Frontispiece Portraits in African American Literature (1834 to 1949)
Monday, August 22, 2022 – Sunday, October 30, 2022
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library An exhibition of frontispiece portraits of selected first edition and rare books from the private collection of journalist Alvin Patrick. This exhibit features the portraits of some of the greatest civil rights activists of the 19th and 20th centuries including, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Library lobby and Sussman Room display cases.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7501, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us for a vigil and a protest march for Armenian lives.
Monday, October 3, 2022 5:30–7:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents In solidarity with Armenia and the Armenian diaspora, and to bring awareness to the hundred-year-long systemic oppression faced by an indigenous group on their indigenous soil.
5:30 Poster Making
6:00 Vigil at the Bard Chapel
6:45 Solidarity March to BlithewoodSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Anna Jones Memorial Garden Tajikistan invaded Kyrgyzstan on September 16, 2022. As a result, 59 people were killed.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Barringer House, Global Classroom Join the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and the Center for Civic Engagement for an evening of discussion on clips from part two of the documentaryAnd She Could Be Next, which peels back the curtain on one of the most insidious threats to American democracy: voter suppression.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
In advance of Indigenous Peoples Day 2022, join Mohican veteran and retired Army Major Jo Ann Schedler for an informal conversation with students, staff, and faculty at Bard on unceded Mohican homeland on Mohican nationhood today, Mohican history in the Mahicantuck (Hudson Valley) and in Stockbridge, and Mohican political and military histories.
Jo Ann Schedler is an enrolled member of the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band born in 1946 on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Wisconsin. She is a former member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council. She is a direct descendent of Captain John Konkapot, who was the sachem when the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe accepted a mission in what is now Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Schedler received a degree in nursing (BSN) from Marquette University and masters of science in management (MSM) from Cardinal Stretch in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is an Army veteran with over 20 years of service. She has a great passion for Mohican and Munsee tribal history, especially military and Civil War histories. She is the author of a chapter in The Official National Park Service Handbook, American Indians and the Civil War entitled Wisconsin "American Indians in the Civil War."Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Body Is a Doorway: Ecological Embodiment and Healing beyond the Human
A reading and conversation on disabled ecologies and building alternative futures with author Sophie Strand ’16
Friday, October 7, 2022 4–5:30 pm
Bard Community Garden; Community Garden Our wounds don’t just show up in our bodies. They show up in our ecosystems. When we feel pain, we must ask where that pain is asking us to direct our gaze. What plant, landscape, ocean, mountain, or fungus resonates with our particular plight? How can we let personal illness galvanize us into greater connection with our ecosystem? What if the bodies of the disabled, survivors abuse, the neurodivergent, the chronically ill were not broken and in need of constant fixing and problematization? What if they were compasses that directed us out of anthropocentric narratives? In an age of mass extinction and ecological crisis, coming back to our bodies will not necessarily be pleasurable. But those people that live with conditions that give them non-normative physical experiences may have much to teach us about how our pain is a portal into greater participation with the “flesh of the world.”
Sophie Strand ’16 is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine will be published by Inner Traditions in fall 2022 and is available for preorder. Her ecofeminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in spring 2023. Subscribe to her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com. And follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at sophiestrand.com.
Register HereSponsored by: Fisher Center; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, or e-mail [email protected].
Hispanic Heritage Month: Poetry Night at the Library
Thursday, October 13, 2022 7–9 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Please join Stevenson Library and the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a night of Latin American poetry. At 7 pm, we'll stream Poet Laureate Ada Limón's inaugural reading from the Library of Congress (recorded September 29). Then at 8 pm, we'll have an open mic poetry reading. Read your favorite verse by a Latinx poet or share your own work. We'll have books on hand for inspiration. Happens on the first floor of Stevenson Library. Refreshments will be provided.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail [email protected].
Kappa House Come prepare and showcase your family/community-inspired Latinx cuisine! A limited budget will be made available for those who would like to prepare dishes for the event. Be on the lookout for a call for participants from the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and the LASO! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The DRE: Disturbance, Re-Animation, and Emergent Archives
A Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Saturday, October 22, 2022
Please join us for the inaugural fall conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times project. This conference considers the topic of archives from a range of humanistic perspectives, with keynotes showcasing methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies and African and African American Studies, as well as offering the viewpoints of contemporary artists on these topics. Multimedia Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang will be opening the conference with a screening and talk on Thursday evening in Weis Cinema, followed by an opening reception at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New Annandale House). Keynotes by award-winning scholars Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, presidential term chair in African American history, Rutgers University, and Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, assistant professor of history, Princeton University, and citizen, Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, bracket a day of smaller sessions exploring and modeling ethical practices in the archive, open to students, faculty, and staff on Friday. Recipients of Rethinking Place student research funding will present on their work on Saturday morning, and the conference concludes with a talk open to the public by Oglala Lakota scholar and multimedia artist Kite (MFA ’15) at LUMA Theater at 2 pm on Saturday. The DRE is the first of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
Schedule Thursday, October 20, 2022 (Weis Cinema) Screening and presentation with Bently Spang
Friday, October 21, 2022 (RKC) 8:30 am: Coffee 9:00 am: Welcome and introductions 9:30 am: Opening keynote with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes 10:30 am: Break 11:00 am: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 12:45 pm: Lunch 2:00–3:45 pm: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 3:45 pm: Break 4:00–5:00 pm: Closing keynote with Dr. Elizabeth Ellis
Saturday, October 22, 2022 (LUMA Theatre) Closing performance and reception with Suzanne Kite MFA ’15 (Registration info coming soon)
The DRE: Disturbance, Re-Animation, and Emergent Archives
A Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Saturday, October 22, 2022
Please join us for the inaugural fall conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times project. This conference considers the topic of archives from a range of humanistic perspectives, with keynotes showcasing methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies and African and African American Studies, as well as offering the viewpoints of contemporary artists on these topics. Multimedia Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang will be opening the conference with a screening and talk on Thursday evening in Weis Cinema, followed by an opening reception at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New Annandale House). Keynotes by award-winning scholars Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, presidential term chair in African American history, Rutgers University, and Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, assistant professor of history, Princeton University, and citizen, Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, bracket a day of smaller sessions exploring and modeling ethical practices in the archive, open to students, faculty, and staff on Friday. Recipients of Rethinking Place student research funding will present on their work on Saturday morning, and the conference concludes with a talk open to the public by Oglala Lakota scholar and multimedia artist Kite (MFA ’15) at LUMA Theater at 2 pm on Saturday. The DRE is the first of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
Schedule Thursday, October 20, 2022 (Weis Cinema) Screening and presentation with Bently Spang
Friday, October 21, 2022 (RKC) 8:30 am: Coffee 9:00 am: Welcome and introductions 9:30 am: Opening keynote with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes 10:30 am: Break 11:00 am: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 12:45 pm: Lunch 2:00–3:45 pm: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 3:45 pm: Break 4:00–5:00 pm: Closing keynote with Dr. Elizabeth Ellis
Saturday, October 22, 2022 (LUMA Theatre) Closing performance and reception with Suzanne Kite MFA ’15 (Registration info coming soon)
Frontispiece Portraits in African American Literature (1834 to 1949)
Monday, August 22, 2022 – Sunday, October 30, 2022
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library An exhibition of frontispiece portraits of selected first edition and rare books from the private collection of journalist Alvin Patrick. This exhibit features the portraits of some of the greatest civil rights activists of the 19th and 20th centuries including, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Library lobby and Sussman Room display cases.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7501, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us for a vigil and a protest march for Armenian lives.
Monday, October 3, 2022 5:30–7:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents In solidarity with Armenia and the Armenian diaspora, and to bring awareness to the hundred-year-long systemic oppression faced by an indigenous group on their indigenous soil.
5:30 Poster Making
6:00 Vigil at the Bard Chapel
6:45 Solidarity March to BlithewoodSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Anna Jones Memorial Garden Tajikistan invaded Kyrgyzstan on September 16, 2022. As a result, 59 people were killed.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Barringer House, Global Classroom Join the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and the Center for Civic Engagement for an evening of discussion on clips from part two of the documentaryAnd She Could Be Next, which peels back the curtain on one of the most insidious threats to American democracy: voter suppression.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
In advance of Indigenous Peoples Day 2022, join Mohican veteran and retired Army Major Jo Ann Schedler for an informal conversation with students, staff, and faculty at Bard on unceded Mohican homeland on Mohican nationhood today, Mohican history in the Mahicantuck (Hudson Valley) and in Stockbridge, and Mohican political and military histories.
Jo Ann Schedler is an enrolled member of the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band born in 1946 on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Wisconsin. She is a former member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council. She is a direct descendent of Captain John Konkapot, who was the sachem when the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe accepted a mission in what is now Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Schedler received a degree in nursing (BSN) from Marquette University and masters of science in management (MSM) from Cardinal Stretch in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is an Army veteran with over 20 years of service. She has a great passion for Mohican and Munsee tribal history, especially military and Civil War histories. She is the author of a chapter in The Official National Park Service Handbook, American Indians and the Civil War entitled Wisconsin "American Indians in the Civil War."Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Body Is a Doorway: Ecological Embodiment and Healing beyond the Human
A reading and conversation on disabled ecologies and building alternative futures with author Sophie Strand ’16
Friday, October 7, 2022 4–5:30 pm
Bard Community Garden; Community Garden Our wounds don’t just show up in our bodies. They show up in our ecosystems. When we feel pain, we must ask where that pain is asking us to direct our gaze. What plant, landscape, ocean, mountain, or fungus resonates with our particular plight? How can we let personal illness galvanize us into greater connection with our ecosystem? What if the bodies of the disabled, survivors abuse, the neurodivergent, the chronically ill were not broken and in need of constant fixing and problematization? What if they were compasses that directed us out of anthropocentric narratives? In an age of mass extinction and ecological crisis, coming back to our bodies will not necessarily be pleasurable. But those people that live with conditions that give them non-normative physical experiences may have much to teach us about how our pain is a portal into greater participation with the “flesh of the world.”
Sophie Strand ’16 is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine will be published by Inner Traditions in fall 2022 and is available for preorder. Her ecofeminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in spring 2023. Subscribe to her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com. And follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at sophiestrand.com.
Register HereSponsored by: Fisher Center; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, or e-mail [email protected].
Hispanic Heritage Month: Poetry Night at the Library
Thursday, October 13, 2022 7–9 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Please join Stevenson Library and the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a night of Latin American poetry. At 7 pm, we'll stream Poet Laureate Ada Limón's inaugural reading from the Library of Congress (recorded September 29). Then at 8 pm, we'll have an open mic poetry reading. Read your favorite verse by a Latinx poet or share your own work. We'll have books on hand for inspiration. Happens on the first floor of Stevenson Library. Refreshments will be provided.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail [email protected].
Kappa House Come prepare and showcase your family/community-inspired Latinx cuisine! A limited budget will be made available for those who would like to prepare dishes for the event. Be on the lookout for a call for participants from the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and the LASO! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The DRE: Disturbance, Re-Animation, and Emergent Archives
A Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Saturday, October 22, 2022
Please join us for the inaugural fall conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times project. This conference considers the topic of archives from a range of humanistic perspectives, with keynotes showcasing methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies and African and African American Studies, as well as offering the viewpoints of contemporary artists on these topics. Multimedia Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang will be opening the conference with a screening and talk on Thursday evening in Weis Cinema, followed by an opening reception at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New Annandale House). Keynotes by award-winning scholars Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, presidential term chair in African American history, Rutgers University, and Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, assistant professor of history, Princeton University, and citizen, Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, bracket a day of smaller sessions exploring and modeling ethical practices in the archive, open to students, faculty, and staff on Friday. Recipients of Rethinking Place student research funding will present on their work on Saturday morning, and the conference concludes with a talk open to the public by Oglala Lakota scholar and multimedia artist Kite (MFA ’15) at LUMA Theater at 2 pm on Saturday. The DRE is the first of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
Schedule Thursday, October 20, 2022 (Weis Cinema) Screening and presentation with Bently Spang
Friday, October 21, 2022 (RKC) 8:30 am: Coffee 9:00 am: Welcome and introductions 9:30 am: Opening keynote with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes 10:30 am: Break 11:00 am: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 12:45 pm: Lunch 2:00–3:45 pm: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 3:45 pm: Break 4:00–5:00 pm: Closing keynote with Dr. Elizabeth Ellis
Saturday, October 22, 2022 (LUMA Theatre) Closing performance and reception with Suzanne Kite MFA ’15 (Registration info coming soon)
The DRE: Disturbance, Re-Animation, and Emergent Archives
A Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Saturday, October 22, 2022
Please join us for the inaugural fall conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times project. This conference considers the topic of archives from a range of humanistic perspectives, with keynotes showcasing methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies and African and African American Studies, as well as offering the viewpoints of contemporary artists on these topics. Multimedia Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang will be opening the conference with a screening and talk on Thursday evening in Weis Cinema, followed by an opening reception at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New Annandale House). Keynotes by award-winning scholars Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, presidential term chair in African American history, Rutgers University, and Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, assistant professor of history, Princeton University, and citizen, Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, bracket a day of smaller sessions exploring and modeling ethical practices in the archive, open to students, faculty, and staff on Friday. Recipients of Rethinking Place student research funding will present on their work on Saturday morning, and the conference concludes with a talk open to the public by Oglala Lakota scholar and multimedia artist Kite (MFA ’15) at LUMA Theater at 2 pm on Saturday. The DRE is the first of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
Schedule Thursday, October 20, 2022 (Weis Cinema) Screening and presentation with Bently Spang
Friday, October 21, 2022 (RKC) 8:30 am: Coffee 9:00 am: Welcome and introductions 9:30 am: Opening keynote with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes 10:30 am: Break 11:00 am: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 12:45 pm: Lunch 2:00–3:45 pm: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 3:45 pm: Break 4:00–5:00 pm: Closing keynote with Dr. Elizabeth Ellis
Saturday, October 22, 2022 (LUMA Theatre) Closing performance and reception with Suzanne Kite MFA ’15 (Registration info coming soon)
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