News & Events

Composer/performer Meredith Monk has been deemed “a magician of the voice” and “one of America’s coolest composers,” amazing audiences across the globe with her genre-spanning compositions for more than 45 years. Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble will perform at the Fisher Center on Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10.
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2353

The Graduate Conducting Program of The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents an evening of music by Harold Farberman, founder and artistic director of The Conductors Institute at Bard College, on Friday, November 9, at 8 p.m. in Olin Hall. The concert features Marka Gustavsson, viola; Sō Percussion; and Farberman’s students in the Graduate Conducting Program. A reception will follow the program. Admission is free and no reservations are necessary.
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2354

Daniel Mendelsohn, award-winning author, critic, and Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College since 2006, was among 180 influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday, October 6.
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2357

Author Brian Conn has been selected to receive the annual Bard Fiction Prize for 2013. Conn will be awarded $30,000 and will join Bard as writer in residence next semester. He won the prize for his debut novel, The Fixed Stars, a work of experimental science fiction that our judges call "wondrous."
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2352

What is more worrisome, the dehumanization of human beings, or the humanization of robots? Political Studies professor and Hannah Arendt Center director Roger Berkowitz looks at the convergence of human and artificial intelligence.
http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?p=7947

Bard senior, cross-country runner, and political studies major Ben DiFabbio has spent the last three summers volunteering in the West Bank with the Bard Palestinian Youth Initiative. The experience has changed his life.
http://www.bardathletics.com/news/2012/10/15/MXC_1015123300.aspx

On Monday, November 5, highly acclaimed science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany will read from his most recent novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, at Bard College. The New York Times Book Review called Delany “the most interesting writer of science fiction writing in English today.”
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2349

The library and archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) received the 2012 Award for Outstanding Support of Archives by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York for the center's work on the Art Spaces Archives Project.

Stephen Walsh, a leading authority on the life and works of Igor Stravinsky, will present a lecture on The Rite of Spring, on Tuesday October 16, at 5 p.m. at Bard. Walsh is a professor at Cardiff University, a music journalist, and has written an acclaimed two-volume biography of Stravinsky.
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2350

Ann Lauterbach, esteemed poet and the Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College, has been named the Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poet by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. From October 16 to 18, Lauterbach will be a distinguished guest to the university, where she will work with students and present the Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poetry Reading and Lecture.
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2348

The Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association, in conjunction with the Computer Science Program and the Career Development Office, invite you to Bard Alumni/ae Day and Tech Meetup on October 20. Join Kate Hartman '03, current students, faculty, and fellow alumni/ae for an illuminating day of classes, demonstrations, panels, tours, and more.
http://annandaleonline.org/s/990/public.aspx?sid=990&pgid=975&gid=1&cid=2204&ecid=2204&post_id=0

The Fisher Center and Bard College Conservatory present Conservatory Sundays, October 14, 21, and 28, and December 9.
http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=116542&year=2012&month=10

On Saturday, October 13, the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and Bard Office of Sustainability will host a Green Car Expo and panel discussion, “An Addiction to Cars: Air Quality and Policy Challenges in the U.S. Transportation Sector.” The Expo includes opportunities to test drive the Chevy Volt, as well as learn more about student-led initiatives that focus on alternative ways to travel, including the Bard Bike Co-op, Bard Pedicab, Bard BikeShare, EcoReps, and others.
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2347

Last summer, the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra toured greater China, performing in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, and Guangzhou over three weeks. In this video, conservatory students discuss tourism, culture, and developing identity as an orchestra during the tour.
http://vimeo.com/52662336

Persistence of Vision began at Bard as the Senior Project of Kevin Schreck '11. The documentary chronicles the 30-year effort of filmmaker Richard Williams to make the ani­mated film The Thief and the Cob­bler. Today Persistence of Vision premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Click here to read the review in Variety or click below to watch the trailer.
http://vimeo.com/38413085

The Hannah Arendt Center's new book, The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis, contains essays by Bard faculty members and other notable scholars and economists.
http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?p=7732

Congratulations to the Bard Debate Union for an outstanding first tournament of the season. Last weekend the team brought home six awards, including a parliamentary quarterfinalist award, two policy quarterfinalist awards, and three speaker awards.
http://debate.bard.edu/

Bard Early College Academy is an after school and summer program at Bard High School Early College in New York City that prepares students for the city's competitive high schools. In this video, academy faculty talk about how the program engages middle-schoolers in critical thinking.
https://t.co/6gULsu4W