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Registration is open for the Bard Conference: Waters, Forests, and Communities in Asia
Dates: January 31 – February 2, 2013
All information is available on the conference website. We look forward to welcoming you warmly to the Hudson Valley in January.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7085, e-mail jofrench@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/news/conferences/asia2013/.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts St. Lawrence University in a Liberty 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.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts St. Lawrence University in an important Liberty League contest.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.
Registration is open for the Bard Conference: Waters, Forests, and Communities in Asia
Dates: January 31 – February 2, 2013
All information is available on the conference website. We look forward to welcoming you warmly to the Hudson Valley in January.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7085, e-mail jofrench@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/news/conferences/asia2013/.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Clarkson University in a Liberty 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.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Clarkson University in a Liberty 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.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Worship, songs, candles, every Sunday evening in the Chaple.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Monday, February 4, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
This talk is about the anarchist anti-art group Black Mask, their collaborations with multimedia artist Aldo Tambellini’s expanded cinema environments, and the development of their radically anti-representational practice.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
For more information, call 845-758-7490.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Olin 202
Spain and America in Antonio Machado's Early Prose
Traditionally, the work of Spanish poet Antonio Machado (Sevilla, 1875 – Collioure, 1939) has been seen as an evolutionary process, from his more introspective first texts to his socially and politically engaged later works. However, Machado’s social and political concerns can already be found in his very first publications, that is, in the articles that appeared in the newspaper “La Caricatura” (“The Caricature”) in 1893. These rich, but rarely studied, satirical articles will be the subject of my presentation, which will focus on the author’s reflection on the development of Spain as a modern nation and its relationship to the American colonies in the aftermath of the celebrations of the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Olin Humanities Building
The focus of the spring Environmental and Urban Studies Colloquium is: What does it mean to be an environmentalist? Prominent researchers in the field of environmental work, from activists to scholars, will present their work. Open to the public.
Feb 5 speaker: John Cronin will discuss his 38 years dedicated to the environment and to innovation. Cronin has worked as an advocate, legislative and congressional aide, commercial fisherman, professor, author and filmmaker. He is known internationally for his Hudson River work, for which the Wall Street Journal called him "a unique presence on America's major waterways." He was the Hudson’s original Riverkeeper and the founder and CEO of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries. Time magazine named him a “Hero for the Planet” and People magazine described him as “equal parts detective, scientist and public advocate.”
For more information, call 845-758-7600 x6020, e-mail rogers@bard.edu, or visit http://eus.bard.edu/.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
For more information, call 845-752-2336, or e-mail halsey@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Olin 205
Literary Dreamers: A Visual Journey from Bernat Metge to Francisco de Quevedo
My research study analyzes the work of several Catalan and Castilian authors, who use the motif of the dream as a specific humanist perspective, a literary genre, and a philosophical classical discourse. Thus, this presentation explores the intersection of culture, religion, and literary theory in the work of two Iberian Peninsular authors: Lo somni (1399) by the Catalan writer Bernat Metge (1350-1413) and Los sueños (1627) by the Castilian Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645). Both works represent excellent examples of the use of dreams as a cultural and historical narrative of two epochs: Catalan Humanism and Castilian-Spanish Baroque. I suggest that both texts should be explored in relation to the notion of Christian Humanism, where the use of the dream emerges as a literary genre and artistic philosophical device. I argue that this cross-pollination of humanisms from the Mediterranean world served as a bridge between the different civilizations and cultures. Moreover, as my multidisciplinary research indicates, I include exhaustive visual representations of dreams from the Medieval to Contemporary periods. Through this visual journey, I demonstrate that the introduction of dreams in these narratives is instrumental in separating reality and fiction.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Elms College in its 2013 home opener. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
National Climate Seminar
Daniel Lashof, Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, NRDC
Talk Title: Cutting Carbon at Power Plants
Read Synopsis: National Climate Negotiations
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail climate@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cep/publicprograms/ncs/speakers.php?id=3755154.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Olin 204
Nymphs in the Night
Performance, Myth and the Transformation of Tradition in Virgil, Aeneid 10
Roman poetry of the Augustan period is full of evocations of Greek song culture. How does such poetry create imagined worlds of performance? How do responses to tradition generate new literary experiences? I address these questions by focusing on a pivotal but underappreciated narrative moment in Virgil’s Aeneid when Aeneas encounters a group of sea nymphs who urge him on to war. The scene recalls and reconfigures a particular constellation of Greek mythic and performance traditions related to choral song and dance. It does so, moreover, while dramatizing the invention of Roman ritual practice. I propose, then, that in Virgil’s narrative, epic gains foundational power from its appropriation of Greek performance culture.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7282, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Preston Theater (110)
Every Wednesday, 7pmSponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Mount Saint Mary 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.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A lecture by Brooke Jude, Biology ProgramSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Olin 205
Rewriting the Lives of Spain’s “Stolen Children”: The Biographical Impulse and Social Media
Only in the past few years has it become widely known that one of the largest networks of child trafficking in contemporary Europe was created in Francoist Spain and remained operative until the late 90s. This talk will analyze the biographical and autobiographical narratives that take shape in Facebook groups created by the victims, archival spaces where individuals share information and seek to complete and rewrite their life stories. The new technology changes not simply the archiving process, but what is archivable in a narrative form. Through the formation of collective digital archives, families and individuals become their own archivists--they create and add content in many different forms and media, such as written official documents, oral testimony, familial and personal records, photographs, and audiovisual recordings. Is there a distinctive cultural role for such web-based archives in witnessing history and memorializing our lives, both individually and collectively, in contemporary Spain?
Autobiographical narratives are generally constructed upon the impression of an individual’s past life experiences in the present time: what “might” or “will have been”. As part of a permanently updatable intertext of narratives, the life stories of the stolen children are also marked by the shared loss of what “could have been (and will never be)”. From such absence there arises a collective desire to rewrite the lives of entire generations of people. Could we maybe speak of a collective “biographical impulse” that would surpass and frame the autobiographical in the collective archives created for, and by, the “stolen children”?
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Olin, Room 102
Professor Asef Bayat
University of Illinois
This talk explores what the ordinary people (in the Middle East) do to get around and resist the severe constraints the authoritarian polity, neo-liberal economics, and moral authorities on their civil and economic rights. Bayat will discuss the diverse ways in which the subaltern groups--men, women, and the young—resort to ‘non-movements’ to affect the contours of change in their societies, by refusing to exit from the social and political stage controlled by authoritarian regimes, and by discovering or generating spaces within which they can assert their rights and enhance their life chances. He conceptualizes these everyday and dispersed practices in terms of social 'non-movements', and discuss how these ‘non-movements’, by establishing alternative norms in society, become the matrix of broader social change in society, and how they may or may not evolve into larger societal movements.
Asef Bayat, the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, teaches Sociology and Middle East at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Illinois, he taught at the American University in Cairo for many years, and served as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) holding the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research areas range from social movements and social change, to religion-politics-everyday life, Islam and the modern world, and urban space and politics. His recent books include Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford University Press, 2007); (with Linda Herrera) Being Young and Muslim: Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Oxford University Press, 2010); and Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2010). The revised and extended edition of Life as Politics will be published in May 2013, and so will Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam (Oxford University Press).
This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Project, the Center for Civic Engagement and the Sociology Program.
Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail dramadan@bard.edu.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Composer and theater-maker Merlijn Twaalfhoven discusses his challenges and strategies in creating Al Quds Underground, a secret festival in the living rooms of families from different cultures in the Old City of Jerusalem. Twaalfhoven will explore the tensions between diplomacy, activism, and artistic quality, and suggest ways that students might become involved in future editions of the festival.
Merlijn Twaalfhoven is a Dutch composer and theater-maker. With his non-profit organization La Vie Sur Terre he produces large-scale projects with local artists and musicians, using music to transcend political and ethnic boundaries, most recently in Cyprus, Japan, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, and Syria. He has received awards from UNESCO for creating intercultural dialogue between the Arab and Western worlds, and several leading European prizes for composers and performers. He has collaborated with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the Holland Festival, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dutch National Ballet, and the Springdance Festival, among many others. He graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory in 2003.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7957, or e-mail rbangiola@bard.edu.
CANCELED: DOC/FRICTION: A Day of Hybrid Cinema
Friday, February 8, 2013
Ottaway Theater
The DOC/FRICTION screening and guest event are canceled. This event will be rescheduled.
Please join us for a day and evening dedicated to films and videos that combine documentary and fictional forms.
The Film and Electronic Arts Program and Creative Capital present an array of international short and feature-length works starting at 2pm on Friday, February 8th in the Ottaway Theater.
Visiting filmmakers Liza Johnson, Braden King, and Holden Osborne join local talents Peggy Ahwesh and Ephraim Asili to show and discuss their films. All events are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7366, or e-mail goss@bard.edu.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League game.
Please note: This game, originally scheduled for 6:00, has been rescheduled for 5:30.
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.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League game.
Please note: This game, originally scheduled for 8:00, has been rescheduled for 7:30.
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.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Please note that the workshop is canceled for the evening of Friday, February 8, but will resume on February 9 and 10.
Tickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office
Producers Rufus Müller, Ilka LoMonaco, and Teresa Buchholz present their annual evening of operatic highlights by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Giordano, Puccini, Arrieta, Boito, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Cilea, and Johann Strauss.
This year we are joined by some of our sensational alumni, and surprise guests in the Die Fledermaus ball finale. Not to be missed!
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts William Smith College in the final Liberty League contest of the season.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.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Hobart College in a key Liberty 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.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Tickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office
Producers Rufus Müller, Ilka LoMonaco, and Teresa Buchholz present their annual evening of operatic highlights by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Giordano, Puccini, Arrieta, Boito, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Cilea, and Johann Strauss.
This year we are joined by some of our sensational alumni, and surprise guests in the Die Fledermaus ball finale. Not to be missed!
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Worship, songs, candles, every Sunday evening in the Chaple.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Every Sunday, while school is in session, we have a Catholic Mass in the chapel at 12:30 p.m.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Tickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office
Producers Rufus Müller, Ilka LoMonaco, and Teresa Buchholz present their annual evening of operatic highlights by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Giordano, Puccini, Arrieta, Boito, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Cilea, and Johann Strauss.
This year we are joined by some of our sensational alumni, and surprise guests in the Die Fledermaus ball finale. Not to be missed!
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Contemporaneous Performs Don't Even
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Olin Hall
This performance is free and open to the public.
Visit Contemporaneous.org for more information. This show will also be performed on February 11 in New York City.
For more information, call 205-914-9663, or e-mail info@contemporaneous.org.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Olin Hall
Classical Conversations presents cellist Soo Bae in recital, performing works by Bach, Chan Ka Nin and Piatti. Followed by a short masterclass and Q&A.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail hbaillie@bard.edu.
Monday, February 11, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
In this talk Rebecca Stephany will revise selected projects and works in relation to their potential as gifts. Based on Stephany's adolescent and pre-academic conditioning of making gifts for loved ones as her only creative output, the presentation will reflect on this notion of giving and necessity of cause in regard to her practice as artist-cum-designer. Touching on discrepancies, headaches and little titans, a gift will be made.
Rebecca Stephany (b. 1980 in Wittlich, Germany) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nurtured by a general enthusiasm and tangible skepticism towards medium specificity and artistic expertise, Stephany’s practice takes many forms, appropriating styles, disciplines and qualifications as needed. Her work includes installation, video, performance, sculpture, writing and self-publishing to performative lecturing. The roles Stephany adopts herein are flexible and range from lecturer, publisher, autodidact, manufacturer, feminist, typist, construction worker, researcher, editor, commentator, production manager, collaborator, observer, author, actor, to lover and friend.
In 2010 and 2011, Stephany was research resident at Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. The Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig awarded her the Inform.Prize for conceptual design in 2010. Recent exhibitions include: Gibst du mir Steine, Geb ich dir Sand, Performance Project Liste 17, Basel (2012); NO DANCING, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles (2012); Magicgruppe Kulturobjekt, W139, Amsterdam (2011); Inform.Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (2010). Rebecca Stephany has taught at the graphic design department of Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam since 2007. Workshops and lectures include: To Have One’s Cake and Eat it, Too, Kunsthuis SYB, The Netherlands (2012); Everything But The Thing, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany (2012); Spektakel – Angewandte Freiheit, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany (2011); Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands (2011).
Making artworks in the form of books and publications has been essential to Stephany’s practice. Since 2006, she has self-published zines and artist books such as: I want to be a feminist artist but I’m not quite there yet. I collected this in the meanwhile. (2012), Punk Is Not Death and other Essential Elements (Light, Object, Observer) (2011), More Abgrund, More Zweifel, Less Pferdepipi (2010), I want to be a political artist but I’m not quite there yet. I wrote this in the meanwhile. (2009), Weightlessness in Tight Leotards (2008) and Archiving Today (2006).
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 ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Olin 202
Problems with Prophecy in Senecan Drama
Examining prophecy via the role of the /vates/ (prophet/poet/bard), I focus on the failures of prophecy in Senecan drama. Prophets who are traditionally (that is, in pre-Senecan Greek and Latin literature) successful at being able to forecast the future—Cassandra, Tiresias, Calchas—are unable to give accurate representations of what will come to pass in Seneca's plays. Where prophecy per se is a flawed enterprise, I argue that we find in the other resonance of /vates/ (poet) characters who are more successful and autonomous at conveying privileged knowledge. With this in mind, I look at Seneca's non-prophet 'usurpers' and make a case for what this can tell us about the status of human-divine relations, and about poetics, in Seneca and in early imperial literature more generally.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7282, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Jeff L. Rosenheim was named Curator in Charge of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2012. Originally hired at the Metropolitan Museum to catalogue the Ford Motor Company Collection of avant-garde European and American photography between the two World Wars, he was promoted to the position of full Curator in 2007. An expert in American photography with wide-ranging interests from 19th-century to contemporary art, he has taught at Columbia University, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and Bard College, and is an admired public speaker, most recently with talks at Yale and Stanford universities. At the Metropolitan Museum, he has organized or co-organized some 20 exhibitions and was responsible for facilitating the Museum’s acquisitions of the complete archives of photographers Walker Evans in 1994 and Diane Arbus in 2007. A foremost authority on Evans, he has organized six exhibitions of the artist’s work, including Walker Evans, a major retrospective at the Met in 2000, and Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard in 2009, and has authored eight publications on Evans’s oeuvre. He was the curator responsible for the Metropolitan Museum’s presentation of the exhibition Diane Arbus Revelations in 2005, was a co-author of its award-winning catalogue, and also collaborated on the Diane Arbus exhibition traveling in Europe and currently on view at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. He has in recent years published catalogue essays on Robert Frank, Robert Polidori, Stephen Shore, and Paul Graham, and is now organizing the exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, which will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum from April 2 through September 2, 2013.Sponsored by: Photography Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7813, e-mail dbush@bard.edu, or visit http://photo.bard.edu.
Monday, February 11, 2013
House of Peace, Basement of Village Dorm A
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
RKC 115
We report the development of a general Pd-catalyzed process for the stereoretentive cross-coupling of secondary alkyl azastannatrane nucleophiles and aryl electrophiles. This reaction displays no dependence on the electronic characteristics of either coupling partner and occurs with minimal concurrent isomerization of the secondary alkyltin nucleophile. Aryl chlorides, bromides, iodides, and triflates are all viable electrophiles in this process. Additionally, optically-active secondary alkyl azastannatranes undergo cross-coupling reactions with retention of absolute configuration using this method. This process constitutes the first general method to employ secondary alkyltin reagents in cross-coupling reactions. Overall, the combined generality of the transformation and stability of optically-active stannatranes result in a process that should accommodate the broad use of optically-active nucleophiles.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2356, or e-mail canderso@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
A Lecture by Elisa C. Mandell
"Representing the Death of a Child in Mexican Painting and Photography"
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Art History Program; LAIS Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7126, or e-mail aberth@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A lecture by Swapan Jain, Chemistry Program, and John Ferguson, Biology Program
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Tickets: Free, no reservations required
Join choreographer and director Bill T. Jones and longtime New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler for a lively conversation about art and its relationship to science, history, technology, and current events. Looking at luminary thinkers and creative artists, Jones and Weschler will discuss how the arts engage with, inform, and meaningfully complicate the world of ideas.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in its final game of the season. It's Senior Day.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.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Olin, Room 102
In her book Loser Sons: Politics and Authority, Ronell writes: Something that still holds us hostage, authority has for all intents and purposes disappeared: it has even eaten away at [Hannah Arendt's] title, "What is Authority?" "In order to avoid misunderstanding," she begins her famous essay, "it might have been wiser to ask in the title: What was—and not what is—authority? For it is my contention that we are tempted and entitled to raise this question because authority has vanished from the modern world." For me, the disappearance of authority functions as a figure for democracy in crisis—a way of describing the panic that prevails within the powerful motifs of sociality, alterity, relation. Authority's disappearance in itself calls for a speculative forensics, particularly since the presumed eclipse of authority is not complete but haunts and hounds human relations, holding things together by nothing more substantial than vague historical memory starts.
Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of German, English, and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program. She is also Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is the author of Dictations: On Haunted Writing; The Telephone Book; Crack Wars; Finitude's Score; Stupidity; The Test Drive; and Fighting Theory.
Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard hosts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in its final Liberty League game of the season.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.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Preston Theater (110)
Every Wednesday, 7pmSponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Library Vitrine Exhibition
After a brief love affair, pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams and illustrator David Stone Martin maintained a lifelong connection. She helped him get his start as an illustator of record albums and he in turn created some of his most memorable record covers for her.
Opening Reception Wednesday, Feb. 13, 5:00–6:30 pmSponsored by: Art History Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail wolf@bard.edu.
For more information, call 845-758-7490.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Ash Wednesday worship serviceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Olin, Room 102
Please join us for a public lecture with Monique Segarra, Assistant Professor of Politics and Policy, Center for Environmental Policy, Bard College.
Biography
B.A., Brandeis University in Political Science; M.I.A., School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Ph.D., Comparative Politics and Latin America, Columbia University. Areas of interest include sustainable development, international environmental politics and the increasingly contentious politics surrounding natural resource management in Latin America. Current research focuses on the politics of water reform in Oaxaca, Mexico and comparative analysis of human and environmental rights movements challenging mineral and oil policies of states and multinational corporations in Ecuador, Mexico and Chile. She has published articles in journals such as Latin American Politics and Society, The Journal of Contemporary Sociology, and edited and contributed to The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America. She has a forthcoming chapter on human rights and the environment in Latin America in Human Rights: Challenges of the Past/Challenges for the Future. In addition to research and teaching, she has worked with a range of international development and research institutions including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Science Research Council. Member, BCEP Graduate Committee.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-7071, or e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Preston
All films will be screened in Preston Theater (110) on Wednesdays at 7pm, unless noted otherwise. Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Olin, Room 102
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Olin Hall
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A lecture by Laura Landweber, Princeton UniversitySponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Olin 205
Lucan and the Limits of Didactic Poetry: The Case of the Libyan Snakes
This talk will explore the representation of scientific knowledge and didactic poetry in book 9 of Lucan's Civil War. During an excruciating trek across the Libyan desert, Cato's Roman army arrives at a spring that teams with poisonous snakes. Here, Lucan adopts the role of a didactic poet and teaches the reader about the exotic African serpents, drawing heavily on a tradition of scientific poems on poisonous animals. The troops, however, fail to perceive the nature of the situation, and the snakes soon decimate Cato's army. Natural historical and medical knowledge fail to assist the snakes' victims as well, and the reader is left with the impression that both science and scientific poetry have no meaningful or practical role to play in Lucan's universe. In a world unhinged by civil war and on the verge of total breakdown, the elegant refinement and bookish learning of didactic poetry look like exercises of purely academic interest, entirely divorced from the world they purport to explain.
40 minute talk, followed by Q&A.Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7282, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Presentation: Play/Chat @Bard
Vicky Chow, Piano
Friday, February 15, 2013
Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Vicky Chow will give a presentation on the subject of extended techniques in the 20th and 21st centuries. Please note that Ms. Chow will also be performing at Bard on February 16.
Free and all are welcome. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 440-552-6262, or e-mail mbukhman@bard.edu.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
It's the final game of the season for Bard's seniors as Berkeley College visits Annandale.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.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Bard's hosts the Brooklyn College Bulldogs in a non-conference match. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Tickets: Free, reservations via the Box Office
The Company performs a work-in-process showing of Story, a new work created during its week in residence at Bard. Story (2013) uses Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) as the basis for an energetic new work that draws from the Company’s latest choreographic methods developed for Story/Time (2012). Story will have its New York premiere in March at The Joyce Theater. The showing will be followed by a discussion with Jones, Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong, and the Company. Live music performed by members of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra.
Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Olin Hall
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Michael Bukhman presents a new concert series at Bard, showcasing today's most promising young talents both in musical performances and on-stage Q&A conversations. Sponsored by the President's Office.
Pianist Vicky Chow (www.vickychow.com) performs. Please note that Ms. Chow will also be giving a presentation at Bard on February 15.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 440-552-6262, e-mail mbukhman@bard.edu, or visit http://www.michaelbukhman.com.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Worship, songs, candles, every Sunday evening in the Chaple.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Every Sunday, while school is in session, we have a Catholic Mass in the chapel at 12:30 p.m.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, with guest conductor Jose-Luis Novo, performs Respighi's "Fountains of Rome," Penderecki's Viola Concerto, with Lin Wang 13', soloist and Prokofiev's Suite from "Romeo and Juilet."Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or e-mail treed@bard.edu.
Monday, February 18, 2013
House of Peace, Basement of Village Dorm A
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Monday, February 18, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Objects circulate both within the psyche and outside, in the world. Some objects can be touched and named, they tend to behave well within any given order of knowledge, while others remain ephemeral, change their Gestalt, or even leave the scene for good. A collection exists that displays both kinds of objects side by side: Freud’s desktop in Hampstead, London. With the master of the narrative gone, we are left with a proposition of how to fathom the true enigma—the triangle of cult, coloniality, and modernity.
RM Buergel, born 1962 in West-Berlin, is a writer, university teacher and organizes exhibitions, most recently “garden of learning”/Busan Biennale 2012 (South Korea). Buergel had been the Artistic Director of documenta 12 (2007). He currently serves as the Founding Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich (Switzerland), a transdisciplinary institution devoted to researching global trade routes.
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 ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Monday, February 18, 2013
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Clarinetist David Gould in performance, accompanied by pianist Taka Kigawa.
Mr. Gould is the founder of the Ensemble 54, New York’s premiere clarinet quartet. The group has been playing concerts and commissioning new works since 2008. Richard Belcastro, Hayes Greenfield, Paquito D’Rivera, David Bennett Thomas, and David Bixler a few of the composers that have written or arranged music for the ensemble.
This performance is free and open to the public
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail eswitzer@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
David Guggenheim explores the inequalities and injustices of the present-day American public school system in this award-winning documentary.
This event is sponsored by the Bard New Orleans Project and is open to the public!
Sponsored by: New Orleans Initiative.
For more information, call 845-705-7386, or e-mail vh0218@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Olin, Room 102
The focus of the spring Environmental and Urban Studies Colloquium is: What does it mean to be an environmentalist? Prominent researchers in the field of environmental work, from activists to scholars, will present their work every week. Open to the public.
“Gas Rush: A Reporter’s Perspective.” Author Tom Wilber will provide an overview of high volume hydraulic fracturing and related issues, including lessons learned during the rush to develop the Marcellus Shale and Utica shales in northern Pennsylvania in 2008 through 2011. He will focus on rapidly changing current events and social influences that continue to play out -- market dynamics; the anti-fracking movement; Home Rule and other legal challenges; and local, state and national politics influencing regulations.
Wilber is the author of Under the Surface, Fracking Fortunes and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale and has been in the newspaper business for more than 20 years, including 17 years with the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, covering business, health, and environment beats. He has reported on shale gas development in New York and Pennsylvania since 2008; and he was among the first reporters to provide daily coverage of events in Dimock Pennsylvania, which have since become iconic of the national controversy over fracking. For that, he won top honors in Best of Gannett beat reporting in 2010. He now tracks current events related to shale as development in his blog, Shale Gas Review.
Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7600 x6020, e-mail rogers@bard.edu, or visit http://eus.bard.edu/.
Derivatives, Biology, and Other Sensitive Subjects - CANCELED
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Hegeman 308
Nathanial Burch
Candidate for the Position in Mathematics
Mathematical models are used across the sciences to help understand complicated processes, e.g., the life expectancy of a nuclear reactor, the spread of a contaminant, the risk of a disease outbreak, the sustainability of an endangered species, and so on. In this talk, we introduce sensitivity analysis as a tool for studying the dynamics of such a model and identifying which parameters have a significant impact on its output. This analysis plays a crucial role in informing viable and effective management strategies while also helping to quantify the effects of uncertainty in parameter values. Examples from biology and epidemiology will be presented throughout the talk.
Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail goodwin@bard.edu.
Levy Institute M.S. in Economic Theory and Policy Open House
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Olin, Room 205
Levy Institute Master of Science in Economic Theory and Policy will have an Open House at 5:30 pm on Tuesday February 19 in Olin 205 to address questions about the M.S. program. Levy Institute scholars will be available to talk about the Institute's research areas and the M.S. degree.
Pizza will be served.
Levy Institute representatives to attend:
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou (President)
Ajit Zacharias (Senior Scholar, Program Director of Income and Wealth Program)
Thomas Masterson (Research Scholar, Director of Applied Micromodeling)
Taun Toay (Research Analyst)
Liudmila Malyshava (Assistant to the Director, M.S. in Economic Theory and Policy)
Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail lmalysha@levy.org, or visit http://www.bard.edu/levyms.
In Discussion with Bard Alumnus and Rolling Stone Political and Financial Columnist Matt Taibbi, '92
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Lewis will explore “Why Fixing Wall Street and the Economy Is Critical to the World” in a discussion with Matt Taibbi ’92, the renowned political and financial columnist for Rolling Stone. The discussion will be moderated by Roger Berkowitz, academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard. Following the talk, Lewis will take questions.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/hannaharendtcenter.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
First Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
For more information, call 845-752-2380, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Preston Theater (110)
Every Wednesday, 7pmSponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Preston
All films will be screened in Preston Theater (110) on Wednesdays at 7pm, unless noted otherwise. Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
National Climate Seminar
Mike Tidwell, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Talk Title: Offshore Wind: Potential and Politics
Read Synopsis: Wind Power in Maryland
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail climate@bard.edu, or visit http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=user&id=64&task=user&Itemid=13.
The Exhibition-as-Medium, the Exhibition-as-Form:
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
The group exhibition-form has become the primary site for curatorial experimentation and, as such, represents a relatively new discursive space around artistic practice. Paul O'Neill will look back at some of his exhibitions, and describe how cumulative and expanding exhibition-forms can constitute an investigation into how the curatorial role is made manifest through cohesive and co-operative exhibition-making structures applied during all stages of the exhibition production. This talk will demonstrate how exhibitions create spatial relations between different planes of interaction for the viewer, and how multiple agencies and actors are necessary for an understanding of the curatorial as a constellation of activities that can be can represented the final exhibition-form.
Dr. Paul O'Neill is a curator, writer and educator based in Bristol. Paul has co-curated more than fifty exhibition projects across the world.
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 845-758-7574, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Bard Conservatory violin students in performanceSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Watch Bard take on one of the top teams in the country in Div. III when United Volleyball Conference opponent Stevens Tech visits Annandale. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
Scissors, Glue, and First-order Logic with Parity Quantifiers
Thursday, February 21, 2013
RKC 111
A lecture by
Amanda Redlich
Candidate for the position in Mathematics
When is it possible to glue two graphs together? When is it possible to slice a large graph? What does "first-order logic with parity quantifiers" mean, and what does it have to do with gluing and cutting graphs? In this talk I will answer all four of these questions. No previous knowledge of parity, first-order logic, graphs, scissors, or glue will be assumed.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Morgan Library, 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY
First Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
For more information, call 845-752-2380, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
Come support Bard staff, faculty, and students! So far, the faculty and staff team has been undefeated—can they hold their record?
$3 donation at the door
During the half-time festivities there will be a performance by the Bard Step and the Orcapelicans, with other guest appearances. There will also be a bake sale. All money raised by the bake sale goes to the 2013 Senior Class fund, which will go to support a scholarship fund and new benches on campus.
If you are interested in being on the team or donating baked goods, please contact Bethany Nohlgren.
Sponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7454, or e-mail nohlgren@bard.edu.
Friday, February 22, 2013 – Saturday, February 23, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
The Bard Raptors host their annual tournament. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Church of St. John the Evangelist. Barrytown, NY
The Institute of Advanced Theology invites you to attend the Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series, "Emergence of Christianity," led by
Bruce Chilton. The lecture series will begin on Friday, February 22nd and continue to meet on March 1, 8, 15, and 22nd.
A brief description follows:
Christianity first emerged locally within Judaism, but eventually became the most global of the global religions through an expansion that involved diversity, change, and complex development. Within those factors of
variation, enduring commitments to faith, practice, and emotional attachment characterize the emergence of the new religion.
We will meet at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, located at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY. The presentation will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period. At noon, a simple lunch (soup, bread, dessert, and beverage will be available at a cost of $6.00. Lunch reservations are necessary. The reservation can be made by calling 845-758-7279 or e-mailing iat@bard.edu.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
Cascade Reactions with Alkynes
Friday, February 22, 2013
RKC 115
A lecture by
Jason Abrams
Candidate for the Position in Chemistry
This talk seeks to highlight new routes toward the construction of the aryltetralignan podophyllotoxin (Figure 1). Podophyllotoxin (1) is a precursor for clinically employed chemotherapy drugs such as etoposide and teniposide, and itself exhibits a mechanistically understood antineoplastic effect. Understandably these architecturally intriguing compounds have gained the attention of the scientific community and have resulted in several syntheses. However, with poor solubility and increasing drug resistance, there exists a need to develop new complementary approaches towards these important therapeutic agents.
In this regard, the synthetic route towards podophyllotoxin has been crafted to be flexible, and amenable to analog development. A common theme for the newly developed route involves exploitation of the unique reactivity of alkynes, by incorporating recently developed methods into novel reaction sequences. Beyond the preparation of an important natural product with antineoplastic activity, the rationale for research as highlighted in the talk is an expansion of the utility of a unique Pd(II)-catalyzed enyne cyclization method by highlighting its utility towards natural product synthesis. In addition to a first and second generation route towards the ABCD ring system of podophyllotoxin, proposed future plans will be discussed including podophyllotoxin end-game completion, modifications to the biologically crucial E-ring, elaboration of an unusual tetralone byproduct, among others.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2356, or e-mail canderso@bard.edu.
American Symphony Orchestra
Friday, February 22, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Friday, February 22, 2013 – Saturday, February 23, 2013
Stevenson Athletic Center
The Bard Raptors host their annual tournament. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Olin Humanities Building
Learn to design and maintain a herb garden, and how to make the most of the herbs you grow. Learn about the individual cultivation needs of culinary and medicinal herbs ans which will be the best ones for your garden.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
For more information, call 800-322-6924, e-mail adulted@nybg.org, or visit http://nybg.org/AdultEd.
The Future of Tibet
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Sponsored by: Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-383-1774, or e-mail info@tibetancenter.org.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Olin Hall
The performance component of the evening will feature selections from the work of Victor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, and Ilse Weber, performed by soprano Charlotte Dobbs with Renana Gutman, piano, and Liam Wood, guitar. Erwin Schulhoff’s violin sonata will be performed by Helena Baillie and Michael Bukhman. Leoš Janáček's piano sonata 1.x.1905 will be performed by Michael Bukhman.
The lecture by Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss will discuss the unique nature of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, the developments that led to the creation of a Jewish musical and cultural elite in interwar Central Europe, and the legacy of the music composed and produced in this ghetto.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Kline, Faculty Dining Room
Join us for intensive study of the biblical Book of Esther, plus food and much Purim levity. All are invited but please e-mail nelson@bard.edu to make a reservation by Friday, February 22 (so we can plan appropriate quantities of food). See you there!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
American Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Worship, songs, candles, every Sunday evening in the Chaple.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Every Sunday, while school is in session, we have a Catholic Mass in the chapel at 12:30 p.m.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Monday, February 25, 2013
House of Peace, Basement of Village Dorm A
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
CCS Bard Speakers Series: Glen Fogel
something maybe just learning to speak
Monday, February 25, 2013
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
You see sometimes I do get upset in the afternoon. I feel something unspoken between us, something maybe just learning to speak, and then I think, who is for me perfect? Is he? Is she? I wonder. I think he is, I trust him, but though he loves me, he doesn't love me as I need him to love me.
Glen Fogel (b. 1977, Denver, Colorado) is an artist living and working in New York. Solo exhibitions include Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2012), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2011), Participant Inc., New York (2011), Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2011), The Kitchen, New York (2008), and Momenta Art, New York (2006). Group exhibitions include Coming After at The Power Plant, Toronto (2011), A Word Like Tomorrow Wear Things Out at Sikkema Jenkins, New York (2010), Log Cabin at Artists Space, New York (2006), and The Whitney Biennial, New York (2002). Fogel’s film and video work has screened widely at venues including The Toronto International Film Festival, The London International Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Images Festival, Toronto, Chicago Filmmakers, and Anthology Film Archives, New York. He has upcoming 2013 exhibitions at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, and Aspect Ratio, Chicago.
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 ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
For more information, call 845-758-7490.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-7071, or e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Olin Humanities Building
Gain an introduction to the terminology, concepts, and basic design principles relating to the shaping of landscape space. Compositional ideas, abstract and concrete, are explored and expressed through lectures and simple two-dimensional exercises. This course is recommended for students with little or no background in design. Instructor: David Dew Bruner, RLASponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
For more information, call 800-322-6924, e-mail adulted@nybg.org, or visit http://nybg.org/AdultEd.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Olin, Room 102
Deborah Koons Garcia will speak on her environmental film making, including the production of “Symphony of Soil” and “The Future of Food.” Garcia has a Master of Fine Arts from The San Francisco Art Institute. Her film production company, Lily Films, is located in Mill Valley, California. For the last ten years, she has focused primarily on films about agriculture and the food system. Her film, “The Future of Food” was a key element in passing Measure H in Mendocino County, California. This measure bans the planting of genetically engineered crops in the county. It is the first time U.S. citizens have voted on this important issue.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7600 x6020, e-mail rogers@bard.edu, or visit http://eus.bard.edu/.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Conservatory students in concert. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
Infochemistry: Transmitting Chemically Encoded Messages Over Long Distances
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
RKC 100
A lecture by
Chris LaFratta
Chemistry Program, Bard College
In an effort to explore the interface between chemistry and information science, we have constructed a system to send a message that is powered by a combustion reaction. Our system uses the thermal excitation of alkali metals to transmit an encoded signal over long distances. A message is transmitted either through the burning of methanol-soaked cotton string or a fuse that is embedded with combinations of potassium, rubidium, and/or cesium ions. By measuring the intensity at the characteristic emission wavelength of each metal in the near IR, unique signals can be distinguished. We have detected these signals from 1 km away, and the signal is detectable for tens of minutes. Potential applications of this platform include covert messaging for defense applications or remote self-powered environmental sensors. This work, which seeks to encode and transmit information using chemistry instead of electronics, is part of the new field of “infochemistry”.
Sponsored by: Computer Science Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2307, or e-mail thomas@bard.edu.
Anthropology Lecture Series: Paul Kockelman
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
RKC 103
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mkmurray@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Preston Theater (110)
Every Wednesday, 7pmSponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Preston
All films will be screened in Preston Theater (110) on Wednesdays at 7pm, unless noted otherwise. Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Conservatory of Music - Bito Hall & Blum Hall
On Wednesday February 27, the Music Department at Bard College is pleased to present a lecture and workshop with renowned composer-improviser and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp '74:
10:30AM- 12PM
Bito Auditorium in the Bito Conservatory Building
For more information, call 845-758-7538, or e-mail mrosenfe@bard.edu.
Classical Conversations Presents Duo Prism
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Olin Hall
Classical Conservations presents
Duo Prism
Reiko Aizawa, piano
Jesse Mills, violin
Performing works by Messiaen, Mozart, and Poulenc
~ followed by a short master class and Q+A~Free and open to the public Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7587, or e-mail hbaillie@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A lecture by Josef Trapani, Amherst CollegeSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Pavement to Paradox:
Thursday, February 28, 2013
RKC 103
For more information, call 845-758-7243, or e-mail feder@bard.edu.
Adventures in High Dimensions
Thursday, February 28, 2013
RKC 111
A lecture by
Avner Halevy
Candidate for the position in Mathematics
Go ahead, put on your n-dimensional goggles. To be sure, we’re not talking n=3 (for kids and the faint-hearted). Think higher; so high your head has almost disappeared; so high your neighbors are all suspiciously alike and almost perfectly different. As thrill-seeking mathematicians, we’ll go where no man has gone before (well, except for those other thrill-seeking mathematicians). We’ll explore some mind-bending high-dimensional phenomena, including: Surprising methods for eliminating surprises, low-distortion inter-dimensional travel, what the laws of large numbers don’t tell you, how geometry and probability are sometimes the same thing, easily mowing your hyper-spherical lawn, and where to look for your hat in a high-dimensional room.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Eating in Sicily
Reflections on History and Identity by Mary Taylor Simeti
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Identities are not inscribed in the genes of people and populations but they are built in the daily dyamics of the relations among people, experiences and different cultures. Historian Mary Taylor Simeti is author of several books including On Persephone’s Island, and Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-five Centuries of Sicilian Food.
Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail acafaro@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Thursday, February 28 at 7 pm
Friday, March 1 at 7 pm
Saturday, March 2 at 7 pm
Sunday, March 3 at 2 pm
Tickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office
Plays by Cara Chalk, Julia Koerwer, Sarah Mitchell
Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Three short plays written, performed, and directed by women.
Glass Ceiling by Cara Chalk
Female Specimens by Julia Koerwer
[un]Spoken word(s) by Sarah Mitchell
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Conference: Waters, Forests, & Communities in Asia
Thursday, January 31, 2013 – Saturday, February 2, 2013
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NYRegistration is open for the Bard Conference: Waters, Forests, and Communities in Asia
Dates: January 31 – February 2, 2013
All information is available on the conference website. We look forward to welcoming you warmly to the Hudson Valley in January.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7085, e-mail jofrench@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/news/conferences/asia2013/.
Save this event: Women's Basketball Game
Friday, February 1, 2013
6 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts St. Lawrence University in a Liberty 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.
Men's Basketball Game
Friday, February 1, 2013
8 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts St. Lawrence University in an important Liberty League contest.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.
Conference: Waters, Forests, & Communities in Asia
Thursday, January 31, 2013 – Saturday, February 2, 2013
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NYRegistration is open for the Bard Conference: Waters, Forests, and Communities in Asia
Dates: January 31 – February 2, 2013
All information is available on the conference website. We look forward to welcoming you warmly to the Hudson Valley in January.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7085, e-mail jofrench@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/news/conferences/asia2013/.
Women's Basketball Game
Saturday, February 2, 2013
2 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Clarkson University in a Liberty 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.
Men's Basketball Game
Saturday, February 2, 2013
4 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Clarkson University in a Liberty 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.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, February 3, 2013
7–8 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsWorship, songs, candles, every Sunday evening in the Chaple.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
CCS Bard Speakers Series: Nadja Millner-Larsen
Black Mask: 'The Movement Must Be Real Or it Will Not Be'
Monday, February 4, 2013
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1This talk is about the anarchist anti-art group Black Mask, their collaborations with multimedia artist Aldo Tambellini’s expanded cinema environments, and the development of their radically anti-representational practice.
Nadja Millner-Larsen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, and holds a BA in History and Human Rights from Bard College. Currently a fellow at the Humanities Initiative of NYU, she has been a Critical Studies participant at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and a fellow at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Stone Summer Theory Institute. Nadja has contributed to the online magazine Triple Canopy and the International Journal of Communication. Her dissertation, Up Against the Real: Anti-representational Militancy in 1960s New York, explores the art practices and discourses surrounding downtown New York’s anti-art anarchist groups of the 1960s. She has taught a range of courses in cultural theory, and her research interests include contemporary visual culture, queer theory, affect studies, theories of mediation, anarchist studies and critical historiography.
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.
Presenting the Self in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne
Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Monday, February 4, 2013
4:45 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.For more information, call 845-758-7490.
Candidate for the Position in Spanish
Francisca Gonzales-Flores
Monday, February 4, 2013
5:30–6:30 pm
Olin 202Spain and America in Antonio Machado's Early Prose
Traditionally, the work of Spanish poet Antonio Machado (Sevilla, 1875 – Collioure, 1939) has been seen as an evolutionary process, from his more introspective first texts to his socially and politically engaged later works. However, Machado’s social and political concerns can already be found in his very first publications, that is, in the articles that appeared in the newspaper “La Caricatura” (“The Caricature”) in 1893. These rich, but rarely studied, satirical articles will be the subject of my presentation, which will focus on the author’s reflection on the development of Spain as a modern nation and its relationship to the American colonies in the aftermath of the celebrations of the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Environmental and Urban Studies Colloquium
Speaker: John Cronin
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
11:50 am – 1:10 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingThe focus of the spring Environmental and Urban Studies Colloquium is: What does it mean to be an environmentalist? Prominent researchers in the field of environmental work, from activists to scholars, will present their work. Open to the public.
Feb 5 speaker: John Cronin will discuss his 38 years dedicated to the environment and to innovation. Cronin has worked as an advocate, legislative and congressional aide, commercial fisherman, professor, author and filmmaker. He is known internationally for his Hudson River work, for which the Wall Street Journal called him "a unique presence on America's major waterways." He was the Hudson’s original Riverkeeper and the founder and CEO of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries. Time magazine named him a “Hero for the Planet” and People magazine described him as “equal parts detective, scientist and public advocate.”
For more information, call 845-758-7600 x6020, e-mail rogers@bard.edu, or visit http://eus.bard.edu/.
Quasichemical Consideration of the Effect of Osmolytes in Protein Solution Thermodynamics
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumA lecture by
Dilip Asthagiri
Johns Hopkins University
Dilip Asthagiri
Johns Hopkins University
The stability of a folded protein against denaturation or aggregation is usually only a few times the typical strength of a hydrogen bond in water (about 5 kcal/mol). This modest stability results from large competing effects that arise from hydration effects and the intra-molecular interaction in the protein. Natural systems also include ions and osmolytes — small organic solutes — in the solvent matrix that can change this subtle balance of interactions stabilizing a protein. For example, in response to high concentrations of urea, a protein denaturant, cellular processes encourage accumulation of methyl amines, osmolytes that stabilize a macromolecule. Such adaptation in response to chemical, thermal, and mechanical stresses is seen in all living systems. Elucidating the physics underlying such adaptation is of fundamental interest in understanding how the solvent controls biomolecular structure, function, and organization.
Towards addressing the role of osmolytes in protein solution thermodynamics, we have developed a theoretical and computational framework that allows, for the first time, a clear examination of the excess free energy of the protein in a given solvent. We will first consider the main idea behind this framework with illustrative examples on the hydration of Ca(2+) and the protein cytochrome c. Then we will consider in detail the role of trimethylamine n-oxide (TMAO), an osmolyte, and urea in the coil to helix folding of a deca-alanine peptide.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.Towards addressing the role of osmolytes in protein solution thermodynamics, we have developed a theoretical and computational framework that allows, for the first time, a clear examination of the excess free energy of the protein in a given solvent. We will first consider the main idea behind this framework with illustrative examples on the hydration of Ca(2+) and the protein cytochrome c. Then we will consider in detail the role of trimethylamine n-oxide (TMAO), an osmolyte, and urea in the coil to helix folding of a deca-alanine peptide.
For more information, call 845-752-2336, or e-mail halsey@bard.edu.
Candidate for the Position in Spanish
Òscar O. Santos-Sopena
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
5:30–6:30 pm
Olin 205Literary Dreamers: A Visual Journey from Bernat Metge to Francisco de Quevedo
My research study analyzes the work of several Catalan and Castilian authors, who use the motif of the dream as a specific humanist perspective, a literary genre, and a philosophical classical discourse. Thus, this presentation explores the intersection of culture, religion, and literary theory in the work of two Iberian Peninsular authors: Lo somni (1399) by the Catalan writer Bernat Metge (1350-1413) and Los sueños (1627) by the Castilian Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645). Both works represent excellent examples of the use of dreams as a cultural and historical narrative of two epochs: Catalan Humanism and Castilian-Spanish Baroque. I suggest that both texts should be explored in relation to the notion of Christian Humanism, where the use of the dream emerges as a literary genre and artistic philosophical device. I argue that this cross-pollination of humanisms from the Mediterranean world served as a bridge between the different civilizations and cultures. Moreover, as my multidisciplinary research indicates, I include exhaustive visual representations of dreams from the Medieval to Contemporary periods. Through this visual journey, I demonstrate that the introduction of dreams in these narratives is instrumental in separating reality and fiction.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Men's Volleyball Match
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
7 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Elms College in its 2013 home opener. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
National Climate Seminar: Daniel Lashof, Cutting Carbon at Power Plants
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
12 pm
National Climate Seminar Daniel Lashof, Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, NRDC
Talk Title: Cutting Carbon at Power Plants
Read Synopsis: National Climate Negotiations
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail climate@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cep/publicprograms/ncs/speakers.php?id=3755154.
Candidate for the Position in Classics
Lauren Curtis
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
6–7 pm
Olin 204Nymphs in the Night
Performance, Myth and the Transformation of Tradition in Virgil, Aeneid 10
Roman poetry of the Augustan period is full of evocations of Greek song culture. How does such poetry create imagined worlds of performance? How do responses to tradition generate new literary experiences? I address these questions by focusing on a pivotal but underappreciated narrative moment in Virgil’s Aeneid when Aeneas encounters a group of sea nymphs who urge him on to war. The scene recalls and reconfigures a particular constellation of Greek mythic and performance traditions related to choral song and dance. It does so, moreover, while dramatizing the invention of Roman ritual practice. I propose, then, that in Virgil’s narrative, epic gains foundational power from its appropriation of Greek performance culture.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7282, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
7 pm
Preston Theater (110)Every Wednesday, 7pmSponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Men's Basketball Game
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
8 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Mount Saint Mary 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.
Hudson Valley Microbial Defenses: A Case for Violacein
Thursday, February 7, 2013
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumA lecture by Brooke Jude, Biology ProgramSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Candidate for the Position in Spanish
Patricia Lopez-Gay
Thursday, February 7, 2013
5:30–6:30 pm
Olin 205Rewriting the Lives of Spain’s “Stolen Children”: The Biographical Impulse and Social Media
Only in the past few years has it become widely known that one of the largest networks of child trafficking in contemporary Europe was created in Francoist Spain and remained operative until the late 90s. This talk will analyze the biographical and autobiographical narratives that take shape in Facebook groups created by the victims, archival spaces where individuals share information and seek to complete and rewrite their life stories. The new technology changes not simply the archiving process, but what is archivable in a narrative form. Through the formation of collective digital archives, families and individuals become their own archivists--they create and add content in many different forms and media, such as written official documents, oral testimony, familial and personal records, photographs, and audiovisual recordings. Is there a distinctive cultural role for such web-based archives in witnessing history and memorializing our lives, both individually and collectively, in contemporary Spain?
Autobiographical narratives are generally constructed upon the impression of an individual’s past life experiences in the present time: what “might” or “will have been”. As part of a permanently updatable intertext of narratives, the life stories of the stolen children are also marked by the shared loss of what “could have been (and will never be)”. From such absence there arises a collective desire to rewrite the lives of entire generations of people. Could we maybe speak of a collective “biographical impulse” that would surpass and frame the autobiographical in the collective archives created for, and by, the “stolen children”?
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Non-Movements and the Power of the Ordinary
Thursday, February 7, 2013
6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Professor Asef Bayat
University of Illinois
This talk explores what the ordinary people (in the Middle East) do to get around and resist the severe constraints the authoritarian polity, neo-liberal economics, and moral authorities on their civil and economic rights. Bayat will discuss the diverse ways in which the subaltern groups--men, women, and the young—resort to ‘non-movements’ to affect the contours of change in their societies, by refusing to exit from the social and political stage controlled by authoritarian regimes, and by discovering or generating spaces within which they can assert their rights and enhance their life chances. He conceptualizes these everyday and dispersed practices in terms of social 'non-movements', and discuss how these ‘non-movements’, by establishing alternative norms in society, become the matrix of broader social change in society, and how they may or may not evolve into larger societal movements.
Asef Bayat, the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, teaches Sociology and Middle East at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Illinois, he taught at the American University in Cairo for many years, and served as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) holding the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research areas range from social movements and social change, to religion-politics-everyday life, Islam and the modern world, and urban space and politics. His recent books include Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford University Press, 2007); (with Linda Herrera) Being Young and Muslim: Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Oxford University Press, 2010); and Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2010). The revised and extended edition of Life as Politics will be published in May 2013, and so will Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam (Oxford University Press).
This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Project, the Center for Civic Engagement and the Sociology Program.
Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail dramadan@bard.edu.
Hidden Art in a War Zone
Merlijn Twaalfhoven
Friday, February 8, 2013
12 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaComposer and theater-maker Merlijn Twaalfhoven discusses his challenges and strategies in creating Al Quds Underground, a secret festival in the living rooms of families from different cultures in the Old City of Jerusalem. Twaalfhoven will explore the tensions between diplomacy, activism, and artistic quality, and suggest ways that students might become involved in future editions of the festival.
Merlijn Twaalfhoven is a Dutch composer and theater-maker. With his non-profit organization La Vie Sur Terre he produces large-scale projects with local artists and musicians, using music to transcend political and ethnic boundaries, most recently in Cyprus, Japan, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, and Syria. He has received awards from UNESCO for creating intercultural dialogue between the Arab and Western worlds, and several leading European prizes for composers and performers. He has collaborated with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the Holland Festival, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dutch National Ballet, and the Springdance Festival, among many others. He graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory in 2003.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7957, or e-mail rbangiola@bard.edu.
CANCELED: DOC/FRICTION: A Day of Hybrid Cinema
Friday, February 8, 2013
2–9 pm
Ottaway TheaterThe DOC/FRICTION screening and guest event are canceled. This event will be rescheduled.
Please join us for a day and evening dedicated to films and videos that combine documentary and fictional forms.
The Film and Electronic Arts Program and Creative Capital present an array of international short and feature-length works starting at 2pm on Friday, February 8th in the Ottaway Theater.
Visiting filmmakers Liza Johnson, Braden King, and Holden Osborne join local talents Peggy Ahwesh and Ephraim Asili to show and discuss their films. All events are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7366, or e-mail goss@bard.edu.
UPDATED: Women's Basketball Game
Friday, February 8, 2013
5:30 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League game.
Please note: This game, originally scheduled for 6:00, has been rescheduled for 5:30.
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.
UPDATED: Men's Basketball Game
Friday, February 8, 2013
7:30 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League game.
Please note: This game, originally scheduled for 8:00, has been rescheduled for 7:30.
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.
CANCELED: Bats, Balls, and Badinage: a Night at the Opera
Bard Opera Workshop Annual Production
Friday, February 8, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterPlease note that the workshop is canceled for the evening of Friday, February 8, but will resume on February 9 and 10.
Tickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office
Producers Rufus Müller, Ilka LoMonaco, and Teresa Buchholz present their annual evening of operatic highlights by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Giordano, Puccini, Arrieta, Boito, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Cilea, and Johann Strauss.
This year we are joined by some of our sensational alumni, and surprise guests in the Die Fledermaus ball finale. Not to be missed!
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Women's Basketball Game
Saturday, February 9, 2013
2 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts William Smith College in the final Liberty League contest of the season.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.
Men's Basketball Game
Saturday, February 9, 2013
4 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Hobart College in a key Liberty 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.
Bats, Balls, and Badinage: a Night at the Opera
Bard Opera Workshop Annual Production
Saturday, February 9, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterTickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office
Producers Rufus Müller, Ilka LoMonaco, and Teresa Buchholz present their annual evening of operatic highlights by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Giordano, Puccini, Arrieta, Boito, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Cilea, and Johann Strauss.
This year we are joined by some of our sensational alumni, and surprise guests in the Die Fledermaus ball finale. Not to be missed!
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, February 10, 2013
7–8 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsWorship, songs, candles, every Sunday evening in the Chaple.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Catholic Mass
Sunday, February 10, 2013
12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvery Sunday, while school is in session, we have a Catholic Mass in the chapel at 12:30 p.m.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Bats, Balls, and Badinage: a Night at the Opera
Bard Opera Workshop Annual Production
Sunday, February 10, 2013
2 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterTickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office
Producers Rufus Müller, Ilka LoMonaco, and Teresa Buchholz present their annual evening of operatic highlights by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Giordano, Puccini, Arrieta, Boito, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Cilea, and Johann Strauss.
This year we are joined by some of our sensational alumni, and surprise guests in the Die Fledermaus ball finale. Not to be missed!
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/.
Contemporaneous Performs Don't Even
Sunday, February 10, 2013
8 pm
Olin HallThis performance is free and open to the public.
Contemporaneous is a Bard-based musical ensemble comprising Bard students and other young performers and composers. Contemporaneous brings to life the music of our age, focusing on contemporary, young, and emerging composers.
Program:
Sean Friar (b. 1985): Clunker Concerto (2011, rev. 2013) — world premiere, revised version — featuring TIGUE Percussion
Jeremy Podgursky (b. 1975): MINDJOB (2011) — East Coast premiere
— winner, Contemporaneous 2012 Call for Scores
Judd Greenstein (b. 1979): Octet 1979 (2011)
Andrew Norman (b. 1979): Try (2011)
David Lang (b. 1957): increase (2002)
Visit Contemporaneous.org for more information. This show will also be performed on February 11 in New York City.
For more information, call 205-914-9663, or e-mail info@contemporaneous.org.
Classical Conversations Presents Cellist Soo Bae
Monday, February 11, 2013
12 pm
Olin HallClassical Conversations presents cellist Soo Bae in recital, performing works by Bach, Chan Ka Nin and Piatti. Followed by a short masterclass and Q&A.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail hbaillie@bard.edu.
CCS Bard Speaker Series: Rebecca Stephany
A big rat pillow and a furry bunny box
Monday, February 11, 2013
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1In this talk Rebecca Stephany will revise selected projects and works in relation to their potential as gifts. Based on Stephany's adolescent and pre-academic conditioning of making gifts for loved ones as her only creative output, the presentation will reflect on this notion of giving and necessity of cause in regard to her practice as artist-cum-designer. Touching on discrepancies, headaches and little titans, a gift will be made.
Rebecca Stephany (b. 1980 in Wittlich, Germany) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Nurtured by a general enthusiasm and tangible skepticism towards medium specificity and artistic expertise, Stephany’s practice takes many forms, appropriating styles, disciplines and qualifications as needed. Her work includes installation, video, performance, sculpture, writing and self-publishing to performative lecturing. The roles Stephany adopts herein are flexible and range from lecturer, publisher, autodidact, manufacturer, feminist, typist, construction worker, researcher, editor, commentator, production manager, collaborator, observer, author, actor, to lover and friend.
In 2010 and 2011, Stephany was research resident at Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. The Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig awarded her the Inform.Prize for conceptual design in 2010. Recent exhibitions include: Gibst du mir Steine, Geb ich dir Sand, Performance Project Liste 17, Basel (2012); NO DANCING, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles (2012); Magicgruppe Kulturobjekt, W139, Amsterdam (2011); Inform.Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (2010). Rebecca Stephany has taught at the graphic design department of Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam since 2007. Workshops and lectures include: To Have One’s Cake and Eat it, Too, Kunsthuis SYB, The Netherlands (2012); Everything But The Thing, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany (2012); Spektakel – Angewandte Freiheit, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany (2011); Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands (2011).
Making artworks in the form of books and publications has been essential to Stephany’s practice. Since 2006, she has self-published zines and artist books such as: I want to be a feminist artist but I’m not quite there yet. I collected this in the meanwhile. (2012), Punk Is Not Death and other Essential Elements (Light, Object, Observer) (2011), More Abgrund, More Zweifel, Less Pferdepipi (2010), I want to be a political artist but I’m not quite there yet. I wrote this in the meanwhile. (2009), Weightlessness in Tight Leotards (2008) and Archiving Today (2006).
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 ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Candidate for the Position in Classics
Carrie Mowbray
Monday, February 11, 2013
5–6 pm
Olin 202Problems with Prophecy in Senecan Drama
Examining prophecy via the role of the /vates/ (prophet/poet/bard), I focus on the failures of prophecy in Senecan drama. Prophets who are traditionally (that is, in pre-Senecan Greek and Latin literature) successful at being able to forecast the future—Cassandra, Tiresias, Calchas—are unable to give accurate representations of what will come to pass in Seneca's plays. Where prophecy per se is a flawed enterprise, I argue that we find in the other resonance of /vates/ (poet) characters who are more successful and autonomous at conveying privileged knowledge. With this in mind, I look at Seneca's non-prophet 'usurpers' and make a case for what this can tell us about the status of human-divine relations, and about poetics, in Seneca and in early imperial literature more generally.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7282, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
The Photography Program Presents "Seeing the Elephant" A Lecture by Jeff Rosenheim
"Seeing the Elephant" is an Illustrated talk about the role of the camera during the American Civil War.
Monday, February 11, 2013
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaJeff L. Rosenheim was named Curator in Charge of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2012. Originally hired at the Metropolitan Museum to catalogue the Ford Motor Company Collection of avant-garde European and American photography between the two World Wars, he was promoted to the position of full Curator in 2007. An expert in American photography with wide-ranging interests from 19th-century to contemporary art, he has taught at Columbia University, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and Bard College, and is an admired public speaker, most recently with talks at Yale and Stanford universities. At the Metropolitan Museum, he has organized or co-organized some 20 exhibitions and was responsible for facilitating the Museum’s acquisitions of the complete archives of photographers Walker Evans in 1994 and Diane Arbus in 2007. A foremost authority on Evans, he has organized six exhibitions of the artist’s work, including Walker Evans, a major retrospective at the Met in 2000, and Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard in 2009, and has authored eight publications on Evans’s oeuvre. He was the curator responsible for the Metropolitan Museum’s presentation of the exhibition Diane Arbus Revelations in 2005, was a co-author of its award-winning catalogue, and also collaborated on the Diane Arbus exhibition traveling in Europe and currently on view at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. He has in recent years published catalogue essays on Robert Frank, Robert Polidori, Stephen Shore, and Paul Graham, and is now organizing the exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, which will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum from April 2 through September 2, 2013.Sponsored by: Photography Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7813, e-mail dbush@bard.edu, or visit http://photo.bard.edu.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Monday, February 11, 2013
7–8:30 pm
House of Peace, Basement of Village Dorm AMonday, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
=> 2 meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.
First timers’ instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.
Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz,
student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
A Lecture by Ling Li, Candidate for the Position in Chemistry
A General, Stereoretentive Pd-Catalyzed Stille Cross-Coupling Reaction of Secondary Alkyl Azastannatranes and Aryl Halides
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12 pm
RKC 115We report the development of a general Pd-catalyzed process for the stereoretentive cross-coupling of secondary alkyl azastannatrane nucleophiles and aryl electrophiles. This reaction displays no dependence on the electronic characteristics of either coupling partner and occurs with minimal concurrent isomerization of the secondary alkyltin nucleophile. Aryl chlorides, bromides, iodides, and triflates are all viable electrophiles in this process. Additionally, optically-active secondary alkyl azastannatranes undergo cross-coupling reactions with retention of absolute configuration using this method. This process constitutes the first general method to employ secondary alkyltin reagents in cross-coupling reactions. Overall, the combined generality of the transformation and stability of optically-active stannatranes result in a process that should accommodate the broad use of optically-active nucleophiles.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2356, or e-mail canderso@bard.edu.
Noon Concert
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingConservatory students in concert.
We are pleased to welcome you to our first concerts in the new performance space in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building on Blithewood Avenue adjacent to the Avery Center for the Arts. Please note that there is very limited daytime parking in the small lot behind the new building (which is reached by turning into Bay Road and making the first right turn). However, there is a drop-off traffic circle near to the new Bito Building entrance and plenty of parking in the large Meadow Parking Lot on the left just before you reach the Avery Center.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
A Lecture by Elisa C. Mandell
"Representing the Death of a Child in Mexican Painting and Photography"
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
4:45–6 pm
Olin, Room 102Sponsored by: Art History Program; LAIS Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7126, or e-mail aberth@bard.edu.
Peer Review in Science: Lessons from the Arsenic DNA Controversy
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
4:45 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumA lecture by Swapan Jain, Chemistry Program, and John Ferguson, Biology Program
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Art Discusses Ideas: Bill T. Jones and Lawrence Weschler in Conversation
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
6 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterTickets: Free, no reservations required
Join choreographer and director Bill T. Jones and longtime New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler for a lively conversation about art and its relationship to science, history, technology, and current events. Looking at luminary thinkers and creative artists, Jones and Weschler will discuss how the arts engage with, inform, and meaningfully complicate the world of ideas.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Women's Basketball Game
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
6 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in its final game of the season. It's Senior Day.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.
Lecture by Avital Ronell
The Disappearance of Authority
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
7 pm
Olin, Room 102In her book Loser Sons: Politics and Authority, Ronell writes: Something that still holds us hostage, authority has for all intents and purposes disappeared: it has even eaten away at [Hannah Arendt's] title, "What is Authority?" "In order to avoid misunderstanding," she begins her famous essay, "it might have been wiser to ask in the title: What was—and not what is—authority? For it is my contention that we are tempted and entitled to raise this question because authority has vanished from the modern world." For me, the disappearance of authority functions as a figure for democracy in crisis—a way of describing the panic that prevails within the powerful motifs of sociality, alterity, relation. Authority's disappearance in itself calls for a speculative forensics, particularly since the presumed eclipse of authority is not complete but haunts and hounds human relations, holding things together by nothing more substantial than vague historical memory starts.
Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of German, English, and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program. She is also Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is the author of Dictations: On Haunted Writing; The Telephone Book; Crack Wars; Finitude's Score; Stupidity; The Test Drive; and Fighting Theory.
Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu.
Men's Basketball Game
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
8 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in its final Liberty League game of the season.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.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
7 pm
Preston Theater (110)Every Wednesday, 7pmSponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Library Vitrine Exhibition
Album Covers Created by Illustrator David Stone Martin for Pianist and Composer Mary Lou Williams
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 – Thursday, March 21, 2013
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. LibraryAfter a brief love affair, pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams and illustrator David Stone Martin maintained a lifelong connection. She helped him get his start as an illustator of record albums and he in turn created some of his most memorable record covers for her.
Opening Reception Wednesday, Feb. 13, 5:00–6:30 pmSponsored by: Art History Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail wolf@bard.edu.
The Kid with a Bike
Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center(Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2011, 87 minutes)
35mm film screening introduced by Richard Suchenski (Bard College)
The film will be shown at:
4:45, 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.The film will be shown at:
4:45, 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
For more information, call 845-758-7490.
Ash Wednesday Service
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
12–1 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsAsh Wednesday worship serviceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Democratizing Water: The Challenge of Building Civil Society and State Collaboration in Oaxaca, Mexico
A Public Lecture by Professor Monique Segarra
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:45 pm
Olin, Room 102Please join us for a public lecture with Monique Segarra, Assistant Professor of Politics and Policy, Center for Environmental Policy, Bard College.
Biography
B.A., Brandeis University in Political Science; M.I.A., School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Ph.D., Comparative Politics and Latin America, Columbia University. Areas of interest include sustainable development, international environmental politics and the increasingly contentious politics surrounding natural resource management in Latin America. Current research focuses on the politics of water reform in Oaxaca, Mexico and comparative analysis of human and environmental rights movements challenging mineral and oil policies of states and multinational corporations in Ecuador, Mexico and Chile. She has published articles in journals such as Latin American Politics and Society, The Journal of Contemporary Sociology, and edited and contributed to The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America. She has a forthcoming chapter on human rights and the environment in Latin America in Human Rights: Challenges of the Past/Challenges for the Future. In addition to research and teaching, she has worked with a range of international development and research institutions including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Science Research Council. Member, BCEP Graduate Committee.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-7071, or e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
7 pm
PrestonAll films will be screened in Preston Theater (110) on Wednesdays at 7pm, unless noted otherwise. Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Faculty Seminars
Spring 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
7 pm
Olin, Room 102 Jackie Goss
presents
The Observers
presents
The Observers
The land and sky of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire form a varying frame for two climatologists as they go about the solitary and steadfast work of measuring the weather. Based in part on the Nathaniel Hawthorne story "The Great Carbuncle," this film features the extreme and surprising beauty of the windiest mountain in the world. Shot over the course of a year on 16mm film, "The Observers" is based on the actual work of the Mount Washington Weather Observatory—one of the oldest weather stations in the North America where staff members have taken hourly readings of the wind speed, barometric pressure, and temperature since 1932. In April of 1934, a gust measuring 231 mph hit the summit: a world record for wind speed recorded by a human being.
Please join us at 6:30 p.m. for a reception in the Olin Atrium.
The seminar begins at 7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.The seminar begins at 7:00 p.m.
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Faculty Recital: Laurie Smukler, Violin
with Margaret Kampmeier, piano
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
8 pm
Olin HallProgram includes works by Debussy, Stravinsky, Faure and Wernick.
**This performance is free and open to the public**
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
RNA and Epigenetic Inheritance
Thursday, February 14, 2013
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumA lecture by Laura Landweber, Princeton UniversitySponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Candidate for the Position in Classics
Patrick Glauthier
Thursday, February 14, 2013
5–6 pm
Olin 205Lucan and the Limits of Didactic Poetry: The Case of the Libyan Snakes
This talk will explore the representation of scientific knowledge and didactic poetry in book 9 of Lucan's Civil War. During an excruciating trek across the Libyan desert, Cato's Roman army arrives at a spring that teams with poisonous snakes. Here, Lucan adopts the role of a didactic poet and teaches the reader about the exotic African serpents, drawing heavily on a tradition of scientific poems on poisonous animals. The troops, however, fail to perceive the nature of the situation, and the snakes soon decimate Cato's army. Natural historical and medical knowledge fail to assist the snakes' victims as well, and the reader is left with the impression that both science and scientific poetry have no meaningful or practical role to play in Lucan's universe. In a world unhinged by civil war and on the verge of total breakdown, the elegant refinement and bookish learning of didactic poetry look like exercises of purely academic interest, entirely divorced from the world they purport to explain.
40 minute talk, followed by Q&A.Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7282, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Presentation: Play/Chat @Bard
Vicky Chow, Piano
Friday, February 15, 2013
5 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College CampusVicky Chow will give a presentation on the subject of extended techniques in the 20th and 21st centuries. Please note that Ms. Chow will also be performing at Bard on February 16.
Free and all are welcome. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 440-552-6262, or e-mail mbukhman@bard.edu.
Men's Basketball Game
Friday, February 15, 2013
7:30 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterIt's the final game of the season for Bard's seniors as Berkeley College visits Annandale.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.
Men's Volleyball Match
Saturday, February 16, 2013
1 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard's hosts the Brooklyn College Bulldogs in a non-conference match. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Work-in-Progress Showing of Story
Saturday, February 16, 2013
2 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterTickets: Free, reservations via the Box Office
The Company performs a work-in-process showing of Story, a new work created during its week in residence at Bard. Story (2013) uses Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) as the basis for an energetic new work that draws from the Company’s latest choreographic methods developed for Story/Time (2012). Story will have its New York premiere in March at The Joyce Theater. The showing will be followed by a discussion with Jones, Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong, and the Company. Live music performed by members of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra.
Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Concert: Play/Chat @Bard
Vicky Chow, Piano
Saturday, February 16, 2013
8–10 pm
Olin HallVisiting Assistant Professor of Music Michael Bukhman presents a new concert series at Bard, showcasing today's most promising young talents both in musical performances and on-stage Q&A conversations. Sponsored by the President's Office.
Pianist Vicky Chow (www.vickychow.com) performs. Please note that Ms. Chow will also be giving a presentation at Bard on February 15.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 440-552-6262, e-mail mbukhman@bard.edu, or visit http://www.michaelbukhman.com.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, February 17, 2013
7–8 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsWorship, songs, candles, every Sunday evening in the Chaple.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Catholic Mass
Sunday, February 17, 2013
12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvery Sunday, while school is in session, we have a Catholic Mass in the chapel at 12:30 p.m.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Conservatory Sundays
Conservatory Orchestra
Sunday, February 17, 2013
3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterThe Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, with guest conductor Jose-Luis Novo, performs Respighi's "Fountains of Rome," Penderecki's Viola Concerto, with Lin Wang 13', soloist and Prokofiev's Suite from "Romeo and Juilet."Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or e-mail treed@bard.edu.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Monday, February 18, 2013
7–8:30 pm
House of Peace, Basement of Village Dorm AMonday, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
=> 2 meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.
First timers’ instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.
Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz,
student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
CCS Bard Speakers Series : Roger Buergel
Freud’s Desktop (as it had been photographed by Lidwien van de Ven)
Monday, February 18, 2013
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1Objects circulate both within the psyche and outside, in the world. Some objects can be touched and named, they tend to behave well within any given order of knowledge, while others remain ephemeral, change their Gestalt, or even leave the scene for good. A collection exists that displays both kinds of objects side by side: Freud’s desktop in Hampstead, London. With the master of the narrative gone, we are left with a proposition of how to fathom the true enigma—the triangle of cult, coloniality, and modernity.
RM Buergel, born 1962 in West-Berlin, is a writer, university teacher and organizes exhibitions, most recently “garden of learning”/Busan Biennale 2012 (South Korea). Buergel had been the Artistic Director of documenta 12 (2007). He currently serves as the Founding Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich (Switzerland), a transdisciplinary institution devoted to researching global trade routes.
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 ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Visiting Artist: David Gould
Monday, February 18, 2013
7 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingClarinetist David Gould in performance, accompanied by pianist Taka Kigawa.
Mr. Gould is the founder of the Ensemble 54, New York’s premiere clarinet quartet. The group has been playing concerts and commissioning new works since 2008. Richard Belcastro, Hayes Greenfield, Paquito D’Rivera, David Bennett Thomas, and David Bixler a few of the composers that have written or arranged music for the ensemble.
This performance is free and open to the public
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail eswitzer@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
Waiting for Superman
The Failures of the American Public Education System
Monday, February 18, 2013
7:30–10 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaDavid Guggenheim explores the inequalities and injustices of the present-day American public school system in this award-winning documentary.
This event is sponsored by the Bard New Orleans Project and is open to the public!
Sponsored by: New Orleans Initiative.
For more information, call 845-705-7386, or e-mail vh0218@bard.edu.
Environmental and Urban Studies Colloquium
Speaker: Tom Wilber
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
11:50 am – 1:10 pm
Olin, Room 102The focus of the spring Environmental and Urban Studies Colloquium is: What does it mean to be an environmentalist? Prominent researchers in the field of environmental work, from activists to scholars, will present their work every week. Open to the public.
“Gas Rush: A Reporter’s Perspective.” Author Tom Wilber will provide an overview of high volume hydraulic fracturing and related issues, including lessons learned during the rush to develop the Marcellus Shale and Utica shales in northern Pennsylvania in 2008 through 2011. He will focus on rapidly changing current events and social influences that continue to play out -- market dynamics; the anti-fracking movement; Home Rule and other legal challenges; and local, state and national politics influencing regulations.
Wilber is the author of Under the Surface, Fracking Fortunes and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale and has been in the newspaper business for more than 20 years, including 17 years with the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, covering business, health, and environment beats. He has reported on shale gas development in New York and Pennsylvania since 2008; and he was among the first reporters to provide daily coverage of events in Dimock Pennsylvania, which have since become iconic of the national controversy over fracking. For that, he won top honors in Best of Gannett beat reporting in 2010. He now tracks current events related to shale as development in his blog, Shale Gas Review.
Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7600 x6020, e-mail rogers@bard.edu, or visit http://eus.bard.edu/.
Derivatives, Biology, and Other Sensitive Subjects - CANCELED
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
4:40 pm
Hegeman 308Nathanial Burch
Candidate for the Position in Mathematics
Mathematical models are used across the sciences to help understand complicated processes, e.g., the life expectancy of a nuclear reactor, the spread of a contaminant, the risk of a disease outbreak, the sustainability of an endangered species, and so on. In this talk, we introduce sensitivity analysis as a tool for studying the dynamics of such a model and identifying which parameters have a significant impact on its output. This analysis plays a crucial role in informing viable and effective management strategies while also helping to quantify the effects of uncertainty in parameter values. Examples from biology and epidemiology will be presented throughout the talk.
Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Roxy Paine, Visiting Artist Tonight!
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
5–7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center"We first became acquainted with Roxy Paine’s work in the late ’90s and were instantly attracted to its rigor, intensity, and beauty. In following his work, we became intrigued by how it kept changing from project to project: what could possibly tie together perfect replicas of mushrooms and weed-choked vegetable gardens, showcases with astonishing varieties of Sculpey brushstroke specimens, machine-made abstract paintings, and stainless-steel boulders? Paine pursues each project with a deep intelligence—one that draws us in and changes our conception of our relationship to nature."
—Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, Bomb magazine, 2009
Everyone is welcome!
Sponsored by: Studio Art, Senior Seminar.For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail goodwin@bard.edu.
Levy Institute M.S. in Economic Theory and Policy Open House
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
5:30–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 205Levy Institute Master of Science in Economic Theory and Policy will have an Open House at 5:30 pm on Tuesday February 19 in Olin 205 to address questions about the M.S. program. Levy Institute scholars will be available to talk about the Institute's research areas and the M.S. degree.
Pizza will be served.
Levy Institute representatives to attend:
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou (President)
Ajit Zacharias (Senior Scholar, Program Director of Income and Wealth Program)
Thomas Masterson (Research Scholar, Director of Applied Micromodeling)
Taun Toay (Research Analyst)
Liudmila Malyshava (Assistant to the Director, M.S. in Economic Theory and Policy)
Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail lmalysha@levy.org, or visit http://www.bard.edu/levyms.
Organic Beef Farmer and Former Wall Street Crusader Sandy Lewis Discusses "Why Fixing Wall Street and the Economy Is Critical to the World"
In Discussion with Bard Alumnus and Rolling Stone Political and Financial Columnist Matt Taibbi, '92
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumLewis will explore “Why Fixing Wall Street and the Economy Is Critical to the World” in a discussion with Matt Taibbi ’92, the renowned political and financial columnist for Rolling Stone. The discussion will be moderated by Roger Berkowitz, academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard. Following the talk, Lewis will take questions.
About Salim B. “Sandy” Lewis: With his wife of 52 years, Sandy Lewis, 74, runs Lewis Family Farm, the only USDA-certified grass-fed organic farm in the nation which breeds, raises, and markets organic, grass-fed beef. For decades, Lewis was a successful block trader, arbitrageur, investment banker, and consultant, influential on Wall Street and in Washington. He was known for his work with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In 1980, he founded S B Lewis and Company, which established Lewis as one of Wall Street’s most brilliant investors. In 1989, Lewis pleaded guilty to three criminal counts and was barred from Wall Street for life. President Clinton then pardoned Lewis on his last day in office. Lewis has written for the New York Times, Bloomberg News, and other leading publications, and has worked with journalists since 1970 to shine a light on practices he will discuss at Bard. Today, he argues that our financial system needs an overhaul. From banking fraud to grass-fed beef, from market structure to the care of the most emotionally disturbed children, Sandy Lewis will speak with candor.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Economics Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Levy Economics Institute; Political Studies Program.For more information, call 845-758-7878, e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/hannaharendtcenter.
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Morgan Library Preview Concert
A preview of the VAP program for the Morgan Library
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
8 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingFirst Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Dawn Upshaw, internationally renowned soprano and Bard Vocal Arts Program Artistic Director, performs a recital with pianist and Bard faculty Kayo Iwama, the singers of the program, and the Bard Collaborative Piano Fellows. The concert will feature the world premier of a work by George Tsontakis, written for Dawn Upshaw and Kayo Iwama, as well as new works composed by current students and recent alumni of Bard College and Conservatory. With sopranos Angela Carducci, Elizabeth Cohen, Kameryn Lueng, Marie Marquis, Devony Smith, Jacquelyn Stucker, Xiabo Su and Dawn Upshaw; mezzo-sopranos Kimberly Feltkamp, Sara Lemesh and Abigail Levis; tenors Vincent Festa, Hyunhak Kim and Barrett Radziun; baritone Logan Walsh; and pianists Erika Allen, Milena Gligic, Christina Giuca, Kayo Iwama, Szilvia Miko and Chorong Park.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
7 pm
Preston Theater (110)Every Wednesday, 7pmSponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
7 pm
PrestonAll films will be screened in Preston Theater (110) on Wednesdays at 7pm, unless noted otherwise. Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
National Climate Seminar: Mike Tidwell, Offshore Wind: Potential and Politics
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
12 pm
National Climate Seminar Mike Tidwell, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Talk Title: Offshore Wind: Potential and Politics
Read Synopsis: Wind Power in Maryland
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail climate@bard.edu, or visit http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=user&id=64&task=user&Itemid=13.
CCS Bard Speakers Series : Paul O'Neill
The Exhibition-as-Medium, the Exhibition-as-Form:
Co-productive Exhibition-making and Attentiveness
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1The group exhibition-form has become the primary site for curatorial experimentation and, as such, represents a relatively new discursive space around artistic practice. Paul O'Neill will look back at some of his exhibitions, and describe how cumulative and expanding exhibition-forms can constitute an investigation into how the curatorial role is made manifest through cohesive and co-operative exhibition-making structures applied during all stages of the exhibition production. This talk will demonstrate how exhibitions create spatial relations between different planes of interaction for the viewer, and how multiple agencies and actors are necessary for an understanding of the curatorial as a constellation of activities that can be can represented the final exhibition-form.
Dr. Paul O'Neill is a curator, writer and educator based in Bristol. Paul has co-curated more than fifty exhibition projects across the world.
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 845-758-7574, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Master Class: Ani Kavafian, Violin
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingBard Conservatory violin students in performanceSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
Men's Volleyball Match
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
7 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterWatch Bard take on one of the top teams in the country in Div. III when United Volleyball Conference opponent Stevens Tech visits Annandale. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
Scissors, Glue, and First-order Logic with Parity Quantifiers
Thursday, February 21, 2013
4:40 pm
RKC 111A lecture by
Amanda Redlich
Candidate for the position in Mathematics
When is it possible to glue two graphs together? When is it possible to slice a large graph? What does "first-order logic with parity quantifiers" mean, and what does it have to do with gluing and cutting graphs? In this talk I will answer all four of these questions. No previous knowledge of parity, first-order logic, graphs, scissors, or glue will be assumed.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Morgan Library
Thursday, February 21, 2013
7:30 pm
The Morgan Library, 225 Madison Ave., New York, NYFirst Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Dawn Upshaw, internationally renowned soprano and Bard Vocal Arts Program Artistic Director, performs a recital with pianist and Bard faculty Kayo Iwama, the singers of the program, and the Bard Collaborative Piano Fellows. The concert will feature the world premier of a work by George Tsontakis, written for Dawn Upshaw and Kayo Iwama, as well as new works composed by current students and recent alumni of Bard College and Conservatory. With sopranos Angela Carducci, Elizabeth Cohen, Kameryn Lueng, Marie Marquis, Devony Smith, Jacquelyn Stucker, Xiabo Su and Dawn Upshaw; mezzo-sopranos Kimberly Feltkamp, Sara Lemesh and Abigail Levis; tenors Vincent Festa, Hyunhak Kim and Barrett Radziun; baritone Logan Walsh; and pianists Erika Allen, Milena Gligic, Christina Giuca, Kayo Iwama, Szilvia Miko and Chorong Park.
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
This concert coincides with COMPOSERS NOW, a festival that celebrates the diversity and presence of living composers in our society. For more information and a detailed schedule of events and partnering institutions, visit www.composers-now.org.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/.
Fourth Annual Senior Class vs. Faculty/Staff Basketball Game
Thursday, February 21, 2013
8 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterCome support Bard staff, faculty, and students! So far, the faculty and staff team has been undefeated—can they hold their record?
$3 donation at the door
During the half-time festivities there will be a performance by the Bard Step and the Orcapelicans, with other guest appearances. There will also be a bake sale. All money raised by the bake sale goes to the 2013 Senior Class fund, which will go to support a scholarship fund and new benches on campus.
If you are interested in being on the team or donating baked goods, please contact Bethany Nohlgren.
Sponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7454, or e-mail nohlgren@bard.edu.
Men's Volleyball Tournament
Friday, February 22, 2013 – Saturday, February 23, 2013
10 am
Stevenson Athletic CenterThe Bard Raptors host their annual tournament. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series: Emergence of Christianity
Friday, February 22, 2013
12:30–1:30 pm
Church of St. John the Evangelist. Barrytown, NYThe Institute of Advanced Theology invites you to attend the Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series, "Emergence of Christianity," led by
Bruce Chilton. The lecture series will begin on Friday, February 22nd and continue to meet on March 1, 8, 15, and 22nd.
A brief description follows:
Christianity first emerged locally within Judaism, but eventually became the most global of the global religions through an expansion that involved diversity, change, and complex development. Within those factors of
variation, enduring commitments to faith, practice, and emotional attachment characterize the emergence of the new religion.
We will meet at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, located at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY. The presentation will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period. At noon, a simple lunch (soup, bread, dessert, and beverage will be available at a cost of $6.00. Lunch reservations are necessary. The reservation can be made by calling 845-758-7279 or e-mailing iat@bard.edu.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
Cascade Reactions with Alkynes
Synthesis of the Antimitotic Agent Podophyllotoxin via Pd(II)-Catalyzed Reactions
Friday, February 22, 2013
3:30 pm
RKC 115A lecture by
Jason Abrams
Candidate for the Position in Chemistry
This talk seeks to highlight new routes toward the construction of the aryltetralignan podophyllotoxin (Figure 1). Podophyllotoxin (1) is a precursor for clinically employed chemotherapy drugs such as etoposide and teniposide, and itself exhibits a mechanistically understood antineoplastic effect. Understandably these architecturally intriguing compounds have gained the attention of the scientific community and have resulted in several syntheses. However, with poor solubility and increasing drug resistance, there exists a need to develop new complementary approaches towards these important therapeutic agents.
In this regard, the synthetic route towards podophyllotoxin has been crafted to be flexible, and amenable to analog development. A common theme for the newly developed route involves exploitation of the unique reactivity of alkynes, by incorporating recently developed methods into novel reaction sequences. Beyond the preparation of an important natural product with antineoplastic activity, the rationale for research as highlighted in the talk is an expansion of the utility of a unique Pd(II)-catalyzed enyne cyclization method by highlighting its utility towards natural product synthesis. In addition to a first and second generation route towards the ABCD ring system of podophyllotoxin, proposed future plans will be discussed including podophyllotoxin end-game completion, modifications to the biologically crucial E-ring, elaboration of an unusual tetralone byproduct, among others.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2356, or e-mail canderso@bard.edu.
American Symphony Orchestra
Concert Two
Friday, February 22, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterConducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director
7 pm Preconcert Talk by Peter Laki
8 pm Performance
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40
Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. The ASO is the resident orchestra of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, where it appears in a winter subscription series as well as Bard’s annual SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival.
In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.
Featured soloists include Peter Blaga, tuba; David Nagy, bassoon; and Renata Rakova, clarinet—winners of the 2011 Bard College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition.Concert Two
Harold Farberman
TRIPLE PLAY, Concerto for Clarinet
Renata Rakova, clarinet
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 8
Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Men's Volleyball Tournament
Friday, February 22, 2013 – Saturday, February 23, 2013
10 am
Stevenson Athletic CenterThe Bard Raptors host their annual tournament. Come out and support the Raptors!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.
The Herb Garden
NYBG @ BARD 133GAR183
Saturday, February 23, 2013
10 am – 12 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingLearn to design and maintain a herb garden, and how to make the most of the herbs you grow. Learn about the individual cultivation needs of culinary and medicinal herbs ans which will be the best ones for your garden.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
For more information, call 800-322-6924, e-mail adulted@nybg.org, or visit http://nybg.org/AdultEd.
The Future of Tibet
A Panel Discussion with the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Americas
Saturday, February 23, 2013
2–4 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomIn 2012, there was an intensification of protests and a sharp increase in the number of self-immolations by Tibetans, a response to the continued annexation of their homeland by the People’s Republic of China. Tibet observers and analysts cite six decades of human rights violations and cultural and religious repression as some of the main causes. The panel will discuss human rights, the possibility for Tibetan autonomy or independence, and ways the world community can help Tibet to shape its future. Robert Barnett, moderator.
The Honorable Lobsang Nyandak, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Americas
Tendor, Executive Director, Students for a Free Tibet
Robert Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University
Robert Barnett, Director, Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Modern Tibet Studies Program, Columbia University
Ming Xia, Professor of Political Science, City University of New York
Reception to follow. Suggested donation $20. Net proceeds to support The Tibetan Center’s programs. Reservations encouraged. Please email info@tibetancenter.org or call (845) 383-1774 for details or reservations.
For more information, call 845-383-1774, or e-mail info@tibetancenter.org.
Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism
Part One: Coercion, Collusion and Creativity: Music of the Terezin Ghetto & the Central European Experience
Saturday, February 23, 2013
7 pm
Olin HallThe Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College is presenting a special series of concerts titled, “Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism,” featuring music composed and performed by Jewish prisoners in Nazi territories during World War II. Three concerts will feature an introduction by a noted scholar in the field placing the music within the context of the larger social, historical and political background out of which it developed.
These events are made possible through the generosity of a grant from the Bertha Effron Fund of the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley.
The performance component of the evening will feature selections from the work of Victor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, and Ilse Weber, performed by soprano Charlotte Dobbs with Renana Gutman, piano, and Liam Wood, guitar. Erwin Schulhoff’s violin sonata will be performed by Helena Baillie and Michael Bukhman. Leoš Janáček's piano sonata 1.x.1905 will be performed by Michael Bukhman.
The lecture by Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss will discuss the unique nature of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, the developments that led to the creation of a Jewish musical and cultural elite in interwar Central Europe, and the legacy of the music composed and produced in this ghetto.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/.
Purim!
Study the book of Esther, eat pizza, and Hamantaschen, and celebrate Purim!
Saturday, February 23, 2013
7:30–10 pm
Kline, Faculty Dining RoomJoin us for intensive study of the biblical Book of Esther, plus food and much Purim levity. All are invited but please e-mail nelson@bard.edu to make a reservation by Friday, February 22 (so we can plan appropriate quantities of food). See you there!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
American Symphony Orchestra
Concert Two
Saturday, February 23, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterConducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director
7 pm Preconcert Talk by Peter Laki
8 pm Performance
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40
In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.
Featured soloists include Peter Blaga, tuba; David Nagy, bassoon; and Renata Rakova, clarinet—winners of the 2011 Bard College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition.Concert Two
Harold Farberman
TRIPLE PLAY, Concerto for Clarinet
Renata Rakova, clarinet
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 8
Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, February 24, 2013
7–8 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsWorship, songs, candles, every Sunday evening in the Chaple.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Catholic Mass
Sunday, February 24, 2013
12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvery Sunday, while school is in session, we have a Catholic Mass in the chapel at 12:30 p.m.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Monday, February 25, 2013
7–8:30 pm
House of Peace, Basement of Village Dorm AMonday, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
=> 2 meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.
First timers’ instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.
Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz,
student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
CCS Bard Speakers Series: Glen Fogel
something maybe just learning to speak
Monday, February 25, 2013
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1You see sometimes I do get upset in the afternoon. I feel something unspoken between us, something maybe just learning to speak, and then I think, who is for me perfect? Is he? Is she? I wonder. I think he is, I trust him, but though he loves me, he doesn't love me as I need him to love me.
Glen Fogel (b. 1977, Denver, Colorado) is an artist living and working in New York. Solo exhibitions include Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2012), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2011), Participant Inc., New York (2011), Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2011), The Kitchen, New York (2008), and Momenta Art, New York (2006). Group exhibitions include Coming After at The Power Plant, Toronto (2011), A Word Like Tomorrow Wear Things Out at Sikkema Jenkins, New York (2010), Log Cabin at Artists Space, New York (2006), and The Whitney Biennial, New York (2002). Fogel’s film and video work has screened widely at venues including The Toronto International Film Festival, The London International Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Images Festival, Toronto, Chicago Filmmakers, and Anthology Film Archives, New York. He has upcoming 2013 exhibitions at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, and Aspect Ratio, Chicago.
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 ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
On Romantic Music
Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Monday, February 25, 2013
4:45 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterPerformance and discussion led by Jeffrey Kahane of the Bard Conservatory
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.For more information, call 845-758-7490.
A Special Screening: Symphony of the Soil
Q & A to follow with the filmaker, Deborah Koons Garcia, and lead scientist in the film, Dr. Ignacio Chapela
Monday, February 25, 2013
4:45–7:20 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterThe latest film from Deborah Koons Garcia, “SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL” will be shown at Bard College, followed by a Q & A with the filmmaker and lead scientist in the film. The screening is free and open to the public. Doors open at 4:35pm. (Read Huff Post Review) We hope you will join us!
SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL is a feature length film that explores the complexity and mystery of soil. Filmed on four continents and sharing the voices of some of the world’s most highly esteemed soil scientists, farmers, and activists, the film portrays soil as a protagonist of our planetary story. In a skillful mix of art and science, soil is revealed to be a living organism, the foundation of life on earth. Most people are soil-blind and “treat soil like dirt.” With the knowledge and wisdom revealed in this film, we can come to respect, even revere, this miraculous substance. The film inspires the understanding that treating the soil right can help solve some of our most pressing environmental problems, from climate change, to dead zones, to feeding an ever increasing world population.
For the last ten years, Deborah Koons Garcia has created films that bring deep awareness to food and farming issues. For more information on Symphony of the Soil, please see www.symphonyofthesoil.com
Location: Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center in the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center on Blithewood Avenue at Bard College. (http://www.bard.edu/campus/facilities/facilities.php?id=6)
For more information, call 845-758-7071, or e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu.
Introduction to Landscape Design
NYBG @ BARD 133LAN100, Section C
Monday, February 25, 2013
6–9 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingGain an introduction to the terminology, concepts, and basic design principles relating to the shaping of landscape space. Compositional ideas, abstract and concrete, are explored and expressed through lectures and simple two-dimensional exercises. This course is recommended for students with little or no background in design. Instructor: David Dew Bruner, RLASponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
For more information, call 800-322-6924, e-mail adulted@nybg.org, or visit http://nybg.org/AdultEd.
Environmental and Urban Studies Colloquium
Deborah Koons Garcia, filmmaker
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
11:50 am – 1:10 pm
Olin, Room 102Deborah Koons Garcia will speak on her environmental film making, including the production of “Symphony of Soil” and “The Future of Food.” Garcia has a Master of Fine Arts from The San Francisco Art Institute. Her film production company, Lily Films, is located in Mill Valley, California. For the last ten years, she has focused primarily on films about agriculture and the food system. Her film, “The Future of Food” was a key element in passing Measure H in Mendocino County, California. This measure bans the planting of genetically engineered crops in the county. It is the first time U.S. citizens have voted on this important issue.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7600 x6020, e-mail rogers@bard.edu, or visit http://eus.bard.edu/.
Noon Concert
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
12 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingConservatory students in concert. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
Infochemistry: Transmitting Chemically Encoded Messages Over Long Distances
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
5 pm
RKC 100A lecture by
Chris LaFratta
Chemistry Program, Bard College
In an effort to explore the interface between chemistry and information science, we have constructed a system to send a message that is powered by a combustion reaction. Our system uses the thermal excitation of alkali metals to transmit an encoded signal over long distances. A message is transmitted either through the burning of methanol-soaked cotton string or a fuse that is embedded with combinations of potassium, rubidium, and/or cesium ions. By measuring the intensity at the characteristic emission wavelength of each metal in the near IR, unique signals can be distinguished. We have detected these signals from 1 km away, and the signal is detectable for tens of minutes. Potential applications of this platform include covert messaging for defense applications or remote self-powered environmental sensors. This work, which seeks to encode and transmit information using chemistry instead of electronics, is part of the new field of “infochemistry”.
Sponsored by: Computer Science Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2307, or e-mail thomas@bard.edu.
Anthropology Lecture Series: Paul Kockelman
Hunting Ham and Sieving Spam: The Relation between Meaning, Math, and Meat
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
6:15 pm
RKC 103Paul Kockelman is an Associate Professor at Barnard College and Columbia University. He is a linguistic anthropologist who is broadly interested in the relation between meaning, value, and information. He is the author of Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds (Cambridge University Press 2009), as well as numerous articles.
His scholarship has focused on a broad set of interrelated topics concerning language, culture and mind. Methodologically, he draws on his empirical research to analyze relations among grammatical categories, discourse patterns, social relations, and cultural values as they unfold in both face-to-face and more mediated forms of interaction. His research has been sustained by extensive linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork, primarily among speakers of Q’eqchi’-Maya living in the cloud forests of highland Guatemala, and now more and more among scientists and engineers working on and with a variety of information technologies.
Sponsored by Anthropology and Mind, Brain & Behavior.
His scholarship has focused on a broad set of interrelated topics concerning language, culture and mind. Methodologically, he draws on his empirical research to analyze relations among grammatical categories, discourse patterns, social relations, and cultural values as they unfold in both face-to-face and more mediated forms of interaction. His research has been sustained by extensive linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork, primarily among speakers of Q’eqchi’-Maya living in the cloud forests of highland Guatemala, and now more and more among scientists and engineers working on and with a variety of information technologies.
Sponsored by Anthropology and Mind, Brain & Behavior.
Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Mind, Brain, & Behavior Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mkmurray@bard.edu.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
7 pm
Preston Theater (110)Every Wednesday, 7pmSponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
7 pm
PrestonAll films will be screened in Preston Theater (110) on Wednesdays at 7pm, unless noted otherwise. Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7231, or e-mail dsolas@bard.edu.
Elliott Sharp '74 Lecture and Workshop
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
10:30 am – 3 pm
Conservatory of Music - Bito Hall & Blum Hall On Wednesday February 27, the Music Department at Bard College is pleased to present a lecture and workshop with renowned composer-improviser and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp '74:
10:30AM- 12PM
Bito Auditorium in the Bito Conservatory Building
Elliott Sharp will speak about his work as part of Marina Rosenfeld’s Electronic and Computer Music Composition Seminar.
1:30-3PM
Blum Hall
Sharp will lead a workshop in improvisational techniques in Blum Hall as part of "Improvisation: Theory and Practice”.
Both events are free and open to the Bard Community.
Elliott Sharp leads the projects Orchestra Carbon, Terraplane, and Tectonics and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetics to musical composition and interaction.
His composition Storm Of the Eye for violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn premiered in Paris in January 2013; Oneirika for Zeitkratzer was premiered in March 2012 at MaerzMusik - Berlin and Persistence of Vision for orchestra in April at Sonic Visions in Reutlingen. He was commissioned by Issue Project Room to create Occam's Razor for double string-quartet for his birthday marathon E# @ 60. Sharp directed, wrote, and composed About Us, a science-fiction opera for all-teenage performers commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and premiered July 2010. In 2009, his opera Binibon premiered at The Kitchen and he was featured as Lecteur and composer at Ostrava Music Days 2009. He has also been featured at New Music Stockholm 2007, Donaueschingen Festival 2007, the Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale 2007, Darmstadt Ferienkürse für Neue Musik 2002, and the Venice Biennale in 2003, 2006 and 2012. Sharp's work is the subject of a recent documentary film Doing The Don't by Bert Shapiro.
Sponsored by: Music Program.1:30-3PM
Blum Hall
Sharp will lead a workshop in improvisational techniques in Blum Hall as part of "Improvisation: Theory and Practice”.
Both events are free and open to the Bard Community.
Elliott Sharp leads the projects Orchestra Carbon, Terraplane, and Tectonics and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetics to musical composition and interaction.
His composition Storm Of the Eye for violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn premiered in Paris in January 2013; Oneirika for Zeitkratzer was premiered in March 2012 at MaerzMusik - Berlin and Persistence of Vision for orchestra in April at Sonic Visions in Reutlingen. He was commissioned by Issue Project Room to create Occam's Razor for double string-quartet for his birthday marathon E# @ 60. Sharp directed, wrote, and composed About Us, a science-fiction opera for all-teenage performers commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and premiered July 2010. In 2009, his opera Binibon premiered at The Kitchen and he was featured as Lecteur and composer at Ostrava Music Days 2009. He has also been featured at New Music Stockholm 2007, Donaueschingen Festival 2007, the Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale 2007, Darmstadt Ferienkürse für Neue Musik 2002, and the Venice Biennale in 2003, 2006 and 2012. Sharp's work is the subject of a recent documentary film Doing The Don't by Bert Shapiro.
Sharp's installations include Fluvial, a computerized multi-channel audiowork; Chromatine, an interactive string/computer sculpture, and Tag, an interactive electroacoustic audiowork. His electroacoustic composition Cryptid Fragments was included in the Bitstreams show at the Whitney Museum, 2001.
His collaborators have included Ensemble Modern; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; JACK String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats Jack deJohnette and Sonny Sharrock; multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jahjouka.
For more information, call 845-758-7538, or e-mail mrosenfe@bard.edu.
Classical Conversations Presents Duo Prism
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
7 pm
Olin HallClassical Conservations presents
Duo Prism
Reiko Aizawa, piano
Jesse Mills, violin
Performing works by Messiaen, Mozart, and Poulenc
~ followed by a short master class and Q+A~
Hosted by The Artist Fellow Program at Bard College
For more information, call 845-758-7587, or e-mail hbaillie@bard.edu.
Listening In on Hair Cell Activity in the Zebrafish Lateral Line
Thursday, February 28, 2013
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumA lecture by Josef Trapani, Amherst CollegeSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Pavement to Paradox:
Can Urban Agriculture Help Solve Environmental and Urban Social Challenges?
Thursday, February 28, 2013
4:30 pm
RKC 103Kristin Reynolds, Ph.D.
EUS Candidate for Assistant Professor,
Tenure Track Position
Urban agriculture is often described as the growing of plants and livestock in and around cities. These activities, which may range from backyard and community gardens to commercial small-scale livestock husbandry, bring many benefits to city residents and the environment, and are increasingly looked to as a way to address the multiple needs of urban communities and municipalities. However, even as interest in urban agriculture, and its attendant benefits, expands to the point of being considered a social movement, there are increasing signs that social inequities may be reproduced within an urban agriculture system. And, there has been less research on the actual environmental impacts that city farming and gardening may produce. More information about these issues may elucidate ways in which city planning might consider urban agriculture as one strategy to address evolving social and environmental challenges.
This talk explores the benefits of urban agriculture, and some of the paradoxes that have often been overlooked in scholarly literature. It draws from two recent studies of urban agriculture systems, (in New York City and the San Francisco Bay area), to illustrate some of the common benefits and goals of city farmers and gardeners, and to pose questions that challenge the assumption that urban agriculture, as practiced, is a solution to more fundamental issues.
Kristin Reynolds is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Sustainable Food Systems at The New School in New York City, where she has taught courses about urban agriculture, women and agroecosystems, and action research. Many of her courses integrate civic engagement projects co-designed with community partners, and she has worked on urban and rural farms in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Reynolds also worked for five years with the University of California Small Farm Program, a statewide Cooperative Extension program for small-scale farmers, through which she conducted research and education about agricultural tourism and farm management for women and socially-disadvantaged farmers.
Dr. Reynolds’ current research focuses on urban agriculture and social justice in New York City, and the intersections between alternative food and food justice movements, and action research frameworks. She holds a PhD in Geography and a Masters in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis; a BS in International Soil and Crop Sciences and a BA in French from Colorado State University.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.For more information, call 845-758-7243, or e-mail feder@bard.edu.
Adventures in High Dimensions
Thursday, February 28, 2013
4:40 pm
RKC 111A lecture by
Avner Halevy
Candidate for the position in Mathematics
Go ahead, put on your n-dimensional goggles. To be sure, we’re not talking n=3 (for kids and the faint-hearted). Think higher; so high your head has almost disappeared; so high your neighbors are all suspiciously alike and almost perfectly different. As thrill-seeking mathematicians, we’ll go where no man has gone before (well, except for those other thrill-seeking mathematicians). We’ll explore some mind-bending high-dimensional phenomena, including: Surprising methods for eliminating surprises, low-distortion inter-dimensional travel, what the laws of large numbers don’t tell you, how geometry and probability are sometimes the same thing, easily mowing your hyper-spherical lawn, and where to look for your hat in a high-dimensional room.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Eating in Sicily
Reflections on History and Identity by Mary Taylor Simeti
Thursday, February 28, 2013
5 pm
Identities are not inscribed in the genes of people and populations but they are built in the daily dyamics of the relations among people, experiences and different cultures. Historian Mary Taylor Simeti is author of several books including On Persephone’s Island, and Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-five Centuries of Sicilian Food.Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail acafaro@bard.edu.
Senior Playwrights Project
Choice is Power
Thursday, February 28, 2013
7 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterThursday, February 28 at 7 pm
Friday, March 1 at 7 pm
Saturday, March 2 at 7 pm
Sunday, March 3 at 2 pm
Tickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office
Plays by Cara Chalk, Julia Koerwer, Sarah Mitchell
Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Three short plays written, performed, and directed by women.
Glass Ceiling by Cara Chalk
Female Specimens by Julia Koerwer
[un]Spoken word(s) by Sarah Mitchell
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.