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C2C Fellows: Sustainability Leadership Workshop at Bard
Friday, November 30, 2012 – Sunday, December 2, 2012
Bard CollegeSustainability Leadership Workshop
Bard College, November 30 – December 2, 2012
C2C Fellows is a national network of undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business.
C2C Fellows convenes regional weekend training workshops for selected current and recent college undergraduates. These weekend workshops support students to envision a path to early leadership and develop their skills. Interactive workshops cover communication, entrepreneurship, environmental and climate science, media, raising capital, and other critical topics. C2C Fellows hosts student workshops in locations nationwide featuring Dr. Eban Goodstein, director of C2C Fellows and Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability.
Who can apply? Any undergraduate or recent graduate from ANY college or university
How to apply: Visit Bard’s C2C Fellows website to apply www.c2cfellows.org
Questions? Contact: C2C Workshop Facilitator Jess Scott: jescott@bard.edu
For more info: www.c2cfellows.org
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail jescott@bard.edu, or visit http://www.c2cfellows.org.
Save this event: Women's Basketball Game
Saturday, December 1, 2012
2 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Elms College in a non-league game.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Fall Chamber Music Marathon, Part I
Saturday, December 1, 2012
8 pm
Olin HallConservatory students perform chamber works.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380.
C2C Fellows: Sustainability Leadership Workshop at Bard
Friday, November 30, 2012 – Sunday, December 2, 2012
Bard CollegeSustainability Leadership Workshop
Bard College, November 30 – December 2, 2012
C2C Fellows is a national network of undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business.
C2C Fellows convenes regional weekend training workshops for selected current and recent college undergraduates. These weekend workshops support students to envision a path to early leadership and develop their skills. Interactive workshops cover communication, entrepreneurship, environmental and climate science, media, raising capital, and other critical topics. C2C Fellows hosts student workshops in locations nationwide featuring Dr. Eban Goodstein, director of C2C Fellows and Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability.
Who can apply? Any undergraduate or recent graduate from ANY college or university
How to apply: Visit Bard’s C2C Fellows website to apply www.c2cfellows.org
Questions? Contact: C2C Workshop Facilitator Jess Scott: jescott@bard.edu
For more info: www.c2cfellows.org
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail jescott@bard.edu, or visit http://www.c2cfellows.org.
Sacred Harp Singing
Sunday, December 2, 2012
12–2:30 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College CampusShapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.
We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.
We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.
There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.
Come be part of an exciting 200-year-old American tradition!
For more information, call 319-504-0157, e-mail ds582@bard.edu, or visit http://clubs.bard.edu/sacredharp/index.htm.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Sunday, December 2, 2012
12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvery Sunday at 12:30 p.m. we have a Catholic Mass on campus.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Fall Chamber Music Marathon, Part II
Sunday, December 2, 2012
1 pm
Olin HallConservatory students perform chamber works.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380.
Men's Basketball Game
Sunday, December 2, 2012
2 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard plays its first home game of the 2012-13 season when the Rangers of Drew University pay a visit.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://bardathletics.com.
A Reading by Robert Kelly
Sunday, December 2, 2012
7 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College CampusRobert Kelly, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature and codirector of the Written Arts Program at Bard College, will give a reading of new and recent work.
Click here to see recent work and an archive of downloadable texts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Evensong Service
Sunday, December 2, 2012
7–7:45 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
CCS Bard Speakers Series : Gideon Lester
Monday, December 3, 2012
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1The performing arts are in a state of flux, and the apparent boundaries of dance, performance, theater and visual arts are undergoing a profound realignment. How are artists, curators and institutions responding to recent shifts in modes of production? Gideon Lester will discuss current challenges and opportunities in the context of past and future projects from Crossing the Line, the festival he co-curates in New York City. He will also outline his vision for the Fisher Center and Live Arts Bard, the College's new commissioning and residency program for the
performing arts.
Gideon Lester has recently been appointed Director of Theater Programs at Bard College, where he curates Theater and Dance for the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, chairs the undergraduate Theater and Performance Program, and directs Live Arts Bard, the College’s new Residency and Commissioning Program. He is the co-curator of Crossing the Line, a cross-disciplinary international arts festival in New York
City. From 1997 to 2009 he worked at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as Acting Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director, and Resident Dramaturg. During that time he also chaired Harvard University’s MFA program in dramaturgy at the A.R.T./Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and taught at Harvard College. From 2009 to 2011 he taught at Columbia University’s School of the Arts where he founded and directed the Arts Collaboration Lab, in association with Performance Space 122. Lester received his B.A. degree from Oxford University and completed his graduate training in dramaturgy at Harvard University, where he was a
Fulbright and Frank Knox Scholar. His translations for the stage include plays by Marivaux, Büchner, and Brecht, and his stage adaptations include Kafka’s /Amerika/ and Wim Wenders’ /Wings of Desire/.
About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.
Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail rrosenbe@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Senior Colloquium Project Presentations
Monday, December 3, 2012
4:45–6:30 pm
Olin LC 115 & 118Please join faculty and students in Literature and Written Arts for what we hope will become an annual tradition within the Senior Colloquium: Literature Senior Project Presentations. Seniors will share a brief synopsis of their research and writing from works-in-progress. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the diverse array of intellectual interests and commitments within our program, as well as to support your fellow Literature students.
Sponsored by: Literature Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7242, or e-mail dalberti@bard.edu.
Economic Seminar Series
Monday, December 3, 2012
4:45 pm
Hegeman 102"A Wage of One's Own: The Rise and Fall of Progressive-Era Minimum
Wage Legislation for Women: 1912-1923"
Middlebury College
This talk is part of the ongoing Economics seminar series, which is dedicated to facilitate the access and exchange of economic ideas to the greater Bard community.
Sponsored by: Economics Program; Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7565, or e-mail ogiovann@bard.edu.
On the Limits of Colonial Sovereignty
The Northern Guinea Borderland in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Monday, December 3, 2012
4:45–6 pm
RKC 103Candidate for African History Tenure-Track Position
Nathan R. Carpenter, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Arbitrary rule---unrestrained and violent---was at the very heart of colonial sovereignty in French West Africa. So too, however, was the idea that the territorial limits of state power were well defined. What happened, then, when colonial sovereignty came up against a conception of state power as conditional, where claims of authority were testable and refutable. This talk will examine how communities responded to colonial partition in northern French Guinea. In so doing, it will also consider what an investigation into the origins and maintenance of colonial borders can tell us about the nature of state sovereignty in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa.
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Dean of the College.For more information, call 845-758-7219, or e-mail ysuzuki@bard.edu.
Taryn Simon
Monday, December 3, 2012
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaPhotographer Taryn Simon will give a slide lecture on her work. Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. Her photographs and writing have been the subject of monographic exhibitions at institutions including Tate Modern, London (2011); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2011); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2008); Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2004); and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003). Permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2011 her work was included in the 54th Venice Biennale.Sponsored by: Photography Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7813, e-mail dbush@bard.edu, or visit http://tarynsimon.com.
Suite for Three Voices: A Reading by MAT Professor Derek Furr
A collection of short stories, personal narratives, and essays
Monday, December 3, 2012
7–9 pm
Olin, Room 102Writer and MAT Professor Derek Furr reads from his new book "A Suite for Three Voices" as part of the MAT's Faculty and Friends reading series.Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7145, e-mail mat@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/mat.
Noon Concert
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
12 pm
Olin HallConservatory students in concert. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380.
CCS Bard Speakers Series : Lars Bang Larsen
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1"Glorification of Splendid Underdogs Is Nothing Other Than Glorification of the Splendid System That Makes Them So."
In this talk Larsen will discuss curatorial method and research through a previous and a coming exhibition of his, namely A History of Irritated Material (2010) and Psychédélismes (2013), both at Raven Row, London. Through the work of artists and artists groups such as Lygia Clark, Öyvind Fahlström, Group Material, Ad Reinhardt and Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, the exhibitions engage with art forms that have often been considered marginal or subterranean, and with archives that are characterized by their unruliness rather than by their relationship of proximity and legality with past events. Such an approach raises questions of how to deal with processes of institutionalization and how one may negotiate, or depart from, existing categories of art and cultural history. The open-ended, double-barrel view on a previous and a coming exhibition will also provide an opportunity for curatorial (self-)critique and work-in-progress evaluation. The title of his talk comes from T.W. Adorno's "Minima Moralia" (1951), whose subtitle "Reflections From Damaged Life" could also be applied to the sense of artistic and methodological estrangement at stake in the exhibitions.
Lars Bang Larsen is an art historian and curator. His current exhibition projects include A Society Without Qualities (Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm 2013) and Concept after Concept: System, Nihilism and Joke in Conceptual Art (Roskilde Museum for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen 2014). His books include "The Critical Mass of Mediation" (with Søren Andreasen, 2012) and "Art and Psychedelia" (Afterall Books, 2013). Lars holds a PhD in art history from the University of Copenhagen on the subject of "Psychedelic Tropes in Neo-Avant-Garde Art."
Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
An Empire of Consent: Prosecuting Rape in Colonial South Africa, 1848-1902
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
4:45–6 pm
RKC 103Candidate for African History Tenure-Track Position
Elizabeth Thornberry, Ph.D.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7219, or e-mail ysuzuki@bard.edu.
Da Capo Chamber Players and Guests Perform All New Student Works!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsPremieres by Antonin Fajt, Tamzin Elliott, Douglas Friedman, Noah Lundgren, Max Robb, Obadiah Wright and others. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 917-816-3060, or e-mail newflute@earthlink.net.
East Jerusalem
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
5–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaJ Street U's last big event of the semester is at 5 PM on Tuesday, December 4th in Weis Cinema. It will be a screening of a new documentary by a group called JustVision promoting non-violent activism on the ground amongst Israelis and Palestinians. The film is called "My Neighbourhood" and is a 25 minutes portrait of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. It depicts the Palestinian residents' battle alongside Israeli protesters against ideological settlers who have taken control of their houses.
The evening is being hosted by Center for Civic Engagement grant recipients who went to Jerusalem this summer (myself, Ben DiFabbio, and Lauren Blaxter - both of BPYI), the Human Rights Project, and J Street U. Following the film there will be a panel with the Associate Producer of "My Neighbourhood" who can answer questions on the making of the film and more on Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian property law expert named Diala Shamas who works at CUNY and has worked with a number of leading human rights groups such as B'Tselem who can answer questions on the legal situation that allows for settlements, and a student representative - all moderated by our own Peter Rosenblum of the Human Rights department.
Please be sure to be there!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 414-688-9650, or e-mail al8430@bard.edu.
Collecting Electrons from Bacteria with Microbial Fuel Cells
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
4:45 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumEmily Gardel
Candidate for the position in Physics
For more information, call 845-758-7216, or e-mail deady@bard.edu.
Photography, Color Lines, and Urban Resistance in Colonial Mozambique
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
4:45 pm
Olin 102Candidate for African History Tenure-Track Position
Drew Thompson
Gaius Bolin Fellow in History and Art, Williams College
While parts of Africa by 1960 celebrated independence from Europe, Mozambique was on the cusp of war. Air raids and troop incursions would become a reality for populations living in Northern Mozambique, the official site of war between Portugal and the liberation group FRELIMO. But, it was from behind and in front of cameras’ lenses in commercial studios and newsrooms that less visible resistance movements of equal significance took shape within Mozambique’s urban centers. Portugal relied on the production and circulation of photographs to promote an image of racial inclusivity and equality; tenets that became critical to its defense of its colonial holdings. As the local economy of photography expanded from 1960 until Mozambique’s independence in 1975, the practice, profession, and act of viewing images were all essential parts of populations’ colonial experiences and the ways they have since remembered the past. This presentation uses life histories, images, and music to reconstruct the visual worlds within which populations experienced Portuguese colonialism from 1960 to 1975. The politics of image making over this period offer a context to explore how populations, through the act of seeing, challenged and reconfigured the color lines enforced by Portuguese laws.
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7219, or e-mail ysuzuki@bard.edu.
God Wills It: Presidents and the Political Use of Religion
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
5:30 pm
Hegeman 102Candidate for the Tenure-Track Position in American Politics
David O’Connell
Bard College
will give a talk
God Wills It: Presidents and the Political Use of Religion
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Political Studies Program.For more information, call 845-758-7693, or e-mail mkmurray@bard.edu.
Faculty Recital: Michael Bukhman
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
7:30 pm
Olin HallFaculty recital, Michael Bukhman, piano. Works by Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Shatin, Chopin, Janacek, and Medtner. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7173, or e-mail mbukhman@bard.edu.
Folk Music Gathering
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
8–10 pm
Campus Center, TLS OfficeThis is the weekly folk music gathering, sponsored by the Annandale Metafolk Society (AMS). Bring an instrument or just your voice, and come share your favorite folk music with other Bard students.
For more information, call 415-577-3733, e-mail bh1355@bard.edu, or visit http://student.bard.edu/clubs/templates/template1.php?id=1445.
Student Talks
Thursday, December 6, 2012
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium"De-worming White-Footed Mice as a Strategy for Reducing Microparasite Transmission to Ticks"
Liza Miller
"Survey of Vernal Pools in the Hudson Valley Yields Bacterial Isolates Which Inhibit the Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis"
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Thursday, December 6, 2012
5–6:30 pm
Resnick CommonsThursday, 5:00–6:15 pm
Two meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.
First timers instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.
Basement of Village Dorm A, House of Peace
Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz, student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
The Silent History
Thursday, December 6, 2012
7–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaPlease join the Written Arts program and the Experimental Humanities concentration for a reading of
THE SILENT HISTORY
"A groundbreaking novel, written and designed specially for iPad and iPhone, that uses serialization, exploration, and collaboration to tell the story of a generation of unusual children — born without the ability to create or comprehend language, but perhaps with other surprising skills of their own."
WIRED calls the project "entirely revolutionary"; the LA Times writes that "it dramatically advances the way digital novels take advantage of the iPhone and iPad." It's a significant work in the (future) history of digital literature.
Authors Kevin Moffett and Matthew Derby will read from the project and answer questions at 7pm on Thursday, 12/6, in Weis Cinema. More information about The Silent History is online at http://www.thesilenthistory.com.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7481 x7280, e-mail plafarge@bard.edu, or visit http://www.thesilenthistory.com.
Men's Basketball Game
Saturday, December 8, 2012
2 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Sarah Lawrence College in a non-league game.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Senior Project Exhibition: "Husk"
By Parker Shipp in Bard Exhibition Center
Saturday, December 8, 2012
3–6 pm
Bard Exhibition Center, 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NYParker Shipp's Senior Project Exhibition, "HUSK",
will be on exhibition beginning December 8th through December 21st
at the Red Hook, Bard Exhibition Center located at #7401 South Broadway.
OPENING RECEPTION - DECEMBER 8TH - 3:00 PM-6:00 PM
EVERYONE WELCOME!
Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail goodwin@bard.edu.
Orcapelicans! Winter Concert at Manor
Saturday, December 8, 2012
7:30–8:30 pm
Manor House CafeCome hear the smooth/funky/angelic/exciting/sparkling sounds of Bard College's A Capella Group, the ORCAPELICANS, at their final concert for this semester, this Saturday at Manor at 7:30pm!
Refreshments will be served!
Visit our Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/125832844242094/
For more information, call 708-404-2795, or e-mail mk3278@bard.edu.
An Evening of the Music and Dance of Bali
Saturday, December 8, 2012
8 pm
Olin Hall"An Evening of the Music and Dance of Bali" with Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar and Chandra Kanchana, under the Artistic Direction of I Nyoman Suadin, featuring special guest artists Dr. I Made Bandem, Dr. N.L.N. Suasthi Widjaya Bandem and others TBA.
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-688-7090.
Sacred Harp Singing
Sunday, December 9, 2012
12–2:30 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College CampusShapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.
We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.
We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.
There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.
Come be part of an exciting 200-year-old American tradition!
For more information, call 319-504-0157, e-mail ds582@bard.edu, or visit http://clubs.bard.edu/sacredharp/index.htm.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Sunday, December 9, 2012
12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvery Sunday at 12:30 p.m. we have a Catholic Mass on campus.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Evensong Service
Sunday, December 9, 2012
7–7:45 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Conservatory Sundays - Conservatory Orchestra
Sunday, December 9, 2012
3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterBard College Conservatory Orchestra with guest conductor Marcelo Lehninger. Program includes Haydn, Symphony 88; Dvorak, Symphony 8; and the world premiere of Christopher Swist's Abaprima.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380.
CCS Bard Speakers Series : Julia Bryan-Wilson
Monday, December 10, 2012
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1Closed Circuit from West Hollywood
This will be a talk about the development of the first video microcinema in 1979 in West Hollywood and its relationship to queer space.
Julia Bryan-Wilson is associate professor of modern and contemporary art at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era and the editor of OCTOBER Files: Robert Morris, forthcoming from the MIT Press. Recent publications include an account of learning Yvonne Rainer's dance Trio A, which appeared in OCTOBER; an account of sex work and performance, in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies; a look at the photographs of the UC system taken by Ansel Adams in the mid-1960s, in Art Journal; and an exploration of the performance of work, in TDR: The Drama Review.
Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
"A Tale of Two Leagues: Parties, Interests, and the 1936 Election"
Monday, December 10, 2012
4 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 202Candidate for the Tenure-Track Position in American Politics
Emily Charnock
University of Virginia
will give a talk
"A Tale of Two Leagues: Parties, Interests, and the 1936 Election"
In this presentation, I will discuss an important wave of interest group electioneering appearing in the 1930s – one that laid the foundations for the formation of Political Action Committees (PACs) in the 1940s, and the dramatic escalation of interest group electoral activity over the subsequent decades. Prior to this point, interest groups had largely avoided the electoral arena and focused instead on legislative lobbying – an activity they pursued in a bipartisan fashion. Amid the economic and political turmoil of the early 1930s, however, business and labor interests would enter the electoral fray in a newly visible and assertive way, choosing opposing party sides in the 1936 election. They forged new organizations – the “American Liberty League” and “Labor’s Non-Partisan League” – to do battle on behalf of their favored presidential contenders, and carved out a new financial role for non-party actors in election campaigns. Though they also took pains to distinguish their efforts from truly partisan activity, the strategies and tactics these two Leagues formulated, and the justifications in which they would embed their newly assertive electoral role, would set the stage for a much more proactive and partisan style of interest group electioneering in years to come.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7693, or e-mail mkmurray@bard.edu.
Psychology Senior Project Colloquium
Monday, December 10, 2012
4:45 pm
Olin 102Come for some or all of the time!
For more information, call 845-758-7224, or e-mail lane@bard.edu.
Galileo as Engaged Observer
Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Monday, December 10, 2012
4:45–6:15 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff StageFor more information, call 845-758-7490.
A Special Event Featuring Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein and Bard Alumni/ae
Monday, December 10, 2012
5–7:15 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCome hear the Paris Review editor at Weis this Monday, December 10, at 5 pm for a special event coordinated by Mona Simpson, Deirdre d'Albertis and the senior colloquium:
Lorin Stein is editor of the Paris Review. He was for many years an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he worked with such authors as Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis, Denis Johnson, Elif Batuman, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Sheila Heti, Sam Lipsyte, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Richard Price. He has edited translations of books by Roberto Bolano and Mario Vargas Llosa, among others. Stein's essays have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Harper's, and the New Republic. He is the translator of Edouard Levé's Autoportrait and Grégoire Bouillier's The Mystery Guest.
Lorin Stein's talk will be followed at 6 pm by a panel featuring recent graduates of the Division of Languages and Literature/Bard:
Len Gutkin (PhD program at Yale in English), Bridget Behrmann (PhD program in French at Princeton), Johanna Warren (prize winning translator) and Ella Maslin (Random House).
The schedule will be:
from 5-5:30 Keynote by Lorin Stein, Editor of the Paris Review
5:30-5:45 Q & A
5:45-6 Reception
6 to 7ish Alumni/ae Panel
7-7:15 Reception
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail meidav@bard.edu.
Measuring Futures in Expectant Times
Garbage Ecologies and Statecraft in the West Bank
Monday, December 10, 2012
5 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Columbia University
will give a talk
Measuring Futures in Expectant Times: Garbage Ecologies and Statecraft in the West Bank
This talk is a small excerpt from my current research, which focuses on the governance of garbage and of sewage, and on the circulation of Palestinian and Israeli waste in waste markets, in the post-Oslo West Bank. One effect of the emergence of environmental protection as the key “metrological regime” (Barry 2002) within which waste pollution has been managed since the mid-twentieth century has been the standardization of practices of measurement with which infrastructures to protect “the environment” from municipal waste are built. Over two years of fieldwork in the West Bank (2009-2011), I discovered that Palestinian bureaucrats, engineers and other experts who managed Palestinian garbage worked daily under the assumption that the future of a sovereign state, and the nation’s environmental survival, were both at stake in their ability to design and build infrastructures that were “ecologically sustainable” – infrastructures recognizable as such both by served communities and by closely watching Israeli and international observers. These experts therefore saw their application of internationally recognized, technical standards in measuring, designing and building waste management systems as a matter of (albeit understatedly) national, and sometimes even anti-colonial, significance. For the construction of the first Palestinian-run sanitary landfill in the West Bank, called Zahrat al-Finjan, international standards dictated, among other forms of measurement, the calculation of population growth over three to five decades into the future. Ethnographies of nuclear waste fallout (e.g. Masco 2006, Petryna 2002) have shown that state planners are required to do unprecedented imaginative labor in building waste disposal facilities that assume the institutional and territorial shape of their political communities into the unimaginably far future (e.g. 200,000 years). In the West Bank, that managing Palestinian waste necessitated the measurement of territory, population and political institutions up to thirty or fifty years into the future was, in some sense, just as imaginatively laborious for local experts who were working in a place whose territorial jurisdictions and demographics were in constant flux, deferred pending the ever-ephemeral “political solution.” Nevertheless, given the imperative to build the future state’s infrastructures today, their designs for the landfill’s garbage collection radius and population served divided objects into measurable unknowns and unmeasurable unknowns. The “fallout” from this division was the parallel, implicit distinction between “natural” population growth, which was legible within the metrological regime of environmental protection and considered measurable, and “political” population growth, which could not be reliably calculated into the building of a national system of waste management. I argue that, paradoxically, practices of “natural” population forecasting that allowed Palestinian waste managers – as well as many of the people they sought to serve – to perceive their work as national work for what would one day be an independent, environmentally sustainable state, were the same measurement practices that served to narrow, and finally reconfigure, the material limits of the (future) state in unexpected ways.
For more information, call 845-758-7215, or e-mail kunreuth@bard.edu.
Play/Chat @ Bard, Featuring Award-Winning Pianist Eric Zuber
Monday, December 10, 2012
8–9:30 pm
Olin HallPlay/Chat @ Bard is a new concert series featuring young musicians who are on the rise to be this generation's leading artists. Artists perform a recital at the college, followed by an onstage conversation and audience Q&A. Musicians and non-musicians are equally encouraged to attend!
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 440-552-6262, or e-mail mbukhman@bard.edu.
Noon Concert
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
12 pm
Olin HallConservatory students in concert. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380.
Legalizing Commerce: Merchants and Legal Reform in Ottoman Egypt, 1841-1876
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
4:45 pm
Olin 205Candidate for Middle Eastern History
Omar Cheta
New York University
The nineteenth-century was a period of far-reaching legal reforms in the Ottoman Empire. In this talk, I will explore the intersection of these reforms with the economy. Specifically, I will trace how “commerce” was redefined both as a concept and a practice in light of a novel legal infrastructure. The geographic focus of the presentation is Egypt, which was the site of momentous legal experiments and a dynamic commercial sphere from 1841 onwards. In constructing my argument, I will rely on contemporary archival records, especially, merchant court documents and private business papers.
For more information, call 845-758-7296, or e-mail moynahan@bard.edu.
Economics Seminar Series
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
4:45 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditoriumpresents:
Will the U.S. Embrace Euro 'Misery'?
Marshall Auerback
Institute for New Economic Thinking
For more information, call 845-758-7565, or e-mail ogiovann@bard.edu.
Climate Wedge Game
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
6:30–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomHumanity is not helpless to confront climate change, but the job is daunting. Figure out how to solve the crisis on a team made up of a faculty member, undergraduates, Bard CEP students and community members. Together you will enjoy figuring out how to stabilize the climate, starting with Two Boots pizza and ending with brownies. No expertise needed. Reserve a space by emailing husted@bard.edu. Walk-ins are welcome.Sponsored by: Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7180, e-mail husted@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/bos/events/.
Chaos and Network Synchronization
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
4:45 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumLucas Illing
Candidate for the position in Physics
For more information, call 845-758-7216, or e-mail deady@bard.edu.
Affective Afterlives
Social Vulnerability and the Psychologist in Russia's Vice of Modernization
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
6 pm
Olin, Room 204Candidate for the Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology
Tomas Matza
Duke University
will give a talk
Affective Afterlives: Social Vulnerability and the Psychologist in Russia’s Vice of Modernization
Since the 1990s, psychological trainers, coaches, and psychotherapists have spread throughout the Russian body politic. By jettisoning the “New Soviet Person” for a “feeling subject,” psychologists have placed individuality at the center of social concern. This shift is evident in the way that psychologists are reshaping parenting, education, mass media programming, consumption and human resourcing by attuning such practices to emotional wellbeing. Following suit, the Russian state has also oriented its interest in modernization toward the production of particular kinds of entrepreneurial citizen-subjects. What are the social and affective consequences of this inward turn? In my talk, I focus in on one community of psychological experts—those working in the public school system—in order to trace in greater detail some of the “affective afterlives” of the psychology boom in Russia. There, a beleaguered and little army of psychologists encounters some of Russia’s those precarious citizens excluded from the postsocialist recovery. I discuss the ways that bureaucratic disconnect, the federal fantasy of modernization, and neoliberal-type audit mechanisms collude to turn the state’s interest in “releasing human potential” into a winnowed down game of crisis management. I use these unplanned outcomes as a way to reflect on the interplay between government, expertise, subjectivity and social difference in times of transformation.
Bio: Tomas Matza is currently an ACLS New Faculty Fellow jointly hosted by Duke's Departments of Cultural Anthropology and Slavic and Eurasian Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford's Program in Modern Thought and Literature in 2010. His writing has been published in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist, and is forthcoming in Critical Inquiry. He is currently revising his manuscript, Subjects of Freedom: Psychology, Power and Politics in Postsocialist Russia.
Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7215, or e-mail kunreuth@bard.edu.
Bard College Symphonic Chorus and the Bard College Chamber Singers
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater| Beethoven | Mass in C major, Op. 86 |
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Folk Music Gathering
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
8–10 pm
Campus Center, TLS OfficeThis is the weekly folk music gathering, sponsored by the Annandale Metafolk Society (AMS). Bring an instrument or just your voice, and come share your favorite folk music with other Bard students.
For more information, call 415-577-3733, e-mail bh1355@bard.edu, or visit http://student.bard.edu/clubs/templates/template1.php?id=1445.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Thursday, December 13, 2012
5–6:30 pm
Resnick CommonsThursday, 5:00–6:15 pm
Two meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.
First timers instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.
Basement of Village Dorm A, House of Peace
Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz, student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Senior Project Poster Session
Thursday, December 13, 2012
12 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterStephanie Dunn
Adviser: Felicia Keesing
Justin Gero
Adviser: Felicia Keesing
Liza Miller
Adviser: Brooke Jude
Keaton Morris-Stan
Adviser: Philip Johns
Megan Naidoo
Adviser: Philip Johns
Jonah Peterschild
Adviser: Felicia Keesing
Damianos Lazaridis Giannopoul
Adviser: John Cullinan
For more information, call 845-752-2322, or e-mail sanderso@bard.edu.
The Philosophy Program presents
Thursday, December 13, 2012
4:45 pm
Olin, Room 201Alessandra Brusadin PhD candidate in Philosophy, University of Padova Italy, and current Bard Research Scholar in Residence
"Understanding Music in its Context: Wittgenstein's Criticism of a 'Science of Aesthetics'"
Is it possible for aesthetics to be a science? Can empirical methods provide an explanation for our aesthetic judgments? The possibility of a 'science of aesthetics' is one of the focuses of Wittgenstein's Lectures on Aesthetics (1938). In this talk,I will discuss aspects of our understanding of music in light of Wittgenstein's non-psychologistic view of aesthetics. Specifically, I will address the connection between our psychological or neural processes and the context of our experience of music.
Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7393, or e-mail kyegnash@bard.edu.
From Urban Planning to Joyriding in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Thursday, December 13, 2012
4:45 pm
RKC 103Candidate for Middle Eastern History
Pascal Menoret, Ph.D.
New York University Abu Dhabi
Joyriding (al-tafhit) emerged in the 1970s on the urban grid of Riyadh, the Saudi capital. This practice evolved from an initially innocuous pastime to a complex subculture with regular events and challenges, songs and poetry, online videos, a specific slang, and frequent encounters with the Riyadh police department. Its aficionados are overwhelmingly young, disenfranchised Saudis who look for fun in an urban environment characterized by surveillance and repression. I reconstitute the urban planning of Riyadh in the late 1960s and 1970s and show how joyriding emerged as a byproduct of the 1972 master plan, the 1973 oil boom, and clientelist power dynamics. I then document the tools used by joyriders, the terrain they occupy, the figures they elaborated, and the subculture that coalesced around joyriding. Following Henri Lefebvre’s remark that “the class struggle is inscribed in space” (The Production of Space 55), I argue that joyriding is both an accommodation to Riyadh and a critique of its urban spaces.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7296, or e-mail moynahan@bard.edu.
Senior Projects in Dance
Friday, December 14, 2012 – Sunday, December 16, 2012
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterDecember 14 at 7:30 pm
December 15 at 7:30 pm
December 16 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Free admission—reservations via the Box Office
Seniors in dance present Amalgam: a curious combination of the traditional and the modern. In collaboration with professional lighting, scenic, and costume designers, these artists present six distinctive dance works. Join us in an intimate performance space to see a range of pieces inspired by everything from the simple beauty of the ordinary to our complex relationship to the divine. The evening concerts features performances and choreography by Olivia Jo Berger, Emma Clarke, Christopher Croucher, Marta Garibaldi, Claire Martin, and Helen Wicks.
Sponsored by: Bard Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail FisherCenter@bard.edu.
Social Norms and Women's Labour Participation
Married Women in Assembly Plant Employment: The Case of Tehuacan, Mexico
Friday, December 14, 2012
2 pm
Blithewood, Levy InstituteLevy Economics Institute
Arlette Covarrubias
Candidate for Levy Economics Institute position of Research Scholar
in the program Gender Equality and the Economy
Friday, December 14th
2:00pm
Blithewood, Room 203
Social Norms and Women's Labour Participation
Married Women in Assembly Plant Employment: The Case of Tehuacan, Mexico
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to deepen the understanding on how social norms influence married women’s participation in salaried employment. To this end, married women’s decisions to work in assembly plants of two towns in Tehuacán, Puebla: San Gabriel Chilac and Santiago Miahuatlán are analyzed. Three main moral arguments sustaining women should not work in assembly plants are identified. First, women are perceived as responsible of childbearing and household tasks. Secondly, it is sensed that married women who worked in these plants are promiscuous. Finally, it is men’s role is to be the economic provider of the family. Using a 2006 household survey data, it is tested whether wives and husbands’ disagreement on each of the moral arguments positively impacts women’s probability to participate on assembly plant employment. Characteristics of those households that were more likely to sustain these moral arguments are also identified. To this end, a Bivariate Probit regression model with disagreement on moral rules and participation in salaried employment as dependant variables is estimated.
Findings suggest that wives’ disagreement on moral arguments significantly affects female participation in assembly plant employment. Conversely, only husband’s disagreement on working women being promiscuous influences their wives probability to work. The factors with which in turn are found to have an effect on disagreement on moral rules are years of education and age. Being from San Gabriel Chilac also influences women’s and men’s disagreement on women being promiscuous.
For more information or a copy of paper please call or e-mail:
845-758-7710 or mullaly@levy.org
Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7710, e-mail mullaly@levy.org, or visit http://www.levyinstitute.org.
Senior Projects in Dance
Friday, December 14, 2012 – Sunday, December 16, 2012
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterDecember 14 at 7:30 pm
December 15 at 7:30 pm
December 16 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Free admission—reservations via the Box Office
Seniors in dance present Amalgam: a curious combination of the traditional and the modern. In collaboration with professional lighting, scenic, and costume designers, these artists present six distinctive dance works. Join us in an intimate performance space to see a range of pieces inspired by everything from the simple beauty of the ordinary to our complex relationship to the divine. The evening concerts features performances and choreography by Olivia Jo Berger, Emma Clarke, Christopher Croucher, Marta Garibaldi, Claire Martin, and Helen Wicks.
Sponsored by: Bard Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail FisherCenter@bard.edu.
Women's Basketball Game
Saturday, December 15, 2012
2 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Purchase College in a non-league matchup.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division Recital
Saturday, December 15, 2012
4–6:30 pm
Olin HallSolo and chamber music performances by the students in the Conservatory Preparatory Division.
Free Admission. Open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division.
For more information, call 845-758-7587, e-mail sohashi@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory/preparatory.
Sacred Harp Singing
Sunday, December 16, 2012
12–2:30 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College CampusShapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.
We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.
We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.
There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.
Come be part of an exciting 200-year-old American tradition!
For more information, call 319-504-0157, e-mail ds582@bard.edu, or visit http://clubs.bard.edu/sacredharp/index.htm.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Sunday, December 16, 2012
12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvery Sunday at 12:30 p.m. we have a Catholic Mass on campus.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Senior Projects in Dance
Friday, December 14, 2012 – Sunday, December 16, 2012
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterDecember 14 at 7:30 pm
December 15 at 7:30 pm
December 16 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Free admission—reservations via the Box Office
Seniors in dance present Amalgam: a curious combination of the traditional and the modern. In collaboration with professional lighting, scenic, and costume designers, these artists present six distinctive dance works. Join us in an intimate performance space to see a range of pieces inspired by everything from the simple beauty of the ordinary to our complex relationship to the divine. The evening concerts features performances and choreography by Olivia Jo Berger, Emma Clarke, Christopher Croucher, Marta Garibaldi, Claire Martin, and Helen Wicks.
Sponsored by: Bard Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail FisherCenter@bard.edu.
Dawn Upshaw and Friends Present A Winter Songfest
A festive holiday benefit concert for the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterCONSERVATORY SUNDAYS
Dawn Upshaw and Friends present
A WINTER SONGFEST
A festive holiday benefit concert for the
Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Tickets $15, 25, 50 and 100*
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16 | 3 PM | SOSNOFF THEATER
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw and singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, pianist Kayo Iwama, Bard Conservatory Piano Fellows, and brass quintet Monstrare present a program of festive holiday-themed songs and ensembles to benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
A family-friendly matinee concert, A Winter Songfest will include Grammy Award-winner Upshaw performing two works that she has previously recorded: Vaughan Williams's This Is the Truth Sent from Above and Rodgers and Hart's Sing for Your Supper. The program also includes holiday classics such as Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Walter Kent's I'll be Home for Christmas, Simple Gifts arranged by Aaron Copland, and Argento's "Winter" from Six Elizabethan Songs. Monstrare, a new brass quintet of advanced musicians from The Bard College Conservatory of Music, will perform excerpts from Monteverdi's Madrigals in addition to other pieces.
*Our guests at the $100 level are invited to join Dawn Upshaw onstage
for a post-concert reception of champagne and sweets immediately following the performance. Limited tickets are available
for this exclusive opportunity so please reserve early.
For these tickets, please call 845-758-7928
www.bard.edu/conservatory
fishercenter.bard.edu
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Non-Degree Recital
Jeannette Brent, cello & Mayumi Tsuchida, piano
Sunday, December 16, 2012
6 pm
Olin HallPiano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata in C Minor for Cello and Piano
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Suite Populaire Espagnole for Cello and Piano
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 (Jiazhi Wang, violin)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.For more information, call 845-752-2380.
Georgian Vocal Ensemble's Winter Concert
Sunday, December 16, 2012
7:30–9 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College CampusCome join us on Sunday, December 16th in Bard Hall for our winter concert and to celebrate our third semester running! We sing three-part folk songs from every region of the Republic of Georgia, a beautiful and diverse country on the shores of the Black Sea, in the former Soviet Union. Georgian music is known for its intricate and dissonant harmonies and gorgeous ornamented style. Directed by the world-renowned Carl Linich, the Bard College Georgian Vocal Ensemble is comprised of Bard students, alumni, and local community members.
For more information, call 508-335-3731, or e-mail mr698@bard.edu.
CCS Bard Speakers Series : Maria Lind
Monday, December 17, 2012
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1"In the midst of About working with and around Tensta konsthall"
Maria Lind will be presenting and discussing the implications and results of working with contemporary art at an art center in the midst of the Stockholm suburb of Tensta. Located in a late modernist residential area with approximately 20,000 inhabitants, most of whom have a trans-local background, working at Tensta konsthall has challenged the staff to consider issues of inhabitation, embeddedness and autonomy anew.
About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Crude Imaginations: Oil and the Material Politics of the Saudi Arabian State
Monday, December 17, 2012
4:45 pm
RKC 103Candidate for Middle Eastern History
Rosie Bsheer
Columbia University
The hundredth–year anniversary of the 1902 conquest of Riyadh by the founder of the modern Saudi Arabian state has triggered major initiatives since the mid-1990s to materialize the country’s nascent history. The attendant multi-billion dollar archival and urban redevelopment projects were among the many efforts to institutionalize and memorialize an officially sanctioned discourse of the Saudi past. The elision of oil—and the multi-pronged struggles that make up its social life—from the new material record and built environment is striking. Why is oil, so pervasive in our imaginations of Saudi Arabia, so absent in the new cultural and urban landscapes? How can we address the ways in which producers of historical knowledge have actively relegated oil to matters of production and wealth, as a platform for understanding how the political economy of oil has co-constituted political, economic, and social life in Saudi Arabia? In this talk, I pursue such questions by attending to the material politics of a project of history making and the disaggregated nature of the struggle over the constitution of Saudi Arabian state and society. I show how the commemoration of the national self-fashioning in everyday life and the emergent spatial politics that saturate the Saudi population’s national consciousness are thus deployed today to reproduce the power of the state and project a disciplined future, and by extension, a disciplined Saudi citizen.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7296, or e-mail moynahan@bard.edu.
Anti-Establishment Performance: Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
3–3:30 pm
CCS Bard GalleriesRecto/Verso
2012
Clocks, charcoal on floor, and performance
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 3pm
CCS Bard Galleries
Performance duration: 30 minutes
Two clocks—one cycling forward, the other in reverse—mark military and personal time. When their times momentarily coincide, two performers begin a movement score based on the ticking of a clock, fading in and out of memory while falling in and out of sync.
Projects by Gerard and Kelly are co-produced by Moving Theater with the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, and numerous generous individuals.
This performance is part of their work in the exhibition Anti-Establishment , which is on view now at CCS Bard through December 21st.
Collaborating since 2003, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly approach art as a series of experiments to work through questions of spectatorship, desire, authorship, and the formation of political consciousness. They recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program and are currently pursuing MFAs in the Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles. Their work has been presented in performances in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Lisbon, and Paris, including at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church; Park Avenue Armory, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions); and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recent group exhibitions include Anti-Establishment, CCS Bard, Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art; and Cult of The Ruin, University Art Gallery at the University of California, Irvine. Gerard and Kelly are the founders and co-directors of Moving Theater
Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.For more information, call 845-758-7574, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.