Annalia 1933: Guided Tour of FDR Library and Museum

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
5:15–6:45 pm

FDR Library and Museum (Hyde Park, NY)
For student transportation to the FDR museum, a bus and/or vans will be leaving from the Kline Shuttle Stop at 5:15pmSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/annalia1933/.

The Cuban Argument with Itself

A Faculty Seminar
Presented by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

Wednesday, September 18, 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.

Annalia 1933: Panel, 1933-A Transformative Year in American and World History

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
7–8:30 pm

FDR Institute (Hyde Park, NY)
Featuring David Woolner, Myra Young Armstead, Mark Lytle, and Richard AldousSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/annalia1933/.

Genetic Analysis of Mosquito Attraction and Repulsion

Thursday, September 19, 2013
12 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A lecture by Matthew DeGennaro, Rockefeller University
Sponsored by: Biology Program.

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

Chris Kraus - Art Writing

Thursday, September 19, 2013
3–5 pm

Seminar Room 1
Visiting the LA Art Book Fair, realize that “art” books no longer necessarily about visual art … in fact, most are not.  “Art” now connotes something else, a non-commercial cultural product … Art projects like Rolling Jubilee, K Hole, Care of Editions might once have been perceived through the lens of activism … Ability of conceptual art projects to reflect and concretize the abstraction of capital’s flows … conceptual art being perhaps best medium through which to perceive something as conceptual and abstract as capital … Film, theater, literature, poetry, experimental music and dance disappear as separate disciplines with no distribution/revenue structures left to support them, and migrate into the art world … the strengths and weaknesses of this situation.

Chris Kraus is a writer and critic based in Los Angeles.  Her most recent novel is Summer of Hate.  In 2012, she co-curated the exhibition Radical Localism: Art, Media and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo’s Mexicali Roseat Artists Space with Richard Birkett and Marco Vera.  This work has led to further writings on the expanding art world and outpost culture, including Kelly Lake Store (n+1, Summer 2013).  She contributed to ICA Philadelphia Four Roads Jason Rhoades book, and writes about art and culture for various magazines.

Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail mpaparel@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs/events/the-visitor-talks-chris-kraus-art-writing/.

Annalia 1933: Film-World in Crisis

Thursday, September 19, 2013
4–4:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
With introduction and commentary by David Woolner, Senior Resident and Hyde Park Historian at the Roosevelt InstituteSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/annalia1933/.

Annalia 1933: Panel, 1933-Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

Thursday, September 19, 2013
4:30–6 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Featuring David Kettler, Greg Moynahan, Justus Rosenberg, Suzanne Vromen, and President of the College Leon BotsteinSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/annalia1933/.

Annalia 1933: Talks

Thursday, September 19, 2013
6:30–8:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
6:30pm: Helene Tieger, “Bard College in 1933”

7:00pm: Omar Encarnacion, “Mr. Roosevelt’s Neighborhood: Latin America in 1933”

7:30pm: Christian Crouch, “Native Advocates: Mount Rushmore, Indigenous Rights, and John Collier”

8:00pm: Rob Culp “Leaving the League of Nations: Japan’s Invasion of Manchuria and the Failure of Interwar International Organizations”
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/annalia1933/.

Racist Killings, Mourning Songs,
and a 13-Year Old Girl

Reading and Discussion (in English)
With Eminent German-Jewish Writer Esther Dischereit

Thursday, September 19, 2013
7 pm

Olin, Room 204
The German Studies Program is pleased to welcome 
Esther Dischereit

Esther Dischereit is one of the most exciting writers and thought-provoking public intellectuals in Germany today. Her poems, novels, essays, plays, including radio plays, her opera libretti and sound installations offer unique insights into the Jewish life of contemporary Europe. She collaborates with composers and musicians and founded the avant-garde project “WordMusicSpace/Sound-Concepts.” Coming from a survivors’ family, commemoration (of the Holocaust) has been a constant reference point in her work. Dischereit’s writings also reflect on what it means to be a woman and an intellectual. The Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia on Jewish Women calls her an “outstanding writer” among Jewish artists in the twenty-first century. For more information, including bibliography, see: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dischereit-esther 

Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; German Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Jewish Studies Program.

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

Annalia 1933: Talks

Friday, September 20, 2013
10 am – 3:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
10:00am: Richard Aldous, “Churchill, King and Country”

10:30am: Cynthia Koch, “FDR and the First Hundred Days”

11:00am: Myra Young Armstead, “A Century of Progress?: Race and the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair”

11:30am: Olga Voronina, "'We live without feeling the country beneath us': Osip Mandelstam's ‘The Stalin Epigram’”

12:00pm: Wyatt Mason, “A Long Day’s Journey to the Right: The Strange Case of Louis Ferdinand Celine”

12:30: Lunch

1:00pm: Esther Discherheit, “Yours Faithfully, Dülmen 1933: German Jewish Histories”

1:30pm: Walter Russell Mead, “America Steps Aside”

2:00pm: Ed Halter, “On 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933”

2:30pm: Cecile Kuznitz, “On the Eve of Destruction? East European Jewry, 1933”

3:00pm: Roger Berkowitz, “The Humanist Manifesto and the New Anti-Humanism”
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://hac.bard.edu/annalia1933/.

Visiting Artist: Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano

 

Friday, September 20, 2013
8 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building

Malcolm Bilson (Bard '57) has been in the forefront of the period-instrument movement for more than thirty years. A member of the Cornell University Music Department since 1968, where he is the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music, he began his pioneering activity in the early 1970s as a performer of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on late 18th- and early 19th-century pianos. Since then he has proven to be a key contributor to the restoration of the fortepiano to the concert stage and to fresh recordings of the "mainstream" repertory.

Free and open to the public.

PROGRAM

Malcolm Bilson '57, piano

Performing on a fortepiano built by Rodney Regier in 1997 and modeled after an 1824 Viennese fortepiano by Conrad Graf.

Sonata in C major, D. 279 Franz Schubert

Allegretto (completion by Malcolm Bilson) (1797–1828)

Sonata in F# minor, D. 571 Schubert

Allegro moderato (completion by Malcolm Bilson)

Sonata in Ab, Op. 26 Ludwig van Beethoven

Andante con variazioni (1770–1827)

Scherzo : Allegro molto

Marcia Funebre Sulla Morta d’un Eroe

Allegro

INTERMISSION

Novellette in F, Op. 21, #1 Robert Schumann

(1810–1856)

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 Schumann

Äusserst bewegt

Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch

Sehr aufgeregt

Sehr langsam

Sehr lebhaft

Sehr langsam

Sehr rasch

Schnell und spielend

Post-concert reception co-sponsored by the Office of Alumni/ae Affairs

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Masterclass/Seminar: Fortepianist Malcolm Bilson

Saturday, September 21, 2013
10 am

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building

Part of a new series combining elements of masterclass and seminar: Conservatory students play works related to the topic of the morning, with coaching and discussion by Malcolm Bilson.

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Evensong Service

Sunday Evening Worship Service

Sunday, September 22, 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 Common Course
presents

The Constitution of Plato's Republic

Presented by Professor Jay Elliott, Bard College

Monday, September 23, 2013
4:45–6 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.

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

Annual Volunteer Fair

and Farmer's Market

Monday, September 23, 2013
5–7 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Get an up close and personal look at area non-profit organizations during the third annual Volunteer Fair from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, September 23, at Bard College in the Multi-Purpose Room of Bertelsmann Campus Center.

“We continue to be amazed by the hundreds of people who come out to get involved,” said Erin Cannan, Associate Director for Bard Center for Civic Engagement. “What an opportunity for potential volunteers, ranging from 8th graders to Bard college students to senior citizens, seeking volunteer opportunities. The Fair offers a huge variety of local resources and reminds us of how important it is to support our local agencies.”

Enjoy the Volunteer Fair and the local farmers’ market showcasing Hudson Valley farms including Bard College’s own farm.

The Volunteer Fair is a collaborative venture of Bard College, Red Hook Chamber of Commerce, Red Hook Public Library and Red Hook Central School District.

To check out stories of our numerous projects and other ways to engage yourself, visit the CCE’s website, facebook page, blog, and twitter.

Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail bardcivicengagement@gmail.com, or visit http://blogs.bard.edu/civicengagement/?page_id=1142.

Blood Drive

Wednesday, September 25, 2013
11 am – 7:30 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Walk-ins are welcome!

Sponsored by Hudson Valley Blood ServicesSponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs.

For more information, call 845-758-7454, or e-mail werner@bard.edu.

SolarBowl Training

Wednesday, September 25, 2013
12 pm

Kline, President's Room
We’re building a movement to help every homeowner adopt clean affordable solar energy, one rooftop at a time. Come to SolarBowl training to learn about engaging with the community and encouraging solar panels, all while helping Bard. Can't make it to training? Email reduce@bard.edu
Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.

For more information, call 818-926-2000, e-mail reduce@bard.edu, or visit http://solarlist.com/SolarBowl/.

Molecular Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease

Thursday, September 26, 2013
12 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A lecture by Victor Bustos, Rockefeller University
Sponsored by: Biology Program.

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

Arguing with Peers: Lessons learned from classroom-based research on developing argumentation skills

Thursday, September 26, 2013
4:30 pm

Preston Theater
A lecture by
David Shaenfield
Psychology Program


Sponsored by: Psychology Program.

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

Hilbert Series, h-vectors, and the Fibonacci Sequence

Thursday, September 26, 2013
4:40 pm

Hegeman 204
A lecture by
Branden Stone
Mathematics Program



Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

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

How to Compare One Million Images? Visualizing Patterns in User-Generated Content, Art, Games, Comics, Cinema, Web, and Print

A Talk by Lev Manovich

Thursday, September 26, 2013
5 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

How do we navigate massive visual collections of user-generated content  consisting from billions of images?  What new theoretical concepts do we need to deal with the scale of born-digital culture? How do we use data mining of massive cultural data sets to question our cultural assumptions and biases? 

The Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) was established at the University of California, San Diego in 2007 to begin working on these questions. Lev Manovich will briefly present the techniques they developed for exploratory analysis of massive visual collections. This presentation will be illustrated with examples of their research, including analysis of  2.3 million Instagram photos, 1 million pages from manga books, and 1 million user-created artworks (from http://www.deviantart.com/ ). Manovich will also discuss how computational analysis and visualization of big cultural data sets leads us to question traditional discrete categories used for cultural categorization such as "style" and "period."

Lev Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is d”scribed as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." Manovich is a Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY and a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at CUNY and California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2).

Sponsored by: Computer Science Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Film and Electronic Arts Program.

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

"Rights and Obligations": Public Conversation on Citizenship and Society

A Discussion Led by Roger Berkowitz Based Upon Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

Thursday, September 26, 2013
6–8 pm

RKC 103
Join us for an active-learning program of community conversation that uses Richard Rodriguez's autobiography Hunger of Memory as a jumping-off point for discussion.

"I became a man by becoming a public man."
—Richard Rodriguez

The evening's discussion will address the tensions between cultural identity and U.S. citizenship, the responsibilities inherent in citizenship, and what it means to live a "public life."

Free copies of Hunger of Memory are available but supplies are limited. E-mail arendt@bard.edu for your copy.

Made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities
Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

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

A Lecture by Nobel Laureate Robert Grubbs:
Green Chemistry: Examples from Catalysis

Thursday, September 26, 2013
6 pm

Olin Hall
A lecture by Dr. Robert Grubbs, Nobel Laureate, 2005
Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.

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

Thinking Like a River

A Conversation between Science and Poetry

Friday, September 27, 2013
2–6 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Room 102
Join poets and scientists as they discuss their work and the intersection of poetry and science. Speakers include poet and essayist John Lane, Director of the Glendale Shoals Environmental Center at Wofford College, John Cronin, Hudson River activist and other artists, naturalists, and river poets for an interdisciplinary conversation. See the EUS website for updates and more information: eus.bard.edu.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 914-714-2179, e-mail rogers@bard.edu, or visit http://eus.bard.edu.

Master Class/Seminar: Studying of Keyboard Fugues

Friday, September 27, 2013
4 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Masterclass-Seminar, pianist Matti Raekallio.  Part of a new series combining elements of masterclass and seminar: Conservatory students play works related to the topic of the afternoon, with coaching and discussion by Matti Raekallio. 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, September 29, 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.

Music Alive!

Artistic Directors, Joan Tower & Blair McMillen

Sunday, September 29, 2013
3 pm

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Forty musicians perform works by Louis Andriessen, Osvaldo Golijov, Joan Tower, Daniel Wohl '03, amd Tamzin Elliott '17
For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Italian Film Festival

“Neorealism and …Beyond”

Monday, September 30, 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.