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Bookwork by Doug BeubeRuns through Sunday, November 12, 2017Charles P. Stevenson Jr. LibraryVitrine Show First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library. For more information, call 845-758-6822. National Climate Seminar: A Pollution-Free Planet: The Upcoming U.N. Environmental AssemblyFatou Ndoye, United Nations Environment ProgrammeWednesday, November 1, 2017https://bluejeans.com/465542196 |
Picture IndustryThursday, November 2, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustryFriday, November 3, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustrySaturday, November 4, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
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Picture IndustrySunday, November 5, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Compromise and Representation: A Lecture by Associate Fellow Shany MorMonday, November 6, 2017Arendt Center |
Stellating DeltahedraHeidi Burgiel, University of Massachusetts, LowellTuesday, November 7, 2017Hegeman 204 |
“On Social Dancing and Social Movements: Salsa and/as Resistance”A Lecture by Prof. Sydney Hutchinson (Syracuse University)Wednesday, November 8, 2017RKC room 103 |
Picture IndustryThursday, November 9, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustryFriday, November 10, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustrySaturday, November 11, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustrySunday, November 12, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
A Reading by Elizabeth HandThe Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning author reads from Saffron and BrimstoneMonday, November 13, 2017Campus Center, Weis Cinema |
Noon ConcertTuesday, November 14, 2017Bitó Conservatory Building |
CCS Speaker Series: Mason Leaver-YapWednesday, November 15, 2017CCS Bard, Classroom 102 |
Picture IndustryThursday, November 16, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustryFriday, November 17, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustrySaturday, November 18, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustrySunday, November 19, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
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Engaged Ethnography in Iraq with Kali Rubaii, University of California, Santa Cruz.Tuesday, November 21, 2017Kline French Room |
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Picture IndustryThursday, November 23, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustryFriday, November 24, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustrySaturday, November 25, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Picture IndustrySunday, November 26, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Stories of Abduction and Tales of Breaking Free: From ADHD Monsters to Space Aliens in the Contemporary U.S.Susan Lepselter |
Noon ConcertTuesday, November 28, 2017Bitó Conservatory Building |
Visiting Artist: Kiki SmithWednesday, November 29, 2017Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center |
Picture IndustryThursday, November 30, 2017CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
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Bookwork by Doug Beube
Runs through Sunday, November 12, 2017
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. LibraryVitrine Show
First Floor lobby of Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library and second floor Sussman RoomSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
National Climate Seminar: A Pollution-Free Planet: The Upcoming U.N. Environmental Assembly
Fatou Ndoye, United Nations Environment Programme
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
12–1 pm
https://bluejeans.com/465542196Join Bard CEP on November 1st for a conversation on the outlook for the upcoming U.N. Environmental Assembly with Fatou, Ndoye, Deputy Regional Director of the UN Environment's North America Office.
Ms. Ndoye joined UN Environment in 2005 and has worked for UN Environment’s Major Groups and Stakeholders Branch. Ms. Ndoye holds 20 years of experience in environment and sustainable development focusing on policy analysis; stakeholder participation in policy and decision making; project development and execution; networking and partnerships; and environmental assessments integration. Additionally, she has also worked on issues ranging from the linkages between labour and the environment, environmental governance, public participation and access to information. Prior to joining UN Environment, she led the international NGO Network for Environment and Sustainable development in Africa (NESDA), a collaborating center for the Global Environment Outlook report series and its Africa Environment Outlook series, headquartered in Cote d’Ivoire.
NATIONAL CLIMATE SEMINAR
Bard Center for Environmental Policy hosts the National Climate Seminar, a webinar series, at 12pm EST. Listeners can watch live or listen to past podcasts and webinars here. Past speakers have included thought leaders from 350.org, Sierra Club, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and many more.
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer masters programs in Environmental Policy, Climate Science and Policy, and Sustainable Business. The Bard Center for Environmental Policy's career-focused, science based, interdisciplinary masters of science programs are located in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. The rigorous first year coursework, followed by a required 4-6 month immersive internship, culminates with a Master’s Capstone Project and a 93% job placement rate within 6 months of graduation. Graduates are currently pursuing careers in many fields such as: alternative energy, international Development, advocacy/lobbying, conservation, research, and strategic consulting. For more information: bard.edu/cep/
Webinar: bluejeans.com/467455619
Dial-in Only: +1.888.240.2560 | meeting ID: 467455619
Poster available for download below.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bluejeans.com/467455619.
Del Tredici at 80: A Bard Celebration
A celebration of vocal and chamber works by the noted American composer David Del Tredici in honor of his eightieth birthday performed by students in Bard Conservatory.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
5–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingComposer David Del Tredici will join us for this hour-long concert of his works:
Scherzo, Magyar Madness for Clarinet and String Quartet, and a selection of songs including Acrostic Song (1974-75, arr. 1982) from Final Alice, text by Lewis Carroll.
Musicians are Christopher Beroes-Haigis, Javen Lara, Tomoki Park, Bethany Pietroniro, Paulina Swierczek, Viktor Toth, Xinyi Wang, and Xinyue Wang
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/conservatory.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House in New York City
Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver! RSVP: HERE
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6–8:30 pm
LMHQ NYCJoin us in New York City for an Open House hosted by the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our Panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
- career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
- the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
- how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
- how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
- how to complete and submit your application
- financial aid opportunities
- successfully completing program prerequisites
Event Location: This event will be held at LMHQ, 150 Broadway NY, NY Floor 20
Email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/gps/.
The Fourth Frontier: Discovering Humanity’s Future
A Tough Talk with Bret Weinstein
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumThe human mind is the most complex entity in the known universe. That complexity evolved for a reason--It provides human populations the ability to discover new niches. But by endowing people with that marvelous superpower, evolution sowed the seeds of our possible destruction. We have discovered the means by which to steal from the future in order to thrive in the present. Self-destruction would be inevitable but for another evolutionary gift, the ability to describe alternative futures and to choose amongst them. This talk will confront the tension between these two capacities and, in order to sketch the path through our looming bottleneck, argue that believers in human liberty must do two things: confront emerging authoritarianism, and abandon the archaic distinction between political right and left. Doing both will free humanity to seek a just, sustainable and abundant future.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CMIA - Classical Hollywood
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- It Happened One Night
(Frank Capra, 1934, USA, 105 minutes, 35mm) - Queen Christina
(Rouben Mamoulian, 1933, USA, 95 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
The French Resistance
Charles B. Potter, Professor of History at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6:45 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102Charles B. Potter, Professor of History at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence and former professor of NYU, in a conversation with Elizabeth Frank, Division of Languages & Literature at Bard College, about his recent book The Resistance, 1940: An Anthology of Writings from the French Underground (LSU Press 2016). Translated from French into English for the first time.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: French Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7220, or e-mail [email protected].
Picture Industry
Thursday, November 2, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Poisons, Predators, and Parasites:
Integrating Ecological and Evolutionary Complexity into Toxicology
Jessica Hua
Binghamton University SUNY
Thursday, November 2, 2017
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail [email protected].
Getting There is Only Half the Battle: The Fate of Plants in a Fragmented World
Cathy Collins, Assistant Professor of Biology
Thursday, November 2, 2017
4:40 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102Many natural ecosystems are being broken up into smaller fragments due to land-use changes, such as agricultural expansion and suburban sprawl. Fragmentation reduces the amount, quality, and connectivity of habitat for plants and other organisms. Drawing on data from tropical and temperate forests, I will discuss the ways in which landscape fragmentation influences plant movement, plant population size, and disease-induced plant mortality. I will also provide examples of restoration approaches for re-connecting habitats in fragmented landscapes.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Joseph Salvatore Ackley
Term Assisting Professor, Barnard College
Silver Faces in Late Medieval Sculpture: Just How Charismatic, Just How Lifelike?
Thursday, November 2, 2017
5 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaSculpture and painting in the late Middle Ages tends to be written as a narrative of increasing verisimilitude and lifelikeness – and indeed, when played out across paint and wood, the naturalistic representation of human presence (charismatic, bodily, idealized, and gruesome alike) appears paramount. This trajectory, however, becomes complicated when examining figural sculpture in gold and silver: How did these media, cast for centuries as vehicles of heavenly light and otherworldly irruption into the mundane, participate in late medieval practices of mimetic representation, particularly when figuring the human body? In considering figural mimesis in northern Europe during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, do we detect a competitive antagonism or a fertile codependence between faces rendered with paint and faces rendered with metal? Considering the place of gold and silver in Gothic and early Renaissance sculpture serves to expand our sense of the pictorial priorities of this pivotal transitional period, and it also sets up a retrospective glance at earlier medieval centuries, thereby offering another approach to the ceaselessly complicated question of material, mimesis, and meaning in medieval art.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A Conversation to Discuss Marc Jongen's Invitation to Hannah Arendt Center's two-day conference: Crises Of Democracy: Thinking In Dark Times
Thursday, November 2, 2017
5 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205The Hannah Arendt Center and the Tough Talks Lecture Series will co-host a conversation to discuss the controversy surrounding the invitation of Dr. Marc Jongen to our recent fall conference. Here is a statement that Academic Director Roger Berkowitz prepared on behalf of the HAC in response to criticism within the community of scholars who penned a recent letter for The Chronicle of Higher Education to the Hannah Arendt Center. Below, are a number of responses from the Hannah Arendt Center's community supporting the center's decision to invite Marc Jongen.
Response by Roger Berkowitz
The letter says I made a mistake in inviting a speaker to a two-day conference. Not one of the 56 signatories attended the conference they are criticizing. At the same time, not one person who chose to attend the conference signed the letter. For those who would like to move beyond posturing, I suggest you take the time to view the conference in its entirety. You can do so here.
Response by Leon Botstein
I read with some sadness the open letter to the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Bard College, signed by a stellar cast of distinguished colleagues. The number and quality of the signatories are impressive. But that does not make the argument in the letter right. I am afraid therefore that we will have to agree to disagree.
Response by Peter Baehr
The Soviet style collective letter directed against Roger Berkowitz and Leon Botstein (The Chronicle Review, October 23), allows the following brief translation: "Stray from the orthodoxy that we demand of you, and we will seek to destroy your reputation." That Arendt scholars, of all people, should have fired this cannonade is nothing less than bizarre. Academic mobbing - a protest letter with 56 endorsements! - is not something one associates with the fiercely independent mind of Hannah Arendt. Nor is group denunciation. Both require a determined push back from all who believe that frank argument and opposing views are the beating heart of university life.
Response by Wilmot James
The politically conservative right is surging worldwide. If moderating forces wish to influence, occupy and hold the center so that things do not fall apart, they must come to grips with the issues that seizes the right and determine whether there are any upon which to build common ground. There may well be none, but it is fundamentally important to discern whether there are any.
Response by Robert Boyers
I write precisely to "belabor the obvious," to quote Roger Berkowitz. Of course the Arendt Center did not endorse the Alternative fur Deutschland when it invited Professor Marc Jongen to speak at the recent Democracy conference held at Bard. And of course the effort to understand ideas always inevitably entails a willingness to engage with persons with whom we disagree. To risk entering into what Arendt calls "the interminable dialogue" is the task of the Arendt Center, and that task inevitably requires a refusal to accept that we can learn only from those whose views safely accord with our own. Professor Jongen was invited to participate in a conference in which several competing perspectives were represented, and the Arendt Center saw to it that Jongen would be interrogated by a fully worthy antagonist in Ian Buruma, one of the leading intellectuals in the United States. The proper work of the Arendt Center is the examination of a wide range of ideas "that demand scrutiny, not suppression," as President Leon Botstein of Bard College writes in his own letter of support for the work of the center, and I want to add my own voice to say "thank you" and "please don't allow the voices of suppression and intellectual intolerance to prevent you from doing the brave work we have come to expect from the Arendt Center."
Date: Thursday, November 2nd
Time: 5 pm
Location: Olin Rm 205
Free and Open to the Public
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Picture Industry
Friday, November 3, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
IWT Writer as Reader One-Day Workshops: November
Friday, November 3, 2017
8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomThis year we will include sessions on novels, poetry, nonfiction, historical documents, STEM texts, and other media. As educators have come to expect, these workshops focus on putting texts into conversations with other texts, with historical events, and digital media. The “Writer as Reader” workshops also model writing and reading activities that can focus class discussion, help students engage with difficult material, and emphasize the social character of all learning.
To register online, visit www.iwt.bard.edu. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesistate to get in touch. Email us at [email protected] or call us at (845) 752-4516.
For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/programs/november/.
Levy Grad Program Info Session
Friday, November 3, 2017
9–10:30 am
BlithewoodGuest presenter: Ajit Zacharias, Senior Scholar and Director of Distribution of Income and Wealth program, Levy Economics Institute
Registration is required. Click here.
Join us through facebook live.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/levygrad/.
Birth and Death in the Milky Way
David Helfand, Columbia University
Friday, November 3, 2017
12 pm
Hegeman 107Over the past ten years, my colleagues and I have been using the Very Large Array radio telescope to construct by the far highest resolution survey yet made of our Galaxy at centimeter wavelengths. The images reveal thousands of Galactic radio emitters which mark the places of stellar birth in cold clouds of gas and dust, and stellar death in the violent explosions of supernove. Combining this survey with data from other wavelengths, particularly the Spitzer Space Observatory's Infrared survey of the Galaxy provides a spectacular new multi-colored view of the Milky Way and reveals a number of unexpected surprises.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail [email protected].
Columbia University
"Science to Engineer (S2E) Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Program"
Dr. Robert G. Bozic, Columbia University
Friday, November 3, 2017
12 pm
RKC 122Our Scientist to Engineer (S2E) program is an intensive, accelerated Master of Science in Chemical Engineering program designed especially for new MS students lacking a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. This program covers the essentials of the entire curriculum, followed by a standard MS program, typically accomplished in three semesters. A flexible curriculum includes technical elective selection from other branches of engineering or graduate subjects. This presentation will provide details on the structure of the program to include information about the core courses, technical electives, MS colloquium, and research opportunities.
Pizza and refreshments will be servedSponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Initiatives in Sanctuary Movements
and the Rights of Undocumented Students
Olivia Terzian and Acacia Handel
from Organizing for Undocumented Students' Rights
Alicia Rodriguez, from Million Hoodies Bard
followed by an interview with Lila Klaus
from "Sanctuary: Theology and Social Action" (REL 358)
Friday, November 3, 2017
12:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsOlivia and Acacia, as two of the heads of OUSR, will be presenting on the creation and history of the Bard Sanctuary Fund, the goals and the trajectory of OUSR, and their perspective as student leaders in immigration justice. Alicia Rodriguez will also be contributing to that conversation, as well as talking about her work with Million Hoodies and the various other Bard student initiatives she is a part of.
The Institute of Advanced Theology sponsors the event as a continuation of the autumn series on Sanctuary. Sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Shabbat
All are invited!
Friday, November 3, 2017
6:30–9 pm
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A)Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Picture Industry
Saturday, November 4, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Mid-Hudson Valley All Day Sacred Harp Singing
Come join the Mid-Hudson Valley Shapenote Singing Community in filling Bard Hall this Saturday with sounds of the Sacred Harp, an early American oblong tunebook arrayed in 4-part dispersed harmony. Lend your voice or your ears and witness a centuries-old living tradition, with the first bi-annual convening of the Mid-Hudson Valley Sacred Harp Association at Bard Hall.
Saturday, November 4, 2017
10 am – 3 pm
Bard HallFor more information, call 845-679-1273, or e-mail [email protected].
Picture Industry
Sunday, November 5, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Graduate Choral Conducting Students Degree Recital
Sunday, November 5, 2017
2 pm
Olin HallStudents in the Graduate Choral Conducting Program will conduct works performed by the Bard College Chamber Singers Chorus and the Bard Festival Chorale.They will be joined by members of the The Orchestra Now and Bard College Conservatory Orchestra.
Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms, Benjamin G. Ruesch, conductor
Pavlos Karrer - Markos Bozzaris (Act One) Pavlos Kordis, conductor
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem Jackson McKinnon, conductor
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Climate Change Salon Series
Farming
Sunday, November 5, 2017
2:30–5:30 pm
Montgomery PlaceWith Gidon Eshel (Bard College), Elizabeth Ryan (Stone Ridge Orchards)
Montgomery Orchard Farm Tour with Talea and Doug Taylor (Montgomery Place Orchards).
Bard College and the Good Work Institute will copresent a series of discussions, called the Hudson Valley Climate Salon Series, over four Sundays in October and November at Montgomery Place. These sessions will provide a clear and honest assessment of the local risks and challenges that come with changing climate. The Hudson Valley Climate Change Salon Series will be hosted on Sunday October 29, November 5, November 12, and November 19, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm at Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus, 26 Gardener Way, Red Hook, New York. This series is made possible with support from Dandelion and Hudson Solar. Admission is a ‘pay what you wish’ donation.
From raging wildfires to this year’s unprecedented hurricane season, there is ample evidence that an unstable climate is wreaking havoc around the world. The Climate Salon Series aims to bring the climate discussion home to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and to enable participants to gain a deeper understanding of the potential impacts of a changing climate on our communities.
These sessions will also offer tools and tactics for addressing these changes, and the inspiration to help build more connected and resilient local communities. Each Salon will explore a different theme, and will be preceded by related experiential activities.
For more information, please contact [email protected] or 845-379-1494. climateseries.splashthat.com/
Other events in the series:
November 12: Forests
With Cathy Collins (Bard College), Gary Lovett (Cary Institute), John Thompson (Catskill Center)
Activity: Tree identification and Climate Change Walk with Amy Parella (Bard College)
November 19: Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases
With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute)
Activity: Tick Identification and Protection Lab With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute)
Presenting partners include Chronogram, Climate Citizens Lobby, Hawthorne Valley Farm Association, La Voz, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-379-1494.
Christian Service
Sunday, November 5, 2017
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsDISCUSSIONS ABOUT THEOLOGY,
BIBLE, & CURRENT EVENTS
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Patricia Spencer - flute recital
Undine and Orfeo
with Linda Hall, piano
Frederick Hammond, harpsichord
Christine Gummere, cello
Meighan Stoops, clarinet
Sunday, November 5, 2017
5 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingFlutist Patricia Spencer will perform a widely varied chamber recital exploring “musical connections”. Titled UNDINE and ORFEO, the program includes works giving the mythological stories of Orfeo and Undine, three composers connected with master teacher Nadia Boulanger, a flute/clarinet duo written by Harvey Sollberger in honor of Charles Wuorinen, and a trio by Rameau for flute, cello, and harpsichord.
Works by Rameau, Lili Boulanger, Carl Reinecke, Harvey Sollberger, Louise Talma, and Thea Musgrave – the last a staged solo flute piece depicting the story of Orfeo.
Admission free
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Compromise and Representation: A Lecture by Associate Fellow Shany Mor
Monday, November 6, 2017
4:45–6 pm
Arendt CenterABSTRACT:
My paper argues that representation is best understood, both normatively and historically, as emerging from legal positivism and the rule of law rather than from democracy as such. I propose a formal definition of decision, and then abstract from that to choice, habit, rule, norm, and law. When I focus only on authorized political decisions, I find that administrative, executive, bureaucratic, judicial, military, police, etc. decisions all have more in common with each other than any one of them has with law creation.
I further identify the four properties of law creation that make it so different and prove that on purely definitional grounds, such a decision cannot be made by a very small or very large number. I derive from this a definition of assembly and make the case for law-making by assembly with some formal connection to popular preference.
All this is ultimately tied to a more general statement on plurality as the fundamental condition of politics, and to a call for a renewed theoretical emphasis on parliamentarism as opposed to all its inadequate replacements (executive overreach, judicial activism, media-driven audience democracy, referendums, etc.).
In this sense, representation by assembly, with its output as general norms and its input a series of ritualized speech acts and circumscribed forms of public decision-making, create ongoing temporary compromises and long-term habits of compromise that secure popular sovereignty in a way that referendum democracy, “digital democracy,” entrenched rights enforced by courts, and populist executives cannot.
Date: Monday, November 6th
Location: Hannah Arendt Center
Time: 4:45pm - 6pm
Rsvp Required: Email [email protected]
Free & Open to the Public
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Does Literature Disclose the Sacred?
Dr. Matthew Mutter
Bard College
Monday, November 6, 2017
5:30 pm
Olin 301Matthew Mutter is assistant professor of English at Bard College. His book Restless Secularism: Modernism and the Religious Inheritance was recently published by Yale University Press.Sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7389, or e-mail [email protected].
Feminisms in Post-Invasion Iraq: Between Militarization, NGOization and the Struggle for a Civil State
Zahra Ali
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
Monday, November 6, 2017
6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202This talk will explore Iraqi women’s social, political activism and feminisms relying on an in-depth ethnography of post-2003 women’s rights organizations and a detailed historical study of women’s social, economic and political experiences since the 1960s. Through a transnational/postcolonial feminist approach Ali will look particularly at the context following the US-led invasion and occupation and analyse the realities of Iraqi women’s lives, political activism and feminisms especially the challenges posed by sectarianism, militarism and “global” interferences.
Zahra Ali is a sociologist whose research explores dynamics of women and gender, social and political movements in relation to Islam(s) and the Middle East and to contexts of war and conflicts with a focus on contemporary Iraq. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers university. Her book “Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-building and Fragmentation” is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2018). She also edited Féminismes Islamiques, the first collection on Muslim feminist scholarship published in France (La Fabrique editions, 2012), and translated and published in German (Passagen Verlag, 2014).
This event is co-sponsored by Human Rights Project, the Sociology Program, and Gender and Sexuality StudiesSponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
What Is Dialectics?
Artemy Magun
Smolny/European University at St Petersburg
Monday, November 6, 2017
6 pm
Arendt CenterThe task of this talk is to briefly outline why dialectics is important, and what it can add to the methods of rational analysis we otherwise use. Dialectics does not contradict formal logic or
exclude it. Instead, it contradicts its usage, because what had appeared to you as a continuation of an object you had subsumed under a rule, turns out to be a new object which «knows» about a previous one and therefore follows a contrary rule. Dialectics is a logic of reflective systems. As such it is the only method that can give a rational account of human history and to provide the mind with a discipline that is tolerant and inclusive of negative facts and contrary views.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail [email protected].
Miles Barnett Moderation Concert
Monday, November 6, 2017
7 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stellating Deltahedra
Heidi Burgiel, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
12 pm
Hegeman 204Learn to fold a star-building unit -- a modification of the Sonobe module for unit origami. These modules combine to form right angled pyramids over equilateral triangles. Participants will have the opportunity to stellate a tetrahedron (creating a cube) and to explore the eight strictly convex deltahedra.
Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7362, or e-mail [email protected].
Catalytic Reactions in Complex Molecular Environments
Scott J. Miller
Irenee du Pont Professor of Chemistry
Yale University
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
5 pm
RKC 115Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2355, or e-mail [email protected].
The Black Box of Police Torture
Laurence Ralph, Ph.D.
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102Given the history of police torture in Chicago, this talk explores the twinned meanings of both the object and concept referred to as the Black Box. Doing so will reveal how the mysterious interworkings of a police torture operation somehow became accepted. Throughout this talk, the Black Box will reference the name of a torture device used to send electronic currents through a person’s body for the purpose of coercing a confession; and it will also refer to the label I give for the conventional agreement, among a group of police officers, to stop trying to understand how and why torture is taking place in their very own precinct. That is to say, during Wilson’s ordeal, the Black Box served as an implicit agreement between police officers that their activity should remain concealed. That is, in attempting to hide the grisly details of their torture operation, these officers designed for themselves a conceptual Black Box. Contained in this box were sweeping, unexamined stereotypes about good and evil, about where and how the evil people live, about the color of the skin of those evil people, and about what it is permissible to do to protect against them.
For more information, call 845-758-7219, or e-mail [email protected].
The Child is a Person: Janusz Korczak’s Road to Radical Humanism
Marc Silverman
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
6:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202However, the exclusive focus on Korczak’s dramatic end is a disservice. He was one of the twentieth century's outstanding moral educators. This talk focuses on his child-centered humanism as well as his identification with Poles and Jews in the expression of this humanism.
American born and raised, Marc Silverman received his BA, MA and doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and served for over 30 years as Senior Lecturer in the Hebrew University School of Education. He has published in the fields of educational philosophy and Jewish culture and education. He is the author of A Pedagogy of Humanist Moral Education: The Educational Thought of Janusz Korczak (2017), published by Palgrave Macmillan Press.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
CMIA - Bard Filmmakers Event
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Details TBA.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Saw Kill Dams and Micro Hydropower
Community Meeting
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
7–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaBard is hosting a Community Meeting where we will be sharing information and discussing our process to evaluate small dams, particularly the ones on the lower part of the Saw Kill Creek in Red Hook. We will be discussing what the future could hold for the dams and getting community feedback. The dams have been evaluated for their micro hydropower potential. An ecological study was prepared and water quality sampling performed in the area from the Route 9G bridge to the mouth of the Saw Kill.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, or e-mail [email protected].
Welcome to Peepland
Film & Electronic Arts Faculty and Staff Show
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
7–9 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center; Ottaway TheaterA screening of media works by Bard Film and Electronic Arts faculty and staff at 7pm in the Jim Ottaway, Jr. Film Center in the Avery Arts Center.
Work by Peggy Ahwesh, Effie Asili, Ben Coonley, Jackie Goss, Ed Halter, Lisa Krueger, Kelly Reichardt, and Aaron Turner. Special cameo appearances by John Pruitt and Ruthie Turk too.
A fun night for all... Hope to see you there!
For more information, call 845-758-7253, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://film.bard.edu.
Zach Rowden - electronic music artist
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
7:30 pm
Blum HallZach Rowden, contemporary music bassist and improviser, performs music for bass and electronics by Alvin Lucier, Ana-Maria Avram, Zach Rowden, and Matt Sargent. An acclaimed interpreter of contemporary and experimental music, Zach Rowden regularly collaborated with numerous composers across a range of genres, spanning from contemporary jazz to drone and noise-based music. He is a member of the Hyperion Ensemble, in which he performs many new compositions by the Romanian composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
“On Social Dancing and Social Movements: Salsa and/as Resistance”
A Lecture by Prof. Sydney Hutchinson (Syracuse University)
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
2:30 pm
RKC room 103Old-school salsa dura, the “hard” salsa of 1960s-70s New York, is widely celebrated by both scholars and fans as a music of resistance. New York Puerto Ricans and other Latino New Yorkers used the form to comment on and contest the harsh conditions of poverty, segregation, and neglect their communities were facing, both in lyrics and through musical sound. In contrast, salsa romántica, one term for the highly commercial “softer” sound that emerged in the 1980s, is frequently criticized as a depoliticized style with vacuous lyrics. Both fans and scholars often lament the demise of salsa dura as a disempowering turn in Latino music history – notwithstanding important critiques from feminist scholars like Francis Aparicio, who contends that the dura/romántica binary is a gendered one that disguises a preference for (hyper)masculine ways of playing and listening to music. If in fact romántica is a music of compliance, it would seem that salsa dura’s resistance is a thing of the past.
In this paper, the author argues that salsa is still alive as a resistant practice, but that its resistance is today to be found more in the dance than the music. In fact, resistance is built in to the dance through the give-and-take of the partner hold as well as the Afrocentric bodily practices at its core. Dancers today use salsa to resist gender norms and ethnic stereotypes, and salsa has even cropped up in the past year at the center of protests in the US and the UK. So, while looking at salsa music alone might lead to a view of the genre as calcified and irrelevant, attention to the dance reveals a living and transforming tradition that enables masses of people to move, feel, and heal together in time.
Sponsored by: Bard Ethnomusicology; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Traditional Chinese Musician
Jinyang Zhao Performs on Guquin
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
4 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; US-China Music Institute .
For more information, call 845-758-7866, or e-mail [email protected].
Speakers Series: Stuart Comer
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
4–6 pm
CCS Bard Classroom 102Stuart Comer was appointed Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art in 2013. He oversees the department’s program of exhibitions, events, acquisitions, and collections. Since his appointment, Mr. Comer’s projects at MoMA have included Inbox: Steve McQueen (2017), Inbox: Charles Atlas (2017), Alexandra Bachzetsis: Massacre (2017), Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers at MoMA PS1 (2016), Bruce Conner: It’s All True (2016), Tony Oursler: Imponderable (2016), Bouchra Khalili: The Mapping Journey Project (2016), Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980 (2015), Cut to Swipe (2014), and Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine: illlummminnnatttionnnsssss!!!!!!! (2014).
Mr. Comer was co-curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2014 Biennial, and previously served as the first Curator of Film at Tate Modern, London, where he oversaw film and video work for the Tate Collection and Displays and was co-curator for the opening program of the Tanks at Tate Modern. He has previously held positions at the Institute of Visual Culture in Cambridge and at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, and was co-curator of the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2007. He has also organized projects at Beirut Art Center; Kunstverein Munich; CASCO, Utrecht; Frieze Art Fair, London; and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Mr. Comer has recently hosted talks at MoMA with artists including Dara Birnbaum, Ian Cheng, Isaac Julien, Hito Steyerl, and Christopher Williams, and he recently lectured on Pope.L at MOCA, Los Angeles. He has contributed to numerous periodicals, including Artforum, Frieze, Afterall, Mousse, Parkett, and Art Review. He is editor of Film and Video Art (Tate Publishing, 2009) and has contributed essays to publications on such artists as Tom Burr, Andrea Fraser, David Lamelas, Sharon Lockhart, Mark Morrisroe, Bik Van Der Pol, and Gillian Wearing.
Speakers Series events are all free-of-charge with seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/events/speakers-series-stuart-comer-2/.
Rally Point: A Conversation with Former Army Colonel and Congressman Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson will discuss his new book, Rally Point: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaChris Gibson is currently the Stanley Kaplan Distinguished Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College since February 2017. He joined the United States Army in 1986 after graduating from Siena College. He served tours in the First Gulf War, Kosovo, and Iraq, rising to the rank of Colonel. He later taught American politics at West Point and was a national security affairs fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has received four Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, among other awards while in the military. He also holds a Ph.D in government from Cornell University. He served in the US Congress from 2011-2017.
Sponsored by: BGIA; Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Global and International Studies Program.
For more information, call 518-368-6720, or e-mail [email protected].
CMIA - Japanese Cinema
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
6:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Where Now are the Dreams of Youth?
(Yasujiro Ozu, 1932, Japan, 92 minutes, 35mm) - Sisters of the Gion
(Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936, Japan, 95 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
Program 1 of Explaining Evil: A program series sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
7 pm
Museum Of Jewish Heritage, NYCGershom Scholem was one of the greatest scholars of Jewish mysticism. Hannah Arendt was one of the most brilliant political thinkers of the 20th century. Scholem and Arendt formed a lifelong friendship anchored first around their mutual friend Walter Benjamin and later by their collaborative work with the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Committee. Scholem settled in Israel, Arendt in New York, and they carried on a lifelong correspondence. The friends fell out over Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem, which for Scholem showed an insufficient love for the Jewish people.
Actors will perform a dramatic reading of a selection of the searing and brilliant letters in which Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem debate the responsibility of Jewish intellectuals writing about the Holocaust; directed by Jonathan Rosenberg (Artist-in-Residence at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College). The post-reading discussion will also feature Marie Luise Knott from Berlin (Editor of The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, and Unlearning with Hannah Arendt) in conversation with Professor Roger Berkowitz (Founder and Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College).
Location
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
Please visit mjhnyc.org or call 646-437-4202 for more information on pricing, registration, and full details.
$12 General, $5 Students: Receive $2 off with the following codes (good for 2 tickets per order):
Hannah Arendt Center Members: HAC2017
Bard Staff, Faculty, and Alumni: BC2017
Bard and Bard Early College Students: Free with code BSTU2017
GET TICKETSSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 646-437-4202.
What We're Made Of: Legacies of Immigrants in America
A concert of vocal music, poetry, and stories from American immigrants past and present
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 – Thursday, November 9, 2017
7–8:30 pm
Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale, NYThis concert is an opportunity for all of us to celebrate the impact immigration has had on our lives as Americans. Whether it's a familiar tune, a poem that embodies the American experience, or a personal story from an immigrant member of our community, you'll hear it at this event. Together with the Lifebridge Foundation, we’re excited to bring you an evening of song and spoken word that will change the way you think about American music, and the people who brought it to us.
Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.For more information, call 717-321-5360, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://whatweremadeof.wixsite.com/whatweremadeof.
Picture Industry
Thursday, November 9, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
What We're Made Of: Legacies of Immigrants in America
A concert of vocal music, poetry, and stories from American immigrants past and present
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 – Thursday, November 9, 2017
7–8:30 pm
Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale, NYThis concert is an opportunity for all of us to celebrate the impact immigration has had on our lives as Americans. Whether it's a familiar tune, a poem that embodies the American experience, or a personal story from an immigrant member of our community, you'll hear it at this event. Together with the Lifebridge Foundation, we’re excited to bring you an evening of song and spoken word that will change the way you think about American music, and the people who brought it to us.
Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.For more information, call 717-321-5360, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://whatweremadeof.wixsite.com/whatweremadeof.
The Chimpanzees of Ngogo
Sarah Dunphy-Lelii, Psychology Program
Thursday, November 9, 2017
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail [email protected].
EUS Student Presentations
Thursday, November 9, 2017
4:40 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102Students will present on BGIA, CEP, Study Abroad, and Co-Curricular Engagement. Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Meditation Group
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Thursday, November 9, 2017
5–6:30 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons ANewcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions (over cookies and tea).
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Out in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution
Presented by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and the SUNY Global Engagement Program
Thursday, November 9, 2017
6–7:30 pm
SUNY Global Center - 116 E 55th Street, New York, NY 10022Several Latin American nations have surpassed many developed nations, including the United States, in legislating equality for the LGBT community. How did this dramatic and unexpected expansion of gay rights come about? And why are Latin American nations diverging in their embrace of gay rights, a point highlighted by the paradoxical experiences of Argentina and Brazil?
Omar Encarnacion, Professor of Political Studies at Bard College will examine how domestic and international politics interacted to make Latin America one of the world's most receptive environments for gay rights in a discussion of his new book, "Out in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution."
He will be in conversation with Graeme Reid, Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch and an expert on LGBT rights.
This presentation is part of BGIA's James Chace Lecture Series and is co-sponsored and hosted by the SUNY Global Engagement Program and supported by Foreign Affairs. This event will include a reception.
The speaker series is free and open to the public by RSVP: reserve your ticket via Eventbrite. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; SUNY Global Engagement Program.
For more information, call 646-839-9262, or e-mail [email protected].
Adriana Tampasis Moderation Concert
Thursday, November 9, 2017
7 pm
Bard HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Picture Industry
Friday, November 10, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Shabbat
All are invited!
Friday, November 10, 2017
6:30–9 pm
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A)Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Harvest
Fall Dance Concert
Friday, November 10, 2017
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
For the first time ever, the Fall Dance concert will include Bard Dance Program alumni/ae. Dancers Lisa Fagan '11 and Stephanie Saywell '14 will return to the Fisher Center stage to debut work created in New York City.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=133161.
Safe Spaces as Modern Sanctuary
Friday, November 10, 2017
12:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsKarin Roslund and Mehgan Abdel-Moneim
followed by an interview with
Henry O'Donnell from "Sanctuary: Theology and Social Action" (REL 358) and general discussionSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Shabbat
All are invited for services and dinner!
Friday, November 10, 2017
6:30–9 pm
Beit Shalom Salaam (Basement of Village A)Join us this Friday and every Friday as we welcome Shabbat (the Sabbath) with an informal evening service and a home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All are welcome!
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Picture Industry
Saturday, November 11, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Harvest
Fall Dance Concert
Saturday, November 11, 2017
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
For the first time ever, the Fall Dance concert will include Bard Dance Program alumni/ae. Dancers Lisa Fagan '11 and Stephanie Saywell '14 will return to the Fisher Center stage to debut work created in New York City.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=133161.
Harvest
Fall Dance Concert
Saturday, November 11, 2017
2 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
For the first time ever, the Fall Dance concert will include Bard Dance Program alumni/ae. Dancers Lisa Fagan '11 and Stephanie Saywell '14 will return to the Fisher Center stage to debut work created in New York City.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=133161.
Men's Squash Tournament
Saturday, November 11, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterThe two-day Bard Round Robin begins with five matches on Saturday.
Bard vs. Vassar, 11 a.m.
Vassar vs. Siena, 12:30 p.m.
Penn State vs. Siena, 2 p.m.
Bard vs. Swarthmore, 3:30 p.m.
Swarthmore vs. Penn State, 5 p.m.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Swimming & Diving Meet
Saturday, November 11, 2017
1 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, PoolThe Bard College men's and women's swimming and diving teams host Liberty League rival St. Lawrence University. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, "Titan"
Bard College Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Saturday, November 11, 2017
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterMaestro Botstein will lead the Conservatory Orchestra in Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto in E flat with soloist Szabolcs Koczur, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, "Titan".Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=133163.
Picture Industry
Sunday, November 12, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Christian Service
Sunday, November 12, 2017
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsDISCUSSIONS ABOUT THEOLOGY,
BIBLE, & CURRENT EVENTS
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Harvest
Fall Dance Concert
Sunday, November 12, 2017
4 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
For the first time ever, the Fall Dance concert will include Bard Dance Program alumni/ae. Dancers Lisa Fagan '11 and Stephanie Saywell '14 will return to the Fisher Center stage to debut work created in New York City.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=133161.
Men's Squash Tournament
Sunday, November 12, 2017
9 am – 4 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterDay Two of the Bard Round Robin looks like this:
Bard vs. Penn State, 9 a.m.
Swarthmore vs. Siena, 10:15 a.m.
Colgate vs. Swarthmore, 11:45 a.m.
Vassar vs. Colgate, 1:15 p.m.
Bard vs. Colgate, 2:30 p.m.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Climate Change Salon Series
Forests
Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:30–5:30 pm
Montgomery PlaceWith Cathy Collins (Bard College), Gary Lovett (Cary Institute), John Thompson (Catskill Center).
Activity: Tree identification and Climate Change Walk with Amy Parella (Bard College).
Bard College and the Good Work Institute will copresent a series of discussions, called the Hudson Valley Climate Salon Series, over four Sundays in October and November at Montgomery Place. These sessions will provide a clear and honest assessment of the local risks and challenges that come with changing climate. The Hudson Valley Climate Change Salon Series will be hosted on Sunday October 29, November 5, November 12, and November 19, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm at Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus, 26 Gardener Way, Red Hook, New York. This series is made possible with support from Dandelion and Hudson Solar. Admission is a ‘pay what you wish’ donation.
From raging wildfires to this year’s unprecedented hurricane season, there is ample evidence that an unstable climate is wreaking havoc around the world. The Climate Salon Series aims to bring the climate discussion home to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and to enable participants to gain a deeper understanding of the potential impacts of a changing climate on our communities.
These sessions will also offer tools and tactics for addressing these changes, and the inspiration to help build more connected and resilient local communities. Each Salon will explore a different theme, and will be preceded by related experiential activities.
For more information, please contact [email protected] or go to climateseries.splashthat.com/
Other events in the series:
November 19: Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases
With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute)
Activity: Tick Identification and Protection Lab With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute)
Presenting partners include Chronogram, Climate Citizens Lobby, Hawthorne Valley Farm Association, La Voz, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-379-1494.
Masterpieces of Chinese Music Performed by Music from China
Presented by the Bard Conservatory's U.S.-China Music Institute, with an introduction by Susan Blake, visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Bard College.
Sunday, November 12, 2017
3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingProgram will include:
Ambush on Ten Sides 十面埋伏
Lofty Mountains and Falling Waters 高山流水
The Moon Over Fortified Pass 關山月
Variations on Yang Guan 陽關三疊
Moonlit River in Spring 春江花月夜
Song of Henan 河南小曲
Melody of the Purple Bamboo 紫竹調
Birds in the Forest 鳥投林Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatory [email protected], or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
A Reading by Elizabeth Hand
The Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning author reads from Saffron and Brimstone
Monday, November 13, 2017
2:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaOn Monday, November 13, at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, the fantasy writer and critic Elizabeth Hand reads from her fiction collection Saffron and Brimstone. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Bard's literary journal, Conjunctions, will be giving away copies of its Other Aliens issue, coedited by Hand and Morrow.
Elizabeth Hand flunked out of college a couple of years after seeing Patti Smith perform and became involved in the nascent punk scenes in DC and New York. From 1979 to 1986 she worked at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum before returning to university to study cultural anthropology. Her many books include Hard Light, Radiant Days, Available Dark, Generation Loss, and Ilyria. Her fiction has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, Mythopeoic, Tiptree, and International Horror Guild Awards, and her novels have been chosen as notable books by the New York Times and Washington Post. Hand also writes spin-offs, tie-ins, and novelizations of such films as X-Files, Stars Wars, and 12 Monkeys; and contributed a take on the Bride of Frankenstein to Dark Horse Comics' series of classic movie monster novels.
PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH HAND
"Waking the Moon is a potent socio-erotic ghost story[, while] Elizabeth Hand's Cass Neary novels, rightly praised for their icy tension and remarkable darkness, are threaded, like the best of punk in any medium, on a bloodied yet admirably stubborn humanism." —William Gibson
"Hand's work is pulsing with tension throughout, charged with its own chilling luminosity." ―Washington Post
"Elizabeth Hand's prose is a wiry, intelligent force that ranges from blunt athleticism to fluid luminosity. The propulsive power of her narrative is all the more stunning for her meticulous observation of sensory detail, art, and the human complexity it reveals. Ferocious, aching with compassion and cruelly brilliant, Available Dark is a sinful pleasure." ―Katherine Dunn
"Poignant and terrifying by turns, Last Summer at Mars Hill isn't for the easily shocked, but it will satisfy readers who long for rich prose and deep, dark dreams." —Publishers Weekly
Any supporter who donates $500 or more to Bard’s literary journal Conjunctions receives a BackPage Pass providing VIP access to any Fall 2017 or future event in the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series. Have lunch with a visiting author, attend a seminar on their work, and receive premium seating at their reading. Or you can give your BackPage Pass to a lover of literature on your gift list! To find out more, click here or contact Nicole Nyhan at [email protected] or (845) 758-7054.Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://elizabethhand.com/.
A Reading by Malu Halasa
The writer and editor will read from her first novel, Mother of All Pigs
Monday, November 13, 2017
4:45 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaOn Monday, November 13, at 4:45 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Malu Halasa reads from her novel, Mother of All Pigs. The reading will be followed by a Q&A and is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
Mother of All Pigs unveils contemporary life in the Middle East, as one family confronts its secrets over the course of a weekend’s festivities. Told from alternating points of view, Halasa’s debut novel is at times witty and energetic, compassionate and awe-inspiring, and over all, unputdownable.
"Malu Halasa’s brilliant and gripping novel gave me a better sense of the vivid complexity of contemporary life in the Middle East than anything else I’ve read. Written at the intersection of all the big contemporary conversations - about kinship, politics, ethnicity, religion, gender and morality - it nonetheless remains intimate and engaging." —Brian Eno
Malu Halasa is a Jordanian Filipina American writer and editor based in London. Born in Oklahoma, she was raised in Ohio and is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University. Her books include: Syria Speaks – Art and Culture from the Frontline (2014); Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations (2009); The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design (2008); Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran (2007); Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images (2004) and Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance (2002). Mother of All Pigs is her first novel.
Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4454, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://writtenarts.bard.edu.
Meditation Group
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Monday, November 13, 2017
5–6:30 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons ANewcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
Followed by free vegetarian dinner (send me an email if you plan to attend the meal!)
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Revolution
A conversation between Roger Berkowitz and
Artemy Magun
Monday, November 13, 2017
6–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202The Russian Revolution was largely absent from Hannah Arendt’s book-length exploration of modern revolutions. This absence follows from Arendt’s understanding of the Russian Revolution as a social revolution that follows the model of the French Revolution, and thus one that failed to offer anything new to our understanding of revolutions. Arendt’s dismissal of the Russian Revolution and also her critique of social revolutions has been controversial, and widely criticized for ignoring the driving force of revolutions to help the poor.
In spite of this, Arendt does return to the question of Russian revolution when she writes on the local workers councils (the Soviets). In this, she values the heritage of 1917, only to recognize that councils were soon suppressed by the Bolshevik party.
In this discussion between Roger Berkowitz and Artemy Magun, two Arendt scholars will ask whether Arendt was right in seeing the Russian Revolution as derivative from the French Revolution, whether her dismissal of Social Revolutions can be defended, and whether the revolution of her liking is possible in the present historical circumstances. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Politics Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7238, or e-mail [email protected].
Göran Olsson’s The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Monday, November 13, 2017
6:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011), among other things an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research, takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Swedish television journalists traveled to the United States with the intention of 'showing the country as it really is.' Some of the images and interviews they collected have been assembled by Göran Hugo Olsson into a roughly chronological collage that restores a complex human dimension to the racial history of the era.”
—A.O. Scott, New York Times' Movie Review, September 8, 2011 (Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09
Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4600, or e-mail [email protected].
John Esposito Sextet
Monday, November 13, 2017
8–10 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building“...the egoless, ecstatic approach to small group Jazz...with great depth of feeling and boundless rhythmic energy...” Stuart Kremsky - Cadence Magazine
“..lucid, forward thinking, rhythmically propelling ideas...he succeeds on many real and important levels in creating some of the finest new modern jazz you may hear in the post Wynton Marsalis era...” Michael G. Nastos - All Music GuideSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Noon Concert
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
12 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingBard College Conservatory students in an hour-long concert.
free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Digital Topology:
A Smooth Introduction
Nicholas A. Scoville
Ursinus College
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
12 pm
Hegeman 204Digital images surround us. They are found in our computers, iPhones, televisions, and more. Because they are so integrated into our lives, there is a constant need to manipulate and investigate these images. Anything that one might want to do with a digital image will inevitably involve some kind of mathematics, whether it be linear algebra, geometry, or topology. In this talk, we will introduce not only the topology of digital images, but topology in general. We'll discuss some of the main ideas in topology and use them to figure out what topology would mean in a digital setting. Our newfound knowledge of digital topology will then allow us to dene a digital version of the Hopf fibration, a function between spheres of different dimensions which links together circles in a beautiful and profound way. This talk will be accessible to undergraduates.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7362, or e-mail [email protected].
AMC 8 Contest
Sponsored by the Bard Math Circle
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
4–6 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterThe AMC 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.
The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the middle school level, presented by a Bard mathematician.
The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.
For more information, call 845-544-4369, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardmathcircle.org/.
SKY HOPINKA, Filmmaker
Screening and Q+A
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
5–7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center; Ottaway TheaterSky Hopinka is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. He was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent several years in Southern California, and Portland, Oregon and is currently based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland, he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His work centers around personal positions of homeland and landscape, designs of language and facets of culture contained within, and the play between the accessibility of the known and the unknowable. He received his BA from Portland State University in Liberal Arts and his MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
His work has played at various festivals and exhibitions including ImagineNATIVE, Images Festival, Courtisane, Wavelengths, Ann Arbor Film Festival, AFI, Sundance, Antimatter, Chicago Underground Film Festival, FLEXfest, Projections, Out of Sight Seattle, the 2016 Wisconsin Triennial and the 2017 Whitney Biennial. He was awarded jury prizes at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, the More with Less Award at the 2016 Images Festival, the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, 3rd Prize at the 2015 Media City Film Festival, and the New Cinema Award at the 2017 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival.
Sponsored by:
Film & Electronic Arts program
Division of Languages and Literature
American Studies
Human Rights Project
For more information, call 845-758-7253, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://film.bard.edu.
Visiting Artist Carl D'Alvia
Visiting artist Carl D'Alvia
will be giving a presentation of his work
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 from 5:00 to 6:00 PM
in the Fisher Studio Arts Seminar room.
EVERYONE WELCOME!
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
5–6 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingFor more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
CMIA - Film Among the Arts
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Parsifal
(Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1982, West Germany/France, 255 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Adriana Tampasis moderation concert
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
7:30 pm
Bard HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Speaker Series: Mason Leaver-Yap
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
5–7 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102Mason Leaver-Yap works with artists to produce texts, exhibitions, and events. Recent projects include work with Evan Ifekoya, Brett Story, Jamie Crewe, Charlotte Prodger, Marwa Arsanios, Leslie Thornton, Renée Green, Lucy McKenzie and Atelier EB, Moyra Davey, Sarah Pierce, Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment in Ireland, James Richards, Beatrice Gibson with CAConrad and Eileen Myles, Yto Barrada, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz. They are the co-founder of LUX Scotland, an artist’s moving image distribution agency that started in 2014. From 2014-2017 they created and produced the Walker Moving Image Commissions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Leaver-Yap is now Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and currently serves as selector and jury for the UK’s Turner Prize. Based in Glasgow and Berlin, they continue to write texts on the invitation of artists.
Speakers Series events are all free-of-charge with seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/events/speakers-series-mason-leaver-yap/.
CMIA - Technicolor
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
6:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Meet Me in St. Louis
(Vincente Minnelli, 1944, USA, 114 minutes, 35mm) - Henry V
(Laurence Olivier, 1944, UK, 136 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Owl Walk!
in the South Woods at Montgomery Place
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
7 pm
Montgomery PlaceSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail [email protected].
Picture Industry
Thursday, November 16, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
BardWorks
Thursday, November 16, 2017 – Saturday, November 18, 2017
8 am – 8 pm
Washington, D.C.BardWorks is a workshop series that connects students to the Bard network while honing job search and professional skills. Hands-on workshops, panels, small group discussions, and individual mentoring sessions help students to not only become more confident in their skills as they begin the job search, but encourage them to think about how their degree might aid them to enter into career paths they may have never considered.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office; Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Student Affairs; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardworks.bard.edu.
Integrating Livestock and Wildlife in an African Savanna
Felicia Keesing, Biology Program
Thursday, November 16, 2017
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail [email protected].
Community + Place:
Making of the Bard Master Plan
Mike Aziz, Perkins+Will and
Pippa Brashear, SCAPE Landscape Architecture
Thursday, November 16, 2017
4:40 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102Placemaking approaches planning and design from the perspective of people and place. “Placemakers” work closely with communities and stakeholders to analyze their needs, and interpret the environment through the lens of their relationship to it. Placemakers then help identify and visualize design solutions to meet those needs within the specific context of that place—where “place” encompasses not only the built and natural environment but also the social, cultural, and economic context. Successful placemaking requires the coordination of a broad set of professions, including architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture, engineering, and economic analysis. The Bard Master Plan and the Kingston Riverport Master Plan are two successful plans that will demonstrate the importance of community-based placemaking.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail [email protected].
Consulting for Change
Business Stepping Up: The Lovins Series
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6:30–8:30 pm
LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, NYCNovember's Business Stepping Up conversation will feature Laura Gittman discussing how businesses are reacting to the new approach in Washington, in some cases stepping up sustainability efforts and in other cases, stepping back. Laura is Vice President at BSR, a global nonprofit business network dedicated to sustainability. Laura spearheads the New York office, working with multinational companies across a range of industry sectors and sustainability issues. She also serves on BSR’s Executive Committee and oversees global membership strategy and services. She runs senior-level sustainability strategy workshops and multistakeholder forums, and has published reports on environmental, social, and governance integration in mainstream investing. From 2006 to 2010, Laura facilitated the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, growing the initiative from 15 to more than 50 electronics companies. She also launched BSR’s global financial services and media practices. Laura previously worked for Deloitte Consulting, where she acquired extensive strategy experience advising multinational financial services companies. She also managed a community development project in Ecuador, developed the business strategy for a startup in the biotechnology sector in Chile.
Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as we host the Business Stepping Up Series monthly in downtown Manhattan featuring Hunter Lovins in discussion with Bard MBA faculty and alumni who are part of this business revolution.
Follow along with Business Stepping Up in the monthly Huffington Post column previewing that month's event:
- Business Stepping Up: The Principles of Sustainable Management
- Business Stepping Up Episode II: Entrepreneuring a Finer Future
Limited seating.
Poster for download below.Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/marketing-with-intent-business-stepping-up-the-lovins-series-tickets-37249914497?aff=websit.
Electronic Music Guest Artist Sam Wells
Thursday, November 16, 2017
7:30 pm
Sponsored by: Music Program.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A Reading by Alice Notley and Anselm Berrigan
Thursday, November 16, 2017
7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingA poet and editor, Notley is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and prose, including The Descent of Alette, Disobedience, and Certain Magical Acts. Her accolades are many; she is the winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, The Academy of American Poetry’s Lenore Marshall Award, and the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her honors and awards also include an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Anselm Berrigan is the author of seven books of poetry, including Come In Alone and Notes from Irrelevance. Among his accolades are a New York State Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowship in 2007, multiple grants from the Fund for Poetry, and a 2015 Process Space Residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He is Co-Chair of Writing at the Bard MFA program, and teaches part-time at Brooklyn College.
This reading is the first in a series that will honor the memory of John Ashbery. Introduced by Ann Lauterbach, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
“Reading Alice Notley is altogether unlike reading: the pure force of language, instant invention, rapid transformation, and coinage of new archetypes all add up to a more visceral, centrifugal, hallucinatory experience, which is all-absorbing as it is enlightening. “
– The Chicago Tribune
"Berrigan is always in control–of the line, of the sentence, of the digressions–all in attempt to show that poetry is not a space for tidy representation, but a sprawling performance of thought and experience, a body of vocabularies."
– Coldfront MagazineSponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://writtenarts.bard.edu/.
Jazz Vocal Concert
Thursday, November 16, 2017
8–10 pm
Campus Center, CafeSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 917-569-0605, or e-mail [email protected].
Picture Industry
Friday, November 17, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Shabbat
All are invited!
Friday, November 17, 2017
6:30–9 pm
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A)Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
BardWorks
Thursday, November 16, 2017 – Saturday, November 18, 2017
8 am – 8 pm
Washington, D.C.BardWorks is a workshop series that connects students to the Bard network while honing job search and professional skills. Hands-on workshops, panels, small group discussions, and individual mentoring sessions help students to not only become more confident in their skills as they begin the job search, but encourage them to think about how their degree might aid them to enter into career paths they may have never considered.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office; Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Student Affairs; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardworks.bard.edu.
Worst Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance
Book Talk by Dr. Frank Ackerman
Friday, November 17, 2017
9–10:30 am
LMHQ | 150 Broadway, 20th floor New York, NY 10038<<<<< RSVP Here >>>>>
Please join economist and author Dr. Frank Ackerman as he talks about his new book Worst Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance (Anthem Press).
“Ackerman’s Worst-Case Economics will convince you that the conventional economic modeling of risk is inadequate when financial crashes, environmental collapse and other cataclysmic outcomes are possible and that policies based on prudence regarding the worst-case scenario are needed. An important book and a delight to read.” —Samuel Bowles, Research Professor and Director, Behavioral Science Program, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA
Ackerman is Principal Economist at Synapse Energy and a lecturer at MIT. Other recent books include Can We Afford the Future? Economics for a Warming World (Zed Books, 2009), Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution (Island Press, 2008),[3] and Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (The New Press, 2004, with Lisa Heinzerling)
<<<<< RSVP Here >>>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/worst-case-economics-extreme-events-in-climate-and-finance-tickets-39329697183.
Energy Production at Bard:
From Micro to Macro
Matthew Deady & Paul Cadden-Zimansky
Physics Program, Bard College
Friday, November 17, 2017
12 pm
Hegeman 107Where does Bard get its energy from now, and where will it come from in the future? This seminar features two short presentations examining both near-term, small-scale changes (microhydroelectric power from the Sawkill) and constraints on long-term planning (how could Bard become carbon neutral by 2035?). An informal discussion over pizza of prospects and challenges concerning energy production follows the presentations.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail [email protected].
Lawrence Venuti and Traduttore Traditore
Friday, November 17, 2017
3:30–6 pm
RKC 103Sui Generis invites the Bard community to listen to translator and translation theorist Lawrence Venuti challenge current thinking about translation. Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, will explore clichés like traduttore traditore that have long limited the way translations are understood and evaluated. His aim is not simply to interrogate conventional wisdom, but to locate more productive directions for translation commentary and practice. Peter Filkins, professor of Literature, and Susan H. Gillespie, Vice President for International Education, will respond to Venuti's lecture, followed by a Q&A. Sui Generis, in partnership with Bard’s Languages and Literature Division and the Translation and Translatability Initiative, is excited for this discussion to change your ideas about the nature of translation!Sponsored by: Sui Generis.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Picture Industry
Saturday, November 18, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
BardWorks
Thursday, November 16, 2017 – Saturday, November 18, 2017
8 am – 8 pm
Washington, D.C.BardWorks is a workshop series that connects students to the Bard network while honing job search and professional skills. Hands-on workshops, panels, small group discussions, and individual mentoring sessions help students to not only become more confident in their skills as they begin the job search, but encourage them to think about how their degree might aid them to enter into career paths they may have never considered.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office; Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Student Affairs; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardworks.bard.edu.
Women's Squash Tournament
Saturday, November 18, 2017
9 am – 5 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterThe Bard Women's Squash Round Robin is a one-day event. The schedule:
Smith vs. Bard, 10 a.m.
Smith vs. Northeastern, 11:30 p.m.
Northeastern vs. Vassar, 1 p.m.
Smith vs. Vassar, 2:30 p.m.
Bard vs. Northeastern, NortheasternSponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Bard MBA in Sustainability: November Residency Visit
Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!
Saturday, November 18, 2017
12–6 pm
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038During the Saturday of each Residency Weekend we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
- sit in on a first or second year MBA class
- meet with Program Director Eban Goodstein + admissions staff
- have lunch with current MBA students
- participate in the Bard MBA Community Meeting
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/mba/.
Swimming & Diving Meet
Saturday, November 18, 2017
1 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, PoolThe Bard College men's and women's swimming and diving teams host Hartwick. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Bard MFA Information Session
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
Saturday, November 18, 2017
1–4 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingInformation Session for prospective MFA applicants. Come meet current MFA faculty and students to learn about Bard MFA's interdisciplinary low residency program. Shuttle-bus service available from Rhinecliff train station. Registration required.
Sponsored by: Admission.
For more information, call 845-758-7481, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://bard.edu/mfa/.
Women's Basketball Home Opener
Saturday, November 18, 2017
2 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe women's basketball team plays its first home game of the 2017-18 season vs. Cazenovia College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Kate Blaine Moderation Concert
Saturday, November 18, 2017
5 pm
Bard HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony
The Orchestra Now
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Saturday, November 18, 2017
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterConducted by Gerard Schwarz, music director of The All-Star Orchestra and the Eastern Music Festival, and conductor laureate of the Seattle Symphony
Eugene Goossens Jubilee Variations
Brassy and rhythmic
Bruckner Symphony No. 4, Romantic
“This one got me into the Bruckner symphonies. You can just relax and let the piece unfold.” –Gabe Cruz, trombone
The concert will run approximately 2 hours and 5 minutes including one 20-minute intermission.
Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=132804.
Picture Industry
Sunday, November 19, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Christian Service
Sunday, November 19, 2017
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsDISCUSSIONS ABOUT THEOLOGY,
BIBLE, & CURRENT EVENTS
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Climate Change Salon Series
Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases
Sunday, November 19, 2017
2:30–5:30 pm
Montgomery PlaceWith Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute).
Tick Identification and Protection Lab With Felicia Keesing (Bard College) and Richard Ostfeld (Cary Institute).
Bard College and the Good Work Institute will copresent a series of discussions, called the Hudson Valley Climate Salon Series, over four Sundays in October and November at Montgomery Place. These sessions will provide a clear and honest assessment of the local risks and challenges that come with changing climate. The Hudson Valley Climate Change Salon Series will be hosted on Sunday October 29, November 5, November 12, and November 19, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm at Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus, 26 Gardener Way, Red Hook, New York. This series is made possible with support from Dandelion and Hudson Solar. Admission is a ‘pay what you wish’ donation.
For more information, please contact [email protected] or go to climateseries.splashthat.com/
From raging wildfires to this year’s unprecedented hurricane season, there is ample evidence that an unstable climate is wreaking havoc around the world. The Climate Salon Series aims to bring the climate discussion home to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and to enable participants to gain a deeper understanding of the potential impacts of a changing climate on our communities.
These sessions will also offer tools and tactics for addressing these changes, and the inspiration to help build more connected and resilient local communities. Each Salon will explore a different theme, and will be preceded by related experiential activities.
Presenting partners include Chronogram, Climate Citizens Lobby, Hawthorne Valley Farm Association, La Voz, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-379-1494.
Bard Baroque Ensemble performs "Necessary Diversions and Fantasies" with Alexander Bonus, director
Chamber works by Corelli, Praetorius, Dowland, Handel, Morley, Telemann, and more performed by students and faculty from the Conservatory and the Music Program. Free admission.
Sunday, November 19, 2017
3 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Justin Geyer Senior Concert
Monday, November 20, 2017
8 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Engaged Ethnography in Iraq with Kali Rubaii, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
12–2 pm
Kline French RoomKali Rubaii is Charlotte Newcomb Fellow at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, Counterinsurgency and the Ethical Life of Material Things in Anbar Iraq, documents the impacts of the Global War on Terror on farming families in Iraq.
In 2014 and 2015, at the height of militia struggles among ISIS and other subnational militias over Anbar province, Kali lived and travelled with farming families as they traversed war-pocked landscapes to access their crops and livestock; sought alternative methods of conceiving children, fertilizing date trees, and supplementing soil; and interacted with militias, drones, and toxic military waste. She later conducted fieldwork with counterinsurgency operatives in the United States, Jordan, Denmark, and Kurdistan, who work frequently in Iraq.
In approaching the Global War on Terror as a concerted effort to preempt organized armed resistance by making Anbar’s social and physical landscapes docile, Kali’s ethnographic methods highlight the turmoil underlying a study of violence and harm. When we begin to examine a concept like war or counterterrorism, where do we find ourselves looking for answers? What does participant observation mean in a study of harm: to what degree does an ethnographer participate in harming and being harmed? What kind of conversation happens when we speak to people who kill the people we love? What is the role of fear in limiting our capacities to know things? And what are our obligations to distant or even unknown others over a lifetime?
The workshop will be informal, so students, faculty and staff interested are welcome to come (and bring your lunch!) for any amount of time they can. See you there!Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7201, or e-mail [email protected].
Men's Basketball Home Opener
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
7 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe men's basketball team plays its first home game of the 2017-18 season vs. Hartwick College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
CMIA - Leo the Last
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Leo the Last
(John Boorman, 1970, UK, 105 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
CMIA - There Will be Blood
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
9 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- There Will be Blood
(Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007, USA, 146 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Picture Industry
Thursday, November 23, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Thanksgiving Recess (classes end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday)
Thursday, November 23, 2017 – Sunday, November 26, 2017
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Picture Industry
Friday, November 24, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Shabbat
All are invited!
Friday, November 24, 2017
6:30–9 pm
Beit Shalom-Salam (Basement of Village A)Every Friday evening, except during vacation periods, we meet for an informal Shabbat service at 6:30, followed by a home-cooked, vegetarian Shabbat dinner at about 7:30. The tone is friendly, the community is warm, and everyone is invited!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail [email protected].
Thanksgiving Recess (classes end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday)
Thursday, November 23, 2017 – Sunday, November 26, 2017
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Picture Industry
Saturday, November 25, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Thanksgiving Recess (classes end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday)
Thursday, November 23, 2017 – Sunday, November 26, 2017
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Picture Industry
Sunday, November 26, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
Thanksgiving Recess (classes end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday)
Thursday, November 23, 2017 – Sunday, November 26, 2017
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stories of Abduction and Tales of Breaking Free: From ADHD Monsters to Space Aliens in the Contemporary U.S.
Susan Lepselter
Associate Professor of Anthropology &
Associate Adjunct Professor of American Studies,
Indiana University
Monday, November 27, 2017
6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102For more information, call 845-758-7215, or e-mail [email protected].
Noon Concert
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
12 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingBard College Conservatory students in an hour-long concert.
free admission
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Continued fraction algorithms via translation surface dymanics
Kariane Calta, Vassar College
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
12 pm
Hegeman 204In this talk, I will begin by describing how a question about the geodesic flow on translation surfaces led to an exploration of continued fraction algorithms associated to triangle groups. My aim is to describe how apparently different areas of mathematics can work together to give rise to interesting and sometimes surprising results.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Open House
Levy Institute Graduate Programs
3+2 and 4+1 Programs
Information Session
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:10–8 pm
BlithewoodJoin us for an information session to learn more about our MSc and MA programs and the 3+2 and 4+1 paths.
Meet faculty, staff and current students, then stay for pizza afterward.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://bard.edu/levygrad.
CMIA - Film Among the Arts
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- A Study in Choreography for the Camera
(Maya Deren, 1945, USA, 4 minutes, 16mm) - The Red Shoes
(Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK, 132 minutes, 35mm) - Beau Travail
(Claire Denis, 1999, France, 96 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Visiting Artist: Kiki Smith
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
5–6 pm
Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus CenterSponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Speakers Series: Rujeko Hockley
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
5–7 pm
CCS Bard Classroom 102Rujeko Hockley is an Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she is co-curator of Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined (2017) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 (2017). Previously, she was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014) and was involved in exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection as well as artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Kehinde Wiley, Tom Sachs, and others. She is the co-curator of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 (2017), which originated at the Brooklyn Museum and will travel to three U.S. venues in 2017-18. She serves on the Board of Art Matters, as well as the Advisory Board of Recess. She received her B.A. from Columbia University in Art History and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, Theory, and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.
Speakers Series events are all free-of-charge with seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/events/speakers-series-rujeko-hockley/.
CMIA - Classic French Cinema
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
6:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Rules of the Game
(Jean Renoir, 1938, France, 112 minutes, 35mm) - Henry V
(Laurence Olivier, 1944, UK, 136 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Zach Walker-Kahne Senior II Concert
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
7 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Levy Graduate Programs Information Session and Webinar
MA and MSc in Economic Theory and Policy
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
7–8 pm
WebinarParticipate in an informal chat with Professor Michalis Nikiforos and learn about the Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. We will answer your questions about admission, financial aid, academic programs, as well as requirements for international students.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://ttps://connect.bard.edu/register/NOV29.
Men's Basketball Game
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
7:30 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe men's basketball team plays hosts Vaughn College in a non-league game. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Hannah Baird Senior Concert 2
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
8 pm
Bard HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Picture Industry
Thursday, November 30, 2017
11 am – 6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtCurated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. Methodologically, the exhibition complicates traditional accounts of the medium, drawing from photography’s role within science and the humanities to contemporary art. The exhibition encompasses a broad range of photographic practices from the late 19th century to the present.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/picture-industry/.
The Keith Haring Lecture in Art an Activism Given by Sandi Hilal
Al-Madafeh: The Hospitality Room
Thursday, November 30, 2017
2–4 pm
Classroom 102, CCS BardA Lecture given by Sandi Hilal, the 2016-17 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism
Located between the domestic and the public sphere, Al-Madafeh is in Arabic the living room, the room dedicated to hospitality. It is that part of the private house that has the potentiality to subvert the role of guest and host and to give different political and social meaning to the act of hospitality.The living room opens itself to host the guest, the foreigner, the outsider and functions as a representational space between the domestic and the public.
In a foreign country, access to public space is a challenge for refugees as they are expected to constantly perform the role of the “perfect guest” in order to be accepted. Turning private spaces, such as the living room, into social and political arenas, is often a response to this limitation of political agency in the public realm.
In the Arab world, the living room is a space that is constantly maintained and always ready with fruit, nuts and black coffee for the unexpected guest, who may knock on the door anytime during the day. Even in refugee camps, where space is extremely scarce, the living room remains the most important part of the house. In the absence of the State, the living room represents an available social and political space regardless of the general precarious conditions. Paradoxically, it may be the room that is used the least, yet it is the most symbolic, curated and cared for area of the house.
Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies; Human Rights Project.For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/ccs/events/the-keith-haring-lecture-in-art-and-activism-given-by-sandi-hilal/.
Harlem and the Roots of Gentrification, 1965-2003
Brian Goldstein, Swarthmore College
Thursday, November 30, 2017
4:40 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102In the last four decades of the twentieth century, Harlem, New York—America’s most famous neighborhood—transformed from the archetypal symbol of midcentury “urban crisis” to the most celebrated example of “urban renaissance” in the United States. Once a favored subject for sociologists studying profound poverty and physical decline, by the new millennium Harlem found itself increasingly the site of refurbished brownstones, shiny glass and steel shopping centers, and a growing middle-class population. Drawing from Brian Goldstein’s new book, The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem (Harvard University Press, 2017), this lecture will trace this arc by focusing on competing visions for Harlem's central block. In doing so, it will reveal the complicated history of social and physical transformation that has changed this and many American urban centers in the last several decades. Gentrification is often described as a process controlled by outsiders, with clear winners and losers, victors and victims. In contrast, this talk will explore the role that Harlemites themselves played in bringing about Harlem’s urban renaissance, an outcome that had both positive and negative effects for their neighborhood. Sponsored by: Art History Program and American Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Anna Karenina: Novel, Ballet, Play
A Screening
Thursday, November 30, 2017
5 pm
Weis CinemaCan you dance Anna Karenina? And what would be your response to Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel if you watched Russian actors perform it to the music of Alfred Schnittke? This screening of Stage Russia's recording of the Moscow Vakhtangov Theater's production, directed by Angelika Cholina, will serve as an introduction to one of the most vibrant interpretations of Tolstoy's work done on the Russian stage.
Free and open to the public. In English.Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard College Alumni/ae Holiday Party
Thursday, November 30, 2017
6:30–8:30 pm
India House, 1 Hanover Square, New York, NY 10004For more information, call 845-758-7867, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://annandaleonline.org/holidayparty.
Shinjuku, Tokyo 1968: Media Panics, Nonconformists, and the Play of Politics
William Marotti, Associate Professor of History, UCLA
Thursday, November 30, 2017
6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102By 1968, the area around Tokyo's massive Shinjuku Station had become a site for conflict over visions of the future. The Japanese government sold international investors on the city's first designated skyscraper zone while moving millions of commuters—and millions of gallons of jet fuel for American air bases—through the station on a daily basis. Around the station, a growing youth culture lived and imagined a different future via tent theater, street performance, guerrilla folk music, and conspicuous idling. Targeted by media panics, undercover cops and riot police alike, these youth nonetheless created a space of possibility and even revolution against demands for conformity and collusion with the Vietnam War.
William Marotti is an Associate Professor of History at UCLA and author of Money, Trains and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan. This talk draws from his current book project, The Art of Revolution: Politics and Aesthetic Dissent in Japan’s 1968, which analyzes cultural politics and oppositional practices in Japan, with particular emphasis on 1968 as a global event.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Asian Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Historical Studies Program; Japanese Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4506, or e-mail [email protected].
Webinar: How to Get a Job in Sustainability
Purpose-Driven Careers in Business, NGOs, and Government
Thursday, November 30, 2017
7–8 pm
Online<<<<< REGISTER HERE >>>>>
Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College, will outline career strategies for both soon-to-be and recent college graduates, and for professionals looking to make a move. Goodstein will provide participants with a concrete job-search strategy, discuss what the current political climate means for careers in social and environmental sustainability, and also field questions in a live, interactive webinar.
Webinar link will be sent upon completion of registration.
<<<<< REGISTER HERE >>>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-get-a-job-in-sustainability-purpose-driven-careers-in-business-ngos-and-government-t.
Special Preview Concert: Soprano Dawn Upshaw with the Brentano Quartet
Thursday, November 30, 2017
7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingSoprano Dawn Upshaw joins the Brentano String Quartet for a special preview of their upcoming NYC concert featuring Respighi’s Il tramonto (“The Sunset”) and Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2. The Brentano Quartet will also perform Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet and Schubert Minuets interspersed with Webern Bagatelles. Free admission.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
A Reading by Robert Kelly
Thursday, November 30, 2017
7:30 pm
Bard HallThe poet Robert Kelly offers his annual reading to honor the birthday of his wife, the renowned translator Charlotte Mandell, on Thursday, November 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Bard Hall. This event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
At Bard since 1961, Kelly is Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature, the founding director of the Writing Program of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and a contributing editor of Conjunctions.
Poet, fiction writer, playwright, and more, he has published his Collected Essays, edited by Pierre Joris and Peter Cockelbergh (Contra Mundum); Oedipus after Colonus and Other Plays (Dr. Cicero Books); and Winter Music, texts to the photo work of Susan Quasha (T-space Editions). He was named Dutchess County’s first poet laureate in 2016.
His many, many other books include The Common Shore, The Loom, Kill the Messenger, Not This Island Music, The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence, A Strange Market, Red Actions, The Time of Voice, The Garden of Distances, Lapis, Runes, Threads, May Day. Fiction: A Transparent Tree, Doctor of Silence, Cat Scratch Fever, The Queen of Terrors, and The Book from the Sky.
"In more than thirty-five collections of poetry, Kelly has utterly failed at one thing: to pigeonhole himself into predictability. Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960–1993 contains imagistic bits that seem like fragments of poetic tapestry, long surreal narratives, series poems, and sonorous chants. Whatever the form, they are marked by Kelly's erudition, which covers Greek archaeology as readily as twentieth-century music, Sumerian gods as well as contemporary painting." —BooklistSponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail [email protected], or visit http://writtenarts.bard.edu/.