Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Monday, April 12, 2021
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Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin Created by Meshell Ndegeocello In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
The Certificate in Civic Engagement provides a structured path for undergraduate students interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of civic and community engagement by merging curricular and co-curricular interests. It sets out expectations that students will be knowledgeable about theories of citizenship, democratic participation, civil society, and social action, familiar with their local community, and cognizant of ways in which the local, national and global are linked.
Our Nation's Capital After the Insurrection: A View from On the Ground
Thursday, April 1, 2021 7–8 pm
Assistant Dean of Students Darnell Pierce (Specialist, New York Army National Guard) will be in conversation with Chief of Staff Malia Du Mont (former Pentagon official) about his recent deployment to Washington DC to provide security in the nation's capital.
This event is co-sponsored by CCE and the President's OfficeSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Fierce Fighters Alliance and Asian Student Organization Speaker and Self-Defense Training Zoom Meeting ID: 874 7170 5594 | Passcode: 148310 Friday, April 16, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Publishing and Resistance in Hong Kong and the Philippines For more information, please email: liannazzone@bard.edu Tuesday, April 27, 2021Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Online Event In this cooking workshop hosted by culinary historian Lavada Nahon, students will be creating a dish with one of the oldest crops in the world: maize. Lavada will lead this workshop using Iroquois white corn purchased from the Friends of Ganondagan.
Please register in advance to pick up ingredients and receive the Zoom link. Sign up via QR code or use the link: https://forms.gle/64kHWUJf7vWp1y5RA.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Understanding Anti-Asian Hate and Building Community
Faculty Panel Discussion
Monday, April 5, 2021 4–5:30 pm
Online Event Introduction and Welcome by Peter L’Official, Assistant Professor of Literature / American Studies Program
Jenny Wang Medina, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Emory University
Alison Roh Park, Professor of Asian American studies, Hunter College, and founder of Urbanity, LLC, a consulting and Asian American media startup (urbanitymag.com)
Janine Sun Rogers, Bard Class of 2019, Contributor to News Lens International and Theatre Bay Area
Moderated by Nathan Shockey, Associate Professor of Japanese / Director of Asian Studies
The Asian Student Organization and the Office of Equity and Inclusion invite you to participate in a (remote) Candlelight Vigil honoring the lives lost in the recent shooting in Atlanta. Complementary electronic candles will be available at the Student Center from Friday evening until the vigil. Webinar ID: 812 7228 3531 Passcode: 79267
박순정 SOON CHUNG PARK, 74 谭小洁 XIAOJIE “EMILY” TAN, 49 DELAINA ASHLEY YAUN, 33 김현정 HYUN JUNG GRANT, 51 유영애 YONG AE YUE, 63 冯道友 DAOYOU FENG, 44 김순자 SUNCHA KIM, 69 PAUL ANDRE MICHELS, 54 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ksablo@bard.edu.
Phuc Tran ’95, Author of SIGH, GONE: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event I was born in Sài Gòn Việt Nam, my family fled to America in 1975, and I grew up in Carlisle PA. Reared on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons, John Hughes, Star Wars, Bones Brigade videos, and bootlegged cassettes of Minor Threat and TSOL, I graduated high school in 1991. I majored in Classical Languages and Literature at Bard College—how did no one talk me out of that?—got my Master’s Degree at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and then moved to New York City in 1997. There I apprenticed to be a tattooer while teaching Latin during the day, and I’ve been teaching and tattooing ever since. I’ve never been good at staying in one lane—ask my wife about my driving.
Following in the footsteps of E.B. White (who was neither a tattooer nor Latin teacher), my wife and I left the city and moved to Maine in 2003 (she’s an honest-to-goodness Mainer) where we opened our shop, Tsunami Tattoo.
In 2012, I delivered a TEDx talk which was highlighted by NPR’s TED Radio Hour. The TEDx talk and its reception planted a seed in me for sharing more of my story as a refugee (of which I’d shared very little). I embarked on writing my memoir in 2016, and in April 2020 SIGH, GONE was published by Flatiron Books. You can read the memoir to get all the gory details of my childhood and adolescence, but spoiler alert: I do somehow survive.
And here I am at present, deeply grateful to be following this brambly path to its unknown destination.
Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DoC Inclusion Grant.
Bard Meme Lab: Patia Borja in conversation with Sacha Medjo
Presented by the Bard Meme Lab and the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Online Event Patia Borja is one of the most significant and accomplished figures in the history of online memes working today. Together with Laina Berry (@mistervacation) and River Moon (@saint.deepthroat0, she runs Patia's Fantasy World, a meme page which is known for posting "tongue-in-cheek memes, razor-sharp observations about Black culture and identity, [with] an activist agenda that counters the scores of superficial platitudes on social media." (The Cut) She is also one of the forces behind the page's "comprehensive database of anti-racism resources," spanning "a range of topics including bail funds to donate to, resources for the Black trans community, literature on radical politics and prompts for addressing racism in the workplace." (Hypebae) She will be in conversation with Sacha Medjo, the mastermind behind Bard College Memes. The two will visit the lab to discuss their work and engage in a Q&A with attendants.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Online Event The Certificate in Civic Engagement provides a structured path for undergraduate students interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of civic and community engagement by merging curricular and co-curricular interests. It sets out expectations that students will be knowledgeable about theories of citizenship, democratic participation, civil society, and social action, familiar with their local community, and cognizant of ways in which the local, national and global are linked.
Erin Christovale is the co-founder of Black Radical Imagination and the Associate curator at the Hammer Museum.
Friday, April 9, 2021 12–2 pm
Online Event Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, 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. All talks are free and open to the public - registration is required in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event The Certificate in Civic Engagement provides a structured path for undergraduate students interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of civic and community engagement by merging curricular and co-curricular interests. It sets out expectations that students will be knowledgeable about theories of citizenship, democratic participation, civil society, and social action, familiar with their local community, and cognizant of ways in which the local, national and global are linked.
Friday, April 9, 2021 – Saturday, April 10, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Amur is accepting applications! EXCLUSIVELY from Bard for the following full-time PAID summer internships. Info Session April 9th at 12:30 pm! Via Zoom tinyurl.com/CDOAmurInfoSession Technology • Marketing • Sales • Credit Underwriting • Capital Markets • Strategic Partnerships • Operations
Work with Bardians!
Housing, Travel Stipends & Bonuses!
Gain experience in offices around the country!
Positions can be found on Handshake by searching"Amur." APPLY NOW. Join Amur CEO & Bard Alumni ’97 for a Summer Internship
Friday, April 9, 2021 – Saturday, April 10, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Amur is accepting applications! EXCLUSIVELY from Bard for the following full-time PAID summer internships. Info Session April 9th at 12:30 pm! Via Zoom tinyurl.com/CDOAmurInfoSession Technology • Marketing • Sales • Credit Underwriting • Capital Markets • Strategic Partnerships • Operations
Work with Bardians!
Housing, Travel Stipends & Bonuses!
Gain experience in offices around the country!
Positions can be found on Handshake by searching"Amur." APPLY NOW. Join Amur CEO & Bard Alumni ’97 for a Summer Internship
Emerging Artist Workshop: Strategies After Graduation
With April Gertier and John von Bergen
Monday, April 12, 2021 1:30–2:30 pm
Online Event Join this workshop, hosted by Bard College Berlin, now opened to Bard Annandale students. See Zoom link below.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
In Conversation with Author Nikkya Hargrove ’05: On Writing Memoir and Equity in Publishing
A BardWrites Event
Monday, April 12, 2021 7–8 pm
Online Event The Office of Alumni/ae Affairs and Career Development Office presents a special BardWrites event, featuring author and Bardian Nikkya Hargrove ’05, for a discussion about personal essay, memoir, and equity in publishing. Nikkya’s work has been published by outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Her much anticipated debut memoir, Mama:A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood (Algonquin), is due for publication in fall 2022. Nikkya is also a member of Bard’s Board of Governors and is chair of the alumni/ae Diversity Committee. The event will be hosted by author Maya Gottfried ’95 and is free to members of the Bard community. Registration is required.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office.
Kenny Fries, Author and Professor at Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program
"Disability Can Save Your Life"
Friday, April 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event When disability is placed at the center of events, where it belongs, it provides the lens through which many of our society's ills can be clearly seen and, thus, changed.
On Friday, April 16, the Bard College Speaker Series on Disability welcomes you to join a presentation by writer Kenny Fries, who will read and talk about how societal views of disability, most importantly eugenics, have come to the surface once again as the COVID pandemic confronts us. Fries makes connections between his research on Aktion T4, the Nazi program that mass-murdered disabled people, and how it resonates today, as well as the importance of understanding how disability representation affects all of us, disabled and nondisabled alike.
For over two decades, Kenny Fries has looked at how disability provides an understanding of the interconnectedness between individuals and also between different cultures, using the prism of his life as a writer who lives with a congenital physical disability to forge a new understanding of a wide range of values and ideas, from systems of interdependence to intersectionality to Darwinian evolution to disability and the Holocaust.
Fries’s works include The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; In the Province of the Gods, recipient of the Creative Capital literature award; and his forthcoming Stumbling Over History: Disability and the Holocaust, for which he received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship.
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. There will be live captioning as well as an ASL interpreter and transcription services offered for this webinar. For other accessibility needs or for more information about this event please contact Disability Speaker Series Coordinator Jaime Alves at alves@bard.edu or 845-758-7112. Sponsored by the Dean of the College and Disability Services.Sponsored by: Bard College Speaker Series on Disability ; Dean of the College.
Fierce Fighters Alliance and Asian Student Organization Speaker Self-Defense Training
Friday, April 16, 2021 4–5:30 pm
Online Event Register for this online workshop here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSdnbW-lRz43dKD_aF1Eg-zEDfn6sgOCQSOx1fcH2zzeQG7Q/viewform
A link for the Zoom Meeting will be sent to you by email. Meeting ID: 874 7170 5594 Passcode: 148310Sponsored by: Fierce Fighters Alliance and Asian Student Organization.
Kick Open the Doors: How to make Classics for everyone, and I do mean everyone
A Talk with John Bracey
Friday, April 16, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Online Event Do we want to make our Classics programs inclusive and welcoming to everyone? Do we want our programs to represent the full demographics of our schools? Do we want our field to grow larger and more diverse? I can show you exactly how to make that happen. Come and learn how to kick the doors of Classics wide open and let everyone inside. Change is possible, if we are willing to do what it takes.
Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people. Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DOC Inclusion Grant.
Online Event A discussion on and between Black filmmakers working in experimental forms, moderated by film historian Michael B. Gillespie. “This program is a gathering of artists, curators, and scholars devoted to thinking about the aesthetic and cultural detail of Black film and media. Through the sharing of clips and ideas, these friends consider the complications and pleasures generated by the art of Blackness” (M. Gillespie).
Presenters: Michael B. Gillespie (film historian, CUNY; author, Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film), Kevin Jerome Everso (filmmaker, artist), Christopher Harris (filmmaker, artist), Greg De Cuir Jr. (independent curator, writer, and translator).
This series is presented by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and cosponsored by Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today, Africana Studies, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Memetics Laboratory, Experimental Humanities, American Studies, and Written Arts. Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
The Black Body Experience Conference: Power in the Pandemic
A Trustee Leader Scholar (TLS) program
Saturday, April 17, 2021 – Sunday, April 18, 2021
Online Event Join us for our sixth-annual conference focusing on Black power during the pandemic. We thought it was important to highlight Black power outside of the trauma that has taken place in 2020 and onwards. Our first day will have workshops that cover topics of financial literacy, activism, and career planning. Be sure to join us on our second day for panels covering authorship, digital creation, and Black joy.
Trauma Informed Teaching Lecture Series: An Introduction with Ariane Simard
Saturday, April 17, 2021 4–6 am
Online Event 10 AM Vienna l 4 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series, developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse, and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life” (Democratic Education), then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations—be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated—we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the first session with Ariane Simard of Bard College Berlin, we will introduce ourselves and discuss how we understand definitions of trauma in the classroom as well as explore definitions of cultural trauma, intergenerational trauma and institutional trauma. Because these topics get heavy at times, we will use the methods of the workshop, practice, and humor to sketch out a better understanding of how trauma affects our work in blended learning classrooms. Participants should read the bell hooks essay “Democratic Education,” in her book Teaching Community, before attending the workshop.
The Black Body Experience Conference: Power in the Pandemic
A Trustee Leader Scholar (TLS) program
Saturday, April 17, 2021 – Sunday, April 18, 2021
Online Event Join us for our sixth-annual conference focusing on Black power during the pandemic. We thought it was important to highlight Black power outside of the trauma that has taken place in 2020 and onwards. Our first day will have workshops that cover topics of financial literacy, activism, and career planning. Be sure to join us on our second day for panels covering authorship, digital creation, and Black joy.
Online Event Following a 72-hour online screening of The Otolith Group’s INFINITY minus infinity (2019), join a discussion about the film between Otolith Group members Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun and INFINITY minus Infinity performer Esi Eshun, moderated by Bard College Critic in Residence Ed Halter. Presenters: Anjalika Sagar (artist, The Otolith Group), Kodwo Eshun (artist, The Otolith Group), Esi Eshun (sound artist and performer), Ed Halter (Critic in Residence, Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College).
This series is presented by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and cosponsored by Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today, Africana Studies, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Memetics Laboratory, Experimental Humanities, American Studies, and Written Arts. Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed
Sunday, April 18, 2021 7–9 pm
Presented by the Office of Sustainability, EUS, American Studies, BardEats, Bard Farm, and CCE
Positioning us to begin thinking about place-based environmental justice and ways to counter harm, this film will begin our conversations around the importance of land and food justice work.
Register here.Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Bard Farm; Bard Office of Sustainability; BardEATS; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
part of the BardEATS event series: A start to healing through land, food & seed
Sunday, April 18, 2021 7–9 pm
Online Event Kick off Earth week with a screening of Gather, "an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide." Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
More than Just Land: A History of the Stockbridge-Munsee
Part of the series: A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed
Monday, April 19, 2021 5–7 pm
Presented by the Office of Sustainability, EUS, American Studies, BardEats, Bard Farm, and the CCE.
Heather Bruegl, the Cultural Affairs Director for the Stockbridge- Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, will speak about the history of the Mohican people on this land as well as provide a space for action oriented discussions on what the Bard community can doto be better allies for the Stockbridge-Munsee community while residing on their homelands.
More than Just Land: A History of the Stockbridge-Munsee
the history of the Mohican people on this land
Monday, April 19, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event Guest speaker Heather Bruegl, the Cultural Affairs Director for the Stockbridge- Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, will speak about the history of the Mohican people on this land as well as provide a space for action oriented discussions on what the Bard community can do to be better allies for the Stockbridge-Munsee community while residing on their former homelands. The event will include both a lecture and time for an open discussion. Registration link below.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement.
Part of the series: A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Presented by the Office of Sustainability, EUS, American Studies, BardEats, Bard Farm, and the CCE.
Actively listen and engage with some incredible Black-led land and food sovereignty organizers in NYS. This panel will feature Shaniqua Bowden, the Head of Cultural Engagement at the Kingston Land Trust, Nfamara Badjie, from Ever Growing Family Farm, and Alexander Wright, founder of the African Heritage Food Co-op and Blegacy Farms.
Countering Dispossession, Creating Access: a discussion
a panel discussion with NY Black-led land and food sovereignty organizers
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Online Event Panelists include
Shaniqua Bowden, Head of Cultural Engagement, Kingston Land Trust
Nfamara Badjie, Ever Growing Family Farm, and
Alexander Wright, founder of the African Heritage Food Co-Op and Blegacy Farms.
This panel will give space for each speaker to discuss the work they are doing in relation to land sovereignty, food sovereignty, cultural resistance/resilience, and land access work for and by Black folks. The moderator will ask the speakers questions about their thoughts on different topics surrounding land dispossession, land/food sovereignty, and land access work. There will be a 20 minute period at the end of the panel discussion for community members to ask questions. Registration Link below
This event is part of a speaker series organized by BardEATS students: A start to healing through land and seed Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Office of Sustainability.
discussion covering topics of seed sovereignty, seed rematriation, and allyship
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Online Event The short film, Seeds of Hope, will precede the talk. Speakers: K Green (Seedshed Co-Director and Hudson Valley Seed Company Founder) Kenny Perkins (Ohero:kon rites of passage, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment Horticulturist) Registration Link below
This session is part of a speaker series organized by BardEATS students; A start to healing through land, forest & seedSponsored by: American Studies Program; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Part of the series: A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Presented by the Office of Sustainability, EUS, American Studies, BardEats, Bard Farm, and the CCE.
K Green (Seedshed Co-Director and Hudson Valley Seed Company Founder) and Kenny Perkins (Ohero:kon rites of passage, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment Horticulturist) will lead us in an a discussion covering topics of seed sovereignty, seed rematriation, and allyship. The short film Seeds of Hope will begin the talk.
Closing Opportunity Gaps for Young Men of Color: The State of Mentorship and Youth Development Post-2020
Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:30–6:45 pm
Online Event In the midst of the 2020 global pandemic, waves of nation-wide protests prompting urgent and frank conversations about race and social justice in this country. As COVID-19 exacerbated systemic inequalities, the opportunity gaps faced by young people across the country widened at an alarming rate—and yet, 2020 also gave rise to creative problem solving and nimble decision making like never before. Join us for a conversation that explores the unique position of youth development and mentorship in communities of color in a post-COVID world; and how the growing movement in defense of Black lives is affecting inclusion amongst young people trying to successfully navigate and thrive in predominantly white institutions and spaces.
Panelists: Michael Blake Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Brandon Micheal Hall Activist, star of God Friended Me and HBO’s Search Party
Wes Moore CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation
Angel Obergh ’23 Brothers@ Mentor and Campus Leader
Moderators: Shawn Dove CEO of Campaign for Black Male Achievement
White Nationalism, White Supremacy, and the Environmental Movement
Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:30–6:30 pm
Online Event National experts Eric Ward, Scot Nakagawa, and Lindsay Schubiner will lead the Bard community, regional community leaders, and Hudson Valley NGOs in exploring connections between white supremacy, the growth of white nationalism, and the environmental movement over the past 30 years.
Eric Ward is a national expert on the relationship between hate violence and preserving democratic institutions, governance, and inclusive societies. Eric brings nearly 30 years of expertise in community organizing and philanthropy to his role as Western States Center’s executive director. Originally from Los Angeles, Eric began his civil rights work when the white nationalist movement was engaged in violent paramilitary activity that sought to undermine democratic governance in the Pacific Northwest.
Scot Nakagawa is senior partner of ChangeLab, a national racial equity think/act lab addressing issues of demographic change and the transformation of racial identity and meaning in the United States in context of globalization, including the rise of white nationalism and of right wing nationalist movements in communities of color.
Lindsay Schubiner directs Western States Center’s program to counter the dangerous ascension of white nationalism and hate violence across the country. She previously led advocacy efforts against anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim bigotry at the Center for New Community. Lindsay has served as a congressional staffer handling housing, health, and immigration policy, and managed advocacy for sexual health and rights at American Jewish World Service.
https://bard.zoom.us/j/6091568866Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Online Event BRAVE will award two stipends this summer to two students who plan to intern at organizations of their choosing that reflect the nature of BRAVE's work, and will not be getting paid. Applicants must be returning to Bard in the fall of 2021. A 4 week internship stipend for $1,200 and an 8 week internship stipend for $2,400 will be awarded.
This is NOT an internship with BRAVE. BRAVE will be awarding the stipends to two students who will be working in mental health settings of their choosing over the summer. We are specifically looking for candidates who will be working in the area of sexual assault/misconduct, consent and relationship violence. We will consider all mental health internships this summer due to the lack of internships offered in a global pandemic. For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail rnidorf@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/brave/internships/.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Introduction to Engaged Research Methods – Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 4 – Introduction to Engaged Research Methods: Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation will be facilitated by Andrea Cornwall
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
Inaugural Economic Democracy Keynote: Economic Rights and Racial Justice
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 12:15–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) is pleased to launch the Economic Democracy Keynote Series. It features scholars, public intellectuals, and activists whose work on economic, social, and environmental justice is shaping the tenor of our time.
Professor Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at the New School for Social Research, will deliver the inaugural address titled "Economic Rights and Racial Justice" on Tuesday, April 27th at 12:15 PM (EST) via zoom.
Also sponsored by the Bard College Racial Justice Initiative and Economics Program.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Freire in Practice – Engaged Research as Transformation
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 5 - Wednesday, April 28th, 9 am-12 pm EST — Freire in Practice: Engaged Research as Transformation. Facilitated by Maria Lahumatina
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Monday, April 12, 2021
UPSTREAMING
Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin Created by Meshell Ndegeocello In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
The Certificate in Civic Engagement provides a structured path for undergraduate students interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of civic and community engagement by merging curricular and co-curricular interests. It sets out expectations that students will be knowledgeable about theories of citizenship, democratic participation, civil society, and social action, familiar with their local community, and cognizant of ways in which the local, national and global are linked.
Our Nation's Capital After the Insurrection: A View from On the Ground
Thursday, April 1, 2021 7–8 pm
Assistant Dean of Students Darnell Pierce (Specialist, New York Army National Guard) will be in conversation with Chief of Staff Malia Du Mont (former Pentagon official) about his recent deployment to Washington DC to provide security in the nation's capital.
This event is co-sponsored by CCE and the President's OfficeSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Fierce Fighters Alliance and Asian Student Organization Speaker and Self-Defense Training Zoom Meeting ID: 874 7170 5594 | Passcode: 148310 Friday, April 16, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Publishing and Resistance in Hong Kong and the Philippines For more information, please email: liannazzone@bard.edu Tuesday, April 27, 2021Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Online Event In this cooking workshop hosted by culinary historian Lavada Nahon, students will be creating a dish with one of the oldest crops in the world: maize. Lavada will lead this workshop using Iroquois white corn purchased from the Friends of Ganondagan.
Please register in advance to pick up ingredients and receive the Zoom link. Sign up via QR code or use the link: https://forms.gle/64kHWUJf7vWp1y5RA.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Understanding Anti-Asian Hate and Building Community
Faculty Panel Discussion
Monday, April 5, 2021 4–5:30 pm
Online Event Introduction and Welcome by Peter L’Official, Assistant Professor of Literature / American Studies Program
Jenny Wang Medina, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Emory University
Alison Roh Park, Professor of Asian American studies, Hunter College, and founder of Urbanity, LLC, a consulting and Asian American media startup (urbanitymag.com)
Janine Sun Rogers, Bard Class of 2019, Contributor to News Lens International and Theatre Bay Area
Moderated by Nathan Shockey, Associate Professor of Japanese / Director of Asian Studies
The Asian Student Organization and the Office of Equity and Inclusion invite you to participate in a (remote) Candlelight Vigil honoring the lives lost in the recent shooting in Atlanta. Complementary electronic candles will be available at the Student Center from Friday evening until the vigil. Webinar ID: 812 7228 3531 Passcode: 79267
박순정 SOON CHUNG PARK, 74 谭小洁 XIAOJIE “EMILY” TAN, 49 DELAINA ASHLEY YAUN, 33 김현정 HYUN JUNG GRANT, 51 유영애 YONG AE YUE, 63 冯道友 DAOYOU FENG, 44 김순자 SUNCHA KIM, 69 PAUL ANDRE MICHELS, 54 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ksablo@bard.edu.
Phuc Tran ’95, Author of SIGH, GONE: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event I was born in Sài Gòn Việt Nam, my family fled to America in 1975, and I grew up in Carlisle PA. Reared on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons, John Hughes, Star Wars, Bones Brigade videos, and bootlegged cassettes of Minor Threat and TSOL, I graduated high school in 1991. I majored in Classical Languages and Literature at Bard College—how did no one talk me out of that?—got my Master’s Degree at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and then moved to New York City in 1997. There I apprenticed to be a tattooer while teaching Latin during the day, and I’ve been teaching and tattooing ever since. I’ve never been good at staying in one lane—ask my wife about my driving.
Following in the footsteps of E.B. White (who was neither a tattooer nor Latin teacher), my wife and I left the city and moved to Maine in 2003 (she’s an honest-to-goodness Mainer) where we opened our shop, Tsunami Tattoo.
In 2012, I delivered a TEDx talk which was highlighted by NPR’s TED Radio Hour. The TEDx talk and its reception planted a seed in me for sharing more of my story as a refugee (of which I’d shared very little). I embarked on writing my memoir in 2016, and in April 2020 SIGH, GONE was published by Flatiron Books. You can read the memoir to get all the gory details of my childhood and adolescence, but spoiler alert: I do somehow survive.
And here I am at present, deeply grateful to be following this brambly path to its unknown destination.
Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DoC Inclusion Grant.
Bard Meme Lab: Patia Borja in conversation with Sacha Medjo
Presented by the Bard Meme Lab and the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Online Event Patia Borja is one of the most significant and accomplished figures in the history of online memes working today. Together with Laina Berry (@mistervacation) and River Moon (@saint.deepthroat0, she runs Patia's Fantasy World, a meme page which is known for posting "tongue-in-cheek memes, razor-sharp observations about Black culture and identity, [with] an activist agenda that counters the scores of superficial platitudes on social media." (The Cut) She is also one of the forces behind the page's "comprehensive database of anti-racism resources," spanning "a range of topics including bail funds to donate to, resources for the Black trans community, literature on radical politics and prompts for addressing racism in the workplace." (Hypebae) She will be in conversation with Sacha Medjo, the mastermind behind Bard College Memes. The two will visit the lab to discuss their work and engage in a Q&A with attendants.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Online Event The Certificate in Civic Engagement provides a structured path for undergraduate students interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of civic and community engagement by merging curricular and co-curricular interests. It sets out expectations that students will be knowledgeable about theories of citizenship, democratic participation, civil society, and social action, familiar with their local community, and cognizant of ways in which the local, national and global are linked.
Erin Christovale is the co-founder of Black Radical Imagination and the Associate curator at the Hammer Museum.
Friday, April 9, 2021 12–2 pm
Online Event Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, 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. All talks are free and open to the public - registration is required in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event The Certificate in Civic Engagement provides a structured path for undergraduate students interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of civic and community engagement by merging curricular and co-curricular interests. It sets out expectations that students will be knowledgeable about theories of citizenship, democratic participation, civil society, and social action, familiar with their local community, and cognizant of ways in which the local, national and global are linked.
Friday, April 9, 2021 – Saturday, April 10, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Amur is accepting applications! EXCLUSIVELY from Bard for the following full-time PAID summer internships. Info Session April 9th at 12:30 pm! Via Zoom tinyurl.com/CDOAmurInfoSession Technology • Marketing • Sales • Credit Underwriting • Capital Markets • Strategic Partnerships • Operations
Work with Bardians!
Housing, Travel Stipends & Bonuses!
Gain experience in offices around the country!
Positions can be found on Handshake by searching"Amur." APPLY NOW. Join Amur CEO & Bard Alumni ’97 for a Summer Internship
Friday, April 9, 2021 – Saturday, April 10, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Amur is accepting applications! EXCLUSIVELY from Bard for the following full-time PAID summer internships. Info Session April 9th at 12:30 pm! Via Zoom tinyurl.com/CDOAmurInfoSession Technology • Marketing • Sales • Credit Underwriting • Capital Markets • Strategic Partnerships • Operations
Work with Bardians!
Housing, Travel Stipends & Bonuses!
Gain experience in offices around the country!
Positions can be found on Handshake by searching"Amur." APPLY NOW. Join Amur CEO & Bard Alumni ’97 for a Summer Internship
Emerging Artist Workshop: Strategies After Graduation
With April Gertier and John von Bergen
Monday, April 12, 2021 1:30–2:30 pm
Online Event Join this workshop, hosted by Bard College Berlin, now opened to Bard Annandale students. See Zoom link below.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
In Conversation with Author Nikkya Hargrove ’05: On Writing Memoir and Equity in Publishing
A BardWrites Event
Monday, April 12, 2021 7–8 pm
Online Event The Office of Alumni/ae Affairs and Career Development Office presents a special BardWrites event, featuring author and Bardian Nikkya Hargrove ’05, for a discussion about personal essay, memoir, and equity in publishing. Nikkya’s work has been published by outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Her much anticipated debut memoir, Mama:A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood (Algonquin), is due for publication in fall 2022. Nikkya is also a member of Bard’s Board of Governors and is chair of the alumni/ae Diversity Committee. The event will be hosted by author Maya Gottfried ’95 and is free to members of the Bard community. Registration is required.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office.
Kenny Fries, Author and Professor at Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program
"Disability Can Save Your Life"
Friday, April 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event When disability is placed at the center of events, where it belongs, it provides the lens through which many of our society's ills can be clearly seen and, thus, changed.
On Friday, April 16, the Bard College Speaker Series on Disability welcomes you to join a presentation by writer Kenny Fries, who will read and talk about how societal views of disability, most importantly eugenics, have come to the surface once again as the COVID pandemic confronts us. Fries makes connections between his research on Aktion T4, the Nazi program that mass-murdered disabled people, and how it resonates today, as well as the importance of understanding how disability representation affects all of us, disabled and nondisabled alike.
For over two decades, Kenny Fries has looked at how disability provides an understanding of the interconnectedness between individuals and also between different cultures, using the prism of his life as a writer who lives with a congenital physical disability to forge a new understanding of a wide range of values and ideas, from systems of interdependence to intersectionality to Darwinian evolution to disability and the Holocaust.
Fries’s works include The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; In the Province of the Gods, recipient of the Creative Capital literature award; and his forthcoming Stumbling Over History: Disability and the Holocaust, for which he received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship.
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. There will be live captioning as well as an ASL interpreter and transcription services offered for this webinar. For other accessibility needs or for more information about this event please contact Disability Speaker Series Coordinator Jaime Alves at alves@bard.edu or 845-758-7112. Sponsored by the Dean of the College and Disability Services.Sponsored by: Bard College Speaker Series on Disability ; Dean of the College.
Fierce Fighters Alliance and Asian Student Organization Speaker Self-Defense Training
Friday, April 16, 2021 4–5:30 pm
Online Event Register for this online workshop here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSdnbW-lRz43dKD_aF1Eg-zEDfn6sgOCQSOx1fcH2zzeQG7Q/viewform
A link for the Zoom Meeting will be sent to you by email. Meeting ID: 874 7170 5594 Passcode: 148310Sponsored by: Fierce Fighters Alliance and Asian Student Organization.
Kick Open the Doors: How to make Classics for everyone, and I do mean everyone
A Talk with John Bracey
Friday, April 16, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Online Event Do we want to make our Classics programs inclusive and welcoming to everyone? Do we want our programs to represent the full demographics of our schools? Do we want our field to grow larger and more diverse? I can show you exactly how to make that happen. Come and learn how to kick the doors of Classics wide open and let everyone inside. Change is possible, if we are willing to do what it takes.
Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people. Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DOC Inclusion Grant.
Online Event A discussion on and between Black filmmakers working in experimental forms, moderated by film historian Michael B. Gillespie. “This program is a gathering of artists, curators, and scholars devoted to thinking about the aesthetic and cultural detail of Black film and media. Through the sharing of clips and ideas, these friends consider the complications and pleasures generated by the art of Blackness” (M. Gillespie).
Presenters: Michael B. Gillespie (film historian, CUNY; author, Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film), Kevin Jerome Everso (filmmaker, artist), Christopher Harris (filmmaker, artist), Greg De Cuir Jr. (independent curator, writer, and translator).
This series is presented by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and cosponsored by Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today, Africana Studies, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Memetics Laboratory, Experimental Humanities, American Studies, and Written Arts. Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
The Black Body Experience Conference: Power in the Pandemic
A Trustee Leader Scholar (TLS) program
Saturday, April 17, 2021 – Sunday, April 18, 2021
Online Event Join us for our sixth-annual conference focusing on Black power during the pandemic. We thought it was important to highlight Black power outside of the trauma that has taken place in 2020 and onwards. Our first day will have workshops that cover topics of financial literacy, activism, and career planning. Be sure to join us on our second day for panels covering authorship, digital creation, and Black joy.
Trauma Informed Teaching Lecture Series: An Introduction with Ariane Simard
Saturday, April 17, 2021 4–6 am
Online Event 10 AM Vienna l 4 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series, developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse, and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life” (Democratic Education), then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations—be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated—we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the first session with Ariane Simard of Bard College Berlin, we will introduce ourselves and discuss how we understand definitions of trauma in the classroom as well as explore definitions of cultural trauma, intergenerational trauma and institutional trauma. Because these topics get heavy at times, we will use the methods of the workshop, practice, and humor to sketch out a better understanding of how trauma affects our work in blended learning classrooms. Participants should read the bell hooks essay “Democratic Education,” in her book Teaching Community, before attending the workshop.
The Black Body Experience Conference: Power in the Pandemic
A Trustee Leader Scholar (TLS) program
Saturday, April 17, 2021 – Sunday, April 18, 2021
Online Event Join us for our sixth-annual conference focusing on Black power during the pandemic. We thought it was important to highlight Black power outside of the trauma that has taken place in 2020 and onwards. Our first day will have workshops that cover topics of financial literacy, activism, and career planning. Be sure to join us on our second day for panels covering authorship, digital creation, and Black joy.
Online Event Following a 72-hour online screening of The Otolith Group’s INFINITY minus infinity (2019), join a discussion about the film between Otolith Group members Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun and INFINITY minus Infinity performer Esi Eshun, moderated by Bard College Critic in Residence Ed Halter. Presenters: Anjalika Sagar (artist, The Otolith Group), Kodwo Eshun (artist, The Otolith Group), Esi Eshun (sound artist and performer), Ed Halter (Critic in Residence, Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College).
This series is presented by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and cosponsored by Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today, Africana Studies, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Memetics Laboratory, Experimental Humanities, American Studies, and Written Arts. Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed
Sunday, April 18, 2021 7–9 pm
Presented by the Office of Sustainability, EUS, American Studies, BardEats, Bard Farm, and CCE
Positioning us to begin thinking about place-based environmental justice and ways to counter harm, this film will begin our conversations around the importance of land and food justice work.
Register here.Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Bard Farm; Bard Office of Sustainability; BardEATS; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
part of the BardEATS event series: A start to healing through land, food & seed
Sunday, April 18, 2021 7–9 pm
Online Event Kick off Earth week with a screening of Gather, "an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide." Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
More than Just Land: A History of the Stockbridge-Munsee
Part of the series: A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed
Monday, April 19, 2021 5–7 pm
Presented by the Office of Sustainability, EUS, American Studies, BardEats, Bard Farm, and the CCE.
Heather Bruegl, the Cultural Affairs Director for the Stockbridge- Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, will speak about the history of the Mohican people on this land as well as provide a space for action oriented discussions on what the Bard community can doto be better allies for the Stockbridge-Munsee community while residing on their homelands.
More than Just Land: A History of the Stockbridge-Munsee
the history of the Mohican people on this land
Monday, April 19, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event Guest speaker Heather Bruegl, the Cultural Affairs Director for the Stockbridge- Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, will speak about the history of the Mohican people on this land as well as provide a space for action oriented discussions on what the Bard community can do to be better allies for the Stockbridge-Munsee community while residing on their former homelands. The event will include both a lecture and time for an open discussion. Registration link below.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement.
Part of the series: A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Presented by the Office of Sustainability, EUS, American Studies, BardEats, Bard Farm, and the CCE.
Actively listen and engage with some incredible Black-led land and food sovereignty organizers in NYS. This panel will feature Shaniqua Bowden, the Head of Cultural Engagement at the Kingston Land Trust, Nfamara Badjie, from Ever Growing Family Farm, and Alexander Wright, founder of the African Heritage Food Co-op and Blegacy Farms.
Countering Dispossession, Creating Access: a discussion
a panel discussion with NY Black-led land and food sovereignty organizers
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Online Event Panelists include
Shaniqua Bowden, Head of Cultural Engagement, Kingston Land Trust
Nfamara Badjie, Ever Growing Family Farm, and
Alexander Wright, founder of the African Heritage Food Co-Op and Blegacy Farms.
This panel will give space for each speaker to discuss the work they are doing in relation to land sovereignty, food sovereignty, cultural resistance/resilience, and land access work for and by Black folks. The moderator will ask the speakers questions about their thoughts on different topics surrounding land dispossession, land/food sovereignty, and land access work. There will be a 20 minute period at the end of the panel discussion for community members to ask questions. Registration Link below
This event is part of a speaker series organized by BardEATS students: A start to healing through land and seed Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Office of Sustainability.
discussion covering topics of seed sovereignty, seed rematriation, and allyship
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Online Event The short film, Seeds of Hope, will precede the talk. Speakers: K Green (Seedshed Co-Director and Hudson Valley Seed Company Founder) Kenny Perkins (Ohero:kon rites of passage, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment Horticulturist) Registration Link below
This session is part of a speaker series organized by BardEATS students; A start to healing through land, forest & seedSponsored by: American Studies Program; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Part of the series: A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Presented by the Office of Sustainability, EUS, American Studies, BardEats, Bard Farm, and the CCE.
K Green (Seedshed Co-Director and Hudson Valley Seed Company Founder) and Kenny Perkins (Ohero:kon rites of passage, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment Horticulturist) will lead us in an a discussion covering topics of seed sovereignty, seed rematriation, and allyship. The short film Seeds of Hope will begin the talk.
Closing Opportunity Gaps for Young Men of Color: The State of Mentorship and Youth Development Post-2020
Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:30–6:45 pm
Online Event In the midst of the 2020 global pandemic, waves of nation-wide protests prompting urgent and frank conversations about race and social justice in this country. As COVID-19 exacerbated systemic inequalities, the opportunity gaps faced by young people across the country widened at an alarming rate—and yet, 2020 also gave rise to creative problem solving and nimble decision making like never before. Join us for a conversation that explores the unique position of youth development and mentorship in communities of color in a post-COVID world; and how the growing movement in defense of Black lives is affecting inclusion amongst young people trying to successfully navigate and thrive in predominantly white institutions and spaces.
Panelists: Michael Blake Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Brandon Micheal Hall Activist, star of God Friended Me and HBO’s Search Party
Wes Moore CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation
Angel Obergh ’23 Brothers@ Mentor and Campus Leader
Moderators: Shawn Dove CEO of Campaign for Black Male Achievement
White Nationalism, White Supremacy, and the Environmental Movement
Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:30–6:30 pm
Online Event National experts Eric Ward, Scot Nakagawa, and Lindsay Schubiner will lead the Bard community, regional community leaders, and Hudson Valley NGOs in exploring connections between white supremacy, the growth of white nationalism, and the environmental movement over the past 30 years.
Eric Ward is a national expert on the relationship between hate violence and preserving democratic institutions, governance, and inclusive societies. Eric brings nearly 30 years of expertise in community organizing and philanthropy to his role as Western States Center’s executive director. Originally from Los Angeles, Eric began his civil rights work when the white nationalist movement was engaged in violent paramilitary activity that sought to undermine democratic governance in the Pacific Northwest.
Scot Nakagawa is senior partner of ChangeLab, a national racial equity think/act lab addressing issues of demographic change and the transformation of racial identity and meaning in the United States in context of globalization, including the rise of white nationalism and of right wing nationalist movements in communities of color.
Lindsay Schubiner directs Western States Center’s program to counter the dangerous ascension of white nationalism and hate violence across the country. She previously led advocacy efforts against anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim bigotry at the Center for New Community. Lindsay has served as a congressional staffer handling housing, health, and immigration policy, and managed advocacy for sexual health and rights at American Jewish World Service.
https://bard.zoom.us/j/6091568866Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Online Event BRAVE will award two stipends this summer to two students who plan to intern at organizations of their choosing that reflect the nature of BRAVE's work, and will not be getting paid. Applicants must be returning to Bard in the fall of 2021. A 4 week internship stipend for $1,200 and an 8 week internship stipend for $2,400 will be awarded.
This is NOT an internship with BRAVE. BRAVE will be awarding the stipends to two students who will be working in mental health settings of their choosing over the summer. We are specifically looking for candidates who will be working in the area of sexual assault/misconduct, consent and relationship violence. We will consider all mental health internships this summer due to the lack of internships offered in a global pandemic. For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail rnidorf@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/brave/internships/.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Introduction to Engaged Research Methods – Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 4 – Introduction to Engaged Research Methods: Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation will be facilitated by Andrea Cornwall
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
Inaugural Economic Democracy Keynote: Economic Rights and Racial Justice
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 12:15–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) is pleased to launch the Economic Democracy Keynote Series. It features scholars, public intellectuals, and activists whose work on economic, social, and environmental justice is shaping the tenor of our time.
Professor Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at the New School for Social Research, will deliver the inaugural address titled "Economic Rights and Racial Justice" on Tuesday, April 27th at 12:15 PM (EST) via zoom.
Also sponsored by the Bard College Racial Justice Initiative and Economics Program.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Freire in Practice – Engaged Research as Transformation
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 5 - Wednesday, April 28th, 9 am-12 pm EST — Freire in Practice: Engaged Research as Transformation. Facilitated by Maria Lahumatina
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
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