Dear Miss Beeman: Letters and Paintings by Xavier Martinez

Thursday, October 3, 2013 – Thursday, November 14, 2013
9 am – 9 pm

Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 3, 4:00–6:00 pmSponsored by: Art History Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.

For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail mcdonald@bard.edu.

Christianity as World Religion, from Constantine the Great to Elizabeth I

Friday, November 1, 2013
12:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Rd. Barrytown, NY

When the Roman Empire changed its view of Christianity, from persecuting it as a *superstitio* to accepting that it was a *religio*, the Church acclaimed Constantine as an agent of God. He returned the favor by a steady increase of privileges for Catholics, until the Empire became a Christian preserve. Once the connection between Church and State was forged, however, it provoked a series of unintended consequences that included the Reformation. That process saw the emergence of a Protestant empire at odds with Catholic claimants to the mantle of Constantine.

The lecture series begins on Friday, October 4, and continues on the
following Fridays: October 11, 18, 25, and November 1. All lectures in the series are sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Theology and take place at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY. Lunch is at noon consisting of soup, bread, dessert, coffee and tea at a cost of $6.00. The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.

For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.

Teaching the Sustainability Imperative in Any Class

A workshop for professors in EUS and beyond

Friday, November 1, 2013
1–5 pm

Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Office of Sustainability; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jofrench@bard.edu.

Mid-Hudson Math Conference for Undergraduates

Saturday, November 2, 2013
9 am – 5 pm

Reem-Kayden Center
Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail mhmcu2013@gmail.com, or visit http://math.bard.edu/mhmc2013/.

Liberty League Men's & Women's Cross Country Championships

Come out and support Bard

Saturday, November 2, 2013
12 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field
The 2013 Liberty League Men's & Women's Cross Country Championships are being hosted by Bard for the first time. Come out and cheer on the Raptors as they battle league rivals in a test of speed and endurance.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 Faculty/Student Chamber Concert

Sunday, November 3, 2013
3 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Concert features Bard Conservatory faculty Laura Flax, Robert Martin, and members of So Percussion in collaboration with Conservatory students performing works by Mozart, Dvorak, Cage/Harrison, and Lukas Ligeti.

Free concert.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-752-2380, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Evensong Service

Sunday Evening Worship Service

Sunday, November 3, 2013
7–8 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Ancient Ritual Blessing of the Light from the second century AD with music and candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.

The Visitor Talks : Mary Anne Staniszewski

Monday, November 4, 2013
3–5 pm

CCS Bard Seminar Room 1

Mary Anne Staniszewski will respond to the questions posed for the CCS Bard’s “The Visitor Talks” series Pre-ambulation and Retrospection by first addressing the recent adoption of curating within a broad range of cultural, media, disciplinary, and political contexts, and the expansion of research as a synonym for art and curatorial practices. She will link these developments to curation within the arts and an investigation of what she has called “the power of display,” which is intended to serve as a method for institutional critique. Staniszewski will then re-evaluate and update her research on the Museum of Modern Art in dialogue with her past and present projects, such as those dealing with the New York City cultural center, Exit Art (1982-2012), and the book she is completing, which is a contemporary-historical portrait of the United States that examines issues of slavery and race.

Mary Anne Staniszewski investigates culture and art in relation to political and social perspectives. Her books include: Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art (Penguin USA, 1995; Korean translation: Hyunsil Cultural Studies, Hyun Sil Moon Hwayonju, 2000 and 2007) and The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art (MIT Press, 1998; Korean translation, designLocus, 2007).

Staniszewski has overseen a number of publications and projects related to the New York City cultural center, Exit Art, which closed in June 2012. She has co-edited with Lauren Rosati the exhibition catalogue, Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010 (Exit Art and MIT Press, 2012) and conceived the symposium, Contemporary Slavery (June, 11, 2011), which was organized in collaboration with Exit Art’s staff and produced in conjunction with Exit Art’s 2011 Contemporary Slavery exhibition. Staniszewski was the director of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator and was executive editor of the curatorial program’s catalogue, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, editors/curators, Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee (Exit Art and AK Press, 2010). She is overseeing the publication of a history of Exit Art in collaboration with Exit Art’s founding co-director, Papo Colo, Unfinished Memories: 30 Years of Exit Art to be published by Stiedl.

Staniszewski is completing a contemporary-historical portrait of the United States, which examines issues of slavery and race. She has Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, and is an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.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/view/calendar/the-visitor-talks-pre-ambulation-and-retrospection/.

Italian Film Festival

“Neorealism and …Beyond”

Monday, November 4, 2013
6:30–8 pm

Preston Theater

Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. This Fall, films will be screened every MONDAY, in PRESTON THEATER 110, at 6:30pm.

Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail acafaro@bard.edu.

Elena Sisto Presents Her Work

Tuesday, November 5, 2013
5–7 pm

Fisher Studio Arts Building

Everyone welcome!
Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail goodwin@bard.edu.

National Climate Seminar: The Social Cost of Carbon Just Went Up

Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate & Clean Air Program, Natural Resources Defense Council

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
12 pm

Laurie Johnson, chief economist at NRDC's climate and clean energy program in D.C., joined us on the National Climate Seminar to talk about the SCC and her work on modeling the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

Listen to the call here:Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

For more information, call 845-758-7071, e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cep/ncs.

Reading and/or Rereading Proust

A lecture by Antoine Compagnon

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
5 pm

Olin, Room 102
Antoine Compagnon is the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2006, he was elected professor at the prestigious Collège de France (Chair of French Modern & Contemporary Literature: History, Criticism and History). He studies literary representations in three main areas: Renaissance, late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, theory of literature and history of criticism. Among his many very influential books: Les Antimodernes (2005), Le démon de la théorie (2008), Les cinq paradoxes de la modernité (1990), Proust entre deux siècles (1989), La seconde main ou le travail de la citation (1979)

His latest books, a novel and an essay respectively entitled La classe de rhéto and Un été avec Montaigne, were published in 2012 and 2013.

Sponsored by: French Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail vanzuyle@bard.edu.

Bard MAT: Meet the MAT Open House

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
6 pm

MAT Building
Faculty and staff will be meeting with prospective students at the MAT building in Red Hook to talk about the Master of Arts in Teaching degree program! Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7145, e-mail cmaple@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/mat.

Wittgenstein's Exceptional Logic

Laurence Goldstein
University of Kent UK

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
6:30 pm

Hegeman 102

Wittgenstein’s early writings on logic, though of great historical interest, are, for the most part, only of historical interest. He was not much of a formal logician (though he did bequeath us the truth-table method) and, in the philosophy of logic, though he made telling, sometimes devastating, criticisms of distinguished contemporaries, there is no theory of his that continues to animate modern debate in the way that (say) Frege’s theory of sense and reference or Russell’s theory of definite descriptions do. What I wish to argue here is that there is at least one theory proposed by Wittgenstein in the philosophy of logic that ought to be as highly regarded and influential as any contribution made to the field by Frege or Russell. The theory to which I refer concerns the nature of logical so-called propositions. It makes its first appearance in the 1913 Notes on Logic and is further elaborated in the Tractatus, where tautologies and contradictions are accorded a ‘unique status’ (T 6.112).

What Wittgenstein claims is that logical propositions are without content; they lack any truth-value and are not propositions (any more than rocking horses are real horses). In this paper, I shall say something about how Wittgenstein arrived at this claim and shall try to show that, contrary to first appearances, it is highly plausible. I’ll go on briefly to explore what a logic that makes exceptions of tautologies and contradictions (hence: an exceptional logic) looks like, and finally, I shall show how powerful this logico-philosophical apparatus is by demonstrating its capacity to solve some long-standing paradoxes.

Professor Laurence Goldstein (University of Kent, UK) spends most of his waking hours, and many of his dreams, thinking about paradoxes. He has published extensively on the subject and is currently writing a book, *The Liar, the Bald Man and the Hangman*. He is also a specialist on Wittgenstein about whom he has written a book, *Clear and Queer Thinking: The Development of Wittgenstein's Thought and its Relevance to Modern Philosophy* and also a play re-creating Wittgenstein's Ph.D. defense (he fails). He is the editor of a Monist volume on the philosophy of humor. Most recently, Laurence has edited a collection of essays called Brevity, so expect his presentation to be concise and to the point.

 

Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7535, or e-mail hagberg@bard.edu.

The Fall 2013 Latino/a Film Series

All are welcome!
(Films are in English or in Spanish with English subtitles)

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
7–9 pm

Preston Theater

Sponsored by: LAIS Program; LASO; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7664, or e-mail mrodrig@bard.edu.

Revisiting Gezi Protests and Authoritarianism in Turkey

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
7:15 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

Aslı Iğsız

Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University

Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6430, or e-mail ocheta@bard.edu.

Bard Underground: A New Approach to Campus Architecture

With Adam Kalkin and Matthew Quilty

Thursday, November 7, 2013
6 pm

Olin, Room 205
Architect Adam Kalkin and his business partner Matthew Quilty discuss their work designing and building sustainable architecture, including the new Alden Trust Digital Media Lab to be built at Bard in 2014. Their talk will discuss their methods, philosophy, previous projects, and reveal preliminary designs for the Digital Media Lab, which they have been developing together with Bard students, faculty, and staff.

Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7697, e-mail mcecire@bard.edu, or visit http://eh.bard.edu.

Documentary: "The Long Game: Texas’ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom"

A Radio Documentary Listening Session and Panel Discussion

Thursday, November 7, 2013
7–9 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Award-winning Hudson Valley journalist Trey Kay will present his new radio documentary The Long Game: Texas’ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom, which delves into the culture war battles over public school curriculum content that have ebbed and flowed in the Lone Star State for the past 50 years. “While there have been fights over just about every academic subject debates over history, evolution, God, and country generate the most heat," says Kay.

Following the presentation there will be a panel including Kay and Josh Hatala, graduate of the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program and a doctoral candidate in the History Department of the University at Albany, who for over ten years he has taught in both private and public high schools. The discussion will be moderated by Richard Aldous.

Kurt Andersen, cofounder of Spy Magazine and host of PRI’s Studio 360, calls Long Game “scrupulously reported and beautifully produced” and “a rigorous, fair-minded, and illuminating exploration of one of America’s fundamental challenges.”

Trey Kay is producer of The Great Textbook War, a radio report about the 1974 Kanawha textbook controversy, which was honored with Peabody, Murrow, and DuPont awards. Kay has contributed numerous reports to national programs, including This American Life, Marketplace, Morning Edition, American RadioWorks, and Studio 360.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Cannan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2485.

Contemporary Fiction Series with Booker Prize Winner Eleanor Catton

Thursday, November 7, 2013
7:30–8:30 pm

Bard Chapel
This October, Eleanor Catton made history in two ways when she became, at 28, the youngest person to ever receive the Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries, which is also the longest book to receive the prize. The Luminaries is a sprawling masterpiece, marrying an experimental structure with an old-fashioned narrative, in a truly unique and idiosyncratic work of art. Catton will read from The Luminaries on this night.Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7600, or e-mail bhale@bard.edu.

Artists in Antarctica

Environmental artists Chris Kendall '82 and Elise Engler discuss their work on the cold continent

Friday, November 8, 2013
11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room
Friday, November 8, 2013 at 11:30 am Chris Kendall will discuss his photography work made while in Antarctica, and at 12:00 pm Elise Engler will discuss her artwork done while in Antarctica.

Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room

Everyone welcome!

*Co-sponsored by EUS and Studio Arts with support from a Bard
Mellon-Supported Course Development Award.

www.chriskendall.net
and
www.eliseengler.com
Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Studio Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail edriscol@bard.edu, or visit http://eus.bard.edu.

Dancing with Horses

Friday, November 8, 2013
12–1 pm

Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Choreographer and maker of Equus Project, JoAnna Shaw, will talk and share some video of her work. She's been working with dancers, horses and performance for many years. Of special interest to those interested in site-specific performance, the relationship between animals and humans, or art and healing.
For more information, call 914-522-6457, or e-mail jg7401@bard.edu.

Dance Program presents 
Moderation Dance Concert

Friday, November 8, 2013
7:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Free admission—reservations via the Box Office

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some
dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program. 
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Dance Program presents 
Moderation Dance Concert

Saturday, November 9, 2013
7:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Free admission—reservations via the Box Office

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the 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, November 10, 2013
7–8 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Ancient Ritual Blessing of the Light from the second century AD with music and candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.

Dance Program presents 
Moderation Dance Concert

Sunday, November 10, 2013
2 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Free admission—reservations via the Box Office

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some
dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program. 
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Conservatory Sundays: Conservatory Orchestra

Sunday, November 10, 2013
3 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage
Suggested donation: $20 (orchestra seating); $15 (parterre / first balcony); Free to the Bard community with ID. 

Leon Botstein, music director

Program

Rossini
Overture to William Tell

Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141

Wagner
"Siegfried's Funeral March" from Götterdämmerung


Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Fisher Center.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

An Evening of Spiritual Chant

An engaging and inspiring evening of chanting for people of all backgrounds

Sunday, November 10, 2013
7–8:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Join us for an evening of spiritual chanting for people of all backgrounds. The chants will be taught and led by our guest, Cantor Meredith Greenberg. No experience necessary! Sponsored by the Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.

Dance Program presents 
Moderation Dance Concert

Sunday, November 10, 2013
7:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Free admission—reservations via the Box Office

Box office opens September 3. 

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some
dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program. 
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Italian Film Festival

“Neorealism and …Beyond”

Monday, November 11, 2013
6:30–8 pm

Preston Theater

Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. This Fall, films will be screened every MONDAY, in PRESTON THEATER 110, at 6:30pm.

Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail acafaro@bard.edu.

Privacy and Freedom of Information in the Age of Digital Journalism

A Panel with Azmat Khan, Noorain Khan, and Nabiha Syed

Monday, November 11, 2013
6 pm

Olin, Room 102
This dynamic panel of journalists and lawyers includes reporter and senior digital producer Azmat Khan (Al Jazeera America, formerly at Frontline), attorney/blogger Noorain Khan (Jezebel/Gawker Media), and attorney/writer Nabiha Syed (NYTimes, Slate, DroneU).Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7697, e-mail mcecire@bard.edu, or visit http://eh.bard.edu.

How has ‘1989’ Changed Writing?

A Reading and Discussion (in German & English) On the Aftermath of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Monday, November 11, 2013
7:30 pm

Bard Hall

With Distinguished German Writer Uwe Kolbe 
and Tenor Rufus Müller (reading the English voice)

 His new novel “Indolence” is the most significant book of contemporary German literature reflecting on the aftermath of ‘1989’ and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Uwe Kolbe’s reading at Bard will be a world premiere. For his stirring book about a young man and emerging composer seeking to find his tone under the intricate conditions of dictatorship will come out only in spring of 2014. Kolbe will read from the German original, while distinguished tenor and Bard Music Professor Rufus Müller will read the English voice; the translation by acclaimed New York writer and translator Anne Posten was commissioned by the German publisher S. Fischer Verlag especially for this event.

Uwe Kolbe is an eminent poet, essayist, writer of prose, and translator. His first volume of poetry, “Hineingeboren,” (“Born Into”) appeared in East Berlin in 1980. The increasingly critical nature of his writing led to a ban on publication in the GDR soon after. During the early 1980s, he edited the illegal journal “Mikado.” Eventually, he was permitted to travel abroad and lived between Hamburg and East Berlin. Until 2003 he was Director of the "Studio Literatur und Theater" at the University of Tübingen. He was a writer-in-residence at the University of Austin and at Oberlin College. Uwe Kolbe is author of eleven books of poetry. His latest collection of essays, “Vineta’s Archives” (2012), was awarded with the prestigious Heinrich-Mann-Award by the Academy of Arts Berlin.

The English-German tenor Rufus Müller, Associate Professor of Music at Bard College, has had a distinguished career in opera, oratorio, and recital. He has performed and taught, and coached throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. He has worked under Franz Welser-Möst, Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Ivan Fischer, René Jacobs, and other eminent conductors. CD recordings include performances in Bach’s St. John Passion under John Eliot Gardine, and Mozart’s The Magic Flute under Roger Norrington.

Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Music Program; Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7363, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.

Lord Shiva's Dance: Divine Power and Intra-Religious Rivalry

Tuesday, November 12, 2013
4:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Andrew Nicholson '94
Associate Professor
Stony Brook UniversitySponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Philosophy Program; Religion Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7364, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.

Visiting Artists: Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick

Tuesday, November 12, 2013
5–7 pm

Fisher Studio Arts Building
The collaborative team of Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick will be giving a presentation of their work.

Everyone welcome!
Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail goodwin@bard.edu.

The Origins of Globalization: Explorers, Merchants and Missionaries

A Lecture Series by David Swanson

Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30–8 pm

Olin, Room 102
This lecture series introduces key issues that emerged during the original period of globalization, that is, the discovery, understanding, and organization of the geographic and human linkages binding the territories and peoples of our planet.

Lectures in this series take place on November 12, 13, and 19.

Lecture I: From the Unknown to the Known
Did a sustainable, mutually beneficial initiation of globalization begin with Alexander the Great, the Han, the Romans or with the Gulf merchants and the Pax Mongolica?

David Swanson has served as CEO of one of the world's largest commodities merchandising firms and as president of the Explorers Club, leading expeditions into Burma, Paraguay, and Tibet. He studied history at Harvard College and the University of Chicago.
Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-752-4601, or e-mail dswanson@bard.edu.

The Fall 2013 Latino/a Film Series

All are welcome!
(Films are in English or in Spanish with English subtitles)

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
7–9 pm

Preston Theater

Sponsored by: LAIS Program; LASO; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7664, or e-mail mrodrig@bard.edu.

New Perspectives in Decorative Arts,
Design History, and Material Culture

PhD candidates from BGC will give talks

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
6:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Sponsored by: Art History Program; Bard Graduate Center.

For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail arthistory@bard.edu.

The Origins of Globalization: Explorers, Merchants and Missionaries

A Lecture Series by David Swanson

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
6:30–8 pm

Olin, Room 102
This lecture series introduces key issues that emerged during the original period of globalization, that is, the discovery, understanding, and organization of the geographic and human linkages binding the territories and peoples of our planet.

Lectures in this series take place on November 12, 13, and 19.

Lecture II: What Went Right and Wrong in the Age of Discovery
The Methods and patterns of globalization implemented by the Spanish are compared to the most sustainable and mutually beneficial expeditions and policies of the English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese.

David Swanson has served as CEO of one of the world's largest commodities merchandising firms and as president of the Explorers Club, leading expeditions into Burma, Paraguay, and Tibet. He studied history at Harvard College and the University of Chicago.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-752-4601, or e-mail dswanson@bard.edu.

Epistemology of the Lifeboat

Life of Pi and Queer Fabulation

Thursday, November 14, 2013
4:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center
Presented by Tavia Nyong’o

Life of Pi (Yann Martel, 2001) is a widely acclaimed Canadian novel that purports to tell a story that will make the reader believe in God. Who could resist such a dare in a post-secular age like ours? This talk, however, does not focus on the spiritual propadeutics of the novel. Instead it takes up two matters Life of Pi attempts to push as far as possible to the margin: matters of race and matters of sexuality. How does this story — written by and told to a white man seeking Indian enlightenment — differ from its rightfully impugned colonial precursors? And why does a contemporary novel — written well after Stonewall and the long, dark reign of the closet — still repeat certain classically homophobic structures of disavowal and repudiation? And, finally, of what significance to the contemporary debates surrounding zoopolitics and queer posthumanism is the remarkable detail that these questions bob to the surface of the story about a teenager trapped at sea with a Bengal tiger?

Tavia Nyong’o is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. His areas of interest include black studies, queer studies, critical theory, popular music studies and cultural critique. His first book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (Minnesota, 2009), won the Errol Hill Award for best book in African American theatre and performance studies. Nyong’o has published articles on punk, disco, viral media, the African diaspora, film, and performance art in venues such as Radical History Review, Criticism, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Women Studies Quarterly, The Nation, and n+1. He is co-editor of the journal Social Text.

Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Literature Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7284, or e-mail abenson@bard.edu.

Effects of a Periodic Scatter Potential on the Landau Quantization and Ballistic Transport in Graphene

Thursday, November 14, 2013
4:30 pm

Hegeman 107
A lecture by
Dr. Paula Fekete, Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
US Military Academy at West Point, NY


Sponsored by: Physics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail paulcz@bard.edu.

What to Expect When You're Not Expecting

True Stories of Slips, Surprises, and Happy Accidents

Thursday, November 14, 2013
7–9 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
This ensemble theatre piece is about all the different ways reproductive "choice" is excercised by women -- and men. 

A theatre production by TMI Project to benefit Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley

Free students/$25 non Bard members at the door

sponsored by Peer Health Educators and BRAVE

For more information, call 206-351-0777, or e-mail alegendr@bard.edu.

Theater and Performance Program presents Senior Project

Christina Mirabilis 
By Cameron Seglias '12

Thursday, November 14, 2013
7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

Directed and designed by Marie Schleef ‘13
John Musall, lighting designer

This new mystery play, Christina Mirabilis, explores the account of the 12th century Flemish mystic Christine the Astonishing who was known for her divine miracles. The reading of this text is influenced by the German theater maker Einar Schleef (1944–2001) and his approach to theater.

Cast
Marie Schleef ’13
Kyla Mathis-Angress ’14
Phoeber Cramer ’14
Maxwell Green ’17
Claire Thompson ’14
Clare McDonald ’16

Running time for this performance is approximately 30 minutes.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Jazz Vocal Concert

Thursday, November 14, 2013
8 pm

Down The Road Cafe
Come and see Bard Jazz Vocal sing songs from the Great American Songbook, Jazz Standards and some originals.

Also with Pamela Pentony - vocals, Paul Duffy - piano, Rich Syracuse - bass and Peter O'Brien-drums.

Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7250, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

New Orleans Jazz Night

A Jazz and Food Fundraiser

Friday, November 15, 2013
6–9 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Come out and support the efforts of the New Orleans Exchange by listening to jazz performances by:

Samba School's drum line

A special student ensemble arranged by Thurman Barker

There will be food from Two Boots available for purchase! Please come enjoy the music! All proceeds benefit the program's trip to New Orleans in January!


Sponsored by: New Orleans Initiative.

For more information, call 845-705-7386, e-mail vh0218@bard.edu, or visit http://bardinneworleans.com.

Theater and Performance Program presents Senior Project

Christina Mirabilis 
By Cameron Seglias '12

Friday, November 15, 2013
7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

Directed and designed by Marie Schleef ‘13
John Musall, lighting designer

This new mystery play, Christina Mirabilis, explores the account of the 12th century Flemish mystic Christine the Astonishing who was known for her divine miracles. The reading of this text is influenced by the German theater maker Einar Schleef (1944–2001) and his approach to theater.

Cast
Marie Schleef ’13
Kyla Mathis-Angress ’14
Phoeber Cramer ’14
Maxwell Green ’17
Claire Thompson ’14
Clare McDonald ’16

Running time for this performance is approximately 30 minutes.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Remembering Turquoise Street: Artwork and Collections of Italo Scanga

Saturday, November 16, 2013 – Monday, December 9, 2013

The Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrines and The Center for Curatorial Studies Library
Curated by Lilah Anderson '12 in collaboration with Katherine Scanga
Sponsored by: Art History Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail arthistory@bard.edu.

Theater and Performance Program presents Senior Project

Christina Mirabilis 
By Cameron Seglias '12

Saturday, November 16, 2013
7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

Directed and designed by Marie Schleef ‘13
John Musall, lighting designer

This new mystery play, Christina Mirabilis, explores the account of the 12th century Flemish mystic Christine the Astonishing who was known for her divine miracles. The reading of this text is influenced by the German theater maker Einar Schleef (1944–2001) and his approach to theater.

Cast
Marie Schleef ’13
Kyla Mathis-Angress ’14
Phoeber Cramer ’14
Maxwell Green ’17
Claire Thompson ’14
Clare McDonald ’16

Running time for this performance is approximately 30 minutes.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Contemporaneous Presents Breathe

Featuring a world premiere work by Albert Behar and music by Samuel Carl Adams and Dylan Mattingly '14

Saturday, November 16, 2013
8 pm

Olin Hall
Featured composers Albert Behar (world premiere), Samuel Carl Adams and Dylan Mattingly work extensively in New York, but the cool fog of their common San Francisco Bay Area roots is evident in their music.

In his world premiere, the Contemporaneous-commissioned work Beauty in Breathing, Brooklyn-based composer Albert Behar (b. 1991; www.albertbehar.com) uses a device invented by his grandfather to amplify his heartbeats and measure his breathing, providing a live pulse for the piece and a feed for a video projection. The composer himself sings with the ensemble and vocalists Lucy Dhegrae, Margaret Dudley and Sean Christensen in this new exploration of the physical and mental sides of breathing.

Samuel Carl Adams (b. 1985; www.samuelcarladams.com) is quickly gaining renown as “a composer with a personal voice and keen imagination” (New York Times) who is deeply at home in several different genres. His work twenty four strings is rooted in the pure sadness of Renaissance music, a gorgeous string sextet that weaves its way through sounds like bells and waterfalls.

The show closes with Atlas of Somewhere on the Way to Howland Island by Contemporaneous co-artistic director Dylan Mattingly (b. 1991; www.dylanmattingly.com). Scored for chamber orchestra complete with toy piano, harpsichord, and de-tuned harp, the piece is an emotional depiction of the final flight of Amelia Earhart that traces Earhart’s journey from optimistic beginning to the tragic end, concluding with a jubilant affirmation of her spirit.
For more information, call 205-914-0663, e-mail info@contemporaneous.org, or visit http://contemporaneous.org.

Evensong Service

Sunday Evening Worship Service

Sunday, November 17, 2013
7–8 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Ancient Ritual Blessing of the Light from the second century AD with music and candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.

Learn Capoeira this Sunday!

Bard beginner workshop with professional instructors.

Sunday, November 17, 2013
12–2 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Aerobics Studio
THIS SUNDAY (NOV 17TH) there is a Capoeira workshop at 12 (noon) in the aerobics rooms of Stevenson Gym. Instructor Sabia' will once again bring his Capoeira Luanda school to teach beginners how to "play" the sport.

All levels are welcome, especially complete beginners, as Sabia' has a wonderful ability to convey the movements quickly. Hope you can join us and, please, BRING FRIENDS!

Capoeira is an African-Brazilian martial art that incorporates acrobatics, dance, music, and songs in a rhythmic dialogue of body, mind, and spirit. It is a communal game in which two opponents play each other inside the roda (a circle), formed by the other players who create rhythm for the game by clapping, singing and playing the berimbaus (African traditional instruments, considered the soul of Capoeira) and other key instruments. The two opponents compete with each other using capoeira movements, camouflaging the self defense kicks and moves with playful acrobatics and dance-like moves spontaneously creating strategy to fool their partner and catch them off guard.

For more information, call 845-532-1453, or e-mail toay@levy.org.

Italian Film Festival

“Neorealism and …Beyond”

Monday, November 18, 2013
6:30–8 pm

Preston Theater

Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series. This Fall, films will be screened every MONDAY, in PRESTON THEATER 110, at 6:30pm.

Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7377, or e-mail acafaro@bard.edu.

On Translation and Poetic Identity in the Age of Identity Politics

With Ammiel Alcalay and Benjamin Hollander

Monday, November 18, 2013
11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115

Please note time change.

Ammiel Alcalay and Benjamin Hollander will address how translation as act and idea has shaped their practices and poetic identities.

Hollander, who grew up between German and Hebrew before coming to the English he now writes in, will speak to how this linguistic and cultural journey has been translated into the un-Americanness of his American language and philosophy. His new book, In The House Un-American (Clockroot Books), is partly guided by the metaphor of translation as transport, as the perpetual crossing and metamorphosis of an immigrant’s language, identity, and culture. David Shapiro has called it “so America, so like an inner emigration, as if we had all changed names.” Hollander will address how the foreignness of his writing can inform the singularity of poetic thinking: how, in terms of syntax and fluency and perception, he wants, as the poet and translator Murat Nemet-Nejat writes,  “to help English  [and American identity] grow a limb it does not have.”

Alcalay has been publishing translations from a number of languages for over thirty years, and will speak to how these experiences inform poetic thinking and knowledge. As an advocate of writing from various parts of the world—particularly the Middle East and the Balkans—he has been instrumental in forging a space for engaged political encounters with other cultures and languages. He will address how his immersion in projects, centered in and on other regions and languages, have evolved into comprehending the context of how one uses American English and what that might mean for a reconfiguration of post Second World War American culture, as well as what that might mean for exploring new approaches to North American political, cultural, and literary history and identity. Taking, on the one hand, Meso-American scholar Gordon Brotherston’s crucial idea that “the prime function of classical texts is to construct political space and anchor historical continuity,” and poet Charles Olson’s idea that the history of these States remains “unrelieved” as starting points, Alcalay will address how his experiences as a translator and writer have taken him into realms that have little to do with the prevailing discourse in which literary translation has become embedded. 

Faculty, for pdf files of the texts Alcalay and Hollander will be drawing on in their morning/afternoon practicum, please contact Cole Heinowitz.

Please also join our guests in Olin 115, 7-9pm for Special Views of History:  Benjamin Hollander and Ammiel Alcalay read from their work.

Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Translation Project.

For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.

Special Views of History

Benjamin Hollander and Ammiel Alcalay read from their work

Monday, November 18, 2013
7–9 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115

Continuing from their afternoon practicum, and in the spirit of Charles Olson’s Special View of History, Hollander and Alcalay will read from their poetry and prose. Their reading will play off Hericalitus’s maxim which begins Olson’s Special View: “Man is estranged from that which is closest to him.”

For Alcalay, this means tracing event to memory to create another kind of consciousness in the present, a third eye on a distant landscape coming into zoom focus, or, like Jack Spicer’s poet as radio, radiating poems as messages coming in at different frequencies, frequenting multiple dimensions:  writing which, in Robert Duncan’s view, works toward immediacy as it seeks after origins.

For Hollander, this means a writing which reshapes and brings to focus our historical Imagination, where facts on the ground can be transformed into fables in the air: writing which aspires to conditions articulated by the biographer and translator Robert Payne, that “America was [and could be again] fable before it became fact. 

Please also join our guests in Olin 115, 11:30am-1:30pm (note time change) for our practicum, Ammiel Alcalay and Benjamin Hollander:  on Translation and Poetic Identity in the Age of Identity Politics

Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Translation Project.

For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.

Avant-Bard @ Bard: Performance by Psoy Korolenko

Monday, November 18, 2013
8 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus

New Multilingual Rock-Folk-Punk-Funk-Rap-Shmap-Style Cabaret
with Moscow's renowned poet, artist, singer-songwriter, Pavel Lion, a.k.a.
Psoy Korolenko
(Performed in Ugglish, Rushin', Yiddiotish, Fringe, and some Gibberish)

Psoy Korlenko is an internationally known Russian bard, singer-songwriter, scholar, journalist, essay-writer and musician, ex-artist in residence at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA). On stage since 1997, Psoy created a unique multilingual cabaret, combining traditions of Russian and European folk song, Yiddish folk and theater song, with elements of rap and free style poetry. He has released a book of lyrics and essays and more than 10 CDs, some of them in collaboration with other artists.  Experimenting with a wide variety of singing traditions, Psoy performs in about six or seven languages, most frequently in Russian, Yiddish, English and French.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Jewish Studies Program; Russian Student Club & Office of Student Activities; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7392, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.

Noon Concert

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
12 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Bard College Conservatory of Music students in concert.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

AMC 8 Math Contest

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
4–6 pm

Reem-Kayden Center
The Bard Math Circle will host the AMC 8 Math Contest for the second year. The AMC 8, first offered in 1985, is an annual contest in middle school mathematics sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America. In 2012, more than 150,000 students from 2,300 schools participated in the AMC 8 contest, including 49 students at Bard College from around the Mid-Hudson Valley. The AMC 8 program at Bard will include an inspirational talk by Bard mathematics professor Sam Hsiao, and a panel discussion for parents entitled "Supporting Your Child as a High Achiever in Math and Science."

Note: The location of Sam Hsiao's talk has been moved to the Olin Language Center, room 115. The rest of the AMC 8 program will remain in the RKC.
Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail jwood@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardmathcircle.org/.

"The Movement Beyond Marriage Equality" Gabriel Blau: Executive Director of the Family Equality Council

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
6–7:30 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Gabriel Blau, who graduated from Bard in 2002, now serves as the executive director of the Family Equality Council. Join us as he speaks about his journey as an LGBT activist, which started at Bard College.Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Religion Program; Student Activities.

For more information, call 845-758-7098, or e-mail bmateo@bard.edu.

Gordon Matta-Clark and 112 Greene Street

A Talk with Jessamyn Fiore

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
6–7:30 pm

Olin, Room 201
112 Greene Street was one of New York’s first alternative, artist-run venues. Started in October 1970 by Jeffrey Lew, Gordon Matta-Clark and Alan Saret, among others, the building became a focal point for a young generation of artists seeking a substitute to New York’s established gallery circuit. In the spirit of the 1970s desire for experimentation, the space was open to artists from all disciplines and did not impose censorship over their shows. As such, the building provided the setting for a rare, singular moment of artistic ingenuity, invention, and freedom that was at its peak between 1970 and 1974.Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail eg5719@bard.edu.

The Origins of Globalization: Explorers, Merchants and Missionaries

A Lecture Series by David Swanson

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
6:30–8 pm

Olin, Room 102
This lecture series introduces key issues that emerged during the original period of globalization, that is, the discovery, understanding, and organization of the geographic and human linkages binding the territories and peoples of our planet.

Lectures in this series take place on November 12, 13, and 19.

Lecture Ill: Testing the Limits
In the most recent phase of globalization, previous structures of colonialism are rejected, and new efforts are made to test the limits of the Earth's geography, both at the peaks of the Himalaya and the depths of the oceans' trenches, inspired and complemented by the 20th century's surge in scientific exploration.

David Swanson has served as CEO of one of the world's largest commodities merchandising firms and as president of the Explorers Club, leading expeditions into Burma, Paraguay, and Tibet. He studied history at Harvard College and the University of Chicago.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-752-4601, or e-mail dswanson@bard.edu.

Cameron Seglias '12: Poetry Reading

Tuesday, November 19, 2013
7–8 pm

Shafer House
Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7206, or e-mail kelly@bard.edu.

The Fall 2013 Latino/a Film Series

All are welcome!
(Films are in English or in Spanish with English subtitles)

Wednesday, November 20, 2013
7–9 pm

Preston Theater

Sponsored by: LAIS Program; LASO; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7664, or e-mail mrodrig@bard.edu.

National Climate Seminar: Latino Climate Leadership

Jorge Madrid, Tom Graff fellow at Environmental Defense Fund and member of the Board of Directors of Voces Verdes

Wednesday, November 20, 2013
12 pm

Check out this conversation with Jorge Madrid who talked about Latino leadership on climate change. Jorge is a Tom Graff fellow at EDF and a member of the Board of Directors of Voces Verdes (Green Voices), an organization for the voice of Latino leaders for the environment.



Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

For more information, call 845-758-7071, e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cep/ncs.

The Letters between Hannah Arendt and Alfred Kazin

A Lunchtime Talk by Matthias Bormuth (University of Oldenburg) and Thomas Wild (Bard College)

Wednesday, November 20, 2013
12:30 pm

Arendt Center
Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu.

The Emergence of Emergence

Presented by Peter Skiff

Wednesday, November 20, 2013
7 pm

Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.

For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.

Bard Arboretum Walks with the Director

3rd Thursday of each month

Thursday, November 21, 2013
1–2 pm

Ludlow
Join us for a leisurely stroll around the campus to explore some of the beautiful trees that make up our landscape. Arboretum Director, Amy Parrella, will talk about Bard's unique specimens, fall highlights and seasonal and staff favorites. Free and open to the public, Bard community and students. Look forward to seeing you out there! Rain or Shine. Call if any questions, 845-758-7179, Horticulture/Arboretum Office 
Meet at Ludlow, Main Campus Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7179, e-mail aparrell@bard.edu, or visit http://inside.bard.edu/arboretum/.

Random Sorting Networks

Thursday, November 21, 2013
4:40 pm

Hegeman 204
A lecture by Zachary Hamaker '08

Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gregland@bard.edu.

China and Tibet: Historical Engagement, Modern Conflict

a lecture by Elliot Sperling

Thursday, November 21, 2013
5–6:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Organised by Students for a Free Tibet, Asian Studies, Historical Studies and Asian Students' Organisation

The Tibet Question has been discussed from many different angles: as an issue of religious freedom, human rights, cultural preservation, and so on. At the core, however, is a contested history that has provided fuel for quite divergent interpretations of Tibet’s relationship with China and indeed for the basic understanding of Tibet’s past. This talk will take up this contested history and discuss the ways different parties have brought the past into play as justification for actions and policies in the present.
For more information, call 845-706-8732, or e-mail ms9161@bard.edu.

Degree Recital: Scot Moore, violin

with Bálint Zsoldos, piano

Friday, November 22, 2013
5:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Scot Moore performs works by Beethoven, Kreisler, Poulenc and Ravel in fulfillment of his recital requirement for a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Poetry Reading by Robert Kelly

Friday, November 22, 2013
7 pm

Bard Hall
Robert Kelly, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature and codirector of the Written Arts Program at Bard, will give his annual reading of recent work, in honor of his wife's birthday.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7205, e-mail kelly@bard.edu, or visit http://rk-ology.com.

Play/Chat@Bard

A concert series showcasing international young talents in performances and onstage Q&A. Now in its second season!

Saturday, November 23, 2013
7 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Join pianist Michael Bukhman with the wonderful mezzo-soprano Rebecca Ringle (Met Opera, New York City Opera) in the latest Play/Chat@Bard installment! Music by Mahler, Ives, Handel, Frazelle, and more! As always, we will sit and chat with Rebecca right after the concert, all questions welcome!

This event is free of charge.
Sponsored by: Music Program; President's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbukhman@bard.edu.

Evensong Service

Sunday Evening Worship Service

Sunday, November 24, 2013
7–8 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Ancient Ritual Blessing of the Light from the second century AD with music and candles.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-757-4309, or e-mail ggrab@bard.edu.

Bard Conservatory at Beattie Powers

Sunday, November 24, 2013
2 pm

Beattie Powers Place, Catskill, NY
Bard Conservatory students in concert at Beattie Powers Place.
Program includes:

Sonata for violin & piano No. 8 in G major, Op. 30/3            Beethoven

            Allegro assai

            Tempo di Minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso

            Allegro vivace

Aischa Gündisch, violin

Bálint Zsoldos, piano

 

Romance, for viola & orchestra in F major, Op. 85                 Bruch

Yinbin Qian, viola

Eri Nakamura, piano

 Poème, for violin & orchestra, Op. 25                               E. Chausson 

Sabrina Tabby, violin

For more information, please visit: http://beattiepowersplace.blogspot.com/

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://beattiepowersplace.blogspot.com/.

Piano Master Class, with Renowned Pianist/Bang on a Can All-Stars Cofounder Lisa Moore

Sunday, November 24, 2013
5:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Described as “brilliant and searching ... beautiful and impassioned ... lustrous at the keyboard” by the New York Times, Lisa Moore’s playing combines music, theatre and expressive, emotional power—whether in the delivery of the simplest song, a solo recital or a fiendish chamber score. From 1992 to 2008, she was the founding pianist for the Bang On A Can All-Stars—the New York–based electro-acoustic sextet and winner of Musical America's 2005 Ensemble of the Year Award. Passionately dedicated to the music of our time as well as the great musical canon, she has collaborated with composers such as Elliot Carter, John Adams, Iannis Xenakis, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, Gerard Brophy, Julian Day, Elena Kats-Chernin, Thurston Moore, Martin Bresnick, Kate Moore, Steve Reich and Ornette Coleman.Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 917-334-6488, or e-mail mcmillen@bard.edu.

Chemometrics: Making Sense Out of Chemical Data CANCELED

Monday, November 25, 2013
1 pm

RKC 122

A lecture by Manuel Palacios from General Electric
Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail clafratt@bard.edu.

TONIGHT ! Bardian Ensemble Featuring Martin Bresnick

Monday, November 25, 2013
7:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
The Premiere Concert of Bardian Ensemble
(Faculty of Bard College Music Department and Bard College Conservatory of Music)

Laura Flax, clarinet
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Erica Kiesewetter, violin
Julie Landsman, French horn
Blair McMillen, piano

Music of Rebecca Clarke, Lev Kogan, Johannes Brahms and
Martin Bresnick, who will make a special guest appearance.

Martin Bresnick, Professor of Composition at Yale School of Music, will be in residence at Bard on Monday, Nov 25. He will present his music and talk with students in the composition seminar in the afternoon. At 7:30 pm in Bito, his clarinet trio will perform in the Bardian Ensemble’s faculty chamber music concert. For more information about his music: www.martinbresnick.com.
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7250, or e-mail kiesewet@bard.edu.

A Lunchtime Talk by Stefania Maffeis

Spaces of “Politics” – Aspects of Transnationality in Arendt's Thinking

Tuesday, November 26, 2013
12:30 pm

Arendt Center

The popularity of Hannah Arendt in the last two decades is a transnational phenomenon. Still, there are enormous disparities in the perception of her work. In Italy and France, Arendt is commonly read as a philosopher. In Germany, she is generally respected as a public intellectual, and her writings are almost unknown at universities. In the United States, despite the recurrent controversies, there is consistent academic Arendt scholarship, at least in political theory.

What do these differences reveal about the social conditions and practices through which ideas and theories are read, taught, written and performed? How can the relationship between theories and the context of their reception be understood? Is it just a matter of different interpretative situations of the same theories, or are we confronted with an immanent social and transnational dimension of theories, in this case of Arendt's thinking? What is this social dimension and how can it be analyzed?

This talk will present a long-term research project on the transnational circulation of ideas in the work and reception of Hannah Arendt between the US and Germany since the 1950s. To do so, it will engage aspects of transnationality in the making of an idea of 'politics’ in Arendt’s writings of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-7878, e-mail bhollenb@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/.

Thanksgiving Recess

Recess Begins at 5:00 p.m. on November 27

Thursday, November 28, 2013 – Sunday, December 1, 2013

Bard College Campus

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail doc@bard.edu.

Thanksgiving Recess

Recess Begins at 5:00 p.m. on November 27

Thursday, November 28, 2013 – Sunday, December 1, 2013

Bard College Campus

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail doc@bard.edu.

Thanksgiving Recess

Recess Begins at 5:00 p.m. on November 27

Thursday, November 28, 2013 – Sunday, December 1, 2013

Bard College Campus

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail doc@bard.edu.