new book, KL: A History of the Concentration Camps.
Honoree Albert Knoll, b. 1958, has served the mission of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Museum since 1997. In addition to maintaining and expanding its archival work and databases, he has been instrumental in assisting relatives of former inmates as well as guiding researchers, scholars and authors around the world - including Awards Event speaker Nickolaus Wachsmann. Knoll has written articles on illegal photos, homosexual prisoners, contemporary Nazi press coverage of Dachau, etc, and contributed to the International Tracing Service’s first scholarly yearbook. He has also organized international workshops on the gathering of data on all categories of National Socialist victims.
Guest Speakers: Prof. Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of the acclaimed book, KL: A History of the Concentration Camps. Additional guest speakers to be announced.
Past honorees of the Scone Foundation Award have included a joint award to Dr. Yehoshua Freundlich, Director of the Israel State Archives and Mr. Khader Salameh, Director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque; Conrad Crane (Director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks); Dr. Saad Eskander (Baghdad National Archives); and Nancy Dupree (Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University).
About the Scone Foundation: Scone Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by Stanley Cohen. The Foundation has presented its “Archivist of the Year” award annually since 2005, focusing on archivists who - among other topics - have assisted scholars on such wide-ranging topics as resisting censorship, preserving historical memory and fostering humanitarian dialogue.
Preston 110 Please join us on 28 Sept. and 26 Oct. for our film screening. All films are shown in French with subtitles. Sponsored by: French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-901-5133, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitlesSponsored by: Italian Studies.
RKC 111 I have been following the evolution of software through mobile, social media, mashups and IoT (Internet of Things). This has been primarily in my role hiring "software people". The breadth and depth of the field has exploded. Everyone knows this. What is subtler, successful software is often dependent on critical, out-of-the box thinking. Hello, Bard! Standard Computer Science curricula will NOT prepare one for the next Unicorn (firms with over $1 Billion evaluation, with 1000x returns for investors). It will prepare you for IBM, Mobil or Citicorp style careers. If there are any.
I taught web design and development at the University of California — San Diego. I was a reference for some of my students and so got to speak with many recruiters and hiring managers (Qualcomm, US Navy, NSA, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Accenture). What they were looking for, in many cases, were eye openers for me. It wasn’t anything I was teaching.
Looking back in my hiring, I made mistakes. BIG mistakes. I followed the myth of STEM and classical computer science majors. I thought the emergence of startups and the “Failure is Okay” culture were Silicon Valley anomalies. They aren't. We will review what the Amazons, Googles and Apples say they are looking for (and ask for in Interviews). There are creative thinking roles in Cloud, social media, and mobile technology that didn't exist ten years ago. For a Liberal Arts major, Computer Science can be an “enabler” for non-traditional careers. We will look at some Use Cases for "Security" and "Algorithms". We will eulogize "Waterfall Development" and review the new development standard, "Agile".
Twenty years ago the liberal arts majors worked for the engineers in building paradigm changing systems. Now the roles are reversing.
Scott Lydiard is a software engineer passionate about software development education and technical careers. While the central theme of his career has been software, he has spent 10 years in the oil business (Chief Engineer for Baker Hughes), 10 years in the mapping business (Vice President of Engineering of the world's largest mapping company), 10 years for the government (Navy - NSA Consultant for Satellite Communications) plus Chief Technology Officer for the military (Predicate Logic) and in the entertainment business (Nielsen). Sponsored by: Computer Science Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2359, or e-mail [email protected].
Up From the Well: Recovering the Lost Legend of a Crusader and His Treasure
by Nicholas Paul, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Professor Paul works on the world of the lay nobility in the central Middle Ages and the intersection between that world and the experience of crusading. In his first book, To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2012), he examines how the crusades became part of the collective memory of medieval noble families in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He has also co-edited Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Professor Paul will be discussing his discovery of the hitherto-lost biography of the crusader Manasses of Hierges, the constable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Sponsored by: Historical Studies Program; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7571, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts SUNY Polytechnic in its final home game of the season. It's Senior Night! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts Skidmore in the final home game of the season. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Preston Theater 110 Genre's include thriller, history, mafia, etc.. All TV shows are free, in Italian language with English subtitles Sponsored by: Italian Studies; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Come one, come all— On October 28th at 5pm in Weis Cinema, local candidates for office will be visiting campus to meet students to talk about their campaign. Students are encouraged to attend to vocalize their concerns about issues effecting their community.
Featuring Jason Hwong on violin, Marilyn Crispell on piano, Garfield Moore cello, and Thurman Barker on drums and percussion.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 7:30–10 pm
Olin Hall
THE ALONE TOGETHER CONCERT is about demonstrating IMPROVISATION AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS. The goal is to use elaboration, extensions, and refinement in order to create art, first by performing solo. Next we demonstrate the intimacy between musician and their instrument; a process musicians go through throughout their career preparing for a performance. The natural acoustics changes from room to room and plays a role in the sound that the instrument produces. The artist has to learn to adjust to the acoustics at hand.
The second half of the concert we play together. "PLAY" in the real sense of chance - taking or competition or simply a game where we are playing around is precisely part of the improvisation process. However, we are not "winging it" or making things up out of thin air. The jazz musician will improvise within a very specific context and there are several devices that are used in the creative process such as repetition, breaks, and vamps and in addition to the four elements of music, melody, harmony tone color and rhythm in coming up with a composition. We are all equal in this experience, because the music is new to us, as is to you. We hope you enjoy the music.
The concert is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7572, or e-mail [email protected].
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
by Nicholas Bauch, Geographer-in-Residence, Stanford University
Thursday, October 29, 2015 5 pm
RKC 103 Nicholas Bauch is Geographer-in-Residence at the Spatial History Project at Stanford University. He is a cultural geographer whose work brings digital techniques to bear on the art of landscape interpretation. He is author of A Geography of Digestion (forthcoming, University of California Press), and Enchanting the Desert (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). A recent experimental project is a kinetic sculpture he built called The Irreproducibility Machine. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Enchanting the Desert is a digital monograph based on a single historical document: a slideshow made by commercial photographer Henry G. Peabody between 1899-1930 at the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The project reconstructs Peabody’s slideshow in an interactive medium, allowing readers place the slides in a greater geographical context. The photographs are used to open up the expanse of the Grand Canyon itself, laying bare the European-American project of remaking this space, focusing on specific territories within the vast region to tell the story in a spatially organized narrative. When readers encounter this work, they can expect to uncover a pattern language that describes a new cultural becoming of this great landscape. Another layer on the palimpsest of meanings that have accrued here for nearly 10,000 years, the Euro-American experience of the Grand Canyon is yet an altogether new one. Using the established medium of the website application, Enchanting the Desert introduces a genre of scholarship: the born-digital interactive monograph. The medium allows for technical leaps impossible in a print publication. The genre takes advantage of these leaps by performing spatial narrative in an inventive new way.Sponsored by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Experimental Humanities Program.
Please join us on the following dates for our film festival:
1. September 17
2. October 1
3. October 15
4. October 29
5. November 12
All films have English subtitles
All films will be screened on select Thursdays in PRE 110 (PRESTON THEATER) – 7-9 pm
Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7392, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex It's the final home game of the season and Senior Night, as the Raptors host rival Vassar in a Liberty League contest. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Institute of Advanced Theology Fall 2015 Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton: "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus."
Friday, October 30, 2015 12:30–1 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theologly will host the 2015 Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus," led by Bruce Chilton. The lecture series will begin on Friday, October 16 and will continue on Fridays - October 23, 30, and November 6, and November 13th.
Presentation begins at 12:30 at the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents. No reservations required for just attending the lectures.
At noon, Box Lunches will be provided at a cost of $10.00. RESERVATIONS FOR LUNCH ARE REQUIRED BY CALLING 845-758-7279 OR [email protected].
A brief description: Resurrection: the Case of Jesus
- Issues concerning the possibility of afterlife have provoked perennial controversy, especially since the Enlightenment. Because Jesus is the most famous case of the claim a person rose from the dead, partisans have drawn up sides between those who insist his Resurrection was physical and those who argue it was an hallucinogenic metaphor. Most of that discussion has been conducted in the abstract, without regard to specific texts. Our discussion will reverse that emphasis, and develop a properly exegetical understanding of how the Resurrection was experienced and iinterpreted before asking whether it might attract belief.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail [email protected].
Optofluidics: The Marriage of Microfluidics with Integrated Optics
Yu Gu St. Joseph’s University
Friday, October 30, 2015 12 pm
Hegaman 107
In recent years, the integration of microfluidic and micro-optical elements onto monolithic platforms has led to the term “optofluidics”. In particular, the use of integrated waveguides for sensing in microfluidic devices miniaturizes light delivery and detection while reducing the need for bulky instrumentation, the complication of alignment errors and sensitivity to mechanical vibrations. In addition, the exploitation of the optical properties of fluids has the potential to revolutionize sensing and telecommunications by enabling reconfigurable light sources, light delivery, controls and switches. This talk will present the design, fabrication and characterization of two optofluidic devices. The first is a three-dimensional Mach-Zehnder interferometer providing label-free, spatially-resolved sensing in a microfluidic channel. The second is a parallel-geometry reconfigurable optofluidic switch. Low-cost fabrication methods, such as embedding of fiber inside a polymer, as well as the more advanced technique of femtosecond laser micromachining (FLM) will be discussed. Finally, the direction of future research will be summarized.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail [email protected].
Double Trouble: Jazz Meets Classical Featuring Dan Tepfer and Aaron Diehl
Friday, October 30, 2015 8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater “Melodic precision, harmonic erudition, and elegant restraint” – The New York Times on Aaron Diehl
“Brilliant... A sharp young talent” – The New York Times on Dan Tepfer
An unprecedented mash-up of J.S. Bach and the Great American Songbook from Cole Porter Fellows Dan Tepfer and Aaron Diehl. This one-of-a-kind collaboration will explore the unlikely common ground between two leading talents from opposite ends of the jazz spectrum. Diehl is an aficionado of the early tradition of jazz piano, while Tepfer is inspired by avant-garde, cutting-edge jazz. Tradition will meet contemporary and jazz will meet classics in this night of Double Trouble.
Precisely Not: Works from the Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo Collection
curated by John Ohrenberger '16
Runs through Thursday, October 29, 2015
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 29, 4-6 pm Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Bard College Archives.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Adrift: Photographs by Carolyn Marks Blackwood, an ongoing exhibit at the Fisher Center
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Weis Atrium, Fisher Center Rhinecliff-based photographer Carolyn Marks Blackwood's Hudson River photographs reframe segments of air, ice and water into vivid color fields, geometric abstractions, and flattened motifs. By removing perspective and context, her unmodified images seize ephemeral moments within everyday occurrences and heighten them into foreign, unfamiliar pictures. These large-scale images are presented in the lobby of the LUMA Theater through February 14, 2016.
“Carolyn Marks Blackwood is a modern day artist for whom the Hudson River is also an unfailing muse. Consumed by her daily photographic study of the water over which her studio is perched—as well as the sky that hovers above it—Blackwood’s images are not the romantic vistas of her predecessors, but almost their opposite: focused close-ups that capture the river’s power through the drama of detail. Instead of coalescing several scenes into one, her photographs are a celebration of the variation a single geographic location can elicit through the constantly changing conditions of wind, light, day, night, temperature and tide.” —Excerpt from the essay Elements of Place by Carol Diehl
CANCELED "The Amplification of Shame: International Media Coverage of Human Rights Organization Criticism"
Thursday, October 1, 2015 6:15–7:45 pm
BGIA (NYC) Unfortunately, tonight's talk with Professor Davis on human rights and the media was cancelled but it will be rescheduled.
The next event in the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series will be held on November 5 at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Please join us for "Beyond Silicon Valley: A Conversation with Elmira Bayrasli on Innovation in Unlikely Places."
RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-silicon-valley-a-conversation-with-elmira-bayrasli-on-innovation-in-unlikely-places-tickets-18869387847?aff=es2Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Please join us on the following dates for our film festival:
1. September 17
2. October 1
3. October 15
4. October 29
5. November 12
All films have English subtitles
All films will be screened on select Thursdays in PRE 110 (PRESTON THEATER) – 7-9 pm
Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7392, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts Clarkson in a key Liberty League game. Bard beat Clarkson last fall and the Golden Knights will be looking for their revenge! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts St. Lawrence in a key Liberty League game. The Saints are annually among the top teams in the country! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
A celebration of contemporary piano music curated by Blair McMillen and Joan Tower featuring a wide range of exciting new piano music by composers performed by faculty and students from the Conservatory and the College.
Free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
A Talk by Financial Journalist and Editor Carol Loomis
Monday, October 5, 2015 4:45–5:45 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Carol Loomis inaugurates the John J. Curran '75 Lectures in Journalism Series, introduced by Wyatt Mason.
The venerated financial journalist Carol Loomis is the former senior editor-at-large of Fortune Magazine, and the coiner of the term "hedge fund." The editor of Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letter, she has been recognized by the New York Times for her success in battling gender stereotypes within the financial-services industry, having started her career in the 1950s as one of only two female reporters at Fortune. The Reformed Broker calls Loomis "a lion of financial journalism," while ValueWalk celebrates her as, "without doubt, the greatest business writer of all time."
John J. Curran '75 Lectures in Journalism honors the memory of a proud Bardian whose dedication to ethical reporting in journalism informed a trusting readership for over a quarter of a century and promoted a culture of honesty, integrity, and truth.
Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Philippe Pirotteis an art historian, curator, and writer. Currently he is Dean of the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts, and Director of Portikus, a leading center for contemporary art in Germany and beyond. At Portikus he organized exhibitions with Ade Darmawan, Otobong Nkanga, and Lucy Raven, amongst others. Philippe Pirotte was the Founding Director of the contemporary art center objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium. From 2005 to 2011, he was Director of the internationally renowned Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland where he organized solo exhibitions by artists such as Santu Mofokeng, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Owen Land, Oscar Tuazon, Jutta Koether, Allan Kaprow, and Corey McCorkle. From 2004 – 2014, Pirotte has held the position of Senior Advisor of the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam, and in 2012 he became Adjunct Senior Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive where he curated the first retrospective of acclaimed Chinese film artist Yang Fudong.
On Hannah Arendt’s Republican Criticism of Liberal Conceptions of Human Rights
Monday, October 5, 2015 5 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 203 Few phrases that Hannah Arendt coined have inspired more political, social and legal thinking than the assertion of “the right to have rights.“ Some critics believe that Arendt is suggesting that without citizenship human rights are practically worthless. Every time a migration crisis looms, interpretations of this kind reoccur. Another reading tends to think that Arendt is criticizing human rights discourse as such: as a paradoxical or even tautological effort that has been confusing political philosophy from the very start. This view finds resonance in hegemonic studies believing that human rights are nothing else but a subtle instrument of power.
My reading aspires to engage with Arendt's original intention, which was not to criticize the idea of human rights as such, but the specific concept of that idea that prevailed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which dominates human rights discourse in our times as well. In Arendt’s view, human rights can only guide actions, but they cannot replace them. Historically, human rights were most successful when they were linked to the foundation of a polity guided by the principles that human rights stand for. Her argument reflects a classical republican position by emphasizing that norms are nothing without actors and that it is the purpose of human beings, not just to enjoy as many rights as possible, but to be able to act in the first place.
Marcus Llanque is Professor for Political Theory at University of Augsburg/ Germany. He’s published several books on the theory of democracy, republicanism, and the history of political ideas. He is the editor of Hannah Arendt’s “What is Politics?” within the upcoming critical edition of Arendt’s complete works.
Dennis Dalton Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Barnard College, and author of Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action and several other books.
The value of forgiveness was central to Gandhi's teaching as well as to his effectiveness as the leader of India's independence movement. The lecture will describe specific cases where Gandhi demonstrated its power throughout his career, from 1919 to 1947. In the broadest sense, the virtue of forgiveness has an enduring and universal meaning so the lecture starts with its recent expression by members of Emmanuel Church in Charleston and includes commentary on Martin Luther King's teaching. This shows its relevance to conflict resolution in America today. From this cross cultural narrative comes the question of what we may learn from Gandhi's example about the redeeming force of forgiveness?
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7364, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater, 110 Please join us on the following Monday's for our Spanish Film Screening. All films will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles.
9/21 10/5 10/19 11/2 11/9 11/23 12/7
Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 323-561-1472, or e-mail [email protected].
co-sponsored by the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 4:45 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema RE-EMBRACING KEYNES: SCHOLARS, ADMIRERS, AND SKEPTICS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE CRISIS
By Cristina Marcuzzo University of Rome
Cristina Marcuzzo is a Full Professor of Political Economy at the Sapienza University of Rome with research interests in Keynesian economics and history of thought. Cristina earned a Diploma in Philosophy of Science from the University of Milan in 1974, and a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1977. She has held academic positions in universities across Italy, as well as had fellowships and academic experiences at many U.S. institutions such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University.
Currently, she serves as President of the Association for the History of Political Economy, and has served at the head of various University Research Projects on speculation and instability in financial markets. She has published many books across a variety of subjects, from the history of Keynesian thought, to her most recent book on the development of the Latin American economy. She has served as a referee for many peer-reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Political Economy, and Economica Politica. She has also been published in many top journals.
This talk is part of the ongoing Economics seminar series, which is dedicated to furthering the exchange of economic ideas in the greater Bard community.
Sponsored by: Economics Club; Economics Program; Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Robert Rozehnal Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University
Within the 'spiritual marketplace' of American religious life, Cyberspace offers tech-savvy Muslims an alternative platform for narratives, networking and ritual experience. Since the adoption of the printing press, Sufis have demonstrated a remarkable ability to adopt and adapt to emerging media technologies. Even so, the use of the Internet by global Sufi communities remains largely unexplored by academic scholarship. Drawing on new research, this presentation examines how several distinct American Sufi orders utilize Cyberspace as a unique mediascape for the refashioning of authority, identity and ritual performance.
Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7207, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitlesSponsored by: Italian Studies.
National Climate Seminar: The Power Dialog, 10,000 Student Voices
Dr. Dallas Burtaw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12–1 pm
Albee B102
The National Climate Seminar is a biweekly, dial-in conversation and podcast that features climate scientists, political leaders, and policy analysts, each exploring the politics and science driving critical climate change decisions. Join us the first and third Wednesday of each month at noon eastern for a chance to connect with experts on climate and clean energy solutions.
On October 7th, Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future. Dallas Burtraw is one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficient and politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He also studies electricity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation. He is particularly interested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation, the most notable of which is a tradable permit system, and recently has studied ways to introduce greater cost-effectiveness into regulation under the Clean Air Act. Burtraw’s current areas of research include analysis of the distributional and regional consequences of various approaches to national climate policy. Burtraw and his colleagues recently completed a major project on estimating benefits of the value of natural resources in the Adirondack Park through surveying area residents on their willingness to pay for improvements. He also served on California’s Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee advising the governor’s office and the Air Resources Board on implementation of the state’s climate law. Read about Dallas' work here.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Jeffrey Talyer, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic
The talk will discuss the author’s life changing experience in writing the book Topless Jihadis: Inside Femen, the World’s Most Provocative Activist Group (ebook, The Atlantic Books, 2013) about Femen, a group of Ukrainian feminist activists that promotes women’s rights in Ukraine.
Jeffrey Tayler is author of numerous books, including Murderers in Mausoleums (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), River of No Reprieve (Houghton Mifflin; Boston, New York, 2006), Angry Wind (Houghton Mifflin; Boston, New York, 2005), Glory in a Camel’s Eye (Houghton Mifflin; Boston, New York, 2003), Facing the Congo (Hardcover: Ruminator Books; St. Paul, Minnesota, 2000), Siberian Dawn (Hungry Mind Press; St. Paul, Minnesota, 1999). His books have been translated in many languages.
In addition, Jeffrey Tayler is a regular contributor to numerous paper and online publications, including The Atlantic, The Atlantic.com, The American Scholar, Bloomberg Business Week, Bloomberg View: World View, Conde Nast Traveler, Foreign Policy, Harper’s Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Marie Claire, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic.com, New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, Smithsonian and many others.
He currently lives in Moscow, Russia.Sponsored by: Division of Social Studies; Russian-Eurasian Club; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium With Nuruddin Farah and Robert Kelly
One of South Africa’s most finely tuned observers. -Ted Hodkingson, The Times Literary Supplement
A tantalizingly unnameable region between fable, allegory and parable, Ivan Vladislavić’s first novel announces a powerfully original imagination, expressed in unparalleled stylistic precision and brilliance. -Neel Mukherjee Ivan Vladislavić lives in Johannesburg, where he works as a writer, editor, and teacher. His books include The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View, Portrait with Keys, and Double Negative. He has won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Alan Paton Award, the University of Johannesburg Prize, and a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for fiction.
Followed by Q&A, which will be led by Nuruddin Farah.
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Human Rights Project; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building Autumn Songfest, an introduction to the singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and Collaborative Piano fellows, in a program of songs and arias.
free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Genre's include thriller, history, mafia, etc.. All TV shows are free, in Italian language with English subtitles Sponsored by: Italian Studies; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Hall A founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, winner of the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award, and author of I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, and the forthcoming They and We Will Get into Trouble for This reads from her work, introduced by Ann Lauterbach, Bard College's David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature.
This event takes place in Bard Hall at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 8th. It is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books will be available for sale and signing from Oblong Books & Music.
ninth: a conversation between Annabot and the Human Machine on the subject of overpowering emotion (Note: Though Annabot is ostensibly downloadable, the attempt to open her produced an error, a string of errors.)
ANNABOT: What now? HUMAN MACHINE: The Brain, the brain—that is the seat of trouble! ANNABOT: My brain, whose brain? Those who feel, feel. HUMAN MACHINE: On the blink? ANNABOT: Or, discipline. The brain is a machine of habit. The heart is a hell. HUMAN MACHINE: “The secret of smooth living is a calm cheerfulness which will leave me always in full possession of my reasoning faculty.” ANNABOT: But I am not cheerful. HUMAN MACHINE: I ought to reflect, again and again, and yet again, that all others deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself. I place my hand over your heart. ANNABOT: I cannot feel your hand. HUMAN MACHINE: I cannot feel your heart.
This is the language of simple, obvious things The conclusion and the part before
Anna held her hand out to feel the cold It was cold
Then, nothing
PRAISE FOR ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS—
“You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake is easy-on-the-ear, accessible, wise, and funny, as when human Anna tells her imaginary robot counterpart things like, ‘human nature has changed since yesterday.’ She takes on the big questions by way of unusual details.” —Bookforum
“Moschovakis assualts materialism, waste, and the internet and repossesses elements of that culture in her poems—Craigslist ads, Wikipedia articles, and MySpace posts—in such a way that proves how demoralizing it can all be … [Readers will] appreciate her philosophically bent poetry, her austere use of language, and the sense of violence that charges her poems.”—San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Anna Moschovakis takes up the citizen’s task of thinking through political and existential issues relevant to lives lived in increasing dependence on internet access and globalization both. She performs the painful experience of the complicity with injustice that comes with citizenship—while lamenting colonization, opportunism, and capitalism, her poems search themselves for the common root of the urge toward empire. Ambitious and compassionate, her work believes—or hopes—that mindful attention to language might happily lead us elsewhere, toward other economies, other ways of being here together.” —Academy of American Poets
“Moschovakis shows us how it feels to want answers to certain kinds of questions, to see processes and seek causalities, and then get stuck in hermeneutic circles instead … You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake feels like a book of erasures and extracts: mysterious, haunted, terse.”—The Nation
“[Moschovakis performs] a biting cultural study of our technological habits … a forced, and imperative, reconsideration of the world we inhabit and mindlessly exploit.”—Coldfront
"If history has been the history of systems that turn persons into functions (human machines), Moschovakis's poetry is a counter-system whose loving jokes and satiric repetitions reflood machinery with personhood."—Lana Turner Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater "Once in a not too frequent while ... there comes along an evening that reminds you ... why you're in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was ... American Ballet Theatre." —The Washington Post
Since 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. “America’s National Ballet Company” returns to the Fisher Center as part of its 75th anniversary season, with new and classic works that demonstrate the elegance and spectacle of ABT’s unforgettable performances.
This engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater "Once in a not too frequent while ... there comes along an evening that reminds you ... why you're in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was ... American Ballet Theatre." —The Washington Post
Since 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. “America’s National Ballet Company” returns to the Fisher Center as part of its 75th anniversary season, with new and classic works that demonstrate the elegance and spectacle of ABT’s unforgettable performances.
This engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater "Once in a not too frequent while ... there comes along an evening that reminds you ... why you're in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was ... American Ballet Theatre." —The Washington Post
Since 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. “America’s National Ballet Company” returns to the Fisher Center as part of its 75th anniversary season, with new and classic works that demonstrate the elegance and spectacle of ABT’s unforgettable performances.
This engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Castleton (at 11) and Old Westbury (at 3). The two visiting teams will play each other at 1. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater "Once in a not too frequent while ... there comes along an evening that reminds you ... why you're in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was ... American Ballet Theatre." —The Washington Post
Since 1940, American Ballet Theatre has created a tradition of passion, innovation, and athleticism that transcends cultural boundaries and touches the soul of ballet lovers old and new. “America’s National Ballet Company” returns to the Fisher Center as part of its 75th anniversary season, with new and classic works that demonstrate the elegance and spectacle of ABT’s unforgettable performances.
This engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
Preston Theater 110 Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitlesSponsored by: Italian Studies.
Preston Theater 110 Genre's include thriller, history, mafia, etc.. All TV shows are free, in Italian language with English subtitles Sponsored by: Italian Studies; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts Mount Saint Mary College in a non-league match. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Bard College Public Debate: "Is national security more important than the individual right to privacy?"
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 7 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Public Debate: Is national security more important than the individual right to privacy? Bard and West Point. Please join us for an exciting public debate inspired by the topic of this year's Hannah Arendt Center Conference, "Why Privacy Matters." The debate will feature Bard Debate Union members, Bard College faculty, and cadets and faculty from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Their topic will be, "Is National Security More Important Than Individual Right To Privacy." Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center, Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Debate Union, West Point Military Academy, and the International Debate Education Association.
"Why Privacy Matters" The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Eighth Annual Conference
What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?
Thursday, October 15, 2015 – Friday, October 16, 2015
Olin Hall
“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.” —Hannah Arendt
Reading on a Kindle, searching Google, and using cell phones, we leave a data trail of intimate details. Government and business tracks our comings, goings, and doings. Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems speaks for many when he says: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” It is easy to notice the violence of the slogan, “if you have nothing to hide; you have nothing to fear”; but few offer an intelligent response. Why is that we are complicit in the loss of our privacy of privacy? How is that we rarely register its loss? Do we simply value privacy less? It is time to ask the question: Why Privacy Matters?
Featured Speakers Edward Snowden (via satallite) NSA Whistle Blower David Brin Multiple award-winning author for novels like The Postman and author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? Anita Allen Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Philosophy (U Penn); author of Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? Jeremy Waldron NYRB Contributor and author of Dignity, Rank, and Rights
Schedule: The full conference schedule and speaker times will be posted sometime in August 2015. Thursday, Oct. 15th (10am-6pm) Friday, Oct. 16th (10am-4pm)
Registration: Due to overwhelming demand, and in order to guarantee seats to registrants, we have closed online registration at this time. Onsite Registration will be available for $45. Bard Faculty, Staff, and Students are free to attend. Press Release
Visit our website to learn more about the topic, full schedule and speakers!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
Robert Wiesenberger 2014–16 Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow Harvard Art Museums
Thursday, October 15, 2015 3:10–4:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Latter-day Bauhaus? Muriel Cooper and the Digital Imaginary
Graphic designer Muriel Cooper’s career at MIT spanned the transition from print to software, from the MIT Press in the 1960s to the Media Lab in the 1980s. Perhaps her best-known achievement in print was the monumental and still authoritative tome The Bauhaus, released by the MIT Press in 1969. But less known are Cooper’s restagings of that book in multiple media, including posters, a film, and an exhibition. This research coincided with her first exposure to computer programming, and can be understood as a way of prototyping in analog the effects she would spend her career seeking from software. The Bauhaus is thus both a landmark and an inflection point for Cooper: at once her masterpiece in print and evidence of a growing anxiety about the medium; a gesture toward reading's possible futures, and a source of durable metaphors for them. Choosing this book for her research was also no coincidence: In both scale and subject, The Bauhaus was an ideal test case for Cooper.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4388, or e-mail [email protected].
RKC 111 Join this event's co-sponsors, the Center for Civic Engagement and the Computer Science Program, to hear Ashley Gavin give a talk about diversity in STEM fields.
Ashley Gavin is the Curriculum Director of All Star Code, a non-profit organization helping to get more young men of color into the tech sector. Prior to her work at All Star Code Ashley spent 2 years working as a software engineer at MIT Lincoln Labs, and then went on to serve as the founding curriculum director of Girls Who Code. She continues to teach computer science as an adjunct faculty at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She did her undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors in Computer Science. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Computer Science Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, or e-mail [email protected].
Nothing Concentrates the Mind: Thoughts of Death Improve Recall
Joshua Hart, Union College
Thursday, October 15, 2015 4:45 pm
Preston Theater
Death awareness poses an unusual psychological predicament for people, leading to an array of reactions generally aimed at reducing existential anxiety. However, it is also possible that humans' ability to conceptualize their own mortality has some utility. For one thing, thinking about death probably helps us avoid it. Another potential consequence of death-related musings might be a deep cognitive set that facilitates information processing. If so, then death thoughts should lead to, among other things, better retention of information subsequently encoded. I will present several experiments demonstrating memory improvements induced by "mortality salience" and exploring the mechanisms of the effect.
Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail [email protected].
Brave New Sanriku: Recovering from Japan's Triple Disaster
by Dr. Ramona Bajema
Thursday, October 15, 2015 6:30 pm
RKC 103 Ramona Bajema has spent the past four years searching through the post-triple disaster remains to understand what cannot be washed away by a 100-meter high wave that obliterated entire cities, leaving only scraps, shards, and severed lives. The wave left debris in its wake, but there have been intangible forces that it could not erase—traces of memory, ghosts, and rituals that gave new life to long-abandoned public works projects, machi-tsukuri (town-building) plans, and disaster tourism. In addition to the clean-up of contaminated areas in Fukushima, a second wave of “recovery” and “reconstruction” has swept through northeastern Japan powered by slogans of hope and solidarity to people in despair hoping to go back in time. Bajema will discuss some of her observations of Sanriku’s recovery as she has witnessed them since 2011. Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Japanese Studies, and The Henry Luce Foundation; Politics Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us on the following dates for our film festival:
1. September 17
2. October 1
3. October 15
4. October 29
5. November 12
All films have English subtitles
All films will be screened on select Thursdays in PRE 110 (PRESTON THEATER) – 7-9 pm
Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7392, or e-mail [email protected].
The OBIE Award-winning playwright, novelist, and poet reads from The Exalted
Thursday, October 15, 2015 7:30–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Carl Hancock Rux is the author of the novel Asphalt, the OBIE Award-winning play Talk, and the Village Voice Literary Prize-winning collection of poetry, Pagan Operetta.
His work, which crosses the disciplines of poetry, theater, music, and literary fiction in order to achieve what one critic describes as a "dizzying oral artistry ... unleashing a torrent of paper bag poetry and post modern Hip-Bop music; the ritualistic blues of self awakening," is the subject of the Voices of America television documentary Carl Hancock Rux, Coming of Age.
Introduced by Gideon Lester, the reading takes place October 15th at 7:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema and will be followed by a Q&A. The event is free and open to all; no tickets or advance reservations are required.
Rux is in residence with Live Arts Bard to rehearse a stage version of The Exalted, directed by Anne Bogart ‘74, which will have preview performances at the Fisher Center on October 16th and 17th at 7:30 p.m; find more details at fishercenter.bard.edu.
Sponsored by: Fisher Center; Written Arts Program.
"Why Privacy Matters" The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Eighth Annual Conference
What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?
Thursday, October 15, 2015 – Friday, October 16, 2015
Olin Hall
“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.” —Hannah Arendt
Reading on a Kindle, searching Google, and using cell phones, we leave a data trail of intimate details. Government and business tracks our comings, goings, and doings. Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems speaks for many when he says: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” It is easy to notice the violence of the slogan, “if you have nothing to hide; you have nothing to fear”; but few offer an intelligent response. Why is that we are complicit in the loss of our privacy of privacy? How is that we rarely register its loss? Do we simply value privacy less? It is time to ask the question: Why Privacy Matters?
Featured Speakers Edward Snowden (via satallite) NSA Whistle Blower David Brin Multiple award-winning author for novels like The Postman and author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? Anita Allen Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Philosophy (U Penn); author of Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? Jeremy Waldron NYRB Contributor and author of Dignity, Rank, and Rights
Schedule: The full conference schedule and speaker times will be posted sometime in August 2015. Thursday, Oct. 15th (10am-6pm) Friday, Oct. 16th (10am-4pm)
Registration: Due to overwhelming demand, and in order to guarantee seats to registrants, we have closed online registration at this time. Onsite Registration will be available for $45. Bard Faculty, Staff, and Students are free to attend. Press Release
Visit our website to learn more about the topic, full schedule and speakers!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
Preview Performances Carl Hancock Rux Anne Bogart ‘74 Theo Bleckmann
Friday, October 16, 2015 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right A poetic meditation on heritage, love, and the willpower to overcome atrocity, this collaboration by three landmark American artists, tells the story of Carl Einstein, the influential German-Jewish art historian and one of the first critics to affirm the importance of African sculpture. Through music, video, and text, writer-performer Carl Hancock Rux, director Anne Bogart, and composer-musician Theo Bleckmann examine the atrocities of occupation and the discovery of African art by the West to weave a mesmerizing narrative on the fight for freedom. Friday night's performance is sold out. Limited Availability Saturday.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
Attend to learn more about the Bard MBA experience!
Friday, October 16, 2015 – Monday, October 19, 2015 9 am – 8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 The Bard MBA program is structured around monthly Weekend Residencies with regular online instruction in between. This low-residency design allows full-time Bard MBA students to continue working up to 30 hours a week or to complete multiple internships over the two-year course of their study. The part-time program, completed over three years, accommodates students working 40 hours a week or more. Residencies are held once a month over four-day (Fri-Mon) weekends for full-time students and three-day weekends for part-time students.
PUBLIC EVENTS: Friday, October 16, 6-8PM Sustainable Business Series Freya Williams, CEO US Futerra, Author of Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses Information & RSVP HERE -- a great opportunity to engage withsome of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni
Saturday, October 17, 12-4PM AttendBard MBA Classes! On Saturday's we invite prospective students to eat lunch with current students, attend a class, ask questions of admissions staff, and have coffee with Director Eban Goodstein.
Prospective students please email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions and to RSVP to Saturday's classes.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
First hypothesized by Pauli in 1930, the elusive neutrino only interacts with matter via the Weak Force, making them exceedingly difficult to detect. Eventually, very clever experiments indicated that there are actually three distinct types of neutrinos, that they might have small masses, and that they might change from one type into another in mid-flight. The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for their measurements of these neutrino oscillations at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector near Tokyo and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario. These results solve some mysteries – primarily the “solar neutrino problem” – but open new questions about the need to modify the Standard Model of particles and interactions. In this talk, I will trace the theoretical and experimental history of the neutrino, with a focus on the detector designs at Super-K and SNO that allowed the oscillations to be measured, and speculate on the consequences of these results.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Institute of Advanced Theology Fall 2015 Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton: "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus."
Friday, October 16, 2015 12:30–1 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theologly will host the 2015 Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus," led by Bruce Chilton. The lecture series will begin on Friday, October 16 and will continue on Fridays - October 23, 30, and November 6, and November 13th.
Presentation begins at 12:30 at the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents. No reservations required for just attending the lectures.
At noon, Box Lunches will be provided at a cost of $10.00. RESERVATIONS FOR LUNCH ARE REQUIRED BY CALLING 845-758-7279 OR [email protected].
A brief description: Resurrection: the Case of Jesus
- Issues concerning the possibility of afterlife have provoked perennial controversy, especially since the Enlightenment. Because Jesus is the most famous case of the claim a person rose from the dead, partisans have drawn up sides between those who insist his Resurrection was physical and those who argue it was an hallucinogenic metaphor. Most of that discussion has been conducted in the abstract, without regard to specific texts. Our discussion will reverse that emphasis, and develop a properly exegetical understanding of how the Resurrection was experienced and iinterpreted before asking whether it might attract belief.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League contest. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts Bard hosts Western Connecticut State University in a non-league match. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Pool It's the first home match of the 2015-16 season as Bard hosts Lehman College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Green Giants: the six secrets to building a billion dollar, sustainable business
Friday, October 16, 2015 6–8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as we bring together sustainable business experts for our conversation series on Friday evenings 6:00 - 8:00 pm during the Bard MBA residency each month. Held at Impact Hub NYC, this is a unique opportunity to engage with some of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni.
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center All films directed by Jean Epstein and screened using 35mm restoration prints courtesy the Cinémathèque française. Silent films will be presented with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model.
Part 1
La Glace à trois faces (1927, 38 minutes)
Sa tête (1929, 36 minutes)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, 66 minutes)
Part 2
Mor'vran (1929-1930, 26 minutes)
Six et demi onze (1927, 73 minutes)
This program has been made possible thanks to generous support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule. Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Attend to learn more about the Bard MBA experience!
Friday, October 16, 2015 – Monday, October 19, 2015 9 am – 8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 The Bard MBA program is structured around monthly Weekend Residencies with regular online instruction in between. This low-residency design allows full-time Bard MBA students to continue working up to 30 hours a week or to complete multiple internships over the two-year course of their study. The part-time program, completed over three years, accommodates students working 40 hours a week or more. Residencies are held once a month over four-day (Fri-Mon) weekends for full-time students and three-day weekends for part-time students.
PUBLIC EVENTS: Friday, October 16, 6-8PM Sustainable Business Series Freya Williams, CEO US Futerra, Author of Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses Information & RSVP HERE -- a great opportunity to engage withsome of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni
Saturday, October 17, 12-4PM AttendBard MBA Classes! On Saturday's we invite prospective students to eat lunch with current students, attend a class, ask questions of admissions staff, and have coffee with Director Eban Goodstein.
Prospective students please email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions and to RSVP to Saturday's classes.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Preview Performances Carl Hancock Rux Anne Bogart ‘74 Theo Bleckmann
Saturday, October 17, 2015 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right A poetic meditation on heritage, love, and the willpower to overcome atrocity, this collaboration by three landmark American artists, tells the story of Carl Einstein, the influential German-Jewish art historian and one of the first critics to affirm the importance of African sculpture. Through music, video, and text, writer-performer Carl Hancock Rux, director Anne Bogart, and composer-musician Theo Bleckmann examine the atrocities of occupation and the discovery of African art by the West to weave a mesmerizing narrative on the fight for freedom. Friday night's performance is sold out. Limited Availability Saturday.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym It's Liberty League Weekend at Bard. The Raptors will play Union (at 2) and Skidmore (at 4), but there will also be two matches at noon (Union vs. Vassar and Skidmore vs. RIT). Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts nationally-ranked William Smith in a Liberty League contest. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Attend to learn more about the Bard MBA experience!
Friday, October 16, 2015 – Monday, October 19, 2015 9 am – 8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 The Bard MBA program is structured around monthly Weekend Residencies with regular online instruction in between. This low-residency design allows full-time Bard MBA students to continue working up to 30 hours a week or to complete multiple internships over the two-year course of their study. The part-time program, completed over three years, accommodates students working 40 hours a week or more. Residencies are held once a month over four-day (Fri-Mon) weekends for full-time students and three-day weekends for part-time students.
PUBLIC EVENTS: Friday, October 16, 6-8PM Sustainable Business Series Freya Williams, CEO US Futerra, Author of Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses Information & RSVP HERE -- a great opportunity to engage withsome of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni
Saturday, October 17, 12-4PM AttendBard MBA Classes! On Saturday's we invite prospective students to eat lunch with current students, attend a class, ask questions of admissions staff, and have coffee with Director Eban Goodstein.
Prospective students please email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions and to RSVP to Saturday's classes.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Attend to learn more about the Bard MBA experience!
Friday, October 16, 2015 – Monday, October 19, 2015 9 am – 8 pm
Impact HUB NYC, 394 Broadway, New York, NY 10013 The Bard MBA program is structured around monthly Weekend Residencies with regular online instruction in between. This low-residency design allows full-time Bard MBA students to continue working up to 30 hours a week or to complete multiple internships over the two-year course of their study. The part-time program, completed over three years, accommodates students working 40 hours a week or more. Residencies are held once a month over four-day (Fri-Mon) weekends for full-time students and three-day weekends for part-time students.
PUBLIC EVENTS: Friday, October 16, 6-8PM Sustainable Business Series Freya Williams, CEO US Futerra, Author of Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses Information & RSVP HERE -- a great opportunity to engage withsome of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni
Saturday, October 17, 12-4PM AttendBard MBA Classes! On Saturday's we invite prospective students to eat lunch with current students, attend a class, ask questions of admissions staff, and have coffee with Director Eban Goodstein.
Prospective students please email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions and to RSVP to Saturday's classes.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
David Brin National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Monday, October 19, 2015 12 pm
Hegeman 107 For philosophical reasons, some scientists like Einstein preferred to picture a universe that's limitless in space and time. That view faded as evidence mounted for a titanic start—a Big Bang. Now, as we plumb the earliest picoseconds of that event, we are starting to realize—it may hint at a much, much bigger cosmic realm. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Religion, Self, and the Other in Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
by Tehseen Thaver, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bard College
Monday, October 19, 2015 4:45–6:15 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufayl (d.1185 CE) represents one of the most enduring though often less appreciated texts in Muslim intellectual history. The themes of the nature of the self, reason, revelation, travel and knowledge that animate this text continue to be pressing issues of human concern. How can this text be situated in broader debates on self, reason and revelation in the Muslim tradition? In what ways do such discussions connect with comparative religious and spiritual knowledge traditions? Why and how is this text significant to the humanities and the liberal arts today? These are among the questions this presentation will seek to highlight and explore. Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
Preston Theater, 110 Please join us on the following Monday's for our Spanish Film Screening. All films will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles.
9/21,10/5, 10/19, 11/2, 11/9, 11/23, 12/7
Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 323-561-1472, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitlesSponsored by: Italian Studies.
No Word Breaks Into The Dark—The Poetry of Hannah Arendt
“Of all things of thought, poetry is closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art . . .” -The Human Condition, p. 170.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 1 pm
Arendt Center Hannah Arendt always returned to poetry, and kept the language of German poems in her hinterkopf. For Arendt, poetry is the closest form we have to thought itself, bearing the burden of language and memory. It should then be no surprise that Arendt herself wrote poems.
Between 1923 and 1961 Hannah Arendt penned 73 poems. She carried the poems she wrote between 1923 and 1926 with her throughout exile, and eventually added them to those she wrote in New York. On the one hand, the poems offer a distinct space where Arendt reflected on World Wars, loneliness, alienation, and homelessness – those conditions that came to define the 20th Century for so many. On the other, we see a young reflective Arendt, writing love letters to Martin Heidegger and taking delight in the play of language and Romanticism.
The poems now appear in translation for the first time, edited and translated into English by Samantha Hill and French by Karin Biro. Biro and Hill join us to read from their translations and discuss Arendt’s poetry, the work of translation, and the place of poetry across Arendt’s political and philosophical works.
Samantha Rose Hill is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Hill received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2014. She completed postdoctoral work at Universität Heidelberg and the Institut für Philosophie at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. Hill is currently working on a bilingual edition of Hannah Arendt’s poems in German and English, and a second manuscript on Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno’s lectures on Kant and aesthetics.
Karin Biro Trained as a specialist in Romance and Germanic languages, Karin Biro studied at the universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg in Germany, the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She taught German and French at the Ecole Allemande de Paris from 1971 to 2000, and from 1993 to 2014 taught German language and civilization at the prestigious Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), Paris. She has translated and written books and articles on culture and Franco-German relationships, has authored a volume of poems illustrated by German artist Helmut Booz, and co-authored with Adam Biro a travelogue on Oriental-Prussia, which received funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006). Her discovery of Hannah Arendt’s poems during a seminar she was teaching at Science-Po led to further research and eventually to the publication in October 2015 of a complete bilingual edition of Hanna Arendt’s poems by the French publisher Payot/Rivages (the translations into French are by François Mathieu). She also inspired the German publisher Piper to prepare a scholarly publication on the same topic.
Location: The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College 1448 Annandale Road Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504 Seminar Room (first floor)
Free & Open to the Public. However, space is limited! Please rsvp at [email protected]
Edith Grossman is widely considered one of the most accomplished Spanish-to-English translators in the world. Also a literary critic and teacher, she is best known for translating the works of Nobel laureates Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, among many others. Grossman's 2003 translation of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote has been hailed as one of the finest English-language translations of the classic Spanish novel. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Guggenheim Fellowships, the PEN Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Grossman will read from her forthcoming translations of the prose and poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Norton, 2015). Sor Juana (1651–1695), known during the Spanish Golden Age as "the Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of Mexico," is now read as a proto-feminist and early defender of the right of women to a formal education. Grossman will discuss the challenges of translating Sor Juana’s work and will speak of the importance for the contemporary reader of this 17th-century colonial writer and self-taught intellectual.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail [email protected].
Conducted by Heidi Knoblauch, Digital Projects Coordinator Collin Jennings, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Humanities and Gretta Tritch Roman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Humanities
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 5 pm
Henderson Annex 106 As part of our workshop series “Search and Surveillance,” this workshop will lead participants through the process of setting up a programming environment suited for research projects that combine technical and critical material. We will install the Anaconda distribution of Python and Jupyter notebooks, which allow users to switch easily between text, code, and visualization in a dynamic interface. We will conclude the workshop by testing out this environment with data from Google Correlate, which provides information on search terms that tend to co-occur over time. Sponsored by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ; Experimental Humanities Program.
A Bestiary: An Evening of Text and Performance with Bradford Morrow and Alex Skolnick
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 7:30–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Novelist Bradford Morrow ("one of America's major literary voices" —Publishers Weekly) and musician Alex Skolnick ("one of the most remarkable guitarists in hard-rock history" —Guitar World Magazine) present a live collaborative performance of Morrow's lyrical prose pieces about animals real and imaginary—from Snake to Mongoose, Rooster to Bat, Unicorn to Whale, Elephant to Anenome. Set to Skolnick's innovative world music, this reading of A Bestiary unites voice with guitar virtuosity in unexpected, magical ways.
Conjunctions editor, Bard Center fellow, and Bard literature professor BRADFORD MORROW's many books of fiction include Trinity Fields, The Diviner's Tale, The Uninnocent, and The Forgers.
The latest albums from ALEX SKOLNICK, lead guitarist of the heavy-metal band Testament and the jazz group Alex Skolnick Trio, are Dark Roots of Earth and Planetary Coalition. He is a founding member of Metal Allegiance. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program; the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Genre's include thriller, history, mafia, etc.. All TV shows are free, in Italian language with English subtitles Sponsored by: Italian Studies; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail [email protected].
National Climate Seminar: Beyond Coal: Report from the Front
Mary Anne Hitt, Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 12–1 pm
Albee B102
The National Climate Seminar is a biweekly, dial-in conversation and podcast that features climate scientists, political leaders, and policy analysts, each exploring the politics and science driving critical climate change decisions. Join us the first and third Wednesday of each month at noon eastern for a chance to connect with experts on climate and clean energy solutions.
On October 21st, we spoke with Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Beyond Coal Campaign for the Sierra Club which is working to eliminate the pollution caused by coal throughout its life cycle, and repower the nation with clean energy. In 2012, Mother Jones described the campaign as “a grassroots rebellion [that] is winning the biggest victory yet on climate change.” Mary Anne previously served as executive director of Appalachian Voices (where she was one of the creators of the award-winning campaign to end mountaintop removal, iLoveMountains.org), the Ecology Center, and the Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project.
Mary Anne was named one of the 10 most influential people of 2013 by SNL Energy, and was listed in 2013 by the Washingtonian as part of “The New Guard: People Who are Shaping Washington” in Obama’s second term. She is an alum of the Rockwood Leadership Institute’s National Yearlong Leading from the Inside Out Fellowship, and also a senior fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. She received her Master’s of Science from the University of Montana, where she received the Len and Sandy Sargent Environmental Advocacy Award, and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, where she was a Whittle Scholar and the founder of the campus group Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville (SPEAK), and where she later received the 2008 Notable UT Woman Award. She grew up in the mountains of east Tennessee and now lives in West Virginia with her family.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
"When 'Papa' Haydn Was Young—Some Thoughts On His Early Works"
Peter Laki
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building A lecture by visiting professor and music historian Peter Laki, author of the program notes for the Conservatory's new noontime concert series, The Haydn Project.
Free admission
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Peter Godfrey-Smith Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney
I’ll look at the evolution of cognition and subjective experience (or consciousness), considering the overall history of animal life. Where might we find smooth gradients and where might there be more definite transitions (if not jumps)? What is the likely role of parallel evolution, as opposed to single origins for important traits? Octopuses will provide a case study.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
The Greek Financial Crisis and the Economics of Human Rights
Thursday, October 22, 2015 4–6 pm
RKC 103; Reem-Kayden Center
The Human Rights Project and the Center for Civic Engagement invite you to join us on Thursday October 22, at 4:00 PM in RKC 103 for a panel discussion with
International labor rights attorney and Deputy Director of UNITE HERE
Christina Miliou Theocharaki (’15), 2015 Rosenberg Internship Fellow, worked as the Combating Anti-Semitism and Extremism Intern at Human Rights First.
This panel will focus on the interplay between economic conditions in Greece and the socio-political landscape of the country. Through a focus on the current erosion of human rights protections, the privatization of public infrastructures, and the surge in popularity of the right-wing extremist political party Golden Dawn, this panel will situate these pressing issues within the broader systemic forces at work in both the European Union and in the global economy more generally, and to offer a human rights critique of the economic austerity measures that the Greek government is now having to carry out.
The panel will be moderated by Economics and Human Rights major, Iro Grimpizi (’17)
Does Literature Become More Relevant when We Incorporate History, Science, and Other Elements of Change?
A Talk by David Brin
Thursday, October 22, 2015 4:30–5:30 pm
Bard Hall National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow DAVID BRIN is a scientist who has served as a NASA visiting scholar in exobiology. As a writer of science fiction, he has received the Nebula award, two Hugo awards, and four Locus awards, and has published books including Earth and The Postman. He is also the author of The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy?
This event takes place Thursday, October 22nd, at 4:30 p.m. in Bard Hall. It is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Hannah Arendt Center; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
The Cycle of Interstate Violence and How It Can Be Broken: Evidence from the United States, South Korea, Serbia, Iran, and Israel
Mengyao Li, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Thursday, October 22, 2015 4:45 pm
Preston Theater
How and why does interstate violence spread and perpetuate itself? Across five countries and in four different international contexts, we examined two ways in which violence between nations can spread: 1) from past violence to future, unrelated interstate tensions, and 2) from perpetrators of violence to members of victim groups. I will also present empirical evidence that international tribunals can serve as an effective intervention for breaking the cycle of violence from perpetrators to victims. Implications and practical applications will be discussed.
Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail [email protected].
Institute of Advanced Theology Fall 2015 Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton: "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus."
Friday, October 23, 2015 12:30–1 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theologly will host the 2015 Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus," led by Bruce Chilton. The lecture series will begin on Friday, October 16 and will continue on Fridays - October 23, 30, and November 6, and November 13th.
Presentation begins at 12:30 at the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents. No reservations required for just attending the lectures.
At noon, Box Lunches will be provided at a cost of $10.00. RESERVATIONS FOR LUNCH ARE REQUIRED BY CALLING 845-758-7279 OR [email protected].
A brief description: Resurrection: the Case of Jesus
- Issues concerning the possibility of afterlife have provoked perennial controversy, especially since the Enlightenment. Because Jesus is the most famous case of the claim a person rose from the dead, partisans have drawn up sides between those who insist his Resurrection was physical and those who argue it was an hallucinogenic metaphor. Most of that discussion has been conducted in the abstract, without regard to specific texts. Our discussion will reverse that emphasis, and develop a properly exegetical understanding of how the Resurrection was experienced and iinterpreted before asking whether it might attract belief.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Ken Olum, Research Professor, Tufts Institute of Cosmology
Friday, October 23, 2015 12 pm
Hegeman 107
Cosmic strings are a common (though not universal) prediction of grand unified theories, and may also arise from inflation in superstring theory. If they exist, they will provide a window into fundamental physics at otherwise unreachable scales. Cosmic strings form a "network" of infinite strings and loops of all sizes. To understand the possibility for observable signals, we determine the properties of this network by extrapolating from Large-scale numerical simulations and analyzing the emission of gravitational waves (which are both the most important signal and the most important energy-loss mechanism).
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Faculty members Walter Russell Mead and James Ketterer join members of the Bard Debate Union and BGIA alumni for a round-table discussion on this important issue in current events. Co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://debate.bard.edu.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Kline Commons; Kline Terrace In celebration of National Food Day, Bard EATS is sponsoring a Farmers Market. Come support local vendors, learn about sustainable agriculture and eat delicious food.
We are also sponsoring a Real Food Drive to benefit Caring Hands Soup Kitchen in Kingston that begins TODAY!
To donate healthy food to those in need please visit:
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts College of Staten Island in a non-league contest. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Bitó Conservatory Building Performers include Anna Obaggy, Zhi Ma, Tianpei Ai, Marka Gustavsson, and Robert Martin in the Brahms Piano Quintet and Beethoven’s String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3.
Trio for violin, viola, cello, Op. 9 no. 3 L. van Beethoven
Allegro con spirito
Adagio con espressione
Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace
Finale: Presto
Tianpei Ai, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Robert Martin, cello
Intermission
Duos for two violins B. Bartok
Zhi Ma, violin
Tianpei Ai, violin
Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 J. Brahms
Allegro non troppo
Andante, un poco Adagio
Scherzo: Allegro
Finale: Poco sostenuto; Allegro non troppo
Zhi Ma, violin
Tianpei Ai, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Robert Martin, cello
Anna Obbagy, piano
Free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Performed by Bard students Stage managed by Michelle Kelleher Set by Jiyoun Chang Lights by Rick Martin Costumes by Liene Dobraja
Will Iphigenia, long-exiled on a remote and rocky shore, recognize her shipwrecked brother Orestes in time to prevent another sacrifice at the altar, this time at her own hands?
Olin Hall The National Book Award winner, two-time Pulitzer nominee, and widely acclaimed fiction writer and essayist reads "Walking Wounded," an new, unpublished story specially commissioned for its world premiere at this event.
Introduced by Bradford Morrow and followed by a Q&A, this event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required.
Praise for Lovely, Dark, Deep—
“Oates, one of few writers who achieves excellence in both the novel and the short story, has more than two dozen story collections to her name and she continues to inject new, ambushing power into the form. Oates’ stories seethe and blaze.” —Booklist
“With every new book Oates proves anew that she is perhaps our greatest contemporary American writer.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
Praise for Carthage—
“Knotted, tense, digressive and brilliant.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Joyce Carol Oates has outdone herself.” —NPR
“Brilliant … amazing. A compassionate tenderness suffuses the final sections of the book, as palpable as the cold irony with which the book begins. It’s a breathtaking effect.” —Washington Post
Praise for Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong—
“An extraordinarily vivid depiction of lives gone awry ... A creepy, macabre thrill from start to finish. Terrific stuff.” —Independent
“Oates at her best—spare, swift, beautifully observed and quietly lethal.”—Times Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Sarah Pierce (born Connecticut 1968) is an artist working across a variety of media, including performance, video, sculpture, publishing and installation. For the past 15 years she has been based in Dublin. Since 2003, she has used the term The Metropolitan Complex to describe her project. Despite its institutional resonance, this title does not signify an organization. Instead, it demonstrates Pierce’s broad understanding of cultural work, articulated through a personal methodology involving performance, video, papers, interviews, archives, talks and exhibitions. Characterised as a way to play with a shared neuroses of place (read ‘complex’ in the Freudian sense), whether a specific locality or a wider set of circumstances that frame interaction, her activity considers forms of gathering, both historical examples and those she initiates. The processes of research and presentation that Pierce undertakes highlight a continual renegotiation of the terms for making art: the potential for dissent and self-determination and the proximity of past artworks.
Pierce holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College at London University and an MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and is a past participant of the Whitney Museum ISP in New York. In 2013, Book Works published the first monograph on Pierce’s work, edited by Rike Frank and designed by Peter Maybury, entitled Sketches of Universal History Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce. Exhibitions in 2015 include a four-person show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art called El Lissitzky: the Artist and the State; Sarah Pierce: Pathos of Distance,a collaborative research based exhibition with the ESB CSIA at the National Gallery of Ireland; and a presentation of new work for Positions #2, curated by Annie Fletcher at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
Annie Fletcher is Chief Curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and a tutor at de Appel, Amsterdam. She has most recently curated or co-curated projects including A Republic of Art (VAM), El Lissitzky: the Artist and the State with Rosella Biscotti, Nuria Guell, Alice Milligan, Sarah Pierce and Hito Steyerl (IMMA Dublin) , and the mid career retrospectives of Ahmet Ogut, Hito Steyerl and Sheela Gowda. She has worked on theMuseum of Arte Útilwith Tania Bruguera, which opened in the fall of 2013 at the Van Abbemuseum. In 2012 she was curator of the biennale EVA International. She was co-founder and co-director of the rolling curatorial platform If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution with Frederique Bergholtz (2005-10). As a writer she has contributed to various magazines suchAfterallandMetropolis M and other publications.
Albert Knoll, of the Dachau Archives, will be honored as Archivist of the Year
Presented by the Scone Foundation in collaboration with The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
Monday, October 26, 2015 6:30 pm
BGC (38 West 86th NYC)
The special event will take place in Manhattan on Oct. 26, 2015, 6.30pm, at the Bard Graduate Center at 38. West 86th Street, New York, NY, in conjunction with The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The Introductory Presentation will be by Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of the acclaimed, new book, KL: A History of the Concentration Camps.
Honoree Albert Knoll, b. 1958, has served the mission of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Museum since 1997. In addition to maintaining and expanding its archival work and databases, he has been instrumental in assisting relatives of former inmates as well as guiding researchers, scholars and authors around the world - including Awards Event speaker Nickolaus Wachsmann. Knoll has written articles on illegal photos, homosexual prisoners, contemporary Nazi press coverage of Dachau, etc, and contributed to the International Tracing Service’s first scholarly yearbook. He has also organized international workshops on the gathering of data on all categories of National Socialist victims.
Guest Speakers: Prof. Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of the acclaimed book, KL: A History of the Concentration Camps. Additional guest speakers to be announced.
Past honorees of the Scone Foundation Award have included a joint award to Dr. Yehoshua Freundlich, Director of the Israel State Archives and Mr. Khader Salameh, Director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque; Conrad Crane (Director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks); Dr. Saad Eskander (Baghdad National Archives); and Nancy Dupree (Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University).
About the Scone Foundation: Scone Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by Stanley Cohen. The Foundation has presented its “Archivist of the Year” award annually since 2005, focusing on archivists who - among other topics - have assisted scholars on such wide-ranging topics as resisting censorship, preserving historical memory and fostering humanitarian dialogue.
Preston 110 Please join us on 28 Sept. and 26 Oct. for our film screening. All films are shown in French with subtitles. Sponsored by: French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-901-5133, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater 110 Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitlesSponsored by: Italian Studies.
RKC 111 I have been following the evolution of software through mobile, social media, mashups and IoT (Internet of Things). This has been primarily in my role hiring "software people". The breadth and depth of the field has exploded. Everyone knows this. What is subtler, successful software is often dependent on critical, out-of-the box thinking. Hello, Bard! Standard Computer Science curricula will NOT prepare one for the next Unicorn (firms with over $1 Billion evaluation, with 1000x returns for investors). It will prepare you for IBM, Mobil or Citicorp style careers. If there are any.
I taught web design and development at the University of California — San Diego. I was a reference for some of my students and so got to speak with many recruiters and hiring managers (Qualcomm, US Navy, NSA, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Accenture). What they were looking for, in many cases, were eye openers for me. It wasn’t anything I was teaching.
Looking back in my hiring, I made mistakes. BIG mistakes. I followed the myth of STEM and classical computer science majors. I thought the emergence of startups and the “Failure is Okay” culture were Silicon Valley anomalies. They aren't. We will review what the Amazons, Googles and Apples say they are looking for (and ask for in Interviews). There are creative thinking roles in Cloud, social media, and mobile technology that didn't exist ten years ago. For a Liberal Arts major, Computer Science can be an “enabler” for non-traditional careers. We will look at some Use Cases for "Security" and "Algorithms". We will eulogize "Waterfall Development" and review the new development standard, "Agile".
Twenty years ago the liberal arts majors worked for the engineers in building paradigm changing systems. Now the roles are reversing.
Scott Lydiard is a software engineer passionate about software development education and technical careers. While the central theme of his career has been software, he has spent 10 years in the oil business (Chief Engineer for Baker Hughes), 10 years in the mapping business (Vice President of Engineering of the world's largest mapping company), 10 years for the government (Navy - NSA Consultant for Satellite Communications) plus Chief Technology Officer for the military (Predicate Logic) and in the entertainment business (Nielsen). Sponsored by: Computer Science Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2359, or e-mail [email protected].
Up From the Well: Recovering the Lost Legend of a Crusader and His Treasure
by Nicholas Paul, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Professor Paul works on the world of the lay nobility in the central Middle Ages and the intersection between that world and the experience of crusading. In his first book, To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2012), he examines how the crusades became part of the collective memory of medieval noble families in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He has also co-edited Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Professor Paul will be discussing his discovery of the hitherto-lost biography of the crusader Manasses of Hierges, the constable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Sponsored by: Historical Studies Program; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7571, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym Bard hosts SUNY Polytechnic in its final home game of the season. It's Senior Night! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex Bard hosts Skidmore in the final home game of the season. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Preston Theater 110 Genre's include thriller, history, mafia, etc.. All TV shows are free, in Italian language with English subtitles Sponsored by: Italian Studies; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Come one, come all— On October 28th at 5pm in Weis Cinema, local candidates for office will be visiting campus to meet students to talk about their campaign. Students are encouraged to attend to vocalize their concerns about issues effecting their community.
Featuring Jason Hwong on violin, Marilyn Crispell on piano, Garfield Moore cello, and Thurman Barker on drums and percussion.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 7:30–10 pm
Olin Hall
THE ALONE TOGETHER CONCERT is about demonstrating IMPROVISATION AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS. The goal is to use elaboration, extensions, and refinement in order to create art, first by performing solo. Next we demonstrate the intimacy between musician and their instrument; a process musicians go through throughout their career preparing for a performance. The natural acoustics changes from room to room and plays a role in the sound that the instrument produces. The artist has to learn to adjust to the acoustics at hand.
The second half of the concert we play together. "PLAY" in the real sense of chance - taking or competition or simply a game where we are playing around is precisely part of the improvisation process. However, we are not "winging it" or making things up out of thin air. The jazz musician will improvise within a very specific context and there are several devices that are used in the creative process such as repetition, breaks, and vamps and in addition to the four elements of music, melody, harmony tone color and rhythm in coming up with a composition. We are all equal in this experience, because the music is new to us, as is to you. We hope you enjoy the music.
The concert is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7572, or e-mail [email protected].
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
by Nicholas Bauch, Geographer-in-Residence, Stanford University
Thursday, October 29, 2015 5 pm
RKC 103 Nicholas Bauch is Geographer-in-Residence at the Spatial History Project at Stanford University. He is a cultural geographer whose work brings digital techniques to bear on the art of landscape interpretation. He is author of A Geography of Digestion (forthcoming, University of California Press), and Enchanting the Desert (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). A recent experimental project is a kinetic sculpture he built called The Irreproducibility Machine. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Enchanting the Desert is a digital monograph based on a single historical document: a slideshow made by commercial photographer Henry G. Peabody between 1899-1930 at the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The project reconstructs Peabody’s slideshow in an interactive medium, allowing readers place the slides in a greater geographical context. The photographs are used to open up the expanse of the Grand Canyon itself, laying bare the European-American project of remaking this space, focusing on specific territories within the vast region to tell the story in a spatially organized narrative. When readers encounter this work, they can expect to uncover a pattern language that describes a new cultural becoming of this great landscape. Another layer on the palimpsest of meanings that have accrued here for nearly 10,000 years, the Euro-American experience of the Grand Canyon is yet an altogether new one. Using the established medium of the website application, Enchanting the Desert introduces a genre of scholarship: the born-digital interactive monograph. The medium allows for technical leaps impossible in a print publication. The genre takes advantage of these leaps by performing spatial narrative in an inventive new way.Sponsored by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Experimental Humanities Program.
Please join us on the following dates for our film festival:
1. September 17
2. October 1
3. October 15
4. October 29
5. November 12
All films have English subtitles
All films will be screened on select Thursdays in PRE 110 (PRESTON THEATER) – 7-9 pm
Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7392, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex It's the final home game of the season and Senior Night, as the Raptors host rival Vassar in a Liberty League contest. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Institute of Advanced Theology Fall 2015 Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton: "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus."
Friday, October 30, 2015 12:30–1 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theologly will host the 2015 Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "The Death and Resurrection of Jesus," led by Bruce Chilton. The lecture series will begin on Friday, October 16 and will continue on Fridays - October 23, 30, and November 6, and November 13th.
Presentation begins at 12:30 at the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents. No reservations required for just attending the lectures.
At noon, Box Lunches will be provided at a cost of $10.00. RESERVATIONS FOR LUNCH ARE REQUIRED BY CALLING 845-758-7279 OR [email protected].
A brief description: Resurrection: the Case of Jesus
- Issues concerning the possibility of afterlife have provoked perennial controversy, especially since the Enlightenment. Because Jesus is the most famous case of the claim a person rose from the dead, partisans have drawn up sides between those who insist his Resurrection was physical and those who argue it was an hallucinogenic metaphor. Most of that discussion has been conducted in the abstract, without regard to specific texts. Our discussion will reverse that emphasis, and develop a properly exegetical understanding of how the Resurrection was experienced and iinterpreted before asking whether it might attract belief.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail [email protected].
Optofluidics: The Marriage of Microfluidics with Integrated Optics
Yu Gu St. Joseph’s University
Friday, October 30, 2015 12 pm
Hegaman 107
In recent years, the integration of microfluidic and micro-optical elements onto monolithic platforms has led to the term “optofluidics”. In particular, the use of integrated waveguides for sensing in microfluidic devices miniaturizes light delivery and detection while reducing the need for bulky instrumentation, the complication of alignment errors and sensitivity to mechanical vibrations. In addition, the exploitation of the optical properties of fluids has the potential to revolutionize sensing and telecommunications by enabling reconfigurable light sources, light delivery, controls and switches. This talk will present the design, fabrication and characterization of two optofluidic devices. The first is a three-dimensional Mach-Zehnder interferometer providing label-free, spatially-resolved sensing in a microfluidic channel. The second is a parallel-geometry reconfigurable optofluidic switch. Low-cost fabrication methods, such as embedding of fiber inside a polymer, as well as the more advanced technique of femtosecond laser micromachining (FLM) will be discussed. Finally, the direction of future research will be summarized.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail [email protected].
Double Trouble: Jazz Meets Classical Featuring Dan Tepfer and Aaron Diehl
Friday, October 30, 2015 8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater “Melodic precision, harmonic erudition, and elegant restraint” – The New York Times on Aaron Diehl
“Brilliant... A sharp young talent” – The New York Times on Dan Tepfer
An unprecedented mash-up of J.S. Bach and the Great American Songbook from Cole Porter Fellows Dan Tepfer and Aaron Diehl. This one-of-a-kind collaboration will explore the unlikely common ground between two leading talents from opposite ends of the jazz spectrum. Diehl is an aficionado of the early tradition of jazz piano, while Tepfer is inspired by avant-garde, cutting-edge jazz. Tradition will meet contemporary and jazz will meet classics in this night of Double Trouble.
Green Giants: the six secrets to building a billion dollar, sustainable business
Friday, October 16, 2015 6–8 pm
Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as we bring together sustainable business experts for our conversation series on Friday evenings 6:00 - 8:00 pm during the Bard MBA residency each month. Held at Impact Hub NYC, this is a unique opportunity to engage with some of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni.