A Lecture by Nicole Dewandre: "Rethinking the Human Condition in a Hyperconnected Era"

Wednesday, October 16, 2013
7 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
The digital transition brings us to a point where it is critical to unveil the shortcomings of the excessive centrality of the notions of control and transparency  in knowledge and in action. Omniscience and omnipotence, if pushed too far, crowd out any sense of freedom, purpose and meaning, even if it is in the name of the best intentions. Hannah Arendt's notions of natality and plurality, by anchoring human freedom in beginnings rather than in sovereignty, provide grounding for revisiting the human condition in a hyperconnected era and approaching the related ethical issues with modesty, confidence and amor mundi. This operation, that we could call "arendtian axiomatic reset" allows reclaiming distinctions such as the one between public and private or the one between agents, artifacts and nature. Recognising and acknowledging plurality is of critical importance in these days where policy making seems to be lost in an endless quest of deceptive control and transparency. It is also of critical importance to counter the hegemony of the metaphors of the invisible hand, market interactions, or competition by which we frame interactions and which are all in denial of plurality. That renewed perspective opens a space to shape a digital literacy, which can enable flourishing life experiences in a hyperconnected era. Finally, reclaiming plurality leads to highlighting the fact that attention is much more than "the currency of the internet" or a commodity or an asset: it is at the core of human dignity and integrity, and needs to be protected and cherished, as it is the fluid that makes plurality at all possible.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Difference and Media Project; Experimental Humanities Program; Hannah Arendt Center.

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

Former Economist Editor Bill Emmott Presents His New Documentary, Girlfriend in a Coma

Thursday, October 17, 2013
6 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
In this film Bill Emmott teams with Filmmaker Annalisa Piras to explore Italy’s political, economic and social decline over the past 20 years, the product of a moral collapse unmatched anywhere else in the West. Emmott’s quest to understand both “Mala Italia” and “Buona Italia” includes Interviews with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco, film director Nanni Moretti, women’s rights activist Lorella Zanardo, FIAT’s outspoken Canadian-Italian CEO Sergio Marchionne, the author of Gomorrah Roberto Saviano and many others.

Bill Emmott is an international journalist and consultant, having been editor-in-chief of The Economist from 1993-2006. The author of a dozen books, most of them about Japan and Asia, his latest book was Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy must Conquer its Demons to Face the Future (Yale University Press 2012). His documentary Girlfriend in a Coma has been seen by more than two million people. Bill is also chairman of the trustees of the London Library, a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a member of the Swiss Re Chairman’s Advisory Panel. With Annalisa Piras, he is now working on a new documentary about the threats to the European Dream, and has co-founded The Wake Up Foundation, dedicated to research and communication about the decline of the West.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Film and Electronic Arts Program; Historical Studies Program; Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7150, or e-mail jluzzi@bard.edu.

James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series

Deconstructing Holocaust Denial: how science and history are distorted to promote hate

Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:15–7:45 pm

BGIA, 36 West 44th Street, #1011; New York, NY 10036
Kenneth Stern '75 

Director on Antisemitism, Hate studies and Extremism, American Jewish Committee;  author of numerous books, most recently Antisemitism Today: How It Is the Same, How It Is Different and How to Fight It 
Sponsored by: BGIA; Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 646-839-9262, e-mail cristol@bard.edu, or visit http://bgia.bard.edu.

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

Friday, October 18, 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.

Masterclass/Seminar: Arnold Steinhardt, violin

Friday, October 18, 2013
4 pm

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 afternoon, with coaching and discussion by Arnold Steinhardt.

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, October 20, 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.

Faculty Recital

Frank Corliss, piano, and Marka Gustavsson, viola

Sunday, October 20, 2013
3 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building

Frank Corliss, piano, and Marka Gustavsson, viola, will perform works for viola and piano including Hall Overton's Sonata (1959), Nino Rota's Intermezzo, Christopher Theofanidis Flow, My Tears (1997), and Sonata (1922) by Arnold Bax.

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

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

Italian Film Festival

“Neorealism and …Beyond”

Monday, October 21, 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.

Troubling Heritage: Contemporary Museums and the Terrain of the Civil War in a Southern City

Monday, October 21, 2013
4:30–6 pm

RKC 103
Richmond Virginia, erstwhile capital of the Confederacy, is a city that memorialized in its built landscape the ideology of the “Lost Cause.” This lecture will provide a preliminary sketch for the ways that local history and art museums with national stature have responded and continue to respond to this troubling heritage as they try to create a more salutary urban imagined community. These museums are leaders in a wider movement among US cities of a certain size to explicitly link cultural development to urban renewal. As such they must attract a national audience while not alienating local communities which, for their part, are often polarized along all too familiar racial and ideological lines.


Eric Gable is a professor of anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. He is a managing editor for the journal Museum and Society and the associate editor for book reviews for American Ethnologist.

Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Art History Program; Historical Studies Program.

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

Synthesis of Multiblock Dendrimers via Isocyanide Multicomponent Reactions

Tuesday, October 22, 2013
5 pm

RKC 115

Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.

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

Telling Stories from Stones: Provincials of the Roman Empire in their Own Words

A lecture by Professor Andrew Johnston, Yale University

Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6–7 pm

Reem-Kayden Center
His talk will investigate how we can study the Roman Empire through inscriptions, what these inscriptions tell us about the lives and identities of individuals, and how the stories of these individuals can ultimately help us develop new and more sophisticated models and understandings of the complexity of the Roman world and the processes of imperialism.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7282, or e-mail lcurtis@bard.edu.

CANCELED: James Goodale “Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles”

Tuesday, October 22, 2013
7–9 pm

Olin, Room 102
The leading force behind the New York Times’ decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971, James Goodale will discuss his recent book, "Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles."

Soon after the book was published, James Goodale wrote an article based on the last few chapters: “Is Obama Worse For Press Freedom Than Nixon?” (The Daily Beast, May 14, 2013). This drew a torrent of commentary from the press. That, and subsequent articles about the dangers of criminalizing newsgathering by the Obama Administration, most certainly had an effect in getting Pfc. Bradley Manning let off the charge of committing espionage, i.e., aiding the enemy. There is no underestimating the power of the pen.

Co-sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center and the Human Rights Project.
Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project.

For more information, call 845-758-7650, e-mail hrp@bard.edu, or visit http://hrp.bard.edu.

The Fall 2013 Latino/a Film Series

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

Wednesday, October 23, 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.

Archipelago: poetry reading by Alana Siegel

Wednesday, October 23, 2013
7–8 pm

Reem-Kayden Center
Our alumna Alana Siegel will give a reading from her newly published book of poems, Archipelago.  After graduating from the Written Arts Program a few years ago,  she has lived in the Bay Area, where her first book, Occupation, was published last year.  Copies of the book will be available.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7600 x7205, or e-mail kelly@bard.edu.

An Interactive Lecture-Demonstration
by Sitar Maestro
Sugato Nag

Wednesday, October 23, 2013
7–8:30 pm

Olin, Room 104

Pandit (or maestro) Sugato Nag is one of the finest contemporary artistes in the North Indian classical music tradition. A sitar virtuoso, his style presents a unique synthesis of the austere classicism of the Shahjahanpore Sarode Tradition in which he was trained and the intricate beauty of the more modern Imdadkhani Style. His lecture-demonstration will focus on introducing the audience to Hindustani or North Indian classical music, especially with respect to its implementation on the sitar.

All are welcome.

Sponsored by: Asian Studies Organization (ASO); Religion Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6019, or e-mail amitra@bard.edu.

Tonight!
The Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra

Wednesday, October 23, 2013
8 pm

Olin Hall
The Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Thurman Barker, celebrates the music of John Coltrane, featuring Patience Higgins on tenor and soprano saxophone.
Sponsored by: Music Program.

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

Food Day!

Thursday, October 24, 2013
11:30 am – 2:30 pm

Kline Commons
Sponsored by: Chartwells Dining Services.

For more information, call 845-758-7533, or e-mail Cerulli@bard.edu.

Challenges in the Search for a Novel Vaccine Target for African Trypanosomiasis

Thursday, October 24, 2013
12 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A lecture by Amy Savage, Bard College
Sponsored by: Biology Program.

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

Poetry Reading: Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs

The John Ashbery Poetry Series Presents: Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs reading from their work, including bilingual translations from the Arabic and French

Thursday, October 24, 2013
5–6:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Sarah Riggs is the author of Autobiography of Envelopes (Burning Deck, 2012), 60 Textos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Waterwork (Chax Press, 2007), and Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street Editions, 2007). Currently she is completing a series of cinepoems called Six Lives, which include “Hudson,” “Brest,” “Brooklyn,” and “Skye.” Her book of essays, Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O’Hara, was published by Routledge in 2002. She has translated or co-translated from the French the poets Isabelle Garron, Marie Borel, Etel Adnan, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and, most recently, Oscarine Bosquet. A member of the bilingual poetry collective Double Change and founder of the interart non-profit Tamaas, she lives in Paris, where she is a professor at NYU-in-France. Her new book, Pomme & Granite, is forthcoming with 1913 press.

Writer and translator Omar Berrada grew up in Casablanca and lives between France and Morocco, where he directs the library and translation center at Dar al-Ma’mûn in Marrakech. He is a member of the bilingual poetry collective Double Change and of the intercultural arts non-profit Tamaas. He has translated, alone or in company, usually into French, sometimes into English, texts by Jennifer Moxley, Rod Mengham, Lisa Jarnot, Kathleen Fraser, Stanley Cavell, Robert Glück, Kristin Prevallet, Avital Ronell, Forrest Gander, Marie Borel, Jalal Toufic, and others. He recently edited, with Erik Bullot, Expanded Translation—A Treason Treatise (2011), a book of joyful verbal and visual betrayals; and, with Yto Barrada, Album—Cinémathèque de Tanger (2012), a multilingual book about film in Tangier and Tangier on film.

For more information, call 845-758-7887, or e-mail ccamp@bard.edu.

Digital Faulkner

Thursday, October 24, 2013
6 pm

Olin, Room 204
Presented by Julie Beth Napolin

This talk addresses the speculative territory of digital cartography as it is remapping our literary encounters. Julie Beth Napolin describes how the UVa "Digital Yoknapatawpha" project is addressing the theoretical and practical challenges of transforming Faulkner's ambiguous narratives into data, and then visualizing that data in a map and other displays.

Julie Beth Napolin is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. Her book in progress, The Acoustics of Narrative Involvement, places the work of Faulkner within the soundscape of global modernism, beginning with the phonograph and ending with new media aesthetics. She's published her work in Qui Parle and the edited volumes Vibratory Modernism and Fifty Years After Faulkner. Her essay on sound and vibration in Conrad was awarded the 2013 Bruce Harkness prize by the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is currently Associate Director of Digital Yoknapatawpha, an online map of the world of Faulkner, and Associate Editor of the site's rendering of The Sound and the Fury.
Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Literature Program.

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

Moby Dick—Rehearsed
By Orson Welles

Thursday, October 24, 2013
7 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
SOLD OUT!
Tickets: $15; free for Bard community. Reservations required.

directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
designed by Zane Pihlstrom
lights by Bruce Steinberg
video by Joshua Thorson

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14
music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

Cast
Salome Dewell '16, Ishmael/Ensemble 
Paul Weintrob '14, Ahab/Ensemble 
Harry Beer '14, Starbuck/Ensemble 
Sebastian Gutierrez '14, Stubb/Ensemble 
Antonio Irizarry '14, Flask/Ensemble 
Eleanor Robb '16, Pip/Ensemble 
Kate Edery '14, Peleg/Daggoo/voice of Rachel/Ensemble 
Dimitri Cacouris '14, Father Mapple/Tashtego/voice of Bachelor/Ensemble 
Ben Hopkins '14, Elijah/Queequeg/Carpenter/Ensemble 

Running time for this performance is approximately two hours and 10 minutes, with one 15-minute intermissionSponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

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

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

Friday, October 25, 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.

Family Weekend–Alumni/ae Day 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013 – Sunday, October 27, 2013

Annandale-on-Hudson
Enjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, Ask the President Forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Special events will be held for alumni/ae, including a reception with President Leon Botstein and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Dean of Student Affairs.

For more information, call 845-758-7360, e-mail events@bard.edu, or visit http://annandaleonline.org/familyweekend.

Tonight! Bard Baroque Ensemble

Friday, October 25, 2013
6 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
The Bard Baroque Ensemble
Prof. Alexander Bonus, director

presents

Rival Families: French vs. Italian Music in the Baroque Age

Friday, October 25, 2013 at 6pm
Bito '60 Conservatory Performance Space


As Europeans in the 17th and 18th Century attested, French and Italian musical styles were as opposed as night and day. Francois Raguenet described these contrasting national tastes in 1702, stating, “It is not to be wondered that the Italians think our musick dull and stupefying…the French aim at the soft, easie, the flowing, and coherent.” In 1716 Francois Couperin quipped that the Italians “play our music less well than we play theirs.” Given their many stylistic antagonisms, composers from these two cultures might be said to comprise rival if not warring musical families.

In this eclectic and entertaining program befitting Family Weekend, the talented student musicians of the Bard Baroque Ensemble illustrate these dramatic contrasts through the lush French suites of Lully and Philidor, the electrifying Italian concerti of Corelli and Albinoni, the tender court songs of Michel Lambert, and the volatile arias of Alessandro Scarlatti.
Sponsored by: Music Program.

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

Faculty Round Table: Humanitarian Intervention

Friday, October 25, 2013
6:30–7:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Bard faculty members Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, Michelle Murray, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, and Peter Rosenblum, Professor International Law and Human Rights, will discuss the advantages, disadvantages, and implications of humanitarian intervention. Sponsored by the Bard Debate Union and the Center for Civic Engagement.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://debate.bard.edu.

Moby Dick—Rehearsed 
By Orson Welles

Friday, October 25, 2013
7 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
SOLD OUT!
Tickets: $15; free for Bard community. Reservations required.

directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
designed by Zane Pihlstrom
lights by Bruce Steinberg
video by Joshua Thorson

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14
music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

Cast
Salome Dewell '16, Ishmael/Ensemble 
Paul Weintrob '14, Ahab/Ensemble 
Harry Beer '14, Starbuck/Ensemble 
Sebastian Gutierrez '14, Stubb/Ensemble 
Antonio Irizarry '14, Flask/Ensemble 
Eleanor Robb '16, Pip/Ensemble 
Kate Edery '14, Peleg/Daggoo/voice of Rachel/Ensemble 
Dimitri Cacouris '14, Father Mapple/Tashtego/voice of Bachelor/Ensemble 
Ben Hopkins '14, Elijah/Queequeg/Carpenter/Ensemble 

Running time for this performance is approximately two hours and 10 minutes, with one 15-minute intermissionSponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

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

Public Debate: Humanitarian Intervention

Friday, October 25, 2013
7:30–8:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
When is humanitarian intervention justified? What are its advantages and disadvantages. Following the faculty round table on this same subject, members of the Bard Debate Union will put on a public debate on this issue of grave contemporary concern.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit http://debate.bard.edu.

American Symphony Orchestra 
Concert One

Friday, October 25, 2013
8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director

7 pm Preconcert Talk by Peter Laki
8 pm Performance
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40 

Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. At Bard College, the ASO appears in an annual winter subscription series at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and also takes part in the Bard Music Festival and SummerScape.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists for the ASO’s fall-spring season include Bard College Conservatory of Music students and Concerto Competition winners Fanya Wyrick-Flax, Dongfang Ouyang, and Zhi Ma.

Concert One

Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka

Avner Dorman
Piccolo Concerto
Fanya Wyrick-Flax ’13, piccolo

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 ("Reformation")

Running time for this concert is approximately one hour and 25 minutes, with one 20-minute intermission.

Programs and performances are subject to change.

Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Fisher Center.

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

Family Weekend–Alumni/ae Day 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013 – Sunday, October 27, 2013

Annandale-on-Hudson
Enjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, Ask the President Forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Special events will be held for alumni/ae, including a reception with President Leon Botstein and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Dean of Student Affairs.

For more information, call 845-758-7360, e-mail events@bard.edu, or visit http://annandaleonline.org/familyweekend.

How We Feed Ourselves. A Look at Large- and Small-Scale Farming Practices in the U.S.: Can We Feed Ourselves and Protect Our Natural Resources?

A Panel Discussion

Saturday, October 26, 2013
1:15–2:15 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

This panel discussion highlights the current challenges facing the agricultural industry in America as it tries to feed a growing population with limited and declining natural resources. Panelists will cover a range of controversial topics about the food we eat, everything from public health and environmental impacts, to tax policy and access to land, to protection of natural resources. Panelists Eshel, Feder, and Phillips are Bard College faculty in both the undergraduate Environmental and Urban Studies program and Bard Center for Environmental Policy graduate program. We hope you can join us. 

Introductions by Corinna Borden, Food Sustainability Advocate for Chartwells, at Bard.

PANELISTS:

Gidon Eshel, Research Professor of Physics and Environmental Science, Bard College (bio here)

Dr. Eshel will discuss the public health and environmental impacts of food production and consumption in the U.S., with a focus on food-related environmental footprint minimization through diet modification and shorter supply chains. Feeding the nation has a massive environmental imprint. As a sector, food-related greenhouse gas emissions are only modestly smaller than those of the two largest sectors, industry and built environments. The food sector is by far the largest consumptive potable water user in the U.S., and in most industrial nations, and it is the overwhelmingly dominant source of algae-generated water pollution. Along with a sedentary lifestyle, the U.S. food system is also the most significant source of degenerative diseases, with a price tag that is hard to unambiguously characterize, but is undoubtedly in the billions, and with a clear adverse impact on expected human lifespan. The public health and environmental costs of the U.S. food system are intimately related; with few important exceptions, what is environmentally costly will also undermine your health. Can these two problems be tackled in concert? Dr. Eshel will talk about how the price of tackling them together is far smaller than the sum of their individual costs. 

Kris Feder, Associate Professor of Economics; Co-Director, Environmental and Urban Studies, Bard College (bio here)

Dr. Feder will discuss how U.S. tax policies systematically favor large farms over small, favor energy- and capital-intensive methods over labor- and skill-intensive methods, and favor ecologically destructive practices over ecologically sound ones. These tax policies also raise farmland prices and make it harder for small farmers to get access to land—particularly near urban markets. Correcting these tax biases would raise needed revenues and promote efficient land management while reestablishing the family farm as a pillar of American culture.

Jennifer Phillips, Professor of Environmental Science, Bard Center for Environmental Policy (bio here)

Dr. Phillips will discuss two competing paradigms for how to conserve "nature" and still produce enough food for 9—10 billion people - we can increase high input farming intensity in "sacrifice zones" or we can transition to a managed agroecosystem approach that combines protection of natural resources with food production but is likely to use more land. Both approaches have merit but she argues that the latter, integrated method that includes high levels of planned and unplanned biodiversity, rotationally grazed livestock, and substitution of knowledge and labor for fossil fuel inputs can help protect water, soil quality and biodiversity, can support carbon sequestration, and will reduce the footprint of farming on natural resource use.


COORDINATED EVENT SCHEDULE

12:00 - 2:30 PM   Farmers Market, outside RKC
12:15 - 1:15 PM   Season brunch by the Bard Farm, RKC Lobby (pre-registration is required)
1:15 - 2:15 PM     Farm Panel, RKC 103

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

For more information, call 845-758-7071, or e-mail mwilliam@bard.edu.

Moby Dick—Rehearsed 
By Orson Welles

Saturday, October 26, 2013
2 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
SOLD OUT!
Tickets: $15; free for Bard community. Reservations required.

directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
designed by Zane Pihlstrom
lights by Bruce Steinberg
video by Joshua Thorson

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14
music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

Cast
Salome Dewell '16, Ishmael/Ensemble 
Paul Weintrob '14, Ahab/Ensemble 
Harry Beer '14, Starbuck/Ensemble 
Sebastian Gutierrez '14, Stubb/Ensemble 
Antonio Irizarry '14, Flask/Ensemble 
Eleanor Robb '16, Pip/Ensemble 
Kate Edery '14, Peleg/Daggoo/voice of Rachel/Ensemble 
Dimitri Cacouris '14, Father Mapple/Tashtego/voice of Bachelor/Ensemble 
Ben Hopkins '14, Elijah/Queequeg/Carpenter/Ensemble 

Running time for this performance is approximately two hours and 10 minutes, with one 15-minute intermissionSponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

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

Moby Dick—Rehearsed 
By Orson Welles

Saturday, October 26, 2013
7 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
SOLD OUT!
Tickets: $15; free for Bard community. Reservations required.

directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
designed by Zane Pihlstrom
lights by Bruce Steinberg
video by Joshua Thorson

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14
music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

Cast
Salome Dewell '16, Ishmael/Ensemble 
Paul Weintrob '14, Ahab/Ensemble 
Harry Beer '14, Starbuck/Ensemble 
Sebastian Gutierrez '14, Stubb/Ensemble 
Antonio Irizarry '14, Flask/Ensemble 
Eleanor Robb '16, Pip/Ensemble 
Kate Edery '14, Peleg/Daggoo/voice of Rachel/Ensemble 
Dimitri Cacouris '14, Father Mapple/Tashtego/voice ofBachelor/Ensemble 
Ben Hopkins '14, Elijah/Queequeg/Carpenter/Ensemble 

Running time for this performance is approximately two hours and 10 minutes, with one 15-minute intermissionSponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

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

American Symphony Orchestra 
Concert One

Saturday, October 26, 2013
8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director

7 pm Preconcert Talk by Peter Laki
8 pm Performance
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40 

Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. At Bard College, the ASO appears in an annual winter subscription series at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and also takes part in the Bard Music Festival and SummerScape.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists for the ASO’s fall-spring season include Bard College Conservatory of Music students and Concerto  Competition winners Fanya Wyrick-Flax, Dongfang Ouyang, and Zhi Ma.

Concert One

Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka

Avner Dorman
Piccolo Concerto
Fanya Wyrick-Flax ’13, piccolo

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 ("Reformation")

Running time for this concert is approximately one hour and 25 minutes, with one 20-minute intermission.

Programs and performances are subject to change.

Sponsored by: American Symphony Orchestra; Fisher Center.

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

Evensong Service

Sunday Evening Worship Service

Sunday, October 27, 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.

Family Weekend–Alumni/ae Day 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013 – Sunday, October 27, 2013

Annandale-on-Hudson
Enjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, Ask the President Forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Special events will be held for alumni/ae, including a reception with President Leon Botstein and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Dean of Student Affairs.

For more information, call 845-758-7360, e-mail events@bard.edu, or visit http://annandaleonline.org/familyweekend.

Our Inaugural Student Symposium

Sunday, October 27, 2013
12–4 pm

Olin Auditorium, classrooms & Olin LC 115
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.

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

Moby Dick—Rehearsed 
By Orson Welles

Sunday, October 27, 2013
7 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
SOLD OUT!
Tickets: $15; free for Bard community. Reservations required.

directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
designed by Zane Pihlstrom
lights by Bruce Steinberg
video by Joshua Thorson

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14
music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

Cast
Salome Dewell '16, Ishmael/Ensemble 
Paul Weintrob '14, Ahab/Ensemble 
Harry Beer '14, Starbuck/Ensemble 
Sebastian Gutierrez '14, Stubb/Ensemble 
Antonio Irizarry '14, Flask/Ensemble 
Eleanor Robb '16, Pip/Ensemble 
Kate Edery '14, Peleg/Daggoo/voice of Rachel/Ensemble 
Dimitri Cacouris '14, Father Mapple/Tashtego/voice of Bachelor/Ensemble 
Ben Hopkins '14, Elijah/Queequeg/Carpenter/Ensemble 

Running time for this performance is approximately two hours and 10 minutes, with one 15-minute intermissionSponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance 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, October 28, 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.

Seth Lipsky Lunchtime Talk on Opinion Journalism

Monday, October 28, 2013
12:30–2 pm

Arendt Center
Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

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

The Visitor Talks: Sally Tallant

Monday, October 28, 2013
3–5 pm

CCS Bard Seminar Room 1
Sally Tallant is the Director of Liverpool Biennial – The UK Biennial of International Contemporary Art.

From 2001 – 11, she was Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, London where she was responsible for the development and delivery of an integrated programme of Exhibitions, Architecture, Education and Public Programmes. She has curated exhibitions in a wide range of contexts including the Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Hospitals, Schools as well as public commissions. She has developed commissioning programmes for artists in a range of contexts and developed long-term projects including The Edgware Road Project, Skills Exchange and Disassembly. She has also curated performances, sound events, film programmes and conferences including initiating the Park Nights series in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions and co-curating the Serpentine Gallery Marathon series with Hans Ulrich Obrist. She is a regular contributor to conferences nationally and internationally.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/.

A Lecture by Seth Lipsky - Our Constitutional Moment: Why America's Foundational Document Is So Hot

Monday, October 28, 2013
6:30–8 pm

Olin, Room 102
Our politics have been so divided in recent years that our national debate is increasingly turning to the Constitution and its fundamental principles.

Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

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

Noon Concert

Tuesday, October 29, 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.

BGIA Information Session

Learn more about the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013
12–1:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Join BGIA Director Jonathan Cristol and Associate Director Mia McCully for an information session on the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA). BGIA provides students, of all majors, with the opportunity to engage in the study and practice of international relations through internships and coursework in New York City. The program is offered in the spring, summer, and fall. Sponsored by: BGIA.

For more information, call 646-839-9262, e-mail mccully@bard.edu, or visit http://bgia.bard.edu.

"From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall: Jewish Women in 19^th Century Europe"

A Lecture by Luise Hirsch

Tuesday, October 29, 2013
5 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
When Europe’s graduate schools began to open their doors to female students in the second half of the 19th century, they were primarily responding to the requests of Jewish women from Russia. Often family breadwinners encouraged to be independent and assertive, they more than other women fought their way into the hitherto exclusively male world of academia. Banned from universities at home, they made Swiss graduate schools the first institutions in the world to train female professionals.

Luise Hirsch was educated at the University of Heidelberg and at Freie Universität Berlin and earned a doctorate in Jewish History from the University of Duisburg in 2005. She lives in Heidelberg and Berlin and works as an author and translator.
Sponsored by: Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7543, or e-mail kuznitz@bard.edu.

Margaret Gray: Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic

Tuesday, October 29, 2013
7–9 pm

Olin, Room 102
Associate Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University, Margaret Gray will discuss her new book about migrant labor in the Hudson Valley, Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic.

In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, and saving small farms at the forefront of their attention. Yet amid this turn to wholesome and responsible food choices, the lives and working conditions of farmworkers are often an afterthought.

Labor and the Locavore focuses on one of the most vibrant local food economies in the country, the Hudson Valley that supplies New York restaurants and farmers markets. Based on more than a decade’s in-depth interviews with workers, farmers, and others, Gray’s examination clearly shows how the currency of agrarian values serves to mask the labor concerns of an already hidden workforce.

She also explores the historical roots of farmworkers’ predicaments and examines the ethnic shift from Black to Latino workers. With an analysis that can be applied to local food concerns around the country, this book challenges the reader to consider how the mentality of the alternative food movements implies a comprehensive food ethic that addresses workers’ concerns.
Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7650, e-mail hrp@bard.edu, or visit http://hrp.bard.edu.

The Fall 2013 Latino/a Film Series

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

Wednesday, October 30, 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.

The Cuban Argument with Itself

Presented by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

Wednesday, October 30, 2013
6:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
Reviewing the history of censorship and political intolerance in Miami and Havana suggests that these two centers of Cuban politics might be engaged in processes of polarization that often operate in concert with each other and have proved integral to the maintenance of the United States trade embargo against Cuba. As one antidote to this long standing polarization, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas will review the efforts of Cuban and Cuban American theater artists who have for decades been organizing to subvert the embargo, noting the successful ways these artists have begun to normalize exchange and travel between the United States and Cuba.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7957, or e-mail rbangiola@bard.edu.

Empire Under Siege: The Satirical Journals of the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907

Presented by Oleg Minin

Wednesday, October 30, 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.

Molecular Basis of Drug Addiction

Thursday, October 31, 2013
12 pm

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

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

In the Name of the Bara

Internet Circulation, Queer Identity, and Gay Manga Subcultures

Thursday, October 31, 2013
6 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

A Presentation by Anne Ishii

The Internet has been a key force in the circulation of queer and underground manga (comics) beyond Japan. But, as information technologies have evolved over the past decades, so have the politics and practices of queer identity-making. This talk will examine the roles of online communication in changing genres and identifications in queer Japanese manga within its local and global contexts.

Anne Ishii is a writer, producer, editor, and translator based in New York City. She has translated over 20 manga titles, including "Loups Garous" by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, and "Detroit Metal City," a spectacularly raunchy ten-volume manga about an indie rock kid with a black metal alter-ego. She runs Massive, which introduces gay Japanese manga and paraphernalia to an Anglophone audience.

Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Difference and Media Project; Division of Languages and Literature; Experimental Humanities Program.

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