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Faculty Highlights 2021-22

The May 2022 issue of Artforum, included articles by Susan Aberth, Ed Halter, and Alex Kitnick. 

“David Reynolds: Studies in Competitive Co-operation,” an article co-authored by Richard Aldous, was published in Diplomacy & Statecraft, Volume 33, Issue 1.

“Variation in thermal performance curves for oxygen consumption and loss of critical behaviors in co-occurring species indicate the potential for ecosystem stability under ocean warming,” co-authored by Kathryn Anderson, was published in Marine Environmental Research, December 2021.
 
In September 2021, Mark Baechle won an LA area Emmy Award for the music he co-wrote for the documentary series Tending Nature (KCET / PBS). 
 
In April 2022, James Bagwell was guest conductor for The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra (repertoire included Mahler Symphony 1), and in May 2022, he was the conductor for the Berkshire Bach Orchestra and Chorus in Great Barrington (repertoire included works by Bach and Vivaldi).

Franco Baldasso was appointed Visiting Researcher at the Department of Literature and Modern Cultures at the Sapienza University in Rome, June and July 2021. His article “Curzio Malaparte, Literatura Okutna,” and interview, “Nie Lekcewazmy Malapartego,” both appeared in Przeglad Polityczny (2021). In fall 2021, Baldasso was an invited speaker for the roundtable, Trieste, a Mediterranean City, at Columbia University; Fare i conti con il passato fascista: Giuseppe Berto negli anni '4 at the Università di Trento in Italy; Malaparte and Goethe, “Curzio Malaparte et la culture Européenne. Cartographie d’un palimpsteste littéraire," at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris III, France; and Savinio and Baruchello: An Encyclopedic Conversation, "Gianfranco Baruchello Study Day," at the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York. 
 
In September 2021, Thurman Barker gave a talk on the documentary film, FIRE MUSIC at the Film Forum in NYC, and in October 2021, he performed PANDEMIC FEVER at DePaul University. 

In September 2021, Sanjib Baruah’s book, In the Name of the Nation (Stanford 2020), won the biennial International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize for the Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader Accolade; and Contemporary South Asia (Volume 30, No. 2, 2022) features an interdisciplinary forum on the book. 

New works by Laura Battle were at Opus 40, June 17 through July 30, 2021.
 
Recent publications by Alex Benson include: "Rat-Fall: Time and Taxa in the Colorado River Delta, c. 1900," in the edited volume of Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures (Lexington Books series on Environment and Society, 2021); and “‘A Laboratory Fancy’ by John M. Oskison,” in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA vol. 37, no. 1 (January 2022). 

Works by Nayland Blake and Dave McKenzie were selected for inclusion in the Whitney Biennial, Quiet As It’s Kept, opening in April 2022 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. 
 
Jonathan Brent participated as a scholarly commentator in the Stalin section of the Netflix film, How to Become A Tyrant, that premiered in July 2021. 
 
The 2021 Wilderstein Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, curated by Krista Caballero and Julia Rosenbaum, featured work from John Rupport, Julianne Swartz, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak MFA ‘07, and Bard MFA student Mindy Solis (June 5, 2021 through October 31, 2021).
 
Recent publications authored/co-authored by Bruce Chilton include: A Comparative Commentary to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Comparison with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Scrolls, and Rabbinic Literature: The New Testament Gospels in their Judaic Contexts 2 (with Alan J. Avery-Peck, Darrell Bock, Craig A. Evans, Daniel M. Gurnter, Jacob Neusner, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Daniel Oden, and Jonathan Campbell; Leiden: Brill 2021) 950 pp; The Herods. Murder, politics, and the art of succession (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2021) 365 pages; “The Last Earthquake: Zechariah, Matthew, Peter, and the Force of Haggadah,” Haggadah in Early Judaism and the New Testament (edited by Roger David Aus; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021) 229-249 and “Herod, His Progeny, and the Cutting Edge of Power,” The Bible and Interpretation (August 2021). During fall 2021, Chilton was featured in the following, among other venues, in regard to his book, The Herods. Murder, politics, and the art of succession (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2021): The Bible and Interpretation, The Christian Century, The Christian Humanist and The Washington Post. A hybrid lecture series on The Herods was sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Theology, the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County, and the Rhinebeck Reformed Church, and an editorial session was devoted to the work at an editorial meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature during its conference in San Antonio.

“What happened that night on the Acropolis?” by Robert Cioffi, was published in the London Review of Books, February 2022. 

Recent co-authored publications by John Cullinan include: “Unisingular representations in arithmetic and Lie theory,” European Journal of Mathematics, September 2021; and “On a probabilistic local-global principle for torsion on elliptic curves," Journal de Théorie des Nombres, Issue 1, Vol 34, (2022) pp 1-51.
 
Lauren Curtis co-edited, (Cambridge University Press, 2021); her chapter, “Remembered but not Recorded: The Strange Case of Rome’s Maiden Chorus,” examines the dynamics of memory and forgetting in some of Rome’s earliest known music. She also published The Lives of Latin Texts: Papers Presented to Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University Press, 2021); and her first book, Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry appeared in paperback (Cambridge University Press, 2021). 

“In Game as in Life? Linking Decision-making to Real-world Behavior,” co-authored by Justin Dainer-Best, was published in Collabra: Psychology, volume 7, issue 1.

A solo exhibition of works by Tim Davis, supporting his book, I’m Looking Through You, (Aperture, June 2021), was on view at the Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles, December 16, 2021 through January 22, 2022; and The Washington Post published a perspective by Kenneth Dickerman on the book. In April 2022, Davis’ pictures of mailboxes were featured in Places Journal.
 
In October 2021, Adhaar Noor Desai gave two invited talks: “The Writing Master’s ‘Rough Hewings’: Early Modern Poetics and the Pedagogy of Revision” at the Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar, and “An Ethics of Responsibility,” at a panel presentation for the Shakespeare Association of America, Shakespeare and Social Justice: From Principles to Action. His article, “Bodgeries: Composition Pedagogy, Poetics, and George Gascoigne’s ‘Patched Cote’,” was published in English Literary Renaissance in December 2021.
 
Daniella Dooling had a solo online project at Smallbany Gallery, August 22 through August 28; her work is  currently in the exhibition, Social Photography IX at Carriage Trade Gallery in NY, NY; and her work is featured in an international online exhibition by the Art of Nature Gallery in Hong Kong, Her Power, (Chapter Nine). In March 2022, Eminence Gris Edition announced the publication of three works by Dooling. This suite of prints was included in “The Queen of Spades…and Other Stories,” at Bienvenu Steinberg & Partner Gallery, NY, NY; Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL; and the Baltimore Fine Art Fair, Baltimore, MD. A selection of her ongoing collage series was exhibited in “Undercurrents” at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT, from March 6-April 24.

“Gleaning Hope From Latin America’s Abortion Right’s Revolution,” an op-ed piece by Omar Encarnación, was published by The Nation in May 2022. 

Recent publications by Helen Epstein include: a review of “The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing by Denis Mukwege” in Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 44, Number 2, and “The iron grip of the CFA franc,” in The New York Review of Books, May 2022.

Gidon Eshel is featured in the December 10, 2021 Guardian article, “Hold the beef: McDonald’s avoids the bold step it must take to cut emissions,” by Tom Perkins. 
 
The Secret Life of Objects (at Magenta Plains, September 7 through October 9, 2021), was a group exhibition that Barbara Ess was in the process of curating. In tribute to her artistic vision, Peggy Ahwesh organized the exhibition in Ess’ honor, which included key pieces by Ess and Ahwesh, as well as works by fellow Bard faculty, Daniella Dooling, Laura Battle and Les LeVeque (MFA). 
 
Jeannette Estruth was featured in, “Extreme Spaces and New Frontiers,” by Rebecca L. West (Perspectives on History, September 2021), as the 2021-2022 recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History. Recent publications by Estruth include: "From the Gold Rush to the Colonization of Mars: How Silicon Valley Imagines Away the Working Class" in the May-June issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing; and a review of Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America, by Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner in the Harvard Business History Review, April 2022.  She also gave an invited talk at the University of Southern California's History Department, and presented her paper, "White Collar Tech, Blue Silicon Valley: How the Clinton-Era Fusion of Technology and Economic Policy Produced Today’s Democratic Party," at the University of Pennsylvania and the Business History Conference. 

In November 2021, Jack Ferver was featured in The New York Times piece, “The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art,” by Margaret Fuhrer.
 
Recent publications by Peter Filkins have appeared in The Boston Review (March 2022); Harper’s Magazine (April 2022); and the spring-summer issue of Salmagundi.  

Works by Kenji Fujita are included in an exhibition at The Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts, April 8, 2022 - June 3, 2022. 

Subliminal Horizons: Part 2, an exhibition featuring works by Kenji Fujita, Jeffrey Gibson, Tschababala Self, Xaviera Simmons ‘05, and MFA faculty member Kianja Strobert, was at Alexander Gray Associates gallery in Germantown through October 3, 2021.
 
In September 2021, Christopher H. Gibbs gave a lecture “26 March 1928: Revising Schubert ‘Privatkoncert’” for the Schubert Research Center of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. His article “Liszt on the Road: The Rise of the Modern Virtuoso Pianist” appeared in Franz Liszt in Context, ed. Joanne Cormac (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) and “An die Musik: Teaching Franz Schubert’s Hymn to Art” appeared in The Berlin Journal 35 (2020-21). He was also awarded the 2021-2022 Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin, awarded annually to American or US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition. During the spring semester, Gibbs was the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, where he gave a lecture “Curating Concerts: Classical Music Between Mozart and Mahler.” In Stuttgart, he gave a lecture “Opposites Attract: Beethoven and Schubert.” 
 
“An Affair of History, Law, and Institutions: William Graham Sumner’s Historical Method and the Responsibility of the Individual,” by Simon Gilhooley, was published in American Political Thought, Fall 2021.   
 
Recent performances by Marka Gustavsson include: as a member of the Manhattan String Quartet at a conference in Seattle, WA in August 2021; at the White Mountains Music Festival for concerts with the Manhattan String Quartet in September 2021; in November 2021, as a guest of Sarasa Ensemble, performing a series of concerts that included two commissioned string quartets; and with the Manhattan String Quartet when they reconvened for a workshop and concert dedicated to Haydn's Opus 50 no. 5, "The Dream," in December 2021.
 
“Making Cinema Under Authoritarian Codes,” by Fahmidul Haq, was published in Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2021).  
 
Works by Maggie Hazen were included in the exhibition Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, November 10, 2021 - March 20, 2022; and in The Moving Picture Show (curated by Peggy Ahwesh), at Foreland Contemporary Arts Campus in Catskill, NY, February 19, 2022 - March 27, 2022. 

Analysis and Exile:  Boyhood, Youth, and the Lessons of Anna Freud by Vivian Heller was published by Confer Books in April 2022. 

In April 2022, Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace by Frederic C. Hof was published by USIP Press. 

In May 2022, Elizabeth Holt gave an invited lecture, "Oil and Arabic Literature in the Cold War," at the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Interdisciplinary Working Group on Institutional Histories of Aesthetic Forms, Northwestern University; and her article “Robinson Crusoe’s Watch,” was published in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 42:1 Special Section on Capitalism at Sea. 

“Task compliance predicts suppression-induced forgetting in a large sample,” co-authored by Justin Hulbert, was published in Scientific Reports, October 2021.
 
“Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing,” by Mie Inouye, was published in American Political Science Review, September 2021.    
 
"A COVID-19 Remote Learning Emergency Fund for Educators,” grant from the National Geographic Society was awarded to Anne A. Madden of The Microbe Institute. Brooke Jude is the named co-lead on this project, which will create high school biology lab and lesson modules. These modules will allow students to learn microbiology skills in remote and hybrid environments while contributing to interdisciplinary, community (citizen) science projects. 
 
Two recent publications by Patricia Karetzky include: “Mara and the Face of Evil on the Silk Road,” in The Silk Road: Interwoven History, volume 2, and “The Shadow of Your Smile: Xu Yong’s Portraits and the History of Portraiture East and West,” in International Journal of Art and Art History, December 2021. 
 
9/11’s UNSETTLED DUST, a documentary produced and directed by Lisa Katzman, premiered on public television in New York and New Jersey in September 2021. The film was reviewed by Variety, and featured on Democracy Now! 
 
In September 2021, Felicia Keesing spoke (virtually) at the International Conference on Lyme borreliosis in Amsterdam, and at the University of Parana in Brazil for its annual Zoology conference; and she was filmed, at Montgomery Place and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, by a French film crew for a documentary about epidemics and biodiversity. In October 2021, she gave a talk on WBUR TV, Boston’s program, "Biodiversity for a Liveable Climate." Recent co-authored publications include: “Dilution effects in disease ecology,” Ecology Letters, November 2021, and “Spatial and temporal patterns of the emerging tick-borne pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi in blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in New York,” Parasites & Vectors, December 2021. Keesing was elected as 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. “Effects of Tick-Control Interventions on Tick Abundance, Human Encounters with Ticks, and Incidence of Tickborne Diseases in Residential Neighborhoods, New York, USA,” a paper of which Keesing is the lead author, was published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 28, number 5. In April, her commentary, “Diet for a small footprint,” came out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
 
Two recent publications by Robert Kelly include: The Cup (McPerson & Co.), and Shadow Talk (McPerson & Co.), with illustrations by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov ‘98. In December 2021, Kelly also curated a live-streamed reading in the Brooklyn Rail Radical Poetry series; readers included Pierre Joris ‘69, Kimberly Lyons ‘81, Billie Chernicoff ‘78, and Kelly.  
 
Recent publications by Pinar Kemerli include, “Thomas Hobbes and Political Secularism: A Critical Engagement,” in Theory & Event, October 2021; “The Islamist Terrorist as the New Universal Enemy: Discourses on Terror at the United Nations,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 602-27; and “Revolutionary Self-Defense as a Rival Ethics of Nonviolence: Rojava and Kurdish Liberation,” in New Political Science 43:4 (2022).

“Near speckle-free imaging setup for scattering studies of mirror coatings,” co-authored by Antonios Kontos, Balthazar Loglia ‘22, Bobby King ‘23, and Natalia Dziubelski ‘24, was published in Opt. Express, 49.
 
Cecile Kuznitz spent part of the spring semester as a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also published “Three Giants of Modern Jewish Literature at YIVO" in In Geveb, and a response to “Paper brigade: The incredible story of the Vilnius archive” in The Jewish Quarterly.

Recently published articles by Peter Laki include: "Eine japanische Episode in der Ersten Sinfonie von Sándor Veress?" ("A Japanese Episode in Sándor Veress's First Symphonie?") and "Ein Dauphin im Exil" ("A Crown Prince in Exile") in a volume dedicated to Hungarian composer Sándor Veress in the book series Musik-Konzepte. He gave an online lecture, “From the Wellspring to the Ocean: Béla Bartók's Universality,” for CEU's summer seminar Music as Heritage 2021, and his paper, "Historical and Literary Inspirations Behind Zoltán Kodály's Háry János," was recorded online (in lieu of a conference that had to be cancelled due to COVID).
 
Recent exhibitions by An-My Lê include: solo exhibition, An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain, at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, April 18 through August 8, 2021; solo exhibition, đô-mi-nô, at the Marion Goodman Gallery, June 24 through August 21, 2021; and her work was included in Much Unseen is Also Here, at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, June 3 through August 29, 2021.
 
“A Study on the learning status of “3 + 4” public-funded teacher-college students,” co-authored by Huiwen Li, was published in the Review of Higher Education, 69(2), 44-50.

“The Germantown Archaeology Project: A Hudson Valley Community Collaboration,” by Christopher Lindner, was published in Creating Participatory Dialogue in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Interpretation: Multinational Perspectives (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022).

“Da Capo Chamber Players mark 50 years with lively mix of past and present,” by George Grella (New York Classical Review, May 2022), included a review of a piece by Erica Lindsay.

“Brief training in regulation of craving reduces cigarette smoking, co-authored by Richard Lopez, was published in The Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, February 2022.

Patricia López-Gay was elected as a full member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, and an associate member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language in Madrid. She gave a guest lecture at Yale University, “Life Writing and the Archive,” and contributed a chapter to The Autofictional (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, 2022), commissioned by the University of Oxford’s Centre for Life-Writing. 

In July 2021, Tanya Marcuse was interviewed by the Humble Arts Foundation about her new book, Ink (Fall Line Press). Selections of works from Marcuse’s Undergarments and Armor were included in On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, at the Yale University Art Gallery, September 10, 2021 through January 9, 2022. The exhibition showcased and celebrated the remarkable achievements of an impressive roster of women artists who have graduated from Yale University, including An-My Lê. A new large-scale work by Marcuse was featured in Open on K, at Hemphill Artworks in Washington D.C. September 25 – November 24, 2021. Woven No 30 (62 x 160”) by Marcuse, was featured in Actual Size: Photography at Life Scale curated by David Campany at the International Center for Photography (January 28th-May 2nd). She was a panelist in Scale for Meaning, a public program about the show. An extensive interview was published in the Spring edition of Truth in Photography.
 
Recent publications by Michael Martell include: "Labor Market Differentials Estimated with Researcher-Inferred and Self-Identified Sexual Orientation," Economics Letters, 205 (2021) “Tolerance and the labor supply of cohabitating gays and lesbians,” (co-authored) was published online by Cambridge University Press in the Journal of Demographic Economics (November 2021); and “Gender typicality and sexual minority labour market differentials,” (co-authored) was published in British Journal of Industrial Relations (April 2022). Martell also participated in the roundtable, “Future Directions: What the trade literature can learn from other disciplines?  What should we consider?'' Symposium on the Impact of Trade on U.S. Workers: Distributional and Other Effects, U.S. International Trade Commission.

Dawn Lundy Martin was awarded a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, an annual award recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States.
 
Wyatt Mason's essay on Jon Fosse's Septology was in Harper's, August 2021. In October 2021, he wrote about Jonathan Franzen for the Wall Street Journal; in November 2021, he wrote about Charles Baudelaire for Poetry; and in December 2021, he wrote about Lydia Davis for the New York Times; he also spoke with Jonathan Franzen for the 92Y's reading series.
 
“Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option: Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure,” co-authored by Christopher McIntosh, was published in International Studies Review, December 2021.
 
The Story I Tell Myself, a solo exhibition by Dave McKenzie, was at the Whitney Museum of American Art through October 4, 2021.
 
Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology, by Alys Moody (co edited with Stephen Ross) was awarded the 2021 Modernist Studies Association Prize for an Edition, Anthology or Collection.
 
Daaimah Mubashshir’s play Room Enough (For Us All) was featured at the WP Theater's Pipeline Festival, March 24, 2022 - May 14, 2022. 

Someone Should Pay For Your Pain: A Novel by Franz Nicolay (Gibson House Press, August 2021) was named one of Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2021. In March 2022, he wrote about the Ukrainian music scene in wartime for SPIN; and contributed an entry to the American Musicological Society’s rolling “Collaborative Portrait Gallery” of music from Ukraine. In April 2022, Nicolay and Maria Sonevytsky performed as part of the PS21 cohort in New York Theatre Artists For Ukraine, a 12-hour online marathon of performance, readings, and conversations with 24 New York arts institutions, including PEN America, HERE Arts Center, BAM, St. Ann’s, The Public Theatre, La Mama, and Nuyorican Poets Cafe. 
 
"Multiscale Agent-Based and Hybrid Modeling of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment" Processes 2019, 7(1), 37; co-authored by Kerri-Ann Norton, won Processes 2021 Best Paper Award. In spring 2022, she received two collaborative research travel grants: Oberwolfach Research Fellows: Research in Pairs, 2022 and [email protected] Program, 2022.

In August 2021, Isabelle O’Connell performed at the TIME:SPANS Festival, performing Taylor Brook's Virtutes Occultae, at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City. In April 2022, she performed at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City as part of a symposium honoring composer Tania León; she also performed at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, NY, on the Interpretations series, featuring a work for amplified piano and field recordings of Arctic ice by composer Karen Power. In May 2022, O'Connell gave a solo recital of recent works for piano and electronics at the New Music Dublin festival at the National Concert Hall in Ireland. 
 
“Winterwunderkammer,” a site-specific installation by Lothar Osterburg is at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, N.Y, December 18, 2021 through March 13, 2022.
 
Gilles Peress was one of four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022. Works will be at The Photographers’ Gallery, London from March 25, 2022  through June 12, 2022. The exhibition will then travel to the Deutsche Börse’s headquarters in Eschborn/Frankfurt and be on display beginning June 30, 2022. Peress’s “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing” was awarded the Author’s Book Award Special Mention at the 2021 Rencontres d’Arles, and he was included on the shortlist for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, which also included Sasha Phyars-Burgess ’10 and Farah Al Qasimi.
 
“Showing Up,” a new film by Kelly Reichardt, is in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this month. During the Directors’ Fortnight’s opening ceremony, Reichardt received the Carrosse d’Or award. 

Bruce Robertson published two co-authored papers in Animal Behaviour, 180: “Ultraviolet polarized light pollution and evolutionary traps for aquatic insects,” and Ultraviolet polarized light and individual condition drive habitat selection in tropical damselflies and dragonflies. He also presented at the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Kigali, Rwanda, and at the American Wind Wildlife Institute’s Solar Power and Wildlife / Natural Resources Symposium.

Learning the Birds: A Mid-Life Adventure, by Susan Fox Rogers, was published by Cornell University Press in April 2022. 

The Greek Histories, a new collection of translations of the foremost Greek historians edited by James Romm, was published in January 2022 by Penguin Random House.

Lauren Rose was selected to the 2022 Class of Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.   

Work by Lisa Sanditz is included in the show, Unnatural-Nature, Post-Pop Landscapes, curated by Todd Bradway at Acquavella Gallery, at their New York and Pam Beach Locations, from April 12-June 10, 2022. 

“Regular Polygonal Partitions of a Tverberg Type,” co-authored by Steven Simon and Leah Leiner ‘19, was published in Discrete & Computational Geometry, October 2021.   
 
Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press, September 2020), by Lucy Sante, was a finalist for the 2021 PEN Diamondstein-Spielvogel Art of the Essay award.
 
Shai Secunda was invited as a Distinguished Scholar at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for Advanced Studies for November 2021 through January 2022.  
 
“Musical Evolution and the Other: State-Sponsored Musical Evolutionism in the USSR to Post-Soviet Crimean Tatar Indigenous Music,” by Maria Sonevytsky, was published in Ethnomusicology 66 (1), February 2022. Sonevytsky has given numerous public lectures and participated in multiple panels since the Russian war on Ukraine began, including “Understanding the War on Ukraine Through its Musical Culture” (Michigan State University) and “Songs of Sovereignty in Ukraine” (University of Washington, Simpson Center). Her research has been included and she has been quoted in two New York Times articles (on Ukrainian modernist composers, and on DakhaBrakha); and on NPR’s All Things Considered (about DakhaBrakha and Ukrainian musical diplomacy). 

Recent publications by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins include: "Excrement, Scale, and the Politics of Neglect: How Life Politics Became Progressive Critique," in Confluences Méditerranée 2 (17): 89-100. 2021; "Enduring Waste: Subjects and Objects of Siege," in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11(1): 360-365;  and Response to Book Symposium on Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine: "Off the Grid: Prepaid Power and the Political Economy of Waste in Palestine," in Tartir A., Dana T., Seidel T. (eds) Political Economy of Palestine. Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Stamatopoulou-Robbins' book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), won three major book awards: the 2021 Sharon Stephens Book Prize, sponsored by the American Ethnological Society; the 2021 Julian Steward Award, sponsored by the Anthropology & Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association; and the 2021 Middle East Section Book Award, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association. She was also invited to join the editorial board of Cultural Anthropology, anthropology's flagship journal. 
 
Erika Switzer performed "Wolf's Mörikelieder" for the Brooklyn Art Song Society in October 2021, and "Winterreise" for Aspect Chamber Music in December 2021. "Collaborative Resilience," by Switzer was published in the Journal of Singing, Vol. 78/3 Jan/Feb 2022.
 
"Constructing a New Girl in Meiji Japan: The Japanese Translation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Sara Crew,” by Wakako Suzuki has been published in Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature volume 60. 
 
In fall 2021, Pavlina R. Tcherneva co-organized the international conference,  Global Forum on Democratizing Work. The event featured her conversation with Thomas Piketty. She gave talks at the Vatican Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Europe’s Fiscal Future conference, co-sponsored by the European Commission, and participated in Fight Club, an event honoring the work of the late David Graeber. Her book The Case for a Job Guarantee was translated in two additional languages (Korean and Polish), and she published “A Just Transition Needs a Job Guarantee” in PS New Summits, a special issue of Project Syndicate on the Climate Crisis, 2021.
 
“Development Media: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Marshall McLuhan, and the Model Village Exhibition, c. 1954,” a chapter by Olga Touloumi, was published in Systems and the South: Architecture in Development (London, UK: Routledge, 2022), 249-277. In April-May 2022, she presented her work at the 75th International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians in Pittsburgh, PA.

In December 2021, a new 14-minute work by Joan Tower, “1920/2019,” was reviewed in The New York Times. Tower debuted the piece with the New York Philharmonic as part of Project 19, which commissioned 19 female composers to honor the centennial of the 19th Amendment. 
 
Éric Trudel directed the summer 2021 (vol 61, number 2) issue of the journal L'Esprit Créateur devoted to the "Documentary Mode" in contemporary French literature, and published the article, "Terre, mon beau souci: quand Frédéric Boyer fait Virgile" in, volume 25, issue 4 (2021). "Une science de la durée: Paul Valéry lecteur de la poésie du XIXe siècle," by Trudel was published in the Australian Journal of French Studies, volume 58, number 3 (2021); and his study of endings in the works of contemporary French writer Leslie Kaplan ("Leslie Kaplan: Maintenir maintenant ") was published in, 26/2, 2022. He also presented a paper on the poetry of Aurélie Foglia at the 20th and 21st French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh in March 2022.
 
Facing Gaza, an exhibition of works by Robert Hardwick Weston, was displayed at the Museum of the Palestian People, in Washington, D.C., October 2 through October 9, 2021.
 
Thomas Wild’s book ununterbrochen mit niemandem reden: Lektüren mit Ilse Aichinger (speaking with no-one, uninterruptedly. Readings with Ilse Aichinger) was published by S. Fischer in September 2021; in November 2021, he presented his book at the Austrian Literary Society in Vienna as part of a series of events that celebrated and commemorated the poet’s work and life on the occasion of her 100th anniversary. He also presented his book at conferences in Augsburg/Germany (February 2022), Rome (April 2022), and Rutgers University (May 2022). 
 
In July 2021, “Chords of an Ellipse, Lucas Polynomials, and Cubic Equations” (published in The American Mathematical Monthly, 2020) co-authored by Japheth Wood, won the Paul R. Halmos-Lester R. Ford Award, which recognizes authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly. Wood was awarded an Epsilon Award for Young Scholars Programs from the American Mathematical Society (for the third time) in partial support for the Bard Math Circle's Creative and Analytical Math Program (CAMP). The AMS Epsilon Award supports some of the most prestigious summer math enrichment programs in the United States.

The New York Times named Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee (Melissa Wolfe, John Fagg, Tom Wolf, Barbara L. Jones) one of the Best Art Books of 2021. 
 
L. Randall Wray was awarded the 2022 Veblen Commons Award; the highest honor given annually by the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), in recognition of significant contributions to evolutionary institutional economics. In July 2021, he was interviewed for Bloomberg Businessweek: “Are We Living in an MMT World? Not Yet;” and was on the MacroNCheese podcast, Episode 128: “How We Fund Policy Matters.” In August 2021, he was on The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly, #110: “Are We Living in an MMT World?” and he was an invited speaker at The Regional Council of Economics of the Federal District of Brazil (Corecon-DF), and the Federal Council of Economics (Cofecon) conference. Wray gave two talks in Berlin at the Modern Money Theory (MMT) conference in September 2021; and he gave the keynote presentation at the January 2022 AFEE/ASSA annual conference. In February 2022, Wray gave a talk to the Oxford Economics Society, "Keynes versus the Classics.” In March 2022, he gave a talk to the Stanford University Rethinking Economics student group, on MMT in the Age of Multiple Pandemics, and he was included on the MMT podcast, “What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?” In April 2022, his book, Handbook of Economic Stagnation (with Flavia Dantas), was published by Elsevier. 
 
Shuo Zhang was invited by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to present her most recent research on how surrounding molecular gas clouds offer insight into the activity history of Sgr A*, the now inactive supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Zhang’s talk, “Galactic Center Molecular Clouds: Storytellers of Past Outburst of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole,” was presented at a virtual AAS press conference in January 2022.
 

Faculty Highlights 2020-21

Faculty Highlights 2019-20

Faculty Highlights 2018-19

In October 2018, Susan Aberth gave a talk, “Leonora Carrington’s Animal Kingdom,” at the Symposium in conjunction with the opening of the Leonora Carrington Cuentos Magicos exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. In November 2018, she gave a talk, “Leonora Carrington & Remedios Varo: Magical Collaborations,” with Tere Arcq, Independent Curator, Mexico City, at the International Society for the Study of Surrealism, inaugural conference at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. Her book review of Mary Ann Caws, ed. Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings (New Directions, 2018) appeared in Words Without Borders, on-line journal. 

In April 2019, Sanjib Baruah gave a seminar on his forthcoming book, In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast, at the Sciences Po in Paris (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris).   

Recent articles by Alex Benson include: “‘Bartleby’ on Speed,” Leviathan, vol. 21. no. 1, Special Issue: Melville at 200 (March 2019): 120-37, and "Gossypoglossia: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Pragmatics of Dialogue,” Narrative, vol. 27. no 2., Special Issue: Revisiting Dialogue (May 2019): 201-20. 

Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) by Olga Bush, was a finalist for the 2019 College Art Association Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. In September 2018, she gave a keynote address at a conference, "Europe and the Orient: Past Encounters, Heritage, and Present-Day Interactions," Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, and in October 2018, she gave an invited lecture "La Estética Integrada de la Alhambra: Arquitectura, Poesía, Textiles y Ceremonias" at the University of Granada, Granada, Spain. In November of 2018, she presented her paper, "The 'Orient' Express: The Neo-Mudéjar Train Station in Toledo and the Spanish Debate on the National Style," at the ILEM-Scientific Studies Association Conference, "Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts," Medeniyet University, Istanbul.

In November 2018, Omar Cheta presented his paper, "What Would the 19th-Century Marx Say About Cairo's Silk Weavers?" at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, in San Antonio, Texas, and his article "A Prehistory of the Modern Legal Profession in Egypt, 1840s-1870s" was published in International Journal of Middle East Studies 50, no. 4.

Bruce Chilton consulted with the National Geographic Society on the Basilica of Saints John and Paul in Rome. In November 2019, the Society brought him in to the site for an interview with Morgan Freeman, which will air in the spring. He also joined a panel of four scholars appointed by the Regents of the State of Louisiana to select scholars for awards to fellowships in the humanities. He completed his lecture series on Christian Philosophies for the institute of Advanced Theology, and continues his series on the Reformation in Rhinebeck at the Reformed Church. Recent publications include “Implications and Prospects of Jewish Jesus Research,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 2018).

Robert Cioffi’s book review, “A Palm Tree, A Colour and a Mythical Bird,” of In Search of the Phoeniciansby Josephine Quinn, was published in the London Review of Books in January 2019. He was awarded a fellowship at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies during the 2019-2020 academic year. He will be completing research and writing on his scholarly monograph, Narrating the Marvelous: The Greek Novel and the Ancient Ethnographic Imagination. He was also awarded Harvard University’s Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for 2019-2020 for this same scholarly project. 

The Power of Print in Modern China by Robert Culp, was published by Columbia University Press in May 2019.  

Ben Coonley’s new exhibition, Winter Games, is at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, February 15 through March 24, 2019.  

In November 2018, Christian Crouch was appointed to the Council of the Omohundro Institute. Crouch is one of five new members appointed this year for athree-year term. The Council exists to provide academic advice to theBoard of Directors who oversee the Institute's multitude of activities.

In September 2018, Lauren Curtis organized a conference at Harvard University, “Texts, Authors, and Readers,” to mark the retirement of Richard Tarrant, Harvard’s Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. At the conference, she presented her paper, “Causation and Complaint in Ovid’s Exile Poetry.” Her paper, “Ovid’s Io and the Aetiology of Lament” was published in Phoenix, the journal of the Classical Association of Canada (71: 301-320).

In February 2019, Justin Dainer-Best was selected as the 2019 recipient of the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Dissertation Award from the University of Texas. 

Mark Danner was appointed a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship for 2019. 

Recent publications by Richard Davis include: “Bhakti in the Classroom: What Do American Students Hear?” in Bhakti and Power: Debating India’s Religion of the Heart, eds. John Stratton Hawley, Christian Lee Novetzke, and Swapna Sharma (Global South Asia) (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019).  Pp. 214-224, and “Introduction” and “Afterword: Krishna on Modern Fields of Battle,” in Bhagavad Gita: A New Verse Translation, trans. Stanley Lombardo.  Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2019.  Pp. vii-xxxii and 106-117.

In October 2018, Tim Davis had a large museum show at the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs entitled, “When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas). The show’s photographs, videos, sculptures and installations entertained the idea of artist as collector.

Recent publications co-authored by Eli Dueker include: “Comparison of bacterial diversity in air and water of a major urban center,” Frontiers in Microbiology 9(2868), and “Single-indicator strategies treat symptoms, not sources of sewage contamination, hampering water quality improvement in urban areas,” Current Pollution Reports, doi: 10.1007/s40726-018-0099-3. In December 2018, Dueker, along with several undergraduate researchers, and Robyn Smyth, presented “Aerosolization from freshwater at the spillway of a small dam” at the American Geophysical Union meeting.  

Tania El Khoury was awarded a 2019 Soros Arts Fellowship, by the Open Society Foundations, to create a site-specific interactive installation along Lebanon’s northern border that explores the militarization of natural borders, relationships across rivers, and the daily practices of border resistance.

Two recent publications by Helen Epstein include: “Can Bobi Wine Unite Uganda and Bring Down a Dictator?” The Nation, August 2018; and “Uganda and the Plague,” The Sunday Monitor (Kampala), September 2018. 

In September 2018, Miriam Felton-Dansky gave a reading from her 2018 book, Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age, at Broadside Bookshop in Northampton, MA. In December 2018, she was a featured speaker in the TheaterMatters public event series at the Invisible Dog gallery in Brooklyn; and in April 2019 her review of Faye Driscoll's Thank You For Coming: Space appeared on Artforum.com.

Laura Ford published a co-authored article, as well as a book chapter, and presented her draft book manuscript to an interdisciplinary panel of reviewers at a Book Manuscript Workshop hosted by The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law School (April 2019). The publications are: (1) Boyce Robert Owens and Laura Ford, "Judicial Social Theorizing and Its Relation to Sociology," Qualitative Sociology 42(2); and (2) Laura Ford, "Law and the Development of Capitalism," in The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber, edited by Edith Hanke, Lawrence Scaff, and Sam Whimster (online edition published February 2019).  

Jacqueline Goss premiered her short film “Failing Up” at the Museum of Modern Art’s “Doc Fortnight” series in February 2019. Other screenings during the spring semester took place in Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Copenhagen.

In January 2019, Hal Haggard was named a Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. This will allow for regular visits to the institute and enable him to collaborate with theoretical physicists from around the world. Recent publications co-authored by Haggard include: "exocartographer: A Bayesian Framework for Mapping Exoplanets in Reflected Light,The Astronomical Journal, Volume 156, Number 4; "White holes as remnants: a surprising scenario for the end of a black hole,” Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 35, Number 22; "Spin fluctuations and black hole singularities: the onset of quantum gravity is spacelike,” New Journal of Physics, Volume 20, and "Holographic description of boundary gravitons in (3+1) dimensions,” Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume 144.

In September 2018, Ugly Duckling Press received a New York State Council on the Arts Grant to publish Cole Heinowitz’s translation, A Tradition of Rupture: Selected Critical Writings of Alejandra Pizarnik. In November 2018, Heinowitz was awarded the American Literary Translators Association’s Cliff Becker Prize for her translation of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s Bleeding from All 5 Senses (forthcoming from White Pine Press) and read from her work at ALTA’s 41^st Annual Conference in Bloomington, Indiana. Heinowitz’s review of, “Eileen Hunt Botting’s Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein” was published in the November issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik’s essays “The Poet and the Poem” and “The Poem and its Reader” were published in Two Lines issue 29, and her translations of Javier Taboada’s poems “3 Visions of Toño” appeared in the second issue of Erizo: A Journal of the Arts (both Fall 2018). In December 2018, Heinowitz presented the invited lecture, “Spanish America and the Making of British Romanticism,” to the Jane Austen Society of America in Stratford, Connecticut. 

Recent publications by Elizabeth Holt include: Translations from the Arabic with critical and historical introductions of "Henry and Emilia" (short story published in Al-Jinān 1870) by Adelaide al-Bustani; "Selected Anecdotes and Announcements from the 1870s Beirut Press," in The Arab Renaissance: Anthology of Nahda Thought, Literature, and Language, edited by Tarek El-Ariss for the MLA series Texts and Translations,  2018; and “Cairo and the Cultural Cold War for Afro-Asia”  Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties, edited by Chian Jen, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, and Joanna Waley-Cohen (New York: Routledge, 2018). Recent talks include: “Fictions of Finance in the Nile Valley: Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, the Nahdah, and the Cold War,” at Georgetown University, and “Towards a Political Economy of Arabic Literature,” at the Arabic Studies Seminar at Columbia University in October 2018; “Afro-Asian Writings(later Lotus), Resistance Literature, and The Communist Manifesto,” Panel on “Arab Specters of Marx,” for the Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, and "Comment: On Shipwreck" to the "Capitalism and Colonialism: Legal and Moral Economies of Violence at Sea" panel of the Capitalism at Sea: Containment and the Commons," organized by the Floating Laboratory of Action and Theory at Sea (FLOATS) at Columbia University and the New School in November 2018; and “Imagining Anti-Capitalist Networks in Arabic in Late-Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Beirut and Cairo,” Panel on “Arabic, Translation, Surrealism, Capitalism, Theory” at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in January 2019.

In September 2018, Tom Hutcheon gave a research presentation, "Seeing how you are doing: Providing students with grade visualizations reduces grade-related stress," at the Annual Mid-Atlantic Conference on the Teaching of Psychology. Hutcheon, along with recent Bard undergraduates Aileen Lian '18 and Anna Richard '18, co-authored the paper "The impact of technology bans on students' experience and performance in Introduction to Psychology,” published in Teaching of Psychology (volume 46) in January 2019. 

In April 2019, Felicia Keesing was named Ecological Society of America Fellow. The Society's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research and discovery, communication, education and pedagogy, and management and policy. Fellows are members who have made outstanding contributions to a wide range of fields served by ESA, including, but not restricted to, those that advance or apply ecological knowledge in academics, government, non-profit organizations, and the broader society. The Society cited Keesing for “pioneering research in the ecology of infectious diseases and community ecology of African savannas, and pedagogical research that she has integrated into a vision and practice of college science teaching for enhancing scientific literacy.”

In September 2018, Bard College joined the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (a collaboration doing research related to gravitational-wave detection, a discovery that won the 2017 Nobel prize in physics) with Antonios Kontos as the Principal Investigator. 

Laura Kunreuther, received two grants, a Multi-Country Research Fellowship from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, in support of travel to Switzerland, Kenya, and Nepal for her research project, “Translating Voices, Interpreting in the Field.” 

Cecile Kuznitz won a fellowship to the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania for spring 2020 and a Lady Davis Fellowship to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for 2019-2020. 

Peter Laki was in residence at Utah State University from November 5 - 9, 2018 giving lectures on Béla Bartók's string quartets, and teaching undergraduate classes. 

In October 2018, Ann Lauterbach’s tenth volume of poetry, Spell, was published by Penguin Random House. A collection of her work, Alice en Terre Vaine et Autres Poems, was published in France, translated by Nicolas and Maitreyi Pesques, by éditions joca séria.

Gideon Lester oversaw the transfer of the Fisher Center’s production of Oklahoma! to St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, where it played from September 27 - November 11, 2018. The production will open on Broadway in April 2019. 

In March 2019, Marisa Libbon was invited to be a Visiting Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, for summer 2019. While there, she will study medieval manuscripts in Trinity's collection and in the libraries of other Cambridge colleges. In April 2019, she delivered an invited talk, "Isabel of Lancaster, Edward III, and 'a book of romance purchased from her ad opus domini regis,'" as part of the conference, "Conflicts of Interest: Historiography, Hagiography, and Romance in Medieval England," at UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 


In December 2018 and January 2019, Erica Lindsay’s performances of Chamber Music America New Jazz works commission, “Mediations on Transformation,” premiered at Exuberance in Philadelphia, PA, and the Greenwich House in New York City. 

Dawn Lundy Martin was the recipient of this year’s Kingsley Tufts Award in Poetry. The Kingsley Tufts award, based at Claremont Graduate University and given for poetry volumes published in the preceding year, is one of the most prestigious prizes a contemporary poet can receive and comes with a $100,000 purse. Previous recipients include Carl Phillips, Linda Gregorson, and Yusef Komunyakaa.       

Tanya Marcuse was awarded a fellowship at MacDowell in the summer of 2018 to work on her forthcoming book, Fruitless|Fallen|Woven.  She was also awarded a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation. 

Mike Martell was awarded a grant (with collaborator Ian Burn) from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Stiftelsen Torsten Amundsons fund, for their project, "Discrimination Against Homosexuals in the Labor Market: Causes, Consequences and Remedies.”

In September 2018, Robert McGrail presented the co-authored paper "A Terminating and Confluent Term Rewriting System for the Pure Equational Theory of Quandles" at the 20th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2018) in Timisoara, Romania. Coauthors included Weronica Nguyen (Bard '20), Marysia Tran (Bard '18), and Arti Tripathi (Bard '18).

Allison McKim’s book Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration(Rutgers University Press, 2017) was the winner of two awards at the November 2018 ASC Annual Meeting: the Division of Women & Crime (American Society of Criminology), Book of the Year, and the Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice (American Society of Criminology), 2018 Book Award. 

In November 2018, Sean McMeekin published his op-ed piece, “It Was Never Quiet on the Eastern Front. Still Isn’t,” for the Los Angeles Times, print and online; in December 2018, he delivered a lecture, “The Unfinished War,” in Budapest, and participated in a Russian-language televised debate on the Russian Revolution on the centenary of the fall of the Romanov monarchy, “The Crown Under the Hammer.” McMeekin also appeared in the documentary film being debated, which was filmed at Bard in January 2018. In January 2019, he was also in a Ukranian documentary filmed at Bard, "Skarbi natsii.  Ukraina.  Povernennya svoei istorii.”

In February 2019, Daniel Mendelsohn was appointed Editor-at-Large for the New York Review of Books. His book An Odyssey was the May 2019 pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.” 

The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations: Status, Revisionism, and Rising Powers, by Michelle Murray, was published by Oxford University Press in December 2018.

Lothar Osterburg received the Jordan Schnitzer Award for Excellence in Printmaking, presented by the The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation as part of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair and the New York Print Week. The award is to support new work and experimentation in print. Osterburg’s solo exhibition “Waterline” was at Lesley Heller Gallery in New York City from November through December 2018, and his work was included in the exhibition Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art, at Lehman College Art Gallery, September 2018 through January 2019. In March 2019, Osterburg participated in the Vivarium Festival (A multimedia festival reflecting on the impact of technology on the arts and society) organized by "Saco Azul Associação Cultural" and “Maus Habitos” in Porto, Portugal with “A Bookmobile for Dreamers”, a collaborative piece with composer, performer Elizabeth Brown. In April 2019, he gave a lecture and photogravure workshop to members of the California Society of Printmakers at San Francisco State University, and in May 2019, the Museum of Fine Art in Houston acquired two of his works.

In November 2018, Joel Perlmann gave a lecture about his recent book, America Classifies the Immigrants: Ellis Island to the 2020 Census at the CUNY Graduate Center's Sociology Department; he participated in a research conference at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel on ""American Jews and Their Various Others" and presented a paper on H. A. Wolfson, "The American Jewish Future after Immigration and Ethnicity Fade: H. A. Wolfson’s Analysis in 1918," which was published in Religions Vol. 9 (2018) as part of the Special Issue The Jewish Experience in America.  

In February 2019, Dina Ramadan presented a paper entitled "Reimagining the Mediterranean: The Alexandria Biennale, an Exhibition of Third Worldism?" at the Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures conference at the Tate Modern, and her review of Chad Elias's Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon in was published in H-Levant. 

Kelly Reichardt joined the competition jury at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019. 

"Color polarization mediates the strength of an evolutionary trap," by Bruce Robertson was published in Evolutionary Applications, and he was awarded a grant from the California Energy Commission and a group of utility-scale solar energy companies to evaluate the possibility that avian collisions with solar panels in desert solar facilities are due to their production of polarized light pollution, making solar panel farms appear like desert lakes. Research began in October 2018 and three field-based experiments are currently being conducted on the Bard campus in the surrounding counties.  In spring 2019, Robertson served as a discussion panelist at the art exhibition of artist Krista Schyler's exhibit, Borderlands, Wildlife, People and the Wall, a photo exhibit. He was invited to give a lecture, “When good animals make bad decisions: Evolutionary traps for humans across contexts and scales,” to the University of Michigan Department of Psychology, and published a research paper, “Color polarization vision mediates the strength of an evolutionary trap,” in the journal Evolutionary Applications.

Theophrastus’ Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior by James Romm, was published in October 2018 by Callaway Press. His translations from Seneca's essay "On Anger" were published as "How to Keep Your Cool" in Princeton's Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, in February 2019. In May 2019, he spoke about the book, and the Stoic view of anger, in the Smithsonian Associates lecture series in Washington, D.C.

Alvin Lucier, "Ricochet Lady,” recorded, mixed, and mastered by Matt Sargent, was released in January 2019, and reviewed by Wire Magazinein their February 2019 issue.  Sargent premiered "Fourth Illumination" for piano, percussion and electronics at White Box Contemporary Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, in May 2019, commissioned and performed by Bent Duo (Bill Solomon and David Friend. 

Performances during the fall 2018 semester by Erica Switzer include: Jussi Björling Society's "Jussi Björling Festival" in Strömsbruk, Sweden; Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago's "Collaborative Works Festival"; Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project's 2018/19 season in Princeton, NJ;faculty and guest concerts at the University of Connecticut and Vassar College; Stanford University's Stanford Live; and Hudson Hall, works by Brahms, Strauss, Marx, Loeffler, and Bridge with the Blithewood Ensemble. In January 2019, Switzer produced and presented four events at the Sparks & Wiry Cries songSLAM Festival in NYC: the songSLAM competition for art song; a celebration of the song-settings of Mark Campbell's lyrics; Stephanie Blythe and young artists from the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar; and #MeToo: Pathways to Healing through Song. In March 2019, she led masterclasses for young Lied-duos at the University of Ljubljana Academy of Music and presented a concert of American Art Song at the Slovenian Philharmonic, and in April 2019, she gave a performance of songs by NYC composer Daniel Felsenfeld for the Brooklyn Art Song Society.

In March 2019, Pavlina Tcherneva’s work was cited in “Green New Deal critics can’t see the forest for the trees,” by Kyle Tienhaara for The Conversation, andher op-ed piece “MMT Is Already Helping,” appeared in Jacobin. During spring 2019, she gave various lectures on the Job Guarantee and the Green New Deal at Cornell Law School, Skidmore College, New York University, Yale University and Harvard University. In April 2019, her article “The Costs of Universal Basic Income are Not Financial. They Are Real,” was published in Easter Economics Journal, 45(2), 327-330, and she was interviewed by World Financeabout Modern Monetary Theory. 

In May 2019, Drew Thompson received a 2019-2020 FilmCraft Grant to support his film series as part of his Creative Process in Dialogue Speaker Series, which will include a master class hosted by Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and Bradford Young, followed by a public dialogue featuring the filmmakers. 

Recent publications by Olga Touloumi include: “Sound Modernities: Histories of Media and Modern Architecture,” co-edited w/Sabine von Fischer, Special Issue Journal of Architecture (September 2018); “Sound in Silence: Design and Listening Cultures in the Woodberry Poetry Room,” Journal of Architecture, Vol. 23, No. 6 (September 2018); “Sound Modernities: Histories of Media and Modern Architecture” w/Sabine von Fischer, Journal of Architecture, Vol. 23, No. 6 (September 2018), and "To Manifest,” Harvard Design Magazine, Vol. 46 (Winter 2018): 182-189. In November 2018, she gave a talk, "Building the Case” in Conversations on International Law and Materiality: International Law and Architecture at Queen Mary University of London.

Éric Trudel's article, "La fiction pour viatique? Écriture et réécriture des marges de Paris chez Philippe Vasset," on contemporary French Writer Philipe Vasset was recently published in The Romanic Review,103. He also co-edited a volume, "Collection grise,” 
devoted to the poetics of the list in 20th and 21st Century French literature, Poétiques de la liste et imaginaire sériel, Montréal: Nota Bene, 2019. 

In August 2018, "A Proper Occupation" by Marina van Zuylen appeared in Work, Body, Leisureed. Marina Otero Verzier and Nick Axel (Berlin: Het Nieuwe Instituut and Katie Cantz Verlag). In October 2018, she presented a paper on the social climber at the 19^thCentury French Studies Conference, “Rehabilitating the Arriviste: Julien and Eugène as models of Transclass,” hosted by Scripps College and the University of California, Riverside, and in November 2018 she was invited to speak at Harvard's Mahindra Center about her new book, The Plenitude of Distraction, with Robin Kelsey and John Plotz.

Japheth Wood was elected for a two-year term as program coordinator for the Special Interest Group on Math Circles for Students and Teachers of the Math Association of America (SIGMAA-MCST). He also presented a talk on "Nim and Jim - Solving Combinatorial Games through Data Collection, Conjecture, and Proof" at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore in January, 2019. He was selected for and participated in the Hudson Valley Cohort 6 of the Good Work Institute fellowship program during the spring 2019 semester. He plans to use the skills, insights and networking gained to further the development of the Bard Math Circle.

In fall 2018, L. Randall Wray’s book Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist(Princeton University Press, 2015) was published in a Ukranian translation, and his book Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability(Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998) was published in a German translation by Lola Books. In March 2019,Macroeconomics by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, and Martin Watts, was published by Red Globe Press, Macmillan International, and Wray’s op-ed piece, “Setting the record straight on GND and Modern Money Theory,” appeared on The Hill.
 

Faculty Highlights 2017-18

Recent publications by Susan Aberth include: “Leonora Carrington’s Animal Kingdom” in Leonora Carrington: Cuentos Mágicos, Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018; “Juanita Guccione, reclaiming a Mystical Artist” in Juanita Guccione: Otherwhere. San Francisco: Weinstein Gallery, 2018; “Harbingers of the New Age: Surrealism, Women and the Occult in the United States” in Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous, edited by Tessel M. Baudin, Victoria Ferentinou and Daniel Zamani. New York: Routledge, 2018. In March 2018, Aberth was keynote speaker at Seeking the Marvellous: Intell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism, an international symposium at Plymouth College of Art in England; and part of the panel discussion on “To whom does Surrealism Belong?” at the Surrealism: From France to the World conference at Princeton University in April 2018.

Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian, by Richard Aldous, was published by W.W. Norton & Company in October 2017.

Franco Baldasso was awarded the A.W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize 2018-19 from the American Academy in Rome. During the spring semester, he was an invited speaker at Stanford University, talk entitled Curzio Malaparte and the Tragic Understanding of Modern History; the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, talk entitled, Alberto Savinio and the Myth of Babel: Multiplicity, Genealogies and Translation in Hermaphrodito, “Savinio Study Days;” and at the University of Banja Luka in Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina), talk entitled, Curzio Malaparte and the Tragic Understanding of Modern History. Recent publications include: “A ciascuno il suo. La ricezione di The Complete Works of Primo Levi nel mondo anglofono,” in Allegoria, 74; “Curzio Malaparte and the Tragic Understanding of Modern History,” in Annali d’Italianistica, 35; and “Rinnovamento culturale e il peso del passato. ‘Lacerba’ e il Futurismo,” in Sistema periodico. Il secolo interminabile delle riviste, ed. by Francesco Bortolotto, Eleonora Fuochi, Davide Antonio Paone and Federica Parodi (Bologna: Pendragon, 2018).

Along with former Bard students Yan Chu '14, Gavin Myers '14, Min Kyung Shinn '14,  Matthew Dalrymple '16, and Henry (Clark) Travaglini '16, Paul Cadden-Zimansky published an experimental physics paper on the "Formation of the n = 0 Landau level in hybrid graphene" in IOP's Journal of Physics Communication (volume 2, number 5).  Cadden-Zimansky gave a talk on this work at the annual American Physical Society March Meeting in Los Angeles this spring, where current student Ethan Richman '20 also gave a talk on "Graphene microstructure fabrication by femtosecond laser ablation" based on research conducted with Mac Selesnick '19 and Yu-Tien (James) Chou '20 in the labs of Cadden-Zimansky and Christopher LaFratta.

In April 2018, Mary Caponegro was invited interlocutor for a Lannan Foundation seminar at Georgetown University, and she read at Brown University's literary festival in honor of Robert Coover. In May 2018, an international anthology of critical essays on her work, The Exquisite Interruption: essays, notes and fragments on the lyrical prose of Mary Caponegro (La Squisita Interruzione: saggi, note e appunti sulla prosa lirica di Mary Caponnegro), was published by Campanotto Editore.

In March 2018, Nicole Caso gave a talk as part of the Archives, Institutions, and Imaginaries: Human Rights & Literature conference at New York University, and “’Walking the Path of Letters:’ Negotiating Assimilation and Difference in Contemporary Mayan Literature,” by Caso was in CHASQUI: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 47.1.

Omar Cheta’s article "The Economy by Other Means: The Historiography of Capitalism in the Modern Middle East" was published in the journal History Compass, volume 16. 

“Re-engineering the Bible: Samson, Delilah, and the Grateful Dead,” by Bruce Chilton was published in Pop Culture and Theology in November 2017. He was invited as the inaugural lecturer for the Fox Institute in Boulder, focusing on Mary Magdalene. A biography (New York: Doubleday, 2005). His publications this year include: Intolerance. Political Animals and Their Prey: Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point (edited with Robert E. Tully; Lanham: Hamilton, 2017); the electronic resource “James, the brother of Jesus,” Oxford Bibliographies (2017); “El judaismo a través de la experiencia de Jesús,” Arquerología & Historia. El Jesús historico (2018) 30-38; and “Implications and Prospects of Jewish Jesus Research,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 2018) 62-79. In addition, an interview formed the basis of “Religion und Spiritualität in der Pyschotherapie: Rabbi Jesus” Verband Psychologischer Psychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeutenen aktuell 39 (December 2017, written by Udo Boessman) 38-39, and the Episcopal Church brought out a video of his lecture, “The Death of Jesus and Jesus’ Jewish Identity,” Preaching the Just Word. New Perspectives on the Lections of Holy Week (New York; Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations in the Episcopal Church, 2018). A new translation of the lectionary has also begun to appear (as of January 2018) on line, Readings from the Roots.

Christian Crouch was a 2017-2018 Non-Resident Fellow at W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African-American Research at Harvard University. Recent publications include: "Surveying the Present, Projecting the Future: Reevaluating Colonial French Plans of Kanesatake," The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 75, No. 2, and "Between Lines: Language, Intimacy, and Voyeurism during Global War," in Thomas Truxes, ed., Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War: Reflections on the Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757, (Routledge, 2017). Recent presentations include: Mahicanituck: a Native Valley - Past and Present," talk and Q&A given to the 2017-2018 Class of Fellows of the Good Works Institute, Won Dharma Retreat and Conference Center; "The French Revolution in Indian Country," Invited Workshop Presentation for The French Revolution: A Moment of Respatialization (Research Group SFB 1199-Processes of Spatialization Under the Global Condition), Leipzig University; "Prince in Prints: Alamayu Tewodros 'Capture' in the British Empire," (Panel organizer and presenter), African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL; "Proximities of Dissent: Native American and Indigenous Protest Across Time and Space," Roundtable Panelist, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL; "African Slave Trade in the Americas - A Universal Legacy" UN News: UN & Africa Podcast Interview (with CARICOM Ambassador Missouri Sherman-Peter), United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY; and "Putting Faces and Names to Freedom Struggles" Invited Expert Speaker, 2018 International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 10th Annual Student Videoconference, General Assembly Hall, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.

In September 2017, Lauren Curtis' monograph, Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry was published by Cambridge University Press. She also published two articles on music in Roman poetry: “Becoming the Lyre: Arion and Roman Elegy” (Arethusa 50: 283-310) and “War Music: Soundscape and Song in Virgil, Aeneid 9” (Vergilius 63: 3-26). April through May 2018, Curtis was awarded a fellowship at the Fondation Hardt Pour L'Etude de l'Antiquité Classique, in Geneva, in order to begin work on her next research project, a commentary on the exile poetry of the Roman writer Ovid. 

Recent publications by Richard Davis include: “Henry David Thoreau, Yogi,” in Common Knowledge 24.1; “Images and Temples,” in Hindu Law: A New History of Dharmasastra, edited by Patrick Olivelle and Donald R. David, Jr. (Oxford University Press); and “New Lives for Returned Images: The Family of Icons from Sripuranthan,” in Marg 69.3. He gave two invited lectures recently as well, “Fear, Loathing, and Miracles among the Cowherds: Krishna’s Childhood Prodigies,” at The Comparison Project at Drake University in Des Moines, IA, and “Spiritual Dictionary of Conduct: Gandhi Reads the Gita,” at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ.

Tim Davis’ essay on Stephen Shore, “Pop Artist” was published in Photograph Magazine (November/December 2017 feature). Davis’ videos were shown in "Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit in September 2017, and at “Them: Photographers/Musicians” at the Transformer Station in Cleveland. He also premiered “Curtain Calls,” a video and photography project about amateur theater on Topic.com’s reimagining of the WPA.

In March 2018, Adhaar Noor Desai delivered an invited lecture, “‘Who’s There’? Hamlet and the Sticky Politics of Identity,” at BHSEC Manhattan in March 2018, and presented a paper, “So long lives this and this gives life to thee: Imperfection and the Living Poem” at the Shakespeare Association of America conference in Los Angeles, CA.  He was also awarded three fellowships: a one-month position in the Andrew W. Mellon Summer Institute on English Paleography at the Folger Shakespeare Library, a three-month fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library as a Myra & Charlton Hinman fellow, and a three-month fellowship at the Huntington Library as a Fletcher Jones Foundation fellow.

Michèle Dominy was guest editor, with Victoria Stead, of a Special Journal Issue of Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, entitled "Moral Horizons of Land and Place,” volume 28, number 1. The issue also included an article she co-authored “Introduction: Moral Horizons of Land and Place,” as well as her article “Postcolonial Settler Ecologies and Native Species Regeneration on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand.” “Reflexivity,” was published in The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (edited by Hilary Callan), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Oxford), and her book review of Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World, edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober (London: Pluto. 2016), was published in American Ethnologist 44.

Ellen Driscoll received The 2018 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Educator Award. This award is presented to “individuals who have effectively and passionately communicated the knowledge and personal experience gained through the creation of their own work to countless number of students throughout their career. Candidates for this award are masters of sculptural processes and techniques who have devoted their careers to the education of the next generation and to the advancement of the sculpture field as a whole.”

Recent publications by Omar Encarnación include: “Why Catalan Independence Won’t Happen Anytime Soon,” in Foreign Affairs, September 2017; "The Ghosts of Franco Still Haunt Catalonia," in Foreign Policy, October 2017; “The Catalan Independence Shifting Fortunes,” in Foreign Affairs, October 2017; “The Catalan Martyr and the Spanish Strongman,” The New York Times, October 2017; “Catalonia’s Push for Independence Stokes Divisions Across Spain, and Among the Catalans,” in World Politics Review, October 2017; “Peculiar but Not-Unique: Spain’s Politics of Forgetting,” in Aportes, volume 32, number 94; "Catalonia's Martyrdom Strategy Doesn't Stand A Prayer," in Foreign Policy, November 2017; “Trump and the Retreat from Human Rights,” in Current History, November 2017; "Homage to Catalonia?" in The New York Review of Books, November 2017; “Why Spanish Nationalism is on the Rise," in Foreign Affairs, February 2018; “A Latin American Puzzle” Gay Rights Landscapes in Argentina and Brazil,” in Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 4 (1); “The Trumpification of the Latin American Right,” in Foreign Policy, April 2018; and “The Ebb and Flow of Latin America’s Pink Tide,” in The Nation, May 2018. He was also invited to testify at the State Department on the current political situation in Spain, and traveled to Madrid for a presentation, at the Transition Foundation, of an essay published in Spanish based on his 2014 book Democracy without Justice in Spain.

Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror, by Helen Epstein, was published in September 2017 by Columbia Global Reports. Other recent publications include: “The South Sudan War: What needs to be done,” in The Monitor, and “America’s Secret Role in the Rwanda Genocide,” in The Guardian; “The secret meeting where the idea of American as a global power was born,” in LitHub; “What America gets for its dollars – and its culpability – in Africa,” in The Los Angeles Times; “Violence begets violence in Somalia,” in The Atlantic Online; “Who’s cheating Kenyan voters?” in The New York Review Daily; “Congo for the Congonese,” in The New York Review Daily; and “Why British conservatives are salivating over the Oxfam scandal,” in The Nation Online.

Miriam Felton-Dansky’s interview with playwright Julia Jarcho, "Vigorous Pessimism and the Reproductive Future," was published in the interdisciplinary journal ASAP/J in April 2018; she co-edited (with Tom Sellar and Jacob Gallagher-Ross) the spring 2018 special issue of Theater magazine, titled "Spectatorship in an Age of Surveillance," which built on the symposium of the same name hosted at Bard's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in September 2016; and her book Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age was published by Northwestern University Press in May 2018.

"Dharma and Natural Law: Max Weber's Comparison of Hindu and (Occidental) Christian Legal Traditions," by Laura Ford, was published in Max Weber Studies, 17:2, Special Issue: Hinduism and Buddhism: Reflections on a Sociological Classic 100 Years On, Part One (2017).

In January 2018, "Fires," a short story by Elizabeth Frank was published in an anthology of new fiction and art, It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art, edited by Jonathan Santlofer, published by Touchstone. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the ACLU.

Recent papers co-authored by Hal Haggard include: "Odd harmonics in exoplanet photometry: weather or artefact?" (other co-authors include Bard students Victoria Chayes ’17 and Max Meynig ’17) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 467, issue 1; "The boundary is mixed" in General Relativity and Gravitation, volume 49; and "Analytic Reflected Lightcurves for Exoplanets” in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. In September 2017, he gave a talk, "Black Hole Fireworks: Quantum-Gravity Effects Outside the Horizon as a Spark for Black to White Hole Tunneling” at Hamilton College, and in November 2017, he was an invited speaker at the conference “The Path Integral for Gravity” at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo Canada. Haggard also co-directed a team of Masters students at the Perimeter Institute Winter School in the research project, “Minkowski’s Theorem for Constant Curvature Geometries.”

In April 2018, Cole Heinowitz moderated and presented a paper at the panel “Infrarealism and Alternative Community” for the annual New Orleans Poetry Festival. In March 2018, she gave an invited lecture, “Rupture, Poiesis, and Community in the Work of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro,” at the University of Madison, Wisconsin. She read from her most recent poetry manuscript at the Zinc Bar Sunday Reading Series (NYC) and the Lunar Chandelier Salon Series (Chicago) in March 2018 and October 2017, respectively. Her essay, “One-Single-Thing: Infrarealism and the Art of Everyday Life,” appeared in The Chicago Review 61.1, and selections from her forthcoming translated volume, A Tradition of Rupture: Critical Writings of Alejandra Pizarnik, were published in Seedings 4.

In January 2018, Brooke Jude co-authored three papers in Genome Announcements, “Draft Genome Sequences of Phenotypically Distinct Janthinobacterium sp. Isolates Cultured from the Hudson Valley Watershed;” “Draft Genome Sequence of a Red-Pigmented Janthinobacterium sp. Native to the Hudson Valley Watershed;” and “Draft Genome Sequence of a Violacein-Producing Iodobacter sp. From the Hudson Valley Watershed.” Among the co-authors were Gabriel Perron and Bard students Kelsey O'Brien '17, Alexandra Bettina '10 and Georgia Doing '15.

Patricia Karetzky curated the exhibition Infinite Compassion: Avalokiteshvara in Asian Art at the Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, there through June 2018, and I Have No Enemies and No Hatred: Contemporary Chinese Dissident Art, at John Jay College from September through November 2017. She has had two articles published recently, “The Formation of a Daoist Pictorial Iconography in the Tang,” in the Journal of Daoist Studies, volume 10; and “Amazing Grace: Contemporary Chinese Christian Art,” in Yishu, Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art volume 16, number 1. She also gave a talk for the XVIIIth Congress of International Association of Buddhist Studies.

In April 2018, The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive, edited by Marina Kostalevsky was published by Yale University Press.

Christopher LaFratta, along with Bard undergraduate students Miles P. Lim, Xiaofei Guo, Eva L. Grunblatt, Garrett M. Clifton, Ayda N. Gonzalez, co-authored the paper "Augmenting mask-based lithography with direct laser writing to increase resolution and speed," which was published in Optics Express (volume 2, issue 6).

In April 2018, Gideon Lester gave lectures at Harvard, “The House is Open: Experiments in Performance Curating,” and the University of Vermont, “Making Theater in the Academy: New Approaches and Visions.”

"Douce 228, Richard Coeur de Lion, and The King of Tars" by Marisa Libbon was published in Notes and Queries, volume 65.

A solo exhibition by Medrie MacPhee was at the Barbara Edwards Contemporary in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from October 6 through November 25, 2017. 

Tanya Marcuse’s solo exhibition, Woven, was at the Julie Saul Gallery in New York City, September through November 2017. She was commissioned to create a site-specific installation composed of two of her Woven pieces for the Albany Airport observatory, on display March 2018 through March 2019.  Her work is featured in Natural Proclivities, at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, now through July 27, 2018.  She was also a finalist for the Rome Prize and selected as the alternate for the visual arts.

Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration, by Allison McKim, was published in July 2017 by Rutgers University Press.

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, by Daniel Mendelsohn, was published by Knopf in September 2017.  The book won the Prix Méditerranée (France), was shortlisted for the Bailey-Gifford Prize, and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Newsday, the Christian Science Monitor, and Library Journal.  In February 2018, Mendelsohn received the James Madison Medal from Princeton University, awarded annually to an alumnus/a/um of the Princeton Graduate School "who has had a distinguished career, advanced the cause of graduate education or achieved a record of outstanding public service.”

Publications by Bradford Morrow in October 2017 included: his novel, The Prague Sonata (Grove Atlantic); “What Once Was Lost: Unfinding and Refinding Music History,” in The Paris Review online; “The Gentle Art of Notebooking,” in Literary Hub; and “The Dark Side of Beautiful Music,” Electric Literature. Translations of Morrow’s earlier novel, The Forgers, came out in Portuguese (Os Falsários, Lisbon, Clube do Autor), French (Duel de faussaires, Paris, Éditions du Seuil), and Spanish (Los Falsificadores, Madrid, Ediciones Siruela).

In February 2018, "The Challenge of Psychology in the Development of Cohen’s System of Philosophy and the Marburg School Project,” by Gregory Moynahan, was published in Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen/Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen, edited by Christian Damböck (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis 28 Vienna: Springer International Publishing).

Matthew Mutter’s essay, "Nathanael West, Secularism, and the Uses of Comedy" was published in the Arizona Quarterly, volume 73, number 4.

Isabelle O’Connell was named 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. She spent time there for research in January, then in March gave a recital focused on contemporary works for piano and electronics. She also gave recitals in Ireland, at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin and the Finding a Voice Festival where she gave the first Irish performance of Joan Tower’s work Ivory and Ebony. In April 2018, she gave a solo recital at the MATA Festival in New York, and in May 2018, she gave a solo recital at Issue Project Room. She performed with the Grand Band piano sextet (also featuring Blair McMillen) in St. Paul, Minnesota for the Liquid Music Festival in May 2018. 

America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census by Joel Perlmann was published by Harvard University Press in March 2018. 

In August 2017, Felipe Rezende discussed the government’s proposal for the approval of Provisional Presidential Decree No. 777/2017 with his testimony, “The creation of the Long-Term Rate (TLP),” at hearings of the Joint Commission of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Brazilian Congress in Brazil.

James Romm’s collection of translations from Seneca's prose works was published in March 2018 by Princeton University Press, under the title "How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life."  The volume was reviewed by Brendan Boyle in The Wall Street Journal in April 2018.  He also served as annotator and consulting editor, along with Jay Elliott, on the volume Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: by Diogenes Laertius published in May 2018 by Oxford University Press.

Since 2017, John Ryle has been lead researcher on the Rift Valley Institute South Sudan Customary Authorities Project, a long-term research and public information project, funded by the Swiss Government. He also directed three oral history training events, in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and in Entebbe, Uganda. At a researchers’ meeting in Kampala, Uganda, in March 2018, Ryle presented his research into intercommunal conflict in Eastern Lakes State, South Sudan. During the Spring semester 2018, he served as George Soros Chair in the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

“The Commonwealth Cavalier” by Jane Smith was published in Studies in Philology, (volume 114, number 3).

Robyn Smyth is a co-PI on a grant recently funded by the National Science Foundation's Long-term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program to study the effects of climate change on lakes, entitled “LTREB: Will increases in dissolved organic matter accelerate a shift in trophic status through anoxia-driven positive feedbacks in an oligotrophic lake?” that will be led by RPI. This project will provide research experiences to Bard undergraduates over the next 5 years.  She is also a co-author on a paper related to this research project that was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, May 2018.

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins wrote and co-edited “Waste Underground,” a fifteen-minute film about land filling in the West Bank (videography by Ali Al-Deek). It was presented at the Shifting Ground Symposium at the Sharjah Biennial 13 at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah in August 2017.

Karen Sullivan gave a talk on “The Rumor of Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Infidelity in Antioch: Truth, Allegation, Fiction,” at the Medieval French Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association Convention in January 2018. In March 2018, she gave talks on “The Truth of Falsehood: History, Romance, and Eleanor of Aquitaine,” at the Medieval Academy of America Meeting and “The Fictionality of History, the Historicity of Fiction: Tales of Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Adventures on the Second Crusade,” at the Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University; and her book The Danger of Romance: Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions was published by the University of Chicago Press.

Julianne Swartz exhibited Sine Body at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, September 2017 through February 2018. She participated in a Sound Art symposium at Dartmouth College in September 2017, and her installation Transfer (Objects) was included in the Resonant Spaces exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, September through December 2017. Void Weaves, Bone Scores a solo exhibition of sculptures took place at Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, November 2017 through January 2018.

In November 2017, Pavlina Tcherneva was on KPFK public radio on Background Briefing, discussing President Trump’s tax bill reform and Jerome Powell’s appointment to the Federal Reserve. In April 2018, Tcherneva and L. Randall Wray spoke with Jeff Stein of The Washington Post for his article, “These economists say a $1 trillion deficit is just a good start,” she was among the top 10% of authors on SSRN (Social Science Research Network) by all-time downloads - SSRN´s eLibrary provides 777,976 research papers from 360,949 researchers across 30 disciplines, and in May 2018, she was interviewed on Bloomberg for “Calculating the Cost of a Jobs Guarantee.”

In September 2017, “Counterplanning from the Classroom,” by Olga Touloumi (as member of the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative), was published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume 76, number 3, and her book chapter, “Contentious Electronics/Radical Blips” was published in Architecture is All Over (eds. Marrikka Trotter and Esther Choi, New York: Columbia University Press). In October 2017, she participated in a panel at the “Computational Design: Practices, Histories, Infrastructures,” symposium at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh; in December 2017, she organized the panel “Making / Writing / Teaching Contested Histories,” for the Chicago Architecture Biennial: Make New History, in Chicago, and in April 2018, she organized the panel, “FAAC Your Syllabus,” for Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American architecture since 1968, at the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. In January 2018, Touloumi gave an invited lecture, "Landscapes of Justice: World Order and Media in the Nuremberg Trials, c. 1945," at the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum), in Frankfurt, Germany, and in April 2018, she gave she presented her paper "Building the Case, c. 1946” for the Association for Art History meeting in London. She also received a 2018 Teacher-to-Teacher Workshop Grant from the Global Architectural History Teaching Initiative, MIT, for the workshop FAAC Your Syllabus!

"A lovely and accessible treatment of questions about infinity" co-authored by Japheth Wood, was published in the Spring 2018 MTCircular Magazine.

Faculty Highlights 2016-17

“The Crock of Gold,” by Susan Aberth was included in the Leonora Carrington/Lucy Skaer exhibition at Leeds College of Art, July 15 through September 2, 2016 and in the Leonara Carrington–The Viktor Wynd Collection at The Viktor Wynd Museum, September through January 2017. "Ingestion and Descent: The Chthonic Realms of Leonora Carrington," by Aberth was published in Black Mirror 1: embodiment by Fulger Limited, Somerset, UK in October 2016. In January 2017, “An Allergy to Collaboration: The Early Formation of Leonora Carrington’s Artistic Vision,” by Aberth appeared in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra and published by Manchester University Press.

In spring 2017, James Bagwell prepared The Concert Chorale of New York for the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Messiah in December 2016; prepared The Concert Chorale of New York for The Budapest Festival Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in February 6, 2017; conducted the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the Brahms Requiem at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center in March 8, 2017; prepared The Tanglewood Festival Chorus for the Boston Symphony’s performance of Mozart’s Requiem at Boston Symphony Hall in April 2017; and prepared The Bard Festival Chorale for The American Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Elgar’s The Apostles in May 2017 at Carnegie Hall, Leon Botstein, conducting.

In February 2017, Franco Baldasso presented his paper, “Curzio Malaparte,” at the I mediatori della letteratura tedesca in Italia Conference at La Sapienza University in Rome; in March 2017, he gave a lecture to the Italian Studies Department at Rutgers University entitled, “Against Redemption: Literary Dissent during the Transition from Fascism to Democracy in Italy," and in April 2017, he was an invited speaker at a book presentation for "The Works of Elena Ferrante: reconfiguring the Margins - Separating Fad from Substance,” (edited by Grace Russo Ballaro and Stephanie V. Love., published by Palgrave Macmillian) at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, New York University. Baldasso was awarded a CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art) summer residency fellowship in collaboration with Civitella Ranieri (Umbria), to work on his book project, “Against Redemption: The Early Postwar Debate over the Transition from Fascism to Democracy in Italy.”

Works by Laura Battle are included in two shows this summer: “Between I and thou,” at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY and “Ritual of Construction” at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock, NY.

Roger Berkowitz was featured in the article “Trump could destroy public discourse and lead to someone worse, according to Hannah Arendt’s philosophy” for DW in December 2016. His recent publications include: “The Romance of the Self: Marilynne Robinson’s Existential Humanism,” co-authored with Anna Hadfield in A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson, edited by Shannon Mariotti and Joseph Lane, published by University of Kentucky Press in October 2016; Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch, edited by Berkowitz and Ian Storey, published by Oxford University Press, February 2017, “Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation: Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt’s Politics,” in Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch; and “Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting the Origins of Totalitarianism,” in the Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2017. 

Alexander Bonus’ most recent scholarly publication “Refashioning Rhythm: Hearing, Acting and Reacting to Metronomic Sound in the Experimental Sciences and Beyond, c.1875-1920,” appears as the fourth chapter in a new sound-studies collection entitled Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918, edited by Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson (London: Routledge, 2017).

In December 2016, “The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama,” by Leon Botstein was published by TIME; he was interviewed by The Washington Post for “Bard president draws parallels between European anti-Semitism and American racism to explain Trump’s win,” and he signed an open letter to the Trump administration calling for action on Climate Change. In January 2017, Botstein directed The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at the Metropolitan Museum, “Sight and Sound: Brahms, Menzel, and Klinger.” The performance was featured in The New Yorker article “The Visual Artists Who Inspired Brahms.” In February 2017, “American Universities Must Take a Stand,” by Botstein appeared in The New York Times. In March 2017, he was a keynote speaker at the 2017 “Future of the Humanities” symposium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Botstein, along with other Bard faculty and alumna, joined other leading thinkers for a series of conversations: “Shades of Red and Blue: Uniting Our Divided Nation. Beyond Partisan Politics: A Civilized Forum for Debate,” on April 1, 2017 at the New York Public Library.  “Hungary’s xenophobic attack on Central European University is a threat to freedom everywhere,” co-authored by Botstein, appeared in The Washington Post in April 2017.

Jonathan Brent successfully negotiated with the Lithuanian government to undertake an international project to preserve, digitize, and disseminate 1.1 million documents and about 12,000 rare books from The YIVO Institute’s pre-WW II collection that was ransacked by the Nazis. He raised the funds for this project from private, public and government sources. “The Order of Lenin: ‘Find Some Truly Hard People’,” by Brent, was published by The New York Times in May 2017. 

In July 2016, work by Ken Buhler was included in “Mapping Spaces: Carte Blanche, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles,” at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY.

“Themes of 2016: across continents, autocrats take control,” by Ian Buruma, appeared in The Guardian in December 2016, and in January 2017 he was interviewed on National Public Radio. Recent articles by Buruma include: “How the Dutch Stopped Being Decent and Dull,” in The New York Times in March 2017, and “Winging it in the White House: Trump and foreign policy,” in The Globe and Mail in April 2017.
 
In November 2016, Paul Cadden-Zimansky was elected to chair the American Physical Society's (APS) Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) beginning in 2018.  The APS is the largest professional organization of physicists in the world and its 3,500-member FHP is the largest body dedicated to preserving and disseminating the history of physics.
 
“Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate, and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity” by Bruce Chilton was published in Bridging between Sister Religions. Studies of Jewish and Christian Scriptures Offered in Honor of Professor John T. Townsend: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 51 (ed. Isaac Kalmi; Leiden: Brill, 2016) 262-283. In 2017, the Biblical Archaeology Review published his essay, “Miracles in the Gospels,” as well as his obituary of Jacob Neusner. “Active Prayer in Judaism, and Jesus’ Practice” appeared in The Episcopal New Yorker. Chilton completed his series of lectures on the Herodian dynasty this spring for the Institute of Advanced Theology, as well as a series on “The Politics of Paul and Mary Magdalene” at the Reformed Church in Rhinebeck, and delivered a lecture entitled “The Death of Jesus and Jesus' Jewish Identity” for the Diocese of New York at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in Manhattan. At the invitation of Oxford University Press, he has finalized his entry for Oxford Bibliographies (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com) on James, the brother of Jesus. In April 2017, Chilton convened a conference with the United States Military Academy at West Point, entitled “Equality –more or less.” The interdisciplinary project met at Blithewood Manor at Bard and included scholars across a range of expertise as well as cadets and students.
 
“Periodic Solution,” a dance film created by Jean Churchill and Peter Richards, which featured Bard alumni Arthur Aviles 87’, was at BAAD in New York City in October 2016.
 
“The Superhero Photographs of the Black Lives Matter Movement,” by Teju Cole, was published in The New York Times Magazine in July 2016.  His book, Known and Strange Things, was published in August 2016 by Random House Trade Paperbacks, and reviewed by Kirkus.

In March 2017, Cathy Collins was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study “how landscape fragmentation interferes with plant-pathogen interactions that maintain local plant diversity.” She also co-authored two articles in volume 40, issue 1 of Ecography: “Fragmentation affects plant community composition over time,” and “Sacred natural sites as mensurative fragmentation experiments in long‐inhabited multifunctional landscapes.”

Ben Coonley's 3D 360-degree video, "Trading Futures," was at the Whitney Museum of American Art in October 2016 as part of the Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 exhibit.

In November 2016, Lauren Curtis spoke at the University of Pennsylvania Classical Studies Colloquium about “Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry.”

In March 2017, Matthew Deady gave the Harrington STEM Lecture at SUNY-New Paltz entitled “The Higgs Boson: What, How, and Why We Care.”
 
Michèle Dominy’s review of At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging, by Catie Gressier was published in The Australian Journal of Anthropology in April 2016, and a review of The Naturalist and his ‘Beautiful Islands’: Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific, by David Russell Lawrence appeared in Pacific Affairs 89(3): 737-739. The entry, “Reflexivity,” was published in the first edition of Wiley-Blackwell’s International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology: Anthropology Beyond Text, edited by Hilary Callan.
 
Daniella Dooling’s work was included in the “2017 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City.  One of her sculptures was selected by the Academy for a Sculpture Purchase Prize and is included in the “Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards,” also at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Beka Goedde, Hap Tivey and alumna Marissa Bluestone ’01 were among the 35 contemporary artists whose work was also included in the invitational.
 
New projects by Ellen Driscoll include: “Thicket: New Work 2014-2016,” a catalogue of drawings and sculptures by Driscoll (with essays by Mark Alice Durant and Tom Sleigh); “Bower” an installation by Driscoll and Joyce Hwang with Matt Hume for ArtPark, commissioned by Mary Miss’s City as Living Laboratory; “CartOURgraphy,” a mosaic by Driscoll, a commission by Public Art for Public Schools for the Middle College High School and the International High School in Long Island, and an installation by Driscoll was on exhibit at Venti Trasversali in Italy from November 2016 through January 2017.
 
"Culturable bioaerosols along an urban waterfront are primarily associated with coarse particles" by Eli Dueker was published in PeerJ in December 2016. Recently published papers co-authored by Dueker include: “Culturable bioaerosols along an urban waterfront are primarily associated with coarse particles,” in PeerJ, volume 4; and “Challenges to Managing Microbial Fecal Pollution in Coastal Environments: Extra-Enteric Ecology and Microbial Exchange Among Water, Sediment, and Air,” in Current Pollution Reports, volume 3, issue 1.

"Reply to Müller: Aristotle on Vicious Choice," by Jay Elliott, was published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy vol. 24, and "Anscombe on Practical Truth," was published in Klesis vol. 35. Elliott also presented his paper, "Aristotle on the Voluntariness of Vice," at the annual meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at Fordham University in October 2016. Character, by Elliott, was published by Bloomsbury Press in April 2017.

“Colombia’s Failed Peace: Why It Failed, and What Comes Next,” by Omar Encarnación, was published by Foreign Affairs in October 2016. His book, Out in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution, (Oxford University Press, 2016) was named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in the field of LGBT studies.  His latest essay, "The Patriarchy's Revenge: How Retro-macho Politics Doomed Dilma Rousseff," an examination of the role of sexism and misogyny in the impeachment trial of Brazil's first female president, appears in the spring issue of World Policy Journal.  In April 2017, he began a three-year appointment to the APSA Council, the governing board of the American Political Science Association.  
 
In November 2016, The Population Council awarded Helen Epstein The Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Prize for excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences.
 
Gideon Eshel discussed his research and the environmental impact of beef in Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate change documentary, “Before the Flood,” which premiered on National Geographic in October 2016.

"A Multilingual Workshop in Poetry and Prose Translation" by Peter Filkins appeared in Teaching Translation: Programs, Courses, Pedagogies, edited by Lawrence Venuti and published by Routledge in August 2016. In November 2016, three of his poems, "To the Eminent Hate Mongers," "Seven Almonds," and "Mr. Khan" were featured on the online version of The Common. Filkins published a review of Simon Armitage's new verse version of the 14th-century Middle English poem Pearl in the April 2017 issue of The New Criterion.

In January 2017, Larry Fink was interviewed by TIME magazine, and “The Faces of the Women’s March on Washington,” a slideshow of photographs by Fink appeared on Vanity Fair online. “Fink on Warhol: New York Photographs of the 1960’s,” with photographs by Fink was published in April 2017 by Damiani; a review of the book appeared in The Eye of Photography in March 2017.
 
"Intellectual property and industrialization: legalizing hope in economic growth," by Laura Ford, was published in Theory & Society, volume 46 (May 2017).
 
In October 2016, Karen Gunderson: The Dark World of Light by Elizabeth Frank, was published by Abbeville Press.
 
Charles Ives's Concord: Essays after a Sonata, by Kyle Gann, was published by the University of Illinois Press in May 2017.
 
In December 2016, Christopher Gibbs gave two lectures at Smolny College in St. Petersburg, and gave pre-concert lectures for the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Takács String Quartet as part of the “Great Performers” series at Lincoln Center in New York City. In March 2017, he taught an intensive master course on Franz Schubert at the Liszt Academy in Budapest in connection with the Hungarian translation of his book, The Life of Schubert. In April 2017, he gave the keynote address, “Curating Concerts: Programming Past, Present, and Future,” for the “Public Musicology International Symposium” of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. 
 
In December 2016, Susan Gillespie presented a paper entitled, "Prescience and Prediction. Walter Benjamin's Media Dialectics and the US-Presidential Election of 2016," at the faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College) conference on "Art and Political Engagement. Walter Benjamin's Thought in the XXI. Century.”
 
“Petra y Carina,” a play by Mar Gómez Glez, premiered at Teatro Luchana in Madrid in March 2017. In April 2017, her play, “Numbers,” premiered in Munich; and she gave two public readings of her plays in New York City: “Reality Cracks,” at Teatro IATI and "El túnel" at Instituto Cervantes.
 
“The History of Eating Disorders,” a chapter by Richard Gordon, was included in Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook, Third Edition, edited by Kelly D. Brownell and B. Timothy Walsh, published by The Guilford Press in March 2017.
 
In May 2017, Ed Halter received the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation award for writing about digital art.
 
Lynn Hawley is currently performing in The Pubic Theater's production of Tony Award winner Richard Nelson's three cycle play, “The Gabriel's Election Year in the Life of One Family,” at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. This play completed an extended run at the Public Theater in New York City in December 2016, and was highlighted in The New York Times “Best Plays of 2016.”

In August 2016, Cole Heinowitz’s translations of Alejandra Pizarnik’s critical writings were published in the online journal, Poems and Poetics. In September 2016, her poem, "Letter to Charles Olson," was published in the collection, Letters for Olson, edited by Benjamin Hollander (Brooklyn NY: Spuyten Duyvil).

In April 2017, Elizabeth Holt delivered the annual Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture in Modern Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago, entitled "Suspicious Readers: Cultural Cold War in the Arabic Press." 
 
In July 2016, Justin Hulbert gave an invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Memory in Budapest, Hungary, as part of a symposium entitled "The Ever-Changing Engram: Towards an Integrated Understanding of Long-Term Memory Dynamics.” 

In October 2016, Tom Hutcheon received the Early Career Psychologist Poster Award at the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching in Atlanta, Georgia, for research which assessed the impact of a technology ban on student’s perceptions of the course and instructor.  In November 2016, he presented a poster entitled “Applying response time distribution analysis to item-level manipulations: Evidence for stimulus-driven control” at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Recent publications by Patricia Karetzky include “Cui Xiuwen,” in Yishu, vol. 15, no. 5; “Contemporary art by Chinese diaspora in a global age,” in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 2, no. 2; and a review of “Material Culture and Asian Religions: Text, Image, and Object,” (edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann. New York: Routledge, 2014) in the Review of Religious and Chinese Society 3. She recently curated “Tang Desheng: Educated Youth: A Fading Living Evidence” at the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists (organized by the Council for European Studies) in Philadelphia, PA, and “Infinite Compassion: Avalokiteshvara” at the Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor from October 2016 through November 2017. In May 2016, Karetzky gave a lecture entitled,“The Formation of a Daoist Pictorial Iconography in the Tang,” at the 10th International Conference on Daoist Studies, Tianan Taiho Retreat, in Taiwan; and in September 2016, she gave a lecture entitled “The Impact of the Curriculum of Chinese Art Schools: Western Influences in Chinese Contemporary Art” at the Central Academia of Fine Arts, in China.

College in Prison: Reading in An Age of Mass Incarceration, by Daniel Karpowitz, was published by Rutgers University Press in January 2017.
 
In April 2017, Erica Kaufman spoke on "Queering and Querying our Classrooms" as part of the Poetry and Poetics series at the University of Pennsylvania, and her "10 Questions for Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers," was published in the collection, What is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know) edited by Anselm Berrigan, published by Wave Books.
 
Felicia Keesing was featured on NPR's Pulse of the Planet about the Tick Project in December 2016 and January 2017. She and her colleagues are testing two new ways of reducing ticks in suburban backyards. Link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jim-metzner/pulse-of-the-planet/e/lyme-disease-tick-project-29dec16-48664585?autoplay=true. In March 2017, her work was the featured topic of a two-part series on National Public Radio, “Surge in Mice Is A Harbinger For Lyme Disease Beyond,” and “Beyond Lyme: New Tick-Borne Diseases On the Rise In U.S.,” and “Is biodiversity bad for your health?” by Richard Ostfeld and Keesing was published in Ecosphere. 
 
James Ketterer was interviewed by the World Policy Journal on United States’ Policy and the Middle East in December 2016. His recent paper presentations include: "Arab Nationalism Revisited" at the Gagarin Trust/Bard College conference on nationalism; "Exchanges as Public Diplomacy: The Case of Egypt" at the 2017 International Studies Association Conference, and "Jazz Diplomacy: America's Image Overseas Versus the Reality at Home," at Transatlantic Dialogue in Luxembourg.
 
Recent publications by David Kettler include: In November 2016, “How Liberal the Arts?  Hanna Deinhard’s Unhappy Interlude at Bard College,” published in Kunst und Gesellschaft zwischen den Kulturen from Munich: Edition Text + Kritik, edited by Irene Below and Burco Dogramaci; “Wissenssoziologie,” (with Volker Meja) in Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Leipzig, from Saxon Academy of Science; “Karl Mannheim in Frankfurt: A Political Education” in »Politisierung der Wissenschaft« Jüdische Wissenschaftler und ihre Gegner an der Universität Frankfurt vor und nach 1933, edited by  Moritz Epple, Johannes, Series: Publications of the Frankfurter Universitätsarchivs (Hg. von Notker Hammerstein und Michael Maaser); vol. 05; and “La Sociologie comme Vocation. Viola Klein et Karl Mannheim,” (with Volker Meja), edited by Eve Gianoncelli and Eleni Verikas, for Viola Klein, Une pionnière, Paris: Cahiers de Genre 61/2016.
 
“A cellular mechanism for inverse effectiveness in multisensory integration,” co-authored by Arseny Khakhalin and Bard student Molly McQuillan ’17 among others, was published in eLife in April 2017.
 
Porochista Khakpour discussed the election’s impact on her art, activism, and supporting Bard students in the November 21, 2016 TIME article “How Artists Are Changing Their Work in Response to Donald Trump’s Victory. Recent articles by Khokpour that appeared on CNN opinion online: “How can I be a refugee twice?” in January 2017, and “Why this Persian New Year is different,” in March 2017.
 
“At Home in the City: Jewish Urban History between the New and Old Worlds,” by Cecile Kuznitz, was published in a special issue of American Jewish History vol. 100, no. 2. In July 2016, she presented a talk, “Vilna–History and the Historical Imperative,” at a Research Colloquium at the Simom-Dubnow-Institut, Leipzig, Germany. In January 2017, she presented talks in Japan at a workshop entitled “Yiddishism and the Creation of the Yiddish Nation.” She also lectured on “Knowledge for the People: YIVO and the Development of the Yiddish Scholarship” at the University of Tokyo, and “The Capital of Yiddishland: Yiddish Culture in Vilna between the Two World Wars,” at Kyoto University.
 
“Two-Photon Polymerization Metrology: Characterization Methods of Mechanisms and Microstructures," co-authored by Christopher LaFratta, was published in Micromachines in March 2017.
 
In February 2017, Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison, by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, was published by The New Press; in April 2017, Legemann was interviewed by Alan Chartock on WAMC about her book as well as the Bard Prison Initiative.
 
Kristin Lane received the 2016 Teaching Resource Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. 
 
“A Poem Is a Human Artifact: Camille Guthrie in Conversation with Ann Lauterbach,” was published in the Boston Review in April 2017. Recent publications by Lauterbach include: “A Poem is a Human Artifact,” in the Boston Review, April 2017, and “On Tears,” in The Topography of Tears by Rose-Lynn Fisher, published by Belleview Literary Press in May 2017.
 
Recent exhibitions including works by An-My Le: “The Shape of Things, Photographs from Robert B. Menschel,” at the Museum of Modern Art, October 2016 through May 2017; “29 Palms,” at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska, February through March 2017; “The Poetics of Life, Contemporary Photographs from the Met Collection,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2016 through May 2017; a solo exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris, April through May 2017; “Silent General,” an excerpt from her newest project is exhibited at the Whitney Biennial now until June 2017, and “Before the Event/After the Fact” will be at the Yale Art Gallery in July 2017.
 
Amii LeGendre was a guest artist at the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival at the Sam Houston University in October 2016. She participated in a panel on Art and Activism and taught a master class for the Sam Houston College of Criminal Justice.
 
Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato, by Rana Saadi Liebert, was published by Cambridge University Press in April 2017.
 
In March 2017, Joseph Luzzi gave a lecture entitled, “From Twain to Toni Morrison: A Literary Journey through America,” as part of the Lowell Lecture Series at the Boston Public Library. Luzzi was awarded a Fall 2017 Wallace Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, Harvard’s Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, to work on his next book project, “Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’: A Biography.”
 
In October 2016, Medrie MacPhee and Shinique Smith both received an Anonymous Was a Women Award for making “significant contributions to their fields, while continuing to exhibit originality and creative potential through ongoing work.”

Norman Manea has been named the winner of the 2016 FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages from the Guadalajara International Book Fair, which takes place November 26–December 4. Professor Manea is the first Romanian author to receive the honor.
 
Fruitless/Fallen/Woven: Recent Acquisitions, an exhibition by Tanya Marcuse, was at the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College from May 20 through September 11, 2016. Recent publications include: “10 Decompositions,” 0_100 Limited Editions, Fall 2016, and “Woven Nº 4” and “Woven Nº 9,” Roman Nvmerals, Vol. XIV and XV. In January 2017, Phantom Bodies, an exhibition by Marcuse, was at the College of St. Rose.

In September 2016, “The Homosexual Lifestyle: Time Use in Same-Sex Households,” co-authored by Michael Martell was published in the Journal of Demographic Economics, 82(4); and “Sexual Identity and the Lesbian Earnings Differential in the U.S.,” co-authored by Martell, was published in the Review of Social Economy advanced online publication. In January 2017, he presented his paper, “Modern Families: Household Bargaining and the Time Use in Same-Sex Households,” at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association in Chicago, and he was filmed giving an interview with the Institute for the New Economic Thinking as part of a series of discussions about New Economic Thinking.

In July 2016, Wyatt Mason’s essay on the pleasures of audiobooks read by their authors appeared in the New York Times Magazine.

“A Coup in Facetime,” by Sean McMeekin, was published by The American Interest in July 2016, and “Russia, Turkey–and the United States?” by McMeekin appeared in The American Interest in December 2016.

Walter Russell Mead’s article, “Trump’s Path to Mount Rushmore,” was published by The American Interest in December 2016, and his article, “America First? No, Says Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,” appeared in The New York Times in May 2017.
 
Recent publications by Daniel Mendeloshn include: “A Father’s Final Odyssey,” published in the April 2017 issue of The New Yorker, and “Robert B. Silvers (1929-2017),” published in the April 2017 issue of The New York Review of Books.
 
Restless Secularism: Modernism and the Religious Inheritance, by Matthew Mutter, was published by Yale University Press in May 2017.
 
The Humorless Ladies of Border Control, by Franz Nicolay, was published by The New Press in August 2016, and it was named a “Best Travel Book” by The New York Times.
 
Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast, a comprehensive biography, was very recently published by NYU Press. The author is Aaron Hughes, Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Rochester.
 
In September 2016, Isabelle O'Connell gave a solo recital at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland as part of the Composing The Island Festival – a 100 year retrospective of musical composition since the founding of the Irish state.  The festival was reviewed in The Irish Times, and O’Connell gave an interview for the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin about the program.

Joseph O’Neill’s short story, “Pardon Edward Snowden,” was published by The New Yorker in December 2016, he also read his story for their podcast, available on thenewyorker.com: http://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-authors-voice/joseph-oneill-reads-pardon-edward-snowden

Fiona Otway’s work as a documentary editor was featured in curated screenings of THE PEARL at the Museum of Modern Art in December 2016.

In November 2016, Dimitri Papadimitriou was appointed as Greece’s minister of economy and development. He was interviewed on Bloomberg on “Bloomberg Markets: European Close” in December 2016.

"'The Dead Man Come to Life Again': Edward Albert and the Strategies of Black Endurance," by Natalie Prizel, was published in Victorian Literature and Culture 45.2.
 
“Six Writers on the Genius of Marcel Proust” on Literary Hub, co-written by Francine Prose and Daniel Mendelsohn along with four others, was published in July 2016; and her article, “Mavis Gallant’s Magic Tricks” appeared in The New Yorker in August 2016. “The Music of Blighted Dreams,” by Prose, was published in The New York Review of Books in September 2016. Her novel, Mister Monkey, was published by Harper Collins, and reviewed by Cathleen Schine of The New York Times in October 2016; she was interviewed about the novel on NPR in November 2016, and in December 2016 “Truth is evaporating before our eyes,” by Prose, appeared in The Guardian.  In January 2017, her article, “Forget protest. Trump’s actions warrant a general national strike,” also appeared in The Guardian.
 
In August 2016, Dina Ramadan published “The Alexandria Biennale and Egypt's Shifting Mediterranean” in A Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development 1880-1945 edited by Adam J. Goldwyn and Renée M. Silverman (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016); in October 2016, she presented a paper entitled "Modernity and Artistic Subjectivity” at the symposium, Tracing an Imperfect Chronology, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and in December 2016, she presented "Translating Art Education: The Beaux Arts between Paris and Cairo" at the French Studies seminar (Beyond France) at Columbia University. In March 2017, Ramadan presented her paper, “Remapping the Mediterranean: Cosmopolitanism, Third Worldism, and the Alexandria Biennale,” at the Art, Institutions, and Internationalism: 1933-1966 conference at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and she was invited to “Writing/Curating the Middle East,” at Yale University, where she spoke about “The Science of Art: Knowledge Production and Artistic Practices in Early 20th Century Egypt.” In April 2017, she gave a talk at Princeton University, “In Defense of a Ministry:  The Ikhwanization of Culture and the Threat to Egyptian Identity.” Her article, “The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back,” was published in Middle East Research and Information Project, 280.
 
In October 2016, Kelly Reichardt’s newest film Certain Women was honored as “Best Film” at the BFI London Film Festival, and she was interviewed for The New York Times Magazine article, “The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns.” In April 2017, she was interviewed by FilmInk.
 
During the summer of 2016, Bruce Robertson visited Yunnan province, China on a Luce/LIASE-funded trip to investigate how environmental problems are solved in the region, and he gave a talk on his new research on the impact of evolutionary traps and light pollution on wildlife at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  Recent co-authored publications by Robertson include: “Polarized light pollution of matte solar panels: anti-reflective photovoltaics reduce polarized light pollution but benefit only some aquatic insects,” in the Journal of Insect Conservation in August 2016, and “Evolutionary traps as keys to understanding behavioral maladapation” in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences in December 2016. He also co-authored the manuscript, “Biomass and biofuel crop effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services in the North Central U.S.,” which was published in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy.
 
In August 2016, Penguin Random Press published The Greek Plays, co-edited by James Romm. The book includes an essay by Daniel Mendelsohn, and was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “The Age of Caesar,” edited by Romm, was published by Norton in January 2017.
 
In March 2017, Justus Rosenberg was awarded the Legion of Honor from the French Government during a ceremony at the French Consulate in New York City.
 
In July 2016, Matthew Sargent was Composer in Residence at the Mid-Missouri Composition Symposium; in August 2016, he presented “Tide” at the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt in Germany, and was Artist in Residence in the iPark International Artist in Residence Program in Brooklyn, NY. In October 2016, he presented a lecture entitled, "Ghost Hunter: Overtone Detection as a Source for Generative Scores," for Dartmouth College’s "Workshop in the Woods" conference on arts and technology, and in November 2016, he lectured on recent compositions for "Applied Microtonalities" graduate music seminar at the California School for the Arts in Valencia, CA.
 
In May 2017, Luc Sante received the first French Heritage Society Award for his book, The Other Paris.
 
Water Colors and Drawings, an exhibition by Joseph Santore, was at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, March 6 through April 12, 2017.
 
In December 2016, Amy Savage and colleagues published research entitled "Transcriptome profiling of Trypanosoma brucei development in the tsetse fly vector Glossina morsitans" in PLoS One.
 
In a collaborative effort with Amy Richmond (Geography, West Point) and Suzanne Pierce (Research Scientist, UT Austin), Gautam Sethi wrote a case study, “Up in the Air: Understanding Vulnerability When Toilets Fly,” on waste management in Uganda through a course offered at the Socio-environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, MD. The case study was judged as one of the two best written in 2014, an award which enabled Sethi to travel Toulouse, France to present his paper entitled, “Modeling Vulnerability: A Fuzzy Approach,” at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software meeting in July 2016. 
 
In May 2016, “Academic Advising for the Liberal Arts and Sciences,” by David Shein was published in Educational Studies Moscow, no. 4, and his paper “Commentary: Daniel Halliday, The Ethics of a Smoking License,” was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, 42.
 
Factory: Andy Warhol by Stephen Shore was published by Phaidon Press in October 2016. The book, which featured never before seen photos of Andy Warhol’s Factory, was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal on September 28, 2016. The first U.S. survey to encompass Shore’s career in photography is at The Museum of Modern Art from November 19, 2017 through May 28, 2018. Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981, was published by aperture in May 2017.
 
In August 2016, Maria Simpson performed "Dwell" with choreographer Sondra Loring at "Built on Stilts," an annual festival on Martha's Vineyard (Oak Bluffs) created by Abby Bender ’95.
 
In December 2016, “Will Campus Criticism of Israel Violate Federal Law?” by Kenneth Stern appeared in The New York Times, and in January 2017, his article “What to do when anti-Semitic bullies come to town,” was printed in the Jewish Journal.

Karen Sullivan was elected to the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Arthurian Forum and to the MLA’s Delegate Assembly.  In January 2017, she gave a talk, “‘A Galeotto was the book and he who wrote it’: Misreadings of Romance, Medieval and Modern,” at Yale.

Julianne Swartz is exhibiting new sculptures in the show, "Explode Everyday, An Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Wonder,” at Mass MoCA in North Adams through April 2017. She also has an architectural sound installation at Mass MoCA, “In Harmonicity, the Tonal Walkway” in The Cage/Cunningham footbridge, which will remain on view indefinitely.

 “Keep Unemployment From Mushrooming With Preventative Policies,” by Pavlina Tcherneva, appeared in The New York Times in July 2016, and in August 2016, she was on RT-TV Boom Bust to discuss growth, labor markets, and her job guarantee proposal. In August 2016, she gave the keynote lecture at the annual meetings of the Canadian Association of Business Economists; in October 2016, she gave a talk at the inaugural international conference of the Central Bank of Ecuador; in November 2016, gave talks at New York University and at the Economists for Peace and Security annual conference in Washington, DC, and in January 2017, she spoke at Columbia University. Tcherneva appeared on The Larry Flanders Show in October 2016, on why and how fiscal policy should incorporate race, gender, class, and in November 2016 she appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss infrastructure plans and job growth. In January 2017, Tcherneva gave several talks before members of parliament in Spain and Italy, presenting her work on the Job Guarantee.  In April 2017, her paper, “Trump’s Bait and Switch: Job Creation in the Midst of Welfare State Sabotage,” was listed on SSRN’s (Social Science Research Network) Top Ten downloaded list for: ERC: Other Political Economy: Government Expenditures & Related Policies (Topic) and PSN: Welfare Capitalism (Topic).  In May 2017, her work was featured in The Nation article, “It’s Time for the Government to Give Everyone a Job,” by David Dayen.
 
In January 2017, Richard Teitelbaum released a CD "Declaration of Musical Independence," with Andrew Cyrille Quartet on ECM Records; in February 2017, he performed as part of the Andrew Cyrille Quartet at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club in New York City; and in March 2017, he performed solo, and with Musica Elettronica Viva group, at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
 
In March 2017, Olga Touloumi was invited to present “Counterplanning from the Classroom” for Parity Talks II at the Eldgenosslsche Technische Hochschule, Institute for History and Theory of Architecture in Zurich.
 
Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz und Gaffron gave a talk, “A Vast Net of Interconnected Diamonds: Buddhist Views of Nature,” at the conference Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Nature and Environment in World Religions, at Nazareth College in May 2016.
 
In July 2016, Suzanne Vromen was invited to give two lectures at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, Hiding and Rescue During the Holocaust and The Politics of Rescue and Remembrance, in a summer course for public school and Catholic school teachers.
 
In October 2016, “Proof Without Words: The Automorphism Group of the Petersen Graph Is Isomorphic S5” by Japheth Wood was published by the Mathematical Association of America in Mathematics Magazine. In January 2017, he presented two reports on the Bard Math Circle at the annual Joint Math Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

“A Sovereign Currency Approach to China’s Policy Options,” co-authored by L. Randall Wray, was published in The Chinese Economy, vol. 49, issue 3, 2016. In August 2016, he was interviewed on an episode of “The Radical Imagination,” by host Jim Vrettos, where he discussed the science of economics and what a U.S. economy would look like under the administration of Stein, Clinton, Trump or Johnson.

Faculty Highlights 2015-16

JoAnne Akalaitis and Jean Wagner collaboratively launched a salon for women in theatre in the East Village of New York City. The salon was the topic of The New Yorker article, “Curtain Call,” by Rebecca Mead in April 2015.

Peggy Ahwesh was represented in summer exhibitions in Los Angeles at Human Resources and Château Shatto. In August 2015, two of her videos were screened in “Human. Machine. Material,” in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her video, “Lessons of War,” was part of the touring program of the Ann Arbor Film Festival that traveled to 15 international venues between August and December 2015.  In September 2015, Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery (MFA, 1993) collaborated on “Two Serious Ladies” at Murray Guy gallery in New York, and Ahwesh’s video works were featured at Untitled Art Fair in Miami Beachand “Corruption: Everybody Knows…” an exhibition at e-flux in New York, in addition to “Projections,” a sidebar of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.  In December 2015, the Ahwesh and Sanborn film, “The Deadman,” screened in the exhibition “Sylvia Bataille” at JOAN in Los Angeles.

In September 2015, “The Education of Henry Kissinger” by Richard Aldous appeared in volume 11, number 3 of The American Interest and his article, “The Makers of American Strategy,” was in The Wall Street Journal.  In December 2015, Aldous interviewed Sean McMeekin for The American Interest for the podcast on the topic of Turkish-Russian relations. In January 2016, Aldous’s review of Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore appeared in the Sunday Book Review section of The New York Times, and in April 2016, his article, “Serving the National Interest,” was published by The Wall Street Journal.

“African American Life,” by Myra Armstead appeared in Saratoga Springs: A Centennial History, edited by Field Horne, published by Kiskatom Publishing in June 2015. Her review of Not Alms but Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910–1950, by Touré F. Reed, was published in the December 2015 issue of The Journal of American History, and she interviewed Professor Rafia Zafar from Washington University for StoryCorps archive with the Library of Congress regarding their 2014-2015 NEH Residency at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Armstead was also interviewed on the same topic for StoryCorps in January 2016.
 
In March 2016, James Bagwell prepared The Concert Chorale of New York for a performance of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic at Lincoln Center; in April 2016, he prepared Bard Festival Chorale for a performance of Delius’s A Mass of Life, with the American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein conducting, at Carnegie Hall; in May 2016, he was conductor for the May Festival Youth Chorus in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in June 2016, he was conductor for the Berkshire Bach Chorus and Orchestra in Great Barrington.
 
In January 2016, “Paying Attention Like Primo Levi: An Interview with Ann Goldstein” by Franco Baldasso appeared on publicbooks.org; he was also an invited speaker on the topic of “Against Redemption: Literary Responses to the Transition from Fascism to Democracy in Italy,” at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. In February 2016, he was an invited speaker for the Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium, “A Mirror for Italy: Intellectuals in Trieste Facing the Collapse of Yugoslavia,” at Columbia University.

In August 2015, “Partition and the Politics of Citizenship in Assam,” by Sanjib Baruah appeared in Partition: The Long Shadow, published by University of Chicago Press and Zubaan Books, New Delhi. He was recently named a Peace Research Institute Oslo Global Fellow for 2016.

“Rise and Fall,” an exhibition by Laura Battle, was at the Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, NY, September 12 through October 17, 2015.  Her exhibition, “Touch the Sky,” was on view at the France Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and was reviewed by The New York Times in June 2016. The exhibition included two drawings by Battle as well as two paintings specifically done for the lobby of the museum, “How long is your past; how far is your future?”

Jonathan Becker served as a guest editor for a special issue of Education Studies/Voprosy obrazovanie, number 4, on liberal arts and science education, produced by the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. As part of the journal, he contributed an article “Liberal Arts and Sciences: Responding to the Challenges of the XXIst Century.”

In March 2016, “T’rough Accident: Utterance and Evolution in Songs of Jamaica” by Alex Benson was published in Small Axe, volume 20.

In November 2015, Leon Botstein received a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and his article “As toxic Washington ed debate rages, public early colleges quietly solve U.S. inequity” appeared in The Hechinger Report. In December 2015, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and Bostein engaged in a discussion on the value of liberal education today, moderated by Sam Tanenhaus, at the CUNY Graduate Center. In January 2016, Omnibus Press published El Sistema: Music for Social Change by Christine Witkowski, which includes a forward by Botstein. In March 2016, he appeared on Good Day New York to discuss the New SAT.
 
“The Murder of William of Norwich,” a book review by Jonathan Brent, was published in Moment Magazine (September-October 2015).

In July 2015, “Good People, Bad Judgments,” by Ian Buruma, was published in Project Syndicate; and his review of Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard was published in The New York Times Sunday Book Review.  In November 2015, “A Voice of Tolerance and Erudition Among Liberalism’s Intellectuals” appeared in Pop Matters and “The Brexit Balance Sheet” appeared on Project Syndicate. “The Referendum Charade,” by Buruma appeared on Project Syndicate in March 2016, as did his article, “Gimme Shelter From Dictatorship” in April 2016, and in June 2016, “Little England and Not-so-Great-Britain,” was published on Project Syndicate.

Nicole Caso contributed a chapter, "Central American Women's Literature," to The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature, published by Cambridge University Press in November 2015.
 
Maria Sachiko Cecire is a National Project Scholar for the American Library Association’s Great Stories Club, a book club and discussion group for at-risk teens funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Her theme, "Hack the Feed: Media, Resistance, Revolution," wrapped up at 50 sites including juvenile detention centers, group homes, and alternative schools around the country in June 2016.
 
In May 2015, Omar Cheta presented a paper entitled "'Wakil' and 'Avukatu': On the Politics of Legal Language in Late Ottoman Egypt," at The Making of Law in the Ottoman Space, 1800-1914 Interdisciplinary/International Workshop at the College de France in Paris. In July 2015, he published a short piece entitled "Sectarianism and the Legacy of Empire in Egypt" in Perspectives on History, as part of the American Historical Association's Roundtable on Religious Freedom in Islamic History. In March 2016, he was awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his project “Empire, Law and Capitalism in the Modern Middle East.”

In December 2015, Bruce Chilton gave an invited presentation to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee for the fiftieth anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the declaration of Vatican II on inter-religious relations. Entitled "Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate, and Renewal," the lecture developed themes from his book, Rabbi Jesus (Doubleday, 2000) and was delivered at the Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun. He also spoke for Marquette University at the Haggerty Museum of Art, using the collection of Chagall's illustrations of the Bible for a presentation entitled "Poisoned Virtue: Child Sacrifice." His most recent published articles include “Jesus: Money in the Service of the Kingdom,” The Episcopal New Yorker (Spring 2015) and “The Gospel according to John's Rabbi Jesus,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 25.2 (2015). Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism, edited by Alan Avery-Peck, Craig A. Evans, and Jacob Neusner, was published by Brill in February 2016. The Festschrift is designed to “honor Bruce Chilton, recognizing his seminal contribution to the study of earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting.” Similar reviews of have appeared in the Biblical Archaeology Review, the Review of Biblical Literature, and the Review of Rabbinic Literature. This spring, Chilton gave the endowed series of lectures in honor of John Shelby Spong in Morristown, New Jersey, as well as a series at the Rhinebeck Reformed Church. Interviews have appeared on CNN and the National Geographic Channel. His biography of Mary Magdalene, which was published by Doubleday in 2005, has been adapted as a screenplay by Ami Canaan Mann for Riche Productions in Los Angeles.

Three articles by Teju Cole were recently published in The New York Times Magazine, “Perfect and Unrehearsed” in November 2015; “Serious Play,” in December 2015, on the Instagram photography of Stephen Shore; and “Against Neutrality” in January 2016. Cole’s solo photography exhibition, “Punto d’Ombra,” opened at the Forma Meravigli in Milan in April 2016. It was accompanied by the publication of a book of the same title; both were widely and positively reviewed in the Italian press.  His column, “On Photography,” in the New York Times Magazine was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas was awarded a Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies at Princeton University during Spring 2016; the Fellowship is designed to bring a leading scholar or practitioner in American arts to Princeton for one semester. During the summer of 2016, he was awarded a Fellowship in Playwriting by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA); his essay, “Notes on Returning to San Francisco Twenty Five Years Later,” was published by Apogee (Issue 07, Summer 2016), and he was in residence at the MacDowell Colony.
 
“Those who can, teach,” an article about Leah Cox, by Rachel Rizzuto, appeared in DanceTeacher in May 2016.

In September 2015, John Cullinan examined the fairness of voting on The Academic Minute.

Lauren Curtis published an article, "Explaining Exile: the Aetiological Poetics of Ovid, Tristia 3” in the Fall 2015 issue of TAPA, the journal of the Society for Classical Studies. In November 2015, she gave an invited paper at a conference on Greek and Roman lyric poetry at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in France, and in January 2016, she co-organized a panel on Roman dance culture at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco. In May 2016, she presented a paper, "Elegiac Women and the Epiphanic Gaze," at the University of Washington as part of an international conference on Feminism and Classics with the theme of “Visions." In June 2016, she attended the annual Vergilian Society conference at Cumae, Italy and presented a paper, "War Music: The Acoustics of Trauma on Virgil’s Italian Battlefield." Curtis was also awarded a grant by the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study to organize a conference on “Music and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean” in Spring 2017. 
 
Deirdre d’Albertis co-edited “Mary Howitt,” in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, published by Blackwell in August 2015.

In May 2016, Mark Danner was named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. The award funds one to two years of scholarly research and writing in the areas of education, law, technology, business, and public policy, and will support his project, “Breaking the Borders,” about the dissolving borders of the Middle East. In June 2016, Simon & Schuster published his book Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War.

In August 2015, Richard Davis participated in a two-week workshop on “Archeology of Bhakti,” organized by the Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient in Pondicherry, India; and he presented a paper, “Icons and Aniconism from a Priest’s Perspective: Manifestations of Siva in a Temple Festival,” at the World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, in Ekfurt, Germany. In October 2015, "What Do Indian Images Really Want? A Biographical Approach," appeared in the volume Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces: Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums (edited by Bruce M. Sullivan, published by Bloomsbury Academic) and he presented a talk on "Modi, Obama, and the Gita: The Politics of a Diplomatic Gift," at the annual conference of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy in New York City.  In February 2016, Davis gave the annual Rohrbach Memorial Lecture at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, “Krishna versus the British Empire: The Bhagavad Gita during the Indian Independence Struggle.” In April 2016, he gave the opening lecture, “Thinking about a Civilization, Again and Again,” for the three-day conference, “Sites of South Asian Studies,” at the University of Chicago.

Adhaar Noor Desai was awarded a Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. He also presented three conference papers recently: “Blot: Jo[h]nson, or, Seventeenth-Century Poetic Form and the Aesthetics of Writing,” at the Modern Language Association convention in January 2016; “‘Mangled with prophane absurds’: Histrio-mastix (1610), Bad Theater, and the Practice of Natural Philosophy” at the Shakespeare Association of America conference in March 2016, and “Visual Echo: King James VI/I and the Substance of Verse” at the Renaissance Society of America conference in April 2016.

In December 2015, Michèle Dominy was an invited discussant at the Australian Anthropological Society Conference, “Moral Horizons of Anthropology,” at the University of Melbourne. She published “Maori Women’s/Feminist Activism” in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2016. The Journal of the Orchid Society of Great Britain (vol. 65, no. 3) published the “John Dominy Commemoration in Devon,” and she addressed the Devon Orchid Society in June 2016 on her work in botanical anthropology and orchid hybridization.

September 12 through October 25, 2015, Soundings, an exhibition with works by Ellen Driscoll was at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY.

Two essays by Omar Encarnación were published on ForeignAffairs.com in July 2015, “Bullish on Spain,” and “Don’t Cry for Me Greece, Argentina”. “The Troubled Rise of Gay Rights Diplomacy” by Encarnación appeared in Current History in January 2016, and “The Argentine Thorn in Obama’s Side,” appeared in Foreign Affairs in March 2016. In April 2016, he presented a paper on “Anti-Politics in Spain” at the Congress of Europeanists’ meeting in Philadelphia, and in May 2016, his essay, “American Caudillo: Trump and the Latino-americanization of U.S. Politics," appeared on ForeignAffairs.com. 

In February 2016, Gidon Eshel was awarded a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study for the academic year 2016-2017.

In April 2016, Nuruddin Farah was interviewed about his novel, Maps, as part of the World Service’s Identity Season for “World Book Club” on BBC radio.

Publications by Miriam Felton-Dansky include: “Anonymous Is A Woman: The New Politics of Identification in ‘Magical and Untitled Feminist Show’” in Theatre Journal, vol. 67 no. 2, and “Borrowed Crowds: The Living Theatre’s Contagious Revolution” in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater published by Oxford University Press in July 2015. She also served as guest co-editor for a special issue of Theater magazine, “Digital Feelings,” 46:2 (Summer 2016).

In July 2015, Peter Filkins was interviewed by Francesca Rheannon on The Writer's Voice, which is broadcast on stations of the Progressive Radio Network, and in August 2015, his translation of H.G. Adler's The Wall was published in paperback by The Modern Library. He published two poems, "Credo" and "Little Problem," in the summer issue of The Yale Review. In May 2016, he took part in a round-table discussion of the life and work of H.G. Adler at the Taylorian Institute of Queen's College, Oxford University, and he delivered a paper, "H.G. Adler: The Displaced Modernist," at a conference, A Modernist in Exile: The International Reception of H.G. Adler at University College, London. In June 2016, he was awarded a Marbach Fellowship by the Deutsches Literaturarchiv–Marbach to complete further research in H.G. Adler's archive.

Two recent publications by Laura Ford include: “Patenting the Social: Alice, Abstraction, & Functionalism in Software Patent Claims,” in Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics, volume 14, issue 2; and a review of “Private Property and Public Power: Eminent Domain in Philadelphia” by Debbie Becher in Contemporary Sociology, volume 45, issue 2.

In May 2016, Kyle Gann was the central composer of a festival in Bari, "Embracing the Universe." Four of his works were played, two for orchestra and one of those with chorus (conducted by Giovanni Pelliccia with the Bari Conservatory Orchestra), one chamber work (titled "Sang Plato's Ghost," after Yeats), and a piano piece. The festival included a conference at which Gann lectured on Totalism, a 1990s movement in which he was centrally involved.
 
In August 2015, Christopher Gibbs gave a series of talks on the music of Franz Schubert for the [email protected] and delivered the opening lecture, “Whom Music Matters: Political Engagement Since the Enlightenment,” for Art and Politics at the Chautauqua Institution. Gibbs gave a preconcert lecture in March 2016 on Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony for the “Great Performers” series at Lincoln Center. In April 2016, he provided commentary during a concert, “Pergamon: The Romantic Obsession,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in May 2016, he gave a lecture on unfinished works of music at the museum in connection with the exhibition, “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible across Time and Cultures.”
 
Ocho Y Ocho, an exhibition by Arthur Gibbons, was at CR10 Arts in Linlithgo, NY from September 19 through October 3, 2015.

From October 25 through December 13, 2015 works by Jeffrey Gibson were at the Marc Straus Gallery in NYC; the exhibition was reviewed by Adam Lehrer for Forbes in October 2015.

Susan Gillespie's proposal for "The Translatability Project" appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of In Other Words. The Journal for Literary Translators, a publication of the British Centre for Literary Translation. In November 2015, "The Challenge of Surrealism. The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk," translated by Gillespie, was published by the University of Minnesota Press. In celebration of the book launch, Gillespie participated in events at The Explorers Club (New York), the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, and the Clark Museum (Williamstown, MA). She also presented a paper on “Translatability and the Migration of Knowledge. What Role for States in Higher Education of the Future?” at the conference “Against Educational Apartheid: The Other Global University. Forum on the Past, Present, and Future of Higher Education,” sponsored by (among others) Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Heyman Center for the Humanities. Her essay on, and translation of, Theodor W. Adorno’s “Amorbach” was published in New German Critique #127 in February 2016. In May 2016, she presented a paper "On the Translatability of Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary. A Critical View from the 21st Century," at the 5th International Conference on Comparative Studies of National Languages and Cultures at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College).

Fictitious Force, an installation by Beka Goedde, in partnership with NYC Parks & Recreation, and sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, will be on view at the Old Stone House & Washington Park in New York City, April 20, 2015 through April 19, 2016.
 
“An Interview with Bryan Lask,” by Richard Gordon was published in Advances in Eating Disorders, volume 4, issue 1. The interview was conducted in London in 2006 as part of a larger project on the modern history of eating disorders, and was supported by the Bard Research Fund. Gordon also gave regular solo piano performances at Encore and Sone Gallery in Bucerias, Mexico.

In July 2015, Hal Haggard described the life cycles of black holes on NPR’s The Academic Minute and he gave two talks: "Black to White Hole Transitions: An Explicit Model" at the Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann meeting in Rome, Italy and "A New Decay Mode for Black Holes" a plenary talk at the Loops '15 meeting in Erlangen, Germany.  Recent articles co-authored by Haggard include: “Encoding Curved Tetrahedra in Face Holonomies: a Phase Space of Shapes from Group-Valued Moment Maps” accepted to Annales Henri Poincaré, math-ph/1506.03053, 2015; “Black to white hole tunneling: An exact classical solution” in IJMPA 30 (1545015), 2015; “SL(2,C) Chern-Simons Theory, a non-Planar Graph Operator, and 4D Loop Quantum Gravity with a Cosmological Constant: Semiclassical Geometry” in Nuclear Physics B 900 (1), 2015; “Quantum-gravity effects outside the horizon spark black to white hole tunneling” in Physical Review D 92 (104020), 2015; and “Four-dimensional quantum gravity with a cosmological constant from three-dimensional holomorphic blocks” in Physics Letters B, 752 (258), 2016. In March 2016, Haggard gave an invited talk at Pennsylvania State University as part of the “Primordial Universe Gravity Seminar” series: “Four-Dimensional Quantum Gravity with a Cosmological Constant.”  He spoke at the American Physical Society’s April Meeting, and was an invited speaker at the “Workshop on Quantum Groups in Quantum Gravity” co-sponsored by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, the University of Waterloo, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. For both conferences, he presented “Four-Dimensional Quantum Gravity with a Cosmological Constant from Three-Dimensional Holomorphic Blocks.” “Inferring Planetary Obliquity Using Rotational & Orbital Photometry,” co-authored by Haggard and Clara Sekowski ’15, among others, was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 457.

Ed Halter curated the cinema portion of International Pop at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis from April 11 through August 29, 2015; the catalog of the exhibition was published in July 2015 and included his essay, “Pop and Cinema: Three Tendencies.” In conjunction with the exhibit he published three more essays for Walker Magazine devoted to artists in the show: “Light and Freedom: William Klein’s Pop Politics” (June 2015); ““Pop Cinema at Its Best Pop”: George Kuchar’s Hold Me While I’m Naked” (July 2015); and “A Listener’s Guide to Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising” (August 2015).  In July 2015, Halter was interviewed by The New York Times for the article “Filmmaker Joe Gibbons Gets a Year in Prison for a Robbery He Called Performance Art,” and he organized a retrospective of filmmaker Edward Owens at Light Industry in Brooklyn, NY. His essay “Will You Be My Version” was published in Afterall, Issue 38.

Poems by Cole Heinowitz were published in the journal Ladowich (July 2015) and the collection In/Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley (Station Hill Press, 2015). Her translations of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s poetry appeared in the journals Riot of Perfume (July 2015) and Dolce Stil Criollo (June 2015). In May 2016, poetry by Heinowitz appeared in the collection, Letters for Olson, edited by Benjamin Hollander (Spuyten Duyvil), and her translation of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s essay, “Second-Hand Heroes,” was published in The Wave Papers.

"The Need for Despair: Marasco’s The Highway of Despair" by Samantha Hill was published in Theory & Event volume 19, issue 3.
 
In March 2016, “Inducing amnesia through systemic suppression,” co-authored by Justin Hulbert was published in Nature Communications. In May 2016, Hulbert and his collaborators at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute published a report in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, "A neural signature of contextually mediated intentional forgetting.”

In July 2015, the article “When and why do old adults outsource control to their environment,” co-authored by Thomas Hutcheon, was published in Psychology and Aging, and in April 2016, "Limits on the Generalizability of Context-driven Control," by Hutcheon, was published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

“Powerful Soil: Utilizing Microbial Fuel Cell Construction and Design in an Introductory Biology Course” by Brooke Jude and Craig Jude was published in the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education in December 2015.
 
Tang Desheng: Educated Youth, an exhibition curated by Patricia Karetzky, was at John Jay College in New York from September 16 through October 30, 2015. "Subterranean Blues: Nostalgia and Regret in Contemporary Art,” by Karetsky appeared in Crossing Borders: Transition and Nostalgia in Contemporary Art (edited by Ming Turner and Outi Remes, published by Art and Collection Group, Taipei, 2015); and "Tangled Up in Blue: Women in the Art of Ma Yanling" appeared in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, vol. 14, no. 6 (2015): 76-86.
 
In February 2016, Erica Kaufman was invited to participate in the live recording and podcast PoemTalk podcast episode #100, at the University of Pennsylvania, and she collaborated with visual artist Jonathan Allen on “an (in)vocation,” as part of his “About a Minute,” series of video collaborations with NYC area poets. Her article, “The End of Gender,” was published in the May/April 2016 issue of the Boston Review, and her review “The Poem Starts Here: The Vital Material(s) of Space Between These Lines Not Dictated,” and poems “soma(tic) series” both appear in the April 2016 issue of Tripwire.

Recent articles co-authored by Felicia Keesing include “Accelerated phenology of blacklegged ticks under climate warming” in Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences, vol. 370; “Is biodiversity good for your health?” in Science, vol. 349; “Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease” in Ecology Letters, August 2015; and “Interdisciplinary and Infectious Diseases: An Ebola Case Study” in PLoS Pathogens, August 2015.

In January 2016, Robert Kelly was named the first Poet Laureate of Dutchess County. He will serve a one-year term and bring poetry to the community through a series of readings and events. Recent poems by Kelly include: Opening the Deals, published by Autonomedia in February 2016; The Hexagon, published by Black Widow/Commonwealth Books in March 2016; and Heart Thread, published by Lunar Chandelier Collective in May 2016.

In April 2016, "Noble Savages and English Gardeners: 'Kulturkritik' from Rousseau to Goethe," by Franz Kempf, was published in Philosophy and Literature.
 
James Ketterer served as project director for this summer's U.S. Foreign Policy Institute, which is supported by the Study of the U.S. Institutes program at the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  The Institute brought 18 scholars from 17 countries to study the history, formulation, and implementation of U.S. foreign policy and included seminars at Bard and meetings with policymakers and practitioners in Washington, New York, West Point, Albany and the FDR Presidential Library.  Assistant Dean Brian Mateo served as administrative director and CCE Fellow and BPI faculty David Woolner was academic director.
 
“Multivariate analysis of electrophysiological diversity of Xenopus visual neurons during development and plasticity,” and “Multisensory integration in the developing tectum is constrained by the balance of excitation and inhibition,” both co-authored by Arseny Khakhalin, were published in eLife in November 2015 and June 2016 respectively.

"Lovesong," a new film by So Yong Kim, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016.
 
The Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association recently announced that Peter Klein’s doctoral dissertation, The Struggle for Voice in Brazil’s Democratic Developmental State: Participation, Protest, and the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Facility, was the winner of the 2016 Brazil Section Dissertation Award for dissertations completed in 2015.

“Openings: Cameron Rowland,” an article by Alex Kitnick, was in Artforum, March 2016.

“A convenient direct laser writing system for the creation of microfluidic masters” co-authored by Christopher LaFratta and Bard students Olja Simoska ‘15, Ian Pelse ‘15, Shuyi Weng ‘15 and Miles Ingram ‘15, was published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 19, issue 2, pgs. 419-426, 2015. “Making Two-Photon Polymerization Faster," co-authored by LaFratta, was included in Three-Dimensional Microfabrication Using Two-Photon Polymerization: Fundamentals, Technology, and Applications, published by Elsevier (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
 
As part of the Open Science Collaboration, Kristin Lane co-authored the paper, “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science,” published in Science, August 2015.  She recently spoke to the justices on the Massachusetts State Superior Court on implicit bias and delivered the Race Matters lecture at Hampshire College.

In October 2015, works by An-My Lê were featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “The Artist Project.”
 
In July 2015, WAMC Roundtable featured Gideon Lester, Susana Meyer, and Neal Cooper discussing highlights of the Bard SummerScape season. Lester co-curated the 9th edition of “Crossing the Line,” an international arts festival in New York City, September/October 2015; and in November 2015, he presented a paper on the Fisher Center’s production of The Master and Margarita at a conference on “Bulgakov as Dramatist” at Princeton University.He gave a talk on the state of contemporary arts festivals at the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas in April 2016. He also served on the jury of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.

In January 2016, “The Invention of King Richard” by Marisa Libbon was published in The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, edited by Susanna Fein (York Medieval Press).

In July 2015, Erica Lindsay performed and premiered a new piece for jazz quintet, at the first ARC Jazz Festival in Kansas City in collaboration with the Kansas City Jazz Museum, at the Blue Room. In August 2015, she performed with the Jeff Siegel Quartet at the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium in New York City.

Wah Guan Lim received the "Best Conference Presentation for Young Scholars Award" for his paper presentation at the 10th Chinese Drama Festival: “Chinese Drama and the Global Stage in the 21st Century,” organized by the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies at the Hong Kong Baptist University in April 2016. In June 2016, “The Changing Landscape of Politics and Language Use in Singaporean Theatre: Towards a Multilingual Praxis” by Lim, appeared in Singapore: Negotiating State and Society, 1965–2015, published by London: Routledge.

In September 2015, A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film by Joseph Luzzi  (John Hopkins University Press, May 2014) was selected as a finalist for The Bridge Book award. “In Other Words,” a book review by Luzzi, appeared in The New York Times in March 2016.

The first issue of Documentum: The Instagram Series was published by Fall Line Press in February 2016 and features work by founding editor
Stephen Shore, as well as Tanya Marcuse. Documentum: The Exhibition was at {Poem 88} in Atlanta, Georgia until March 26, 2016.

“Letter of Recommendation: Christopher Logue, ‘War Music’” by Wyatt Mason appeared in The New York Times Magazine in November 2015. Reviews by Mason appeared in the The New York Review of Books: “To Be a Muslim in the West” in February 2016, and “The Big Beat” in April 2016. In June 2016, his profile of Bill T. Jones, "The Transcendent Artistry of a Legendary Dancer, Four Decades In," appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Robert McGrail presented the results of his joint research with James Belk entitled "The Word Problem for Finitely-Presented Quandles is Undecidable" at the 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation (WoLLIC) in July 2015 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.  Their peer-reviewed article appeared in volume 9160 of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
 
This summer Sean McMeekin was awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society for his research in Moscow and St. Petersburg on “Mutinies in the Russian Army in 1917,” and his lecture on the Treaty of Versailles aired on CSPAN for their “Lectures in History” classroom series. The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by McMeekin was published by Penguin Press in October 2015. The book was reviewed by The Economist in November 2015.  “Turkey and Russia. Enemies Again?” by McMeekin appeared in The American Interest, volume 11, number 4. His article, “Russia Returns to a Middle East It Never Really Left,” was included in The World Today, published by Chatham House in April/May 2016. His book, Russlands Weg in Den Krieg.  Der Erste Weltkrieg - Ursprung der Jahrhundertkatastrophe (EuropaVerlag Berlin, 2014), won the Kronauer Historical Prize (Historikerpreis) of the Erich und Erna Kronauer-Stiftung of Schweinfurt for 2016 and his book, Ottoman Endgame, was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize, co-administered by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

In July 2015, Walter Russell Mead traveled to South Korea as part of a Council on Foreign Relations team of expert’s work shopping “South Korea’s Strategic Choices and Management of Regional Rivalries in Northeast Asia,” which included a one-day academic conference in Busan, ROK. He interviewed Senator John McCain for the Hudson Institute’s Dialogues on American Strategy and Statesmanship, broadcast on C-SPAN on July 21, 2015, and in August 2015, he testified before the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) and the Middle East’s regional power balance.

“How Greek Drama Saved the City,” by Daniel Mendelsohn, was published in The New York Review of Books in June 2016.
 
In January 2016, Susan Merriam was an invited speaker at the Association of American Colleges and Universities annual conference in Washington, D.C. She presented on Bard’s participation in the Integrative Liberal Learning consortium.

“Rabbinic Literature and the Christian Scriptures” by Jacob Neusner was published in The Review of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, vol. 18, issue 2.

In January 2016, Melanie Nicholson's article, “The Reluctant Troubadour: The Oral Tradition in the Poetics of Juan Gelman,” appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.
 
Franz Nicolay wrote the score for a new work by choreographer Alison Chase that premiered as part of her New York season in January 2016 at Five Angels Theater in New York.
 
Isabelle O'Connell toured Ireland and the U.K. in November 2015. She gave solo recitals in Belfast and Dublin, featuring recent compositions for piano and electronics. She also gave a masterclass for piano students at Queen's University, Belfast and a seminar at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She subsequently performed in the U.K. with her six piano group Grand Band (also featuring Blair McMillen) at the University of Sheffield and Cornerstone Festival in Liverpool.
 
In November 2015, Joel Perlmann and Patrick Nevada ’16, presented a paper at the Social Science History Association annual meeting in Baltimore on "Ethno-racial origin in U. S. Federal Statistics, 1980-2020."

“Somewhere After,” an installation by Judy Pfaff, was at the Richard and Rissa Grossman Gallery at Lafayette College from February 18 through April 6, 2016.

In August 2015, The New York Times published the article “Who Should Be Ejected from the Literary Canon?” by Francine Prose.  In September 2015, her book, Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern, was published by Yale University Press. In November 2015, “What Early Job Later Informed Your Work as a Writer?” by Prose and Leslie Jamison appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review Bookends section. In June 2016, “Is It Harder to Be Transported By a Book as You Get Older?” appeared in The New York Times Book Review, and “How Frankenstein’s Monster Became Human” appeared in the New Republic.

In November 2015, Dina Ramadan organized a panel at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado entitled "As Images Move: Circulation, Appropriation, and Transformation in Contemporary Visual Production." She presented her paper, "The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back," as part of the panel. In March 2016, she was an invited discussant at the conference, “The Arab Nude: The Artist as Awakener,” at the American University of Beirut.

Kelly Reichardt's new film, "Certain Women,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016.
 
“Lamp-lit bridges as dual light-traps for the night-swarming mayfly Ephoron virgo: Interaction of phototaxis and polarotaxis,” co-authored by Bruce Roberston was published in PLoS One 10(3) and his research with Bard students on the effects of solar energy on wildlife was featured in The Wildlife Professional 9:18-24. Robertson traveled to South Korea as a part of a Luce Foundation-funded trip to develop research and educational work tied to environmental issues in Southeast Asia. He gave invited research talks at the University of Wyoming in October 2015, and to a research-working group on Mal/non/adaptation at McGill University, Montreal in December 2015.
 
James Romm’s review of Adrienne Mayor's The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World appeared in the London Review of Books in October 2015, and his review of Mary Beard's SPQR was featured in the November 2015 issue of The New Republic. The New Yorker published his article,“A Show About The Hellenistic One Per Cent,” in April 2016.

“Susan Fox Rogers: Sycamore Canyon” by Susan Fox Rogers, was published in Guernica in September 2015.
 
In May 2016, Jonathan Rosenberg directed a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Juilliard.

“The Professor Has a Daring Past,” an article about Justus Rosenberg by Sarah Wildman, appeared in The New York Times in April 2016. In May 2016, he was interviewed on the Regional News Network (RNN), and was featured in an AMI Magazine article, “Published for Rescuing Jews.” In July 2016, he was interviewed by Sarah Wildman at The Center for Jewish History for “In Plain Sight: The Marvelous, Unlikely History of Bard Professor Justus Rosenberg.”

In October 2015, Lisa Sanditz and Lisa Sigal were both chosen as recipients of an “Anonymous Was a Woman Award” for 2015.  Ten female artists over 40 years of age are chosen for this unrestricted award each year in recognition of their accomplishments, artistic growth and the quality of their work.

In August 2015, Luc Sante was featured in The New York Times Style Magazine’s “The Writer’s Room.” His book, The Other Paris, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in October 2015. The book was discussed on WAMC Northeast Public Radio in November 2015 and was chosen as a “Book of the Week” by Times Higher Education in December 2015. It was also chosen for the Atlantic’s List of Best Books We Missed in 2015. “I Saw the Figure 5 in Steel,” by Sante, appeared on the Paris Review in June 2016.
 
Matthew Sargent gave a visiting artist concert and master class, “Vanguard New Music Series,” at Kent State University in April 2016. In June 2016, he presented recent work at the 2016 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and was a guest artist at the River Concert Series and Chesapeake Orchestra.

In August 2015, “Immunogenicity and serological cross-reactivity of saliva proteins among different tsetse species,” co-authored by Amy Savage and two of her graduate trainees, was published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease. "Transcript abundance of putative Lipid Phosphate Phosphatases during development of Trypanosoma brucei in the tsetse fly," co-authored by Savage (with her graduate trainee Thiago Silva), was published in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 94, no. 4.
 
“Stephen Shore; Retrospective,” a solo show by Stephen Shore is at Espace Van Gogh, Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France, from July 6 through September 20, 2015. Recent and current group shows include “Conflict, Time, Photography” at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, April 10 through July 5, 2015; “HyperAmerica” at Kunsthas Graz in Austria, April 10 through August 30, 2015; “In the Garden” at the International Museum of Photography & Film in Rochester, N.Y., May 9 through September 6, 2015; “The Order of Things” at The Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm, Germany, May 17 through September 27, 2015; “Station to Station: a 30 day happening” at the Barbican Arts Centre in London, June 27 through July 26, 2015; “Warhol Underground” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in Metz, France, July 1 through November 15, 2015; “Photographing Monet’s Garden: Five Contemporary Views” at the Musée des Impressionismes, in Giverny, France, July 31 through November 1, 2015; and a traveling exhibition “This Place” that opened October 2014 in Prague at the Dox Centre for Contemporary Arts and will end at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in February 2016. He has given numerous public lectures, and interviews and articles have recently been published in Time, Beaux Arts, Monopol, El País, Libération, Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal online, and Shutterbug. His book, Luzzara, was published in May 2016 by STANLEY/BARKER.

Dragana Stojanovic-Novicic participated in the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar, “Baltimore’s Community Awakening–the Role of Anchor Institutions and Grassroots Organizations in Addressing the City’s Health and Human Rights Issues,” in Baltimore, Maryland in April 2016.

In conjunction with "Also like Life: the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien," the twenty-five city international retrospective tour he organized, Richard Suchenski gave invited lectures at the British Film Institute, the University of Edinburgh, the University of St. Andrews, and Tokyo Filmex in fall 2015. Suchenski's essay on Hou's new film, The Assassin, was published in the October 2015 issue of Artforum.
 
Recent performances by Erika Switzer include Brahms Lieder on an 1890’s Erard, at Early Music Vancouver, in Vancouver, BC, Canada on August 4, 2015 and a Pre-Concert Performance of Schumann Lieder, at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York City on August 18 and 19, 2015.  

Pavlina Tcherneva appeared on the TV program “Boom and Bust” (RT) on July 1 and 11, 2015 and on The American Interest podcast on July 15, 2015 with Richard Aldous to discuss the Greek economic crisis. In September 2015, she was interviewed by WalletHub for "How do we make our cities 'recession proof'? Strategies for growth, job creation, and development,” and she was featured in the article "Is it time for a New New Deal?" in The Nation. In October 2015, she discussed “What is the Job Guarantee” on “Radio Open Source,” WBUR public radio Boston; she gave a public lecture at Denison University entitled “Joblessness and Inequality by Design: Rethinking Public Policy,” and published “Completing the Roosevelt Revolution: Why the Time for a Federal Job Guarantee Has Come,” in the inaugural Denison University Policy Note Series; she gave two talks on the European Crisis at the Universita Cattolica di Milano and the Universita Degli Studi Di Bergamo in Italy, and gave a public lecture at Columbia Law School on “Reimagining Money: Joining Legal and Economic Perspectives.”  In November 2015, she participated in a roundtable panel discussion on employment and income guarantee policies, sponsored by Dissent Magazine, Jacobin, the New Economy Coalition, and Verso Books in New York. Her Levy Institute research paper, “Reorienting Fiscal Policy: A Critical Assessment of Fiscal Fine-Tuning,” made the All Time Top 10 Papers on the Social Science Research Network. The journal article version of this paper was featured in Robert Reich's book Saving Capitalism (September 2015, Knopf).  She discussed the U.S. economy on Boom Bust, in March 2016, and she gave the annual Will Lyons Memorial Fund Lecture, "Inequality and Joblessness by Design: How to Choose a Different Future," at Franklin & Marshall College. In June 2016, Tcherneva spoke with Bloomberg about the Swiss Referendum on Basic Income and her job guarantee proposal.

Tehseen Thaver’s review of “Hospitality and Islam: Welcoming in God’s Name” by Mona Siddiqui, appeared in the Times Higher Education in November 2015. In March 2016, she presented a paper, “Hagiography as Ritual Performance: Literature, Mysticism, and Religious Identity in Medieval Islam,” at the American Comparative Literature Association meeting at Harvard University. In April 2016, she gave an invited lecture, “Shi’I Tafsir Traditions in Early Islam,” at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut.

In February 2016, Olga Touloumi gave a presentation, “War Rooms and the Question of Mediation,” for the College Art Association in Washington, D.C., and in March 2016, her multimedia review of Timescape.io was in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume 75, number 1. “Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment,” a review by Touloumi, was published in the Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, volume 23, no. 1. She was a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte from May through June 2016, during which time she gave the lecture, “Laboratories of Intelligibility, c. 1941.” She also co-organized a conference, Sound Modernities? Histories of Architecture, Design, and Space, for the research group Epistemes of Modern Acoustics, during which she presented her paper, “Alvar Aalto’s Poetry Room.” Touloumi also presented her paper, “Modeling the Global Village,” at the 4th International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network in Dublin.

Joan Tower was nominated for Grammy Award for her composition Stroke.
 
Éric Trudel co-edited and co-introduced, with Jan Baetens, a special issue of the online journal Littérature, Histoire, Théorie (#16, January 2016, on the site Fabula.org) entitled “Crises de lisibilité”.  “A New ‘Rhetoric’ for Modernism?”, co-authored by Trudel and Matthias Somers, was published in the journal Arcadia (50, 2, 2015).
 
In February 2016, George Tsontakis was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to compose multiple sonnet-themed tone poems for a concert series commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

The volume of Vladimir Nabokov's “Letters to Vera” edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd was published by Knopf in November 2015. The book was reviewed in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal. The New York Times named it among its 100 Notable Books of the Year. Voronina also gave a talk on translating Nabokov at Harvard University, and discussed the book with Wyatt Mason at the 92nd  Street Y.  In March 2016, Voronina was awarded a Faculty Research Grant from the Children’s Literature Association to support her new book project.

“The functional significance of shyness in anorexia nervosa,” co-authored by Amy Winecoff, was published in European Eating Disorders Review, July 2015.

Tom Wolf co-curated “The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi” at The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., April through August 2015.

In August 2015, Japheth Wood co-presented “The Cell Phone Dropping Problem” and “Math Circle Demonstration” (theme: Catalan Numbers) at the annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Washington, D.C. In April 2016, he was the recipient of The Distinguished Service Award of the Metropolitan New York Section of the Mathematical Association of America. The award was presented to him for his significant leadership in the math circle movement, locally, regionally, and at a national level.

In September 2015, Why Minsky Matters by L. Randall Wray was published by Princeton University Press, and the second edition of his book Modern Money Theory was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Why Minsky Matters was reviewed in Reuters in November 2015; Financial Analyst Journal, volume 11, issue 1, and on ValueWalk in February 2016.

In October 2015, Oxford University Press published Progressivism in America: Past, Present, and Future. The book, co-edited by Center for Civic Engagement Fellow David Woolner, also includes an essay by Professor Emeritus Mark Lytle, “The Progressive Tradition and the Problem of Global Warming.” 
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Faculty Highlights 2014-15

In November 2014, Susan Aberth was interviewed in WAMC to discuss Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).

In July 2014, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) named Peggy Ahwesh the recipient of the 2014 NAMAC Artist Award in honor of her contributions over the last 30 years primarily in the field of experimental film and video; she also received an award from the National Film Preservation Foundation for her preservation work on Julie Murray’s FF, Tr’cheot’my P’sy, A Legend of Parts and Conscious. Her solo exhibition, Kissing Point, was at Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, November 22, 2014 through January 4, 2015.

Tony Ryan: Ireland’s Aviator by Richard Aldous, originally published in August 2013 and a Sunday Times bestseller, was published in the United Kingdom in November 2014. In December 2014, Aldous was featured on CNN on how Alan Clark Diaries offers such great insight into UK politics.

In July 2014, Craig Anderson received a National Science Foundation Research for Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award for his proposal “Cyclometalated Platinum Complexes Having Selective Reactivity and Applications in Catalytic, Photophysical, and Bio-Organometallic Systems.”

Myra Armstead was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship as a Schomburg Scholar-in-Residence for six months beginning in September 2014. The fellowship will give her access to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and other centers of The New York Public Library for her research in progressive public history in Harlem.

“Poets on Photography” by John Ashbery, Ann Lauterbach, Richard Howard, and Ben Lerner appeared in the Paris Review in December 2014.

“Dividing Line” by Sanjib Baruah appeared in the opinion section of the Journalism of Courage, October 2014.

Recent work by Laura Battle was included in an exhibition at Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock, New York, September 5, 2014 through October 19, 2014.

In November 2014, Alex Benson presented the paper “Alternating Sounds and Ayaya Songs” (on the ethnographic notation of Inuit drum dances in the nineteenth century) at “American Vernaculars,” a conference hosted by the New York Metro American Studies Association.

“Instituting Freedom,” by Roger Berkowitz was published in European Journal of Political Theory, July 2014.

Among his many recent activities and accomplishments, Leon Botstein delivered the Frank Memorial Lecture in Judaism and Contemporary Issues in September 2014, and was profiled by The New Yorker, “Pictures from an Institution” by Bard alumna Alice Gregory ‘09. In November 2014, he wrote about how colleges can deliver on the promise of Liberal Arts for The Washington Post, and encouraged rethinking arts, humanities education for the Yale Daily News. Botstein was quoted inThe Chronicle of Higher Education article, “How ‘The Colbert Report’ Has Given a ‘Bump’ to Academic Guests” in December 2014.

In the fall of 2014, Jonathan Brent was appointed by the Prime Minister of Lithuania to the International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes by the Soviet and Nazi regimes in Lithuania 1939-1945; he had book reviews published in Moment Magazine; gave the Fleischman Memorial Lecture at George Washington University and successfully negotiated a deal with the Lithuanian government to initiate the digitization and preservation of the prewar collections of books and documents of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Recent Project Syndicate articles by Ian Buruma include: “Abe’s Long March,” in July 2014; “Who Loves China?” in October 2014; “Immigration and the New Class Divide,” in December 2014; and “Charlie and Theo,” in January 2015.

“Tunable fractional quantum Hall phases in bilayer graphene,” co-authored by Paul Cadden-Zimansky, was published in Science magazine, vol. 345, issue 6196 – July 2014. Min Kyung Shinn ’14 and Gavin Myers ’14 are acknowledged in the paper for their help with the measurements.

In July 2014, Mary Caponegro was a featured reader at the Juniper Festival in Amherst, MA; in November 2014, her work was honored at a two-day conference at the University of Udine, Italy; she received a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria; and in December 2014, her essays appeared in The Force of What is Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde, published by Nightboat Books; she also gave a reading at Mellow Pages in Brooklyn, New York.

In November 2014, Omar Cheta received the Malcolm H. Kerr Award for best dissertation in social sciences from the Middle Eastern Studies Association; he presented his paper, "Merchants, Bureaucrats and the Question of Commercial Debt int he Nineteenth Century," at their annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

In July 2014, Bruce Chilton was interviewed for National Geographic in Compostela, Spain for a documentary on James the son of Zebedee, and his book,Christianity – The Basics, was published by Routledge. Recent published articles include “Paul and the Curse of the Law and the Blessing of Atonement: Paul’s Deployment of Septuagintal Language,” Die Septuaginta – Text, Wirkung, Rezeption.4. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 19.–22. Juli 2012 (eds Wolfgang Kraus and Siegfried Kreuzer with Martin Meiser and Marcus Sigismund; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014) 597-610; “Taxes, and the Teaching of Jesus,” in the Journal of Institutional Studies 6,2 (2014) 43-57, and his essay “The Exodus Theology of the Palestinian Targumim,” was featured in The Book of Exodus. Composition, Reception, and Interpretation: Supplements to Vetus Testmentum 164 (eds Thomas B. Dozemen, Craig A. Evans, and Joel N. Lohr; Leiden: Brill) 387-403. He spoke on his most recent research interests in Szeged at the invitation of the Studiorum NOvi TEstamenti Societas and in San Diego for the Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion.

A Legacy of Learning. Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner edited by Bruce Chilton, Alan Avery-Peck and William Scott Green, was published by Brill in December 2014, as part of The Brill Reference Library of Judaism.

In August 2014, Leah Cox was named Associate Dean of the American Dance Festival, the oldest and most prestigious dance festival in the U.S.

Robert Culp has been awarded a 2014-15 Scholar Grant from the Chiang Chiang-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange (USA) to support research and writing for his next book project, “Publishing Circles and the Production of Culture in Post-Imperial China, 1900-1955.” He was also awarded a second grant from the Chiang Chiang-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange (USA) to support hosting a conference, “Organized Knowledge and State Socialism, 1949-1978,” at the Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) at the University of California at Berkeley in December.

The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage (MOISA) awarded Lauren Curtis a 2014 Research Prize for the best-unpublished Ph.D. dissertation in the field of Greek and Roman music.

“Dr. Diamond’s Day Off,” by Laurie Dahlberg appears in the February 2015 issue of History of Photography.

“How Robert Gates Got Away With It,” by Mark Danner was published in The New York Review of Books in August 2014; the review is the seventh in an ongoing series on the Forever War.

The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography by Richard Davis was published by Princeton University Press in November 2014 and was reviewed in The New York Review of Books. His essay "Gifts of the Gita," was published on the Huffington Post, and he gave a lecture on "Teaching the Bhagavad Gita, the 'Hindu Bible'" at a workshop, "Sacred Texts and Sacred Places: Teaching the History and Practice of Religion in India," at Columbia University.  

“Unknown: Pictures of Strangers,” an exhibition at the Transformer Station in Cleveland, Ohio, from June 27, 2014 through September 20, 2014 included new works by Tim Davis.

Daniella Dooling’s video “Time for Me to Fly,” was included in the exhibition “influx” at CR10 in Linlithgo, NY in July 2014; she performed “Room 10 Rants” at LABspace in Great Barrington, MA in August 2014, and her work was included in “The Egg,” a group exhibition at LABspace from July 30 through September 1, 2014. In September 2014, she installed a project at Incident Report in Hudson, New York. Her solo exhibition “Bloody Dick Road in the Big Hole Valley: files from the girl in room 10,” was on view at the Esther Massry Gallery at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York from October 10 though December 7, 2014, and in collaboration with Les LeVeque, she performed “Room 10 Rants” at the Esther Massry Gallery, in Albany, New York in November 2014, and in December 2014 at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.

“Night to Day, Here and Away” by Ellen Driscoll was commissioned by the Patterson Foundation for the National Cemetery in Sarasota, Florida and inaugurated in a Veterans Legacy Summit at the site in November 2014. Photographs of the mosaic structures can be seen on her website, http://www.ellendriscoll.net/project_info/news/141

In July 2014, Eli Dueker was appointed Visiting Researcher at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies.

Omar Encarnación’s essay “Gay Rights: Why Democracy Matters,” was the lead essay in the July 2014 issue of the Journal of Democracy. In October 2014, his essay, “The Gay Rights Charade,” appeared in Foreign Affairs and his short piece on Podemos was published in World Politics Review in November 2014. The December 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics devoted its Critical Dialogues section to Encarnación’s latest book, Democracy without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting.”

Recent publications by Helen Epstein include: “Africa’s Slide Towards Disaster” in The International New York Times, August 2014; “Liberia: The Hidden Truth About Ebola” in The New York Review of Books, October 2014; “Can A Costly Campaign to Eradicate Polio From Nigeria Possibly Succeed?” (as Alex Kornblum) in The Nation, November 2014; “Colossal Corruption in Africa” in The New York Review of Books, December 2014; and “Ebola in Liberia: An Epidemic of Rumors” in The New York Review of Books, December 2014.

Gidon Eshel was lead author in the study “Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and the reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States,” published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, July 2014.  The study was the topic of The Wall Street Journal article “Beef pollutes more than pork, poultry, study says,” on July 21, 2014, and he was interviewed for Science Friday, “What’s the Real Cost of Your Steak?” July 25, 2014 – click for the link to listen http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/07/25/2014/what-s-the-real-cost-of-your-steak.html.

In July 2014, Rumor, Diplomacy and War in Enlightenment Paris (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) by Tabetha Ewing was published by Voltaire Foundation.

The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction by Ben La Farge was published in July 2014 by Palgrave Pivot.

Nuruddin Farah was interviewed by NPR in November 2014, and his short story, “The Start of an Affair,” was reviewed in The New York Times in December 2014. His book Hiding in Plain Sight was among the year’s best fiction according to the Kirkus list of Best Fiction Books of 2014.

“Memory’s Witness – Witnessing Memory” by Peter Filkins appeared in Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald, edited by Helen Finch and Lynn Wolff, published by Camden House in August 2014.  In December 2014, Filkins presented a paper “The Uses, Misuses, and Abuses of Biography in H.G. Adler’s Shoah Trilogy” at the American Jewish Studies conference in Baltimore; he organized a roundtable on “H.G. Adler’s Shoah Trilogy” at the MLA convention in Vancouver; two of his poems appeared in the fall issue of The Sewanee Review; Random House published his translation of H.G. Adler’s novel The Wall; and he was awarded an NEH Fellowship for 2015-2016 to support completion of his biography of Adler.

In September 2014, exhibitions by Larry Fink were at Fotografia in Rome, and at the Noorderlicht Photo Festival in The Netherlands. In November 2014, he had an exhibition at Paris Photo in Paris, and in January 2015 “The Beats” is at Feroz Gallery in Bonn, Germany.

Susan H. Gillespie translated Franz Schubert's opera "Fierrabras" into English for this year's Bard Music Festival. Working with director Dmitry Troyanovsky and dramaturge Michael P. Steinberg, she transformed spoken dialogue and "melodrama" (words spoken with orchestral accompaniment) into shorter, more contemporary English speech.

Recent Levy Economics Institute working papers by Olivier Giovannoni include “What do we know about the labor share and the profit share? Part I: Theories”; “What do we know about the labor share and the profit share? Part II: Empirical Studies”; “What do we know about the labor share and the profit share? Part III: Measures and Structural Factors”; and Income distribution macroeconomics.” In January 2014, he participated in a panel discussion, “Inequality: challenge of the century?” at the Allied Social Sciences Association meeting in Boston, MA.

Jacqueline Goss and her collaborator Jenny Perlin premiered their film The Measures at the New York Film Festival in October 2014 at Lincoln Center.  

In the fall of 2014, Marka Gustavvson performed “Chamber Music in the Morning” for the Eastman School of Music concert series and taught a master class for the their chamber music program.

Lianne Habinek received the Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Grant 2014-15 from the Hale Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. She will conduct archival research while in residence at the Historical Library’s large collection of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs and pamphlets, enabling her to progress toward the completion of her book project, “Such Wondrous Science: Early Modern Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience.”

”Black hole fireworks: quantum-gravity effects outside the horizon spark black to white hole tunneling,” co-authored by Hal Haggard, was featured in “Quantum bounce could make black holes explode” published in Nature, July 2014.

“Strategic Interruptions: Some Notes on the Work of Ammiel Lacalay” by Cole Heinowitz, was published in The Boston Review in November 2014.

“From Gardens of Knowledge to Ezbekiyya after Midnight: The Novel and the Arabic Press from Beirut to Cairo, 1870-1892” by Elizabeth Holt was published inMiddle Eastern Literatures vol. 16, issue 3. Her work was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities post-doctoral research fellowship.

In January 2015, Peter Hutton presented his film AT Sea at the Phoenix Museum of Art, as well as a program of short films (Lodz Symphony, Study of a River, New York Portrait and Part one of THREE LANDSCAPES, his most recent film) at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

“Chemical probing of RNA with the hydroxyl radical at single atom resolution,” co-authored by Swapan Jain, was published in Nucleic Acids Research, October 2014.

In July 2014, Bill T. Jones received a 2013 National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Recipients of the award consist of individuals or groups who have done groundbreaking work in the arts and humanities, making significant contributions to the human experience.

In December 2014, Brooke Jude received a grant from the New York State Water Resources Institute. She will be working with K-12 students and Bard undergraduates to sample bodies of water across the region for an important group of bacteria.

Felicia Keesing and Michael Tibbetts were among the co-authors for "Prevalence of Human-Active and Variant 1 Strains of the Tick-Borne Pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Hosts and Forests of Eastern North America," published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2014): 13-0525, and "Co-Infection of blacklegged ticks with Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi is higher than expected and acquired from small mammal hosts," published in PloS one 9, no. 6 (2014): e99348. Keesing’s study was the topic of the article “One Tick Bite Can Equal Two Infections,” published in U.S. News & World Report in July 2014. Recent articles co-authored by Keesing also include: “Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Large Mammals in an African Savanna," published in BioScience 64.6 (2014): 487-495; "Life history and demographic drivers of reservoir competence for three tick-borne zoonotic pathogens," published in PloS one 9, no. 9 (2014): e107387, and "A call for inclusive conservation," published in Science 12 (2014): 7. The Academic Minute on WAMC for September 17, 2014, featured Keesing in a segment on “Threatened Biodiversity.”

Winter Music by Robert Kelly, with photographs by Susan Quasha, was published by T Space Editions in September 2014 and A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly was published by Contra Mundum Press. In October 2014, The Color Mill by Kelly, with drawings by Nathlie Provosty, was published by Spuyen Duyvil Publishing.

James Ketterer was elected to the Board of Directors of the Hudson Valley World Affairs Council.

In December 2014, David Kettler received a John Fekete Award from Trent University in Ontario for his outstanding service to the institution’s faculty association.

The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour (published in May 2014 by Bloomsbury) was included on The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2014.

Cynthia Koch was curator for “Building Clinton: The Toolbox of Sherman Hoyt,” at the Creek Meeting House, in Clinton Corners, NY, August 2-17, 2014.

The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction by Ben La Farge was published by Palgrave in July 2014.

In October 2014, Paul La Farge was interviewed by The New Yorker about his short story “Rosendale.”

Christopher LaFratta was faculty advisor for the Bard chapter that was awarded an Honorable Mention for its activities by the American Chemical Society in December 2014.

In November 2014, Nicholas Lanzillo presented, Exploring Nanoscale Material Properties through Quantum Mechanics and High Performance Computing, at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Physics Colloquium, in North Adams, MA. His recent co-authored articles include: “Metallic few-layer flowerlike VS2 nanosheets as field emitters,” published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 31, 5331 (2014), and “Weak electron-phonon coupling in the early alkali atomic wires,” published in Physica E 66, 125-127 (2015).

Recent publications by Ann Lauterbach include: Saint Petersburg Notebook, published in October 2014 by Omnidawn; “Alice in the Wasteland,” published in theCalifornia Journal of Poetics, December 2014; and “A Reading,” published in BAX: Best American Experimental Poetry. Recent readings of her work and seminars attended include: Yale Poets and Critics Seminar in New Haven, CT, in September 2014; Eastern Michigan University in November 2014; and the Poets & Critics Symposium in December 2014.

In November 2014, Events Ashore by An-My Lê, was reviewed in The New Yorker.

Gideon Lester’s essay “Dramaturgs as artistic leaders” was published in the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy in August 2014.  He also served as a member of the theater jury for this year's Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts. Gideon Lester co-curated “Crossing the Line,” an international arts festival in New York City.

In January 2015, Stuart Levine delivered a lecture to the International Obedience to Authority Conference in Russia. He presented a paper on the continuing development of his Bard College seminar, ‘Milgram –Obedience to Authority,’ and insights that have emerged in the course over the years. This year marks his 50^thanniversary as a member of the College’s faculty.

In July 2014, Marissa Libbon presented her paper, “The Middle English Richard Coer de Lyon and Old Norse Textual Networks,” at the biennial meeting of the New Chaucer Society at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.

Mark Lytle’s article, “The Environment and the Economy, 2000-Present,” was published in U.S. Economic Policy, Robert E. Wright and Thomas Feiler, Eds. (New York, Sage, 2014).

My Two Italies by Joseph Luzzi was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in July 2014; he was interviewed by Nina Shengold for the Chronogram, “Joseph Luzzi Conjures Two Italies: The Genius of Family;” and in October 2014, My Two Italies, was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice.

Norman Manea’s debut novel Captives, originally published in 1970, was translated and released in English in December 2014. The book was reviewed inPublisher’s Weekly, Chicago Tribune and Library Journal.

Tanya Marcuse’s series, "Fallen," was exhibited in a two-person show at Independent Art Projects (IAP) at MASS MoCA, July 31, 2014 through September 21, 2014.  Her project "Wax Bodies" is featured in "An Anatomical Waxwork Cabinet Meets Art" at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden, October 11, 2014 through April 19, 2015.

In September 2014, Robert McGrail presented his paper "CSPs and Connectedness:  P/NP Dichotomy for Idempotent, Right Quasigroups" as part of the theory track at the 16th Symposium for Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2014) at Universitatea de Vest in Timisoara, Romania. He also presented this work at the Midwest Theory Seminar at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in November 2014. His coauthors include James Belk, Japheth Wood and Solomon Garber ’12.

“Ending the War on Al Qaeda,” by Christopher McIntosh was published in Orbis, vol. 58, issue 1, and "Counterterrorism as War: Identifying the Dangers, Risks, and Opportunity Costs of US Strategy Toward Al Qaeda and Its Affiliates," was published in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 38:1 (2015): 23-38.

In November 2014, Sean McMeekin appeared on C-SPAN to discuss the events leading up to World War I.

In November 2014, Walter Russell Mead testified before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and gave the keynote address at a Kings’ College/University of Texas conference on the “special relationship” in London. In December 2014, he was in Cairo, Egypt for the U.S. Embassy and lectured at the American University in Cairo and the Egyptian Diplomatic Institute. He has also published recent articles in The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and TheAmerican Interest.

“When It Comes to Fiction About National Tragedy, How Soon Is Too Soon?” by Daniel Mendelsohn and Anna Holmes appeared in the Sunday Book Review BookEnds section of The New York Times in July 2014. His review “Hail Augustus! But Who Was He?” was published in The New York Review of Books in August 2014. “Do We Read Differently at Different Ages?” and “Should the United States Declare Books an ‘Essential Good?’” by Mendelsohn were published in The New York Times Sunday Book Review in November 2014, and his review, “New Television,” was published in the January 2015 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

In August 2014, Susan Merriam gave a talk entitled “Unruly Displays: The 1993 Whitney Biennial and its Reception,” at a conference at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, organized by Tom Keenan, Jonathan Klarens and Drew Thompson.

Two articles recently published by Oleg Minin include: “The Reception of Russian Futurism through Satire: The Case of the 1913 Mishen' Debate,” International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, ed. Günter Berghaus. Vol. 4 (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2014): 102-105, and “Russian Artists in the United States: The Case of Nikolai Remizov” Experiment. A Journal of Russian Culture, Vol. 20 (Brill: Leiden; Boston, 2014): 229-259.  

Bradford Morrow’s newest novel, The Forgers, was published by Grove Atlantic in November 2014 and named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Amazon, as well as an Indie Next pick and Library Reads selection.  The audiobook edition of The Forgers won an award from Audiofilemagazine, and the novel will be released in France, Germany, and the Czech Republic. His novella The Nature of My Inheritance was published by Mysterious Press in January 2015 and he performed his Bestiary with legendary guitarist and collaborator, Alex Skolnick, at KGB in New York. 

Michelle Murray’s review, “Differentiating Recognition in International Politics” of The I in We: Studies in the Theory of Recognition, by Axel Honneth, appeared in Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought 4, no. 4 (2014): 558-560.

In January 2015, Reuven Namdar was awarded Israel’s Sapir Prize for his novel The Ruined House.

Isabelle O’Connell’s recording of composer Kevin Volans’ Concerto for Piano and Winds with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland was released on CD at the end of 2014 on the Lyric fm label, and is available on iTunes.

Thomas O’Dowd co-authored a chapter “Teaching The Teachers: Preparation and Professional Development of Urban Environmental Educators,” in the ebookUrban Environmental Education.

The Dog by Joseph O’Neill was among Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2014, and was included on The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2014.

Recent interviews and publications by Dimitri Papadimitriou include: “We Need a Different Europe,” Kathimerini, July 2014; “Export Model ‘Science Fiction,’”Naftemporiki, August 2014; “Are EU Bankers Trying to Increase Unemployment in Greece?,” The Huffington Post, August 2014; “How Would Greece Get Out of the Unemployment Impasse?” Kathimerini, August 2014; “Greek Crisis and the Dark Clouds Over the American Economy” (with C. J. Polychroniou), Truthout, August 2014; “The Economy Is Living the Myth of Numbers,” Ethnos, August 2014;“The Solution for the Debt Is a Large Haircut,” Eleftheros Typos, September 2014;“Two Lost Decades and Still an Overindebted Greece” (with C. J. Polychroniou), Eleftherotypia, September 2014; “Will Lindsay Lohan Save Greece?,” Newgeography, September 2014; he was interviewed regarding the expanded role central banks are playing in the global economy with Ron Fink, in September 2014; interviewed regarding the human cost of the debt crisis in Greece with Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press (Athens), in November 2014; “‘Juncker’s Stimulus Plan Is Unrealistic on Many Fronts,’” an interview with Dimitris Rapidis, BridgingEurope, December 2014; “Hello 2015. Goodbye Austerity?” The Huffington Post, January 2015; “Could Greece Be Europe's Lehman Brothers?”, interview with Kathleen Hays, Bloomberg Radio, January 2015; “Markets Tank with Greece Poised to Leave the Euro”, interview with Ian Masters, Background Briefing, January 2015; and interviewed regarding the Greek elections with Kathleen Hays, Bloomberg Radio, in January 2015. Papadmitriou also presented “More Europe, Enough Europe, Less Europe,” at the conference “After the EU Elections—Old Problems and New Challenges,” in Berlin, Germany, July 2014.

In September 2014, Philip Pardi received a 2015 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to support his translation of Salvadoran poet Claudia Lars. 

Two articles co-authored by Francine Prose appeared in the Sunday Book Review BookEnds section of The New York Times in July 2014, “Are Categories Like Immigrant Fiction and ‘New American’ Fiction Valid or Worthwhile?” and “What Are the Last Literary Taboos?” “What’s the Most Terrifying Book You’ve Ever Read” by Prose was published by The New York Times Sunday Book Review in October 2014; her book Lover’s at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 was included on the Kirkuslist of Best Fiction Books of 2014, as well as The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2014. Her article “Courts Without Reporters” appeared on The New York Review of Books in December 2014.

Kelly Reichardt’s new film, Night Moves, was reviewed in the Irish Times in September 2014.

Bruce Robertson was named the Administrative Director of the Bard Ecology Field Station. His book chapter, “Anthropogenic polarization and polarized light pollution,” was published in Polarization Vision, Polarization Patterns, and Polarized Light Pollution in Animal Science, Horváth, G. ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 443-517.

Jamie Romm’s book Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero (published by Knopf in March 2014) was reviewed by The New York Times in July 2014, and was listed by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2014.

In July 2014, Jonathan Rosenberg was invited to teach workshops in directing for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT.

In December 2014, Luc Sante won a 2014 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in the category of nonfiction literature.

In July 2014, Amy Savage was selected for and participated in a PKAL Summer Leadership Institute for STEM faculty, offered by PKAL and AAC&U, in Crestone, CO; she served as an invited panelist for a Biomedical Career Graduate Fair held at Yale University and was appointed to their Graduate Student Alumni Association Board. Recent articles co-authored by Savage include “The Peritrophic Matrix Mediates Differential Infection Outcomes in the Tsetse Fly Gut following Challenge with Commensal, Pathogenic, and Parasitic Microbes," in The Journal of Immunology, vol. 193, no. 2; “Starting small: Using microbiology to foster scientific literacy,” withBrooke Jude, in Trends in Microbiology,  vol. 22, issue 7; and a poster with Kristin Lane (presenter) and students Saumya Dadoo ’15 and Christina Wack ‘15, given at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting in Austin, TX.  She also gave a talk at the 2014 Catskill Environmental Research & Monitoring Conference on science literacy education initiatives to improve decision-making.

A solo exhibition of Stephen Shore’s work was at the 303 Gallery in New York City, September 11, 2014 through November 1, 2014; his recent group shows include “Constructing Worlds,” at the Barbican in London; “Conflict, Time, Photography,” at the Tate Modern in London and a Museum of Modern Art installation at Paris Photo in Paris.

Shore’s photographs appear in The Open Road edited by David Campany; published by Aperture in October 2014. Stephen Shore: Survey, co-authored by Shore, was published by Aperture in December 2014 and includes over 250 of his images over his career; A Natureza das Fotografias by Shore was published by Cosac & Naify in 2014 and his photographs have been published recently in numerous magazines, including Aesthetica, Apollo, Blind Spot #47, Blind Spot #48, Chinese Photographers, Hohe Luft, IMA, M (Le Monde), L’Offiel Hommes, Photo World, T Magazine (NY Times), W and Zeit Magazin.

Maria Simpson performed with choreographer Sondra Loring in CRUSH, a duet in 5 chapters at the Cultivate Dance Festival in Bethlehem, NH in August 2014, where she also taught a master class in ballet technique, and the 92^nd St. Y in New York, NY for the Dances at Noon Series in September 2014.

Mona Simpson’s review of Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, was published in the New Republic in November 2014.

The Object Lesson, a play by Geoff Sobelle, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick in November 2014.

"Occupational Hazards," by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins was published as part of a special issue, "The Life of Infrastructure," in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2014.

In July 2014, Karen Sullivan presented a paper on "The Myth of the Myth of the Inquisition: Henry Charles Lea and His Readers" at a session on "Heresy and Repression" and participated in a round-table discussion on "Righteous Persecution, or Doing Justice to the Inquisitors," both at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. The session and the round-table were organized to respond to two recent books on the medieval Inquisition, including Sullivan’s bookInner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors.

Julianne Swartz’s project, with the Department of Cultural Affairs’ Percent for Art Program, “4 Directions at Hunter’s Point,” received an award for Excellence in Design from the New York City Design Commission in July 2014.

In July 2014, Pavlina Tcherneva presented research funded through an INET grant at the Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation conference in Westminster and City Hall, London.  Her article, “Reorienting Fiscal Policy: A Bottom up Approach” was published in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, September 2014, 37 (1): 43-66, and was featured in the New York Times, CNN, NPR and other media outlets. Her paper “Full Employment, Inflation and Income Distribution: Evaluating the Impact of Alternative Fiscal Policies” appeared in Essays in Honor of Jan Kregel, D. Papadimitriou (ed.), London, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 and in November 2014, she gave a keynote talk at SUNY-New Paltz titled “When Rising Tide Sinks Most Boats: Growth and Inequality in the U.S.”

Letters to Vera, by Vladimir Nabokov, edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd, was published by Penguin Books in 2014. The book received reviews from the London Review of Books, The Literary Review, The Times Literary Supplement and The Sunday Telegraph. 

Dean of the College
January 2015

Faculty Highlights 2013-14

"Inside Circle, #2," an installation by Peggy Ahwesh, was included in the exhibition "Heavy Equipment," at CR10 in Linlithgo, NY, through September 2013. In October 2013, Ahwesh gave the 4th annual experimental film lecture at New York University sponsored by the Departments of Cinema Studies and Undergrad Film and Television. In November 2013, she was a guest artist at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.  Her work is also included in the Ambulante Documentary Festival that travels to 11 states in Mexico over the next several months. She is also featured in "An Album: Cinémathèque Tangier" at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, through May 2014.

Tony Ryan: Ireland’s Aviator by Richard Aldous was published by Gill & Macmillan in August 2013. In September 2013, he appeared on BBC Radio 4 for an ongoing series on the history of British conservatism, and spoke at the Kennedy Summer School in Ireland about the legacy of President John F. Kennedy. The American Interest podcast The Feed: Analysis by Walter Russell Mead & Staff includes episodes hosted by Aldous: “Episode 12:American Oligarchy and Inquality,”  “Episode 15: The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” and “Episode 18: Francis Fukuyama on the 25^th Anniversary of the ‘End of History?’ Essay.”

“Regioselective C-H Activation Preceded by Csp2- Csp3 Reductive Elimination from Cyclometalated Platinum(IV)” by Craig Anderson, Margarita Crespo, Nicole Kfoury ‘12, Michael Weinstein ‘13, and Joseph Tanski was published in Organometallics, 2013, 32 (15).

In May 2014, Thurman Barker was interviewed on WRTI with J. Michael Harrison, and he joined the Sonic Liberation Orchestra and former Bard student Julius Masri in a special performance of new music at The Rotunda in Philadelphia.

James Bagwell, in collaboration with Charles Dutoit and Valery Gergiev, returned to the Verbier Festival for four concerts in July 2013. Bagwell also served as chorus master for BardSummerscape, preparing the chorus for the production of Oresteia in July and August 2013, and preparing the Bard Festival Chorale for three concerts with The American Symphony Orchestra in addition to conducting his own concert for the Bard Music Festival, Stravinksy and His World.  He marked his 8^thseason as chorus master for the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in August 2013 in a performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.  In October 2013, Bagwell conducted the Alabama Symphony; in November 2013, he conducted the Tulsa Symphony in concert with Natalie Merchant, and The Collegiate Chorale and The American Symphony in Boito's Mefestofele at Carnegie Hall; in December 2013, he prepared The Collegiate Chorale for The American Symphony's performance of Strauss's Feuersnot (Leon Botstein, conducting) at Carnegie Hall and prepared the May Festival Youth Chorus for three performances with The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. In January 2014, Bagwell conducted two concerts with singer Natalie Merchant with The Florida Symphony in Miami and Jacksonville, Florida; in February 2014, he conducted Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro at 59E59 Theatre with Little Opera Theatre of New York; in March 2014, he prepared The Collegiate Chorale for a performance of Max Bruch's Moses for Leon Botstein and The American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; in April 2014, he conducted a concert with Natalie Merchant, Carnegie Hall; and in May 2014, he conducted The Collegiate Chorale in the New York premiere of David Lang's battle hymns at the Intrepid, NYC.

Sanjib Baruah gave the keynote address, “Reading Fürer-Haimendorf in Northeast India,” at a conference on the Indo-Burmese borderlands in July 2013 at the University of Vienna in Austria. In February 2014, “Global Insider: India’s Competitive Political Climate Constrains Support for IDPs,” an interview with Baruah was in the World Politics Review; and his article “Student’s death and India’s racism debate” appeared in ALJAZEERA.  “The Politics of Electoral Violence” by Baruah appeared in Outlook in May 2014.

Recent publications by Roger Berkowitz include “Drones and the Question of the Human,” “Melville’s War Poetry and the Human Form,” in A Political Companion to Herman Melville, ed. by Jason Frank, published by Kentucky University Press in December 2013; and “Drones and the Question of “The Human”” in Ethics & International Affairs in June 2014.

In April 2014, Jedediah Berry’s story “Dogs in the Snow” was adapted for radio by Ensemble Studio Theater (Los Angeles), and was featured on the public radio program To the Best of Our Knowledge.

“Metronome,” an Oxford Online Handbook by Alexander Bonus was published digitally in April 2014. The abstract can be found at:http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935321.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935321-e-001#oxfordhb-9780199935321-e-001-div1-5.

In July 2013, the Vienna Review interviewed Leon Botstein about memoirs, modernism, and the role of music in a polyglot world. In August 2013, he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. His book Von Beethoven zu Berg was published in German, September 30, 2013 by Zsolnay-Verlag; he joined the education debate in the New York Times with his article, “Start It Earlier, End it Earlier” in October 2013; he conducted the Sinfonica Juvenil de Caracas (Caracas Youth Symphony) in Tokyo in October 2013; he was interviewed for Huffington Post in November 2013, “The Global Search for Education: Change Leaders—Leon Botstein”; in December 2013, the University Business article “Changing College Admission to Reflect Motivation and Ambition” interviewed President Botstein regarding the merits of Bard’s new entrance exams; he was keynote speaker for “The Great Education Debate” at the Emma Willard School in January 2014. In February 2014, he was quoted in The New York Times in a review of the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. In March 2014, he received the University of Alabama’s 2014 Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prize; his article “College President: SAT Is Part Hoax, Part Fraud,” was published in Time; and Phillip de Montebello interviewed him on the program NYC-Arts, broadcast on PBS station WNET on June 26, 2014. He was interviewed on the 25^th Annual Bard Music Festival on the program NYC-Arts, broadcast on PBS station WNET in June 2014, on the 25^th Annual Bard Music Festival and how Bard has grown during his presidency. He was also interviewed on the 25^th Anniversary of the Bard Music Festival by Opera News, vol. 79, no. 1.

Recent performance’s by Teresa Buchholz include: the roles of Martha and Pantalis in Bioto’s opera in concert Mefestofele at Carnegie Hall with The Collegiate Chorale and The American Symphony Orchestra; the piece “Voyage” by Elliot Carter at Carnegie Hall with The American Symphony Orchestra; and mezzo soloist for Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall, presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York.

“Give democracy a chance in Egypt” by Ian Buruma was published in August 2013 in The Globe and Mail. His new book Year Zero: A History of 1945 was published by Penguin Press in October 2013; was reviewed by The New York Review of Books and The Economist; and made Kirkus Review’s List of best nonfiction of 2013. Articles by Buruma that appeared on Project Syndicate include: “The Idiocy of Olympic Values” February 2014, and “The Trouble with Europe” May 2014.

In November 2013, The New York Review of Books special 50^th anniversary issue featured Ian Buruma, Mark Danner and Daniel Mendelsohn.

David Bush was awarded honorable mention for the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award in December of 2013. The fellowship is awarded annually to an emerging artist in the field of creative photography who exhibits professional accomplishment and serious artistic commitment.

Mary Caponegro contributed an essay to The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill, published by Simon and Schuster in May 2014.

Bruce Chilton's keynote address to the International Organization of Targumic Studies in Munich has just been published in Aramaic Studies under the title "Greek Testament, Aramaic Targums, and Questions of Comparison." In November 2013, his most recent monograph, Visions of the Apocalypse.
Receptions of John's Revelation in Western Imagination, was published by Baylor University Press, and he addressed the Society of Biblical Literature in Baltimore on the topic of Jesus identity as a rabbi in the Gospel according to John. His article on "Provenience" appeared in The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate (ed. Tony Burke; Eugene: Cascade, 2013) 67-74, and “Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament” was published in The World of the New Testament. Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts(eds Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013). His electronic essay, “Why, only now, a pope named Francis?” was carried in Bible and Interpetation, and The Huffington Post published "America's Apocalypse: Armageddon in Jerusalem." His review of Pope Benedict's last book as a sitting pontif appeared in The National Catholic Reporter. In June 2014, Chilton was presented with a lifetime achievement award, for Interfaith dialogue, by the Jewish Federation of Ulster County.

Jean Churchill’s duet for Peggy Florin and Maria Simpson, In The Long Run, was performed in November 2013 at the festival entitled “CROSS-POLLINATION: American Dance Guild at the 92^nd St Y (Two Modern Dance Legacies Merge and Expand).” 

In March 2014, Teju Cole’s novel Open City was the book selection for 1book140, The Atlantic’s Twitter book club, and a profile of Cole “In Words and Photos, Cramming in Life: Teju Cole’s ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ Comes to the U.S.’ was featured in The New York Times.  His article “The American Ending,” appeared onAfrica is a Country in June 2014.

Recent reviews by Mark Danner published in The New York Review of Books include “Syria: Is There a Solution?” (November 2013); “Rumsfeld’s War and Its Consequences Now” (December 2013); “Donald Rumsfeld Revealed” (January 2014); and “Rumsfeld: Why We Live in His Ruins” (February 2014); “In the Darkness of Dick Cheney” (March 2014); “He Remade Our World” (April 2014); and “Cheney: ‘The More Ruthless the Better’” (May 2014).

In August 2013, Richard Davis was guest of honor and speaker at a workshop and conference in Pondicherry, India, organized by the École française d'Extrême-Orient, on "The Archeology of Bhakti." His two presentations were "The South Indian Temple Festival in History" and "Sources of the South Indian Mahotsava." His most recent publication is "Krishna Enters the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in the Journal of Vaishnava Studies.

"Photogeliophobia: Fear of Funny Photography" by Tim Davis was published in the new issue of Aperture Magazine #212, Fall 2013.

Ellen Driscoll was the winner of a 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art. She was among five other artists to win the award, which is given to honor exceptional accomplishment and to encourage creative work.

Andrew Eisenberg was awarded the Richard Waterman Junior Scholar Prize by the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology for his article “Hip-Hop and Cultural Citizenship on Kenya’s ‘Swahili Coast’" (Africa 82:4, 2012).

Omar Encarnación’s essay “Even Good Coups are Bad,” a reflection on the coup in Egypt in light of similar coups in Latin America and Southeast Asia, appeared onForeign Affairs.com on July 10, 2013. In December 2013, his article “Should Democracies Have Monarchs” was published in The New York Times, Opinion Pages. His essay "International Influence, Domestic Activism and Gay Rights in Argentina," was published in Political Science Quarterly in their Winter 2013-14 issue, and in January 2014, his book Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting was published by University of Pennsylvania Press.  “High Courts Have Taken a Stand,” by Encarnacion was published in The New York Times in February 2014. Two of his article’s were featured on Foreign Affairs.com: “Pope Francis’ Latin Lessons: How Latin America Shaped the Vatican,” in May 2014; and “Spain’s Game of Thrones: King Juan Carlos Exits the Stage” in June 2014.

“Somalia’s Leader: Look Past the Hype” an article by Nuruddin Farah, appeared in The New York Times, Opinion Pages in October 2014. 

In October 2013, Peter Filkins’ edition of H.G. Adler's essays, "Nach der Befreiung: Ausgewählte Essays zur Geschichte und Soziologie" appeared from Konstanz University Press. His translation of Bernd Stiegler's "Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel" also appeared from the University of Chicago Press. His essay titled "Twisted Threads: The Entwined Narratives of H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald" appeared in "A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W.G. Sebald," published by Manchester University Press. In November 2013, he was named a co-winner of the Sheila Motton Best Book Award for 2011-2012 by the New England Poetry Club for his volume "The View We're Granted." In April 2014, he was awarded the Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York for the 2014-2015 academic year to work on his biography of H.G. Adler (1910-1988).

The Beats by Larry Fink was published by powerhouse Books in April 2014; Larry Fink: on Composition and Improvisation was published by Aperture in May 2014; and his recent exhibitions include:  “Body and Soul” at Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, February 2014 through May 2014 and “if I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution,” at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, March 2014 through May 2014.

In November 2013, Kyle Gann represented the U.S. at the International Society for Contemporary Music conference in Vienna, lecturing on the state of American music; The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music, co-edited by Gann was published by Ashgate Press. In January 2014, his chorus and orchestra piece “Transcendental Sonnets” was performed by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo Choir with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recent published translations by Susan Gillespie include: Corona: Selected Poems of Paul Celan (Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc., September 2013); Philosophy of Dreams by Christoph Türcke (New Haven: Yale University Press, October 2013), and Toward Babel: Poems and a Memoir by Ilana Shmueli (Rhinebeck, NY: The Sheep Meadow Press, December 2013). She gave readings of her translations of poems by Paul Celan at the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), at Bard College Berlin, and (together with Peter Filkins reading his translations of poems by Ingeborg Bachman) at McNally Jackson Bookstore in New York City as part of the Bridges series.  

Marka Gustavsson performed at the Lighthouse Chamber Festival in Wellfleet in July 2013 and at the Bard Music Festival in August 2013.

In April 2014, Lianne Habinek, was awarded a National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend for 2014 in support of research for her book project, Such Wondrous Science: Early Modern Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience; the Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship at Wellesley College for the 2014-2015 academic year; and a Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Grant from Yale to use materials at their Cushing/Whitney Medical Library in support of her research.

Selected Late Letters of Antonin Artaud, 1945-1947, translated by Cole Heinowitz and Peter Valente, was published by Portable Press at YoYo Labs in April 2014.

Figures, Landscapes & Time, an exhibition of films by Peter Hutton, is at La Loge in Brussels through February 1, 2014.

“Structural insights into the interactions of xpt riboswitch with novel guanine analogues: a molecular dynamics simulation study,” was recently published in the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics and is the results of the research project, “RNA binding to novel pharmaceutical drugs,” envisioned and started by Swapan Jain in 2009. The report was co-authored by Jain, Emily McLaughlin and Bard students Sheneil Black and Weiqing Wang, among others.

Philip Johns and colleagues, published the paper “Meiotic drive impacts expression and evolution of X-linked genes in stalk-eyed flies” in PLOS Genetics May 2014.

Bill T. Jones was a recipient of a 2014 Doris Duke Artist Award. Given to exemplary individual artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and related interdisciplinary work who have proven their artistic vitality and commitment to their field, the award is an investment in the potential of dedicated artists.

Chinese Religious Art by Patricia Karetzky was published in December 2013 by Lexington Books. Her articles published in the Yishu Journal of Contemporary Artinclude “Wang Qingsong’s Use of Buddhist Imagery (There Must Be a Buddha in a Place Like This),” vol. 12, no. 1; “Time and Love: Cai Jin’s New Works,” vol. 12. no. 6; and “Xu Bing’s Magical Mystery Tour,” vol. 13, no. 1.

Instant Classic, a collection of poems by Erica Kaufman, was published by Roof Books in November 2013; and her short essay “The Leaves Changed and I Didn’t Notice: 10 Jilted Starts” was published in San Francisco MOMA’s Open Space. She was co-editor and author of the introduction to Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974 (Parts I & II) - Part IV of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Her essay "In Pursuit: Ann Lauterbach's Lyric Essay" appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Issue 239, April/May 2014; and she was a featured speaker at the annual Symposium on Communication and Communication-Intensive Instruction at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College, CUNY in May 2014.

Recently published articles co-authored by Felicia Keesing include: “Effects of wildlife and cattle on tick abundance in central Kenya,” in Ecological Applications 23, no. 6 (2013): 1410-1418; “Straw men don’t get Lyme Disease: response to Wood and Lafferty,” in Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2013); “Novel Organisms: Comparing Invasive Species, GMOs, and Emerging Pathogens,” in Ambio (2013): 1-8. In September 2013, Keesing gave a talk entitled “Biodiversity and Infectious Diseases: The Case of Lyme Disease” at the Center for Science and the Common Good at Ursinus College; and she and her colleagues received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the ecological consequences of host infection with the bacterium that causes Lyme Diseases. The project will be for three years, with field research taking place at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.

In August 2013, Jim Ketterer spoke on WAMC radio about conditions in Egypt, where he spent over two years as the head of AMIDEAST, a leading non-profit organization engaged in international education, training and development activities in the Middle East and North Africa.  In November 2013, he was invited to give the annual Sherman David Spector Lecture at Russell Sage College, on the topic “Living the Egyptian Revolution.”  In May 2014, he served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation and Europe election mission to Ukraine.

In October 2013, David Kettler presented at a conference on “Kurt H. Wolff and Existential Truths” in Italy. During October and November 2013, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Paedagogische Hochschule in Germany; in that capacity, he gave a number of lectures and participated on a panel regarding critical theory and education.

Two articles, “The Silence of the Leaves” and “Empty Barn Rafters” by Verlyn Klinkenborg were published in The New York Times, Opinion Pages, September 2013. His article “Follow the Water: Journey to the heart of Norway” was published in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic, and his essay collectionMore Scenes from The Rural Life, made The Advocate’s holiday gift list.

In May 2014, a book review by Cynthia Koch, “An Uncommon Cape: Researching the Histories and Mysteries of a Property” (by Eleanor Phillips Brackbill) appeared in The Public Historian, vol. 36, no. 2. 

In April 2014, YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation by Cecile Kuznitz was published by Cambridge University Press and reviewed by the Lithuania Tribune. During the fall of 2014, Kuznitz will be the Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. She will be working on her new project, “Towards a Yiddish Architecture.”

“Optical tweezers for medical diagnostics” by Christopher LaFratta was published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, July 2013, vol. 405, issue 17.  He also co-authored “Measuring Atomic Emission from Beacons for Long-Distance Chemical Signaling,” published in Analytical Chemistry 2013, 85, 8933; and “Dynamic Microbead Arrays for Biosensing Applications,” published in Lab-on-a-Chip 2013, 13, 2153.

“The reproducibility project: A model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility,” by Kristin Lane, as part of the Open Science Collaboration, was published by Taylor & Francis in Implementing Reproducible Computational Research, April 2014.

The American Reader reviewed Ann Lauterbach’s new collection of poetry, Under the Sign, in September 2013. Her collection, Under the Sign, was reviewed by Benjamin Landry for the Colorado Review in February 2014.

Photographs of the U.S. Coast Guard by An-My Lê were installed in the Coast Guard’s new headquarters in Washington, D.C. in August 2013. Solo exhibitions of her work were at the Balitmore Museum of Art, October 2013 through February 2014, and MAS Museum Aan de Stroom in Antwerpen, May 2014 through July 2014.

Nancy Leonard chaired a session, "Silence, Absence and Ellipsis in Literature and Music,” during the Ninth International Conference of the Words and Music Association at the University of London in August 2013.

Gideon Lester curated the dance and theater components of SummerScape 13. His stage adaptation of the play, The Master and Margarita with director Janos Szasz, opened at the Fisher Center in July 2013. Crossing the Line, the international fall arts festival co-curated by Lester, was praised by critic Claudia LaRocco in the New York Times article “Blurring Boundaries, Sharpening Ideas” in October 2013.

In April 2014, Marissa Libbon presented her paper “Constructing the Past on the Page in the Chronicle of Richard of Devizes,” at the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America at UCLA.

Barbara Luka along with students, L. Rich and A. Benowitz, presented a poster session, “Strength of Semantic Association Influences N400 Amplitude but Not Lexical Decision Times,” at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in November 2013. The article by Luka and C. Van Petten, “Gradients versus dichotomies:  How strength of semantic context influences event-related potentials and lexical decision times” appears now in the online version of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

In July 2013, Joseph Luzzi presented a paper, “The Unwritten Lady: Byron’s Francesca da Rimini,” at the International Byron Conference at King’s College in London. “Disjointed Lists,” his review of Umberto Eco’s Inventing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings, appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in August 2013. Recent publications by Luzzi include “It Started in Naples,” his review of Elena Ferrante’s The Story of a New Name, in The New York Times Book Review in September 2013; “I Found Myself in a Dark Wood,” in The New York Times Opinion Pages in December 2013; “End of the Affair: Rossellini and Antonioni after Neorealism,” in Raritan 32.4 (2013); and “In Scented Boudoirs,” his review of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Pleasure, in the Times Literary Supplement, January 2014. In September 2013, he was invited to give a lecture, “A Certain Tendency: Poetics of Adaptation in the Italian Art Film,” at the Cinema Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, and also gave a presentation entitled “Giacomo Leopardi as Literacy Critic,” at “The Voices of Leopardi’s Zibaldone,” at Columbia University. His book,A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in May 2014.

Norman Manea’s memoirs, The Hooligan’s Return, were published by Yale University Press in October 2013 and reviewed on The Daily Beast in April 2014.

Wyatt Mason's profile of American novelist Norman Rush appeared in the New York Times Magazine on September 1, 2013. The Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press published two of Mason’s translations of fiction by contemporary French writer Pierre Michon: Masters and Servants, a collection of five novellas; and The Origin of the World, a novel. His translation of a short story by László Krasznahorkai was published in England by Portobello Books, in the anthology Multiples.

In June 2014, “Taking Obama’s Offer Seriously: Ending the War on Al Qaeda,” by Christopher McIntosh was published in the Yale Journal of International Affairs, and his chapter “Framing the CTBT Debate in the U.S. Ratification of the Treaty” was included in Banning the Bang or Bomb?: Negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Regime ed. by William Zartman, Mordechai Melamud, and Paul Meerts, published by Cambridge University Press.

“Roxanne’s Dress: Governing Gender and Marginality through Addiction Treatment” by Allison McKim was published in Signs, 39(2).

“A solvent-free amidation of vinylogous esters via direct aziridination,” co-authored  by  Emily McLaughlin, Anuska Shrestha ‘16, Madison Fletcher ‘12, Nathaniel Steinauer ‘13, Min Kyung Shinn ’14, and Sabrina Shahid ’16 was published in Tetrahedron Letters, August 2013. “Three-component synthesis of disubstituted 2H-pyrrol-2ones: preparation of the violacein scaffold,” also co-authored by McLaughlin, was published in Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 55, issue 6. The paper included three undergraduate co-authors: Thant Koko '13, Matthew Norman '14, Ingrid Stolt '15.

In September 2013, Daniel Mendelsohn's latest collection of essays and criticism, "Waiting for the Barbarians," was the runner-up for the PEN/American Diamonstein-Spielvogel Art of the Essay Award. “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “The Government Shutdown” by Mendelsohn appeared in The New Yorker in October 2013. In December 2013, the American Philological Association announced that he would be awarded the APA's President's Award—only the second individual in the organization's 145-year history to receive the award—which is given "to honor an individual, group, or organization outside of the Classics profession that has made significant contributions to advancing public appreciation and awareness of Classical antiquity." He received the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2014 Literature Awards. The prize is awarded to a writer whose work merits recognition for the quality of its prose style. Recent published articles by Mendelsohn include: “Deep Frieze: What does the Parthenon mean?” The New Yorker, April 2014; “Do Critics Make Good Novelists,” co-authored for the Sunday Book Review in The New York Times in May 2014; “Whose Writing Career Do You Most Envy?” co-authored for the Sunday Book Review in The New York Times in June 2014; and “The Inspired Voyage of Patrick Leigh Fermor” in The New York Review of Books in June 2014.

In September 2014, The New York Times announced a new back page for its Book Review, called Bookends, in which two writers tackle a provocative question; among the columnists chosen were Daniel Mendelsohn and Francine Prose; their question “How Do We Judge Books Written Under Pseudonyms?” appeared in November 2013.

Two articles by Walter Russell Mead were published in Time magazine, August 2013: “The Cost of Obama’s Syria Dithering,” and “On Syria: Be Clear, Then Hit Hard.”

In July 2013, Susan Merriam attended the AAC&U annual meeting in Portland Oregon with Professors Eric Trudel and Maria Cecire where they gave a presentation on integrative learning at Bard. In December 2013, Merriam moderated a panel on arpilleras and witness at a conference entitled “Historical Justice and Memory: Questions of Rights and Accountability in Contemporary Society” sponsored by the history and human rights program at Columbia University.

Oleg Minin co-edited a volume of the journal Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture, Vol. 19. His contributions to the volume include “The Satirical Journals of the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907: A Brief Introduction,” (with Marcus Levitt), pp. 17-24; the introduction to and editing of the "Excerpts from the 1905-1906 Benois–Lanceray Correspondence" pp. 225-273; and “The Press Laws of the Revolutionary Period: October 1905-April 1906: An Introduction” pp. 333-339. Minin’s article “The Reception of Russian Futurism through Satire: The Case of the 1913 Mishen’ Debate” was featured in the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, vol. 4 (2014).

“Civil War, Ethnicity, and the Migration of Skilled Labor,” co-authored by Aniruddha Mitra was published in Eastern Economic Journal, vol. 39, pp. 387-401. His paper “Financial liberalization and the selection of emigrants: a cross-national analysis” (co-authored with James T. Bang and Phanindra V. Wunnava) was accepted by Empirical Economics and is available online: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-013-0735-0

Chiori Miyagawa’s “This Lingering Life” premiered in San Francisco at the Theatre of Yugen in June 2014 and was reviewed by The San Francisco Examiner.

Bradford Morrow’s short novel, The Nature of My Inheritance, was published in June 2014 by Mysterious Bookshop.  His forthcoming novel, The Forgers, was named one of Publishers Weekly’s “Most Anticipated Books” for the fall.  

Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919 by Gregory Moynahan was published by Anthem Press, London in July 2013. In December 2013, he was appointed Tivoli’s new village historian, a position formally held by Professor Emeritus of Sociology Bernard Tieger.

In April 2014, Michelle Murray was appointed as a Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College for the academic year 2014-2015. As a Fellow in residence, she will continue research on her book manuscript, The Struggle for Recognition in International Politics.

Melanie Nicholson presented a paper on Chilean surrealism at the Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée in Paris in July 2013. Her co-translation of Olga Orozco's collection of short stories A Talisman in the Darkness (White Pine Press, 2012) was awarded the 2013 "Best Translation Prize" of the New England Council of Latin American Studies.

Lothar Osterburg was artist in residence at Cill Rialaig Art Center in county Kerry, Ireland in July 2013; ”Bookmobile for Dreamers” by Lothar and Elizabeth Brown was performed at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center in August 2013; together they were visiting artists at Montevallo State University in Alabama in September 2013; Osterburg was in residence as distinguished artist at Navigation Press, George Mason University, in October 2013.

Publications by Dimitri Papadimitriou during 2013-14 include: “The Greek catastrophe and a possible way out,” (with C.J. Polychroniou) in openDemocracy, July 2013; “Austerity’s Failure in Greece: Time to Think the Unthinkable,” in Truthout, August 2013; “Greece Needs a 21^st Century Marshall Plan,” in  Bloomberg, August 2013; “Export Led Growth: Why the Troika’s Greek Strategy Is Failing”, (with Michalis Nikiforos and Gennaro Zezza) Captial.gr, September 2013 (in Greek); “Government Announcements are Incompatible with Reality”, AVGI, November 2013 (in Greek); “Even if Austerity is Discontinued the Hope for Growth is Not Until 2016” Kathimerini, November 2013 (in Greek); “The U.S. Economy Needs an Exports-led Boost”, Reuters, November 2013; Kathimerini, November 2013 (in Greek); and The Independent, December 2013; “The Ongoing Crisis in Greece and the Eurozone” Kathimerini, December 2013 (in Greek) and “Examining the Unthinkable”Kathimerini, December 2013 (in Greek); “How to Restart the Growth Engine” KATHIMERINI, February 2014 (in Greek); “The Currency/Jobs Connection in Greece”,EconoMonitor, March 2014; “The Jobs-Currency Connection in Greece”, Huffington Post, March 2014; “The Jobs-Currency Connection in Greece”, ETHNOS, March 2014 (in Greek); “The Jobs-Currency Connection in Greece”, AVGI, March 2014 (in Greek); “Employment Policies”, KATHIMERINI, April 2014 (in Greek); “The Greek Economy Looks Like A Beaten Boxer” Part I, (with C.J. Polychroniou) Eleftherotypia , May 2014 (in Greek); “The Myth of the Greek ‘Success Story’”, (with C.J. Polychroniou) Truthout, May 2014; “The Greek Economy Looks Like A Beaten Boxer” Part II, (with C.J. Polychroniou) Eleftherotypia, May 2014 (in Greek); and “The coming ‘tsunami of debt’ and financial crisis in America”, The Guardian, June 2014.  He was also a keynote speaker at the CEPREMAT-CRNS conference on the topic of "The Crisis in Greece and the Eurozone: A Union of Austerity or a Union of Growth" in Paris, France, December 23, 2013.

In April 2014, Aileen Passloff performed “A Legacy Concert,” at the 92^nd Street Y in New York City, tracing the influence of her teacher James Waring through her to her student Arthur Aviles.

Judy Pfaff won the International Sculpture Center (ISC) 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. ISC awarded two world-renowned sculptors, Pfaff and Ursula Rydingsvard, with the award. 

“Talismen: Ganesh” by Francine Prose was published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2013. Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Prose was published by Harper and reviewed by Janet Maslin for The New York Times in April 2014. Recent published articles by Prose include: “How Have Tools Like Google and YouTube Changed the Way You Work? “ co-authored for the Sunday Book Review in The New York Times in January 2014; “Is It O.K. to Mine Real Relationships for Literary Material?” co-authored for the Sunday Book Review in The New York Times in April 2014; and “What Are the Draws and Drawbacks of Success for Writers?” co-authored for the Sunday Book Review in The New York Times in May 2014.

In July 2013, Dina Ramadan presented a paper, "And again to Authenticity," at the conference Regional vis-à-vis Global Discourses: Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London University. In October 2013, she co-organized the third annual conference of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey entitled "On Likeness and Difference: Modern Art of the Middle East and the Confines of Modernism" at New York University. In November 2013, she presented a lecture entitled ""The Message of Art and Good Taste": Sawt el-Fannan and Art Criticism in 1950s Egypt" at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin.

Kelly Reichardt’s new film Night Moves premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August 2013, and was reviewed by Mark Olsen for the Los Angeles Times. The film opened in theaters in May 2014.

“Ecological novelty and the emergence of evolutionary traps,” co-authored by Bruce Robertson was published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28: 552-560 and was covered by National Public Radio, National Geographic and New Scientist Magazine; it was among the top 25 most downloaded papers in Earth and Planetary Sciences. “The Cancer Diaspora:  Metastasis beyond the seed and soil hypothesis,” also co-authored by Robertson, was published in Clinical Cancer Research 19: 5849-5855. He presented his research at the first annual Gordon Conference on Predator-Prey interactions in Ventura, California. In Spring 2014, Robertson co-authored two articles: “Combining habitat and threat models to identify potential ecological traps: the case of Andean bears in the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela” published in Animal Conservation (February 2014); and “Perennial grasslands increase multiple ecosystem services in bioenergy landscapes,” published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, June 2014; 111; and New Scientist magazine published a feature article on his research on evolutionary traps. He was also invited to give a talk at SUNY Binghamton’s Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series, and was invited to present his research on evolutionary traps at the 1^st Annual Gordon Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions.

Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm was published by Knopf in March 2014. The book was the focus of a New York Public Library conversation between Romm and Columbia’s James Shapiro on March 25. His exploration of Seneca’s “Letters to Lucilius” appeared in The Wall Street Journal’s“Masterpiece” column, and in April 2014 he was awarded the Leon Levy Center for Biography fellowship at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York for the 2014-2015 academic year to work on his new book manuscript, Grand Conjunction: Platomism and Politics in Italy in the Era of Pico della Mirandola.

In January/February 2014, Jonathan Rosenberg directed Athol Fugard’s Master Harold and the boys at Julliard.

In April 2014, Justus Rosenberg gave a lecture on “Faith, Fate, Luck or Confluence of Circumstances,” before the Eliezer Society at Yale University.

In February 2014, Marina Rosenfeld had a premiere performance at the Borealis Festival of Contemporary Music, in Bergen, Norway. In March 2014, Free Exercise, commissioned by Borealis and the Orchestra of the Norwegian Navy, for wind orchestra, with piano and violin soloists, took place in all four rooms of the Bergen Kunsthall and featured an acoustic-architectural intervention created in collaboration with the Bergen School of Architecture. Rosenfeld was featured composer-performer in concerts at the Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal; Festival Electronica in Abril, Madrid; and Borderlines Festival at the Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece. In April 2014, she participated in an online roundtable for The New Yorker on the subject of recording and experimental music, and was published in the inaugural edition of Ear | Wave | Event, a new Berlin-based sound-studies journal. 

SURPLUS, an exhibition by Lisa Sanditz, was at the CRG Gallery in New York City February 14, 2014 through March 15, 2014.

Matthew Sargent was a featured composer for the SEM Ensemble’s “New Works by Emerging Composers” concert series in February 2014. The ensemble performed his work, “Tide” (2011), at Willow Place Auditorium in Brooklyn, NY. His string quartet, “the river of dream/the dreams of the river,” was premiered by the Arditti Quartet at the State University of Buffalo in March 2014.

"Insights into the trypanosome-host interactions revealed through transcriptomic analysis of parasitized tsetse fly salivary glands," by Amy Savage was published inPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, April 2014. In June 2014, she gave a talk entitled "Citizen Science: Inquiry based learning in the core curriculum to advance college science literacy," at the HUIC STEM Education Conference in Honolulu, HI.

Ann Seaton appeared in the Whitney Biennial as a member of the How Do you Say Yam in African Collection. The collective produced a 53-minute digital film Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera, which was screened at the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City March 2014 through May 2014.

Works by Stephen Shore were included in the following group shows “Lens Drawing,” at Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris (June 2013-August 2013); “XL19: New Acquisitions in Photography,” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (May 2013 – January 2014); “Everyday Epiphanies,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (June 2013-January 2014); “A Sense of Place,” at Pier 24 in San Francisco, California (July 2013-May 2014); and “Only the Good Ones: the Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited” at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague (January 2014-June 2014). Solo exhibitions include “Everyday Epiphanies” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the end of 2013; “A Sense of Place” at Pier 24 in San Francisco, California through May 2014; and “Uncommon Places” at the California Museum of Photography (May 2014-September 2014). Recent articles about Shore’s work have been published in The Huffington Post, the New Republic online and theFinancial Times. A New York Minute, an iBook of videos and the first digital format project by Shore was made available from Phaidon Press for download in November 2013; his photo book Winslow Arizona was published by IMA; and his book From Galilee to the Negev, was published by Phaidon Press in May 2014. He participated in the symposium, “The View from Here: L.A. and Photography,” at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles; and he has given recent public talks at - The International Center of Photography in New York City (with Jeff Rosenheim); The Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, California (with Sandra Philips); at Paris Photo in Los Angeles, California (with Taryn Simon); and at Core Club in New York City (with Jane Kramer).

In July 2013, Maria Simpson was a guest faculty member for the Southern Vermont Dance Festival. In August 2013, she was a performer in “Built On Stilts Dance Festival,” in Martha’s Vineyard (created and directed by Bard dance major Abby Bender). She also performed two episodes from Crush, a duet by choreographer Sondra Loring.

Mona Simpson discussed Chekov’s “Three Years” in “The Epic Drama of the Imperfect Love Story,” published in The Atlantic in May 2014.

“Ge Ganru’s Fairy Lady Meng Jiang: the Chinese Premiere” by Patricia Spencer appeared in The Flutist Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3.

Recent publications by Karen Sullivan include: “The Judge and the Maiden: Justice and Pity at the Pyre” in a special issue of Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes/ Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies on “Le Droit et son écriture: La Médiatisation du fait judiciare dans la littérature d’ancien régime,” vol. 25, pp. 165-178 and “The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Violence in the Canso de la Crozada” in Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World, vol. 29, pp. 99-114. Sullivan’s article “On Recognizing the Limits of Our Understanding: Medieval Debates About Merlin and Marvels,” was published in Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages, ed. Dallas G. Denery, Kantik Ghosh, and Nicolette Zeeman (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 161-84. In November 2013, she gave a lecture on “The Eucharist and the Holy Grail: The Sacrament and the Sacred in the Medieval Literature” at Pomona College, and her book, The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (University of Chicago Press) was published in paperback.  In April 2014, she gave a talk on Joan of Arc in conjunction with a screening of Carl Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc at Boston College.

A site-specific project by Julianne Swartz will be on view through July 2014 at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. Her current exhibitions include, "Terrain" a site specific project at Oude de Kerk in Amsterdam through March 2, 2014; and a solo show entitled, “Skin, Line, Slight Sound” at Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona through February 2, 2014. She had a solo exhibition of her work at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, March 2014 through June 2014.

Erika Switzer was a faculty member and pianist for The CoOPERAtive Program at Westminster Choir College/Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey in July 2013.

During the fall semester, Pavlina Tcherneva was invited to participate in the inaugural panel of The Institute for New Economic Thinking’s INET Seminar Series at Columbia University. She also gave several lectures at FLACSO in Ecuador on topics of unemployment and fiscal policy, and was invited by the Association of Bulgarian Economists to a roundtable discussion around her paper “Chartalism: the tax-driven, modern money approach.” In January 2014, her op-ed piece “Sixteen Reasons Matt Yglesias Is Wrong About the Job Guarantee vs. Basic Income,” was published in Truthout, and her public lecture at Columbia Law School on the same topic was featured in Jacobin magazine, The Nation and The New Inquiry. She also appeared on the nationally syndicated public radio and TV program The David Pakman Show. In March 2014, she gave invited public lectures at both Hofstra University and Middlebury College.

Richard Teitelbaum’s CD, Piano Plus: Piano Music 1963-1990 (New World Records, New York) came out in fall 2013; concerts in December 2013 with Musica Elettronica Viva Group included: a 50^th Anniversary Concert of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschedienst, Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Germany, and a concert at Café Oto in London, England.

Bard alumnus Peter Aaron ’68 profiled Joan Tower, on the occasion of her 75^th birthday, for the Chronogram in September 2013. In May 2014, she was interviewed on WAMC Northeast Public Radio by Joe Donahue and Alan Chartock. To listen: http://wamc.org/post/joan-tower

Eric Trudel co-edited (with Jan Baetens) and introduced a special issue of the journal L'Esprit Créateur: Old and New, Avant-garde and "Arrière-garde" in Modernist Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, vol. 53, no. 3, Fall 2013). His article devoted to French novelist Tanguy Viel appeared in the journal Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (17:4, 2013), p. 435-461. He interviewed French poet Pierre Alferi for the Paris-based journal Revue critique de FIXXION française contemporaine, in a special issue devoted to writers-filmmakers (number 7, 2013, p. 162-170). He also contributed an essay on poet Fernand Ouellette to Les poésies de langue française et l'histoire au XXe siècle a collected volume published in January 2014 by the Presses universitaire de Rennes (France), and devoted to poetry and/in history (ed. Laure Michel and Delphine Rumeau).

Suzanne Vromen was invited to Queen Mary, University of London, to be keynote speaker at a conference on “The Rescue of Jews in Western Europe during the Holocaust: The Local, the National and the Transnational.” Her presentation was entitled “Organizing Rescue: The Mission of the Committee for the Defense of Jews in Occupied Belgium.”

“Vital Margins: Frontier Politics and Ethnic Identity” by Li-hua Ying appeared in Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, edited by Emily T. Yeh and Chris Coggins, published by the University of Washington Press in June 2014.

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August 2014

Faculty Highlights 2012-13

• The chapter, “The Alchemical Kitchen: At Home with Leonora Carrington,” by Susan Aberth was published in Nierika, Revista de Estudios de Arte in June 2012.
• Diana Al-Hadid has several exhibitions this year: at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, March 10, 2012 through November 25, 2012; MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, April 14, 2012 through March 1, 2013; Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City, September 14, 2012 through October 20, 2012; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 19, 2012 through January 6, 2013; and at the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris, France in October 2012. She gave a lecture “Studio Conversations” at the Moore College of Art in Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 12, 2012.
• In July 2012, James Bagwell performed ten concerts with The Collegiate Chorale, where he is music director, and The Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv and Haifa under Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti. The Collegiate Chorale performed three concerts at the Salzburg Festival with Zubin Mehta and The Israel Philharmonic; this is the first American chorus to appear at the Festival since 1989 and is one of the most prestigious music festivals in the world: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/arts/music/salzburg-to-lincoln-center-spirituality-is-on-the-program.html?hpw. Bagwell also prepared the choruses for the operas: “Le Roi Malgre Lui” for Bard SummerScape, July 2012 through August 2012, the Bard Festival Chorus for the Bard Music Festival and the Concert Chorale of New York for four performances at the Mostly Mozart Festival, both in August 2012. He prepared the Collegiate Chorale for two performances in October 2012 at Carnegie Hall, with The Israel Philharmonic and The American Symphony Orchestra. In December 2012 and January 2013, he performed with singer Natalie Merchant at the Tilles Center in Long Island, at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, with The Clearwater Symphony and with the Las Vegas Symphony. In December, he led the Collegiate Chorale and The American Symphony Orchestra in a highly acclaimed performance of Bellini’s opera Beatrice di Tenda at Carnegie Hall.
• An interview with Thurman Barker appeared in the October 2012 issue (no. 126) of The New York City Jazz Record.
• Sanjib Baruah’s article “Whose River is it Anyway? The Political Economy of Hydropower in the Eastern Himalayas” appeared in Economic and Political Weekly in July 2012. He guest edited the December 2012 issue of the Indian policy journal Seminar. Devoted to the theme ‘Assam: Unstable Peace,’ the issue also included his article, “Hydropower, Mega Dams, and the Politics of Risk.”
• Roger Berkowitz was on WAMC’s roundtable on November 5, 2012 to discuss the Presidential election and Presidential electoral politics in America. In September 2012, Fordham University Press published The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis, edited by Berkowitz and Taun Toay.
• In August 2012, “Propagation of charged particle waves in a uniform magnetic field” a paper by Christian Bracher, was published in Physical Review A. An image from the publication was chosen for the American Physical Society wall calendar 2013, which is sent to roughly 50,000 members of the society worldwide.
• Ken Buhler’s exhibition, Birdlands, was at the Lesley Heller Workspace in New York City from December 12, 2012 through January 20, 2013 and at Galerie Gris in Hudson, New York from December 1, 2012 through January 26, 2013.
• Maria Cecire’s article, “Reality Remixed: Neomedieval Princess Culture in Disney’s Enchanted,” was published in Disney’s Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past, edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2012).
• Bruce Chilton’s review of Pope Benedict’s last book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, appeared in the Dec/Jan issue of The National Catholic Reporter.
• Alex Chung’s paper “Could Accruals Predict R2?” appeared in the August 2012 issue of International Research Journal of Applied Finance.
• Works by James Clark were included in a summer group show at Pace Gallery in New York City through August 23, 2012.
• Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas's play Bird in the Hand was at the Fulcrum Theater, Theater for the New City, in New York City from August 29, 2012 through September 23, 2012. In September 2012, monologues by Cortiñas were published in Actor’s Choice: Monologues for Teens, Vol. 2.
• In July 2012, Jennie D’Ambroise presented a talk on her research at the Association for Women in Mathematics Workshop held in conjunction with the 2012 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was also awarded the AMS Simons Travel Grant for 2012-2014; supported by the Simons Foundation, the grant provides an early-career mathematician funds to be used for research related travel. “Asymmetric wave propagation through nonlinear PT-symmetric oligomers,” a paper co-written by D’Ambroise, was published by the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, (vol 45, number 44).
• Two essays by Mark Danner appeared in the New York Review of Books; “The Politics of Fear” in November 2012 and “How, and What, Did Obama Win?” in December 2012.
• Gods in Print: Masterpieces of India’s Mythological Art, by Richard Davis was published by Mandala Publishers in November 2012.
• The Winter 2012 issue of aperture featured articles by both Tim Davis, “The Neighborhood Ketchup Ad: Photography and Housing in Unzoned Arizona,” and An-My Lê, “Events Ashore: Photographs and Commentary by An-My Lê.”
• Adjunct professor of jazz guitar, Mike DeMicco, has been touring with The Brubeck Brothers Quartet in support of their new CD, Lifetimes. The Quartet recently toured Russia performing with the Russian National Orchestra at Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow) and in quartet concerts at Conservatory Hall (Moscow) and Mariinsky Hall (St. Petersburg). DeMicco contributed his composition “Prezsence” to Lifetimes and served as co-producer for the CD. He is featured on flutist Ali Ryerson’s new CD, Con Brio, which includes two more of his compositions, and is also highlighted on pop singer/songwriter Robbie Dupree’s latest release, The Arc of a Romance.
• Carolyn Dewald was awarded a Visiting Residential Fellowship for faculty research from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will spend the spring term at All Souls College in Oxford.
• Michèle Dominy presented a keynote lecture, “Place Conservation in Post-Settler Societies,” at the Australian Anthropological Association annual conference, “Culture and Contest in a Material World,” in Brisbane in September 2012. 
• Helen Epstein was awarded an Open Society Fellowship beginning in June 2013. The program supports individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges, and funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges. Her article “The Wrong Way to Fight Polio,” appeared on the NYR Blog of The New York Review of Books website on December 22, 2012.
• In September 2012, Omar Encarnación was invited by Foreign Affairs to contribute to “What to Read?” a feature of the magazine that advises readers on what to read about current affairs. “What to Read on Spanish Politics” highlighted seven books essential for understanding the current economic crisis in Spain – click to view http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/readinglists/what-to-read-on-spanish-politics.
• Clerks of the Passage by Abou Farman was published by Linda Leith Publishing in September 2012. His article, “Re-Enchantment Cosmologies: Mastery and the Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe,” appeared in Anthropology Quarterly, special collection issue; vol. 85, #4.
• Miriam Felton-Dansky co-edited "Digital Dramaturgies," in Yale’s Theater magazine. The issue includes Felton-Dansky's essay about viral performance, and an interview with Annie Dorsen about her play for chatbots, Hello Hi There. You can access the journal's online edition through Bard's library portal. 
• In August 2012, Jack Ferver had two video works at Andrew Edlin Gallery and, together with QWAN Company, he performed at the Berkshire Theater Festival.  In October 2012, he created an original multidisciplinary and multimedia evening-length work with theatre students from his alma mater, Interlochen Arts Academy. These Young Men and Women opened at Interlochen’s symposium on the future of the arts for the school’s 50^thanniversary. He also premiered a new solo, Mon, Ma, Mes, for the Crossing the Line Festival at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) and in January 2012, at the American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center in New York City.
• The View We’re Granted, a book of poems by Peter Filkins, was published in July 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press. In September 2012, he co-curated and participated in a poetry reading series for the Berkshire Wordfest at Edith Wharton’s estate. In October 2012, he delivered a keynote address, “Memory’s Witness – Witnessing Memory,” at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London for the symposium “H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald: Memory, Witness, and Poetics.” In November 2012, he delivered a paper, “The Self Positioned/The Deposited Self/The Soul Released: The Uses of Biography in H.G. Adler’s Shoah Trilogy,” at the conference “H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy,” at York University in Toronto. In December 2012 and January 2013, Filkins held a residency at the MacDowell Colony.
• In December 2012, Andrew Gallup’s book review “Could modularity give rise to general-purpose cognitive structures?” of Robert Kurzban’s Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite was published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 6(4). 506-510. In January 2013, articles co-written by Gallup appeared in the following journals: “When hawks give rise to doves: the evolution and transition of enforcement strategies,” published in Evolution; “The influence of real-world resource asymmetries on punishment in economic games,” published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology; and “The thermoregulatory theory of yawning: what we know from 5 years of research,” published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• Robert Ashley (American Composers), by Kyle Gann, was published by the University of Illinois Press in December 2012. In January 2013, he presented a paper, “Algorithm and Intuition in Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach" at the University of Amsterdam's Einstein on the Beach conference; was the keynote speaker at Beyond Notation: An Earle Brown Symposium at Northeastern University; and the second movement of his piano concerto “Sunken City” was performed by the Utrecht Wind Ensemble at the Utrecht Center for the Arts, the Netherlands.
• An interview with Jeffrey Gibson was featured in LUXE IMMO Magazine, no. 26. Exhibitions of his work are at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, “Peekskill Project V,” September 29, 2012 through July 28, 2013; the Museum of Art and Design in New York City, “Changing Hands,” through October 21, 2012 and the Marc Straus Gallery in New York City, November 18, 2012 through December 23, 2012.
• In December 2012, Jacqueline Goss received a USA Rockefeller fellowship. Each year, United States Artists (USA) honors 50 of America’s finest artists with individual fellowship awards of $50,000 each, for more information visit http://www.usafellows.org/fellows.
• In September 2012, “Getting to page four of King Lear with Jean-Luc Godard,” an article by Lianne Habinek was published in the journalShakespeare. She was named a short-term research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
• In December 2012, Ken Haig was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. The grant will support a year of research in Japan and South Korea for his project, “The Greying of Democratic East Asia: The Politics of Population Policies in Japan and South Korea.”
• Lynn Hawley played the role of Queen Elizabeth in The New York Public Theater's production of Richard III in August 2012.  The production also toured prisons, homeless shelters, and other venues where people have no access to professional theater.
• Philip Johns and colleagues, Richard Baker, Apurva Narechania, and Gerald Wilkinson, published the paper, "Gene duplication, tissue-specific gene expression and sexual conflict in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae)" in the August 2012 issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, devoted to ‘Sexual selection, social conflict and the female perspective.’ Johns and biology student, Maximillian Brown, traveled during August 2012 to the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre in Brunei, Borneo, and to the Ulu Gombak Biodiversity Centre in Peninsular Malaysia. The aim of this NSF-funded research venture was to collect and perform genomic analyses on several species of stalk-eyed flies.
• Femininity in Asian Women Artists’ Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits, an e-book by Patricia Karetzky, was published by KT Press in September 2012. The exhibit “Living in a Material World,” curated by Karetsky will be at the Center Arts Gallery at Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange through March 29, 2013.
• In November 2012, Felicia Keesing gave a seminar on her research at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy. She was appointed a member of the national steering committee for the Vision and Change conference on undergraduate biology education, organized by the National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She also co-wrote and published the following papers: “Effects of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) removal on re-colonization by entompathogenic fungi,” in Invasive Plant Science and Management; “Effects of host diversity on disease risk,” in the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics; “Reservoir competence of common tick hosts for Babesia miroti” in Emerging Infectious Diseases; “Identifying reservoir hosts of Anaplasma phagocytophilum” in Emerging Infectious Diseases; “Dropping dead: causes and consequences of vulture population declines worldwide” in The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology; “Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents,” in Oikos; and “Lessons on the relationship between pastoralism and biodiversity from the Kenya Long-term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE),” in Policy and Practice. 
• Peter Kyle’s project “100 Days” was selected among the Top Five Picks at NYC-ARTS during the week of October 15, 2012.
• Kristin Lane was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Academic Research Enhancement (AREA) Award (R15), specifically from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, in support of her project entitled, "The Lonely Scientist: How Implicit Science Construals, Stereotypes, and Attitudes Contribute to the Gender Gap in Science Participation." The award is to be used over a three-year period, starting July 2012. Lane, as part of a collection of psychological scientists called the Open Science Collaboration, published the article “An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science,” in Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 657-660.
• In October 2012, Ann Lauterbach was invited to be the University of Chicago’s distinguished guest as the Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poet. Past Sherry Poets have included Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, Mark Strand, Allan Grossman and Keith and Rosemary Waldrop.
• An-My Lê was named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. The award recognizes her insightful and subtle accomplishment as an artist.
• In September and October 2012, Gideon Lester co-curated “Crossing the Line,” a cross-disciplinary arts festival in New York City. In November 2012, he was part of a curatorial delegation in Bogota, Colombia, organized by the Goethe Institut, and in January 2013, he gave a guest lecture on contemporary theater practice at Tulane University in New Orleans.
• In January 2013, Marisa Libbon presented a talk,“Richard Coer de Lyon and the Textualization of Gossip,” co-sponsored by UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Department of English.
• Nicola López participated in the inaugural exhibition of “The Inside-Out Museum,” in Beijing, China, September 2012 through October 2012.
• In fall 2012, the Italian publication of Joseph Luzzi’s book Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (Yale University Press) appeared as Il romanticismo italiano e l’Europa. Fantasia e realta nell’immaginario occidentale, trans. Mattia Acetoso (Rome: Carocci). In October 2012, his article “The Work of Genre: Labor, Identity, and the Language of Finance in Wordsworth and Verga,” was published in PMLA, and he was invited to give the 2012 Nicholas C. Tucci Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, where he delivered the presentation “Heirs of a Dark Wood: Principles and Poetics of Dante’s Reception.” His book review of Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale, “A World of Color” appeared in The New York Times on December 28, 2012.
• A solo exhibition of new works by Medrie MacPhee was at Barbara Edwards Contemporary in Ontario, Canada, November 9, 2012 through December 22, 2012.
• PEN American Center presented “In Conversation: Claudio Magris and Norman Manea” on October 30, 2012 at The Strand Bookstore’s Rare Book Room in New York City, where Manea discussed literature, philosophy and exile. In December 2012, Queens College Evening Readings presented Aleksandar Hemon, Norman Manea and Gary Shteyngart in conversation with Leonard Lopate.
• Tanya Marcuse had a limited-edition portfolio of her new project “Fallen” acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
• Wyatt Mason’s translation with commentary of “Hogy Visszanyerjük,” a short story by László Krasznahorkai, appeared in McSweeney’s #42, an issue devoted to translation and featuring a dozen stories translated in as many as six different versions by sixty-one writers working in eighteen languages.
• In October 2012, Walter Mead published “Infostructure in the New Infrastructure,” in the Wall Street Journal; appeared on the PBS News Hour with Zbigniew Brzezinski; published a review essay in Foreign Affairs entitled “Peace Out” and published multiple cover stories in The American Interest.
• Edie Meidav interviewed Leela Corman about her novel Unterzakhn for THE MILLIONS in August 2012. A non-fiction piece about Meidav’s research in Cuba and Nicaragua appeared in the fall issue of Zyzzyva. “The Buddha of the Vedado” a short story about Cuba by Meidav appeared in the fall issue of Conjunctions.
• Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn was published by New York Review of Books in October 2012. A review of the book appeared in The New York Times Book Review in December 2012, and in January 2013 the book was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. “The American Boy,” an essay by Mendelsohn on his correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, appeared in the January 7, 2013 issue of The New Yorker.
• Chiori Miyagawa's play Dream Acts, co-written with four other playwrights, was published online at Indie Theater Now.  She was an artist-in-residence at Ithaca College where Dream Acts and a panel about the role of theater in social change were presented in October 2012. This Lingering Life kicked off the inauguration season of a new theater, Civic Theater Ensemble, in Ithaca at Kitchen Theater in October 2012, and was presented by Playwrights Foundation in January 2013 at Stanford University and at NOH Theater in San Francisco.  This Lingering Life will premiere in San Francisco in 2014.  She was featured in IATC's (International Association of Theater Critics) journal, Critical Stages, issue 27, "Interview with U.S. Playwright Chiori Miyagawa" by renowned theater critic Randy Gener. Miyagawa was the dramatug on Dispatches from A(mended) America, an Epic Theater Ensemble production in New York City, directed by Ron Russell in October-November 2012. Her play Way to Curaçao was selected as the first New Play Lab project at Center Stage in Baltimore under the new Artistic Director, Kwami Kwei-Armah, and received three public readings in December 2012.
• In December 2012, Adjunct Professor of Cello Garfield Moore performed his Gemini Series recital, with pianist Hiroko Sakurazawaat, at the Hudson Opera House. A review of the recital “Stunning classical holiday concerts” by John Paul Keeler appeared in On the Scene a Hudson-Catskill newspaper.
• In December 2012, Rufus Müller sang “Messiah” in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” in Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
• In October 2012, Melanie Nicholson presented a paper “César Moro: Exile and the Poetic Imagination” at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. Her book Surrealism in Latin American Literature: Searching for Breton’s Ghost was published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2013.
• Lothar Osterburg’s work will be part of the show “On Time/Grand Central at 100” at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex & Store at Grand Central Station in New York City from March 6, 2013 through July 7, 2013. His work “Zeppelins in Grand Central” is on display in subway cars throughout the system as part of New York’s MTA Art in Transit 2013 “Artcard” program. The poster will remain on display until the end of 2013 and can be purchased at the Transit Museum Store.
• Neni Panourgia was appointed Editor for the Social Sciences of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (2013-2016).
• Solo exhibitions and installations of Judy Pfaff’s work were at the Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia, June 16, 2012 through August 26, 2012; Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado, September 20, 2012 through October 29, 2012 and Ameringer|McEnery| Yohe in New York City, October 11, 2012 through November 10, 2012.
• John Pilson’s solo exhibition "Altogether Elsewhere" was at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana from August 4, 2012 through September 14, 2012.
• In the fall of 2012, John Pruitt traveled to Lithuania to help introduce a gallery exhibit and a three-city film retrospective dedicated to the career of native Lithuanian and long time Bard professor, Adolfas Mekas. He gave lectures, at different universities, devoted to Mekas’s activities as a journal editor, film writer/director, and Bard professor.
• Bruce Robertson organized a symposium entitled "Agroenergy and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity?" at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America meeting in August 2012 in Portland, Oregon. He also gave a talk during the symposium on the same topic.
• In September 2012, Susan Fox Rogers read from her book, My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir, as part of the SUNY Oswego Living Writers series. In October 2012, she was invited to speak at Wofford College’s first “Thinking Like a River” conference. Funded by the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, the three-year initiative aims to shape a culture of sustainability centered on local waters by offering unique, hands-on experiences with area rivers for students and faculty. Rogers also spoke at the Environmental Consortium’s annual conference at Marist College. The focus of the roundtable was “An Ecological Curriculum: What do we want our students to know?”
• In September 2012, Plutarch: Lives that Made Greek History, edited by James Romm and Pamela Mensch, was published by Hackett Publishing Co. The book is a collection of excerpts from Plutarch’s Lives designed for classroom use. In November 2012, Romm spoke at the 92^nd Street Y Tribeca on the period after the death of Alexander, the topic of his 2011 book, Ghost on the Throne.
• During the summer of 2012, Jonathan Rosenberg conducted workshops in directing at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. In September and October 2012, he directed Fen by Caryl Churchill at The Juilliard School.
• A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship was awarded to Julia Rosenbaum to study the visual culture of the American Civil War during the summer of 2012. The Terra Foundation for American Art, through the Newberry Library in Chicago, awarded her a grant to fund an international symposium in June 2013 on nineteenth-century art and cartographic practices in the Americas; she is organizing it with a historian at Macalester College.
• “Who Cares,” an essay by Mona Simpson was published as a cover story for The New York Times Magazine on July 13, 2012.
• During the summer of 2012, Elizabeth Smith taught at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford. In December 2012, she worked on Volponeby Ben Jonson, directed by Jesse Berger at The Red Bull Theater in New York City.
• “How Futile Work Is: 'Les Destines sentimentalism’” by Richard Suchenski, was published in Olivier Assayas Kent Jones, ed.,  (Vienna:  Austrian Film Museum/Columbia University Press, 2012) in July 2012.
• “How Deep Is Your,” a survey exhibition of work by Julianne Swartz, was at the deCordova Museum in Massachusetts September 2012 through December 2012; the exhibit will travel later this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is currently included in an exhibition “Good Night” at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and in group shows at Josee Bienvenu Gallery and Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York City. 
• In January 2013, Pavlina Tcherneva was awarded the 2013 Helen Potter Prize by The Association for Social Economics (ASE). The prize is awarded each year to a promising scholar of social economics for authoring the best article in The Review of Social Economy. Tcherneva is being awarded the prize for her article “On-the-spot Employment: Keynes’s Approach to Full Employment and Economic Transformation” published in the March 2012 issue.
• In January 2013, Eric Trudel’s translation of and introduction to Jean Paulhan’s essay “Braque le patron” appeared in George Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945, edited by Karen K Butler, published by Prestel. His essay “Entre Zone et Zooe: Figures et ecritures du devenir-animal chez Pierre Alferi” was published in French Forum, vol. 27, no. 1-2.
• In late summer and fall 2012, Emeritus Professor Suzanne Vromen gave lectures on different aspects of the Holocaust to high school teachers at Columbia Teachers’ College’s “Facing History and Ourselves,” and to parochial school teachers, gallery docents and NY metropolitan region educators at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

Faculty Highlights 2011-12

• “Emissaries from the Primordial Realms: The presence of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art in the Work of Isabel De Obaldia” by Susan Aberth was published in the catalog for the exhibition of the artist at the Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The exhibition is on view from September 2011 through May 2012.
• Regan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship by Richard Aldous was published by W.W. Norton in March 2012.
• In August 2011, Craig Anderson was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his proposal “RUI: Selective C-H and C-X Bond Activation to Platinum (II) and Reactivity of the Cyclometalated Complexes.” In November 2011, Anderson received a Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award.
• Freedom’s Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum American by Myra Armstead was published by New York University Press in February 2012. The book was reviewed in The New York Times on March 16, 2012.
• John Ashbery was awarded the National Book Foundation’s 2011 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
• From March 18 through April 16, 2012, Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, presented “Inside Circle,” a solo exhibition by Peggy Ahwesh.
• In the fall of 2011, James Bagwell was the conductor of The Collegiate Chorale and The American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; The Nashville Symphony at Schermerhorn Symphony Hall with soloist Natalie Merchant; and Choral Preparation of The Collegiate Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall. In December, he was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at Cincinnati Music Hall; the Michael Buble Christmas Special nationally broadcast on NBC and Choral Preparation of The Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall with Leon Botstein conducting. In February 2012, Bagwell conducted The Collegiate Chorale and The American Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time at Carnegie Hall in New York City; The Collegiate Chorale in a performance of Another Look at Harmony Part IV as part of the Tune-In Festival at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City; and prepared The Collegiate Chorale for three concerts with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, with Leon Botstein conducting. Bagwell shared the stage with Botstein for a rare performance of George Crumb’s Star-Child at Carnegie Hall in April 2012. In June 2012 he conducted the San Francisco Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony with singer Natalie Merchant, and the Amici New York Orchestra at the OK Mozart Festival.
• Roger Berkowitz’s essay, “Bearing Logs on Our Shoulders: Reconciliation, Non-Reconciliation, and the Building of a Common World,” appeared in Theory & Event vol. 14.1 (2011). His essay, “Assassinating Justly: Reflections on Justice and Revenge in the Osama Bin Laden Killing,” appeared in the October issue of the Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, volume 7, issue 3. In December 2011, Berkowitz announced that the NEH has offered the Arendt Center and Bard the Endowment Challenge Grant of $425,000 to build an endowment.. His essay, “The Power of Non-Reconciliation–Arendt’s Judgment of Adolf Eichmann,” appeared in Vol. 7. of Hannaharendt.net, a special issue dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Eichmann Trial. His chapter “Hannah Arendt on Human Rights,” was part of Handbook of Human Rights, edited by Thomas Cushman. In May 2012, Berkowitz gave a keynote lecture "Examining the Human Condition: From Aristotle to Today" at One Day University. 
• Celia Bland’s recent works have appeared in The Evergreen Review, Connotation Press’s Poetry Congeries, Drunken Boat, Lumina and The Boston Review. Her essay on the work of Jean Valentine, formerly published in The American Poetry Review, is included in “Jean Valentine: This World Company” published by the University of Michigan Press in May 2012.
• In October 2011, Leon Botstein explored composers of great interest with names only known to the most curious of collectors in an interview posted in theLos Angeles Times.  He discussed the dismal state of American middle and high schools in The Hechinger Report, and was the 2012 recipient of Longy Conservatory’s Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevation of Music in Society.
• Diana Brown’s invited papers include "Neighborhood Heroines: Suffering and Recognition of Elders' Family Caregiving in a Southern Brazilian City" at the Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November 16-20, 2011.
• Works by Ken Buhler were included in a group show at VanDeb Editions in New York City in November 2011.
• A review by Ian Buruma appeared in the February 24, 2012 New York Review of Books: “Who Did Not Collaborate” about And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
by Alan Riding; see http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/who-did-not-collaborate/.
• Mary Caponegro’s essay on the author Don DeLillo was published in Italian Americana.
• In May 2012, Nicole Caso presented her paper, “Cortocircuito en el fluir de cuerpos y palabras en la cultura popular contemporánea,” at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) held in San Francisco, California.
• Rebecca Chace’s book Leaving Rock Harbor, published in June 2010 by Scribner, was published in German (Abschied von Rock Harbor) in September 2011 by Bloomsbury Berlin.
• Noah Chasin was featured as a “Historian of Urban Design” in a new documentary by Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified) entitled, Urbanized. The film appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival and played in theaters across the country.
• Bruce Chilton’s article, “What Does The Bible Say About The Mother Of Jesus?” appeared August 16, 2011 on the Internet newspaper Huff Post. His recent books include The Way of Jesus (Abington Press) and The Targums co-authored with Paul W. M. Flesher (Baylor Press).
• In March 2012, Teju Cole won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award for his novel “Open City.” The award honors outstanding first works of fiction; previous winners include Bobbie Mason, Renata Adler, Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri and Dagoberto Gilb.
• In December 2011, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas was awarded this year’s Cintas Fellowship in Creative Writing. The fellowship supports Cuban artists, living outside of Cuba. Previous winners include Reinaldo Arenas, María Irene Fornés and Oscar Hijuelos.
• Jonathan Cristol (Bard '00, Yale '02) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, "Classical Realism and American Diplomatic Recognition," at Bristol University in January 2012.
• In March 2012, Laurie Dahlberg was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 Summer Stipend award and in April 2012, she received a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society, both for her book project “Amateur vs. amateur: Photography and the [D]evolution of a Gentleman’s Art, 1839-1900.” She also gave a talk at the University of Georgia “Caste and Taste: The Amateur Distinction in Early Photography.”
• In the fall of 2011, Richard Davis spent six weeks in India, with the help of a Bard Research Fund and NEH grant, researching for a book about the history of the Bhagavad Gita. He lectured at Jnanapravaha in Mumbai and the School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and he spoke with students at the Institute for Gandhian Studies in Wardha, Maharashtra. His Mumbai lecture was covered with an interview in Time Out Mumbai. The District Commissioner of Kurukshetra interviewed him on local television in his role of an American professor studying Hinduism. During the spring 2012 semester, Davis presented “Boat over Troubled Water: The Bhagavad Gita and Indian Nationalists” at the Hindu Studies Colloquium at Harvard University; “A Mixture of Pure Waters: Thoreau Reads the Bhagavad Gita at Walden Pond,” for the Department of Religion and Center for Humanities at Tufts University and “Wilkins, Kasinatha, Hastings and the Bhagavad Gita,” for the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.
• Tim Davis had a solo show at Galleria Marabini in Bologna, Italy from September through November 2011. His video project, “Dollar General Drive By” showed at Art Basel in Miami Beach, Florida. He also edited issue 44 of Blindspot magazine, featuring both Barbara Ess and Bard alumnus Paul Salveson. “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video,” an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, from February through August 2012, includes works by Davis and John Pilson. The exhibition was reviewed in The New York Times on February 9, 2012. Seehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/spies-in-the-house-of-art-at-the-metropolitan-museum.html
• Jennifer Derr was awarded the 2012 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) from the Social Science Research Council. She published “A Draft of the Colony: Historical Imagination and the Production of Agricultural Geography in British-Occupied Egypt” in an edited volume of Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa by Edmund Burke III and Diana K. Davis, published in December 2011 by Ohio University Press. 
• The article, “Racial and ethic price differentials in a small urban housing market,” co-authored by Sanjaya DeSilva, Anh Pham ’09 and Michael Smith ’09 was published in the journal Housing Policy Debate (vol 22 issue 22) in March 2012. The article was based on a faculty-student collaboration that was sponsored by the Bard Summer Research Institute.
• In July 2011, Michèle Dominy was an invited speaker in a session on indigenous/settler relations at the conference, "Knowledge and Value in a Globalizing World," sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Anthropological Associations and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Perth. In December 2011, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars approved Dominy for inclusion on the Fulbright Specialists Roster to support international scholarly exchanges.
• The article “Housing Inequality in the United States: Explaining the White-Minority Disparities in Homeownership,” by Yuval Elmelech and Sanjaya DeSilvawas published in Housing Studies, volume 27, no. 1.
• Omar Encarnacion contributed a chapter on “civil society assistance and democratic promotion,” to the Oxford Civil Society Handbook, edited by Mike Edwards and published by Oxford university Press in August 2011. In February 2012, he spoke on "Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution" as part of a year-long celebration of 25 years of Latin American studies at Vassar College. His latest essay "Justice in Times of Transition: Lessons from the Iberian Experience," was published in International Studies Quarterly in April 2012.
• Gidon Eshel gave a talk at the University of California, Berkeley in November 2011 on “The Future of the Food Movement.” His book Spatiotemporal Data Analysis was published by Princeton University Press in December 2011.
• In the summer and fall of 2011, Peter Filkins spent three months working in the archive of H.G. Adler in Marbach, Germany, with the support of a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – German Academic Exchange Service) Faculty Research Grant. From January until May, 2012 he was writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. His article “The Hidden Lens: How Translation Shapes Meaning” appeared in the March 16, 2012 issue of The Chronicle Review, and his translation of Adler’s novel PANORAMA was published in January 2012 in paperback from Modern Library. In March 2012, Filkins gave a talk on "The Art of Translation" at the Barnard College Conference on Translation, followed by a talk titled "Panorama: H.G. Adler's Life and Times" at Columbia University two weeks later.
• Cheat and Charmer (Random House, 2005), a novel by Elizabeth Frank, was published in Bulgaria in June 2012 by the publishing house Ciela in a translation by Ani Oreshkova. The publication was accompanied by a good deal of media attention: the translator, Ani Oreshkova and Frank were interviewed twice on the radio (Darik, and the channel Horizont of Bulgarian National Radio), twice on television (Bulgarian National Television and TV7), and have given four newspaper and magazine interviews. The book also received a rave review by Bulgarian critic Dimitar Kambourov in the journal Kultura. There was a reading and discussion of the book at Ciela's bookstore near Sofia University, with Frank, the translator, the film director Iglika Triffonova, and novelists Angel Wagenstein and Zdravka Evtimova.
• Kenji Fujita exhibited his sculpture in a three-person show, “Live at The Acropolis,” from June through August 2011 at The Company in Los Angeles, California. He was included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters (March 6-April 15, 2012) where two of the works in the show were acquired by the Academy’s Art Purchase Program for placement in an American museum. In April 2012, he was the recipient of an Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation. The award is given in recognition of the quality of an artist’s work and that artist’s dedication to his or her work over a period of many years.
• In November 2011, Susan Gillespie read several of her translations of Ilana Shmueli’s poems as a guest of the Goethe Institute in Jerusalem; the evening honored the German publisher Rimbeau Verlag and its authors. Her review of Paul Celan’s Encounters with Surrealism, Trauma, Translation and SharedPoetic Space, by Charlotte Ryland, appeared in German Quarterly 85.1, Winter 2012. Gillespie served as a member of an external evaluation team reviewing the international programs of Bryn Mawr College, and as a panelist at a conference on “Global Citizenship in Practice,” organized by the United Nations Academic Impact Program and Lehigh University.
• While participating in a conference in November 2011, Olivier Giovannoni was quoted by Reuters in the article “Greece’s tiny debt load,” by Pedro da Costa.
• In May 2012, Richard Gordon organized and chaired a symposium on cultural variations in eating disorders and body image for the Transcultural Special Interest Group of the Academy for Eating Disorders at the annual International Conference on Eating Disorders in Austin, Texas. A book in which he had written the third chapter on the use and misuse of antidepressants (Dana Jack and Alisha Ali, Silencing the Self in Cross-Cultural Perspective:  Gender and Depression in the Social World, Oxford University Press, 2011) was awarded the Ursla Gielen Global Psychology Book Award. The award is given by the American Psychological Association to a recent book that makes the greatest contribution to psychology as an international discipline and profession.
• “The Observers,” a feature-length film by Jacqueline Goss, showed in November 2011 at the Museum of Natural History in New York City as part of the Margaret Mead Film Festival, in May 2012 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City and in June 2012 at the Northwest Film Forum’s NEXDOCS series in Seattle, Washington. Reviews in the New York Times and Time Out can be read at http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/movies/the-observers-looks-at-mount-washington.html and http://www.timeout.com/us/film/the-observers. 
• Marka Gustavsson performed at the Kennedy Center as part of the Cherry Blossom Festival in May 2012. She was a guest artist-teacher for master classes at Yellow Barn, and served as co-artistic director of Soundfest at University of Connecticut-Storrs. She also performed chamber music at this season's Bard Music Festival.
• Stephen Hammer recorded “Handel: Judas Maccabeus” with the Clarion Orchestra, New York, January 2012 and “Mozart: Coronation Mass” with the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, April 2012. In June 2012, he served as Instructor and co-director of a course in Classical woodwind performance at Brandeis University and performed Bach oboe concerti at the Aston Magna Festival and Blue Hill Bach Festival, June through July 2012.
• Elizabeth Holt gave a lecture “From Gardens of Knowledge to Ezbekiyya after Midnight: The Serialized Arabic Novel from Beirut to Cairo, 1870-1892,” at the American Research Center in Egypt, in Cairo on April 4, 2012. Holt is a National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellow at the ARCE this semester.
• In January 2012, Michael Ives and Joan Retallack performed a composition entitled Interruptus (conceived by Joan Retallack) for the K-PST Festival, in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, a large-scale celebration of 20^th century art in southern California sponsored by the Getty. The engagements included performances in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
• “Syntheses, Characterization, Density Functional Theory Calculations, and Activity of Tridentate SNS Zinc Pincer Complexes Based on Bis-Imidazole or Bis-Triazole Precursors,” co-authored by Swapan Jain (among the authors was also Raed Al-Abbasee ’13) was published in Inorganica Chimica Acta, December 2011. Jain was successful in his application for The Dreyfus Boissevain Undergraduate Research & Lectureship award for 2012. This award provides an $18,500 grant that will support undergraduate research in chemical sciences, and will also be used to bring a prominent researcher to Bard for a series of lectures and interactions with our students & faculty.
• In January 2012, Philip Johns and colleagues received a National Science Foundation Research Opportunities Award “Collaborative Research: Origin and Evolution of X and Y Chromosomes in Stalk-eyed flies.” His student Mark Brown will participate in the collection trip to South East Asia and in the research. In April 2012, Johns presented his paper “Sexual competition and gene duplication in stalk-eyed flies (Family Diopsidae),” at the 21^st Annual Philippine Biodiversity Symposium of the Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines.
• In February 2012, Brooke Jude was invited to give a talk, “A Microbe at Home: Janthinobacterium isolate as a case study for molecular genetic progress,” at the Ithaca College Biology Seminar Series.
• As part of their Faculty Enhancement Program: Deeping Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, ASIANetwork has chosen Ken Haig to participate in their seminar in South Korea, “Understanding Global Trends through Korean History: Cultural Synthesis, Colonialism, Cold War and Globalization.”
• In fall 2011, Felicia Keesing co-wrote “Effects of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) on Entomopathogenic Fungi,” with Philip Johns, R.S. Ostfeld and several Bard undergraduates, published in EcoScience 18: 164-168; she co-wrote “Molting Success of Ixodes Scapularis Varies Among Individual Blood Meal Hosts and Species,” for the Journal of Medical Entomology 48: 860-866; as well as “Ecological Importance of Large Herbivores in the Ewasco Ecosystem,” published in Conserving Wildlife in African Landscapes: Kenya’s Ewasco Ecosystem. Keesing gave talks at The Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Austin, Texas; The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; at a meeting of the South African Society for Zoology and Parasitology in Cape Town, South Africa; and presented at a conference on 21^st Century Biology Education in Chicago, Illinois.
• In July 2011, Franz Kempf presented “The English Garden as a Vision and Critique of the Enlightenment” at the 13^th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Graz, Austria. In February 2012, he received a grant from the Max Kade Foundation for travel expenses to enable three Bard students to travel to Berlin to take part in a study abroad program at Humboldt University.
• Yishu published the following articles by Patricia Karetzky in 2011 “Xu Yong's This Face”(vol. 10, no. 6), “Bomu: Don't Fence Me In” (vol. 10, no. 4), and “Zhang O’s Recent Work” (vol. 10, no. 3). She presented last summer at two international conferences, the XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies at Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan and the 7th International Conference on Daoist Studies in Nanyue Changsha.
• “The Liquidation of Exile: Studies in the Intellectual Emigration of the 1930s” by David Kettler was published by Anthem Press in July 2011. He co-editedNach dem Krieg! - Nach dem Exil? Erste Briefe/First Letters, with Detlef Garz in 2012. Other recent publications include “Karl Mannheim and Georg Simmel. Introduction to Soul and Culture” (with Volker Meja and Anna Wessely) in Theory, Culture and Society; “’How can we tell it to the children?’ A Deliberation at the Institute of Social Research: January 1941.” (with Thomas Wheatland) Thesis Eleven, and “Karl Mannheim’s Jewish Question” Revised and expanded (with Volker Meja); Detlef Garz and David Kettler, eds. Nach dem Krieg! - Nach dem Exil? Erste Briefe/First Letters , co-editor (with Detlef Garz). Munich: 2012; “Karl Mannheim and Georg Simmel.  Introduction to Soul and Culture,” (with Volker Meja and Anna Wessely) Theory, Culture and Society. 2012; “’How can we tell it to the children?’  A Deliberation at the Institute of Social Research: January 1941.” (with Thomas Wheatland) Thesis Eleven. 2012; “Georg Lukács und David Kettler,” pp. 23-66 in Frank Benseler/Rüdiger Dannemann, eds. Lukács 2012/2013.  Georg Lukács zum 125. Geburtstag.  Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2012 and “Karl Mannheim’s Jewish Question” Revised and expanded. (with Volker Meja). Religions 2012. www.mdpi.com/journal/religions. Presentations by Kettler include: April 13, 2012, roundtable to mark the 70^th Anniversary of Franz L. Neumann’s Behemoth.  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago; May 7, 2012.  “First Letters of Jewish and Non-Jewish Exiles,” Dubnow Institute, Leipzig; May 9, 2012,  “The Politics of ‘Social Rights,’ Franz L. Neumann and the Labor Regime”; Political Science and International Relations, University of Vienna; May 12, 2012 “A Debate on Methodology at the Institute of Social Research,” Philosophy and Social Science Conference, Prague; May 14, 2012 “Franz Neumann and the Modern State,” Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung and June 29, 2012, “Beyond Ideology and Utopia: Mannheim’s Sociology as Political Cultivation.” Presented at a conference: ‘‘Politisierung der Wissenschaft’: Jüdische, völkische und andere Wissenschaftler an der Universität Frankfurt am Main”; Goethe University, Frankfurt, June 29, 2012.  “Beyond Ideology and Utopia: Mannheim’s Sociology as Political Cultivation,” presented at a conference: ‘‘Politisierung der Wissenschaft’: Jüdische, völkische und andere Wissenschaftler an der Universität Frankfurt am Main”; Goethe University, Frankfurt.
• On January 9, 2012, Cecile Kuznitz delivered the opening lecture to launch the YIVO-Bard Institute for East European Jewish History and Culture program, which held its first session January 1 through January 26, 2012.
• Luminous Airplanes, by Paul La Farge, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September 2011.
• “Comic Anxiety and Kafka’s Black Comedy,” by Ben LaFarge was published in Garry Hagberg’s journal Philosophy and Literature, vol. 35, no. 2.
• “InfoBiology by printed arrays of microorganism colonies for timed and on-demand release of messages,” co-authored by Christopher LaFratta, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in September 2011. The article received attention from the science and mainstream media, including the journal Nature and Science. A patent was granted to LaFratta, Michael R. Webb and David R. Walt for Spectroscopic Imaging Microscope and Microsope Systems.
• “What Is College For? The Purpose of Higher Education,” edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and Harry Lewis, was published by Teachers College Press in November 2011. They also contributed an essay to the book Renewing Civic Mission of American Higher Education.
• Peter Laki spoke on Béla Bartók at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London in September 2011. He also performed Peter Warlock’s song cycle “The Curlew” in his own Hungarian translation at a concert devoted to Bartók and Warlock held at St. Peter’s Church, in honor of the un-veiling of Imre Barga’s Bartók statue in Kensington. In November 2011, Laki read a paper entitled “Le Petit Macabre: Personifications of Death in the Operas of Viktor Ullmann and György Ligeti” at the annual convention of the American Musicological Society in San Francisco.
• "Dimensional Enhancement via Supersymmetry", by Michael Faux, Kevin Iga, and Gregory Landweber, was published in Advances in Mathematical Physics,vol. 15. In June 2012, Landweber gave a talk titled "Moduli Spaces for Off-Shell Supersymmetry" at the 2012 Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in Regina, SK. He has also been awarded a Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians for his project "Supersymmetry and K-theory."
• In July 2011, the article “Implicit Science Stereotypes Mediate the Relationship between Gender and Academic Participation,” co-authored by Kristin Lanewith Bard undergrad Jin Goh and Erin Driver-Linn was published by Sex Roles as an "Online First" and can be read on the journal's websitehttp://www.springerlink.com/content/x2425x8737jh52j8/ . Her article “Being Narrow While Being Broad: The Importance of Construct Specificity and Theoretical Generality,” appeared as an “Online First” article in Sex Roles in October 2011. The article can be viewed athttp://www.springerlink.com/content/97636255140213t6/.
• Intervals, an installation by Nicola López was on view at the Guggenheim in October 2011.
• Barbara Luka and Heidi Choi’s ‘09 article "Dynamic grammar in adults: Incidental learning of natural syntactic structures extends over 48 hours" was published in the Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 66, issue 2. With Cyma Van Petten, Luka co-authored "Prediction during language comprehension: Benefits, costs, and ERP components" which appeared in the International Journal of Psychophysiology (2011). “Client experiences of agency in therapy,” a paper arising from the Senior Project of Bard alumna Corinne Hoener, co-authored by Luka, Richard Gordon and William Stiles, was published in Person-Centered & Experimental Psychotherapies, vol. 11, issue 1.
• Joseph Luzzi contributed a chapter “Verga Economicus: Language, Money, and Identity in Verga’s I Malavoglia and House by the Medlar Tree” to an edited collection The Printed Media in Fin-de-Siècle Italy; Publishers, Writers, and Readers edited by Ann Hallamore Caesar, Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns and published by Oxford in August 2011. In the fall of 2011, Luzzi co-edited “Literary Value” with Marshall Brown for a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly on literature and economics. His article “The Ends of Poetry: Sense and Sound in Giorgio Agamben and Ugo Foscolo,” appeared in Annali d’Italianostica 30. His DVD review “The Runaway Melodrama of Raffaello Matarazzo,” was a web exclusive on cineaste.com and “Dark Knight of the Soul,” his review of Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, appeared in Bookforum 18.3. His writing also appeared in the following publications: “Silvio and Signoria.” Review of Maurizio Viroli, Servants of Liberty: Berlusconi’s Italy. Beppe Severgnini, Mamma Mia! Berlusconi’s Italy Explained to Posterity and Friends Abroad. TLS (February 18, 2012): 13; “Faces of Florence.” Los Angeles Review of Books. June 26, 2012. Web exclusive/lareviewofbooks.org; “Italo Calvino’s Adolescence—That In-Between Time.” Review of Italo Calvino, Intro the War, trans. Martin McLaughlin. Times Literary Supplement (TLS) (June 27, 2012): 4. Luzzi was invited to present his work at Cambridge University, NYU Florence, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Rome (La Sapienza), and Yale University.
• Norman Manea was officially invited to become a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain. He is the first Romanian writer to be so honored. In July, the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York and Bard College presented a special event celebrating the Professor Manea’s 75th birthday, lauded as “one of the most remarkable writers of our time.” Videos of the event can be seen at http://www.icrny.org/s351-2011-Norman_Manea__A_Celebration.html . In September 2011, he received the Nelly Sachs Prize, a biennial literary award given by the German City of Dortmund. The award honors outstanding literary contributions to the promotion of understanding between peoples. Manea edited Romanian Writers on Writing, an anthology published by Trinity University Press in August 2011; “A Public Conversation,” sponsored by Bard and the Romanian Cultural Institute celebrated the publication and Romanian literature on March 23, 2012 at the College. Yale University Press published two of his books, “The Lair” in April 2012 and "The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language," in May 2012. The National Arts Club’s Literary Committee presented “Norman Manea and The Lair” on June 19, 2012.
• In October 2011, Steven Mazie published two articles on Occupy Wall Street -“Rawls on Wall Street,” was published in The New York Times philosophy forum The Stone and “Rawls, Radicalism and Occupy Wall Street: A Reply to Wilkinson,” on the Experts’ Corner of bigthink.com. His article “Up from Colorblindness: Equality, Race and the Lessons of Ricci v. DeStefano,” was published in the Law Journal for Social Justice vol. 2, no. 1.
• A review of Blair McMillan’s performance of Morton Feldman’s longest solo piano work, “Triadic Memories,” appeared in The New York Times in December 2011.
• In July and August 2011, Walter Russell Mead wrote two Wall Street Journal columns, “The Future Still Belongs To America” (http://on.wsj.com/qa1mMZ) and “Europe's Less Than Perfect Union” (http://on.wsj.com/qk2Xf5); he will continue to contribute monthly. He was also the author of an online op-ed in theNew York Times online in July; http://nyti.ms/r1j5NE .
• Lola, California by Edie Meidav was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in July 2011. The novel received a lot of attention including reviews in The New Yorker, The Berkeley Monthly, San Francisco Weekly, and Seattle Times among others, and interviews with various radio stations, including Zyzzyva editor Oscar Villalion. The book was also nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction. A filmic book trailer, featuring Bard writing students as actors can be seen on YouTube. See www.ediemeidav.com for more information. Both Meidav and Karen Russell were featured in the Chronogram article, “Sunshine States: Bard Fictionistas Edie Meidav and Karen Russell Go Coastal.” In October 2011, Meidav read at Brooklyn’s Book Court bookstore with Amii Legendre dancing; musician Kevin Salem playing a score from the novel; and Brielle Korn, a Bard alumna singing; WAMC’s Roundtable aired her essay “Grace with Children” and she television-taped two writing/creativity lessons for a New York City based Learning Annex’s online catalogue. In December 2011, Meidav published “A Year in Reading,” in The Millions and in January 2012, she had a reading at Books and Books in Miami, Florida. She participated in a panel discussion on April 14, 2012 as part of the Red Hook READ LOCAL festival along with Nine Shengold, Mary-Beth Hughes, Thelma Davis and John Sayles. Her narrative non-fiction piece on life in Cuba was published in the spring issue of the literary journal Zyzzyva. In May 2012, “Accolades for Edie Meidav and other East Bay authors” by Karen Law appeared on Berkeleyside - Berkeley, California’s independent news website. In June 2012, Meidav moderated a panel at the Hungarian Consulate in Manhattan on the new release of a Hungarian dystopian classic, VOYAGE TO KAZOHINIA, published previously only in Esperanto and Hungarian and newly released by New Europe Press. Other panelists included Greg Moynahan, Ben Hale, Francesco Crocco, Ralph Dumain, Anna North and Paul Olchvary.
• In April 2012, Daniel Mendelsohn was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in the class of Humanities and the Arts. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the Academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. He was also on the NPR program “All Things Considered” to tell the story of the trip that he and his father took to retrace the journey of The Odyssey that reflected the article that he wrote in Travel and Leisure Magazine; The New Yorker published his piece “Unsinkable: Why we can’t let go of the Titanic”; and he spoke on PBS NewsHour.
• In July 2011, Susan Merriam received a New York Council for the Arts grant for her “209 Project,” proposed to create an archive of the built and natural environmental history of Route 209 from Bard College to Woodbourne Correctional Faculty. Her book, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image, with an introduction by Marina van Zuylen, was released by Ashgate Publishing in March 2012.
• Chiori Miyagawa’s new play, This Lingering Life, was awarded a 2012 MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The play will premiere in 2014 at Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco, California. Two collections of her plays were published this year: Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays, published by Seagull Books and distributed by the University of Chicago Press, andAmerican Dreaming and Other Plays, published by NoPassport Press. Dream Acts, a play co-written by five playwrights, and funded partially by a Bard Research Fund grant awarded to Miyagawa, premiered at HERE in New York City in the Spring Artists Lodge Program in March 2012. Miyagawa’s next project, I Came to Look for You on Tuesday, has received the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Fund for Creative Communities and Manhattan Community Arts Fund.
• Brad Morrow’s book, The Uninnocent: Stories, was published in December 2011 by Pegasus.
• In October and November 2011, Rufus Müller performed in New York City, Oregon, Kansas, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Washington D.C. and at Bard; he performed with the Rebel Baroque Orchestra in New York City; The American Symphony Orchestra in New York City; Meg Owens in Bedford, New York and he performed Händel’s “Messiah” at Christ Church in Montreal, Canada.
• Michelle Murray’s chapter, “Recognition, Disrespect and the Struggle for Morocco:  Rethinking Imperial Germany’s Security Dilemma,” was published in The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations.  Thomas Lindemann and Erik Ringmar, eds. (Paradigm Publishers, 2012):  131-151.
• Matthew Mutter received a NEH fellowship for a summer 2011 seminar on "The Study of Religion."  
• Keith O’Hara successfully defended his Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology in July 2011. In March 2012, he presented the paper “A Multi-Programming-Language, Multi-Context Framework Designed for Computer Science Education” at the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in Raleigh, North Carolina. The paper was written by O’Hara, Doug Blank, Jennifer Kay, James Marshall and Mark Russo.
• Lothar Osterburg’s work was published in the Korean Magazine Photo Monthly in November 2011. His work was presented as part of a group show “Beyond the Lens” at Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA through March 31, 2012. “New Images from ‘Library Dreams’ and ‘Yesterday’s City of Tomorrow,’” a solo exhibition by Osterburg was at the Lesley Heller Workspace in New York City in March 2012. “A Bookmobile for Dreamers,” a multimedia chamber opera created by composer Elizabeth Brown with video by Osterburg, premiered at the Greenwich House Music School in New York City and at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall in New York City in April 2012.
• In addition to many interviews by prominent newsleaders of print, radio, and the Internet, Dimitri Papadimitriou’s publications this year include “Need jobs? Call on government”, L.A. Times, 5 January 2012; “Greece: How to Slow the Nosedive”, The Huffington Post, 9 February 2012 Contributions in Stock-flow Modeling: Essays in Honor of Wynne Godley, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Gennaro Zezza. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012;“Economic Turbulence in Greece”, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Rania Antonopoulos, Economic & Political Weekly, February 4, 2012, vol XLVII No. 5.;Dodd-Frank: Fossil of the Future”, The Huffington Post, 22 July 2012; "Europe's Highway to Hell", The Nation, 21 August 2012.
• John Pilson’s solo exhibition of photography and video, “Long Story Shorts,” was at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York City from November 4, 2011 through December 23, 2011. Curator Peter Eleey brought together works by 41 artists, including Pilson, for the exhibit “September 11,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art through January 3, 2012. “Talking Pictures” an interview with Pilson appeared in aperture magazine, issue 204. His solo exhibition “Mr. Pickup” was at the College of Fine Arts in Austin, Texas, May 1, 2012 through May 31, 2012. He also participated in two group exhibitions: "From 0 to 100" Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy, February 21, 2012 through April 1, 2012 and “Spies in the House of Art,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from February 7, 2012 through August 26, 2012.  
• John Pruitt was awarded a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation in October 2011, for his project “Laboratory preservation work for source material: From Romance to Ritual and Marina’s Playhouse.”
• Dina Ramadan co-organized the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey's 2nd Annual Conference entitled "The Longevity of Rupture: 1967 in Art and its Histories," which took place at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon on June 1 and 2, 2012.
• Kelly Reichardt was awarded the USA Tisch Fellowship in 2011. Every year, United States Artists (USA) honors fifty of America’s finest artists with individual fellowship awards for their outstanding performances, visual, media and literary works. She will take part in the 2012 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum in New York City from March 1 through May 27, 2012.
• “John Cage, Visual Art: John Cage en conversación con Joan Retallack - Traducción: Sebastián Jatz Rawicz” was published by ediciones/metales pesados, Santiago de Chile, 2011. It is the first in a series of three books presented in Spanish translation of Joan Retallack's conversations with Cage first published by Wesleyan University Press in 1996. Yale University Press released Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein in November 2011, with a critical introduction by Retallack. The book has been designated a Modern Languages Association “Approved Edition” by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. In October 2011, she delivered the keynote address at the symposium “Gertrude Stein and the Arts,” at the Grans Palais in Paris. The two-day symposium was in conjunction with The Steins Collect, an exhibition in the Grand Palais museum space.
• Susan Fox Rogers taught a NEH funded program on the Hudson River during the summer of 2011. Her book My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir was published by Cornell University Press; she was interviewed on National Public Radio’s Roundtable on November 14, 2011; and she has spoken about the Hudson River and read from her book at The Berkshire Women Writer’s Conference, Marist College, the Hudson Valley Institute, Beczak Environmental Center and in Tucson, Arizona with memoirist Beth Alvarado.
• Alfred A. Knopf published Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War of Crown and Empire by James Romm, in October 2011. “Greeks today might ask: What would Pericles do?” an op-ed piece by Romm was published in the Los Angeles Times in February 2012. In March 2012, he chaired a panel on “Examining Ancient Lives” at the annual conference of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center and his article “Who Killed Alexander the Great?” was the April 2012 cover story in History Today.
• Lauren Rose was successful in her application to the American Institute of Mathematics to take herself and her team of four collaborators to attend a week-long program in Washington DC entitled, "How to run a Math Teachers' Circle Workshop". The award is supported with funding from the National Security Agency.
• Jonathan Rosenberg conducted workshops in directing in July 2011 for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. He directed South African playwright Athol Fugard’s play My Children! My Africa! at Julliard at Lincoln Center in January and February 2012.
• Justus Rosenberg delivered a lecture at the New School of Social Research on “Assimilation versus Acculturation” based on his Jewish heritage and experiences while living and being educated in Germany, France and the United States. On that occasion, Rosenberg was given a special award by the New School’s Humanities Division for his contribution, in the past fifty years, to its education program.
• “The Sudan Handbook,” edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok was published by James Currey Publishers in May 2012.
• In November 2011, Luc Sante lectured on police evidence photography at Columbia University in Chicago. In February 2012, he was awarded a Cullman Fellowship by the New York Public Library for the academic year 2012-2013.
• In January 2012, Andrew Schonebaum was awarded an American Philosophical Society and British Academy Fellowship to support his research in “Novel Medicine: The Curative Properties of Chinese Fiction,” specifically supporting research on relevant texts at The Wellcome Library in London during the fall 2012 semester.
• In September 2011, Annie Seaton gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania on “Pastoral Origins” at the Kelly Writer’s House. She was also a discussant on Penn Sound’s Poem Talk about Cole Swenson’s Ours.
• “Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, March through April 2012, included works from Stephen Shore and Kenji Fujita, as well as some BARD MFA faculty and graduates.
• Maria Simpson performed "Skin" a duet choreographed by NYC choreographer and performer Peter B. Schmitz in the 2012 Faculty Dance Concert in April 2012. She danced with Paul Matteson, former member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, with whom she first performed "Skin" in 1997. Music was a recording of Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, Opus 36, 3rd movement, played by the London Sinfonietta and sung by Dawn Upshaw.
• Patricia Spencer’s flute performance at Alice Tully Hall of Elliot Carter’s composition was reviewed in The New York Times in September 2011.
• Ariana Gonzalez Stokas was awarded $50,000 through the College Access Challenge Grant Program to support the creation of the Bard College Liberal Education Access Partnership (L.E.A.P). The pilot program will address college access through offering a curriculum that demystifies liberal education and the college application process for low-income students, their teachers and families. L.E.A.P will build on the innovative partnership between the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching program and the International Community High School (ICHS) in the South Bronx.
• In November 2011, Richard Suchenski received a Tournées Festival grant for the 2011-2012 academic year. The program, run by FACE and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, supports a Tournées French Film Festival at Bard during the spring 2012 semester. In November 2011, Suchenski also spoke on the aesthetics of space in Indian art cinema at Rice University and on new German cinema at Yale University in December 2011. His article on Abel Gance’s silent epic La Roue appeared in The Moving Image (volume 11, number 2).
• Karen Sullivan was a respondent at the MLA convention for a session arranged by the French Medieval Language and Literature division about her recent book entitled “Karen Sullivan’s Lives of Medieval Inquisitors.”
• Julianne Swartz’s exhibition “Miracle Report,” will be at the University of Arizona Art Museum through June 2012; her work is included in the exhibition “Good Night” at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and will be on view through February 2013, and a solo exhibition of her work opened at the Josee Bienvenu Gallery in New York City on April 28 and will be on view through June 20, 2012. Her site-specific public project, “Digital Empathy,” continues through June 2012 at the High Line Park in New York City.
• During this academic year, Pavlina Tcherneva has produced four Levy Institute working papers. Other publications include “On-the-spot Employment: Keynes Approach to Full Employment and Economic Transformation” in Review of Social Economy, and “Employer of Last Resort” in The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics (J. E. King, ed.)
• In November 2011, Presses de l’Université du Quebec published the book Pratiques et ejneux du détournement dans le discours littéraire des XX^e et XXI^esiècles co-edited by Eric Trudel and Nathalie Dupont. Trudel also introduced and contributed a chapter to the book.
• Mairaj Syed successfully completed the requirements to receive his Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University in October 2011.
• Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz gave a talk "'Do you want a revolution without laughter?' Joseph Beuys, a humorous Zen master" at the conference "Deadly Serious Art: Strategies of humor as critique" at the Graduate Center, City of University of New York, on March 9, 2012. She also participated in the group exhibition "The Zen of Contemplation" with an installation of 73 handmade artist books and a sound piece at the Washington Art Association in Connecticut, May 5, 2012 through June 17, 2012.
• Olga Voronina’s translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s letters to his wife, from the forthcoming book Letters to Vera, 1923-1976 (Knopf, 2012), was published inThe New Yorker in July 2011.
• Of One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina, reviewer Alexandra Fuller in The New York Times Book Review August 14 wrote: “skip this review and head directly to the bookstore.” This is one of many notes of praise for the author and the book, published July 2011.
• The exhibition, “Peggy Bacon: Cats and Caricatures,” curated by Tom Wolf, was at the Woodstock Artist’s Association & Museum from June through October 2011. Wolf will guest curate works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi for an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum during the spring 2013 semester.
• David Woolner, senior fellow and Hyde Park historian at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, was one of the featured historians on The History Channel's new documentary on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After aired on December 7, 2011.
• Several faculty members participated in the 2011 summer Math Teachers’ Circle Workshop, “Optimization and Inequalities,” for middle and high school teachers, organized by Japeth Wood. Faculty who gave presentations as part of this workshop were Sven Anderson, Jim Belk, Maria Belk, Greg Landweber, Bob McGrail and Lauren Rose. Wood and Rose received a grant to support the Bard Math Circle activities during 2011-2012. This is their third grant since beginning the program in 2007.
• "Negotiating with the Past: the Art of Calligraphy in Pos-Mao China" an article by Li-Hua Ying, was published by ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, Vol 19, No 2 (2012).

Faculty Highlights 2010-11

• Mustafa Abu Sway co-wrote an article that appeared in the December 4, 2010 “On Faith” section, “Guest Voices” column of the Washington Post online. “An Islamic Sermon for the World” can be read at http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/12/an_islamic_sermon_for_the_world.html. In January 2011, he served on the panel, The Story Behind the Story with the cast of Return to Haifa.
• “Jump,” directed by JoAnne Akalaitis was at The Public Theater in New York City during January 2011.
• Peggy Ahwesh had a one-person film screening at the Tate Modern in London, in conjunction with the photo exhibition "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera.”  Her video "She Puppet" was featured in the exhibition "The Image in Question: War-Media-Art" at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Boston through December 23, 2010. In January 2011, her installation "The Ape of Nature" was on view during the Rotterdam International Film Festival in The Netherlands.
• Sven Anderson and Rebecca Thomas, together with student Camden Segal and alumnus Yu Wu, co-authored “Automatic Reduction of a Document-Derived Noun Vocabulary.” The paper will be included in the Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24), which will take place May 18-20, 2011, in Palm Beach, Florida.
• Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia, co-edited by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria with Colin McFarlane, was published in November 2010 by Routledge India. His article “Ordinary states: Everyday corruption and the politics of space in Mumbai,” was published in American Ethnologist, vol. 38, issue 1, pp. 58-72.
• James Bagwell and the Collegiate Chorale will host a benefit in honor of the Kurt Weill Foundation on May 19 ay Carnegie Hall.
• In December 2010, The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, New York Chapter hosted a concert featuring The Thurman Barker Sounds Trio; Michael Logan, Sam Morrison and Thurman Barker.
• “Regionalism and Secessionism” an essay by Sanjib Baruah appeared in the Oxford Companion to Politics in India' published by Oxford University Press, 2010. His essay “The Armed Forces Special Powers Act: Legacy of Colonial Constitutionalism’” appeared in the November 2010 issue of the Indian policy journal, Seminar. His May 2, 2011 article, “Assam Don’t Hold Your Breath,” can be read at business.in.com.
• Lohin Geduld Gallery presented their third exhibition of paintings and drawings by Laura Battle, “Recent Work,” at their New York Gallery November 17 to December 23, 2010. The catalog for the show includes an essay written by Susan Aberth.
• Roger Berkowitz’s essay, “Why We Must Judge,” appears in the fall 2010 issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and was reviewed in Harper’s Magazinein August 2010. His article, “The Wonders of Man in the Age of Simulations,” appeared in The Fortnightly Review in August 2010, and “Liberating the Animal: The False Promise of Nietzsche’s Anti-Human Philosophy” was published in Theory & Event, vol. 13, issue 2. The Gift of Science by Berkowitz, originally published in 2005, was published in Chinese by Law Press, China.
• Fordham University Press published a new book by Daniel Berthold, "The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard," in December 2010.
• Jennifer Schwartz Berky was nominated by Governor Paterson for appointment to the New York State Board for Historic Preservation for a four-year term.
• Celia Bland led workshops in the summer of 2010 at the American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan and Keene State College in New Hampshire. In April 2011, she gave a reading at the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival to help launch the latest issue of LUMINA (the Sarah Lawrence College Literary Journal).
• The second edition of Ethan Bloch’s book “Proofs and Fundamentals” and his new book “The Real Numbers and Real Analysis” were published by Springer in May 2011.
• “Uncertainty relations for angular momentum eigenstates in two and three spatial dimensions,” a paper by Christian Bracher, was published in the American Journal of Physics in March 2011.
• Ian Buruma’s review of Christopher Hitchens’ book, Hitch-22: A Memoir, appeared in The New York Review of Books in July 2010.  His essay “Le Divorce: Why Belgium, home of the European Union, has never been more disunited,” appeared in the January 10, 2011 issue of The New Yorker. In February 2011, his article “Where are the Islamists?” appeared in Project Syndicate; and “Who Did Not Collaborate,” his review of And the Snow Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding, appeared in The New York Review of Books. In March 2011, his article “Obama gets it right,” appeared in Al jazeera. His article “All the Queen’s Children” can be read at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/buruma50/English.
• Mary Caponegro presented a paper on Robert Coover at the Associated Writing Programs Conference in Washington in February 2011. She gave a reading at the Kouros Gallery in April 2011 and at SODA in July 2011, both in New York City.
• “Ban Welondes: Wayland Smith in Popular Culture,” an article by Maria Sachiko Cecire, appeared in the collection Anglo Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination, published by Boydell & Brewer Press in October 2010. Her short documentary film Magnyfycence: Staging Medieval Drama, co-edited with Mike LaRocco, was made available online in January 2011; it can be accessed at http://thynkebyggly.org/magnyfycence. She defended her Ph.D. and received her doctorate from Oxford University in June 2011.
• Bruce Chilton delivered the 2010 Paddock Lectures, “Violence: Religious Sources, Religious Healing,” for the General Theological Society on November 10 and 11 at the New York campus. Bruce received his M.Div. from the GTS.
• An interview with Mark Danner was published in HavanaTimes.org in January 2011. On the occasion of the paperback publication of his book Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War; he spoke in Berkeley at “An Evening with Mark Danner, Stripping Bare the Body” in April 2011. In June 2011 in Berkeley, Director Peter Sellars interviewed Mark Danner about war, conflict and the role of music and the humanities in American public life.
• In December 2010, Richard Davis was offered a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities, for his project “Dialogues with Krishna: The Bhagavad Gita in Great Time.” In March 2011, he presented his paper “The Fate of Indian God-Posters Abroad,” at a conference on the subject of “Conquest of the World as Picture: Indian Popular Visual Culture and Its Discontents,” at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India.
• “Lush Life Chapter Two: Liar,” opened in June 2010 at On Stellar Rays, Orchard Street in New York City. It features works by seven artists including Tim Davis. His new video and sculpture piece, The Upstate New York Olympics, was exhibited at the 2011 Armory Show in New York City, and opens at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz on April 8, 2011.
• The February 1, 2011 Poughkeepsie Journal article “Cairo rebellion exhilarates Egyptians at SUNY New Paltz” included comments from both Jennifer Derrand Jonathan Cristol.
• Michèle Dominy presented the keynote lecture, "Mountainland Attachment and Detachment in New Zealand Family Farm Succession," for the Rocky Mountain Landscape and Memory Symposium: Soundscapes, Place and Pathways at the University of Wyoming, Laramie in October 2010.
• Emmanuel Dongala won the Prix VIRILO 2010 for the best francophone novel for Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve, published by Actes Sud.
• The Chinese language version of Mercedes Dujunco’s article, "The Performance of Gongde Post-funerary Rituals by Chaozhou Transmigrant Troupes in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore: Some Social and Historical Considerations" was published in Shanghai in Volume 3 of the Chinese-language journal,Ritual Soundscapes, in August 2010. Dujunco and the Bard Chinese Music Ensemble were featured in The Poughkeepsie Journal in connection with the concert they performed during the annual benefit event of the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society at the Elmendorph Inn in April 2011.
• Omar Encarnación’s essay, “Spain’s New Left Turn: Society-Driven or Party-Instigated?” appears in Spain’s Second Transition, a collection of essays about the administration of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, published by Routledge in July 2010. He was the chair and discussant at a panel on "Memory, History, and Politics" at the 2010 meeting of the American Political Science Association in August. He presented a paper on "Spain's Memory Wars," at a panel on "Transitional Justice and Post-Transitional Justice in Iberia and Latin America" at the Latin American Studies Association meeting held in Toronto in October 2010.  In January 2011, his essay “International Justice on Trial” appeared in Current History, the oldest publication in the United States devoted exclusively to international affairs. In March 2011 he gave a presentation titled “Peculiar but not Unique: Spain’s Memory Politics in Comparative Perspective” at Georgetown University to mark the 10^th anniversary of the establishment of the Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish studies. He published “Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution” in the spring 2011 issue of the Journal of Democracy.
• In September 2010, Gidon Eshel was among 18 scientists named a 2010 PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellow. The program addresses the crucial need for scientists as socially engaged public communicators and acknowledges the critically important role science plays in improving society and the simultaneous decline in public understanding of the field.
• Augustine’s Vision, Peter Filkin’s third book of poems, appeared from New American Press in August 2010. Panorama, a novel by H.G. Adler, translated from German by Filkins, was published by Random House in January 2011. In April, he received a 3-month DAAD Faculty Research Grant that will allow him to work in H. G. Adler’s archives in Marbach during the summer of 2011.
• Congratulations to Mariel Fiori, editor of La Voz, which was selected to receive a Special Citation from the Dutchess County Arts Council in July 2010.
• Larry Fink was featured in The New York Times article “A Moment With Larry Fink,” in January 2011. His exhibition, Hollywood 2000-2009, will be on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from February though April 2011.
• Marjorie Folkman choreographed Boston Baroque’s production of Rameau’s “Les Indes Galantes,” which will be performed in May 2011 at Boston’s Jordan Hall.
• Verlag published Tatjana Myoko Von Prittwitz und Gaffron’s book "Kreativität als allgemeines Menschenrecht!" Georg Jappe. Formen angewandter Ästhetik ("Creativity as a human right!" Georg Jappe. Forms of applied esthetics.)
• Beth Gershuny was the second Bard professor featured on WAMC's “Academic Minute.” Celia Bland was featured earlier this past fall. Seehttp://www.wamc.org/academic-minute.html.
• In December 2010,“Laying a Liberal Arts Foundation, On Shaky Ground,” an article on Inside Higher Ed online, featured comments by Susan Gillespie, Jonathan Becker and Leon Botstein on Bard’s international initiatives and other partnerships. See http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/01/bard
• “The Correspondence of Paul Celan & Ilana Shmueli,” translated by Susan Gillespie was published by The Sheep Meadow Press in January 2011 and includes an introduction by Norman Manea. “Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction,” translated by Gillespie was published by The University of Chicago Press in January 2011. Her translation of Theodor W. Adorno's "Gloss on Sibelius" was published in the Bard Music Festival volume "Jean Sibelius and his World.” Her essay “Norman the Listener” was a contribution to the volume “The Obsession of Uncertainty, in honorem Norman Manea.” She presented a lecture on "Paul Celan's Coronas: Parsing the Voice from the Voiceless" at Barnard College's conference on "Poetry, Music, and Translation." She was also quoted in a June 27 New York Times article “Long-Serving Finance Minister Calls for Reforms to Bolster Russia’s Power.” See:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/world/europe/28russia.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=smolny&st=cse
• In November 2010, Chevrolet announced its clean energy initiative with Eban Goodstein as one of the environmental experts working on the project. The initiative is based on projects that promote energy savings, renewable energy, responsible use of natural resources, and conservation in communities across the United States and its goal is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 8 million metric tons. To define project criteria and the program’s investment portfolio, General Motors has engaged environmental experts, nongovernmental organizations and academics through the Climate Neutral Business Network. He was featured on WAMC’s “Academic Minute” in March 2011.
• In May 2011, Jacqueline Goss premiered her first feature-length film, The Observers, at the Migrating Forms Festival at Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
• Marka Gustavsson, with the Colorado Quartet, performed programs of Haydn, Bartok and Brahms in New York City and at Princeton University. Parnassus Records has just released a CD of Katherine Hoover's Quartet's Nos. 1 and 2, highlighting the Colorado Quartet. In January 2011, Gustavsson performed and recorded the six string quartets of Bela Bartok. Together with the Colorado Quartet, a recording of Beethoven’s Opus 18 quartets was released in February 2011 on Parnassus Records. This completes the quartet’s recording of the entire cycle of sixteen works.
• In October 2010, Ken Haig gave a talk at Emerson College, briefing the Center for Global Partnership's 2010 Postgraduate Journalism Fellows on contemporary developments in Japan as part of their training as foreign affairs journalists in Asia. In November 2010, Haig served on an advisory panel on Japanese immigration policy put together by the Columbia University Law School.
• Elizabeth Holt received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in June 2011. During her spring 2012 leave of absence, she will be in residence in Cairo where she will be affiliated with the American Research Center as an NEH postdoctoral scholar.
• In December 2010, Peter Hutton’s film Study of a River (1996) was announced as one of the 25 films named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Each year the Librarian of Congress names 25 films to the registry that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant, to be preserved for all time. Films are selected as works of enduring significance to American culture.
• The SEED Project of American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded a grant to Swapan Jain and Emily McLaughlin to carry out summer research with area high school students who come from low-income backgrounds. The grant currently covers salary support for two students from Poughkeepsie High School to work in Bard labs on eight-week projects during the summer of 2010 and 2011.
• In February 2011, Philip Johns organized the symposium, “Stalk-eyed Files (Diopsidae): a Model Organism for Studying the Evolution of Form and Function,” with Marion Kotrba (Munich Zoological Museum) at the 7^th International Congress on Systematics and Evolutionary Biology in Berlin. He gave a talk, “Gene expression differences in adult male and female heads in stalk-eyed flies.”
• Bill T. Jones, partner of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company who are in residence at Bard, was appointed an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France at a reception at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Paris in October 20, 2010. Jones has also been named as a 2010 Kennedy Center Honoree in recognition of his lifetime contribution to American culture through the performing arts.
• In December 2010, the boards of the Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company agreed to merge their organizations. The new nonprofit group, called New York Live Arts, will be led by Bill T. Jones, Carla Peterson and Jean Davidson.
• The George Ayers Cress gallery of art at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga presented “‘le deluge, après mao’ China's Surging Creative Tide: an exhibition of works by significant contemporary Chinese artists” curated by Patricia Karetzky, November 9 through December 14, 2010. The exhibition included sculpture, painting, photography, digital and video art created by a selection of some of China’s most recognized current artists. Karetzky also presented the public lecture that accompanied the exhibit. Her article “Gao Yuan’s ‘Precious Little Angel’” was published in n.paradoxa, vol. 27.
• Felicia Keesing is the lead author of a new study on biodiversity and human disease, which was published in Nature in December 2010. This important study has received international attention and press at over seventy venues and blogs. See http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101201/full/news.2010.644.html. In January 2011, a grant was received from the National Science Foundation to continue the summer undergraduate research program at the Cary Institute, which Keesing co-directs and serves as a mentor. The grant will allow students from around the country to spend the summer doing research at the institute under the guidance of scientific mentors. There is a spot reserved in the program for one Bard student every year. Keesing is one of the three investigators on a project to access environmental risk for Lyme disease in Dutchess County with a grant received from The Environmental Protection Agency in March 2011.
• Robert Kelly’s play “Oedipus after Colonus” renews the story of Oedipus, taking it up just where Sophocles leaves it. Crichton Atkinson '05, directed the play off-Broadway and at Byrdcliffe Arts Theater in Woodstock in September 2010 which featured playwright Carey Harrison (son of Sir Rex Harrison), and alumni/ae, Zoe Morris '09, Joanne Tucker '05, and Richard Saudek '05. Andrew Lush '05 did video for the piece. For more information, seehttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/41788016/oedipus-after-colonus-at-here-sept-8-12-2010?ref=users. “Logic of the World: The Poetics of Robert Kelly,” hosted by The Brooklyn Rail, includes talks, readings and performances by Mary Caponegro, Michael Ives, Jonas Mekas, Carolee Scheeman, Robert Kelly among many others. The event will celebrate Kelly’s 75^th birthday and his 50 years at Bard College, and will be held on May 7, 2011.
• Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz will present new and recent works at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz from April 9 through October 23, 2011.
• “Divided differences and the Weyl character formula in equivariant K-Theory” by Gregory Landweber and coauthored with Megumi Harada (McMaster University) and Reyer Sjamaar (Cornell University) was published in the journal Mathematics Research Letters, vol. 17, issue 3.
• Kristin Lane’s paper, “Black man in the White House: Ideology and Implicit Racial Bias in the Age of Obama,” co-authored with J. J. Jost, was published in December 2010, in an edited volume, Obama and a Post-Racial America, by Oxford University Press. “Seeing Through Colorblindness: Implicit Bias and the Law,” a paper that Lane coauthored with J. Kang was published in the December 2010 issue of the University of California-Los Angeles Law Review.  
• MoMa will host two exhibitions of An-My Lê’s work this year; a history of photography through the lens of women photographers and “The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today,” July through November 2010. Photographs from her travels with the American armed forces were at the Murray Guy Gallery in New York City, September through October 2010. A 5-panel photograph of the Suez Canal transit on USS Eisenhower by Lê will be included in the exhibition “After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from March 2011 through January 2012.
• Nancy Leonard delivered a paper, “Denial and Sacrifice in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling,” at the Columbian University seminar in religion in November 2010.
• In November 2010, Stuart Levine presented three papers at a conference in Moscow and Kolomna in Russia that celebrated the 50 Year anniversary of the obedience to authority research begun by Stanley Milgram: “Recent Work on Obedience to Authority;” “Non- Laboratory Study of Obedience;” and “Obedience in the Medical Hospital and the College Classroom.” In addition, several photos from his series called "Barns at Rest" will be on view at the National Arts Club in New York City in January 2011.
• Barbara Luka’s “Autolexical Grammar and the neurological substrates of language processing: Mismatch and resolution of semantic and syntactic representations” was published in June 2011 in Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. In Honor of Jerry Sadock.
• Recent articles by Joseph Luzzi include “ ‘As a Leaf on a Branch...’: Dante’s Neologisms,” in PMLA and “Rossellini’s Cinema of Poetry: Voyage to Italy,” in Adaptation. Two reviews by Luzzi that were recently published were “Reassessing Rossellini,” in American Scholar (review of the Criterion DVD of Rossellini’s Rome Open City) and “Unblurred Melody,” in Bookforum (review of Galassi’s translation of Leopardi’s Canti). His review of the DVD Red Desertdirected by Michaelangelo Antonioni appeared in Modernism/Modernity in January 2011 and his article: “Verbal Montage and Visual Apostrophe: Zanzotto’sFilò and Fellini’s Voce della luna,” was published in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 126.
• Mark Lytle, along with James West Davidson, Brian DeLay, Christine Leigh Heyrman, and Michael B Stoff, coauthored the 1st edition of Experience History: Interpreting America's Past, published by McGraw-Hill in October 2010.  Lytle was interviewed on May 2, 2011 in the USA Today article “Clinton: Bin Laden’s death doesn’t end war on terror.” See: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-05-03-bin-Laden-Clinton-war-terror_n.htm.
• Art 45 in Montreal hosted a solo exhibit by Medrie MacPhee in April 2011.
• In March 2011, The Malta Independent Online featured an article by Norman Manea titled, “Revolutionary Shadows.”
• “Smarter Than You Think,” an essay by Wyatt Mason on David Foster Wallace, appeared in The New York Review of Books in July 2010. In December 2010, his article “Scanners Gone Wild,” was published in The New York Times column, “How We Live Now.”
• In May 2011, Emily McLaughlin received a Cottrell College Science Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. This grant is intended to fund her research in the area of new synthetic methods driven by ultraviolet light, more specifically, the "development and synthesis of novel hydrogen-bonding scaffolds and thiourea organocatalysts for enantioselective [2 + 2] photocycloadditions."
• “Israel on Shifting Sands,” by Walter Russell Mead was published in January 2011 in Politico, January 2011. “Tea Party and U.S. Foreign Policy,” was published in the International Herald Tribune in February 2011 and his essay “The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy: What Populism Means for Globalism,” was published in Foreign Affairs, March/April 2011. His article “The Real Change That’s Happening in U.S.-Brazil Relations” appeared on the website blog thebusinessinsider.com on April 18, 2011. In May 2011, his book Special Providence was listed on the foreign policy website as one of three top books on international relations recommended for aspiring politicians; seehttp://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/03/the_five_must_read_us_foreign_policv_books_for_aspring_politicians
• Edie Meidav received two "Special Mention" recognitions in the 2011 issue of Pushcart, for Kingdom of the Young and Beef. “The Millions” selected her new book, Lola, California (to be published summer 2011) to be featured on their list, “Most Anticipated: The Great 2011 Book Preview.”http://www.themillions.com/2011/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2011-book-preview.html. Other books included on the list were Swamplandia! by Bard Fiction Prize Winner Karen Russell, and My New American Life by Bard Faculty member Francine Prose.
• Daniel Mendelsohn’s essay “‘God’s Librarians’ The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century” appeared in the January 3, 2011 issue of The New Yorker. In February 2011 his essay “The Mad Men Account” appeared in The New York Review of Books.
• Bradford Morrow and Conjunctions were featured in the article “Rivoluzione Culturale” published in the July/August 2010 issue of La Repubblica XL. An essay and portrait of Morrow were included in writer Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May’s River of Words: Portrait of Hudson Valley Writers, published by SUNY Press in August 2010. In November 2010, Morrow participated in a panel on the subject of noir fiction, with Otto Penzler and Thomas Cook in New York City. He delivered the annual Robert E. Knoll lecture at the University of Nebraska in December 2010, presenting his address “My Willa Cather,” at the same institution where Cather went to college. His new novel, The Diviner’s Tale, was published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; in England by Grove Atlantic/Corvus; and as an audiobook by Blackstone, all in January 2011. His anthology, co-edited with David Shields, The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, was published by W.W. Norton in February 2011 and Open Road Media published his backlist of novels,Come Sunday, The Almanac Branch, Trinity Fields, Giovannani’s Gift and Ariel’s Crossing, as e-books. NPR's "All Things Considered" broadcast Morrow reading his essay on Willa Cather's My Antonia for their "You Must Read This" feature on May 2, 2011. He gave readings from the novel and his Norton anthology, The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death in Providence, Portsmouth, New York and elsewhere, including one at Bard High School Early College with Karen Russell to fundraise for BHSEC's literary magazine. He did radio interviews and podcasts with Sirius XM's “Pia Lindstrom Presents,” David Wilk's “Writerscast,” and elsewhere.
• Bard College was the academic sponsor for “The Readers of Homer” 92^nd Street Y event in November 2010. The non-profit organization, which includes associate William Mullen, provides a method for reading Homer’s epics aloud, in a continuous and smooth audience-participation format. People of all ages participate and offer their pre-assigned passages, all day or all night long, in venues in the United States and abroad.
• Michelle Murray’s article, "Identity, Insecurity and Great Power Politics:  The Tragedy of German Naval Ambition Before the First World War," was published in Security Studies in December 2010. 
• Matthew Mutter’s article, “‘The Power to Enchant That Comes from Disillusion’: W.H. Auden’s Critique of Magical Poetics,” was published in the Journal of Modern Literature, winter 2010. His book review of Norman Finkelstein’s On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry was published in Modernism/Modernity in January 2011.
• In January 2011, Jacob Neusner received the Papal Medal in the Vatican from Pope Benedict XVI, his book A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, was published in Croatian and Polish, among several other languages and he was cited in numerous articles about Pope Benedict’s new book Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times, including the NewsGuide.us article “Pope’s New Book is Instant New York Times Bestseller, from March 19, 2011.
• Along with Bard students Anis Zaman and Aaron Strauss, Keith O’Hara presented their paper "The IMP: An Intelligent Mobile Projector" as part of the 2010 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Exhibition and Robot Workshop in Atlanta in September 2010. O’Hara gave the plenary presentation for the Multi-Robot Systems and Physical Data Structures Workshop at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium in March 2011 in Palo Alto and presented his paper, "Towards Robot Systems Architecture." Professor O’Hara collaborated with Peggy Florin on the interactive dance piece, "Bird's Eye," performed at the Faculty Dance Concert in May 2011.
• Lothar Osterburg has two regional solo shows titled “Piranesi” at Rockland Center for the Arts October 17 through December 12, 2010 and at the The Center for Photography at Woodstock from November 13 to December 23, 2010. “Meet the Composer” 2010 Commissioning Music/USA awards included Elizabeth Brown (Osterburg’s wife) who will collaborate with him to create “A Bookmobile for Dreamers,” a multimedia chamber opera for thermin, electric sound and video. Osterberg was part of a group show “Fractured Earth” January 12 through February 20, 2011 at Lesley Heller Workspace in New York. His exhibition “Imagined Realities” was on display at Moeller Fine Art in Berlin from February through March 2011.
• Interviews with Dimitri Papadimitriou appeared in the New York Times; Fox Business Varney and Co., Bloomburg, Eleftherotypia, and Dow Jones regarding various aspects of the economy in the U.S. and abroad. The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky, edited by Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wrap, was published in fall 2010. Numerous op-eds by Papadminitriou appeared in the Greek daily morning paper KATHIMERINI last summer as he addressed the debt issue in Greece. Other journal articles included “2011: Jobs Versus the Deficit” in Thruthout and Newgeography in December 2010, “Mortgage Meltdown: How Underwriting Went Under” in Newgeography in February 2011, and “The Printing Press and the Euromess” in Thruthout, March 2011. Papadimitriou was also a discussion leader at ILP-IMF Conference in Oslo, Norway last fall, presented a lecture for the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley in March 2011, and presented at the CFDA/UNIFEM international workshop “Towards Harmonization of Time Use Surveys at the Global Level with Special Reference to Developing Countries” in New Delhi, India in April 2011.
• Dance Magazine’s December 2010 issue featured an article about, and interview with Aileen Passloff, about her career and the Dance Program at Bard.
• An exhibition of the work of Judy Pfaff, “Five Decades,” was presented at the Amerigner-McEnery-Yohe Gallery in New York City, September 10 through October 16, 2010.
• In November 2010, Francine Prose was chosen to receive the 2010 Washington University International Humanities Medal. Awarded, biannually, the medal honors the lifetime work of a noted scholar, writer or artist who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the world of letters or the arts.
• In February 2011, Kelly Reichardt was interviewed by The Scotmans about her film Meek’s Cutoff. The film was reviewed in Film Comment in their March/April 2011 issue, on NYTimes.com on April 1, 2011 and in many other publications.
• Joan Retallack’s recent publications include “Arithmétique du langage et du plaisir: Stein Stein Stein Stein Stein,” translated from the English by Daniel Grenier; Contemporanéités de Gertrude Stein: Comment lire, traduire et écrire Gertrude Stein aujourd’hui. eds. Jean-François Chassay et Éric Giraud; “N Plus Zero,” in Ecopoetics 6/7, “from The Bosch Bookshelf: Four on Time” in Critical Quarterly, V.52, No.3. A critical chapter on her “Fields of Pattern-Bounded Unpredictability” appeared in Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Exploratory Poetics, by Lynn Keller, published in 2010. In December 2010, Procedural Elegies/Western Civ Cont’d/ by Retallack was named as one of the (thirteen) Best Books of 2010 by ARTFORUM selected by thirteen scholars, critics, writers and artists. She participated in the Poetics Forum at the CUNY Graduate Center “Conversation on Stein & Wittgenstein,” with Joan Richardson on April 29, 2011 and on “PoemTalk”, University of Pennsylvania: Podcast on PennSound on February 2011. She was interviewed and did a reading on Close Listening, Art on Air’s first broadcast April 11, 2011. She presented “Poetry’s Alerity” as part of the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics at California College of the Arts in San Francisco in May 2011. She was the visiting artist in poetry at University of California-Santa Cruz, May 25-26, 2011; poetry reading and lecture were entitled “Trace Elements: Poethics of Interpretation.”
• “Swimming the River,” an essay by Susan Fox Rogers, appeared in Stone Canoe #5; her essay “Sitting by the River,” was in Alaska Quarterly Review, vol. 27, no. 3&4, and in May 2010 “Equilibrate” was included in What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour though New Jersey, edited by Bard graduate Joe Vallese.
• The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, a collaboration between two Bard/Simon's Rock faculty members, James Romm (editor) and Robert Strassler (series editor), was published in November 2010 by Pantheon, http://www.amazon.com/Landmark-Arrian-Campaigns-lexander/dp/037542346X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288209779&sr=1-1. The volume was mentioned in The Wall Street Journal article, “The Greatest of Them All,” in January 2011 and was reviewed by The New York Times Book Review in February 2011. Forbes magazine hosted an online dialogue, which Romm conducted with Paul Cartledge, Greek historian at Cambridge University, on the topic of Alexander the Great, and Oliver Stone, the director of the film “Alexander.” Romm’s forthcoming book, Ghosts of the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Grat and the War for Crown and Empire, was selected as a History Book Club Main Selection in June 2011.
• Lauren Rose and Japheth Wood won a Math Circle grant from the Math Science Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, CA in September 2010. This grant will help fund math outreach activities in the community done in conjunction with the Bard Math Circle TLS project, headed by Jackie Stone ('11). The Bard Math Circle was featured in the Daily Freeman (January 17, 2011), Las Noticias (October 6, 2010), and La Voz (August 2010).
• Julia Rosenbaum’s collection of essays entitled The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century was published in December 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan for their series “Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History.” The book was co-edited with Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University.
• Jonathan Rosenberg collaborated with playwright Diana Son on the development of her new play Jane Says for the New Work Now Festival at the Public Theater in New York (May 2010).
• Marina Rosenfeld’s new recording, “Sour Mash,” a collaboration with legendary composer George Lewis, was released on Innova during the summer of 2010. She curated and directed improvising ensembles of musicians that included Bard students and recent graduates for performances at the Whitney Museum during July and August 2010 for the museum’s exhibition, “Christian Marclay: Festival.” In November 2010, she was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award for 2011. Founders Jasper Johns, John Cage and others originated the concept of benefit exhibition; today, exhibitions and sales of works donated by more than 750 visual artists fund non-restrictive grants to individuals working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry and the visual arts. She performed roygbiv&b at the Museum of Modern Art in April 2011, and has also created new sound installations in recent months for the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool; “The Island” at Art Miami Basel; and performed for the Ultima Festival of Contemporary Music in Oslo, the Fundação de Serralves/Contemporary Art Museum in Porto, and Ensemble Zwischentöne’s “35 Megaphones for Democracy” project.
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, Bard Fiction Prize Winner 2011, was published by Knopf in February 2011. Emma Donoghue reviewed the book in The New York Times article (February 3, 2011), “Infested Waters."
• Geoffrey Sanborn’s new book, Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori was published by Oxford University Press in February 2011.
• Lisa Sanditz’s show, “Stateside,” opened in November 2010 at Los Angeles-based ACME.
• Frank Scalzo was elected as Chair of the Publications Committee of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society in July 2010. He will also serve on the Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology, published by Elsevier, from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011.  
• “The ‘Hamlet Complex’ in China, 1903-1936,” an essay by Andrew Schonebaum was in Shakespeare and Asia vol. 17.
• For the 2010 biennial, NRW-Forum focused on the transatlantic influence on photography of the 1970s and 1980s with Stephen Shore’s exhibit “NRW-Forum Düsseldorf – Der Rote Bulli (The Red Bus)” from September 2010 through January 2011. A catalogue of the same title was published along with the exhibition.
• In April 2011, Lisa Sigal was granted a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.
• My Hollywood by Mona Simpson was published by Knopf in August 2010 and was reviewed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (August 8, 2010) and in Books of the Times (August 10, 2010).
• In October 2010, Ben Stevens presented on Vergil and Jules Verne at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States; he designed the curriculum for the SoJam a cappella Festival at Duke University in November 2010, where he also led masterclasses plus workshops on music criticism and on vocal percussion. The Bard a cappella group he advises, “the Orcapelicans,” has been featured on The Huffington Post as one of the best 14 collegiate a cappella groups, in a video including their adviser on vocal percussion. Click here for the http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/best-college-a-cappella_n_768235.html#s175140. In January 2011, Stevens designed the curriculum for the Los Angeles a cappella Festival, where he led masterclasses and a workshop on music history. He also designed the curriculum for VoCAL Nation, an a cappella festival in New York City in March 2011.
• Richard Suchenski secured and supervised a new collection of sixty film prints containing a micro-history of Taiwanese cinema donated by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office. His review of the National Film Preservation Foundation's “Treasures from American Film Archives IV:  American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986” was published in The Moving Image (Volume 9, Number 2) and his article, "'100,000 Cigarettes:' Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth," was published in English and Korean in the bilingual collection The Cinema World of Pedro Costa (Jeonju:  Jeonju International Film Festival, 2010). “The Sum of a Mysterious Operation: Bresson’s Joan of Arc,” an essay by Suchenski, appeared in Robert Bresson, revised version, edited by James Quandt and published by Indiana University Press and Wilfrid Laurier University Press in February 2011. His essay “Turn Again Tourneur’ – Maurice Tourneur Between France and Hollywood,” was published in Studies in French Cinema, Volume 11, issue 2. He successfully completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in May 2011.
• In April 2011, the University of Chicago Press published The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors, a new book by Karen Sullivan.
• “Terrain,” a large-scale installation by Julianne Swartz, was acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in August 2010 and will be on long-term display.
• Joan Tower was named Composer of the Year by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in November 2010. They will play five of her orchestral works throughout the 2010-2011 season including a newly commissioned work, "Stroke," that will premiere May 12, 2011 with their new conductor Manfred Honneck. She was profiled n philly.com by the Philadelphia Inquirer music critic as she was working with Curtis Institute of Music students on an all-Tower concert that was performed April 29. The Miller Theater at Columbia University is hosting the Curtis Institute’s ensemble “Curtis 20/21” and Tower on May 5 as part of their 2010-2011 Composer Portrait Series.
• In December 2010, Stephen Tremaine was included on the Best of New Orleans 13^th annual 40 under 40 list. The list honors 40 people under the age of 40, who have been nominated by the public for their accomplishments and contributions to New Orleans.
• “Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics,” co-edited by Eric Trudel and co-introduced and co-translated (with Charlotte Mandell) was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement in July 2010. "Poems and Monsters. Pierre Alferi's 'Cinépoésie'" by Trudel was published in the journal SubStance in November 2010. He also served on the national screening committee for the U.S. Student Fulbright Program for the Institute of International Education.
• In August 2010, Kwani?, an independent literary journal founded by Binyavanga Wainaina, was awarded the Prince Claus Prize for excellence in Nairobi. The Pilgrimage Project, conceived by Wainaina, was noted by CNN at http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/12/15/african.pilgrimages/index.html.
• Sara Pankenier Weld published an article in Russian on "Поэзия Хармса в контексте детского фольклора [The Poetry of Kharms in the Context of Children's Folklore]" in the article collection Фольклор: текст и контекст [Folklore: Text and Context] published in Moscow by the Russian State Center for Russian Folklore (Moscow: GRTsRF, 2010). She presented a paper on "Nabokov's North: Forgery, Paleography, Cartography" at VIII ICCEES (International Council of Central and East European Studies) World Congress in Stockholm in August 2010 and a paper on "Infantilism in Dialogue: Andrei Bely's Kotik Letaev” at the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) National Convention in Los Angeles in November 2010.

Faculty Highlights 2009-10

• An exhibition review entitled, "Zurcidos Invisibles: Alan Glass, Construcciones y Pinturas, 1950-2008" by Susan Aberth appeared in the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas (13:1). Her article, "Isabel De Obaldia: The Law of the Jungle," was published in Neues Glas/New Glass in No. 2/2010.
• Chinua Achebe's collection of essays, The Education of a British Protected Child, was published by Knopf in October 2009. The volume is dedicated to Charles P. Stevenson Jr., chair of Bard's Board of Trustees, and was featured in the December 16, 2009, issue of The New York Times.
• Peggy Ahwesh was awarded a grant from The National Film Preservation Foundation. She presented the installation “Warm Objects” at the James Gallery of The Graduate Center, CUNY. In August, she was the subject of a retrospective at NeMaf Newmedia Festival, in Seoul, Korea.  She screened a new short film in the Views from the Avant-Garde, a sidebar of the New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York.  In November 2009, Ahwesh was a judge at the Zinebi International Film Festival in Bilbao, Spain, and is having a three - program retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.
• JoAnne Akalaitis directed The Bacchae by Euripides during the summer of 2009 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in New York City, and the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C.
• James Bagwell was appointed as Music Director of The College Chorale. To read the announcement, go to http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/13/arts/AP-US-Collegiate-Chorale-Music-Director.html
• Emily Barton was invited by the National Book Foundation to participate in a public panel discussion on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow. She also gave a reading at Simon’s Rock, continued her work as Lecturer in English at Yale, and became a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton in the spring 2010.
• Thomas Bartscherer published “To Read What Has Never Been Written” in Lothar Baumgarten: Seven Sounds, Seven Circles (Kunsthaus Bregnez, 2009). He also was recently appointed consulting editor of The International Literary Quarterly and was named to the editorial board of The Point.
• Oxford University Press announced the publication of a new reader, Ethnonationalism in India, edited and introduced by Sanjib Baruah. He spoke on “Colonial Frontiers under Postcolonial Sovereignty: Lessons from Northeast India” for the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations in November. His article “The Partition’s Long Shadow: The Ambiguities of Citizenship in India” appeared in the December 2009 issue of Citizenship Studies, and “Separatist Militants and Contentious Politics: The Limits of Counterinsurgency in Assam” appeared in the December 2009 issue of Asian Survey.
• Laura Battle participated in two group exhibitions in the summer of 2009 at the Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York City. The first, “Artists Choice,” included participation from former Bard student, Sam Bornstein. The second was called “Intricacies.” She also exhibited work in September at the Philadelphia College of Art and Design in a show called “Drawing Atlas,” and showed new etchings at the Editions/Artist Books Fair in Chelsea in November 2009. In 2010 she received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation to support her work.
• Professors Jim Belk, Maria Belk, John Cullinan, Lauren Rose and Japheth Wood presented at a week-long math circle workshop on the Theorem of Pythagoras on the Bard campus in summer 2010. The workshop organized by Wood, is geared towards middle school math teachers and is intended to become an annual event at Bard.
• “Approaching Infinity: Reflections on Dignity in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon,” an essay by Roger Berkowitz, appears in the October 2009 issue of Philosophy and Literature. The December issue of Harper’s features a conversation about Hannah Arendt with Berkowitz titled “Thinking in Dark Times—Six Questions for Roger Berkowitz.” His book The Gift of Science was published in paperback in March 2010 by Fordham University Press.
• Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics, edited by Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan, was published in November 2009 by Fordham University Press. The book was selected by the Association of American University Presses for inclusion in its 2010 "Book, Jacket and Journal Show."
• “Passing-over: the Death of the Author in Hegel’s Philosophy,” an article by Daniel Berthold, was published in the Southern Journal of Philosophy. In February 2010 his book “The Ethics of Authorship” was accepted for publication by Fordham University Press. His article "Talking Cures: A Lacanian Reading of Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language and Madness," was published in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology (16:4) as their featured article.
• Celia Bland taught a workshop in Summer 2009 at the Keene State College Writers Conference in New Hampshire.  She has published in recent issues of Field Notes, Writing on the Edge, and the Boston Review.
• Leon Botstein was recognized with a 2009 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award. The awards recognize higher education leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in undergraduate education; the development of major interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs; university outreach; and international initiatives. He appeared on ABC World News in a segment exploring the trend toward year-round public schools; he outlined ways to reform American education on a CNBC prime-time special called The Business of Innovation; he lectured on the future of classical music for the One Day University in New York City; he moderated a panel addressing the intellectual foundations of the financial crisis for the Bard-sponsored conference “The Burden of Our Times,” and he spoke about education and the new economy in a panel discussion sponsored by ValueAct Capital in San Francisco. He gave the commencement address at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, which awarded him an honorary doctorate of humane letters. He delivered a keynote speech, “Performance after the Age of Recording,” at the 32nd annual conference of Chamber Music America. A featured guest on the CNBC special Meeting of the Minds, he spoke about the future of American Education. His essay “Liberating the Pariah: Politics, the Jews, and Hannah Arendt” appeared in Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (Fordham University Press). For the German-language volume Art & Now, published by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, he contributed the essay “Music and Freedom: A Polemical History.” In May 2010 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge." Botstein is among 38 distinguished leaders and thinkers in mathematical and phyical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities, the arts, and public and private affairs to be elected this year.
• Jonathan Brent’s article “Inside the Gulag Museum” was published in the May 2009 issue of The New Criterion. He was recently appointed executive director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. Jonathan’s documentary based on his book Stalin’s Last Crime won the Terre(s) d’Histoire award in 2010.
• Ken Buhler’s solo exhibition, Notes From the Edge of The World, was presented in October 2009 at the Lesley Heller Gallery. He was also recently awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
• Ian Buruma’s book Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents was published by Princeton University Press in March 2010.  His editorial “Mountains and minarets” was published in the Guardian; and his letter from Amsterdam, “Parade’s End,” on the gay rights parade, Muslims and politics in Holland, appeared in the December 2009 issue of The New Yorker.
• Mary Caponegro took part in the “Study of the U.S Institute on Contemporary Literature” sponsored by the U.S. Department of State in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has given readings from her new story collection, All Fall Down, published by Coffee House Press, and participated in the “&Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literacy Arts” in Buffalo. Her fiction was the subject of a conference at the University of Siena in March 2010 and by the ODELA (Observatoire de literature americaine) group in Paris in May 2010. Her fictional work, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” was performed in celebration of Women’s History at the Kyiv International School in Kyiv, Ukraine in the spring of 2010.
• Gabriela Carrión presented a paper titled “Burlas en tiempo de tantas veras’: Humor and Violence in Lope’s Los melindres de Belisa” at the Association for Theatre Research. The conference took place in November 2009 in Puerto Rico.
• Practicing Memory in Central American Literature, by Nicole Caso was published in March 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan.
• Rebecca Chace finished filming her second novel, Capture the Flag, which she co-wrote with director, Lisanne Skyler. She received the Showtime Tony Cox Screenwriting Award for best screenplay for the short film at the Nantucket Film Festival in June 2010. Her story “Looking for Robinson Crusoe,” was nominated for inclusion in this year’s Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses. Her third book, Leaving Rock Harbor, was published by Scribner in June 2010, and was chosen as a June Indie Notable Book by the American Booksellers Association.  
• Jonathan Cristol’s article “Two States, One Capital: A Proposal for the Israeli/Palestine Conflict” was published on the home page of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and featured in “Carnegie Ethics Online” and in “Global Policy Innovations.” The Israel Policy Forum published his article “Judge Lieberman by his Actions, Not His Words” on their Middle East Peace Pulse website. His “Incentivizing Peace in the Middle East: A New Role for the U.S” was published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs as their April “Carnegie Ethics Online” article.
• Robert Culp received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship for “New Perspectives in Chinese Culture and Society.”
• “The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means,” Mark Danner’s sequel to his article on the political implications of the torture debate, appeared in The New York Review of Books. He discussed his book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War, on PBS’s Bill Moyer’s Journal in October 2009. In April 2010 he appeared at the Herbst Theatre to discuss the book with Frank Rich. Mark also delivered the Tanner Lectures at Stanford titled, “Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception.”
• In July, Richard Davis presented the keynote lecture for a symposium at the University of Heidelberg, entitled "Objects on the Move: Circulation, Social Practice and Transcultural Intersections."  His talk was entitled "A Tale of Two Bronzes: From India to Los Angeles and Back Again." Oxford Press published his translation of a twelfth century Sanskrit work, A Priest’s Guide for the Great Festival: Aghorasiva’s Mahotsavavidhi, a manual for a priest performing a nine-day Hindu temple festival.  It is the first translation of a medieval festival work into English. "Global India: circa 100 CE: South Asia in Early World History," by Davis was published by the Association for Asian Studies in 2010.
• Timothy Davis’s solo show of photographs, “The New Antiquity,” appeared at the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York City in September and October 2009. A monograph of the same title is being published by Damiani Grafiche. His MY LIFE IN POLITICS is on exhibit this fall at the University of Virginia, and a project organized by the Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, “Seeing through Huguenot Street” opened in September 2009. Davis’ exhibition Seeing Through History was on view at the [email protected] DuBois Fort in New Paltz in October 2009.
• Michèle Dominy presented “Natural History, Biodiversity and Conservation in the Post Settler State” as part of the session “The Ends of Settler Studies: Settler Colonialism and Nostalgic Anthropology” for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia in December 2009.
• Mercedes DuJunco was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad fellowship for her Fall 2009 project “Ritual Labor, Migrancy and Chaozhou Performers of Chinese Death Rituals and Music in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.”
• A solo exhibition of new paintings Works by Nicole Eisenman was presented October through December 2009 at Leo Koenig, Inc. in New York City.
• Omar Encarnación presented a paper on historical memory and politics in Spain and participated in a roundtable on George Bush’s legacy at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Toronto. In October 2009 his essay “Justice in Times of Transition: Lessons from the Iberian Experience” was published as a working paper by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
• You are Not I, recent work by Barbara Ess, was exhibited at Thierry Goldberg Projects, 5 Rivington Street, in New York City from October to November.
• Peter Filkins was named a Top Ten Finalist in NARRATIVE Magazine's First Annual Poetry Contest for his poem “The Wild Boar.” He also recently published poems in The Iowa Review, Salamander, and The American Arts Quarterly. In September he read from his translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's poetry at the exhibition "Ingeborg Bachmann: Writing Agianst War" at the University of Montana, and again when the exhibition traveled to Worcester Polytechnic Institute in January 2010.
• Larry Fink’s limited-edition book, Night at the Met, which documents the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Apollo Circle benefit in 2007, was made available for purchase on Blurb.com. His photo essay “The Beats” appeared in the January 2010 issue of Visura Magazine.com.
• “No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”” by Kyle Gann was published in December by Yale University Press. His CD “The Planets” was released in November 2009 with a cover design by Laura Battle. His piano concerto Sunken City (a tribute to New Orleans) was released on the Mode label by the Orkest de Volharding in Amsterdam.
• Lab projects by four of Beth Gershuny’s Clinical Psychology research lab students were accepted for presentations at the Eastern Psychological Associations conference in New York City.
• Eban Goodstein coauthored an op-ed article, “We Can Afford to Save the Planet,” published in The Washington Post in October 2009.
• "Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World," edited by Dana Jack and Alisha Ali, was published by Oxford University Press in March 2010 and included a chapter by Richard Gordon titled, "Drugs Don't Talk: Do Medications and Biological Psychiatry Contribute to Silencing the Self." As co-chair of the Transcultural Special Interest Group of the Academy of Eating Disorders, he organized a symposium at the International Conference of Eating Disorders in Salzburg in June 2010.
• The Museum of Modern Art in New York City will be screening "Stranger Comes to Town," a documentary by Jacqueline Goss, on June 4 and 6, 2010, as part of the "Creative Capital" series.
• Together with the Colorado Quartet, Marka Gustavsson, presented a lecture recital on Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 132 at the Paul Robeson Center in Princeton, N.J. in April 2010. The Quartet was featured in an evening concert at Symphony Space, in May 2010, which sponsored the New York premier of Keith Fitch’s String Quartet. As a member of the Syphony Space All-Stars, Marka performed rarely heard music of Enescu and Schulhoff in the marathon concert “Wall-to-Wall-behind-the-Wall.” Performing and teaching included guest artist invitations to Soundfest, on Cape Cod and the Portland Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2010.  
• The Mansfield Foundation selected Ken Haig as one of the handful of “new generation” Japan scholars who will spend part of the next two years meeting with officials in the new administrations in both countries to discuss common policy dilemmas and new directions for U.S.– Japan relations.
• Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest, by Rebecca Cole Heinowitz was published by Edinburgh University Press in February 2010.
• Lynn Hawley performed in “What Once We Felt,” a play produced by Lincoln Center at The Duke, October through November 2009. In the summer of 2010, she was part of The Continuum Company in Florence, Italy, creating and performing in a new play about the murdered journalists and human rights workers in Chechnya.
• Elizabeth Holt defended her dissertation early in September and was recommended for the Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University.
• As part of a group exhibition, Roman Hrab will be showing his mixed media installation, "Chandelier for Ernst Haeckel (Radiolarian/Jellyfish Hybrid)" at the John Davis Gallery in New York City from May 27, 2010 through June 20, 2010.
• Samuel Hsiao coauthored the research article “Random walks on quasisymmetric functions” published in Advances in Mathematics, volume 222, issue 3. He also coauthored the paper, “Colored Posets and Colored Quasisymmetric Functions,” published in Annuals of Combinatorics in June 2010.
• Peter Hutton was awarded a grant in Filmmaking from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. On Halloween night, the NYU Institute for the Humanities presented Hutton’s Icelandic film, “Skagafjordur” in a program titled Wonder Cabinet, organized by Lawrence Weschler. Eight of his films were presented by the États Généraux du Documentaire in Lussas, France. He also screened three Hudson Valley River films in conjunction with Lives of the Hudson at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, and a program of regional films at SUNY Albany.
• Philip Johns’s paper "Non-relatives inherit colony resources in a primitive termite” was accepted to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See the NSF's press release at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115680 and read the paper at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/02/0907961106.abstract.
• “Xun Dao: Seeking the Way Spiritual Themes in Contemporary Chinese Art,” an exhibit curated by Patricia Karetzky, was presented at the Frederike Taylor Gallery in New York City from May to June 2009. She also published an article in Yishu, “Conroy Sanderson: Two Heads are Better than One.” In March 2010 she was a guest curator at the Lehman College Art Gallery in New York City for a show on contemporary Chinese art entitled, "State of the Dao: Chinese Contemporary Art."
• Thomas Keenan and Leah Cox participated in a panel discussion of the role of dance in human rights struggles at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in October 2009.
• As principal investigator, Felicia Keesing received a National Science Foundation grant for the project “Investigating a rapidly emerging epidemic of babesiosis in upstate New York”; co-investigators of the project are Richard Ostfeld and Michael Tibbetts. She was also one of five specialists to be interviewed by The New York Times for a July 27 article about the tick problem, “More Ticks, More Misery.”
• Robert Kelly’s book The Logic of the World and other fictions was published by McPherson & Company in 2010.
• According to an electronic search done by John Hopkins University Press, Ben LaFarge’s essay “Comedy’s Intention,” which is featured in Philosophy and Literature, a journal edited by Garry Hagberg, is one of the ten essays most frequently consulted.
• Peter Laki participated in an international conference in November at the University of Hannover, Germany, on “Post-Modernism behind the Iron Curtain.” He read a paper titled “Hymn and Waltz: György Kurtág’s Compositions in Homage to Alfred Schnittke.” He also presented a version of the same paper at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and gave a talk at the University of Manheim describing Bard’s First-Year Seminar to administrators, faculty, and students from the university.
• Ann Lauterbach’s collection of poetry, Or to Begin Again published by Penguin Books, was among the five finalists for the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry.
• An-My Lê was a visiting critic at the University of Pennsylvania’s MFA program in fall 2009, and she received a grant in January 2010 from the Louis Tiffany Comfort Foundation. Her work is included in the show “Haunted” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, March 2010 through September 2010, which will then travel to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
• Kristin Lucas participated in “SEVEN ON SEVEN,” an event which pairs seven technologists with seven artists for one day, where they are challenged to develop something new through a collaborative process. Their ideas were then unveiled at a conference at the New Museum in New York City in April 2010.
• Barbara Luka received a grant from the Northeast Center for Special Care to fund two student research internships to study recovery from traumatic brain injury. In June 2010, she presented a paper in Tomsk, Russia, titled “Do Emotion Words Prime Figurative Meanings? An Investigation of Anger, Fear, Happiness, and Sadness.” The paper was the result of work completed with the assistance of the Bard Summer Research Internship to Katsman and Bova in 2009.
• Joseph Luzzi was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies by the Modern Language Association for his book “Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy.” The prize recognizes an outstanding book by a member of the association in the field of Italian literature or comparative literature involving Italian. The book was also selected as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2009 by Choice magazine.
• Medrie MacPhee was among six contemporary artists who exhibited this summer at Sadler’s Wells Theater in London in a show reflecting Alberto Savino’s painting Objects in the Forest. She was also recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation with a 2009 fellowship in the category of creative arts. Her first solo exhibition, "What It Is," is at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York City from May 27, 2010 through July 2, 2010.
• David Madden published an article, “Revisiting the End of Public Space: Assembling the Public in an Urban Park” in the journal City & Community, vol. 9, issue 2.
• Affinal member of our community Charlotte Mandell (Kelly) ’90 was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in the category of Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects. Her translation project is the French novel Zone by Mathias Énard.
• Norman Manea was awarded the annual prize for letters by the Foundation of French Judaism. He presented the William Phillips Lecture, “20 Years After the Berlin Wall,” at the New School of Social Research in November 2009 at the Lang Student Center. He was presented with the insignia of the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in April 2010 at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
• Edie Meidav was awarded a fellowship by The Howard Foundation for the 2010 - 2011 academic year for her project “Convenience.” In February 2010, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize—an award that honors the best in “poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot.”
• During the Summer of 2009, Robert McGrail, James Belk, and Japheth Wood organized a weekly Bard - West Point collaborative seminar on Self-distributive Algebraic Structures.
• Robert McGrail’s article “On the Algebraic Structure of Declarative Programming Languages” was published in the Elsevier journal Theoretical Computer Science, volume 410, issue 46.
• Emily McLaughlin received an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Undergraduate New Investigator grant entitled “Development of novel methods toward the synthesis of non-proteinogenic amino acids and other biologically relevant nitrogen containing scaffolds.” She was also awarded a grant from the CEM Corporation to promote microchemistry.
• Daniel Mendelsohn’s article, “Who was Susan Sontag?,” appeared in the April issue of The New Republic.  His translations of poems by C. P. Cavafy have been published in two volumes, Collected Poems and The Unfinished Poems both published by Knopf.
• Bradford Morrow gave the keynote address at the Willa Cather International Symposium at the Chicago Public Library in June 2009 broadcast by NPR. His “The Hoarder” was selected for Best American Noir Stories of the Twentieth Century. In the fall of 2009 he participated on a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival entitled "The Writer's Capital: From Experience to the Limits of Fiction." He also presented a paper on William S. Burroughs at a conference celebrating "Naked Lunch at 50," at Columbia University. In May 2010 Morrow spoke on a panel, "Artistic Witness to Atrocity," with Edward Hirsch and Ian Buruma at a conference on "The Wisdom of the Survivor," at Pace University. His novel, "The Diviner's Tale," was accepted for publication in England (Atlantic) and Brazil (Editora Record), and audio rights for the novel were taken by Blackstone Audiobooks. In June 2010 his essay, "A Wild Bookery," will appear in a book on Dominique Gonzalaz-Forester's chronotopes & dioramas, published by the Dia Foundation.
• Conjunctions, the literary magazine published by Bard College, released its latest issue, Conjunctions:54, Shadow Selves in May 2010. Edited by Brad Morrow, with contributing editors including Chinua Achebe, John Ashbery, Mary Caponegro, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Norman Manea and Joan Retallack. The issue investigates the themes of self and other, appearance versus reality. It gathers many of today's leading writers and poets to examine the very tenuous nature of identity itself. Their website (www.conjunctions.com) has also recently had a milestone with a half a million visitors since its inception.
• Judith Muir received a grant from the Dutchess Community Foundation for her “Sing Out! Reach Out!” program at a Poughkeepsie Montessori school during the summer.
• Rufus Müller gave two concerts in November 2009, one at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, Upon the Wine–Dark Sea: The Music of Margrieta’s World and one at the Purcell Theatre Music and Handel Cantatas Clarion Benefit for Brain Cancer Research Kosciusko Foundation. All proceeds went to support brain cancer research.
• Jacob Neusner received a grant from Carey Wolchok to finance the development of an undergraduate/faculty seminar, The Social Vision of Early Christianity and Judaism. He gave the Bamberger lecture in December 2009 and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion.  He met with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome in early January 2010. They talked about their next books and Neusner presented the pontiff with a copy of his most recent book, The Talmud: What Is It? What Does It Say? An interview with Neusner titled "A utopian document, a utopian law" appeared in the March 4, 2010 edition of the Jerusalem Post.
• A new work edited by Jacob Neusner, in consultation with Bruce Chilton and Richard Davis, Introduction to World Religions: Communities and Cultures, will be published in May 2010 by Abingdon Press. The book includes chapters by Jacob Neusner, Bruce Chilton, and Kristin Scheible.
• Melanie Nicholson’s translation of Olga Orozco’s short story “Mission Accomplished” appeared in Translation Review 77-78 (2009). She also contributed a book chapter entitled “Un talismán en las tinieblas: Olga Orozco y la tradición esotérica” to Olga Orozco: Territorios de fuego para una poética, published by the Universidad de Sevilla in 2010.
• A collaborative project in which Keith O’Hara was involved at Georgia Tech has recently been awarded an NSF grant to study the use of robotics as a context for leaning introductory computing. O’Hara will be able to use a portion of the grant for research at Bard.
• Lothar Osterburg was recently awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts grant in the category of Printing/Drawing/Artists Books. A show of his works was at the Lesley Heller Gallery in September 2009. In February 2010, The Studio of Electronic Music, Inc. presented Rural Electrification with video by Osterburg. He was included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letter in New York, and had a solo show “Architecture of Memory” at ICPNA in Lima Peru during March and April 2010. He was honored with a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and he will also be receiving an "Academy Award in Art" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• Dimitri B. Papadimitriou was interviewed by Kathleen Hays at Bloomberg Television regarding the 18th-annual Hyman P. Minsky conference; by Nikolaus Piper at Süddeutsche Zeitung about Hyman Minsky and his theories for the current crisis; and by Paul Davis at American Banker regarding banking industry expectations that unemployment will peak at 10 percent and the sustainability of the decline in early stage delinquencies. He also delivered several talks, including “Full Employment Policy: Theory and Practice” at the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in the Dominican Republic; “Global Imbalances and Economic Growth” at the XXI Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar on “Global Crisis and Long-Term Growth: A New Capitalism Ahead?” in Italy; and  “Time of Upheaval” at the HSBC Emerging Markets Conference, “Realities and Opportunities in 2009 and Beyond,” in Zurich, Switzerland. He participated in the Euro50 Group Roundtable on the 10th anniversary of the Euro, “Is There Still a Paradigm for Monetary Policy Today?” held in Paris; and in a seminar, “The ‘Great Recession’ and Beyond: Economic Outlook for the U.S. and Global Economy,” held at the University of Athens.
• Gilles Peress was honored by the Lucie Foundation with the 2009 Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism. Thomas Keenan presented the award at Lincoln Center on October 19, 2009.
• Judy Pfaff was included in the group exhibition Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City through April 2010. She also had solo exhibitions at The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland in College Park, and at the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Michigan.
• There was a screening of John Pilson’s work “Frolic and Detour” at The Museum of Modern Art in April 2010 in conjunction with the exhibition series “9 screens.”
• Francine Prose’s book Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife was discussed in The Wall Street Journal in September 2009, featured on NPR, and reviewed in The New York Times in September 2009. For the New York Times review, see:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01maslin.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
• Kelly Reichardt was recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation with a 2009 fellowship in the category of film.
• Joan Retallack gave the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Lecture and Reading on October 15, 2009, entitled Poetry and the Mirror of Nature at the University of Cambridge. A two-day symposium of talks, readings, and discussions were organized in honor of her visit. “Fields of Pattern-Bounded Unpredictability: Palimtexts by Rosmarie Waldrop and Joan Retallack,” an essay on Joan Retallack’s work by Lynn Keller, appeared in Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Exploratory Poetics, published by the University of Iowa Press in April 2010. Retallack’s new volume of poetry, Procedural Elegies/Western Civ Cont’d, was published by Roof Books in June 2010.
• “If You Are Lucky,” by Susan Roger’s appeared in Isotope in summer 2009. What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour through New Jersey, edited by Joe Vallese and Alicia A. Vallese included her essay entitled “Equilibrate” (Word Riot Press, May 2010). Roger’s also received a six-week writer’s residency from the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming.
• In March 2010, Jamie Romm was awarded a Cullman Center Fellowship by the New York Public Library.
• In February 2010, Lauren Rose and Gregory Landweber were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project proposal, "REU: Site: Bard College Summer Research in Mathematics and Computation."
• Julia Rosenbaum wrote the text for Fans, a curatorial project that has just been published as part of the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University’s permanent set of on-line exhibitions. In 2010 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship at the Newberry Library.
• On May 21, 2010 at a special recognition ceremony, The New School for Social Research honored Justus Rosenberg for his 50 years of distinguished teaching and valuable contribution to the academic life of The New School. 
• Marina Rosenfeld’s installation P.A. was on view at the Park Avenue Armory in November 2009.
• Keith Sanborn’s translation of essays on Paoli Gioli from Italian and French into English were published by Cineteca Nazionale (Rome); his translation of Russian intertitles of The Death Ray by Lev Kuleshov was presented with a lecture in New York City in September 2009 at Light Industry; he participated in a public conversation with Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Florian Wüst in September 2009 on Super-8 film in the 1980s in connection with an exhibition called Screaming City: West Berlin 1980s at Goethe Institute, New York City.
• Sigrid Sandström’s show of works, “Cut-Out,” was featured at the Galleri Gunnar Olsson in Stockholm, Sweden in August and September 2009. In Spring 2010, she received the Vera and Goran Agnekil Award from The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
• Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard 1905 - 1930, by Luc Sante, will be published in September 2009 by Yeti Books/Verse Chorus Press.
• 303 Gallery in New York hosted an exhibit of lesser-known black and white works by Stephen Shore during June and July 2009. His work was included in the exhibitions Into the Sunset at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Edward Hopper & Co. at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and New Topographics at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. His photographs were installed in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and published in Another Fashion Book; The Printed Picture by Richard Benson, and Shoot: Photography of the Moment, for which he wrote the forward. His photo essay “The Private World of Ingmar Bergman,” was featured in the November issue of W magazine. “Abu Dhabi: New Photographs by Stephen Shore” was exhibited at the Woods Studio at Bard College in April 2010. 
• Maria Simpson received an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for the setting of the Continuous Replay, a seminal work of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. It will be performed by Bard students at the Faculty Concert in 2011.
• In May 2010, Arnold Steinhardt, violinist and faculty at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, was among the 229 leaders in the sciences, humanities and arts, business, public affairs, and non-profit sector elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Benjamin Stevens published “Drawn to Distraction: Comics Reading in Kevin Huizenga’s Lost and Found” in the International Journal of Comic Art.
• Yuka Suzuki was selected for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program of Agrarian Studies at Yale University for the 2009 - 2010 academic year.
• Julianne Swartz was awarded an Academy Award in Art from the Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2010.
• Richard Teitelbaum wrote the program notes for the American Symphony Orchestra concert, “An American Biography: The Music of Henry Cowell,” at Lincoln Center, and performed original compositions and improvisations with Joe McPhee and Thurman Barker at Vassar College in January 2010. There was a performance of his composition “SoundPaths,” for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and computer, with Da Capo Chamber Players at The Twelfth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Connecticut College and “Da Capo at Salutes Bard” concert at Bard in March 2010. He performed a duet with Anthony Braxton for Braxton’s 65^th Birthday Celebration, at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City in June 2010.
• In April 2010, Elaine Thomas served as chair and discussant of a panel on the social integration of immigrants in Europe at the Council for European Studies conference in Montreal.
• Eric Trudel published an article entitled, “La poésie précaire de Georges Perros,” in The French Review in December 2009. In spring 2010, he published an article entitled “Une phrase, à la limite, une poème” about French poet Pierre Alferi in the journal French Forum. He also organized a one-day symposium on “détournement” in 20^th and 21^st century French literature at the University of Montreal that brought together scholars from the U.S., Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
• In the Arts & Culture section of the May 2010 Chronogram, George Tsontakis gave an interview about the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble. The ensemble performed short works by five promising young composers at Woodstock's Colony Cafe on May 26, 2010. The program was a culmination of the first Highpoint Composition Seminar - a forum for emerging talent brought into being by the effort and vision of Tsontakis.
• As one of the three 2009 - 2010 Mellon Scholars Marina van Zuylen gave a day of seminars and keynote lecture “Dissociative Disorders: Le Rouge et Le Noir and The Resistance to Empathy” at Brown University in November 2009.
• The Institute for Writing and Thinking book, Writing-Teaching. Essential Practices and Enduring Questions co-edited by Teresa Vilardi was published by SUNY Press in December 2009. The book contains essays on “writing to learn” practices that inform the Institute’s workshops and includes a preface by Leon Botstein.
• In spring 2010, Suzanne Vromen was invited to Belgium to speak about her research regarding Jewish children hidden during the Holocaust in Belgian convents at KADOC, the prestigious interdisciplinary seminar at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Antwerp and the Free University of Brussels. In April 2010, Vromen was also invited to participate in a conference entitled, “Rising from the Ashes: Jewish Families and Children During and After the War,” organized by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University.
• Tom Wolf curated a retrospective exhibition of works by the early 20th-century photographer Eva Watson-Schütze at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.
• Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature by Li-Hua Ying was published in December 2009 by Scarecrow Press.

Faculty Highlights 2008-09

• In November, The Library of Congress hosted a symposium and celebratory evening in honor of Chinua Achebe upon the 50^th anniversary publication ofThings Fall Apart.
• Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn edited Vertov from Z to A, published by Ediciones la Calavera, a volume of essays by noted critics, poets, and filmmakers, as a Special Jubilee Edition in honor of the 90^th anniversary of the October Revolution
• JoAnne Akalaitis directed The Play of Daniel in New York City in December at The Cloisters and at Grace Church.
• As a visiting fellow, Sanjib Baruah was the guest of the University of Heidelberg in Germany in November where he gave a public lecture and a workshop for faculty and graduate students working on a project “Citizenship as Conceptual Flow: Asia in Comparative Perspective.” Baruah’s latest book as editor and contributor, Beyond Counterinsurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India, will be published in February by Oxford University Press.
• During the summer of 2008, Laura Battle exhibited work in an invitational exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York where she received the Academy’s Charles Loring Elliot Award and Medal.
• Jonathan Becker’s review article, “The Perfect Storm. George W. Bush and the American Press,” appeared in Vol. 23, No. 2 of the European Journal of Communication.
• Recent published articles by Daniel Berthold include “Talking Cures: A Lacanian Reading of Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language and Madness” inPhilosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology and “The Golden Rule in Kant and Utilitarianism” for Analyzing the Golden Rule, edited by Jacob Neusner.
• Jonathan Brent’s new book, Inside the Stalin Archives, was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Book Review. A documentary based on his book, Stalin’s Last Crime, will be released in January by Roche Productions in France for likely broadcast on the BBC.
• During the year in his Rome Prize fellowship, Tim Davis created “Kings of Cyan”, a show of his photographs centering on political posters in Italy which was featured at Galerie Mitterand and Sanz in Zurich, May 30 through October 18. A large-scale catalog of his works accompanied the exhibit.
• Two Mark Danner essays relating to the fall elections were featured in the New York Review of Books in October: “Sweet Potato Pie in Philly: Watching Obama” and “2008 and the Weight of the Past.”  His essay “Weapons of Mass Destruction and Other Imaginative Acts” which was about Ron Suskind’s new book The Way of the World appeared in the August 27^th New York Times.
• Yuval Elmelech’s book Transmitting Inequality: Wealth and the American Family was published in May by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
• Omar Encarnación’s latest book “Spanish Politics: Democracy After Dictatorship” was published last July. His essay “Reconciliation after Democratization: Coping with the Past in Spain was published in the fall 2008 issue of Political Science Quarterly.
• Peter Filkins’ translation of the H. G. Alder’s novel, The Journey, was published in November by Random House.
• Larry Fink was guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts Amphitheater in New York, sponsored by the Camera Club of New York.
• A translation from Bulgarian by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova of Angel Wagenstein’s Isaac’s Torah, was published in October by Other Press.
• Jacqueline Goss’s animated documentary Stranger Comes to Town, which was completed in 2006 with support from a Bard Research Fund Grant won the Gus Van Sant Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Best Experimental Work prize at the Onion City Film Festival. It has been reviewed in the Village Voice and Time Out magazines and has been screened at over forty festivals, museums and colleges.
• Sam Hsiao co-authored “Enumeration in convex geometries and associated polytopal subdivisions of spheres” which appeared in the twentieth anniversary issue of Discrete & Computational Geometry.
• Among venues that have hosted Peter Hutton presenting film programs and/or have screened his films during fall 2008 year are Cornell University, Ithaca College, Harvard University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives in New York, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain
• Philip Johns received a Research Opportunity Award from the National Science Foundation for his study, "Pleiotropy and sex-biased gene expressions for sexually selected traits in the stalk-eyed fly, Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni".
• Felicia Keesing, co-edited a volume of essays entitled Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystemspublished by Princeton University Press.One of her co-authors, Richard Ostfeld, will be in residence at Bard during the spring 2009.
• Robert Kelly will be reading from his book, The Book from the Sky published by North Atlantic Books, at a faculty book celebration to be held at Finberg House, 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 3, 2009.
• Philip Kunhardt’s book, Looking for Lincoln, written with Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., was published by Knopf Publishing Group in November 2008. The New York Times review appeared in the October 13 issue, written by Thomas Mallon.
• Ann Lauterbach’s essay “The Thing Seen: Reimagining Arts Education for Now,” will be published this spring by MIT Press in What is Art Education? Ann has also had recent poems published in Conjunctions, No Magazine of the Arts and Glitterpony. Her eighth collection of poems, Or to Begin Again, is due out this spring from Penguin Press.
• CNN reported on a exhibition of “On the Subject of War” by An-My Lê at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. The exhibit, running from October 17, 2008 through January 25, 2009, includes a dozen new photographs as well as a film installation.
• Published locally by Friends of Clermont, Bob’s Folly: Fulton, Livingston and the Steamboat was co-edited by Nancy Leonard and included short essays byGreg Moynahan and Myra Armstead.
• Mark Lytle co-authored the sixth edition of the textbook, Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Public, published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
• Joseph Luzzi’s book, Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy, was published in November 2008 by Yale University Press.
• The Keith Talent Gallery in London featured the exhibit All of the Parts, None of the Pieces, new work by Medrie MacPhee, in October and November.
• During 2008, Norman Manea received two honorary degrees in Romania, from the University of Bucharest and from the University of Cluj. He also participated in a launching at the Romanian Cultural Institute of his complete work in 22 volumes; new translations of his work have been published in Israel, the Czech Republic, Spain, and Italy.
• Bill Mullen presented a paper “Q Lightning” at a conference in Paris this past summer sponsored by the Center for Quantavolution and is the recipient of a grant from the Mainwaring Archives Foundation which supports writing within the same general paradigm.
• Jacob Neusner edited The Treasury of Judaism: A New Collection and Translation of Essentials, Volumes One (The Calendar), Two (The Life Cycle), andThree (Theology), all published last year by University Press of America.
• Susan Osberg’s choreography “Rhinoceros” was performed in October at Cabaret Einstein in Gøteborg, Sweden. This dance, which is a big event for a small space, was originally performed in her studio at Beacon Studios for ten people at a time.
• Lothar Osterburg screened a new video in October at a concert performed by composers Elizabeth Brown and Frances White at the TheTimesCenter in New York City.
• Francine Prose’s book, Goldengrove: A Novel, was published in September by Harper.
• Dimitri Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray (senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute)  wrote the introduction to two books by Hyman P. Minsky. John Maynard Keynes: Hyman P. Minsky’s Influential Reinterpretation of the Keynesian Revolution was published in April of this year, as was the hard-cover edition of Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, which was first published in 1986.
• JUDY PFAFF: PAPER, an exhibition of recent works in mixed medium and paper, can be viewed at Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art in New York City from January 15 to February 21, 2009
• In October, John Pilson premiered his new video “A Thousand Miles Away” as part of Prospect 1.New Orleans at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Center.
• Susan Fox Rogers’ book Antarctica: Life on the Ice won a silver award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.
• One of the major galleries of contemporary art in Sweden, Galleri Thomas Wallner in Malmö is currently hosting “Mock-ups”, an exhibit of work by Sigrid Sandström through December 17. Sigrid is the recent recipient of the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation: 2008 Painters & Sculptures Grant (see Swartz below).
• Julianne Swartz was also chosen by The Joan Mitchell Foundation for a 2008 Painters & Sculptures Grant. The Foundation give grants annually to about twenty recipients in recognition of their artistic merit to further their artistic careers.
• Commemorating the 35^th anniversary of his 1973 journey across the country, Stephen Shore’s A Road Trip Journal, was published in June 2008 by Phaidon Press Inc.
• During summer 2008, Richard Teitelbaum was in residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice Italy, composing a new work for Da Capo Chamber Players to be premiered this summer at Merkin Hall in New York. Richard also performed three works at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and in November, he performed at the All Frontiers Festival in Gorizia, Italy.
• Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics, edited and with an introduction by Jennifer Bajorek and Éric Trudel, translated by J. Bayorek, E. Trudel and C. Mandell, was published this year by University of Illinois Press. He also contributed a chapter to Chris Marker. L’imprimerie due regard, a book devoted to the French filmmaker, published by L’Harmattan.