Bard Events Calendar

Math Senior Project Prospectus Talk

Thursday, November 1, 2012
3:20 pm

RKC 111
Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7191, or e-mail hsiao@bard.edu.

Buddhist Meditation Group

Thursday, November 1, 2012
5–6:30 pm

Resnick Commons
Thursday, 5:00–6:15 pm

Two meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.

First timers instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.

Basement of Village Dorm A, House of Peace

Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz, student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-758-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.

Poetry: Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs CANCELED

Thursday, November 1, 2012
5:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Due to storm-related difficulties, this reading has been canceled. We are currently working on rescheduling the event.

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

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 at work on a series of film poems, “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.

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, Oscarine Bosquet, Lisa Jarnot, Sarah Riggs, Kathleen Fraser, Abdessalam Ben Abdelali, Stanley Cavell, Nicola Gardini, Robert Glück, Safaa Fathy, Kristin Prevallet, Joan Retallack, Avital Ronell, Adrienne Rich, Forrest Gander, Marie Borel, Jalal Toufic. He recently edited, with Erik Bullot, Expanded Translation—A Treason Treatise (Sharjah Art Foundation, 2011) and, with Yto Barrada, Album—Cinémathèque de Tanger (Virreina/LDC, 2012).

 

Open to the Public and Free of Charge

 

For more information, call 845-758-7512.

Prophecy: The Written Testimony

Friday, November 2, 2012
12:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist
The Institute of Advanced Theology (IAT) will be sponsoring its Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "Prophecy: the written testimony" beginning on Friday October 5 and will continue on each Friday in October and November 2nd.

Prophets claim to link the world of human beings with divine reality. Their methods have included recourse topoetry, vision, music, and ritual. Prophecy ahs typically been seen as an undocumented activity, either too remote in time or too marginal to be fully recorded. Yet the Hebrew Bible provides direct evidence - reaching back to the eighth century B.C.E. - of what the prophetic process and prophetic communication involve.

We will meet at St. John the Evangelist in Barrytown, NY. At noon lunch will be available for IAT members at a charge of $10.00 and non-members $13.00. Reservations for lunch are necessary by calling 845-758-7279 or e-mail iat@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

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

Arnold Steinhardt Master Class, violin CANCELED

The Benedict and Irene Seidman Master Class

Friday, November 2, 2012
4–6:30 pm

Olin Hall
The Benedict and Irene Seidman Master Class



Conservatory students in performance.



**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-752-2380.

Sacred Harp Singing

Sunday, November 4, 2012
12–2:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Shapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.

We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.

We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.

There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.

Come be part of an exciting 200-year-old American tradition!
For more information, call 319-504-0157, e-mail ds582@bard.edu, or visit http://clubs.bard.edu/sacredharp/index.htm.

Catholic Mass on Campus

Sunday, November 4, 2012
12:30–1:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. we have a Catholic Mass on campus.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.

Faculty Recital and Lecture—Program Updated

Jeremy Denk in Concert - Olin Hall

Sunday, November 4, 2012
3 pm

Olin Hall
Due to travel difficulties associated with Hurricane Sandy, Jeffrey Kahane will be unable to join us for this event to perform the scheduled "Secret Listener" program. Acclaimed pianist and Bard Conservatory faculty member Jeremy Denk will appear in his stead.

Program:

Johannes Brahms Six Pieces op. 118

Franz Liszt Petrarch Sonnet no. 123

Franz Liszt Sonata after Dante
—
Franz Liszt/Richard Wagner "Liebestod"

Robert Schumann Davidsbündlertänze op. 6

This concert will be a preview of the program Mr. Denk will be playing on Noevember 7, 2012  at Wigmore Hall, London.

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-752-2380.

Evensong Service

Sunday, November 4, 2012
7–7:45 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Evensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

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

Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work

Monday, November 5, 2012
2:30–4 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series presents a free public reading by Samuel R. Delany. A giant of the New Wave science-fiction movement, Delany is the winner of Nebula, Hugo, and Stonewall Book Awards, and the author of numerous novels, including Dhalgren, Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, and most recently, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Introduced by Bradford Morrow, the reading will be followed by a Q&A. No tickets are required.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.

Introduction to Dante's Inferno

Self and Society in the Liberal Arts

Monday, November 5, 2012
4:45–6:15 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.

For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail dc4522@bard.edu.

Panel Discussion: Bridging the Gap between the Classroom and the Field

Everyday Aspects of Anthropological Research in the Middle East and North Africa, with Dave Crawford and J. Zerrin Holle

Monday, November 5, 2012
5:30 pm

Olin, Room 102
Dave Crawford is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at Fairfield University in Connecticut. His anthropological fieldwork has focused on Berber speakers in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, particularly regarding issues of globalization, the transition to wage labor, gender and household dynamics, and social inequality. He won the Julian Steward Award for his first book, Moroccan Households in the World Economy, and he has a coedited volume coming out this spring, Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Experience.

J. Zerrin Holle is a student in the Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies Departments at Bard. Her ongoing fieldwork involves working with Kurdish communities that are internally displaced throughout Turkey, specifically in Istanbul. Her research focuses on issues of forced migration and resettlement.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and MES.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

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

Noon Concert

Tuesday, November 6, 2012
12 pm

Olin Hall
Conservatory students in concert.  Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-752-2380.

Quasichemical Consideration of the Effect of Osmolytes in Protein Solution Thermodynamics CANCELED

Tuesday, November 6, 2012
4:40 pm

RKC 102
 
Sponsored by: Associate Dean of the College; Physics Program.

For more information, call 845-752-2336, or e-mail halsey@bard.edu.

Designing Magical Moments with Digital Media

Tuesday, November 6, 2012
5:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Computer Science Program.

For more information, call 845-752-2359, or e-mail kohara@bard.edu.

The Fall Italian Film Festival

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
6:45 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115

                                                                                          


Films shown Wednesdays in Olin LC, 115:
 
November 14


Films shown Tuesdays in Preston Theater, 110:
 
November 27

Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.

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

New Classics for Flute

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
8 pm

Olin Hall

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Buddhist Meditation Group

Thursday, November 8, 2012
5–6:30 pm

Resnick Commons
Thursday, 5:00–6:15 pm

Two meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.

First timers instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.

Basement of Village Dorm A, House of Peace

Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz, student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-758-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.

Math Senior Project Prospectus Talk

Thursday, November 8, 2012
4:30 pm

RKC 111
Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7191, or e-mail hsiao@bard.edu.

Kevin Carrico: Reimagining the Real China

Neo-traditionalist Movements in Contemporary Urban China

Thursday, November 8, 2012
4:30 pm

RKC 103
Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Backward Wives or Agents of Revolution? CANCELED (to be rescheduled)

Jews and Gender in Interwar Soviet Life

Thursday, November 8, 2012
4:45 pm

Olin, Room 201

Elissa Bemporad
Queens College, CUNY 

By focusing on the ways in which one specific group of Jews negotiated between Communism and Jewish identity, Dr. Bemporad will discuss Jewish women’s distinctive path to Sovietization in the interwar period. A wide range of visions of both the Bolshevik experiment and Jewish women’s path to Sovietization influenced the gender discourse on the Jewish street and affected the shifting roles that women came to play in the political, cultural and social life of the Soviet system. Female empowerment, which would have been a natural outgrowth of the Soviets’ commitment to gender equality, eventually met and collided with male empowerment, as Jewish men began to view the “new Soviet Jewish woman” as a dangerous threat to their status, perhaps even more than their non-Jewish counterparts.

Elissa Bemporad holds the Jerry and William Ungar Assistant Professorship in Eastern European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College, City University of New York. She was trained at the University of Bologna and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She received a PhD in history from Stanford University and is most recently the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (forthcoming with Indiana University Press), which received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History awarded by the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide for an outstanding work of 20th century history.

Sponsored by: Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

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

From the Insides Out: A critical look at stereoscopic 3D gore

Thursday, November 8, 2012
6–7 pm

Avery Art Center, Center for Film, Electronic Arts and Music
Slate columnist Daniel Engber discusses depictions of impalings, beheadings, and other violations in 3-D cinema. A critical look at stereoscopic gore, from the tawdry slasher films of the 1980s to today.Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x6687, or e-mail bcoonley@bard.edu.

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

Quartet Concerts

Friday, November 9, 2012
8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Quartet Concert I: Meredith Monk, Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger, and Bohdan Hilash
Tickets: $15, 25, 35, 45



LISTEN:


Composer/performer Meredith Monk has been deemed “a magician of the voice” and “one of America’s coolest composers,” amazing audiences across the globe for more than 45 years with her genre-spanning compositions. Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which we have no words. Monk and her acclaimed Vocal Ensemble—some of the finest and most adventurous performers active in new music—will showcase Monk’s range as a composer and her engagement with performance as a vehicle for spiritual transformation.

The program for Quartet Concert I on Friday, November 9, includes multiple solo selections from Juice, Songs from the Hill, and Light Songs; selections from Facing North; Music for Voice and Piano: Gotham Lullaby, Travelling, and last song; Music for Voice, Keyboard, and Woodwinds: Choosing Companions, from ATLAS: an opera in three parts; Waltz in 5’s, from The Politics of Quiet; Scared Song and clusters 3, from Songs of Ascension; Panda Chant I and Memory Song, from The Games; masks, from mercy; and between song, from impermanence. The majority of these selections can be heard on the ECM New Series label.     

New Albion Records was founded in San Francisco in 1984 to explore the world of art music. Its current catalogue includes 138 releases. In recent years, with the onset of the Internet, its focus has moved from recording projects to concert events. This is New Albion’s fifth such event with the Fisher Center.  

Running time for this program is approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission.Sponsored by: Fisher Center.

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

An Evening of Music by Harold Farberman

Friday, November 9, 2012
8 pm

Olin Hall

The program includes:

"For Openers" for brass and percussion ensemble;

"Three Pieces for the Queen's Band" for chamber orchestra;

Excerpts from the comic chamber opera Diamond Street;

"Unisons" from Combinations for percussion sextet, featuring members of So Percussion; and

"Revenge" for solo viola and chamber ensemble, featuring violist Marka Gustavsson (world permiere).

Presented by the Graduate Conducting Program

of the Bard College Conservatory of Music

and featuring Marka Gustavsson, viola

members of Sō Percussion

and

Maestro Farberman's students in the Graduate Conducting Program.

Sponsored by: Bard Center.

For more information, call 845-758-7512.

Family Concert

All Ages Welcome at Matinee Chamber Music Performance

Saturday, November 10, 2012
4 pm

Bard Chapel
The Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle and the Preparatory Division of The Bard College Conservatory of Music present a Family Concert. Admission is free of charge; all donations support the Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division scholarship fund. For more information call 845-339-7907

Featuring Conservatory Preparatory students and their teachers in a performance to capture the hearts of babes in arms, toddlers, teenagers, and classical music devotees, the one-hour program includes vocals, four-hand piano, and strings. Young people will be invited to sit up front, close to the musicians. Everyone in the audience will be invited to meet the performers and see their instruments.

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-339-7907.

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

Quartet Concerts

Saturday, November 10, 2012
8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Quartet Concert II: Meredith Monk, Katie Geissinger, Allison Sniffin, and Bohdan Hilash
Tickets: $15, 25, 35, 45



LISTEN:


Composer/performer Meredith Monk has been deemed “a magician of the voice” and “one of America’s coolest composers,” amazing audiences across the globe for more than 45 years with her genre-spanning compositions. Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which we have no words. Monk and her acclaimed Vocal Ensemble—some of the finest and most adventurous performers active in new music—will showcase Monk’s range as a composer and her engagement with performance as a vehicle for spiritual transformation.

The program for Quartet Concert II on Saturday, November 10, includes Music for Unaccompanied Voice, with selections from Juice, Songs from the Hill, and Light Songs; Music for Voice and Piano: Gotham Lullaby, Travelling, and Madwoman’s Vision; and Music for Voice, Keyboard, and Woodwinds: Choosing Companions, from ATLAS: an opera in three parts; Hips Dance, from Volcano Songs: Duets; Prayer II, from The Politics Of Quiet; Scared Song, epilogue, and woman at the door, from mercy; clusters 3, from Songs of Ascension; Panda Chant I and Memory Song, from The Games; masks, from mercy; and between song, from impermanence. The majority of these selections can be heard on the ECM New Series label.    

New Albion Records was founded in San Francisco in 1984 to explore the world of art music. Its current catalogue includes 138 releases. In recent years, with the onset of the Internet, its focus has moved from recording projects to concert events. This is New Albion’s fifth such event with the Fisher Center.  

Running time for this program is approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission.Sponsored by: Fisher Center.

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

Sacred Harp Singing

Sunday, November 11, 2012
12–2:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Shapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.

We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.

We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.

There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.

Come be part of an exciting 200-year-old American tradition!
For more information, call 319-504-0157, e-mail ds582@bard.edu, or visit http://clubs.bard.edu/sacredharp/index.htm.

Catholic Mass on Campus

Sunday, November 11, 2012
12:30–1:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. we have a Catholic Mass on campus.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.

Evensong Service

Sunday, November 11, 2012
7–7:45 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Evensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

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

The Day of Dance

Sunday, November 11, 2012
1–5 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
1–5 pm
Hessel Museum of Art
Tickets: Free and open to the public

This event is a rare and unique institutional exchange made possible by the programs’ mutual curiosity and interest in exploring the recent courtship of dance by major art museums.

1–1:30 pm
Lecture: “Dancing with Objects: The Agency of the Postmodern Subject in the Late Capitalist Museum,” by second-year CCS Bard student Sarah Fritchey

1:30–5 pm
Performance
Occurring in Liam Gillick’s Everyday Holidays exhibit:


Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies; Dance Program.

For more information, call 215-208-5564, or e-mail sfritche@gmail.com.

Speakers Series : Andrea Kroksnes

Monday, November 12, 2012
4–6 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
In this talk Andrea Kroksnes will present some of her latest curatorial and research projects. From this personal point of departure she sets out to problematize the larger context of curatorial work. She will take up issues such as the curatorial work structure in European museums compared to independent curatorial work for biennials. Kroksnes will discuss with the students models of curatorial autonomy against models of shared responsibility in collaborations and networks. The training and focus of her curatorial work has been museum based and even traditional at times but she also has been invested in keeping alive a tradition of curatorial and institutional self-reflection that was initiated by the artists and curators of Institutional Critique - a big influence for Kroksnes. For her, working as a curator means very consciously maintaining a mixture of analysis and critical practice. On the whole, artistic and curatorial practices automatically oscillate between the r ole of the user of an already existing visual culture and the role of an active producer of critically revised conceptions of this culture. The project to establish a new mode of interdisciplinary and collaborative research into visuality is a crucial focus of her curatorial work. The analysis of present-day visual culture as a specific cultural, social, political and aesthetic phenomenon urgently raises the question of the legitimacy of traditional institutions and notions of art.

About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.

Gabriele Pedulla

Monday, November 12, 2012
5 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.

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

Bard MBA Sustainable Business Series with Andrew Winston

The Future of Sustainable Business: A Conversation with Andrew Winston

Monday, November 12, 2012
6:30–8:30 pm

Green Spaces, 394 Broadway, 5th Floor, NYC 10013

EVENT RESCHEDULED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY TO NOVEMBER 12, 2012

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Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as we host a conversation with sustainable business expert and author Andrew Winston. Andrew Winston is a globally recognized expert on green business, appearing regularly in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and CNBC. Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is the author of Green Recovery, a strategic plan for using environmental thinking to survive hard economic times and prepare your company for growth when the downturn ends. He is also the co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide for companies going green. Winston is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with stakeholders. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA.

Bard MBA Director Eban Goodstein will engage Andrew in an evening of conversation on the future of sustainable business. Following the conversation, there will be a discussion period open to questions from the audience. 

6:30 PM: Doors open with small bites and refreshments
7 PM: Sustainable Business Series: A Conversation with Andrew Winston

• Andrew Winston Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies & Author
• Eban Goodstein Bard MBA Director 

Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.

For more information, call 845-758-7388, e-mail kvansant@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/mba.

Theater Festival: Five Senior Projects in Directing

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 – Sunday, November 18, 2012

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
Tuesday, November 13 at 7 and 9 pm
Wednesday, November 14 at 7 and 9 pm
Thursday, November 15 at 7 and 9 pm
Friday, November 16 at 5, 7, and 9 pm
Saturday, November 17 at 5, 7, and 9 pm
Sunday, November 18 at 5, 7, and 9 pm

Free admission—reservations via the Box Office

Five senior directing students in the Theater and Performance Program will present work as part of their Senior Projects in a festival taking place fromTuesday, November 13 to Sunday, November 18. These pieces—either short plays or edited versions of longer plays—will be presented in a rotating repertory, with two or three pieces performed each evening.

The Belly of the Whale (edited) by Fabio Rubiano Orjuela
Directed by Marta McKeown
Performances: 
Tuesday, November 13 at 9 pm
Thursday, November 15 at 7 pm
Saturday, November 17 at 7 pm

The Glass Menagerie (scenes one, two, three, and four) 
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Sarah Loucks
Performances: 
Wednesday, November 14 at 7 pm
Friday, November 16 at 7 pm
Sunday, November 18 at 9 pm

Gruesome Playground Injuries (edited) by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Sarah Poor
Performances: 
Thursday, November 15 at 9 pm
Saturday, November 17 at 5 pm
Sunday, November 18 at 7 pm

The Real Thing (edited) by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Benjamin Wszalek
Performances: 
Tuesday, November 13 at 7 pm
Friday, November 16 at 9 pm
Sunday, November 18 at 5 pm

Savage/Love by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin
Directed by Moriah Van Cleef
Performances:
Wednesday, November 14 at 9 pm
Friday, November 16 at 5 pm
Saturday, November 17 at 9 pm

For more information, click here.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater Program.

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

The Philosophy Program presents

Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:45 pm

Olin, Room 201

Alessandra Brusadin PhD candidate in Philosophy,  University of Padova Italy, and current Bard Research Scholar in Residence  "Understanding Music in its Context: Wittgenstein's Criticism of a 'Science of Aesthetics'" 

Is it possible for aesthetics to be a science? Can empirical methods provide an explanation for our aesthetic judgments? The possibility of a 'science of aesthetics' is one of the focuses of Wittgenstein's Lectures on Aesthetics (1938). In this talk,I will discuss aspects of our understanding of music in light of Wittgenstein's non-psychologistic view of aesthetics. Specifically, I will address the connection between our psychological or neural processes and the context of our experience of music.

Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7393, or e-mail kyegnash@bard.edu.

The Anti-Political Prejudices of Modernity: A Civic Humanist Critique

A Lecture by Michael McCarthy

Tuesday, November 13, 2012
7–9 pm

Olin, Room 102
" No other human ability has suffered to such an extent from the progress of the modern age as the capacity for action, the capacity to begin something new".

Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic



Hannah Arendt was neither a liberal nor a Marxist. In fact, her critique of the Western political tradition spares neither ancients nor moderns, neither classical philosophers and theologians nor modern economists and social theorists. Arendt was rather a civic humanist, a reflective adherent of the civic republican and revolutionary traditions. My reflections, undertaken in her memory, revolve around two closely related questions. Why was Arendt so critical of the political heritage of the modern age? Why was the political promise of modernity never fulfilled? The unifying theme connecting Arendt's answers to these questions is the world alienation of modernity. McCarthy's lecture will explore one principal source of that alienation and clarify the political alternative Arendt offered in response: knowledge and love of the world.




Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project.

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

The Fall Italian Film Festival

Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:45 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115

                                                                                          


Films shown Wednesdays in Olin LC, 115:
 
November 14


Films shown Tuesdays in Preston Theater, 110:
 
November 27

Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.

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

This Is Your Brain on Technology

Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6 pm

Olin 202
Sponsored by: Mind, Brain & Behavior, Experimental Humanities; Science, Technology, and Society Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail luka@bard.edu.

A Celebration of Luis Garcia-Renart

and his Fifty Years at Bard College

Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Compositions by: 
Pablo Casals, Xavier Montsalvatge, Gabriel Faure, J.S. Bach and a little Latin music.

And featuring the Bard College Chamber Singers, faculty and student performers.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.

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

Faculty Seminar: Sanjib Baruah

Fall 2012

Wednesday, November 14, 2012
7 pm

Olin, Room 102

Global Environmentalism and the Mega Hydropower Projects of the Eastern Himalayas

This seminar will be held in Olin 102 beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Join us for a reception in the Olin atrium beginning at 6:30 p.m.  

Sponsored by: Dean of the College.

For more information, call 845-758-7490.

Buddhist Meditation Group

Thursday, November 15, 2012
5–6:30 pm

Resnick Commons
Thursday, 5:00–6:15 pm

Two meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.

First timers instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.

Basement of Village Dorm A, House of Peace

Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz, student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-758-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.

Global Change on the Emerald Planet

Thursday, November 15, 2012
12 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium



Sponsored by: Biology Program.

For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.

Fun and (Sudoku) Games with Algebra

Thursday, November 15, 2012
4:40 pm

RKC 111
Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7191, or e-mail hsiao@bard.edu.

TODAY! Sara Frier '09 and Samuel Luterbacher

Thursday, November 15, 2012
5:30–6:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
"Morality in Motion: Macabre Rosaries from 16th Century Northern Europe"


Reception to follow lecture.

Sponsored by: Art History Program; Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Religion Program.

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

Radioactivism

Screening and Discussion on Responses to Japan's Nuclear Crisis

Thursday, November 15, 2012
6:15–8 pm

Olin 102

The tsunami of March 11th 2011 not only devastated Northeastern Japan but instigated an ongoing nuclear crisis, in which the fear of radiation has penetrated the air, ground, food, and water of the entire country. Growing doubt towards the nuclear power industry and governmental regulatory structures has unleashed a new wave of citizen activism and popular protest on a scale unseen in Japan for decades. Yuko Tonohira and Ayumi Hirai of the group Todos Somos Japon will discuss recent developments in the anti-nuclear movement and screen a selection of short documentary films on responses to the crisis.

Todos Somos Japon is a network-building project aiming to connect and support activists in Japan and world-wide. TSJ publishes and translates critical writings in Japanese and English at http://jfissures.org and organizes events and film screenings in the New York area and beyond.

Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7881, or e-mail nshockey@bard.edu.

Thursday Night Live - Jazz Class Fall Performance

Thursday, November 15, 2012
9 pm

Campus Center, Cafe
Come listen to some Jazz Vocals and instrumental accompaniment during the Jazz Vocal class’s fall performance.Sponsored by: Student Activities.

For more information, call 845-758-7097, or e-mail studentactivities@bard.edu.

EUS Film Series: Urbanized

Thursday, November 15, 2012
9 pm

Preston
EUS Film Series is a bi-weekly screening of documentary films that are related to subjects explored by the Environmental and Urban Studies program at Bard. Join us every other Thursday this fall to watch the films and discuss EUS topics with your peers and professors. Spread the word!

This week's film is Urbanized, which features our very own Noah B. Chasin (Art History, Environmental & Urban Studies, Human Rights) as well as Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, and Michael Sorkin! Join us as these famous architects (and we) discuss the policy, design, and human rights issues surrounding urban planning.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.

For more information, call 201-647-0951, or e-mail sk9875@bard.edu.

Buddhism and Food Culture in Korea

Friday, November 16, 2012
1:30–2:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Seonjae Sunim
Renown South Korean Buddhist nun, scholar, and master chef Seonjae Sunim comes to Bard College to share her philosophy of dietary and spiritual well-being. Considered an icon in Korean temple cuisine, Seonjae will share her experience as an advocate of a return to locally-informed traditional Korean food culture and environmentally-conscious cooking. She may even share a recipe for kimch’i made of vegetables grown in the Hudson Valley.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Asian Studies Program; Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Political Studies Program; Religion Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6051, or e-mail khaig@bard.edu.

Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division Open House

Saturday, November 17, 2012
10 am – 2 pm

Avery Art Center, Center for Film, Electronic Arts and Music
Prospective students are welcome to drop in through out the day and get information about the Preparatory Division. Arrangements for auditing a class and meeting the faculty by appointment only.Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division.

For more information, call 845-758-7587, e-mail sohashi@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory/preparatory.

Graduate Programs in Sustainability Open House

Saturday, November 17, 2012
11 am – 2 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Graduate Programs in Sustainability Open House
Saturday, November 17th, 2012 from 11am - 2pm
Bard College, Reem-Kayden Center, Room 102

Useful Links: Download Campus Map  and Directions to Bard College
NOTE: A shuttle will be provided to and from Rhinecliff's Amtrak Station which is 15 minutes from Bard College. Pick up in Rhinecliff at 10:15am and Pick up at Bard at 2:15pm.

AGENDA
10:30:  Registration
11:00:  Opening Remarks by Director Eban Goodstein
11:30: "Rules of the Game" Faculty Panel
   Dr. Gautam Sethi, CEP
   Dr. Jennifer Phillips, CEP
   Dr. Monique Segarra, CEP
   Dr. Ralph Meima, CEP
   Andrea Spender, CEP
12:30   Lunch
1:00:   Breakout Sessions (attend two)
   MBA in Sustainability Program Overview
   Center for Environmental Policy Program Overview
   Meet Current Students
2:00:    Student-led Campus Tour (optional)

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN  >>> please register here <<<

Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.

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

Bard Conservatory at the Landing: Concordium

Saturday, November 17, 2012
6–8 pm

Bard Conservatory students in concert. Part of the Claverack Landing music series.

Program:
Mozart — Overture to “The Abduction from the Seraglio”
Krommer – Partita in F major
Beethoven – Quintet for piano and winds
Mozart – Sonata for two bassoons
Mozart – Overture and arias from “The Magic Flute”

Concordium is a Bard-based Harmonie wind ensemble coached by CFO oboist Stephen Hammer.

First Presbyerterian Church
(4th & Warren)
Hudson, NY

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-752-2380.

John Cage: On & Off the Air!

Saturday, November 17, 2012
8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Tickets: $15, 25, 35, 45

John Cage’s interest in radio as both a medium of transmission and a musical instrument was lifelong, beginning in childhood with original broadcasts created on behalf of his Boy Scouts of America troop and culminating, the year before his death, with his Europera 5 (1991), one of three mixed-media works created for the operatic stage. John Cage: On & Off the Air! celebrates this engagement with an ever-changing program of works wrapped around a newly staged revival of Cage’s peripatetic The City Wears a Slouch Hat (CBS Radio, 1942). Based on a play by Kenneth Patchen, it features a newly commissioned film of light and shadows by the New York composer Mikel Rouse and performed by the celebrated Canadian-based percussion ensemble NEXUS. The film for The City Wears a Slouch Hat will incorporate the use of shadows to simulate characters of a live performance. In this way, the “shadow film” will mirror the live action appearing on stage, as well as becoming a “portable set.” 

John Cage: On & Off the Air! celebrates Cage’s centennial year under the auspices of the John Cage Trust. Its theme spotlights Cage’s ever-prescient work with technology; its design extends Cage’s devotion to multiplicity, creativity, and responsive living. 

Program

Radio Music (1956)
One to eight performers, each at one radio

27’10.554” for a Percussionist (1956)
Solo percussionist utilizing metal, wood, skin, and electronic instruments (radios)

Water Walk (1959)
Solo performer making use of 34 specified properties (including piano, five radios, bath tub, toy fish, blender, and rubber duck)

4’33” (1952)
Solo performer, at one radio

Credo in US (1942)
One pianist, two percussionists, and one performer on radio

The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1942)
Four speakers, four percussionists, Foley sound effects, and film 

Sponsored by: Fisher Center; John Cage Trust.

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

Sacred Harp Singing

Sunday, November 18, 2012
12–2:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Shapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.

We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.

We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.

There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.

Come be part of an exciting 200-year-old American tradition!
For more information, call 319-504-0157, e-mail ds582@bard.edu, or visit http://clubs.bard.edu/sacredharp/index.htm.

Catholic Mass on Campus

Sunday, November 18, 2012
12:30–1:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. we have a Catholic Mass on campus.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.

Evensong Service

Sunday, November 18, 2012
7–7:45 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Evensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

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

Bard Conservatory Students Family Concert

A Rhinebeck Chamber Music Series

Sunday, November 18, 2012
4–5 pm

Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck, NY
Monstrare, a brand new brass quintet of advanced musicians from the Bard College Conservatory of Music, will present a family concert to introduce the brass family of instruments. This musical journey will take us from Gabrieli's 16th-century Baroque fanfares to 20th-century works by the American trumpet player, composer, and conductor Anthony Plog (composer of the opera "How the Trumpet Got Its Toot").

Monstrare (which means to show) includes musicians from Hungary, Canada, Czech Republic, and the United States who will demonstrate and explain the extraordinary capabilities of tuba, trumpets, trombone, and horn.

Christopher Carroll, trumpet (and master of ceremonies)
Philippe Brunet, trumpet
Ferenc Farkas, horn
Vaclav Kalivoda, trombone
Peter Blaga, tuba

Church of the Messiah
6436 Montgomery Street
Rhinebeck, NY 12572

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-752-2380.

Speakers Series: Roger Berkowitz

Monday, November 19, 2012
3–5 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Globalization and the Human Condition

In a global world boundaries collapse. There is a question whether any borders or limitations are valid. For many, all boundaries (whether moral or political) are unjust impositions of hierarchal orders. Occupy Wall Street and Human rights share more than a desire to actualize freedom in the world. They are also, in significant ways, non-political and even anti-political institutions. As political instances of the radical democratic theorizing of Jacques Ranciere, both OWS and the global human rights movement reject the institutionalization of politics in favor of unlimited openness. This paper argues that politics requires institutions, for politics without a space of politics secured by institutions is impossible.

Roger Berkowitz is an interdisciplinary scholar, teacher, and writer. He writes on politics, law, Hannah Arendt, Greek and German philosophy, and legal history. His essays have appeared in Bookforum, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Theory & Event, The Fortnightly Review, The Journal of Politics, Philosophy and Literature, the Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities, New Nietzsche Studies, and many other publications. His monograph, The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, was recently published by Harvard University Press. He is co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics and The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis. He teaches at Bard College where he is Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.

About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.
Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.

Noon Concert

Tuesday, November 20, 2012
12 pm

Olin Hall
Conservatory students in concert.  Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-752-2380.

Moderation Informational Meeting

Tuesday, November 20, 2012
4:35–5:55 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115

Sponsored by: Literature Program; Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7242, or e-mail dalberti@bard.edu.

Secure Two-Party Computation Sublinear (Amortized) Time

Tuesday, November 20, 2012
5 pm

RKC 100
Sponsored by: Computer Science Program.

For more information, call 845-752-2359, or e-mail kohara@bard.edu.

Buddhist Meditation Group

Thursday, November 22, 2012
5–6:30 pm

Resnick Commons
Thursday, 5:00–6:15 pm

Two meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.

First timers instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.

Basement of Village Dorm A, House of Peace

Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz, student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-758-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.

Sacred Harp Singing

Sunday, November 25, 2012
12–2:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Shapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.

We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.

We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.

There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.

Come be part of an exciting 200-year-old American tradition!
For more information, call 319-504-0157, e-mail ds582@bard.edu, or visit http://clubs.bard.edu/sacredharp/index.htm.

Catholic Mass on Campus

Sunday, November 25, 2012
12:30–1:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. we have a Catholic Mass on campus.
For more information, call 845-594-6845, or e-mail jmali@bard.edu.

Evensong Service

Sunday, November 25, 2012
7–7:45 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Evensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

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

CCS Bard Speakers Series : Gregg Bordowitz

Monday, November 26, 2012
3–5 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1
Testing Some Beliefs

This presentation will consider the continuing relevance of poetry to visual art. Using the artist's own current writing and video work, we will consider the possibilities (and difficulties) of making art about AIDS at this historical juncture.

Gregg Bordowitz is an artist and writer. For the past three years, Bordowitz turned his attention to performance. Testing Some Beliefs is an improvisational lecture that he delivered at Iceberg Projects (Chicago), Murray Guy (New York), Temple Gallery (Philadelphia), and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas). He wrote and directed Sex Mitigating Death: On Discourse and Drives: A Meditative Poem, presented March 18th, 2011, at the Tate Modern, London. He also directed and wrote an opera titled The History of Sexuality Volume One By Michel Foucault: An Opera, which premiered October 1 and 2, 2010 at Tanzquartier Wien, Austria. His most recent book, “General Idea: Imagevirus,” was published by Afterall Books in 2010. A collection of his writings — titled “The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003” — was published by MIT Press in the fall of 2004. For this book, Bordowitz received the 2006 Frank Jewitt Mather Award from the College Art Association. In addition, he has received a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, among other grants and awards. His films, including “Fast Trip Long Drop” (1993), “A Cloud In Trousers” (1995), “The Suicide” (1996), and “Habit” (2001) have been widely shown in festivals, museums, movie theaters, and broadcast internationally. Professor Bordowitz teaches in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.
Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.

Scenes from Shakespeare's Othello

Self and Society in the Liberal Arts

Monday, November 26, 2012
4:45–6:15 pm

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

For more information, call 845-758-7490.

Divine and Popular Sovereignty in Islamic Political Thought after the Arab Spring

Monday, November 26, 2012
5–6:30 pm

Olin 102

Andrew March
Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Since the 2011 revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, political life in those countries has been dominated by so-called "moderate Islamist" parties. These parties proclaim the acceptance of constitutional democracy and political power-sharing, while at the same time endorsing shari'a law as the ultimate source of legitimate power in a Muslim country. This talk approaches the paradox of Islamic democracy through the lens of the concept of sovereignty in contemporary Islamic political theology. What does it mean to hold that both God and the people can be said to be "sovereign" and what unresolved paradoxes remain at the level of theory?

Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Political Studies Program; Religion Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail msyed@bard.edu.

Visting Artist Recital: Friedrich Gauwerky CANCELED

Monday, November 26, 2012
8 pm

Olin Hall

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; The John Cage Trust.

For more information, call 845-752-2380.

Hello Hi There

By Annie Dorsen

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Tuesday, November 27 at 6 and 8 pm
Tickets: $20; $5 Bard community
Discussion after the 6 pm performance with Annie Dorsen and Maria Sachiko Cecire, coordinator of the Bard Experimental Humanities Program and assistant professor of literature

Hello Hi There uses the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist/activist Noam Chomsky from the seventies as inspiration and material for a dialogue between two custom-designed chatbots. Every conversation between the chatbots forges a unique path due to their custom-made software, which has been programmed to mimic the nuances of human conversation. The result is an unexpected, uncanny, and humorous meditation on what separates humans from machines. 

Obie Award–winning director and writer Annie Dorsen works in theater, film, dance, and digital performance. Her most recent work, Hello Hi There, premiered at the Steirischer Herbst festival (Graz), and was presented at Black Box Teater (Oslo), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), and PS122 (New York), among others. She is cocreator and director of the 2008 Broadway musical Passing Strange. In 2009, she created two music theater pieces: Ask Your Mama, a setting of Langston Hughes’s 1962 poem, composed by Laura Karpman and sung by Jessye Norman and The Roots (Carnegie Hall), and ETHEL’s TruckStop, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. In 2010, she collaborated with choreographer Anne Juren on Magical and with Juren and DD Dorvillier on Pièce Sans Paroles. In addition to numerous awards for Passing Strange, Dorsen has received several fellowships, notably the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship from the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She has taught at New York University, Fordham University, and Playwright’s Horizons, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies; Live Arts Bard .

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

GSS Advising Session

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
4:30–5:30 pm

Kline - Faculty Dining Room
Students interested in Spring course offerings in Gender and Sexuality Studies, or who are interested in the GSS concentration, are cordially invited to an open advising session.

Representatives from GSS Faculty will be present to offer advising and answer any questions you may have.

Sponsored by: Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

For more information, call 917-415-7962, or e-mail weston@bard.edu.

Turning a Single Molecule into an Electric Motor

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
5 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.

For more information, call 845-752-2353, or e-mail clafratt@bard.edu.

The Fall Italian Film Festival

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
6:45 pm

Preston Theater, 110



Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.

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

Mahmoud Darwish: The Poetics of Return

Sinan Antoon (NYU)

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
7 pm

Olin 102

Many of the late poems of Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) grapple with the theme of a/the “return” to Palestine. Considering Darwish’s iconic status and his immense symbolic and political capital and the visceral importance of “return” as a political category, it becomes more than a theme. In his talk Antoon will attempt to trace this narrative of return in representative poems and read its political implications.

Sinan Antoon is Associate Professor at NYU's Gallatin School. He is also a poet, novelist and translator. He has published two collections of poetry in Arabic and one collection in English: "The Baghdad Blues" (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). He has published three novels: "I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody" (City Lights, 2007), "The Pomegranate Alone" (2010) forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2013, and "Ya Maryam" (Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2012). His translations from the Arabic include Mahmoud Darwish’s "In the Presence of Absence" (Archipelago, 2011) and a selection of Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef’s late work, "Nostalgia; My Enemy" (Graywolf, 2012). His translation of Toni Morrison’s Home is forthcoming in Arabic in 2013. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Arab Studies Journal and co-founder and co-editor of the cultural page of Jadaliyya. Antoon returned to his native Baghdad in 2003 as a member of InCounter Productions to co-direct a documentary, About Baghdad, about the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam-occupied Iraq.

Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail dramadan@bard.edu.

A Bard Ancient Studies Symposium Event

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
7 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Bito Auditorium (RKC 103)
Kassandra:
a presentation and discussion with Jean Wagner

Bard College artist-in-residence Jean Wagner has recently written and directed a stage adaptation of the novel Kassandra by the East German writer Christa Wolf.  Wagner, together with actors involved in the project, will present scenes from the performance (both live and on video) and will discuss this ambitious and complex adaptation of a work that is itself a radical re-imagining of the story—recounted by Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, and others—of the Trojan princess who is

blessed and cursed with the ability to see what others can’t.

(Refreshments served!)

Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7142, or e-mail bartsche@bard.edu.

The Bard College Orchestra Fall Concert

Wednesday, November 28, 2012
8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Under the direction of Geoffrey McDonald, the Bard College Orchestra performs works by Rossini, Elgar, Beethoven and Haydn. This concert is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7091, or e-mail garmbrus@bard.edu.

The Bard Collaborative Piano Fellows Present Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus

Wednesday, November 28, 2012
8 pm

Olin Hall
A performance of Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus by Bard students, piano fellows, and faculty.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-752-2380.

Buddhist Meditation Group

Thursday, November 29, 2012
5–6:30 pm

Resnick Commons
Thursday, 5:00–6:15 pm

Two meditation rounds (each 30 min) and kinhin, walking meditation.

First timers instructions for the initial 30 min, meditation following.

Basement of Village Dorm A, House of Peace

Led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz, student at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper & at Toshoji, Okayama (Japan).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 845-758-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.

Bring Disease to Light: Medical Diagnostics for Low-Resource Settings

Thursday, November 29, 2012
4:45 pm

RKC 111
Sponsored by: Physics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7216, or e-mail deady@bard.edu.

"Pascal's Vacuum and the Culture of the Cosmos"

Thursday, November 29, 2012
5 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

Candidate for the tenure-track Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology

Abou Farman
Bard College

will give a talk

"Pascal's Vacuum and the Culture of the Cosmos"

Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Dean of the College.

For more information, call 845-758-7215, or e-mail kunreuth@bard.edu.

The John Ashbery Poetry Series Presents Jena Osman

Thursday, November 29, 2012
5:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Jena Osman reads from her work.

Jena Osman’s books of poems include Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press, 2012); The Network (Fence Books 2010, selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009); An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004); and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize). Osman was a 2006 Pew Fellow in the Arts, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Howard Foundation, and Fund for Poetry. She has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. She founded and edited the magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr for twelve years; Osman and Spahr now edit the ChainLinks Book series together. Osman teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Temple University.

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

C2C Fellows: Sustainability Leadership Workshop at Bard

Friday, November 30, 2012 – Sunday, December 2, 2012

Bard College
Sustainability Leadership Workshop

Bard College, November 30 – December 2, 2012


C2C Fellows is a national network of undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business.


C2C Fellows convenes regional weekend training workshops for selected current and recent college undergraduates. These weekend workshops support students to envision a path to early leadership and develop their skills. Interactive workshops cover communication, entrepreneurship, environmental and climate science, media, raising capital, and other critical topics. C2C Fellows hosts student workshops in locations nationwide featuring Dr. Eban Goodstein, director of C2C Fellows and Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability.


Who can apply? Any undergraduate or recent graduate from ANY college or university

How to apply: Visit Bard’s C2C Fellows website to apply www.c2cfellows.org

Questions? Contact: C2C Workshop Facilitator Jess Scott: jescott@bard.edu

For more info: www.c2cfellows.org

Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail jescott@bard.edu, or visit http://www.c2cfellows.org.

Holiday Craft Fair

Friday, November 30, 2012
11 am – 8 pm

Campus Center, Lobby
Over 70 vendors with local, handmade crafts.

For more information, call 845-758-7454.

Contemporaneous presents "Shut Your Eyes"

Friday, November 30, 2012
6:30–8:15 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Contemporaneous presents "Shut Your Eyes"

Friday, November 30, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College
Free and open to the public

Shut Your Eyes is an evening of powerful music that will send you sprawling along an emotional and kaleidoscopic voyage — a night of heightened senses brought about by the most visceral music of the present moment. Shut your eyes and Contemporaneous will provide the view.

A founding member of Contemporaneous, Boulder-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Conor Brown’s music draws from Turkish and Balkan folk as well as American minimalism, to create a highly original and compelling musical voice of driving polyrhythms and concentric structures. His large-scale, multi-movement world premiere work Scrolls on this program is a wild, haunting, rock-infused, Anatolian folk-inspired work for four vocalists and ensemble that he wrote specifically for us.

Best known for his work as a guitarist with the indie-rock band The National, Bryce Dessner regularly writes for and plays on the new music scene as well. His recent work O Shut Your Eyes Against the Wind is a dreamscape of morphing textures and beautiful sonorities that takes its title and inspiration from an evocative poem by Black Mountain poet Larry Eigner.

Inspired by the rich sean-nós vocal tradition of his native Ireland, Donnacha Dennehy’s Grá agus Bás (trans: Love and Death) is a dramatic and intense epic for vocalist and just-intoned chamber ensemble. As the music navigates an emotional palate ranging from timeless bliss to devastating terror, Contemporaneous vocalist Finnegan Shanahan will be the beacon on this uniquely powerful journey of ecstasy and destiny that makes an unforgettable impact.

Program:
Conor Brown (b. 1988): Scrolls (2012) — world premiere, Contemporaneous commission
Bryce Dessner (b. 1976): O Shut Your Eyes Against the Wind (2010)
Donnacha Dennehy (b. 1970): Grás agus Bás (2007)Sponsored by: Contemporaneous.

For more information, call 205-914-0663, e-mail db954@bard.edu, or visit http://www.contemporaneous.org/Events/ShutYourEyes.

Con Sabor a Tango

Friday, November 30, 2012
7:30 pm

Olin Hall
A Tango Extravaganza: Lecture/Concert/Dance Performance, followed by a Milonga (dance party), featuring the music of Vivaldi, Piazolla, and Bard senior Agustin Jose Sanchez; lecture by Dr. Alfredo Minetti; dance performance by Chubngin Goodstein and Stefany Sarmiento.
For more information, call 845-758-7067, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit http://www.riotango.net.