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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.
Save this event: Second Annual Middle and High School Debate Tournament at Bard College
Friday, March 1, 2013
8:30 am – 1:30 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115The Bard Debate Union together with the Center for Civic Engagement is pleased to announce the Second Annual Middle and High School Debate Tournament at Bard College, to which we will welcome students from Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Kingston, and all three Bard High School Early Colleges.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://debate.bard.edu.
Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series: Emergence of Christianity
Friday, March 1, 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.
Public Debate: Mandatory Civil Service in America
Friday, March 1, 2013
2–4 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115Following the 2nd Annual Middle and High School Debate Tournament, the Bard Debate Union will put on a public debate on the topic of mandatory civil service in America. We welcome all of our Middle and High School visitors to attend as well as the entire Bard community.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://debate.bard.edu.
Senior Playwrights Project
Choice is Power
Friday, March 1, 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.
St. John Passion
Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Chamber Singers and members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Friday, March 1, 2013 – Saturday, March 2, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterBach's St. John Passion
Leon Botstein, conductor
James Bagwell, choral director,
Rufus Muller, Evangelist and Jesse Blumberg, Christus
Featuring members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra.
With singers from the Bard College Chamber Singers and the Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Please click here for the program booklet.
TIckets: http://fishercenter.bard.edu or
845-758-7900
For more information, call 845-752-2380, e-mail treed@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
St. John Passion
Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Chamber Singers and members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Friday, March 1, 2013 – Saturday, March 2, 2013
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterBach's St. John Passion
Leon Botstein, conductor
James Bagwell, choral director,
Rufus Muller, Evangelist and Jesse Blumberg, Christus
Featuring members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra.
With singers from the Bard College Chamber Singers and the Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Please click here for the program booklet.
TIckets: http://fishercenter.bard.edu or
845-758-7900
For more information, call 845-752-2380, e-mail treed@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Garden Design for the Time-Challenged
NYBG @ BARD 133GAR162
Saturday, March 2, 2013
10 am – 1 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingWant to have a great garden but don't really have the time? Careful planning can help make your dreams come true. This course (quickly) covers garden layout, plant selection, and maintenance techniques that will make your landscape feel more like a getaway and less like a chore. Instructor: Naomi BrooksSponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
For more information, call 800-322-6924, e-mail adulted@nybg.org, or visit http://nybg.org/AdultEd.
Senior Playwrights Project
Choice is Power
Saturday, March 2, 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.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 3, 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.
Senior Playwrights Project
Choice is Power
Sunday, March 3, 2013
2 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.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, March 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.
On Mystery and Noir: Otto Penzler in Conversation with Bradford Morrow
Monday, March 4, 2013
2:30–4 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaThe Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series presents a discussion with Otto Penzler, founder of The Mysterious Press, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop, and editor of The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Crime Writing, and The Best American Noir of the Century. Moderated by Bradford Morrow, the event will be followed by a Q&A and is open to the public; no tickets required.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.
CCS Bard Speakers Series : Matt Keegan
"The State of the Union"
Monday, March 4, 2013
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1Gerard Byrne worked alongside Ed Keegan as art movers for a now defunct company in New York. During winter and summer vacations, Ed's son Matt, then an undergraduate student, would join them. Ed went on to star as Lee Iacocca in Byrne's 1997 video Why It’s Time for Imperial, Again.
In the spirit of intimacy and exchange, themes at the root of Byrne and Sarah Pierce's exhibition, Monogamy, Matt Keegan will present recent works featuring his father and mother. "The State of the Union" will ground these relationships in broader narratives of labor-busting and the emergence of the AIDS crisis.
This lecture is the first of three artist talks leading up to the exhibition Monogamy, featuring Gerard Byrne and Sarah Pierce, opening in the CCS Bard Galleries on March 24th.
Matt Keegan is a visual artist whose work includes sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting. At the root of his varied practice is a strong interest in language--as it relates to cognition as well as its centrality for communication and exchange. Keegan has employed familiar phrases in recent sculpture to highlight the materiality of language and translate open-ended phrases into iconic signage. An ardent archivist and amateur social historian, Keegan has recently begun making short documentary videos that are significant companions to gallery installations. Foundational to his archival interests, Keegan was the co-founding editor of North Drive Press, an annual art publication published between 2004-2010. Last Spring, he edited ==, an art edition featuring commissioned texts, interviews and multiples, published by mfc michéle didier.
Most recently, Keegan had a two-person exhibition, with Eileen Quinlan, at The Kitchen, New York. Over the last two years, his work has been featured at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Art Institute of Chicago, SculptureCenter, NY, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Aspen Art Museum. Keegan will have a two-person show with James Richards at the Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger, Norway, later this year.
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.
Number Systems Base P
Monday, March 4, 2013
4:40 pm
Hegeman 308A lecture by
Emma Norbrothen
Candidate for the Position in Mathematics
Rational numbers can construct the real numbers by using the absolute value metric. Under different metrics, rationals can construct different types of numbers. In particular, the p-norm evaluates how much a prime, p, is a factor in a given rational. We will explore some consequences of the p-norm and what kind of numbers it creates from the rationals.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy
Monday, March 4, 2013
4:45 pm
RKC 103Instutute for New Economic Thinking and Warburg Pincus Technology
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Doing Capitalism
“The Innovation Economy begins with discovery and culminates in speculation. Over some 250 years, economic growth has been driven by successive processes of trial and error and error and error: upstream exercises in research and invention, and downstream experiments in exploiting the new economic space opened by innovation. Each of these activities necessarily generates much waste along the way: dead-end research programs, useless inventions and failed commercial ventures. In between, the innovations that have repeatedly transformed the architecture of the market economy, from canals to the internet, have required massive investments to construct networks whose value in use could not be imagined at the outset of deployment. And so at each stage the Innovation Economy depends on sources of funding that are decoupled from concern for economic return.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William H. Janeway has lived a double life of “theorist-practitioner,” according to the legendary economist Hyman Minsky who first applied that term to him twenty-five years ago. In his role as “practitioner,” Bill Janeway has been an active venture capital investor for more than 40 years, during which time he built and led the Warburg Pincus Technology Investment team that provided financial backing to a series of companies making critical contributions to the internet economy. As a “theorist,” Janeway received a Ph.D in Economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. His doctoral study on the formulation of economic policy following the Great Crash of 1929 was supervised by Keynes’ leading student, Richard Kahn (author of the foundational paper on “the multiplier.”) Janeway went on to found the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance. Currently he serves as a Teaching Visitor at the Princeton University Economics Department and Visiting Scholar in the Economics Faculty of Cambridge University. He is a member of the Management Board of Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) and a co-founder and member of the Governing Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). He serves on the Advisory Boards of the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance and the MIT-Sloan Finance Group. In September 2012, Janeway received the honorary award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to education in support of Cambridge University and to UK/US relations.
This talk is part of the ongoing Economics seminar series, which is dedicated to furthering the exchange of economic ideas in the greater Bard community.
For more information, call 845-758-7075, or e-mail tchernev@bard.edu.
Cognitive Science of Poetry and Perception
Monday, March 4, 2013
6 pm
RKC 102Pireeni Sundaralingam
Sundaralingam has held national fellowships both in cognitive science and in poetry. Educated at the University of Oxford, she has held scientific research posts at MIT, UCLA and Oxford, and is co-editor of Indivisible, the first national anthology of South Asian American poets (University of Arkansas Press, 2010), winner of the 2011 N. California Book Award & 2011 PEN Oakland Book Award. Her poetry has been published in journals such as Ploughshares, andThe Progressive, anthologies by W.W.Norton, Prentice Hall, & Macmillan, and been translated into five languages. Sundaralingam has spoken on the intersections between poetry and the brain at MOMA (New York), the deYoung Fine Arts Museum, the Exploratorium(San Francisco), the Berlin Academy of Art, and at Studio Olafur Eliasson (Berlin), and recently guest-edited a special issue of World Literature Today on the "Crosstalk between Science & Literature". An overview of Indivisible, winner of the Northern California Book Award, is available at http://www.indivisibleanthology.com/anthology/index.htm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail luka@bard.edu.
A Reading by Bard Fiction Prize Recipient Brian Conn
Monday, March 4, 2013
7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumBard Fiction Prize recipient Brian Conn will read from recent work.
This event is free and open to the public.
Brian Conn received the Bard Fiction Prize for his debut novel, The Fixed Stars (Fiction Collective 2, 2010). Centered on the John’s Day celebration of a small community, Conn’s experimental science fiction novel is set in a world that has retreated from urbanism into the pastoral, where citizens afflicted by a mysterious plague are routinely quarantined and reintegrated into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality. His work has appeared in both genre and literary magazines, and The Fixed Stars was one of amazon.com’s ten best science fiction and fantasy books of 2010. He is a graduate of Yale University, with an M.F.A. from Brown University, where he began writing The Fixed Stars and cofounded Birkensnake, a fiction annual, with Joanna Ruocco. He lives in California.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zedlache@bard.edu.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Monday, March 4, 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.
Updated: Faculty Lecture and Recital: Melvin Chen, Piano
Melvin Chen to take the place of Jeffrey Kahane in this performance
Monday, March 4, 2013
8 pm
Olin HallProgram change: The distinguished pianist Melvin Chen has graciously agreed to take the place of ailing pianist Jeffrey Kahane for this lecture/recital. Melvin Chen will perform Beethoven's Opus 126 Bagatelles and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and join Conservatory director Robert Martin for an informal conversation about those works, and other subjects of interest. Please note that the time has also changed from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.For more information, call 845-752-2380, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
A Hudson River Journey: 1609-2109
A Riverkeeper Traveling Exhibit
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 – Friday, March 29, 2013
11:50 am – 1:10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeRiverkeeper developed this exhibit in 2009 in honor of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River. It contains original artwork, historic artifacts, maps and digital media. “A Hudson River Journey,” tells the history of stewardship inspired by the Hudson River, and the challenges and opportunities facing today’s river stewards. The panels tell the important story of the Hudson River from six distinct regions of the river (NY Harbor to Troy), and for three time periods: pre-contact (1609 and before), current era (industrial revolution to present day), and the future (2010 to 2109).
There will be a Riverkeeper presentation on March 5 a 11:50 AM as part of the EUS colloquium. The exhibit will be open to the public for the month of March.
Riverkeeper is a member-supported watchdog organization dedicated to defending the Hudson River and its tributaries and protecting the drinking water supply of nine million New York City and Hudson Valley residents. For more than 44 years Riverkeeper has been New York’s clean water advocate, helping to establish globally recognized standards for waterway and watershed protection and serving as the model and mentor for the growing Waterkeeper movement that includes nearly 200 Keeper programs across the country and around the globe.
For more information about “A Hudson River Journey” or to learn more about Riverkeeper’s programs, please contact their Outreach Coordinator, Dana Gulley, at dgulley@riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501 x222 or visit them on the web at www.riverkeeper.org.
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/.
Climate Change and Its Bearing on Policy
Student Presentations and Panel. Reception to Follow.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
3–5:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaClimate Science and Policy students at the Bard CEP will present their research on climate change this Tuesday afternoon. Please join us for an informative and critically important discussion.
Sara DiNovi
Implications for Pacific Northwest Forests due to Climate Change.
Margaux Granat
Climate change in Southeast Asia: Monsoon Variation and the Impacts on Megadeltas.
Craig Johnson
European Glaciers as an Indicator of Climate: Trends, Projections, and a Global Perspective.
Jada Garofalo
Coral Reef Decline in the Caribbean.
Tomy Alarcon
Climate Change in Mexico and the Societal Impacts.
Oliver Peckham
Chilling Implications: Arctic Permafrost Release of Carbon
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-7071, or e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu.
Katherine M. Boivin, University of Montreal, Candidate for Tenure-Track Medieval Position
"Passing Below to Rise Above: Medieval Church Passageways as Dynamic Interface"
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
6 pm
Reem-Kayden Science Bldg. 102Sponsored by: Art History Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7158.
National Climate Seminar: Brenda Ekwurzel, After Sandy, What Next?
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
12 pm
National Climate Seminar Brenda Ekwurzel, Climate Scientist, Assistant Director of Climate Research and Analysis, Union of Concerned Scientists
Talk Title: After Sandy, What Next?
Read Synopsis: Learning from Hurricane Sandy
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail climate@bard.edu.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, March 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.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, March 6, 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.
Men's Volleyball Match
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
7 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts the Roadrunners of Ramapo College 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.
"Smart Feeders" and Optimal Foraging in Birds
Thursday, March 7, 2013
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumA lecture by David Bonter, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Americans spend billions of dollars each year feeding birds and provide an enormous food subsidy. But little research has been conducted to understand how birds use the food we provide, and how that food influences the survival and behavior of birds. Using passive integrated transponders (PIT tags) and "smart" bird feeders, we're tracking the feeding behavior of individual birds and gaining an unprecedented view of their activity. This presentation will reveal how we use technology to study feeding behavior, and will explore the movements, survival, and daily and annual activity patterns of our favorite feeder birds.
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Massacre, Mardi Gras, and Torture in Early New Orleans
Thursday, March 7, 2013
4:30 pm
Olin 205University of Notre Dame
The earliest known eye-witness account of Mardi Gras in New Orleans depicted a masquerade that took place in 1730. But this description of hedonism and cross-gender disguises was an unexpected twist in a larger narrative. For this episode was immediately preceded by the 1729 uprising in which the Natchez Indians attacked French settlers, stripping, killing, and torturing survivors. And it was followed by the ritual torture and killing in New Orleans of a stripped Natchez woman captive. Most galling for the author of the account was the fact that French survivors had imitated, and even outdone, Indians’ torture methods. This transgression magnified anxieties about the potential for colonists to become indianized as a result of their presence in America. But in interweaving misrule descriptions of stripped, dressed, and disguised bodies, the author signaled that dress could channel Frenchmen’s metamorphosis into Indians, but also reverse such transformations. The key to this conceit lies in interpreting the placement of a topsy-turvy Mardi Gras masquerade in the very middle of massacre, torture and cannibalism.
For more information, call 845-758-6874, or e-mail crouch@bard.edu.
Backward Wives or Agents of Revolution? Jews and Gender in Interwar Soviet Life
Thursday, March 7, 2013
4:45 pm
Olin 201Queens College, CUNY
By focusing on the ways in which one specific group of Jews negotiated between Communism and Jewish identity, Dr. Bemporad will discuss Jewish women’s distinctive path to Sovietization in the interwar period. A wide range of visions of both the Bolshevik experiment and Jewish women’s path to Sovietization influenced the gender discourse on the Jewish street and affected the shifting roles that women came to play in the political, cultural and social life of the Soviet system. Female empowerment, which would have been a natural outgrowth of the Soviets’ commitment to gender equality, eventually met and collided with male empowerment, as Jewish men began to view the “new Soviet Jewish woman” as a dangerous threat to their status, perhaps even more than their non-Jewish counterparts.
Elissa Bemporad holds the Jerry and William Ungar Assistant Professorship in Eastern European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College, City University of New York. She was trained at the University of Bologna and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She received a PhD in history from Stanford University and is most recently the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (forthcoming with Indiana University Press), which received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History awarded by the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide for an outstanding work of 20th century history.
Sponsored by: Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.For more information, call 845-758-7543, or e-mail kuznitz@bard.edu.
Colm Tóibín in Conversation with Fintan O'Toole
Thursday, March 7, 2013
5:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium (RKC 103)Acclaimed Irish writer Colm Tóibín's many books include Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and their Families and, most recently, The Testament of Mary. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. The stage adaptation of The Testament of Mary, starring Fiona Shaw, previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway from March 26th.
Fintan O'Toole, the literary editor of the Irish Times, is currently the Leonard L. Milberg '53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton.
The Eugene Meyer Lecture was inaugurated in 2010/11 to commemorate Eugene Meyer (1875–1959), the owner and publisher of the Washington Post, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and first president of the World Bank. Previous Eugene Meyer Lectures have been given by Sir David Cannadine and Andrew Roberts.
For more information, call 845-758-7448, or e-mail raldous@bard.edu.
"'You Didn't Build That,' or What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Humanities"
Matthew Fisher, Assistant Professor of English, UCLA
Thursday, March 7, 2013
6:45 pm
Olin 102"You Didn't Build That" considers the Digital Humanities as an inevitable and also an already essential part of literary criticism and research as it is conducted today. Offering at once an historical and a methodological introduction to certain trends in DH scholarship, this talk will look at a number of text-analysis and text-editing projects from the 1980s and '90s to the present. It will also expose some assumptions made by the designers of these tools, and discuss the implications of the limits of the tools for the work humanities scholars do. Looking at texts ranging from Hamlet to Jane Eyre, from a medieval Middle English chronicle to the Autobiography of Mark Twain through the lens of projects such as TAPoR, Google ngrams, Juxta, and T-Pen, “You Didn’t Build That” argues for new priorities in the use and misuse of Digital Humanities in our research.
About the speaker: Matthew Fisher is Assistant Professor of English at UCLA. His research focuses on the material and ideological processes of textual composition, transmission, and circulation in medieval England. He is the author of Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (The Ohio State University Press, 2012).
Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mlibbon@bard.edu.
Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series: Emergence of Christianity
Friday, March 8, 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.
Curriculum Conversation: Homer's The Odyssey
Friday, March 8, 2013
9 am – 5 pm
Olin HallIn the spring of 2009, IWT offered the first in a series of Curriculum Conversations on cross-disciplinary approaches to teaching "canonical" texts through diverse writing-to-learn practices. IWT Curriculum Conversations focus on reinvigorating and developing innovative approaches to teaching these texts, but perhaps more importantly, they lead to new ways in which to help students understand their relevance. Classical literature is a case in point, and this year, we turn to the source of Western literature and the second of Homer’s epic poems, The Odyssey. How can The Odyssey shed light on our current circumstances? What does it reveal to us that other more contemporary texts don’t? How do we help students understand that it is full of human urgencies and stories that continue to be a part of our lives today—and are a part of their lives? Writing-to-learn practices are the starting point for a rigorous reading of the text and for multiple readings through the lens of other texts—fiction and nonfiction, contemporary and historical.
The day includes a plenary session with writer, critic, classicist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College. Mendelsohn’s essays, reviews, and articles appear frequently in the New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, among other publications, and he is the author of award-winning books including The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million and How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken. He teaches both The Iliad and The Odyssey for first-year students at Bard.Sponsored by: Institute for Writing and Thinking.
For more information, call 845-758-7383, e-mail fleming@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/iwt/workshops/descriptions/?listing_id=8638440.
Conservatory Concerto Competition
Friday, March 8, 2013
10 am
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterConservatory Concerto Competition Preliminary Round.
Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Fisher Center
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380.
Silicon Drug Design as a Driver of X-ray Structural Characterization in the Undergraduate Classroom
Friday, March 8, 2013
3:30 pm
RKC 115Uzma Zakai
Candidate for the visiting position in Chemistry
Moreover, both pharmaceutical and chemical modifications aimed at improved solubility will be reviewed. A synthetic methodology incorporating a heteroatom in the amino-functional silane has been developed and used to generate second-generation sila-IM derivatives that could have improved pharmacological properties. The polyether linkages can in the silane side chain can be expanded to accommodate varying degrees of hydrophilicity. Lastly, the use of key synthetic intermediates in evaluating the Bruker SMART X2S bench-top system as a means to making X-ray crystallography more mainstream in the undergraduate classroom will be related.
For more information, call 845-752-2356, or e-mail canderso@bard.edu.
Postponed: Women's Lacrosse Game
Friday, March 8, 2013
6 pm
Dietz Stadium, KingstonThis game has been postponed due to weather.
The Bard women's lacrosse team opens the season today with a game against SUNY Old Westbury. 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.
Designing with Edible Plants
NYBG @ BARD 133GARD250
Saturday, March 9, 2013
10 am – 3:30 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingThe interest in locally grown food has sparked enthusiasm for raising fruits and vegetables at home, schools and businesses. Learn how to design beautiful gardens by integrating edible plants into beds, borders, and containers. The addition of these plants to your palette creates new challenges for plant selection, layout, and sustainable maintenance. Please bring lunch.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
For more information, call 800-322-6924, e-mail adulted@nybg.org, or visit http://nybg.org/AdultEd.
Postponed: Baseball Game
Saturday, March 9, 2013
1 pm
Dutchess Stadium, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.This game has been postponed due to weather.
Bard College has restarted the varsity baseball program for the first time since 1937, and today, the Raptors will host Houghton College in a doubleheader. 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.
Conservatory Concerto Competition Finals
Saturday, March 9, 2013
1 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterHye Joong Jeong, Frances Lee, pianos
Zhi Ma, violin
Xiaobo Su, soprano
Dongfang Ouyang, violin
Noémi Sallai, clarinet
Sabrina Tabby, violin
Fanny Wyrick-Flax, flute
Rylan Gajek-Leonard, cello
Fisher Center
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380.
Opre Roma (Rise Roma) Film Screening
Film: Gadjo Dilo (Crazy Stranger)
Saturday, March 9, 2013
7–9 pm
PrestonOpre Roma (Rise Roma) is a club centered on awareness and appreciation of indigenous and Roma, or "gypsy," culture and identity. This Saturday, Opre Roma will be screening the film Gadjo Dilo (Crazy Stranger) by celebrated Roma filmaker Tony Gatlif. Brief discussion and snacks!
For more information, call 845-430-6175, e-mail ip8526@bard.edu, or visit https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/434235589986612/.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 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.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, March 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.
Baseball Doubleheader
Sunday, March 10, 2013
1 pm
Dutchess Stadium, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.The Bard Raptors host the Baruch College Bearcats in a doubleheader. 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.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Monday, March 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.
CCS Bard Speakers Series : Kristin Lucas
Versions
Monday, March 11, 2013
3–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1On October 5, 2007 Kristin Lucas became the most current version of herself when she succeeded in legally changing her name from Kristin Sue Lucas to Kristin Sue Lucas in a Superior Court of California courtroom. On the name change petition that she submitted, she wrote: "Refresh", as the reason for the change. After a philosophical debate on perception of change, and two hearing dates, the presiding judge who granted the request said: "So you have changed your name to exactly what it was before in the spirit of refreshing yourself as though you were a web page." Lucas speaks in conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr and Cora Fisher about the unfinished work of re-presenting these documents through a variety of institutional frameworks.
This is the second of three artist talks leading up to the exhibition Monogamy, opening at the CCS Bard Galleries on March 24th, and featuring Gerard Byrne & Sarah Pierce. The talk will be followed by an exercise in Ekphrasis in the CCS Bard Galleries, in the form of three short contributions which will form an integral part of Pierce's work "The Artist Talks".
Kristin Lucas is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work investigates the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and the physical and psychological effects of technologies on perception of time and space, behavior, and identity. Her video, installation, networked performance, intervention, augmented reality, and hybrid media works are represented by EAI and Postmasters in New York. Lucas earned her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and her MFA from Stanford University's Art Practice Program. Her work has been featured at solo exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery, New York; And/Or Gallery, Dallas; Windows, Brussels, Belgium; The New Museum, New York; O.K. Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz, Austria; and FACT, Liverpool, England, and in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum, The 1997 Whitney Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, Artists Space, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; STUK, Leuven, Belgium, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Bard CCS Galleries, among others. She has participated in residency programs at The Experimental Television Center, Harvestworks, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, P.S.1, ARCUS, Pacific Film Archive, ACC Weimar, IEA Alfred, and Eyebeam. She is a faculty member of the Studio Arts Program at Bard College.
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.
"A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture"
Exhibition Opening
Monday, March 11, 2013
6 pm
RKC 103Screening:
"Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People"
(2006, 50 min) followed by a discussion of the collection with Greta Scharnweber
(NYU Kevorkian Center)
Ongoing Exhibition
Albee Annex Basement
March 11-22, 2013, Mostly open 9-5
Contact Ann Seaton, aseaton@bard.edu
This documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today’s biggest Hollywood blockbusters. It explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding “terrorists”--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypical images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today. Shaheen shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab culture. By inspiring critical thinking about the social, political, and basic human consequences of leaving these Hollywood caricatures unexamined, the film challenges viewers to recognize the urgent need for counter-narratives that do justice to the diversity and humanity of Arab people and the reality and richness of Arab history and culture.
A professor, author, and professional consultant for films such as Syriana and Three Kings, Jack Shaheen, with the help of his wife Bernice Shaheen, collected and analyzed materials which depicted Arabs and Muslims as the godless "cultural other." The Jack G. Shaheen Archive now contains nearly 3,000 motion pictures (spanning from late-19th century silent films to contemporary Hollywood productions) and television programs (including comedies, dramas, cartoons, as well as commercials) on DVDs and VHS tapes. Paper ephemera in the archive comprises of editorial cartoons, motion picture posters and stills, comic books, and advertisements. Also included in the archive are movie/TV scripts, law cases, books and magazines, as well as toys and games.
Shaheen is the author of several books including The TV Arab (1984), Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11 (2008), and the award-winning Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2001, 2009), which the Media Education Foundation produced as a documentary in 2006. He has served as an Oxford Research Scholar and as a consultant for the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and New York City's Commission on Civil Rights.
For more information with the Jack G. Shaheen Archive visit
http://neareaststudies.as.nyu.edu/object/kc.media.jackshaheen
Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
A Lecture by Religion Columnist Peter Steinfels
“Memo to the Papal Conclave: The Crisis in Catholicism Beyond the Headlines”
Monday, March 11, 2013
7 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomThe Center for Civic Engagement and the Religion Program at Bard College present Peter Steinfels, professor and co-director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, in a talk titled “Memo to the Papal Conclave: The Crisis in Catholicism Beyond the Headlines,” on Monday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the Bertelsmann Campus Center Multipurpose Room. Admission is free and no reservations are necessary. For more information contact Karen Sullivan at sullivan@bard.edu, or call 845-758-7571.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Religion Program.For more information, call 845-758-7571, e-mail sullivan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2404.
Da Capo Chamber Players in Annual Concert "Celebrate Bard!"
Monday, March 11, 2013
8 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—The Da Capo Chamber Players present a program of chamber works in their annual “Celebrate Bard!” concert, on Monday, March 11, at 8 p.m. at the new László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building, located on Blithewood Avenue on the Bard College campus. The performance is free and open to the public and no reservations are necessary. For further information about the program, call 845-758-7250.
“Da Capo’s annual ‘Celebrate Bard’ concert features faculty composers, other composers from the area, Bard alumni, and current students. It is thus a celebration of the creativity, imagination, continuing influence and vitality of the Bard Music Program,” says flutist and Da Capo member Patricia Spencer. The program exemplifies this with works by Bard professors Joan Tower, Petroushskates; Thurman Barker, Manhattan Junction; and George Tsontakis, Imagine. The program also features Feral Spirits by Bard student Antonin Fajt, Nkeiru Okoye’s African Sketches, and works by Bard alums, Shen Yiwen, Duo for Cello and Piano, and the world premiere of Daniel Sonenberg’s Delve. Guest artists for this performance include Thurman Barker and Matt Norman, percussion; David Bloom, conductor; and Daniel Vernam, double bass.
Da Capo is widely acclaimed for its virtuosity, stimulating programs, and openness to a wide spectrum of styles in new music. Its dedication to working with composers is matched by a commitment to rehearsing each piece as a living, moving, breathing entity, rather than as a fixed blueprint. “The Da Capo Chamber Players have been exploring and helping [to] create the modern repertory for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano for the last 30 years,” writes Allan Kozinn in the New York Times. Winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1973, Da Capo has been a leader in building a strong heritage of present-day American chamber music and can point with pride to more than 90 chamber music works written especially for the ensemble by Joan Tower, Philip Glass, Harvey Sollberger, and Philippe Bodin, among many others. The Da Capo Chamber Players are flutist Patricia Spencer, clarinetist Meighan Stoops, violinist Curtis Macomber, cellist James Wilson, and pianist Blair McMillen.
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Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7250.
Noon Concert
Tuesday, March 12, 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/.
Driving in India: A Personal Story of Life, Tea, and Human Rights Research in the 21st Century
A Talk by Professor Peter Rosenblum
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
7–9 pm
Olin, Room 102Peter Rosenblum has recently come to Bard after 10 years at Columbia Law School and 7 years at Harvard. He has been working in and with human rights for the past twenty years -- as an advocate, an academic and, sometimes, (like everyone else) just some guy reacting to the world around him.
"Driving in India" is a reflective monologue about those roles combined in what is, among other things, an investigation of fairtrade tea plantations in India. It is a work in progress that aspires to be entertaining while conveying something about tea, India and doing human rights in the 21st century.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail lk2802@bard.edu, or visit http://hrp.bard.edu.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, March 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.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, March 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.
Firefighting on a Flat Terrain
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
4:40 pm
RKC 102A Lecture by Amir Barghi, Candidate for the Position in Mathematics
In the Firefighter Problem, a fire starts at a vertex of a graph (a tree in an orchard or a forest). In discrete time intervals, the fire spreads from burning vertices to their neighbors (from burning trees to the ones close by) unless they are protected by one of the firefighters that are deployed every turn. Once burned or protected, a vertex remains in that state. This process terminates when the fire can not spread any longer. In the case of finite graphs, firefighters wish to minimize the damage or the time that the fire rages. When a fire starts in an infinite graph, the key question is whether the fire can be stopped. In this talk, two different models for an infinite forest on a flat terrain will be introduced and conditions under which a fire can be stopped will be discussed.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Professor David Levine, Director, ECLA's Studio Program
Performing and Visual Arts at ECLA of Bard in Berlin*
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
6 pm
Fisher Center, Studio NorthThe European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), in November 2011, merged with Bard College and became ECLA of Bard,* a Liberal Arts University in Berlin. As ECLA of Bard aims to open dialogue between different academic disciplines, so does the Studio Program aim to open a theoretical and practical dialogue between visual, performing, and performance art, as well as between studio practice and critical thought.
DAVID LEVINE is an artist based in New York, and Berlin, whose work encompasses theater, performance, video and photography. His performance projects have been seen at MoMA, Mass MoCA, Documenta XII, PS122, the Watermill Center, and Gavin Brown@Passerby, and his video and photographic work has been exhibited at Blum & Poe (Los Angeles), Tanya Leighton (Berlin), HAU2 (Berlin), ISCP (New York), the Goethe Institut New York, François Ghebaly (Los Angeles) and Galerie Feinkost (Madrid). Last fall he worked with Gideon Lester and the Crossing the Line Festival to present his performance installation Habit in New York City at the Essex Street Market.
Levine was awarded at 2007 Kulturstiftung Des Bundes grant for Bauerntheater, and a 2009 Etant Donnés grant for Venice Saved: a Seminar, which premiered at PS122. He is a 2012-2013 Fellow in Visual Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. His work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, the New York Times, the Believer, Bomb, Theater, TDR, and Mousse, and he has published artists’ projects and essays in Cultural Politics, Triple Canopy and Cabinet, and co-authored a widely circulated essay on International Art English in 2012.
* ECLA of Bard was the historical name of Bard College Berlin until December 2013.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 945-758-7957, or e-mail rbangiol@bard.edu.
Faculty Seminars
Spring 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
7 pm
Olin, Room 102Kyle Gann
presents
Robert Ashley’s History of American Consciousness
“For the sake of argument, Don is Spain in 1492 and Linda is the Jews….” Robert Ashley’s vast operatic epic consisting of Perfect Lives, Atalanta, and the four operas of Now Eleanor’s Idea is intended as a history of American consciousness. It begins with the East Coast (architecture), where stories from the old country are remembered; progresses to the Midwest (agriculture), where language has splintered into mere sayings; and ends in the great future in Los Angeles (genealogy), where the Jewish energy from Europe and the Spanish energy from Central America meet up again. Both technological and vernacular, Ashley’s operas are made for television, modeled after The Honeymooners and Star Trek, though Perfect Lives is the only one that’s been realized in video format. We’ll start with the bank robbery that is the central event of all this twelve hours of mad operatic speculation, and explore Ashley’s cosmos from 1940s Ann Arbor to the farthest reaches of human history.
Please join us at 6:30 p.m. for a reception in the Olin Atrium.
The seminar follows at 7:00 p.m.
Please join us!
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Environmental Uncertainty and the Evolution of Complex Sociality
Patterns, Processes and Mechanisms
Thursday, March 14, 2013
12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumA Lecture by Dustin Rubenstein, Columbia UniversitySponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Reflections on Mirror Exposure
Consequences of Critical Versus Mindfulness-Based Body Image Exposure
Thursday, March 14, 2013
4:30 pm
Preston TheaterA Lecture by D. Catherine Walker, Candidate for the Position in Psychology
The presentation will focus on how the way in which individuals examine themselves in the mirror affects their body image satisfaction, self-esteem, and affect, and will focus on using that knowledge to develop or improve upon treatments for extreme body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating.Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-7222, or e-mail scalzo@bard.edu.
Ashbery Poetry Reading: Jerome Rothenberg and Michael Ives
Thursday, March 14, 2013
5 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingThe Ashbery Poetry Series Presents
Jerome Rothenberg
and
Michael Ives
introduced by Robert Kelly
Thursday, March 14
5:00 p.m.
László Z. Bitó ’60
Conservatory Building
Open to the Public and Free of Charge
JEROME ROTHENBERG has been a dominant presence in American poetry and poetics for half a century. His poetry has always sought in the deepest realms of human experience to bring a clear word. His poems are marvels of colloquial immediacy and prophetic intensity. His explorations of ethnopoetics resulted in such game-changing anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and America: A Prophecy, as well as studies and translations of Native American poetries. His commitment to exploring the world of Jewish experience produced his remarkable Holocaust-minded poems in the books Poland 1931 and Khurbn and other Poems, as well as A Big Jewish Book and Exiled in the Word; and he was the first translator of Paul Celan. Besides continuing his own work, he has edited (with Pierre Joris ’69) the first volumes of that immense anthology of modern poetics, Poems for the Millennium.
MICHAEL IVES is the author of The External Combustion Engine (Futurepoem Books) and Wavetable (forthcoming from Station Hill Press). His work will be included in the forthcoming Infiltration: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Innovative Poetics. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous periodicals, including Conjunctions, Sulfur, Fence, and New American Writing. The language/performance trio F’loom, which he co-founded, was featured on National Public Radio and the CBC, on radio programs throughout South America and Europe, and in several international anthologies of sound poetry. He has taught in the Written Arts Program at Bard College since 2003.
For more information, call 845-758-7887, or e-mail ccamp@bard.edu.
Candidate for Medieval Position, Christopher R. Lakey
"On the Aspect of Things: The Relief-Image and the Paradox of Perspective in the Middle Ages"
Thursday, March 14, 2013
6 pm
Reem Kayden Center, Room 102Sponsored by: Art History Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail mcdonald@bard.edu.
Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series: Emergence of Christianity
Friday, March 15, 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.
The Response of Aquatic Ecosystems to Human Activity
Assessing River Health with Ecosystem Function
Friday, March 15, 2013
10:30 am
RKC 111A Lecture by Heather Bechtold, Candidate for the Science Position in Environmental Studies
Dr. Bechtold's research focuses on the effects of global change and human activity across the boundaries of terrestrial and stream ecosystems. Human induced stressors associated with land-use change such as agriculture, forest management and urbanization can alter how streams function (metabolism and nutrient cycling) and can be a source of novel contaminants, such as caffeine. Such inputs can alter the structure and function of stream biofilm (algal communities), which in turn may modify retention and export of these compounds from watersheds. Balancing the input of nutrients and contaminants are important to the health and function of aquatic ecosystems.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Master Class: Melvin Chen, Piano
TODAY
Friday, March 15, 2013
4 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingPerformances by Bard conservatory piano students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Forward—An Evening of Dance
Friday, March 15, 2013
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Felicitas S. Thorne Dance StudioFriday, March 15 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Tickets: Free, reservations required via the Box Office
Created and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to use the language of dance, applying what they have learned during their first years in the Bard Dance Program. Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Fruit Tree Pruning and Training Workshop
NYBG @ BARD 133GAR905
Saturday, March 16, 2013
12–4 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingPruning techniques, with an emphasis on fruit production are discussed and demonstrated on site. Try some supervised pruning yourself. Learn about corrective pruning of neglected and poorly managed trees, and techniques for effective training of young trees. Several kings of fruit trees are discussed. Please dress for the weather, wear eye protection and bring lunch.Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.
For more information, call 800-322-6924, e-mail adulted@nybg.org, or visit http://nybg.org/AdultEd.
Postponed: Men's Tennis Match
Saturday, March 16, 2013
1 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center CourtsThe Bard Raptors host the Bulldogs of Brooklyn College in non-league match on the Stevenson Athletic Center Courts. 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.
Women's Lacrosse Game
Saturday, March 16, 2013
2 pm
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexBard hosts Elms College in a non-league game. 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.
Spring Forward—An Evening of Dance
Saturday, March 16, 2013
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Felicitas S. Thorne Dance StudioFriday, March 15 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Tickets: Free, reservations required via the Box Office
Created and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to use the language of dance, applying what they have learned during their first years in the Bard Dance Program. Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 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.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, March 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.
Spring Forward—An Evening of Dance
Sunday, March 17, 2013
2 pm
Fisher Center, Felicitas S. Thorne Dance StudioFriday, March 15 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Tickets: Free, reservations required via the Box Office
Created and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to use the language of dance, applying what they have learned during their first years in the Bard Dance Program. Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Faculty/Student Chamber Concert
Artistic director Blair McMillen presents a concert of contemporary and classical pieces.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
3 pm
Olin HallProgram includes:
Morton Feldman's Viola in my Life
and
Loius Andriessen 's Workers Union
FREE CONCERT
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.For more information, call 845-752-2380, e-mail treed@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/events/.
Spring Foward—An Evening of Dance
Sunday, March 17, 2013
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Felicitas S. Thorne Dance StudioFriday, March 15 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Tickets: Free, reservations required via the Box Office
Created and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to use the language of dance, applying what they have learned during their first years in the Bard Dance Program. Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Monday, March 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.
Speakers Series: The Artist Talks
Monday, March 18, 2013
3:30–5 pm
CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1As part of the artwork The Artist Talks, Sarah Pierce will stage a choreographed 'artist’s talk' with students from Kristin Lucas' art class, Sculpture 1 / The Artist's Body. This short, revised speech uses props and a central stage that form part of the installation, using as a script a lecture delivered between 1905-1907 by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke on the work of Auguste Rodin. In a group reading, the performance gestures a mode that all artists occupy: where speech and the archive coalesce, documentation anticipates the event, and words disturb the finished work.
The performance will be followed by a lecture, whereby Sarah Pierce has invited three speakers to address the audience with short, prepared speeches that describe a visual work. Presented as sequential talks, one after the other, Tom Eccles, Paul O'Neill, and Jeannine Tang offer this loose version of the above lecture by Rilke, where he chose not mention the artist’s name or use any visual materials, for the first several minutes of the talk, but relied on verbal description and the audience’s imagination. The visual image enters into the talk in the reciprocities between words and thoughts, speakers and listeners, language and imagination.
Sarah Pierce lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Since 2003, she has used the term The Metropolitan Complex to describe her project. Despite its institutional resonance, this title does not signify an organization. Instead, it demonstrates Pierce’s broad understanding of cultural work, articulated through working methods that often open up to the personal and the incidental. Characterized as a way to play with a shared neuroses of place (read ‘complex’ in the Freudian sense), whether a specific locality or a wider set of circumstances that frame interaction, her activity considers forms of gathering, both historical examples and those she initiates. The processes of research and presentation that Pierce undertakes highlight a continual renegotiation of the terms for making art: the potential for dissent and self-determination, the slippages between individual work and institution, and the proximity of past artworks. Recent exhibitions include: The Artist Talks at The Showroom, London (solo); After the future, EVA international biennial of art, Limerick; A Terrible Beauty is Born, 11th Biennale de Lyon; Our Day Will Come, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart; Push and Pull, Tate Modern, London and Mumok, Vienna; Research Program, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Appeal for Alternatives, Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen K21+K20, Düsseldorf; and We are Grammar, Pratt, Manhattan. She regularly publishes The Metropolitan Complex Papers, and collaborates on The Paraeducation Department with Annie Fletcher.
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.
Mid-Hudson Math Teachers Circle
Dominoes, Problem-Solving & Graph Theory
Monday, March 18, 2013
4:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterA Math Teachers' Circle is a community of math teachers, math professors, & professional mathematicians, coming together to do fun, open-ended math. Typically, we engage in open-ended, brain-teasing, fun problems that require us to think in new and creative ways. Then, we talk about the math together and share ideas and resources for bringing the math into the classroom. Each teacher will receive manipulatives and other take-aways related to the problems at hand, and dinner will be served.
Please join us for an afternoon designed to celebrate the excitement of math, to deepen our understanding of both content and math practice standards, and to explore classroom-ready resources. For more information about math teachers circles in general, visit http://www.mathteacherscircle.org/
Steering Committee for the Mid-Hudson Math Teachers Circle: Lauren Rose, (Professor of Mathematics, Bard College), Jeff Suzuki (Professor of Mathematics, Brooklyn College), Sheila Shaffer (Math Teacher, Bailey MS, Kingston), Beth Goldberg (Math Teacher, Red Hook Schools) & Dana Fulmer (Supervisor, Professional Development, Ulster BOCES)
Co-sponsored by Bard College & Ulster BOCES.
Reem-Kayden Center, room 115
For more information, call 845-758-7362, e-mail rose@bard.edu, or visit http://www.mathteacherscircle.org/ .
In a Queer Voice: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood
MAT Faculty and Friends Reading Series: Professor Michael Sadowski
Monday, March 18, 2013
7–9 pm
Olin, Room 102Researcher and MAT Professor Michael Sadowski reads from his recently published book, In a Queer Voice: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood.Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7145, e-mail mat@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/mat.
Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble
Featuring Joe Bowie
Monday, March 18, 2013
8–10 pm
Olin HallMusic of Defunkt performed by the legendary Joe Bowie and the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble.
For more information, call 845-758-7572, or e-mail tbarker@bard.edu.
Live Art on Campus
Look for Us and Join Us! All Events Are Free and Open to the Public.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
8:30 am – 9 pm
Campus-widePractice, Process, and Performance Happening All Day
8:30AM-4:30PM: Thorne Studio and Studio South, Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts
Dance classes happen every day at Bard … drop in and observe our daily practice!
10AM-4:30PM: Campus Center
Performances and classes led by faculty from the Dance Program, Theater and Performance Program, and the Conservatory of Music.
4:50PM-6:15PM: Campus Center MPR
The Dance Program will open up its weekly Dance Workshop to the public. Join us to watch in-process works by students and faculty.
Evening Events
You participate. Open to all. No experience necessary!
Campus Center, MPR:
6-7:30PM: Dance Party! Jack Ferver, Guest Artist in Theater and Performance, leads a workshop drawing on his experience with Viewpoints and Authentic Movement.
7:30-8PM: Zamboni! Amii Legendre, Dance Faculty, presents her improvisational dance and music group, Zamboni, for a free performance!
8-9PM: Contact Jam! Amii Legendre will lead a brief contact improvisation class followed by a contact improvisation jam.
Live Art on Campus Day is sponsored by the Bard College Dance Program in partnership with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7957, or e-mail rbangiola@bard.edu.
Human-Dominated Ecosystems: Do Natural Processes Matter?
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
4:30 pm
RKC 111A Lecture by Steve M. Raciti , Candidate for the Science Position in Environmental Studies
If current trends continue, the world’s urban population will double and urban land area will quadruple over the next 50 years. A greater knowledge of urban ecosystems will be essential for predicting and mitigating the environmental consequences of this explosive urban growth. My research uses ecology and biogeochemistry to explore the dynamic interactions between ecosystems, global change, and an increasingly urban human population. For instance, are urban areas important for carbon sequestration? How do urban green spaces influence water quality? What is the fate of soils beneath impervious surfaces? Does greater population density lead to greater sustainability? This seminar will address these questions and others related to the role of ecological processes in urban areas.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Candidate for Tenure-Track Medieval Position, Beatrice Kitzinger, Stanford University
"Manuscript Space and the Material Cross in the Late Eighth Century"
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
6 pm
Reem Kayden Science Bldg. 102Sponsored by: Art History Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail mcdonald@bard.edu.
Bollywood Film Festival
presents
Om Shanti Om
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumOm Shanti Om is a Bollywood musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Farah Khan. It stars Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles while Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade, and Kirron Kher feature in supporting roles. 2007 Film.
All films are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7364, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, March 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, March 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: Mark Reynolds, Lobbyists for Climate Action
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
12 pm
National Climate SeminarMark Reynolds, Executive Director, Citizens Climate Lobby
Talk Title: Lobbyists for Climate Action
Read Synopsis: Responding to Political Will
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail climate@bard.edu.
You Are What Your Seafood Eats
Linking Nutrient and Contaminant Patterns in Aquatic Food Webs with Human Health
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
3:30 pm
RKC 102A lecture by
Roxanne Karimi
Candidate for the science position in Environmental Studies
The consumption of seafood functions as an important link between our environment and our health. Seafood consumption is increasing worldwide, and understanding the risks and benefits of eating different species of fish is critical for human health. Fish from both freshwater and marine environments are primary sources of nutrients, including omega-3 fatty acids and essential trace metals, as well as contaminants, including mercury. This talk will examine how ecological factors influence nutrient and contaminant concentrations in aquatic organisms, and human health through fish consumption.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Master Class: Arnold Steinhardt, Violin
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
4:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingPerformances by Bard conservatory violin students.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380.
Men's Volleyball Match
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
7 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts SUNY Institute of Technology, a United Volleyball Conference rival. 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.
Screening of the Documentary Orchestra of Exiles
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaThere will be a screening of the 2012 documentary by Josh Aronson, Orchestra of Exiles as part of our Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism series. The series is made possible through the generosity of a grant from the Bertha Effron Fund of the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley.
On Wednesday, March 20th at 7:30, there will be a screening of the Academy-Award- Nominated documentary “Orchestra of Exiles.” Featuring Leon Botstein, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zukerman, Joshua Bell and others, “Orchestra of Exiles” is the suspenseful chronicle of how one man helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during WWII. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The film will be screened in the Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center and will be followed by a panel discussion.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Music Program.For more information, call 845-758-7878, e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/hannaharendtcenter.
Foxhunting and Ritual: Performing Opposition and Re-Imagination of National Identity
Thursday, March 21, 2013
12 pm
Campus Center, Room 214, "Yellow Room"Sarah Egan, Ph.D.
Candidate for the Position of Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology
In this talk I draw on my research on the pro- and anti-hunting movements in England, explaining the meaning of the foxhunting ritual in the English countryside, the claims that its defenders made regarding the relationship between foxhunting and national identity, and the rejection of this perspective by anti-hunting activists.
Traditional foxhunting scenes present a quintessentially English image for many audiences, yet the practice and performance of hunting is a politically divisive issue, nonetheless so for having been banned in 2004. I describe the way that those who defend hunting draw on tropes of national identity as part of the justification for the continuation of this traditional sport. I show that their anti-hunt opponents do not deny that foxhunting images were once iconic emblems of Englishness, but assert that the nation is now more civilized and that this ritual has no place in modern England, insisting rather that England is a nation of animal lovers.
I demonstrate the pervasiveness of mobilizing discourses about national identity on both sides through the analysis of movement documents, media sources and parliamentary debates from 1997 to 2004. The interaction between the two movements has both reconfigured the performance of the hunt in the field through the continuous opposition of hunting people and their opponents, and this opposition and the mobilization of discourses have redefined the meaning of hunting in relation to national identity, such that on both material and symbolic levels, opposition to hunting is part of the sport.
Sarah Egan is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. She received her PhD in 2012 from Yale University and holds Bachelor and Master of Social Science degrees from University College Dublin. Her research interests include cultural sociology, political sociology and social movements.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7547, or e-mail elmelech@bard.edu.
Nodes, Links and Layers: How Network Science Can Help Us Understand Our Complex World
Thursday, March 21, 2013
4:40 pm
RKC 111A lecture by
Csilla Szabo
Candidate for the position in Mathematics
Networks are all around us! From our social interactions to the neurons in our brains to financial markets, we find network structure. Network science can help us to better understand how these complex systems in our world work. We will begin our discussion with a brief introduction to network science; including the components of a network, how we measure the center of a network and other network metrics. I will present some interesting applications of network science that you may encounter in your daily life. Finally, I will conclude with an overview of three ongoing projects in network science. The first looks at how use network structure to classify a financial market. Second, we will explore how Twitter can be used to predict an event such as a protest or revolution during the time of the Arab Spring. Finally, I will present a project examining the links between water, energy and social networks in developing countries and plans of how this multi-layered network can be synchronized to build a resilient and robust network, which could supply more people with these resources.
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-7104, or e-mail cullinan@bard.edu.
Lenten Luncheon Lecture Series: Emergence of Christianity
Friday, March 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.
Intramolecular H-bonding in Aromatic Oligoamide Foldamers
Friday, March 22, 2013
3:30 pm
RKC 115Jessica Geer
Candidate for the position in Chemistry
A comprehensive ab initio study followed by a Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis has been performed on diarylamide model compounds. Our analysis demonstrates to what extent cooperativity between shared H-bonds exist in these types of foldamer units. Using our torsional profile and NBO analysis, we will discuss cooperativity of the shared H-bonds. In addition, a realistic assessment of the torsional distributions is necessary to accurately describe the behavior of the model compounds in various environments.
Therefore, following quantum mechanic analysis, molecular dynamic simulations were performed in the gas phase, methanol, chloroform and water solvent systems. Torsional parameters obtained from ab initio calculations were applied to the general AMBER force field (GAFF).
For more information, call 845-752-2356, or e-mail canderso@bard.edu.
Women's Lacrosse Game
Friday, March 22, 2013
6 pm
Marist College, PoughkeepsieThe women's lacrosse team will play against SUNY Institute of Technology in a non-league game at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. 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.
Degree Recital: Christopher Carroll, Trumpet
Friday, March 22, 2013
8 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingChristopher Carroll, trumpet, was born in Rotterdam, Holland, and grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire. He began taking trumpet lessons at the age of six. After participating in the New Hampshire All-State and New England Music festivals and playing in the Vermont Youth Orchestra in High School, he started studying trumpet with Mark Gould at the Bard Conservatory. He has worked with noted musicians including Trent Austin, Stephen Burns, and Edward Carroll, and has attended the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Orford Music Festival, and The Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-752-2380, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.
Spring Recess
Saturday, March 23, 2013 – Sunday, March 31, 2013
Bard College CampusFor more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail enelson@bard.edu.
Men's Volleyball Matches
Saturday, March 23, 2013
12 pm
Stevenson Athletic CenterBard hosts its final home matches of the 2013 season, taking on SUNY Purchase at noon, then CCNY at 4 p.m. CCNY and Purchase will play each other at 2 p.m. 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.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 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.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, March 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.
Spring Recess
Sunday, March 24, 2013
6 am – 6 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail enelson@bard.edu.
2013 Spring Exhibitions and Projects
"less like an object more like the weather"
Sunday, March 24, 2013 – Sunday, May 26, 2013
1–4 pm
Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) presents 14 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions as part of the requirements for the master of arts degree.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.
Exhibit: Monogamy
Sunday, March 24, 2013 – Sunday, May 26, 2013
1–4 pm
CCS Bard GalleriesAn exhibition featuring the works of Gerard Byrne and Sarah Pierce. Curated by Tirdad Zolghadr.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.
Buddhist Meditation Group
Monday, March 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.
Spring Recess
Monday, March 25, 2013
6 am – 6 pm
For more information, call 845-758-7512, or e-mail edavis@bard.edu.
Spring Recess
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
6 am – 6 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spanish Film Screening
Span/ Film 234. Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar: Spanish Auteurs
Wednesday, March 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.
Spring Recess
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
6 am – 6 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail enelson@bard.edu.
Spring Recess
Thursday, March 28, 2013
6 am – 6 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail enelson@bard.edu.
Spring Recess
Friday, March 29, 2013
6 am – 6 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail enelson@bard.edu.
Spring Recess
Saturday, March 30, 2013
6 am – 6 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail enelson@bard.edu.
Catholic Mass on Campus
Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 31, 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.
Evensong Service
Sunday Evening Worship Service
Sunday, March 31, 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.
Spring Recess
Sunday, March 31, 2013
6 am – 6 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail enelson@bard.edu.